skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between not wanting to do something again because you learned that it was mistake and regretting having done it in the first place. I've made plenty of mistakes and learned to not do that thing again, but I don't regret them. After all, had I not made those mistakes, I wouldn't know that they were, in fact, mistakes.
Apparently the win rates in EDT aren't that great any more. Someone posted a link to this effect a few lawsuits ago. The reason why people still file there is because the judges all now have good working knowledge of patent law and that makes trials fairly efficient. Dunno if this is actually true, but.
It's not free per-se. It requires a 2-year commitment (3 years here in Canada). Agreeing to a 2-year commitment to get a 2-year-old phone is probably a bad deal (especially given Apple's lack of support for the less-than-4-year-old iPhone 3G). I don't expect a high percentage of people to go for that one.
In the meantime, your service is useless to the vast majority of us.

Have fun with your Ivy League circle jerk.
I tried going to http://www.hntees.com/ hoping it would redirect, but it only redirect to https://www.hntees.com/ instead of http://hntees.com/.

It really adds to what others are saying that this is a fly-by night operation.

On another note, I get the men's birchbox for $20/month, and get at least 5 items, including a t-shirt once. This just doesn't seem like a good deal.
Got a source on that? My experience and the research disagree, these take advantage of lower level cognitive biases that are prevalent (or maybe universal) in human beings.
We choose Next Level over American Apparel because we found them to be a superior fit & more comfortable.
The one your client queries can both answer requests and forward them to other servers.[1] The one your caching server queries can only answer queries. That's an oversimplification because people use some ridiculously convoluted DNS configurations and these features can be mixed and matched in any server (e.g BIND), but hopefully it answers your question, if I understand it correctly.

1. But you could just as easily only query servers of the second type (ones that only answer queries, often called "authoritative" servers). I have written programs to do this as it is very fast and IME more reliable than using resolvers.
Any plans for gaussian blur?
Frugality: the New Fanciness
> Wouldn't all the groups continually fix what you chip away and then some?

Ah. Divide and conquer. Lawyers love rules/regulations/complexity because it usually means more $$$ for compliance efforts. You exploit a conflict of interest between the patent holder and their legal representation.

They will be fighting each other, while you weigh in for the most onerous changes.

> Do you have a more detailed description of how to break the patent system by adding more regulations to it

The problem with the patent system is that it works. You apply for a patent, you get a patent, you bash somebody's head in with the patent.

What you need is to insert many, many pain points along the way. Enough pain points and complexity that the system as whole, no longer functions.

The path to that is to find allies for each particular pain point. There will always be some group that will benefit through additional regulation. If that weren't the case, there would never be any regulations. All regulations are meant to make somebody's life better.

For example, the regulation for seatbelts in cars made seatbelt manufacturers happy. Etc, etc. Somebody always gets a cut, somebody always benefits.

So you systematically support and push regulation and promote the benefactors of said regulation. Your only challenge would be to come up with some beneficial reasoning for said regulation, to cover up the naked interest of the particular benefiting party.

Essentially, you just regulate it to death.
Publishers See Online Mega-Courses as Opportunity to Sell Textbooks
I hate getting pedantic on subjects like these, but it's kind of important if the subject is how to hire a designer.

The article doesn't at any point mention what kind of designer they're attempting to hire. It seems they were looking for some combination of graphic, brand, interface, and... probably a few others. I don't think they were looking for a product or experience designer, but it's not entirely clear.

Design is often a failed effort at organizations, especially those with broad aspirations and significant size, because it must deliver collateral, interactions, and experiences that are emotional, consistent, powerful, scalable, and understandable while communicating brand.

This is hard, and made harder if you can't describe or define the design work you need to execute across all its surfaces.

Hacker News comments & articles generally draw a single line between aesthetic and interaction design, with a tenuous acknowledgement that uniting multiple interactions in a consistent, comprehensible manner is a distinct discipline.

Companies will continue having difficulty hiring appropriate designers until designers better define the work they do and value they add.
There was a Show HN post a few days ago about Sleepio.com which is using CBT over the web to help with insomnia. In the thread the OP talked about wanting to expand it to other types of therapy. Even if it's not the company you were thinking of, it might be interesting. Here's the thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504639
Yes that's true, but I'd presume a lot of what you pay for in a diamond ring initially is not the cost of raw materials, but the symolism, and hence a diamond ring would lose value.

I was thinking you'd lose money either way if you went with diamond vs. non-diamond, so "you'll lose value" is not a compelling argument for non-diamond.
Why were you hoping it would go to https://www ? If you knew the proper landing URL was https://hntees.com why not just go there? I really do not understand hoping; were you hoping to put down a start up on HN?

Its hacker news not hater news.
Honestly I'm happy to hear that. I'm one of those rare individuals who gets to write go at work. I'm really happy with go performance and memory usage. Like really really happy. The different between the cpu usage of a go program using protocol buffers and a python program using protocol buffers is pretty dramatic (go is the clear winner).

Most folks would assume a paper coming out of google involving go has some go experts involved. Clearly this is not the case.
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Nice site. If I had to nitpick, I'd say put the FAQ above the order form, and would've liked to get at least some sort of representation of what sort of tees I'd be getting.

The idea reminds me a lot of Valley Schwag[0], which was doing something very similar back in 2006... I got a few great tees out of being a member there, and a tonne of stickers and other little promo items.

[0]:http://techcrunch.com/2006/05/04/get-web-20-schwag-from-vall...
Spring and Dropwizard are really not comparable. Spring is a large, invasive framework which covers many different facets of enterprise application design. Dropwizard is a set of commonly-used libraries (jetty, jersey, jackson, slf4j, a couple others) with a little bit of glue to stitch them together.
Apple patented a rectangle, and I haven't seen much rise in awareness.
It really doesn't matter what the "win rate" is when it costs 1.5 Million and takes 3 years to win. The trolls have their offices there and they appear before the same judges every day. I have no doubt this makes trials fairly efficient for them.

A little fear in a court that if they start hearing a bunch of bogus patent cases and generally being troll friendly might make half the internet become inaccessible from their jurisdiction might not be a bad thing. Yes, that's pretty unfair to a lot of people, but unfair seems to be the currency of trade these days.
Would it actually be that simple? I can't imagine their lawyers would be lacking enough technically not to show the judge a phone or use a proxy.
http://openrelief.org/ - is a project that's laying down some useful foundations for Drone delivery.
There's an "If I got 10 cents everytime someone complained about using CAPTCHA..." joke in there somewhere, I just know it.

I could honestly see this working. Your site enrolls to the program, people can put money in $1, $5, $10 dollars at a time. Site owners get $0.05 per signup through the service and can collect for every 1k users signed up (paid in $50 increments).
Haircut is usually a term for taking a reduced return on an existing investment that is otherwise unlikely to pay off - for example many European banks have taken a haircut of upto 50% on Greek government bonds, otherwise the greek government would leave the Euro, default anyway and take its chances.

Said haircut of course then stuffs their balance sheets, so they need bailing out, from for example Spainish government, which then cannot payout its loans and threatens a haircut to its investors. Who are the same damn banks it just bailed out.

This leads to two situations - one ECB chief saying it will pay anything to anyone to stop this idiocy, just ask. And two, the philosophical approach to wealth "hair today, gone tomorrow"
Certainly! Working on a tshirt api (http://swagmate.startupthreads.com/) to do just this, since the hard part for companies I have spoken to seems to be the managing of this process
Large Images in Rails
In-Q-Tel (CIA's VC arm) invests in MongoDB maker 10gen
Did you guys see the cloudflare module for this a few months back? http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/20/cloudflare-instaflare-inst... also see https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/instaflare
Its not to keep from being sued there. Most of the people I asked that know these things agree that it would provide a thin defense in that regard. Its to send a message. If all of Tyler woke up one morning unable to watch Netflix, search on Google or order from Amazon, a few people might start to wonder WTF is going on.
There's some truth in that, but I don't think "higher level" and "lower level" is sufficiently well defined to make that as automatically true as you present it. For instance, languages that allow you to redefine the assignment operator are not necessarily higher level than languages that don't.

Or take reference parameters. In C++, if you pass an object to a function you cannot know by looking at the call site if the object is going to be copied or not. The parameter could be defined as a reference, but you have to look at the function definition to find out. In C#, in Java, in Python and in C you know it by looking at the call site. These other languages are all over the place in terms of any high/low level categorization.
Hands-On With the Redesigned Twitter for iPad
They're actually retaining 20% of AliBaba, so your theory doesn't hold. More likely, AliBaba's management want to consolidate their independence and see the use of a cash reserve to boost share price as a good thing.
Facebook Launches Mobile Ad Network
I don't see why vetting would put any more liability on Kickstarter - all the 'responsibility lies with the creator' legal mumbo-jumbo can remain in place.

If you browse this thread you'll find lots of suggestions from different people. Probably other people will have better ideas than mine, but for what it's worth: I'd require projects successfully raising a large amount (say, more than the price of a midsized car) for hardware to agree a series of milestones, releasing the funds to them in stages. The precise milestones would be agreed on a project-by-project basis, but could include: Some money up front, some money when they have a preliminary electrical schematic and prototype on breadboard, some money when they have a costed bill of materials and a final prototype, some money when they have a feature-complete mobile app, and some money as the products start shipping and the invoices from manufacturers start arriving.

To put it another way, creators can't have any pudding if they don't eat their meat.
A little OT, but I don't understand recruiters that e-mail you on LinkedIn asking you to send them your resume.

I've even told one to print off my LinkedIn profile page as my resume, since it's the most up to date, but they still asked for one.
the more "ridiculous" lawsuits there are, the higher the incentive for lawmakers to keep those laws (since working in the state legislature is probably not their only source of income and law students probably compose by far the largest group in washington and in state parliaments)
I don’t; jewelry is just nice.
I'd really like a gallery of previous tees so I can see what sort of thing I would be getting. You say they won't be logo shirts, so what will they be? I'm interested but confused.
A lot of these arguments skip the obvious fact that the FDA could provide its own form of commercial exclusivity without needing patents at all.

You can't sell medication without FDA approval. Right now patents don't factor in to it, but if patents were eliminated the FDA could implement a similar scheme exclusively for medication.
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Great idea.

Thought One: Your biggest barrier to adoption will be speed as you scale. If your API returns the modified image too slow, developers will quickly abandon you. So you'll need to invest heavily in RAM, processing power, and code/db optimization.

Thought Two: I suggest, if you have the storage to support it, that you take a checksum of all original images and cache the original and modified versions of them. As you scale you will find lots of people submitting the same images (celebrity pics, scenery, etc) and you could save alot of time and bandwidth by doing a checksum client-side, AJAXing it back to your server and, if there is a match, just return your cached version (if the client requests the same filter) or processing the cached version. In either case you eliminate the need for the upload, and you speed up processing server-side.

Just my 2 cents.
It's a good question and I'm happy to oblige.

First, I use many pointing devices. With my home standing desk, I use an Evoluent vertical mouse. With my workplace sitting desk, I do better with a trackball (it's huge). When I need to take my laptop on the road, I just use the trackpad. They all have their pros and cons depending upon the task at hand.

I think the hover effect helps by making the click a more reflex-driven event. Even if my cursor is skittering about a little bit, a mouse-over effect helps the lower parts of my brain "pull the trigger" at the right moment. I'd describe it as a lot like playing an FPS or some other fast-moving action game. Sounds lame and totally unscientific, I know, but I definitely notice the difference.
Why would anyone pay to advertise a company? It's bad enough people pay large sums for clothing with their manufacturer logo (eg Nike clothing).
Any example shirts?
I agree. Occasional failures don't discredit the whole thing. Fraud might, but failure doesn't.
In other words, YOLO?
Oh, good to know. As non native english speaker they are of great help.
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my apologies, too long on the internet you see, I was starting to hallucinate sexual offences online.
Chrome is slower than Explorer
You can get keychain fob chargers to charge your phone in your pocket when you need it and keep the thinness the rest of the time.
Well, finding 2 computers that are exactly equal in specs is more effort than I care to put in, but here's the first reasonable comparison I see at Best Buy:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+Satellite+14%26%2334%3...

Compare it to the 13" Macbook Pro (for the sake of being generous towards the Mac). It's just over half the price, has a bigger screen, more ram, a larger hard drive, and seemingly identical processor and graphics. Naturally there are give and takes on both sides (just about everything is inferior to Apple in terms of "build quality", though this is tough to put a price on), but I don't think it's unreasonable to say this is a comparable laptop, and the specs easily make up for it being $50 over half price.

I don't say this to disparage Apple, I've got a MBP myself, but whenever I look at PCs with comparable specs, I do find that they tend to be about half the price.

I'll withdraw 3x though, that probably is too high and even if I could hunt around and find one example, it's not like that would prove the point.
No, actually WE pay to advertise startups.
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You’re preaching to the choir. I didn’t take the time to give a better thought out comment—if I had, you’d know I don’t really believe in the apostrophe at all, let alone “correctness”.

But, as a grocer would say, tomatoe’s, tomatoe’s.
For the JVM, Akka is pretty sweet. It comes with both Java and Scala bindings.

http://akka.io
A Data-Oriented, Data-Driven System for Vector Fields - Part 1
SourceForge wasn't SourceForge back then, it was other things that were later aggregated into it. I've been on the internet before there were browsers, so I know my history.

Freshmeat was never a spectacular platform, but it was the de-facto open-source distribution center at the time. It played an important role in that environment, but was more of a distribution channel than a collaboration tool.

Today SourceForge is the GeoCities of source hosting. It has almost no redeeming features.
Unless you consider 'they' the hedge funds who are now in control of the Yahoo board, your perception of who is inept is misplaced. This decision was a critical part of the regime change that took place. While Mayer is currently the CEO and may have the best of intentions, she doesn't have anything resembling the control that Zuckerberg, Larry Page or even Tim Cook have over their company. If she did, it is a near certainty that this money would have been retained and invested in the company.
Bootstrapping. Analysis and thoughts.
As I understand it Spring offers a complete enterprise application development framework, while DropWizard focuses on delivering production quality RESTful web services with minimal developer work. I've used Spring a little, it's nice... very full featured; in fact I still have production code using Spring's JDBC and LDAP libraries and Spring Security... they've worked out very well for me. I think Spring is the Rails to DropWizard's Sinatra. They're both very good, but if you need less and DropWizard can cover what you need it's a lot easier to use and probably uses the libraries you'd want to use anyway (unless you know a lot of Spring or JEE already).
4.2.1 is indeed the largest piece (exactly 50%) of my users that are on iOS less than 4.3, with other versions sprinkled in. And as it happens, looking by device, 87% of my <4.3 users are on 3G devices.
drawing together app. similar to draw something, but lets parents and children to use separate devices to draw together, or color cartoons, etc.

I was going to make something kinda like this myself one time. Ever since I played with PolyPaint some years ago I've been meaning to remake it, possibly with tons more features, more social aspects etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-9qI7VAkWM&feature=playe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQI41TQfyIM&feature=watch...

http://www.smariot.com/polypaint/
A touchpad on a laptop is less ergonomic than a mouse on a properly arranged desktop. But a touchpad on a laptop is more ergonomic than a mouse on a laptop unless you set up your laptop like a desktop (place it on a stand on a big, clear desk with an external keyboard in front and a mouse pad to the side). Trying to use a mouse with a laptop that is sitting on your lap is, in my experience, invariably awkward.
That was my inspiration, along with Startup Schwag, which ran the same service (with the same printer) as mine for a few years.
Very well stated. You said it in half the words I did. I especially like your point about Spring being "invasive". For me, Spring MVC was so invasive I couldn't justify using it... the LDAP, JDBC, and Security components work usable without too much interference though.
Trademark dilution is different. You can lose the ability to enforce trademarks that become the generic word to refer to things, on the reasoning that people shouldn't be able to have monopolies over the basic usages of language.
One question, how much would it cost to buy EVERY software patent? Millions, billions?
Why would anyone pay $3000 to attend a conference to receive an award, which in reality amounts to nothing?

Your users don't care about some stupid online award they've never heard of. If the investors you're talking to care about it then it's time to find new investors.
Istanbul indeed is an amazing city to walk through, but I think it's more so for tourists who find it exotic. Having lived here for more than a year now I find the streets here quite frustrating - because of the irregularity, extreme density and especially because of the ascents/hills. I am talking purely from the perspective of getting from point A to B in a daily life. I commute to work by walking, takes only 15 minutes; but I go down and up a very steep ascent so I have to sweat twice a day :) Not to mention the cars which gets past quite fast just an inch away from me while I myself am just inch away from the edge of the road.

I still love this city with all its beauty and uniqueness. What I like most is that there are endless amount places to go, see a and discover.
But when it comes city-structure, it's the roads that I miss most about US and Kazakhstan where there is a concept of a "sidewalk" and "road" (an actual, real road) - I think you know what I mean by this :)
Like the Economists Big Mac index for purchasing power parity, the Latte Index for startups: how many startups are sitting in an average Starbucks.
How to get the most out of AngelList as a VC and as an Entrepreneur
Ditto. An example tee or two would do a great deal to convince me that I'd be buying something I will want to wear.
I used carcostcanada.com to buy my Ford Edge 5 years ago - it works in the way you describe. Our local dealer wouldn't even match the lowest quote I got from the site. Even with a bunch of haggling, his best price was $1k more than the no-haggle price I got from the internet!

The point is: these sites already exist, and you really should use them to buy your next car. Haggling is so inefficient.
FYI, the name of the above logical fallacy is argument from ignorance. "I don't know x, so y must be true".
I would have thought it would work out better if you took Friday off. That way you don't have to deal with a stand-up over the telephone. Stand-ups over the phone are often extremely painful and nowhere near as useful.
His only complaint seems to be race conditions, but callbacks have these too.

In fact, coroutine based i/o use callbacks underneath just as while and for loops use gotos (jump instructions) underneath.

The difference with both is that the abstraction allows your code to be more understandable and easily changed.

For example, try making randomly selected locations in your code async using callbacks - painfully difficult. Now try it with coroutines - easy.

There is a reason why we use stacks.
They're not even trying to hide the fact that they're patent trolls:

"We are located in East Texas, and we are developing innovative technologies and products. We have a team who is responsible for some of the web’s most popular software and applications, and we own some really amazing patents."
"DeveloperAuction.com is currently open only to employees of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, and Google as well as Stanford & MIT graduates." [http://developerauction.com/for_developers]

Meh.
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