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The referenced visualizations can be found here:
http://giladlotan.com/blog/mapping-twitters-python-data-scie...
I will continue to beat this drum whenever Stripe post anything about anything: Please launch in the UK soon.
Vim wasn't the exact reason, but text selection is a huge part of it. Readability and text selection are huge.
> Administrators have no excuses anymore.

Yes they do. They have procedures and are paid to act according to them. You are clearly unaware how the public sector works, or how expensive are upgrades in such scale. Upgrading software for the whole administration sector of a big country means upgrading a few hundreds/thousands computers per city (depending on the population), do the math; and only if the upgrade is even possible (breaking dependencies of software ordered 10 years ago).

Yeah, 'the system is broken', blah blah, it is what it is.

BTW Polish parliament (420 people) members were given iPads 'to save on paper'. Aside from the fact they watch porn at work, the yearly cost of maintanance and upgrades is at $150k. Yep.

You probably want your govt to spend money on better things than upgrading browsers.
Negatory, but given the prominence of the ports and use of Sass, we'll likely try to do something here to help folks out who are using that over Less. No reason we couldn't write a script to translate the two or officially sanction a port. Both have their pros and cons; just a matter of time, duplicate code, etc.
But we're not talking about a patent on multi-touch, we're talking about pinch-to-zoom. I'm sure its very difficult to make a good multi-touch screen, especially one small, efficient, and precise enough to use on a smartphone. But once you have good a good multi-touch screen, it doesn't seem that hard to implement a pinch gesture. Every single demo of a multi-touch interface I've ever seen (even from before 2007) has had some sort of pinch-to-zoom gesture, it seems to be one of the first things everyone thinks of doing once you've got the capability in the hardware.
By making patients pay as much as legally possible you are effectively denying medical attention to all the ones who otherwise could pay for it; not to mention many diseases come back (as cancer) so the patient may eventually run out of money for their treatment; making you partly responsible for their pain and death.

Not to mention the country with the best health care system is also the one with the highest taxes; so by increasing the cost for the patient and consequently decreasing the amount of money that he can pay in taxes you are indirectly hurting the quality of overall health services.
Chrome: canary, dev, beta, release

Firefox: nightly, aurora, beta, release

Isn't Chrome dev the parallel to Firefox aurora?
Why would a boss wish they could tell employees this stuff instead of just actually telling them?
I already have a powerful linux laptop and know how to program. That's a great suggestion though.
Pretty much. Plus, it's a much better (and more socially known) metaphor for describing its function and presentation.
Please stop oversimplifying. With the existence of the bacteria, mice were obese. By means of their diet and prebiotics, they were able to reduce the levels of this bacteria in their subject.

Could be just the caloric deficit, could be the bacteria. It's an interesting correlation and should be explored further.
Some companies just keep doing the damn right thing!
Competitors, dodge this!
They made the connection because he was using Facebook itself to market his extension. I suspect that if he hadn't been doing that they would not have banned his account.

It doesn't make it right, but it does point out that future FB-extension developers should be cautious about connecting their FB account to their extension.
Yeah, I don't get the impression that Samsung's lawyers were the snappiest sharks at the beach. Their incompetence at letting Hogan slip through voir dire is hard to get past... unless they saw it as a deliberate opportunity to have an unfavorable verdict thrown out, I guess.
HDFS is the filesystem. HBase is the query engine. The rest is an implementation of map-reduce so that all operations are highly parallelizable.
The mere possibility of having to pay would stifle most such suits, and in many (most?) fields the problem is not too few suits, but not enough suits. Using the legal system to create prospective deterrent effects, as ours does, is not compatible with mechanisms that discourage suits, because ultimately that makes rule breaking profitable for rule breakers.

I also strongly disagree that we need special rules for patent litigation. There is a rhyme and reason to the rules for cost shifting, one that doesn't depend on the subject matter of the litigation. What you seem to be implying is that patent litigants are less likely than other kind of litigants to being meritorious suits, and indeed that a patent suit is more likely than not non-meritorious. If that is the case, then the problem isn't who pays for a losing suit, but the law that creates enough wiggle room that these loser cases are being brought.

The way our litigation system fights meritless litigation is to make it relatively cheap to dispose of meritless suits. As an outsider to the practice, it seems to me that one of the big problems with patent suits in practice is that it's a relatively complex, fact-specific inquiry to determine patent validity. The usual way to address this is to add additional, easy to prove thresholds that let a case be dismissed without consideration of involved questions.
Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public
On an even awsomer and properly calibrated display, it also reduces the contrast below acceptable levels a lot of the time. (The high brightness sells in the stores, but it's pretty horrible for actual use.)
to be fair, a lot of this post came across as whining too.
> Reducing profits is also immoral in the belief system I have.

People who tie up profit with morals utterly baffle me. Whether it's "profit is evil" or "profit is morally good", it's all nonsensical. It's just fucking money. Are your actions helping people or hurting them?
That's the same as saying post-IPO/acquisition founders are well-positioned for future life. It's not an answer the question of "is it worth taking the risk of putting in a decade of effort?"
Dropbox has already begun merging the ideas of Snapjoy into their product. I hope they also roll over the subscriptions into Dropbox plans, so both the Snapjoy and Dropbox customer base can benefit from each others innovations. When I open the app, it begins copying all the photos I took on my iPhone's Camera Roll to the "Camera Uploads" folder in my Dropbox. I hope that it can also sync my photos from Instagram and other services in the future, as Snapjoy did.
Are you sure that pinch to zoom was one of the issues for the Samsung suit? All I recall is the "rebound effect" when you reach the end of a page, and the physical design of the galaxy tab
yes! we actually talked with Eric and the Pebble guys about what worked well for them. I sure wish we had it for Diaspora.
I imagine there's plenty of prior art supporting invalidating the Hillis patent, if it came to that.

For example, 1997: http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/metadesk/

1:30 in the video seems to show the behavior described.
We can both be right, of course. 24 FPS is not OK, and maybe the current implementation of 48 FPS isn't, either. As has been noted, increasing the frame rate demands changes throughout the production process... everything from better makeup to better lighting.

The porn producers already had to confront similar issues to some extent, when HD started to ramp up. Nobody wants to go back to fuzzy porn, do they? :-P
check out Camera Uploads in your iOS Dropbox app
The TSA has acheived this goal, if by "we" you mean the military/security industrial complex that employs millions and costs tax payers trillions.
Photography’s Third Act
The EFF is supposed to be about protecting digital rights. Do you believe that either Apple or Samsung is violating the civil rights of the other?

I could see taking on a case on behalf of someone who is a victim of another abusing the system say by an NPE troll. Wading into legal reform and becoming a lobbyist organization is another matter entirely in my mind.

Generally speaking from the evidence we see around us on a daily basis, the EFF is failing to hold the line in its mission as it is. They have no easy task. I don't really see how biting off yet even more than you can chew and becoming further diluted helps. Should the ACLU be active in environmental causes? We can agree to disagree about how best to achieve political reform and maintain credibility. There are indeed many ways to skin a cat.
Have you read the article you link to? It explicitely says that you can NOT arbitrarily reject users. ("ein Hausverbot nicht willkürlich ausgeübt werden dürfe")

The bans by Heise where not arbitrarily.
> DrChrono has it quite good, because the government will pay their customers

Only if their customers can document, attest, and verify that they meet the standards for Meaningful Use as required by federal law to receive their subsidies. And this can be a considerable burden for the smaller practices that DrChrono targets.

Plus consolidation within the industry means their market is shrinking as larger hospital systems buy up small practices and move fold them into to their hospital-grade EMR systems such as Epic, Cerner, and MEDITECH - all while these larger EMR companies are concurrently giving their products to small practices in order to become regional standards.

Plus, for those remaining practices they have a LOT of competition - there are literally thousands of outpatient EMR solutions, including Practice Fusion, which is well established and free, meaning providers can pocket the subsidies.

DrChrono is a great technology, but don't think they don't face their own challenges.
Ask HN: Is there an easy way to transfer money to people?
Say I'm at a restaurant and (to make it easy) one guy pays the bill, and I want to give him my share of $11.53 for the meal. Is there an app for my phone where I can just click on his Facebook picture or enter his email and transfer that amount to him?

Or suppose I'm at a bake sale and I don't have any cash on me. I can just enter the name of the person running the sale and quickly transfer $2.50, with a note for my records saying that it was for a bake sale treat.

The reason I ask is: I haven't found such an app, and if there is one, it's not well-publicized. It seems like an interesting idea for a side-project. Thoughts?
Well, you made me smile. But my point is I am trying to build a "first airplane" and I don't much care what the 900lb gorillas controlling the healthcare castles are up to.

But now I am wondering if I need to work on my metaphor. :-/

Have a great day.
More Than 1,000 Seed-Funded Startups Are Destined To Be ‘Orphaned'
I'm a brazilian and have never been in Chile or Argentina. Its time.

(We do travel 4 hours by car to Uruguay to buy wine/champagne liquor for a fraction of the prices here though.)
Given that dialectal reasoning (e.g. Socrates, Hegel, Marx) is essentially the thought process through questioning logical discrepancies, we're basically saying that same thing.

Proof:
If philosophy teaches us how to pose questions
And posing questions is the basic of dialectical thought
Then philosophy teaches us how to think.
Interesting that they're using GitHub for issue tracking, although there's no actual code in the repo: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues
So the exact same way they did for The Matrix?
I think its just a matter of man power, they don't seem to be able to dedicate the time/talent up front to do a thorough job.

That's pretty much it. Congress sees the USPTO as a revenue source, so they aren't even allowed to keep all the money they collect in fees (and they aren't allowed to raise their fees either). And they aren't allowed to develop a backlog (they started falling behind in the 1980s, but Congress slapped passed new laws preventing that). And if they reject an application the application can be amended and resubmitted, and almost always is until it's accepted.

So basically the USPTO doesn't have the authority by itself to solve the issue, and we need a solution from Congress.
> Except that Linkedin's passwords weren't salted.

My point is that salting a fast hash function is like issuing lifevests to the passengers of the Titanic. It sounds better than nothing, but in practice it only just keeps a handful of them from drowning so they can die of hypothermia a few minutes later.

> That's why I said "where the password space could be a dictionary attack or a brute force of passwords up to length 10 of letters, digits, and symbols". I don't actually mean the whole key space, just whatever the attacker chooses to target.

Sounds like you think you get to decide what the attacker will target first and when he will give up.

> Let's look at a better hash function - bcrypt.

Agreed, bcrypt is categorically better. But note that bcrypt includes salting as an intrinsic part of its implementation. So it's not something any web programmer could say "I will/will not salt my Bcrypt thusly".

As tptacek says, "if you're typing the letters A E S or 'salting your hashes', you're doing it wrong."
You are also encouraging the market to produce more of the relevant test in the future, and encouraging more competition to go for those treatments because they can make it profitable at a lower cost.

The problem with your very static analysis is that you end up breaking both of those second-order effects, so while you may get to feel good in the short term, in the long term you are doing much more harm. You have to analyze this problem dynamically. It's the more subtle approach, but more fruitful long term.

(Of course hypothetical situations can be constructed in which this general principle does not hold... but nevertheless, it is the general principle and you will be producing exceptions.)
In the donation options, the 3:1 effect of the donation towards the goal is included, but I think it is misleading. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a $50 donation will bring them $200 closer to the $600,000 goal, but will only bring them $50 closer to the $150,000 goal that they are pushing for. That might cause some confusion.
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The law imposes different burdens of proof for invalidating a patent in court, versus in a USPTO reexamination proceeding.

In court, a party asserting that a patent is invalid must prove invalidity by "clear and convincing evidence," which is the highest standard of proof in U.S. civil law (that is, non-criminal law).

In contrast, suppose that the USPTO decides that a "substantial new question of patentability" exists and therefore initiates a reexamination proceeding. In that situation, the patent examiner need only show invalidity by "a preponderance of the evidence," which is colloquially summarized as 50.000001%, just enough to tip the balance of probability. It's also commonly phrased as "more likely than not."

(EDIT: Strictly speaking, the burden of proof applies only to facts, not to the ultimate conclusion. Here, the facts --- namely what the Hillis and Nomura prior-art references say --- are are essentially beyond dispute, although I suppose conceivably Apple might find some technical grounds to allege, as a matter of fact, that at the time in question, persons of ordinary skill supposedly would not have understood those references to mean A or B or C.)

Perhaps more importantly, in the court case, a non-expert judge and jury had to assess the prior art. In the USPTO reexamination proceeding, three experienced patent examiners did the assessment.
Congrats SnapJob. Huge move.
USPTO hasn't officially invalidate any patents. They've filed a non-final office action. It's now up to Apple to prove they're valid.

USPTO almost always do this when it comes to reexaminations, they'll reject all claims, forcing the patent owners to fight harder to prove they should have those patents.

On USPTO site, they mention that it is very rarely that the reexamination would reject in all patents being invalided after the first office action, 70%+ of the times, a small part is rejected while the rest are re-validated as real.
I'm still technically obese, but better than I was. I'm big, but I'm not exceptionally wide. If I was an inch taller, I'd merely be "overweight". If I were 4 inches taller, I'd be pretty close to "normal" weight.

I fit in a standard airline seat without hanging over the armrest into the next seat, so why should I pay for it? So yeah, my state of health isn't particularly good right now, but it actually isn't affecting anyone I fly with.

Blanket generalizations don't do anyone any good.
A real estate marketplace.
Professor Larry Lessig - The Code Is the Law (1999)
>>It is hard/impossible to do when using the phone one handed.

This is why there are other methods to zoom, such as double-tapping with a finger (i.e. thumb).
Not exactly exactly but yeah, the same idea.
The new signal-slot syntax for Qt5.0 [0] really makes a lot of sense when combined with new c++11 lambdas. But I guess I don't understand what they mean regarding support for c++11 generally.

Are we talking about significant rewrites and with what compiler? I don't see vendors reaching compliance for at least a year.

[0]: http://qt-project.org/wiki/New_Signal_Slot_Syntax
"Self-delusion is a characteristic of Irish society. In the old days we were told things about ourselves that in retrospect seem laughable. We were morally superior to other races, O’Connell Street was the widest street in Europe, the Shannon was going to be drained, the country reunited and the Irish language restored.

Such was the pathetic nature of the society that it tended to grasp at any idea, no matter how absurd, seen as positive to our warped sense of nationhood."

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0920/122432...
The Secret History of Guns (2011)
Stripe FTW!
Mark Zuckerberg helped society a lot more by building Facebook (and making these billions) than he ever would by giving away his wealth to charitable causes.
1) I think a lot of people have had this idea. It's kind of "obvious" IMHO.

2) There's a big technical challenge, but...

3) There's an even bigger content challenge. Where is this furniture content going to come from? Are manufacturers going to create 3d models? How/why? This is an industry that still seems to love to function using showroom catalogs.

4) What exactly is the business model?

If you think you could sell it if it was built, then just pretend it's built - and why not try pitching it here? Not just describing the UX but describing the end to end function of the business, content pipeline, sales cycle, and how it's going to generate appreciable amounts of revenue.
Thanks, that is good feedback!

We're working on supporting multiple auth providers, but the larger question of federation is more interesting, and equally harder. We're not sure about where to take Firefeed yet, since it was built as a demo for Firebase, but that's something we'll definitely consider in the future.
I think it's a good sign that they're becoming more frequent. It means more DRM-free games out there, and more Linux and Mac games.
Google has always been a sweet solution for small business. I was hoping that there was another free service out there also. At the moment it looks like there is no way around paying for it, unless you're using your server for emails.

Even ymail is charging for businesses.
You would be shocked to know how some physicians would like to speed it up and quickly give you a diagnosis and have you out of the hospital, or just plain don't know stuff.

Like you, I do believe most people can not make a good judgement, because they lack the medical knowledge, so they expect a professional to make the decision for them.

Yet medical science is evolving - very quickly, with an ever reducing half-life for medical knowledge. Financial decision OTOH have a strong incentive (likewise for reliability checks)

I'm sorry if it would break your trust, but for someone who has been on the both sides of the hospital business, "Doctor Doom" scenarios are far more worrisome, and unfortunately not that rare.

There was a story on the NYT IIRC about a doctor his colleagues called "doctor doom and destruction" because his failings were so obvious. Yet he had a medical license and a great reputation, because of his excellent bedside skills.

There are some parts of the business I'm not comfortable with (diverting MDs from patient care to billing - that's a negative externality)

But this is something I now fully believe to be in the interest of both the patients and the hospital - ie something I would personally be very happy to pay for (or to have charged to me) if I was incapacitated and unable to take a decision by myself.
My friends and I use Venmo for exactly that.
Some have argued that anyone applying for a patent should be required to have a prior-art search done and submit it to the patent examiner, just as a PhD candidate must do a literature survey as part of his (or her) dissertation work.
One of the big banks in Australia, Commbank, have launched something like this - http://www.commbank.com.au/mobile/commbank-kaching/what-is-k...
Awesome, thanks. At least it gives me an ending to the write-up!
Thanks for looking this up. I think campaigning in the area of software patents is covered pretty clearly by those, by items 3 and 4 but particularly item 2. If anything it's a better fit than I expected, because it's more detailed and more explicit about open technology than the simplified mission of protecting digital rights.
https://venmo.com/
The claim that knowledge workers spend all day answering email and do nothing to focus on self-improvement is just plain bullshit. The fact that we're presently using a website that essentially serves as a crowdsourced, real-time trade journal counters that argument. The existence and wild success of engineering-focused conferences counters that argument. The proliferation of easy-to-access information for professional growth allows for a self-selecting group of people to improve their lot in life just by picking up some new skills and getting some experience with them. You can learn a new skill literally by browsing the Internet these days. As such, I don't really view the knowledge worker as a person at risk of stagnation without actually making an effort to be lazy.

There are some people who feel that they already know everything they need to know, and don't want to better themselves. It is entirely attitudinal, and in no way unique to the "knowledge worker" classification. I would argue the problem is far more significant in other industries, such as manufacturing and other heavy industry. When a specific kind of job replaced by a machine, or an entire industry gets outsourced to another country, the individuals previously responsible for that kind of work are likely not to have been trained for any other function. That would probably be a better audience for this kind of thing, compared to people who spend their free time reading about new technologies and playing with them on the weekends for fun.
Yea, i was a bit interested by that too. Probably already use it internally for other projects, and if they've integrated their internal tools with the GitHub API, it's a no-brainier.
This is the nicest picture I have seen in a while.
Yes check out that or Blogspot. Their method of Draft->Preview in a lifecycle is more or less what people expect IMO, and also scheduling (you can schedule blog posts to be published at certain times).