skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it does if all of the patents are licensed to a defensive patent pool arranged like http://www.rpxcorp.com/.

But, you ask, what good does that do? Well read the explanation in http://www.rpxcorp.com/index.cfm?pageid=23 for why not to take a wait and see approach. You'll see that they are willing to sell their patents. So if a member is being sued by a troll, RPX can offer a deal where the troll drops the existing lawsuit, and is sold a new patent with a license protecting current (not future!) members of RPX.

How likely are they to actually engage in this kind of behavior? Well RPX is already selling patents to trolls, and thinks that companies will take the risk that they'll care a patent you care about seriously enough that it is listed as a major selling point. If they can increase that risk while serving current clients (eg Google), what reason would they have to hesitate about that deal?

This may be paranoia. But there are 3 patents that were taken out in my name by a previous employer that have wound up in the RPX portfolio. I am somewhat worried that they will eventually wind up being used to sue companies.
Mobile Testing Summit: Rise of the Machines
Animal Control Law Protects People; We Need to Protect Dogs as Well
Well abusers actually get banned very quickly. So if anyone might abuse, this will be discouraging. However I have an ifttt recipe that does some post-publishing hooks and makes life easier. I am not sure it is purely an evil idea.
I don't understand why there is this huge sentiment against Brandon's decision. I have written about this a lot, but there is a huge bias against people that believe that

1. college may not be worth it for him personally
2. college may generally be quite overpriced/not worth it.

I'm sure it is a discussion worth having looking at the exploding prices of college.

1. Without being too bold, I think we can all agree that general statements like "Everyone needs to go to college" and "No one should go to college" are useless. Brandon knows best what he knows, what he gains from college and what he loses by staying in it.

2. Now, this discussion happens a lot, but there is always the same question I ask: Would pro-college people say college is worth the 10k/degree sticker price? 100k? 1M? 10M? Yes, college provides great value, some that can't be quantified. Nevertheless, we live in a world with scarce resources, and making a conjecture that for some people going to college might not be worth it shouldn't be too far-fetched. College is being hailed as the holy grail, and I just don't buy it as such.

I think Brandon's post shows that he clearly has thought about it and made a decision for himself, that doesn't come by easily.

Also, Brandon, if you read this, I followed you in your footsteps, just one semester after you :)
As someone from the UK (who now lives in the US) I look forward to the reversal of roles when US techies are forced to search out proxy connections that allow them to watch online content.

Welcome to the club.
> It seems to me that it is in their interest to maintain the present patent system

The present system helps and hurts them. All three are large varied companies who can't grow without offering new types of products and services that may infringe on other companies' patents. A well-functioning IP system is in their best interest. Certainly they don't want their current patents to be devalued, but I don't think they want patents to be overvalued either.
Europe as in: the 4% of Europeans that live in Scandinavia.
Or an app that tracks crime, classifiable by type? That would be useful. As would thus app be to many journalists. This is a slippery slope.
Let's get a P2P network started.
Americans get BBC and HBO, we get Hulu and Netflix
What a wildly unhelpful and rude comment.
I agree. As exciting as this looks, I really don't want to give away every permission to WA. Who knowns what there going to do with it. I would like this kind of analysis to be local, thanks for the support!
I voted this story up, because if true, this is the kind of thing that is valuable community information. But now that you've made it clear that you don't intend to let us know who you are, I regret it. I think it's probable you've got something to hide, and that Apple likely has a legitimate case against you.
As c++ programmer,you have to use some(in most cases,a lot of) java script to accomplish your job, I guess that's why C++ programmers complain about it.
JS should be an option, without it QML can works fine, but in the real situation C++ is optional. It is hard to keep the balance.
A lot of us had to do that with the Olympics already.
Why use your hand to stick a nail into the wall when you have a hammer?
If you had a self-driving car, would a malfunction in the car causing a crash be your fault?
It looks nice. But as an avid home restorer/handyman I pity the next owner/contractor that has to rip up that floor.
Yeah, even though they are your "competition" they have to most in common with you in terms of interests.
Surprised no one quoted this yet: "I avoided computer science because I heard it’s too theoretical and non-practical." OP then enrolled in pre-med, the epitomy of theoretical and non-practical (cramming all the anatomy and cellular biology that make the basis of our medical knowledge, but don't actually help you cure a patient).

I totally agree that CS is theoretical and non-practical, but why is that so shunned? Seems like if someone wants an edge in the technology sector, they had better understand the foundation of computation. From writing formal grammars and understanding Turing machines all the way up to coding a compiler and learning about security are all things I've studied and mostly forgotten, but they help me understand the new problems I'm faced with every day.

A person who practices medicine without doing the course work, internship, and getting the degree is a quack or charlatan or new-age healer. I'm worried a lot of the startup scene is about making a fast buck, not making a solid product. I don't think the tech sector is life-and-death, and it certainly doesn't need PhDs or a licensing board. But you'd think people who want to excel in the field would study it.
FF 16 : A curtainraiser
Facebook launches FQL-like extensions to Graph API.
I am guessing the GP you are responding to is not in a country where HBO is available (either online or not) and thus even if he wanted to pay for HBO, as he suggested he would, he simply CAN NOT because it is not available.
Napkin - A Rapid Web Prototyping Tool
Thanks! There are definitely some features missing here that I would love to see. I'll keep working on it!
If the glue/sealing process damages the pennies to the point where they can't be used again, this is illegal.
Love this quote:

"We do not generally ask the State to intervene to ensure that artists will paint, musicians play, chefs prepare meals, fashion designers create the new seasons. The vast bulk of our economy innovates well without 20-year monopolies. By contrast, the areas that are heavily patented, such as telecoms and pharmaceutics, resist change, are run by cartels, and extort consumers with grossly inflated prices."
Sorry to have to ask, but is this appropriate for Hacker News?
They need to get what's coming to them, and that is not schadenfreude. Don't compare cheating on an exam to my condemnation of it. "Doing something that makes the world a better place" Could you possibly be more general and irrelevant?
In Slovenia (small country in Central Europe - so quite far from the HBO Nord AB countries.) they're pretty known (and available everywhere - for money of-course). And the article is wrong - we got HBO Go some months ago too.
The 4% that live beyond the Wall. The wildlings.
I'm sure. I would like it to be more of an open platform for Facebook data, and focus more on friends. Plus it should be local instead of trusting other with all your data.
Better job prospects?
No no no no no. This approach still needs heap allocation, and you still need to chase a pointer for every access to your singleton. That's silly. There's a much better way. Here it is, roughly speaking.

template<typename T>
struct singleton_bss {
T& get() {
return * ((T*) &this->buffer[0]);
}

void init(T&& value) {
new ( (T*) &this->buffer[0] ) T(std::forward<T> (value));
}

union {
char buffer[sizeof(T)];
long align; // adjust to taste
};
};

singleton_bss<mything> g_thing;

This approach has the huge advantage of not doing any heap allocation. The storage for g_thing lives directly in bss, the portion of your processes' address space initialized by the operating system. g_thing.init() cannot fail if T's constructor is non-throwing --- singleton_bss allocates no memory!

Access to g_thing is much more efficient than access to a typical singleton. There's no pointer-to-the-instance stored in the singleton, so there's no pointer chasing. Access to g_thing is exactly as efficient as access to a plain global variable, which is as efficient as variable access can be.

You can trivially construct a version of singleton_bss that does lazy initialization, takes multiple parameters, destroys the object on module unload, and so on.
The FF dev tools offer a very different experience compared to Chrome. I am curious about the rationale between having different views for web inspector & debugger.

I am on Aurora/Ubuntu. The binding for the Debugger (Ctrl-Shft-S) doesn't seem to work for me and the Dev toolbar has no way to open the debugger view.
Maybe he wants the superior product?
It maybe iconic, however, it's a horrible device for pointing from the point of health and ergonomics. And even with all the improvements, I've never seen a mouse handled more accurately than a proper trackball (see Logitech M570). Of course, that depends on the user.
SOAP is fragile, bloated and slow. It goes against what the very essence of a service should be, i.e. to expose functionality in as accessible and inter-operable way as possible.
The higher up the WS-* stack you go, the less supported it becomes - eventually only the Big Enterprise frameworks from MS and IBM support the complete WS-* stack.

WSDLs promote code-gen and as different SOAP frameworks have varying levels of WSDL support, you often end up with broken + ugly code-gen when trying to consume from different SOAP stacks. SOAP is also a brittle format where even a small namespace change can break the entire request, this makes versioning (a core part of evolving services) extremely difficult.

I generally prefer clean HTTP APIs with Cool URI's and JSON which is a much faster, smaller, more versionable and tolerant format that provides a better programmatic fit than SOAP/XML:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Heretical-Open-Source
Unfortunately it still looks like that cheap brown linoleum in your grandparents' kitchen.
After reading the BetaBeat article [1], which is much more informative and less biased than the TechCrunch one, I stand corrected. Guess she really lives up to her name. Oh well.

[1] http://betabeat.com/2012/08/shirley-hornstein-shirls-credit-...
OCD is a medical condition, not an adjective. Not only that, even if it were an adjective it wouldn't make sense to use it that way.
Thank you for posting that link, it adds a lot more depth to this story -- Anyone not familiar with the TextDrive lifetime subscription needs to read this.
When you are on your deathbed, will you be happy with the time you spent editing titles?
Placebo side effects can also occur.
Evolution of SoundCloud's Backend Architecture
It's not exactly a new phenomenon. In addition to obvious British stuff like Sherlock and The IT Crowd, I also resorted to underhanded techniques to watch the first season of the remade Battlestar Galactica series, as it was released in the UK several months before the US.
Major Squad Update Includes Git Integration and Free Plan
I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone reveals it for you - it didn't take much Google-fu to find it out.

I believe it's your decision whether to name your company (so I'm not going to do it for you), but I doubt everyone who might be interested will feel the same way.
Obvious question.

Why are they not always in a screen or tmux session?

It seems that your unwillingness to take that precaution has lead to your threatening physical violence on co-workers. It can also turn momentary network hiccups into a much more serious deal than it would otherwise be. Perhaps you should think carefully about that fact.
I really liked the cookie feature ,could use it a lot.
Well, fuck that.
Workday Files for IPO (S-1 document)
Audi, Cadillac, and Mercedes all have semi autonomous features on the horizon.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/20/cadillac-super-cruise/

http://www.insideline.com/audi/audi-previews-traffic-jam-ass...

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/296907,rio-tinto-prepares-mine...
Of the jobs at which you've worked, do you think that you got the job because you were smart/well spoken/skilled in a particular area/had some sort of connection, or because of your GPA? If you have interviewed candidates, did you look at their GPA? If so, how my weight did you give it?

Personally, I interviewed about 30 college students last year for internship and full-time positions; I didn't even look at a single GPA.
...and the gap between native and web ui gets even narrower.
This happened to me when Yobongo was announced.

I had been working on basically the exact same concept for several months. Mine was named GeoHello. I was building mine as a web app, meant to be used by mobile devices. I felt that a native app would be better, but I didn't have any iOS experience at that point in time, so I went with web. I had the demo finished and even began trying to get people to try it out. In general, everybody thought it was neat. Then, a few days later, word of Yobongo started to show up on TechCrunch as a project that was being started by a team with somebody that was well known in the Valley. They were also building it as a native iOS app.

I was pretty depressed for a little while, but it actually played to my advantage because I got to see how Yobongo tackled many of the chicken and egg problems that a real time location based app faces. There were a few other apps that appeared shortly after Yobongo that were doing the same thing. I'm pretty sure that none of them are around anymore because that's a pretty difficult problem to overcome.
Just a guess: He also claims that his "top sells" are "simple reference apps" and that the users "throw them away" after they "impulse" buy them. He also claims they use clever "brand" names. So I can imagine he calls the app for example "Excel" and in the app content is "Ten tips how you can edit the Excel file."

If something like this is what he makes (app spams) I think it's good he got blocked.
Yeah it's too bad there's no other forms of culture and entertainment to consume.
This is a very important point. Not just that, but the "offload person" won't be a member of the teamster's union (seeing as how they aren't actually driving the truck) and will have a more reasonable wage.

As chollida1 points out, UPS/Fedex may not be allowed to lift the CLD requirement quite yet, but that will probably come in time.
Only if you try to spend them.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1405/is-it-legal-to...
Can't add a page 'cause the stinkin ForkMe image is covering the button when full screen.
Well you cited a different number, not the same as showing it was wrong.

For the record I think your number is closer to right and I'm inclined to believe what's really meant was 6% of all phones but it could be a different definition on what constitutes a smartphone and/or the lower end of a broad range.
"Those people are instant no-hires. You aren't going to write code when I ask you to write it? That is your job!"

Well... typically, my 'job' involves people paying me as well. If you want me to 'code when you ask for it', then you need to pay for that. Or... make it easier to judge how I do stuff (like look at my side work).
When I had to deal with the apple appstore it was really clear that the rules are by Apple for Apple. It is far from a "fair" treatment, especially if your app doesn't generate any revenue for them.

Now I don't know how bad you blew the apple guidelines but at least they should tell you right away what's wrong.

Maybe you have yourself a clue to share ?
How I Walked Away From a Wall Street Job To Start My Own Online Business
This is epsilon from cat pictures. You might disagree, but, for what it's worth, I flagged it.
Company name, app names, etc...?
Interesting, a US cent coin is 0.75" in diameter, so .442 sq inches, which means a square foot (144 sq inches) would have not quite 1000 pennies (998 if they were perfectly edge to edge. So $10 sq ft for floor covering. Suggests their kitchen floor is about 32 sq feet :-).

Seems like it would be pretty durable, and if you didn't do the whole 'line them all up so they are looking the same way thing' then could put them in pretty quickly.
I want her to discover science and technology. If she becomes a programmer then thats her choice. But the focus is in expanding her horizons and showing her that she has undiscovered skills and abilities.

I personally dont find software repetitive, or even alienating. In fact, I just ran a national 5K race last Sunday. Had a lot of fun doing it.
I feel like the price is a little steep. If all your networks did the exact same thing it would cost a fortune. Though HBO is nice...
I think I would be on the side of excited.

It would be nice to make a batrillion dollars I suppose, but I already have a day job and a growing list of books that I haven't read, and as much as I like coding in the case of my main idea I'm kicking around it's a means to an end, and I would be a happy chap if that end already existed.
It made me go look in the menu and discovered the new Responsive design mode in FF15, it will be a valuable tool.
How Listia built a marketplace: Solving the Chicken-Egg Problem
Why is a (signed, therefore running without a sandbox, nonetheless!) java applet required for three text input form fields?
As much as this addresses the specifics of '915, the Verge commits the classic forest-for-trees error of why PTZ should have been patentable in the first place. HN has shown prior art from the 1980s within the past week.
A Glimpse Into The Future Of Riak at RICON 2012
That's a great looking tool, very inspiring. And made nearby in Paris :) But it doesn't offer any automation for the workflow OP described.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make light of a medical condition. I was using the term in a way I commonly hear it used as slang, but I understand some people may suffer from it and I should be more sensitive.
Also check out http://thoraxjs.org/beta
Nope, In the US it is illegal to deface currency for any reason.

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Title 18 United States Code, Section 331

Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes,
falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of
the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current
or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States;
or

Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells,
or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the
United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced,
mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened -

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both
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Four Planks to support the next evolution in secure browsing
...also people often complement by going after slightly different things which creates an ecosystem all benefit from. Ours is a platform play with this as a simple use case to onboard people, so this isn't the core focus. We'll probably still do it, as implementation is partly done already, but it's good to see others doing similar.
Happened with Spotify for a while.
Will they come after the little guys then?
Wasn't Turkey there first?
Despite all the naysaying, I have a feeling this could show up in the US sooner than expected.

HBO GO is very good, surprisingly so. The quality of that effort in combination with moves like this suggest some very smart, visionary folks are at work there.

Anecdotally, I'm seeing rapidly growing interest in cord-cutting among non-technical folks.

As tablets and 4G phones proliferate I see people in general becoming increasingly frustrated with cable and desirous of having content when and where they want it.
Why does the flaw not affect "servers or standalone Java desktop applications" (according to these release notes)?

What if either of those are running applications that allow sandboxed downloadable plugins from the internet or otherwise rely on security managers to safely run untrusted code?
Nice site! Be interesting to see how TP responds to it.
Now he just needs to wait for the economy to collapse, so that he can do matching banknote wallpaper. Or get some of the old billion dollar notes in from Zimbabwe.
The WSJ Got It Wrong On Pair Programming
As an interesting side-note, FedEx was buying adds a while ago complaining about the "Brown Bailout." Apparently there was some to-do about how UPS's pilots were part of the teamster's union (or its drivers were part of the pilot's union--I don't remember--in any case, FedEx didn't like it). For that reason, I wonder if we'll see a third player (maybe Amazon) enter the local delivery market because it doesn't have to deal with legacy contracts with the teamsters.
I prefer the answer given here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1463707/c-singleton-vs-gl...
It was kind of weirdly entertaining in a Schadenfreude-esque manner.
Experience shows the singleton pattern is more trouble than it's worth. Explicitly initialise shared resources in one thread either from main, or if you're writing a shared library, the explicit initialisation function you'll have to add anyway if the library is properly designed.
We already have one of those, except everyone gets everything.
Ha! I love that that happened :)
Enhancing Angular.js with Trigger.io Forge
in the sense that it is a maker project, i guess.
I'm excited to try it, but I'm a bit disappointed they're having such performance issues right now, regardless of the traffic. I would have expected a better launch from Wolfram Alpha.
Media companies are actually doing this already, for example to recommend the fitting celebrity for an advertisement ;-)

Just take a look at http://www.celebrityperformance.com/
Synchronized Tumbling: How To Catch A Retired Satellite
The majority of classes at Caltech still have take home exams like you described. For midterms and finals, the exams were handed out at the beginning of the week and due at the end of the week. More often than not, they were open book (although the joke was that those books weren't going to help you solve the problems anyway). The honor code at Caltech was taken very seriously and in my opinion, the students reciprocated with integrity. Cheating and dishonesty was a big social stigma there.
And the StraightDope covers that exact passage, and focuses strongly on the "fraudulently" part.

Please point to the part of the kitchen where the fraud is occurring.