skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I was talking about validity. A hint to that effect was that my sentence explicitly talked about the burden of proof of patent validity. To win a patent case, you must have a valid patent and that patent must be infringed. The plaintiff enters the case with an advantage by law on the validity issue, which was the point of #1.

I dealt with why the plaintiff has an advantage on the infringement issue in point #2.

2. You asked: "Do you actually follow the US legal system?"

I answered: "Yes". Please explain how that is not an answer to the question you asked.
https://www.appfog.com/products/appfog/pricing/
And that's assuming that the word "race" has any value at all when describing humans.
Dogs on Couches
Can you expand on the "actively hostile" comment? I thought it was a technically and aesthetically impressive implementation but I'm no designer.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/19/ios-6-ipsw-direct-download-li... there ya go
Please package this as a Component for better interoperability and modularity.

https://github.com/component/component
https://github.com/component/component/wiki/F.A.Q

Twitter bootstrap isn't modular or supported by a package manager.
Supposedly the Gmail filter is the best. I still see it make an annoying number of errors.

I have my Gmail account as a secondary, occasionally used address, and looking at it right now, of the 23 messages it displays "above the fold" in my inbox, 7 are spam.

Currently I don't see any false-positives in the Gmail 'spam' folder, but in the past, I've even seen legitimate messages from Google's own lists there (!).

It's not that my spam filters elsewhere are any better. But, at least they don't cause me to lose forever false positives that I neglect to notice within 30 days. And, there is a definite correlation between how much spam you get and how many places your naked address appears. So if you ever review your spam folder for false positives, that process is easier if you've bee protective of your address (and thus get less spam).
A tip for anyone trying to view this on a smartphone:

If I load the page on my Android phone with the stock gingerbread browser in portrait, I get what I can only guess is the desktop page. If I load it in landscape, I get the tablet page asking me to rotate to landscape. If you then rotate back to portrait and refresh, you may be lucky enough to get the mobile phone page. It may also be completely random.

Ironic how difficult it is to load this content on a mobile device.
>"There is a huge assumption that capital markets are efficient, but considering the existence of things like bubbles I don't think that's peculiarly true"

Most bubbles are capital allocation errors made by humans.
Oh I wish tech recruiters were people, but they're not. I get emails for jobs in other countries involving abilities I simply don't have. Tech recruiting emails come from people scraping sites like this and then sending mass emails hoping the contents will apply to some of the recipients and maybe they'll even get a response.
Funny that ownership change is usually considered a startup success.
No problem. If you build it and it grows, then you have to hire me as a engineer. :)

In all seriousness, the trick to this kind of platform is the following. You have to make it very, very easy to work with. Using confusing API calls will just make people run away from it. I've seen a lot of APIs that are over engineerd with wacky syntax. Try and keep it as simple as possible, as if the developer was writing HTML itself.

The only problem with wordpress is the platform itself. In order to build something with it, you are accepting a lot of engineering overhead from past versions. This technical baggage makes it a pain to work it, though not as bad as joomla. By going with the API route, you can change the back end as much as you'd like, but the developers would just see the same API calls. Its like an interface in OOP programming.

The last API I did for a client took calls like this:

host/category/products/product/id/get

to this:

host/get/id

See how easier it is to develop with that? You dont need to know what category the product belongs to, because that data is passed as a JSON string to you. Once you get it, on your side you just go through the results and display it accordingly.

Same with a blog API. I dont need to know the title, just the post ID. So do host/get/id and then in the front end do
{% post.title %}
{% post.author %}{% post.date_published %}
{% post.content %}

and so on.
Unfortunately you can't currently port your landline to Google Voice: http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

My personal preference is MagicJack. I don't want everybody to have my cell #. I prefer companies that bill me (credit cards, utilities, etc) to have their own number which is my old landline. MagicJack fits the bill for me. Most of the time I don't even answer the phone and the voicemail gets sent to me via email.
Having seen finance, VC-istan, and a few other places I think finance is better on average.

People who bash finance are comparing it to some R&D Valhalla that doesn't exist anymore (except perhaps at a few cultural leaders like Valve) where everyone has complete autonomy over their work and no backstabbing exists because everyone is thrilled about what they do. If you compare typical finance jobs to typical real-world software jobs that are available to people without more published papers than years on this planet, then finance wins. That's not to say there aren't bad finance jobs (there are) or that finance is without its problems.

The software industry sucks. Programming is fun, but the software industry itself is a horrible place to be unless you have an edge that can consistently guarantee you a stream of high-quality work and no bullshit, and there isn't a much good work to go around in this industry, so that edge really has to be solid. The way you get good at software (and one of the things I admire greatly about software engineers is that a lot of us genuinely care about being good at our jobs; that's a rarity in the corporate world) is to get good work, but you can't get good work unless people think you're good. Hence, there's that need for some sort of edge when you're starting out. Finance, for its flaws, is a pretty good place to get this sort of edge: it gives you a certain credibility that helps you escape "Just A Programmer" mediocrity.
Um, Android tablets predate the iPad:

http://phandroid.com/2009/11/11/archos-5-android-internet-ta...

Granted, they weren't very good and didn't come with Google apps, but they did exist.
Neil Young unveils his new Pono music player
In regards to your last point:

http://bikeportland.org/2012/09/05/bob-huckaby-moves-forward...
Get this message on the latest version of Opera.

>Greetings, Mobile Champion!

>We noticed that you're using an unsupported browser. But have no fear, you can view themobileplaybook.com from the latest versions of Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari. Please update your browser and come back to visit us.

>Alternatively, we suggest checking out the site from your tablet if you have one
or from your smartphone device.

What galls me about these messages is the insinuation to the Opera users that their browser is somehow outdated and that we need to update or upgrade it. If you can't be assed to test on Opera at least change the message to asking to use a different browser, not to "upgrade" to one.
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I would also like to see some evidence for this wild claim.
Ok, I see. So that's probably reasonable. And it's now even more clear that the whole thing is somewhat confusing.
I'm accepted. But I don't have enough budget to go now. Damn!
> The IDE has automatically figured out what parameters need to be passed into the new method that was created and passed in those variables for you.

I have never understood the "Wow" factor in having the IDE re-factor code. Sure the IDE will manage to do it, but the end result will be anything but ideal.

IMHO a human applying a level of intelligence and doing the refactoring by hand will always achieve a better result.

To highlight this point the final result produced by the IDE was this:

@Test
public void testDealingOfCards ()
{
Deck deck = new Deck();
List<Player> players = deck.getPlayers();
Dealer.deal(deck.getDeck(), players);

for (int i=0; i<players.size(); i++)
{
List<Card> cardsInHand = players.get(i).getCardsInHand();
assertThat(cardsInHand.size(), is(5));

outputCardDetailsToConsole(players, i, cardsInHand, deck);
}
assertThat(deck.getDeck().size(), is(32));
}

private void outputCardDetailsToConsole(List<Player> players, int playerNumber,
List<Card> cardsInHand, Deck deck)
{
System.out.println(players.get(playerNumber).getName() + " has the following cards:");
for (Card aCard : cardsInHand)
{
System.out.println(aCard.toString());
}
System.out.println("The deck has " + deck.getDeck().size() + " cards in it.");
System.out.println();
}

If this code was to be truly refactored it should end up looking something like this:

@Test
public void testDealingOfCards ()
{
Deck deck = new Deck();
List<Player> players = deck.getPlayers();
Dealer.deal(deck.getDeck(), players);

for (int i=0; i<players.size(); i++)
{
outputCardDetailsToConsole(players.get(i), deck);
}
assertThat(deck.getDeck().size(), is(32));
}

private void outputCardDetailsToConsole(Player player, Deck deck)
{
List<Card> cardsInHand = player.getCardsInHand();
assertThat(cardsInHand.size(), is(5));

System.out.println(player.getName() + " has the following cards:");
for (Card aCard : cardsInHand)
{
System.out.println(aCard.toString());
}
System.out.println("The deck has " + deck.getDeck().size() + " cards in it.");
System.out.println();
}
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My thoughts on why hacking is not always bad. Tell me what you think.
Why is it dark at night?
It looks, feels and reads like someone used a PowerPoint to HTML5 converter to make that site,and as others pointed out, seems to have issues supporting browsers.
Do you mark spam email that you get as spam? I rarely get spam in my GMail, but when I do I mark it as spam. Of course, maybe our habits are just different, but I like to reassure myself that I'm helping the system chug along.
Ugh I hate these on airbrake. They never work properly.
Visualising multi-dimensional data is indeed, tricky. The best tool I have found so far for word representations similar to LSA has been t-SNE:

http://homepage.tudelft.nl/19j49/t-SNE.html

In some cases what I get isn't all that much better than simply using PCA, but overall t-SNE is superior. Although t-SNE is dreadfully slow... Below is a link to an implementation used for text and I can highly recommend the original paper on t-SNE:

https://github.com/turian/textSNE
The RIAA did not blush; $3MM is the statutory damages for only 20 instances of copyright infringement.
The government has an economic incentive, since it's financially responsible for the health care costs for all of it's citizens. The US isn't fully responsible.
Ask HN: Can incubators like Y Combinator identify the next Steve Jobs?
Places like YCombinator are very good at identifying the multimillion dollar startups. That's no problem.

Let's take this to the next level.

If the next Steve Jobs walks in the door of YCombinator or similar incubator tomorrow, could they identify they were looking at someone so different and unique that they are the next Steve Jobs? Or would they call security to escort this strange guy out?
SpaceX Swag Store
Weird. The phone version looks fine in the Android browser or Chrome here, but my phone is on ICS.
"But today, it is the very rare Internet software deal that has meaningful technology risk"

This statement embodies what I think is wrong with the SV climate today. You seem to have money actively shunning technological risk which usually is directly coupled to technological progress. While Id certainly agree that their is some money to be made on the current infrastructure Im pretty pessimistic that the next actual big thing (atleast in the internet space) will come out of the current VC ecosystem. Ok Ill get out of my armchair now.
Do they do a waitlist for this event?
>"and the amount to which they are subsidised by the government (especially recently)."

False. TARP has been paid back, at a small profit, to the FED, which returns the money to Treasury. The auto companies are a black hole of subsidies, but that's another story.
I'm pretty sure this is a good idea. It keeps the peasants and proles in their place. It just wouldn't do to have that kind of people receiving new ideas. It would upset the Ordained Social Order.
After reading this, it seems that this could be a clear case of a law that should be struck down on constitutional grounds -- Article I section 8, "To promote the progress of science and useful arts", not "disrupt the progress".
Pandora should work with alternative, indie music venues like MySpace or YouTube to find off-label music acts waiting to be discovered. There're hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of amateur musicians in this country that're waiting to be discovered but can't get the record labels to pay attention to them. Some of them are quite talented.

If an unknown but good artist showed up in my Pandora stream, I'd love it. Hell, that's why I listen to Pandora - to learn about musical groups that I wouldn't otherwise have heard of. And they already have the algorithms and the data to distinguish crap from good stuff, at least in theory.

They're potentially sitting on a gold-mine. Just open a self-service webapp where an amateur musician can upload MP3s of their work and fill out a blurb & promotional photos, classify their work through the normal music genome project, and start injecting it into the streams of people willing to listen to unvetted music. The thumbs up / thumbs down buttons can do the rest.
Same reason I didn't even apply.

It'd be an amazing experience to be surrounded by hackers (there aren't many here an hour outside Atlanta), and it's something I'd love to be able to put on my resume, but there's no way I can afford it while unemployed and going to college.
It's definitely a culture! In america although, the concept of race still persists everywhere, including government forums which split people's choices into appearance strains and not ethnicities or cultures.
It's funny you should mention London - our London counterparts always did speak differently of their hours, managers, and opportunity for growth. So I agree with you!

I worked exclusively on front-office systems nearly for the entirety of my time as a developer for an investment bank. I didn't even get into how there are very few opportunities for growth and other, more HR-related/culture aspects of the job.

I'm glad you have good things to say about your work! I just wish I could describe the time that I and my colleagues spent at those banks in a better light. It was utterly life-altering when I left. I felt like I was living for the first time since college.
I'm pretty sure the Adapteva chip can't do that either; it requires a host processor just like a GPU does.
Can't filter by video length :(
>"it's not on the hook for its own risk."

Tell that to the Bear Stearns equity holders, who were 99% wiped out, or the Lehman Bros. equity holders who were completely wiped out.

>"Banks need to be broken up, so that they are no longer "too big to fail.""

Fine, if you want to cripple long term economic growth by requiring banks to hold far more liquid assets. Or, they can rely on the Fed as the lender of last resort to step in when they need liquidity (which the Fed has done). I prefer the latter.
The thing about TDD is it lets you figure out where you were in a big complicated thing you're implementing. That's the hardest part sometimes about programming. Answering the question: Where was I? What did I have to do next? Especially when the system is non-trivial.

It's like writing very detailed functional notes to yourself about what your program is actually supposed to do so you can implement it. Besides, you write twice as much code, but have half as many bugs. It's a big win all around.

I wonder what it would be like to take TDD to extremes and write all the tests for the minimum viable product before writing a single line of actual implementation code. I wonder if it would be possible. It would certainly help me pick up a project wherever I had left it at any time in the future.
Apparently some troll sent me an email faked from hacker news that my password had changed. Nice try trolls.
> The GIL and the lack of foresight in designing Python are problems that are too fundamental to the language.

The GIL isn't part of the Python language, it's part of the implementation of CPython. Jython for example doesn't have a GIL.
I always thought Google was the search engine for porn.
I wonder if you are interested in transferring the invite to someone who is able to go?
Seriously, your English is quite good, but there are a few grammar nits in your writeup, so it would pay to invest in a bit of proofreading (from a native speaker, if possible).
Yep. But even though you say "of course it does," the majority of people don't realize that until its too late. There's nothing obvious about the situation from the outside looking in, unless you possess uncommon introspective abilities or have read up on what you're describing there.
I created a Facebook group for people who are attending to coordinate transportation, lodging, etc...also it'd be great to meet some people before I go!

http://www.facebook.com/groups/263608800427362/
Interesting that the tablet on the lower left is an iPad.
You've done nothing to explain how the presumption of validity implies the plaintiff will ultimately win, nor how my analogy to the validity of a law is wrong.

If the answer were really just "Yes", you shouldn't have felt it necessary to bring academic credentials into the discussion, instead of just leaving it at "Yes".

We know from history that extremely weak cases are filed all the time, usually hopes of attempting to force a settlement, and that there have been few effective barriers to such tactics. There were even fewer barriers during the era before the Federal Circuit came to be.

Your bald assertion about "weak" cases being weeded out is contradicted by real-world observations of both the distant past and more recent history.
Right on - London vs. US is very different. I envied my UK friends who left work at 4pm on Fridays to have a drink with their colleagues, when I'd regularly be working till 8 or 9pm.
Alt-F9 to Compile and F9 to Make, old timer. At least in TP5.5.

http://i.imgur.com/XCwTa.png

;-)
Flying Through TOR with Jetplane
Oh, that's hilarious. https://www.google.com/search?q=themobileplaybook.com shows that same "greeting" as a preview, and the cached version is completely blank (because there's no content in their markup, just scripted crap). It just goes to show that if such anti-semantic authoring were the norm, Google's search engine wouldn't even exist. Talk about pulling the ladder up behind you....
The page transition is jarring in Chrome.
As an influential Managing Director once told me, "This business brings out the worst in everyone."
Maybe, but:

1. That would make them a record label, rather than a radio station

2. Most people, myself included, do want to hear established artists.
Good idea. Thanks Jeff!
So, what precisely is the snake oil as it relates to PUAs meeting women?
I had as much legitimate mail going to the spam folder as I did actual spam, though I had entirely too much of that too. It's pretty useless IMO.
Kindle Paperwhite review
You've got your foot in the door so that's awesome. I think the direction you are thinking of is correct. Try to run a small experiment for the B2C company for customer acquisition. Say spend 20 bucks on google ads and measure the results. Run other types of marketing campaign to get customers. Whether you fail or succeed, send the founders the results(it will help them save time by not working on a channel that doesn't work). This way they see that you actually give a damn about them. Remember: You don't need permission to help.
I can hardly be bothered to check my FB anymore. No more vanity browsing for me.
I think a better question may be why don't people use an alternative to e-mail to manage inbound solicitations.

And I'm Joe@Gramicon.com. But I'd prefer gramicon.com/itsjoeco.
It would be even more convincing if these former finance types gave away (or were forced to give away) their massive bonuses. Until that happens, people will still want to work for finance for a few years of mad cash, then quit and tell people about how evil it was and how glad they are that they left.
When I try to read the text in the upper left, I keep getting distracted by animated numbers falling into the bottom right.
actually, an entire layer would mean all satellites at a specific distance would be renting from the same owner.

I guess that layer would sell for more initially and still compete with other layers that aren't ideal. Or we could have separate scheme for geostationary satellites.
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A few links out from that, I arrived here: http://www.spacehabs.com/

Some more fascinating images, though modern and computer rendered, so not quite of the same ilk.
Good perspective!
This would appear to infringe on RIM's Playbook trademark: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4001:25...
That's a very deceptive description of the pricing. In particular, you can't take a 4 hour ride in Paris for $2 either. A quick glance at the pricing suggests the NY system is about 2-3 times more expensive (presumably because it isn't as heavily subsidized).
I do, but only on the occasional times I check Gmail at all. It's possible it'd become better for me with more intense use/training, but I'm not ready to leap into even more dependency on Google services based on the experience so far.
Other people already posted different annoyances, but my issues with that page were:

The animations are choppy to a distracting level on Chrome 22 running on a reasonably beefy desktop machine.

The font size is unreadably small, and due to the three column layout it doesn't degrade well when zoomed. It'd be merely crappy if zooming required vertical scrolling. It's disabling all methods of vertical scrolling entirely that really make this design special.

It replaces normal page navigation with a custom version, which is already bad. They then compound that error by mapping that custom navigation to the wrong keys. An example: maybe you'd like to check one of the footnotes they have. In a sensible design those would be hyperlinks, but for whatever reason that wasn't done. Ok, so I guess you need to go to the end of the document to see the footnotes. Wouldn't still be too bad, but they forgot to map the "End" key. So the only way to get to the end of the document is with the slider. And after doing that, how do you return to the original position? Well, I'd expect to be able to do Alt-Left for that. Except that this keybinding has been overridden too, and you need to instead click on the back button.

Doing this kind of stuff might be just about acceptable in a web app. But this isn't an app. It's a document. And they've managed to break the only two things that matter for a document. I need to be able to read it, and I need to be able to navigate it.
The following sums it up.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries … and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

Politicians looking for donations are trying to follow the path of least resistance, not most. Hence the rules defend the status quo.