skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree on the menu bar. Consistency in UI being present on every page is something that deserves applause. There's a point to be made about similarity in overall look and feel to Github, but I don't believe that even Github has a clean-room implementation of a source code hosting web application. So,- tough luck. Add ability to make Gitlab skinnable and it's good enough for me.
This is the reason I've stopped calling APIs "RESTful". Everyone has a different opinion on where in the "REST spectrum" a given API falls, and in the end, very little of what you described actually impacts whether an API is usable or not.
Unfortunately, sampling bias means the moral of the story for consumers at large is going to be "DRM lockouts happen, but the customers are usually taken care of".
There are 3 other variables to consider:

1. How low a quality of service are customers willing to bear, trading off price and quality?

2. What is the supply of such lower-rate employees who can continue feeding the beast, once the trained employees become too expensive for the company to keep? If they could afford to keep well-trained employees, they probably would be able to attract good employees from the get go.

3. How good is the company's employee retention rate for keeping well-trained employees without significantly raising salaries?
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Because that list also has email addresses?
One additional data that I see in the list he purchased is email address, which is probably what the spammers would value the most.
>> 1. Tiobe is a load of rubbish...

Than pick your vendor neutral index. What non-MS sponsored stats shows Windows server deployments is greater than everything else combined? C# doesn't touch Java let alone anything else that gets deployed on Linux.

>> 2. Have you ever had to manipulate a heavily nested apache or nginx configuration file with sed/awk?

With sed/awk? No why would I need to? Especially for multiple sites / virtual hosts I've found nginx is a lot easier to configure than IIS. Isolated virtual host configs make it easy to maintain. Removing a site becomes as easy as taking down a sym link. Common tasks like Reverse proxying, Url rewriting are a synch.

>> 3. Name 20 companies that are Linux only. I can name 50 in the FTSE100 that are windows only.

Great, this might be our chance to finally get some facts out of you - Looking forward to your "50 in the FTSE100 that are windows only" list.

Here's a (more than 20) list of Linux-only adopters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters
Big names include Google, CERN, DreamWorks, NYSE, London Stock Exchange,...
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Beat me to it. (My first thought upon seeing the headline was, "wow, faster than vi mode?")

I haven't actually put the set into my .bashrc yet, I just end up typing it when I realize I'm about to navigate a lot.
There are plenty of good alternatives out there besides useless lawyer-speak and profanity-filled startup-speak. It is possible to write a message which is polite, official, and doesn't sound like it came from a robot.
I think that's for each individual platter, of which a modern 3 TB hard drive has typically 3 or 4.
Hitting errors. The page loads fine directly!

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://api.locatable.com/search?filter=place_filter,20,51.51.... Origin http://www.locatable.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://api.locatable.com/feedback. Origin http://www.locatable.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
You hear a lot of stuff like this, though it makes sense - keep the happy user's Kindle working, they keep buying books.
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I don't think price is what keeps people from buying tablets, since a decent one can be had for $200. I think what keeps certain people, and I would say this is a large number, from buying tablets is that they don't see a need for one. Tablets aren't meant to do the same tasks as a desktop/laptop that is why they won't replace them.
I bet it was exactly like this:

1. Kindle-wipe Story on Hackernews.

2. One engineer at Amazon saw the story, told it some Executive above him

3. The Executive "nerds, let them talk THIS is real business!"

4. One day later "How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others (wired.com)" on Hackernews

5. The Executive "OH SNAP! REOPEN REOPEN REOPEN!!11"
this is great stuff!
Excellent site design - I don't have much interest in the product but the site is so good I almost want to buy.
It is as ridiculous to think that a company full of intelligent people is not influenced by tech news as it is to think that clouds are influenced by dancing.
Scaling = fixed! Now running 10 instances for handling the requests.

Happy cookiechecking!
This is seriously good news for everyone. What this means to me as a start-up guy is that I can tomorrow start a phone company based on an Open Source OS like Android and still not worry about getting sued for trivial BS patents like these. I hope more of such patents are invalidated.
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In my mind, the little guy would patent with a small declared value - so on the downside they wouldn't be able to litigate for large amounts. But they would have a defensive patent, and that patent would also have value for larger acquiring companies because if they believed in the validity of the patent they could apply for revaluing at higher price (at which point there would be extra funding to make sure it is valid).
Yours? Certainly not. But I bet that thousands of less tech savvy people do refer to their devices as TVs, especially in the context of live video streaming.
My favorite tip is to stay in emacs mode, but whenever you have something "complicated" to do, use Ctrl-X Ctrl-E : it opens the current line in $EDITOR.
They've been live streaming the iTunes festival too. I wonder if they are using this to test their streaming infrastructure ...
@andrewcooke: There is an analogous situation to property taxes though -- Rezoning a property. If you can acquire land zoned for something cheaper like residential or agriculture and get the city to re-zone it to commercial it's almost always worth a lot more. Overnight the property is worth a lot more and the property taxes will jump, so you'll either need to get the money to develop it yourself or sell it off to a developer who can do so.

And as far as the cost of entry, there are countless fields where patents could only conceivably be filed by someone with a lot of capital: auto, aerospace, medical, pharma, etc. There are certainly lone inventors working in these spaces trying to file patents but it's unlikely they're working on stuff where you need access to enormous wind tunnels or a medical testing population.

EDIT TO ADD: And aren't we as software developers going on and on about how software patents are worth anything? The cost of entry isn't very high at all and therefore they'd be worthless. Patents were supposed to protect the little guy from losing his large up-front research and development costs to the big established guys.
This is great and really helpful advice, and why I still believe HN has the best signal to noise ratio of any site out there.
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My guess is that they aren't artificially limiting it, they are using HLS[1] which is only supported by certain browsers/devices. Stream isn't up yet to test but it should work on a newer (4.0+) Droid as well as in VLC if you can find the stream url.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
Wow, took a whole 5 minutes until we got to the tablet vs desktop debate.
Do those people frequently post comments to Hacker News?
With the new unified Google, users should think of local Drive as local Google. It is hard to say if web based logout should trigger a local client app logout, outside the web browser. Leaky abstractions FTL.
Exactly why and how does this let me do stuff I couldn't do before with JS? The example used here looks like something that could be done just as easily with OOP at first glance...
It gives context?
anywhere, but thats not my point.
the point is, that its the same as getting list of email addresses. and no1 would be surprised if i would publish list of emails but this list is suddenly security issue
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>Indeed, studies in medical malpractice have shown that doctors and hospitals that promptly admit fault and apologize are less, not more, likely to be sued for malpractice.

There's a huge context difference here. These studies are dealing with the doctor apologizing to the patient (or their family) and being less likely to be sued by that patient (or their family). This has a lot to do with emotions and how the patient or their family feels about the doctor and the doctor's actions.

In the case of Amazon here, it's essentially making a statement to the world that could be used by anyone as part of a lawsuit. I imagine the class-action lawyers looking at these things aren't going to let their feelings about Amazon change their minds.
Good lord, they might read it. I don't know. I was just trying to mention that Apple devices act like TVs to the regular population. That's all. I don't care if they read these comments, I care that HN users are not so constantly hiding in their bubble. It's clear to me now (via all the downvotes) that these comments are not welcome here - I'll stop. Sorry.
So i have chrome on win 8, can i stream? should i even bother to install quicktime? i don't have it yet, but if it will stream, i will download it for sure.
there are plenty free proxy lists out there
Amazon EC2 and RDS (east) still down for many sites, Only Major Sites are UP
Yep, Calibre is available for Linux (I used it under Ubuntu 12.04, and now 12.10), and IMHO, is one of the more well-behaved cross-platform apps.
Usually only valid for the next 24 hours, at least the ones I've seen.
See whoownsmyavailability.com for details.
Maybe they were all AS400 admins that really have nowhere else to go?
My source was The Poisoner's Handbook, which suggests that deaths were not tracked well or at all in most of the US. The book gives statistics for New York City but a cursory examination of its sources does not seem to list where those statistics were obtained from. The best source for statistics likely doesn't exist, but likely bets would include hospital records and any statistics published by whatever coroner/medical examiner's offices you can find.

One source [0] seems to suggest that deaths were lower but rising. Deaths from poisoned alcohol tripled between 1920 and 1925.[1] The author of the latter paper (Mark Thorton) has written extensively on the subject, his book The Economics of Prohibition may be informative.

[0] http://druglibrary.org/prohibitionresults1.htm
[1] https://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157.html
Well when you make a decision to use a third party, typically the ethics and makeup of that party are evaluated. You can ignore it at your own peril. But IMO it's not very wise.
If it's not a valuable patent then big players won't respect it (cheap to litigate) and who will want to acquire it? You'll just be run over.
You can also get Gitlab as a service on http://gitlab.com

I started Gitlab.com last month and we already have more than 250 people who have created an account.

Many companies are already using Gitlab behind their firewall: Phusion, Thomson Reuters, Michigan State University, see the bottom of the Gitlab.org front page for more.

The fact that the source code is on Github is ironic, we need public repo's to change it: http://gitlab.uservoice.com/forums/176466-general/suggestion...
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I don't disagree, but of course centralization is part of what has made github so successful.
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Did you read the study? Don't just comment on headlines.
Will there be something more geared towards learning more than what the individual parts are/do besides from naming it from a chart? E.g. more like the biomechanics of it?
Re. 2: Have you ever tried to edit windows registry by using regular expressions on the file itself? No... because it's a silly idea to begin with / strawman argument. Store the data in some kind of data base and generate the configuration from templates. Better yet - use modules that just pull the configuration directly from somewhere (ldap for example).

To what level are we going with 3? Really all it takes is a single router / phone / storage appliance / ... and you're not windows only anymore. I guess it depends on your environment and preference too - I tend to run into companies which either don't see a reason to use Windows or use it only in some departments where it makes sense (support for example).

The linux / windows -only company is a strange concept these days anyway. Even Canonical is not a linux-only company in the end, since they have to make sure installer plays well with Windows and they have to develop Wubi.
You can do what apple does for disk encryption:

* Encrypt the data with a key (let the user print it out if you like)

* Encrypt the key with the password of the user (or multiple users!)

* Store the encrypted-encrypted-key on your server.

If a user wants to change their password, their old password decrypts the key, and the new password re-encrypts the key.
Why? The desired information has already been conveyed from the https servers: Joyent can't withstand load.
The introductory cutscenes could be really trimmed down and still convey the same basic plot and feel.

Regardless, they should be ruthlessly expunged from the demo. :)
I don't begrudge having patent nukes for deterrence purposes. I begrudge using them offensively.
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Honestly, I can't think of much else tablets can do except for web browsing.
Exactly. That's why I'm such a fan of emacs. The closer I stay to the home-row, the better.

Also, 'Ctrl + p' and 'Ctrl + n' will navigate through your command history. I do love 'Ctrl + r' for searching through it, too.
Thank you for pointing out this important aspect of the story, when these public shamings lead to structural change it is much different than just switching the particular use case the produced the embarrassing result.

Welcome to the community! I would like to point out that sexually explicit usernames are not the norm here. Since your comment history and karma are tied to your user account and that account may persist for a long time, you might consider changing to a different name before you get too invested in this one and regret it later when it's too late to easily switch. Many users are known here by their handle and it is not uncommon for people to say things like "Send up the Patio11/Cpercival/Grellas/TokenAdult bat signal!" because users remember who made valuable comments and may recognize you by name. You are of course free to choose for yourself, your call.
> list of Linux-only

They may be Linux users, but are far from being linux-only...
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Looks great! I'd love to use it the next time I'm looking for a flat.

Unfortunately, by using Zoopla's listings, you still have the most annoying problem of showing flatshares and studios when looking for 1-bedroom flats.
Saying you have a more robust cloud than Amazon is laughable. It's really as simple as that. This is a joke.
I thought "If I had been" is past indicative, and "If I was" is ungrammatical.

Insofar as hodgepodgy English has real rules anyway...
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You just crawl the web. I am not surprised either by this, I don't consider emails and first/last name as private data.
"... always faces the same stupid questions..."

As is the case with every touring author, artist, or creator with any amount of notoriety. It's much like taking a performance on tour-- same lines, same songs, same sarcastic remarks, same questions from fans ...

Part of the business of traveling and 'performing' for an audience, whether that performance is a presentation/talk, a reading selection from your latest book...
Some procedural observations:

1. The rejection was signed by a primary examiner (i.e., someone who has been at the USPTO for awhile and not a rookie) and was approved by a supervisory primary examiner who oversees reexamination proceedings.

2. The rejection is not final (see the unchecked box b near the top of the first page), therefore Apple can and will try to get the examiner to withdraw the rejection.

3. The rejection states that the next "Office action" is expected to be final. I would guess that unless Apple can make a compelling case for patentability OR amend claim 19 --- the only claim at issue in the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit --- to get around the prior-art rejection, the rejection of claim 19 will be made final.

4. If the examiner does make the rejection of claim 19 final, Apple can appeal to a three-person board of senior USPTO officials, nearly all of whom will be long-time patent examiners. If the board affirms the rejection, Apple can appeal to the courts.

5. On the merits, it's helpful to think of claim 19 as an infringement checklist: For that claim to be infringed, every element recited in that claim must be present in the accused product or process [1].

(Infringement analysis treats each patent claim as a multi-part AND statement [2]; the statement must return TRUE for infringement to exist.)

6. Claim 19 was rejected as being "anticipated." This means that in the examiner's view, every single element of claim 19 can be found in a single prior-art reference --- in this case a patent publication by Lira, and, separately, a patent issued to Ording --- and therefore the claim is unpatentable under 35 USC 102 [3].

(If claim 19 is thought of as an AND statement, then in the examiner's view, the AND statement returns TRUE when applied to the Lira reference, and also when applied to the Ording patent [4], and therefore claim 19 is unpatentable.)

7. Perhaps importantly, the examiner's rejections over Lira and Ording were made under subsection (b) of 35 USC 102; that is, the "effective dates" of these two prior-art references were more than one year before the effective filing date of the Apple patent in question. This means that Apple won't be able to try to "swear behind" the references, that is, prove that its invention was invented before the effective dates of the Lira and Ording references [5].

NOTES:

[1] Infringement of a claim can exist even if one or more claim elements are not literally present, as long as the accused product or process has a substantial equivalent of the missing element(s). Note: The doctrine of equivalents is tricky to assert, to prove, and to defend against. See generally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_equivalents.

[2] See generally http://www.oncontracts.com/how-patent-claims-work-a-variety-...

[3] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/102.

[4] See generally http://www.oncontracts.com/patent-validity-the-claims-and-st...

[5] See http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s715.html --- scroll down to part II.A.
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At the moment we're focusing on memorizing the actual terms/structures, which seems like that most mundane and frustrating part with 'standard' anatomy learning tools (and the primary reason we created kenHub).

To be honest, we're not too sure what the next steps are. We want to cover the core aspects first before we add more functionality. This is why we're trying to gather some feedback at a fairly early stage.

That said, we're certainly thinking about other aspects of anatomy, medicine and learning we could expand to.
It seems the current value for Firefox is 3000: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/48502b61a63e/netw...
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Great read and for myself, someone who is not part of the medical community though who is a father of a daughter, I can imagine the professional and personal frustration that must have been felt. Thanks for the write up - could not have been easy (even clinically) to put together.
Unfortunately it's still a huge pain to use JNA with stuff that returns unions (or a pointer to different type depending on the usage context). That makes things like X libraries wrappers really difficult to write in a clean way.

P/Invoke is still much more flexible.
I somewhat agree. But, I personally vastly prefer the experience of reading on the Kindle to a physical book (instant dictionary definitions, easier on the subway because I can hold on in the subway and still turn pages, the ability to choose my preferred font size and text width which allows me to read faster, and so on). I would pay more to read a book on a Kindle and frequently do (one can often find good quality used paper books for less).

The one thing I don't buy on Kindle are the rare books I expect to want to keep a long time. For everything else, I'm willing to accept that I might somehow lose access or be unable to read it in several years.
Well, that depends. If the patent was found to not be valid because of invalid intent by the "inventor" (such as known prior art, knowingly stealing an idea, knowingly patenting something that's unpatentable), it actually is the inventors fault... When submitting a patent, the inventor must sign an oath indicating these (and other) things:

> The inventor must make an oath or declaration that he/she believes himself/herself to be the original and first inventor of the subject matter of the application, and he/she must make various other statements required by law and various statements required by the USPTO rules.

Now, it would be VERY difficult to prove the oath was broken. But if it was, it's completely and 100% valid to hold the inventor (here Apple) responsible.

I'm not saying that's what's going on here (or in most cases of an overturned patent), just that it may be Apple's fault. It's not a black and white situation here...
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Frankly, I don't care about DRM for fiction. I generally only read fiction once, anyway (and donate the paper book afterwards).

For technical books it's a different story, but then the Kindle is not a medium that works well for diagrams and special formatting that you would expect in technical writing.

So in the end, Kindle DRM does not hurt me much. Then again, it is so easy to strip that I think Amazon does not care, either. It's just a pacifier for publishers.
> So moral of the story?

You don't own anything with DRM on it, until you make a copy that is free of DRM. Judge the price accordingly. Use the rippers as soon as they are available. Exercise and eat healthy.