skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The promotion by the director is a great sign, and I can see AskPatents being very useful for prior-art searches (one of the results of which is the NPL document referenced above). It will hopefully improve results and save money.

Absent some statutory changes, it's hard to see how it will impact the prescribed, formal steps of the patent review process. Patent filings are a lot more complicated [edit: as compared to existing legal forms websites], but I can imagine a template interface that would allow crowd-sourcing before a final review to cross the Ts and dot the Is.

It would be phenomenal if the PTO streamlined the process themselves. Baby steps...
I'm fairly new to persona too, but when you "sign in" it lets you choose what email address to use.
Agreed, their only downside IMHO.
I saw recently a show on Discovery about the rescue swimmer training program and they mentioned that euphoria is one of the symptoms of oxygen deprivation. At one moment one of the candidates stayed too much under water and fainted, yet when they pulled him outside, he had a grin on his face and looked euphoric.
What's "damning" about them? That they show that Google engineers have a sense of humor and the freedom to express it?
One more correction. The identity/e-mail provider does not store your password, it merely signs your key for which it can use whatever authentication it wishes. Most probably the same user-id/password combo you use to read your mail, but the BrowserID does not dictate that, it is up to the provider to decide.

After that the identity provider just gets requests from services that do not know its public key yet, but typically it is asked only once per service as the key is stored in a local cache. And even when the key is asked, the provider cannot know for which email verification address it is needed.

All in all I think this is a great system. It puts a lot of trust in the e-mail provider, but I think that's all right as the provider already has full control of your personal e-mail anyway and hence is trusted by default.
San Francisco doesn't belong to anyone.
I understand why this is downmodded -- software patents as a whole are pretty awful. And I think we can just about all agree that the patent office is incapable of sifting through requests on its own.

But askpatents.com looks to me like it has some potential to work, and if it did, it might solve at least most of the really heinous examples. I'd say that at least merits making the possibility of reform an open question.

Forcing a massive shift in IP rights (that may not benefit large, entrenched interest) through Congress is an enormous undertaking that may not succeed. Reform may be a more practical option.
> Doesn't have many design tools (well not any really,

Someone posted a link to a modelling tool.
Wow. Where has Freeplane been my whole life?
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It's closer to 20% due to China's ASAT test and 80% due to the collective spaceflight activities of the entire world over the last half century. You know, vs. one single event.

If China dumped as much garbage into the ocean in one event equal to 20% of the entire world's ocean dumped garbage since 1957 you can be damned sure they'd catch some flak for that.
Just about to hit 3 months, I thought it was supposed to get better by now!
Unless their work convinces Intel they might be missing out.
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I've had a good experience with Tuple: http://www.tuplesapp.com/
All he's saying is that the line's blurry. If you drink 50 gallons of water in a day, you will overdose -- everything is harmful in some quantity, food or otherwise.
We're talking about crypto on this thread. I see the controversies over government access to communications differently than you do, but I'm not particularly interested in litigating the issue. The federal government has not subverted cryptography in any meaningful way; industry does a perfectly great job of doing that job for them.

You have a lot more to fear from the Linux devs "cleaning up" OpenSSL's CSPRNG than you do from the NSA.
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Did you even read the comment? One Chinese demonstration created 10% of all objects we can track. The US demonstration was held in a much lower orbit and most of the fragments it created have probably burned in the atmosphere by now.
Mitt Romney, did you just seriously buy my personal domain name?
I am being violated by Mitt Romney.

A few minutes ago, I get a notice from godaddy that my personal domain name that I forgot to renew has been transfered to NS21.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Curious, I go to vladgyster.com.
Only to be redirected to mittromney.com/jobs

Like, WTF? Are you desperate enough to buy boosted domain names that have nothing to do with anything you do?

A little offensive, considering unlike some, H Engage and I actually help create some jobs. As in 8 and counting :)
I appreciate the sentiment and wish it were true. Here's another example: http://consumerist.com/2012/09/27/google-voice-customers-cry...
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I heard they determined The Singularity was not innovative enough.
Don't forget.
Babies are exhausting--except as regards nourishment I wouldn't use the expression "suck".

'And don't get them to "save the marriage". That you can even consider that as an idea shows that you are unfit to be a parent.'

There I agree with you--it seems a splendid way to start with 2 unhappy people and end up with more.
There's a sort of ugly urban cycle. First, you get an interesting place. Then interesting people move in. These interesting people do interesting things. Wages go up. Money moves in. Then you have real-estate hyperinflation, and the place becomes unaffordable to anyone who isn't already rich or grandfathered in.

Trouble is: the next wave of interesting people usually start out as starving artists/hackers/entrepreneurs just like the previous wave did.

It's almost as if regional success beyond a certain point accomplishes nothing but inflating real estate, which redirects further success into keeping that real estate bubble inflated. This primarily benefits banks.

Imagine what would happen if this didn't happen... imagine living in a place as inexpensive as a medium-sized Midwestern city, but with Silicon Valley salaries. Imagine how many other places that wealth could go: more startups, more gadgets, better infrastructure, world-class everything, better health care, even generosity. But nope, real estate just soaks up wealth beyond a certain point and redirects it back into the financial pyramid.

Sometimes a place is so unbelievably interesting, like New York, that people are willing to live in a catbox in order to be there. But even then people have a tendency to get sick of this after a while, and anyone contemplating reproducing or wanting to do anything that requires space is out of luck and has to leave.
Imagine if the microwave encouraged you to randomly
hit buttons until you figured out what they did.

I don't have to imagine, because that's precisely what I did when I was a child. As a result, at 6 years old I was the only one in my family able to configure a video player.

Of course, I've lost my patience since then and I rely more and more on already known concepts, but that's one reason why children learn faster than grownups - because they start with a blank slate, they have no preconceptions, no biases, have no fear of experiments and of failure. You only need to watch a child learn how to ride a bike, then compare it with a grown-up doing the same.

Parents are also privileged to watch their children learn how to use everyday language. The most marvelous thing happens right before your eyes - as your child does not need to learn the grammar rules, or to read from a dictionary or to take lessons from a tutor. And during this time all they are doing is listen, then trying out words by themselves to see how you behave.

And you really can't compare a microwave with a programming language. A microwave is just a stupid appliance with a bunch of buttons for controlling a state machine. A programming language on the other hand is a language that can describe anything. And I don't know what the best method is for teaching programming, but we could probably take some hints from people that learn foreign languages, especially children.
You seem certain that "everyone already doing this" is doing it in the way specified in the claims. Are you?
Mozilla has a prototype addon that implements it.
It does seem a pretty elegant way to log in, the only concern i have is that it's kind of unclear what password i needed to use to login. I had already created a browserID password at some point in the past, so when i went to the times crossword and clicked sign in, i was prompted for a password. my first thought was maybe i had already signed up for the times crossword, so i tried the password i probably would have used to sign up for a site like that. nope, but it said "authenticating with your email provider". So then i tried my email password, thinking maybe it was integrating with my google account. nope. Third try was the password i had used to sign up for persona.

Maybe in the future, if this sees wide adoption, they can get away with just putting some mozilla branding in the corner, but for now there should really be some explanatory text on the login window telling you that you need to enter the password you created for mozilla persona, or this is just going to confuse users.
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It's damning if the natives are restless.

Would you rather have your employees be annoyed by bottled water, or be annoyed by "I hate what this company has become due to the products it's creating"?
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Doesn't work that way; Mozilla's Persona service just serves as a shim for browsers without native support for BrowserID. On browsers with native support, Mozilla's server won't get involved at all.
I might fork it later tonight and translate both code and comments to English. Might be an interesting experience...

Will update here later with an English fork.
I see the situation regularly from both sides.

I know exactly why I get rejected: for having Masters in Economics (read: Applied Maths), not CS, for not knowing by heart all normal forms till the 6th, for using but not knowing the formal definition of Dependency injection pattern.

I see how it works on the other side. I was the first guy at a new project in a wealthy company. We needed a genius, and we hired one from the first try. He solved all the Python puzzles I gave, and knows a lot just out of university.

The problem is that we need to extend the app, which is boring and a bit repetitive, which takes discipline, not rare talent. So we see such guys coming. They learned Python on their own, out of joy, don't know many things. But our boring work will be a challenge to them. So, why not hire?

My superstar fellow says they're retards, the management asks to not bother even calling them back, and I have no strong point in their favor.
There is a decent discussion that could be had regarding how capitalism should deal with negative externalities. However your equating of 'Traditional Capitalism' with 20th century American Capitalism mars everything you said.
Looks like that site was hacked or something - "cheap viagra" ads all over front page.
I have been using freeplane for 3 years now to map out software projects. The visuals you can produce really help others understand complex software systems. I selected freeplane over freemind and vym after those two out and finding them lacking features.
I assume you mean you are running the Windows versions that Steam installs, via Wine? I want to run the native Linux packages.
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To give one small example: Clifford Cocks invented RSA about 3 years before RSA did. But he did it by himself, and he did it in his head. Cocks' version was revealed 25 years after he created it; 22 years after RSA was revealed.

They're only just released some of the stuff that Turing did.

They keep things secret, and they use things hard. There's not really anyway to know what they know about your system, which is why cryptography likes systems that seem secure even when you know everything about that system.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-xEiOvXux4)
A punishment should be made high enough that the person doing the crime would not do it. Firing people is a proper action for not showing up on time or being bad at your job.

Spying on citizens without a proper court order should be mandatory jail for all involved.
We should definitely throw away auto-tune that is a scourge on humanity.
My point wasn't that all tools are bad, but we need to be wary of the trade offs that happen when we use them and realize more or better tools aren't always the solution.

In the last paragraph,
"So what I’m saying is that tools are great, but dangerous. Be wary of them. They are often a trade off and not always what they seem. When choosing a tool always falter on the side of more control. Never make the process of creating about finding the ‘right’ tool make it about creating the ‘right’ thing."
RIAA is the last true sovereign.
AWMT was certainly a hot topic and required course reading from 1968 on... I was a student of Andy van Dam's in that era and early user of the Hypertext Editing System developed at Brown with Ted Nelson.

Certainly for Intermedia and Nelson's "Literary Machines" era; Nelson published a full copy of AWMT in his 1980 book.

Doug Engelbart frequently tells the story of reading "As We May Think" as an enlisted radar technician in a thatched hut Red Cross Library in 1945 (see Belinda Barnet link below)

Ted Nelson said in an Aug 2000 telephone interview:

"I think I read it when it came out in 1945. Since I was eight my memory is necessarily incomplete. Everyone else who would have been in the family is now deceased. But we did subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly and I think there's a very good chance I read it at that time." ~ Ted Nelson

http://illuminationgallery.net/wr/hypertext/nelson.html

Belinda Barnet's PhD thesis on the intellectual history of hypertext will be published as a book early next year, including extensive interviews with Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Andy van Dam.

She writes frequently on the subject, often published in Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/

For a good 2008 paper by Belinda and Darren Toffs, on Bush, Engelbart and Nelson see:

Too Dimensional: Literary and Technical Images of Potentiality in the History of Hypertext

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/view?docId=blackw...

A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
Here’s How Much It Costs To Charge Your iPhone 5 Yearly
A new study conducted by Energy efficiency company Opower found that on an average an iPhone 5 will consume approximately 3.5 kWh of electricity per year, amounting to a cost of only $0.41.
> mid-air collisions do happen,

Airplanes are not evenly distributed. They follow well defined routes and flight levels.
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V - would love to take a peek at those emails. Fire me a note: alex@thenextweb.com.

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Hence the pill.
> It seems like that was the beginning of the decline of American power.

Or the beginning of the realization that such buildings make little economic sense? After the 70s, local governments were far more reluctant to finance such endeavors ... with no subsidies, building them made even less sense.
I am not familiar with Fitocracy but it seems to be getting much love here. Part of my dislike for tracking and measuring fitness might come from my experience with cumbersome apps that make the process a pain. I used Fitness Buddy for a period, and found it way to complicated and in-depth to make tracking how much weight I lifted and the reps quickly between exercises. I'll give Fitocracy a shot, and see if I change my mind.

As a side note, I do like tracking how much I walk, but not for debugging, but for motivation. I'd like to hit a 100 miles before the end of the year just by walking at lunch, but for no other reason that personal pride I guess.
Passing on exceptions
Just wanted to post a link to your article.

See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4118034

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/n8fqi/there_is_...
I think part of the reason salaries are so high is that employers have to compete with these costs. If the real estate price / cost of living went down, salaries would be down as well. There is quite a bit of data showing that Bay Area salaries are higher than anywhere else in this industry.
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I've seen some preliminary discussions of linking personal information to a Persona and optionally supplying it to the site at login time. If you have a need for that, you should chat with the Persona/BrowserID developers.
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You could probably ask somewhere like StackOverflow* too. A lot of people there are happy to help out. Or a mailing list for whichever language you're writing in.

* Warning: Your question will probably get closed on second thought ...
thanks for the note, it's now left justified.
WP7 development compared to iOS, Android and mobile Web
I think even Intel would have a hard time producing something not just comparable to Nvidia/AMD's offerings today, but future-proof as well. Their stuff has gotten a lot better recently so I don't think there is any lack of effort on their part, there is just too much catching up to be done.
Nope. Thinking about it, I'd actually most like the official documentation to become far more comprehensive. He's obviously a fantastic programmer as evidenced by the product, but is his approach to documentation the not-so-fantastic "meh.. don't really feel like it.." that I'm sure many of us are familiar with?
non-hex. #chuckn falls back to #c00c00
What's wrong with that? If your domain expired, anyone can buy it from the registrar.
From personal experience, it gets good at around six months, and even better just before a year. Judging by the number of siblings I see spaced 18 months apart, I think others agree.

However, there is another difficult period around 2-3 where they rebel against your authority, and it is a constant battle to reassert control. On one hand, they have more motivation, more time, more energy, and fewer distractions. On the other hand, it's usually 2 vs. 1, and you control the food and entertainment.
> And when you outgrow it, we'll grow with you. Automatically.

Does this mean that when you exceed your quota, Docverter starts charging you more without your permission?
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He says twice that the companies are LLCs, but all YC companies are converted to Delaware C-Corps, correct?
Source? Labov's Atlas of North American Atlas says that changes among dialects in the US are more pronounced now than they were 50 years ago. If we're not even converging among ourselves, how can we all be possibly converging in any meaningful way with people overseas? It's simply not documented in any systematic way.
FreePlane is a fork of FreeMind and seems to have a much more active developer base, and IMHO is a better product: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/
Had to do a double take then, thought it said Cobol
another newb hatin' on java for hatin' sake
Using 'f_ck' is worse. Using 'fsck' is a *nix nerd joke.

(Edit: couldn't type an asterisk without it wanting to italicise the rest of the line!)
No idea about now, but a few years ago BMW had a disastrous batch of onboard computers, which weren't cheap to replace at all.

My stepfather had one with such a problem, and stopped buying BMWs after being a loyal customer for 30 years - his BMW 2002 (model, not year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_New_Class) he could service for himself, while the newer models he can't even touch.

Edit: example complaint http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/bmw-c127.html
The Apple Maps Non-Controversy
Sort of, but true latency doesn't change much across devices. So really clock speed is your only tunable. It's just that it doesn't make much difference in practice. But if you're an overclocker looking to squeeze out an extra 3%, it's an option.
really? really? vladgyster.com has so many adjacencies to Romney jobs initiative.
I think there are guys like Ron Paul and Obama have really smart online strategies.
This just shows how tone deaf this campaign is.
I see some people who don't care about these thing in the gym. Usually they just wander around without any kind of system and spend most of the time chatting. I guess they still feel like they accomplished something.
I however believe that if you don't measure your progress you are likely to have none.
> I've always wanted to work with a language that supports contracts (originally Eiffel I guess). Would love to see this hacked into Go.

There have been a few attempts to hack (design by) contracts into Perl. Here are some which can be found on CPAN:

* Class::Agreement - https://metacpan.org/module/Class::Agreement

* Class::Contract - https://metacpan.org/module/Class::Contract

* Sub::Contract - https://metacpan.org/module/Sub::Contract

Sub::Contract is my favourite because it's lightweight, pragmatic & with a more Perlish implementation.
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This is, so to speak, micro-level. There is also macro-level.

Exercises produces self-confidence, alters self-image and lifts self-esteem. This results in more realistic self-image (less self-delusion and reality distortion) which, in turn, decreases the pain (emotional weariness) caused by cognitive dissonance (when facing reality). This makes you happy.

Go ahead, and tell us where the one ends and the other begins..)
As with most of the neuroscience research, there exists a counter evidence to this -

Boecker, H., Sprenger, T., Spilker, M.E., Henriksen, G., Koppenhoefer, M., Wagner, K.J., Valet, M., Berthele, A., Tolle, T.R. (2008). The Runner's High: Opioidergic Mechanisms in the Human Brain. Cerebral Cortex DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn013[http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/11/2523.full]
reminds me of https://www.archify.com/ also I don't get the name of peerbelt, it suggest that it's something social, but so far it only lets me search my own history
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In my experience, kids do make you 2x-3x more efficient, at least. You can only do so much real work in a day and you're forced to move that work into a smaller time interval. However, your mileage may vary.

I think the positive outlook given my parents simply stems from the fact that they wouldn't make a different decision if they had to do it all over again, even if it was a giant pain in the ass. It's less of an unconcious aversion to admitting mistakes and more that, after all is said and done, they would rather have their child (and the memories of them) than to spend 18 more years being childless. Childlessness is fun but it does lose novelty, and some things are worth it even though they can be hard.
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Great question. Docverter will charge you the smaller of 1) your selected payment plan, 2) your payment plan + the additional per document charge * the number of additional documents, or 3) the next payment plan up. Does that sound fair, or do you think it would be better to get cut off? Maybe a toggle switch in account settings?
You think it's a scourge on humanity that people who can't sing are now always in-tune? As an amateur musician, it means I don't hear out-of-tune musak anymore. For performers, it's another tool with which their audience can be entertained.

For you, it's obviously a tool about which you can complain. See, even you find it useful!