skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think instead Dyson and Ben and Jerry's. Both were propelled as businesses as a result of winning similar suits.

It is likely that Kearns found the case harder to win after waiting 12 years to bring suit. But wiki shows that the Chrysler judgement was 30M, so we have 2.2M profit from the Ford settlement and likely 22M from the Chrysler judgement. In my opinion this is much more than he would have gotten in licensing fees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns
The README has been updated to point at the announcement, and it still says:

nvd3 - v0.0.1

A reusable chart library for d3.JS by Bob Monteverde of Novus Partners.

He's still listed as a member of Novus at GitHub...
Then why can't the company owning the license provide you a replacement disk/medium at a reduced fee (manufacturing cost only) since you still own the licence, technically speaking ?
I'm curious about this statement that appears at the bottom (and I've see this before obviously):

"Thanks to Sam Altman, Mike Arrington, Paul Buchheit, John Collison, Patrick Collison, Garry Tan, and Harj Taggar for reading drafts of this, and Marc Andreessen, Joe Gebbia, Reid Hoffman, Shel Kaphan, Mike Moritz and Kevin Systrom for answering my questions about startup history."

(my emphasis)

To what extent do these individual contribute and/or suggest corrections of an essay like this?
Obvious or not, it hadn't occurred to me. I'll check out those videos, too. Thanks.
Details of the arrest of 2 girls for posting on Facebook
The 'presentation of context in the filing' is only to establish some circumstance, the very definition of "context." the details will come out in court if it gets that far.
The Launch Loop [pdf]
To Carousal or Not
With money and such great disguises, you think he'd be able to get out of the country.
I've actually thought about this, but I think there would be conflict with the investors in that there might be a sense that their shares are being taken hostage, especially if this plan wasn't disclosed upfront. If the company has no interest in an exit or IPO, then really the only interested buyer of the shares is the company, which would depress the value of the shares compared to what they would fetch on the open market.

Also, something similar would have to be worked out with the employee stock options presumably, and then you would have to work out some other profit sharing mechanism anyway in order to retain and attract new employees.
Climate Change Report Warns of Dramatically Warmer World This Century
I remember thinking how atrociously bad the idea of limiting your expression to 140 characters (or any other short limit) seemed to me. And here I am, going on my third year of being an avid Twitter user.

Sometimes ideas play out in interesting, new ways. I very much doubt that the originators of Twitter thought of even half the ways their service is being used today.
Options Volatility by Natenberg is much better:

http://www.amazon.com/Option-Volatility-Pricing-Strategies-T...
Imagine a drunk man walking down a dark, rainy road one night after his car breaks down. He gets out, and begins a "random" walk along the road, looking for help. Neither you (the trader), nor he (the stock), can see anything - it's raining, and it's dark. The man stumbles along the road and your job is to predict his future path, and in return, you get paid money.

A lot of money.

Here's the problem: the guy is both drunk and blind (and probably just a little stupid) - he can't see anything and hence his movements are erratic. How in the hell can you predict where this idiot is going to end up? You have bills to pay, derivatives to price and insurance to sell. So you latch onto the closest thing that'll work - volatility (anchoring bias).

You use his volatility and assume that, dependant upon his past movements, and in turn his apparent level of drunkenness, you can, more or less, predict the possible range of his future random walk. This is a very useful model for predicting where he will be within the next 30 seconds. It works very well, and you make a lot of money.

It feels good.

Now you become confident. You start projecting it out just that little bit further, putting on more precise predictions with tighter spreads, and levering up your bets - because, of course, everyone else is competing with you and driving down your alpha. You have now mistaken past movement for the actual risk of movement - they are not the same thing.

Unfortunately for you, of course, the man has broken down on the edge of a steep cliff. He continues his random walk, blissfully unaware of his impending doom. You continue your bets on his volatility. I mean, why wouldn't you? You're king of the fucking world after all - in fact, not only are you rich, but you also have a Nobel Prize in Economics from a Swedish Bank!

Oops - too late. Your man has just fallen off the cliff, and you, and your savings, along with him. You yell inefficient markets, beta sucks balls, VAR is a trap, the CAPM is a lie and modern portfolio theory is fucking stupid. The last thing we hear, before that final, brutal, resounding thud is the faint line: "It was all a fucking lie."

You have just met real risk. It has not been a pleasant experience. Welcome to the real world.
Has having the information offscreen (http://yipit.com) until you do the none obvious scroll been AB tested? It screams bad idea and style over substance to me so I would be really interested if you had data contradicting my gut.
> It simply doesn't make sense for them to be making high volume embedded chips unless they have excess fab capacity (which they don't).

Well they desperately want to do it anyway. Anyway by your very reasoning, they won't do high volume chips (you added embedded but it does not matter, you just can't reach the same volume as embedded chips with such higher prices). Whether they not reach that for a reason or another does not matter much; but the consequences of that fail could be hard. The desktop and server world is not going away, the x86 world also is here to stay, but there is no hard limit to the changes of market repartition that can happen even there. IBM is still very powerful with their mainframes, and Intel could follow that path for (a part of) desktops and servers, but the more they allow the ARM world to develop, the more their share is at risk on their own land in the long term.

The problem is that SoC offering not only matters now, but it even has mattered for several years, and Intel had no offering, sill has no serious one, and is probably not even going to have no serious one for several other years. For a company with such resources, this is crazy. And when you take a look at the press communicate to try to understand what they think that matter, you do not expect big changes:
"operations and the cost structure" i don't know enough to judge so i give it the benefit of the doubt, "breakthrough innovations" are real important stuff, so good point here; but:
- "Reinvented the PC with Ultrabook™ devices" <- is this a joke???
- "Greatly expanded business partnerships and made strategic acquisitions that expanded Intel’s presence in security, software and mobile communications" <- ok they are talking about Intel's McAfee and other stuffs that makes no sense here
- "Delivered the first smartphones and tablets for sale with Intel inside" <- okkkkk, so? huge fail here, and they do not even try to pretend they matter in this field, just that they exist, because they know they won't be forgiven if they don't. That's what we are talking about.
- "Grew the vast network of cloud-based computing built on Intel products" <- not driven by them. They could as well have talked about the internet and we servers, but the fashion word of the day is cloud, so they talked about that.

Intel, desktops and servers, are here to stay, we agree on that. But their market share is at risk, because these markets are not isolated island. Intel won't be able to increase their prices too much, so if their market decrease too much, do the maths.
Not for me - maybe a momentary aberration? Anyway, glad to seem someone doing this. As I said in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4548583, finding prior art is an externality of submitting a patent claim - the cost of stopping a dubious patent from causing damage is borne by the victims, rather than the instigator. If these schemes are successful, the next step should be to make filers of such patents pay a fee to those who found the prior art.
It is because of this licensing arrangement with Steam that I have not purchased a single game from them where I did not get at least a 75% discount off the normal sales price. I don't care if I have to wait, like I did when I finally purchased a game last week for 75% off after waiting a year for a sale, but since I don't own a copy (physical, transferable & with DRM) of the game, I don't see the point of paying full price to Steam or any other games provider.
* They can dump 150 miles of drive time into your car in an hour

I appreciate that it's a massive improvement over existing charging technology but compared to a gasoline pump, it's pitiful. A gas pump can dump 300 miles of drive time into my car in five minutes.

Secondly, sure, the Model S has a range of 300 miles. But that's at 55 mph. Now, tell me, does anyone actually drive at 55 mph on the freeway? Moreover, does anyone ever drive at 55 mph without AC, radio, or heat? All those things will cut into the range of the Model S. I think that one of the things holding back EV adoption is the fact that Americans have been lied to so often about battery capacity. We have "6-hour" laptops whose batteries barely last 3. We have "24-hour" MP3 players whose batteries are empty after 8. We have cell phones whose batteries barely last through a day of light usage, despite manufacturer claims that the battery will last "up to" 36 hours. Given the typical consumer's experience with battery powered devices, is it any surprise that they're extremely leery of battery powered cars? A dead MP3 player or laptop is a minor annoyance. A dead car (especially a dead car which can't be refueled or jump-started easily) is a major inconvenience.

In order to engender consumer trust, Tesla has to do more than just publish a simple optimistic "300 miles at 55 miles an hour!" blurb. They need to give the consumer detailed information about what affects the battery life of the car. How much does driving at 70, rather than 55 cut down my range? How much do I lose for using the AC? The heat? Even if these Supercharger stations become ubiquitous, I still want these questions answered because, unlike the people caught in Elon Musk's reality distortion field, I do think that an hour spent twiddling my thumbs at a gas station is an hour wasted.
> FWIW, I still disagree with pictograms replacing labels. I'm a fan of the idea conceptually, but in every instance I've seen it done it simply hasn't been intuitive enough for me to consider it a working solution.

It is a working solution. Pictograms are used in place of labels everyday, in large scale. Look no further than all traffic signs in the planet earth for an example.

For instance, the "back button" is obvious for you because you understand the metaphor. It isn't so clear for someone used to right-to-left scripts, like arabic.

On the other hand, the "send email" action on that particular software you mention has a confusing icon because there's no clear metaphor for what "sending an email" should look like - it's a relatively new idea and no one agreed on a symbol for it, therefore you don't know what to expect.

This is just lack of vision from whoever designed this interface, not a problem with pictograms. You only use pictograms when you can transmit an idea more concisely. If the most concise explanation you have is a label, then a label it should be.
Another argument in favor: don't stick unnecessary levels of separation between you and the company that controls your domain. Only the very largest web hosts are also domain registrars, the rest are simply reselling another company's services. If there are problems, you're stuck dealing with them through a middle-man.

The only advantage to buying both hosting and domain registration from the same company is billing convenience, while there are numerous advantages to not doing so. Just choose an accredited registrar.
Pupils hiding talents from bullies, survey suggests
Since everyone is on the 3D thing ... What about a Kinko's for 3D printing?
"Nearly half of UK children have played down a talent because of bullying fears, a survey of 1,042 children aged 11 to 16 suggests.

And more than a quarter of those polled for England's anti-bullying week said they had quit an activity they enjoy for the same reasons."
I'm going to get flamed for this, but promulgating Black-Scholes as the "standard way" to price options is a little misleading. A better choice of word would be "conventional", but that's also inexact because the BSM is broken, since BSM makes a lot of unrealistic assumptions for the model to work. The point is that there is no One True Pricing Model... the price is what the market thinks the value is. Too many people who should know better get it all mixed up, with disastrous effects.
Getting advice from an essay by PG is like reading a description of a stock market strategy - by the time you read and assimilate it, everyone else has too, and that particular inefficiency has been eliminated.

There will now be a lot more HN readers keeping diaries of all the things that they noticed were inefficient in their day, and they will come up with good, competing startup ideas. However, the founder that is likely to be the most successful was the one that started doing this long before this essay came out. Which is actually the point of a large part of the essay, the one that talks about being "the right type of person".
Because they know very well to play the "victim". Checkout the map at http://www.freerangelongmont.com/2012/06/08/no-end-in-sight/
Domain registration in the US is a mess. I can't get my head around it. I prefer the system we have in Brazil.

In Brazil there is a non-profit organization that administers the .br TLD. All domains sold are sold through this entity (registro.br). After registration you just insert your DNS IP addresses and that's it. No worries and no complex transfer process.
My mistake. Rackspace doesn't redirect HTTPS.
My impression is that quite a bit of the source for flagging, vote-ring, and spam detection isn't included in the arc download, for obvious reasons.
Probably the algorithm, check out these(old) posts on it...

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013
Right. So we'll all have to constructively publish as many related ideas as possible, as soon as possible :)
> "moot" is far more commonly used to refer to Christopher Poole in the context of online discussions

That's completely wrong. The majority of the world doesn't know who Moot is. The majority doesn't even know what 4chan is, even if they do start most of the internet memes.

If I asked my mom what "moot" meant, she'd probably tell me something like "something that's no longer relevant or worth arguing about". Using HN comments as a confirmation tool is equally ridiculous. We are not the right community to use when determining the legal usage of a phrase.

While each of the common names your have listed are trademarks, they are trademarks within their respective fields. It would be completely appropriate for me to start a watch shop and call it "Time" (assuming there isn't already a national or state trademark of watch shops called "Time").

Moot is an online persona, not a product. I'm not familiar with New York state law on "public rights of publicity", but I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have exclusive rights to the word "Moot".

This would be like Tom from MySpace suing Tom's shoes or TomTom. (Okay, not quite because the company is working on forum software which is close to 4chan, but it's not far off).
> As an example: in a hospital, we have the "sign out sheet" which is a list of the current patients and all of their important data.

This. Seriously, the Institute of Medicine has implicitly decided that this is the problem that it wants the world's entrepreneurs to solve.

The IOM observed that there were many errors made in medicine. Errors in medicine harm and kill people.

Many people believe that doctors (residents) who sleep too little are more liable to commit errors. They believe that a lack of sleep is dangerous to patients; therefore, the ACGME instituted duty hour restrictions on residents.

As a consequence of this, residents work for fewer consecutive hours. Necessarily, they "hand off" their patients to one another more frequently than they did in the past. As you can imagine, there is also risk in the handoff process.

The IOM and the ACGME, via their pronouncements and policies, have decided that long shifts are too dangerous to try to solve. Instead, they are willing to throw all of their eggs into the "handoffs must be safer than long shifts" basket. Handoffs are dangerous, hard, annoying, and they happen at least twice per shift per attending, resident, and midlevel provider every day. I don't mean to tell you how to solve handoff problems, but I do want to underscore the problem that kyro has identified.
Take a look at Google App Engine :)
I have four questions I'd like to ask you about your startup:

1. Does it help people address their fears? For example, are they afraid of not being heard? Or missing the next great movie?

2. Does it help people feel loved? For example, giving them an opportunity to warn people away from bad movies, or to offer unique insights?

3. Does it help people create or curate beauty? Movie ratings themselves are not very beautiful, but perhaps the personal curation piece is important to some.

4. Does it help people to eliminate ugliness?

...and I wrote this before checking your site. After seeing it, I have this sinking feeling that you are not really serious about your startup, as the homepage makes absolutely no attempt to describe what it is. Cold sign-ups are very 2004. honestly if I had checked first I wouldn't have bothered replying, but since it's already written, here you go. Hope it helps.
Good point - could be in here, but it's 1:30am and I probably shouldn't be learning Arc right now! Will take a look in the morning.

(= flag-threshold* 30 flag-kill-threshold* 7 many-flags* 1)

; Un-flagging something doesn't unkill it, if it's now no longer
; over flag-kill-threshold. Ok, since arbitrary threshold anyway.

(def flaglink (i user whence)
(when (and user
(isnt user i!by)
(or (admin user) (> (karma user) flag-threshold*)))
(pr bar*)
(w/rlink (do (togglemem user i!flags)
(when (and (~mem 'nokill i!keys)
(len> i!flags flag-kill-threshold*)
(~find admin:!2 i!vote))
(kill i 'flags))
whence)
(pr "@(if (mem user i!flags) 'un)flag"))
(when (and (admin user) (len> i!flags many-flags*))
(pr bar* (plural (len i!flags) "flag") " ")
(w/rlink (do (togglemem 'nokill i!keys)
(save-item i)
whence)
(pr (if (mem 'nokill i!keys) "un-notice" "noted"))))))
>"common" is a stretch -- maybe it's common as a regional dialect.

Some googling and brief dives into etymological references are suggesting to me that the original usage is more common in Canada and the UK than the US.

> Regardless, that's somewhat irrelevant: "moot" is far more commonly used to refer to Christopher Poole in the context of online discussions. (Even a quick glance at the search results of e.g. HN comments with the term "moot" confirms this.)

Eh, I think you're overgeneralizing from your own perspective here (and searching HN to back yourself up is only magnifying, not mitigating, that effect). There's an awful lot of English-speaking internet out there beyond the bubble that wouldn't know 4chan from foursquare.

> Whether or not "moot" should be a trademark is largely philosophical and not a debate I feel like putting any energy into. However, that moot can be a trademark even if it's a "common" word seems obvious at this point.

I don't disagree. But note that it's Chris Poole's lawyer who's claiming that Moot can't be used as a trademark on the basis that Chris Poole and his screen name are so famous that they're entitled to Right of Publicity protection under New York law, which strikes me as stretching that law rather past its original intent (is Rand Corporation violating Paul Rand's Right of Publicity? Does Richard Gere have a case against Top Gear?).
Thanks -- that was educational. I'm now twice as glad that I moved away from them. I recently tried to move away from Web.com (who owns networksolutions.com) as well, after they were unable to repair my server for five consecutive days. Their response to my announcement was to ignore my e-mails and continue to charge me $89.95 per month as though I was still their customer. I finally had to lodge a complaint with the BBB to force them to refund the phony charges (which they did).

My favorite story about Web.com, and among the reasons I left them, was when I started computerizing my financial records and noticed this pattern of dates for their monthly charges:

2011-11-09
2011-12-07
2012-01-04
2012-02-01
2012-02-29
2012-03-28
2012-04-25
2012-05-23
2012-06-20
2012-07-18
2012-08-15
2012-09-12
2012-10-10
2012-11-08

Notice anything funny? They're 28 days apart. Web.com is claiming that they have a monthly rate, but they charge it every 28 days, which automatically gives them a (30.43/28) 8.7% revenue increase over what they would get if they were honest.

I usually discount stories about shady business dealings without direct evidence. This time there's direct evidence.
If you are using HTTPS Everywhere addon on Firefox, you will have to disable it on this site to read the article.
I'd recently come to the same conclusion that programming is a fantastic secondary skill. Having some other domain expertise - combined with the ability to make your own tools - seems to be the best way to find problems that people are willing to pay money to solve.
Because I fly Southwest so much, I get free WiFi when available. Of my ten or attempts at using it, I've had no connectivity at least three times. Of those, perhaps five attempts resulted in connectivity so slow that it was only useful for background email checking and painfully slow web browsing. The remaining two "successful" uses had a 128K-ish downstream at best. Ping times (to whatever www.google.com resolved to) were 500+ ms at best and multi-second at worst. Periods of flakiness lasting a few minutes at a time were common. So, unless I have some urgent usage requirement, I just stay offline to avoid the hassle and anger.
Alternatively, you can try to find a way "in the market".

School have 3 markets : social status, grades and actual knowledge acquisition (the lesser of the 3).

In my high school in the french suburbs (quite different from the US suburbia), there was definitely a bullying risk - while not as big as what US movies show, it was not zero.

I had a problem with ensuring my physical safety at times - especially since I was a bit socially awkward.

There were also a group of student sharing a dresscode, and their violent ways. They also had a problem with getting good grades.

We stroke a deal which was quite good for all the parties involved (except for the bullies) - basically switching seats assignments during tests, and passing good enough answer to get passing grades.

There's one day I can never forget, where I teased a bully and his girlfriend, and was escorted out of the class by gang members when he came back with many friends. They were just intelligent enough to figure it was a fight not worth starting - especially for their own sake.

True story- memories and experiences like this, money just can't buy. It's the best education there is about life and the market.
Nice work! The background information at the start covering the Stanford Visualization Group and Ben Fry's approach to Data Visualization are very nice touches
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OpenFeint Multiplayer iOS Platform Shutting Down, Could Break Older Games