skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're considering joining the NRA for the same reasons as in this article, I'd strongly suggest you also join the Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) is also well regarded, and if you're a Californian, Calguns (or in other states, your state's gun association).
For people who don't know what timeboxing is:

http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/timeboxing-trilogy...

Even if you aren't into language learning it is a very interesting (and practical) read.

"Anyway, the short answer is this: timeboxing is a technique where we place deliberate, prior, artificial limits on the time to perform a given task. Within reason, the tighter (shorter) the time limits, the better."
First point has nothing to do with my company in particular. Talent interviews are just different from vacancy interviews. In a talent interview I really am looking for someone who meets our future needs. And without my crystal ball, that means I'm looking for someone with the currently require skill set, but who has the ability to pick up wherever we go in the future.

Agree with you on the second point. This comes into us not explaining ourselves very well. Questions like this ARE banal and ludicrous. But FizzBuzz filters are a great first screening. People lie (shock! horror!) on their resumes all the time. So asking them to write something banal in front of you is annoying for the people who can do it, but quickly finds the pretenders and lets me cut an interview short.

(Oh, and before anyone calls out 'interview pressure', I'll work through the problem with people who struggle. The difference between nerves and talent is blatantly obvious)
Errr ... how familiar are you with 20th Century history?

Well more than 100 million previously disarmed people were rounded up at gunpoint and their rights were violated to the point they were killed.

Those movies and comic books had some real world inspiration, after all.
I think the issue will be in identifying who qualifies as a patent troll. Of course we know but what is a legal definition that would suffice and encompass all the companies that acts as trolls?
Good question. Maybe Apple's success? But I do believe there's a self-reinforcing meme thing going on where design is the new hot topic.

Not that I'm complaining, as a designer.
It's possible it won't be detected.

Parcels sent locally don't go through nearly the level of security as customs puts foreign packages through.
Java Memory Model and optimisation.
They should also be forced to put up a sum of money (say $1 million) before the lawsuit starts, in case you're dealing with a shell company, that doesn't have to pay anything if it loses.
This looks straight out from a Hollywood movie. Now, this makes me curious. Who is behind this?
A classmate I respect and who I think is decently skilled started out on Odesk (not very easy to get out of the low paying jobs here in Uruguay), and he accepted the screenshots as part of doing business.

The people that hired him were happy and eventually dropped Odesk in favor of a more permanent relationship, but I think neither my classmate nor the people doing the work were in the wrong, or "not very good". You have to be willing to jump through more hoops sometimes if you're not from the U.S. or Europe.
Sad to report that although the website for your apps look real good neither Zonebox or slap worked for me.
- Zonebox crashed on launch
- Slap doesnt let me add any websites.
I like the principle, but most patent trolls are small shell companies. If they lose, you can ask for costs, but you'll find nobody to collect from. (And the next shell, with the same lawyers, will be suing someone else with a different garbage patent.)

Also there will be an uphill battle to avoid any Congressional response turning into a symmetric "loser pays" scenario. In that situation, the troll can trivially run up huge legal fees, knowing that you will collect nothing if they lose, but you stand to lose a lot. That change would leave trolls better off and potential victims worse off than they are now.
Also audio feed would be interesting as well.
Is there somewhere array of saved images kept?
Companies who have sued more than a certain number of companies (5?) in the past would be a good start, I think.
Isn't it technically a foreign package travelling from the UK (I presume) to the Ecuadorean embassy, which is Ecuadorean soil?
The loser in any civil suit should pay the winner the lesser of (his legal costs, the other guy's legal costs).
The one thing holding me back from Sublime Text is fonts. I really want the Fixed 6x13 font (like xterms use) which requires anti-aliasing turned off.

Does anyone know if that's possible in Sublime Text?

Link to the xterm font: http://yootles.com/outbox/FixedMedium6x13.dfont

PS: It also needs the line spacing set to .8 which I've found a way to do in TextMate and Terminal.app.
I wonder how sincere the US government is at wanting to end violence, when at the same time it nurtures the largest military in the world -- a military which has managed to kill the most people since WW2.

It also has one of the largest police forces and prison industries in the world, for whom violence is a very useful tool.

I'm not sure if the US government wants to end violence so much as monopolize it.

Nurturing violent tendencies in people can be quite useful to the US government, as long as those people can be persuaded to use their violence upon command, and at targets of the government's choice.
I'm sure Google and Apple and the other large companies fall into this category. I'm not sure I qualify them as trolls. Neither would the number of patents held by those companies qualify them either.
I prefer Bitcoin
The system was engaged with, that was the problem. People have a default assumption of adequacy when it comes to interaction with the state, this episode shows such a default assumption is not only unwarranted, but actually dangerous.
Remember, in the 1950's comic books were blamed for violence.
I think strongly static typing can be added to CL, if I understand this paper correctly: ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/boyer/diss/akers.pdf
There are a lot of rimfires (.22lr especially), especially used by minors, competitive shooters, etc. Most shotguns are actually not semiautomatic. Revolvers are a substantial number of handguns, if not a majority, especially for women, first time gun owners, etc.

Part of the point of a progressive licensing system (which I think we should also have for cars, and if we legalize vs. decriminalize drugs, for drugs), is that you can get into the early levels first, build up experience, and then go for the more advanced stuff. It's undeniable that guns have safety-to-others implications, like cars, unlike things like video games, books, etc., so there's a compelling case to regulate them.

I think there are also cases of imminent threat where someone has a reasonable home defense argument for a gun, and allowing a 12ga or 20ga shotgun purchase by any 18+ non-felon fairly quickly solves that. People can disagree about whether CCW or home ownership of guns help or hurt, but it's pretty clear that home defense is a stronger case than concealed carry on the street. If you're unskilled, a home defense shotgun is a great choice; I could probably teach someone with zero familiarity with guns to become a credible home defense gun owner with a shotgun (including legal concepts, etc.) in 15 minutes on a range and an hour or two in a classroom. Couldn't do that in less than 2-3 days with a handgun for street carry from the same starting point.
Actually if you're using google apps for business, you are a customer.

Also, that bit of snark is getting old and tired, and wasn't ever very accurate to begin with.
It's a package outfitted with a camera and an internet connection that periodically uploads photos en route to Julian Assange. The page updates with each image and contains a record of all the images.
It is not actually their soil :) [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission#Extraterrito...
One of the things that occurs to me is that if the patent in question really is frivolous, defending it isn't going to cost $1.5 million. That'll buy you two decent small firm lawyers working overtime for a year. At the same time, forcing losing plaintiffs to pay all costs means that small firms can basically never sue large companies for ripping them off.

I think a less destabilizing way to address these sorts of nuisance suits is to require the plaintiff to post a substantial bond (as is done in shareholder derivatives suit), perhaps subject to losing a "deductible" if the patent is invalidated in the suit. Requiring the plaintiff to risk say $50,000 would go a long way towards both deterring truly frivolous suits like the X-Plane one, and to compensating defendants for defending against such litigation without chilling meritorious litigation.
Well, I don't make a habit of it. Yesterday I remoted from home until 11 am, then I took the wife and sick kid to doctor and that ate the afternoon.

It helps to have bosses with small kids.
Contrary to popular belief, embassies are not in fact foreign soil.
He is in the Ecuadorean embassy in the UK
Then don't complain that you can't find any candidates.

That's what you employers do: you filter out everybody, so there are left like 3 people in the same continent who fit your arbitrary criteria. Then all of you get into a bidding war over those 3, and most of you find that you can't afford to hire.

Finally, you start whinging about a "talent crisis" and blaming the universities for not producing people with the right skills.

Well you made your beds, now lie in them.
Probably a cell phone
Both are possible through Sublime's config file.

See http://www.reddshift.com/2011/10/turn-off-anti-alias-for-sub... for how to turn off anti-aliasing, and https://gist.github.com/1149379#file-sublime-text-2-settings... for line spacing.
I was witness to the sending of a request for candidates with 3 years of Android experience to HR at 2011 at Intel. They just insisted that two or one isn't enough.

First Android phones were release at 2008.

In other news - I thank god I never were in as bad as interviews as some of you. My worst experience was the interviewer giving up and starting to ask me personal and professional stuff about another candidate to the same position. I guess I did a good job because the other candidate got it, company shutdown withing a year.
Perhaps any company that doesn't actually have any other product or service? I agree it gets into tricky territory though.
Gamma radiation is not "higher energy" than alpha or beta radiation. And the energy of particle is not by itself significant as far as radiation damage is concerned - what matters is how that radiation is deposited in you as the particle passes through you. An extremely high-energy neutrino could pass through you with no effect whatsoever.

Materials such as a sheet of paper or piece of cloth have a higher stopping power (loss of energy per unit distance) for alpha particles (helium nuclei of charge +2) and beta particles (electrons of charge -1) than for gamma rays (photons - uncharged particles).

This is why an alpha emitter is much less significant if it's outside your body, but much more significant if it's in your lungs - because it dumps all its energy inside you where it can cause damage.
Forgive me, I'm not an economist or anything, but doesn't this raise a question of shell company regulation? It shouldn't be possible to use a legal structure like that.
Ah, but all of those crimes against humanity were not committed by current governments that we like! (and of course those that were have the benefit of victor's justice...)
Doesn't load for me :(

Edit: Seems a bit overloaded and only slowed down.
The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed
Simplest way would be a cell phone + app I'd think.
Hacking Vegas
Here's a saved version: http://archive.is/lIwe8
It most certainly does raise the question.

Here's an article and HN discussion for Intellectual Ventures being linked to over 2000 shell companies: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4946445
One idea someone proposed was putting the name of the buyer encrypted with a (key physically recorded on the gun) into storage each time, so if the gun is recovered, and the secret exposed, government could trace the chain from manufacturer to last known legal transfer buyer.

I don't think there's a problem with people knowing who owns a specific gun; the problem is knowing what guns a specific person owns.
Of course I'm looking for people who can learn. I'm looking for people who will jump onto Stack Overflow and Google before spending a week reinventing the wheel. I'm looking for someone who writes in a dozen languages (like human languages, someone who knows a couple can pick up more very easily).

But I don't want people learning the "right now" skill on my time.

If I need a PHP developer right now, then I'm going to hire someone who knows it right now. I'll preference someone with C skills and I'll preference someone who participates in an open source project. And I'll preference someone who reads Hacker News. And I'll preference someone who has a great profile on Stack Overflow. And I'll preference someone who attends or presents at conferences.

But if they don't know PHP, they're not going to be learning it on my time as I need someone who knows it right now.

There's no need to feel sorry for my team. The things you read on a Hacker News comment reply aren't the entirety of working for me. Maybe you'll be sitting across the desk from me one day and you'll get to work with an awesome team of talented engineers. Carefully selected.
If the plaintiffs are working on contingency, do you calculate an imputed cost? If so, you'll basically put an end to any semblance of justice for victims of medical malpractice,[1] defective products, industrial polluters, etc.

[1] See: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/036480.html
It's intermediate half-lives that are problematic. Very long half lives (for example, billions of years, like Th 232) are not a problem, because they have low activity (few particles emitted per second). Very short half lives (for example, minutes) are not a long-term problem, because they are entirely gone after those minutes. It's the middling half lives that get you: short enough to be highly active, long enough to stick around for years.

So, Cs 137 and I 90 stick around for a few hundred years. That's bad, and LFTR still produces these.

On the other hand, it's a lot better than the situation with conventional U reactors, because those produce transuranic elements with intermediate half lives measured in tens of thousands of years. There is a qualitative difference to human civilisation between 300 years and tens of thousands of years. LFTR produces those transuranic elements too, but in orders of magnitude less quantity -- that combined with the liquid phase leads us to expect that would be a much smaller problem than with conventional reactors.

Wikipedia suggests some other LFTR advantages here, which I haven't thought about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...

Low mobility of radioactivity. Even if there is an accident beyond the design basis for the multiple levels of containment and passively cooled systems, fluorides do not easily enter the biome. The salts do not burn, explode, or chemically degrade in air and react only slowly with water. Fluorine combines ionically with most fission products to form stable fluorides. This is not only an MSFR's first level of containment, but also serves as a high inherent safety level during any beyond-design basis event. Fluoride is especially good at holding biologically active "salt loving" wastes such as cesium-137 and strontium-90, which are permanently bound as stable, nonvolatile CsF and SrF2. The fluoride salts of radioactive actinides and fission products are generally not soluble in water at lower temperatures. Even though Caesium fluoride is one of the fission product fluorides that is highly water soluble, its extremely high boiling point and chemical stability, combined with the lack of stored energy sources (hydrogen, steam, etc.) in the LFTR, prevent it from being blown into the air and carried with the wind to contaminate a large amount of land.[citation needed]
I don't have any sources for it, but the way I imagine most gun owners in the US (guns owners, not vocal gun owners) is just a regular bloke who only remembers that he has an unloaded shotgun in his attic once or twice a year.

Hell, that describes many of the vocal gun owners I know too.
He posts the same thing over and over again because essentially the same article is posted over and over again. It all gets pretty repetitive anyway.
Good point but improving the presentation there could be great for both GitHub & its users.
A comment above addresses this well: shell companies, which is really the problem we should be fixing. Granted, the definition is probably still difficult to legally define despite how obvious it is when you're looking at one.
Scroll TFA down. More. Past the Tweets. Bingo.
We'll see a policeman's face with a look that says "I wonder what this little hole is for."
I've always struggled to get SublimeCodeIntel to work under Linux, and when I've seen it work, it's not very good.

CTags is absolutely fantastic though, I live and die by it in large code bases. It's backed by ctags on the system too, so it has an impressive list of supported languages.
There is the option of NOT changing it but switching to a better job than tech
If you scroll down the main site, all the previous pictures are listed with mouse over captions
The M1911 has fit my hand perfectly since I was a teen and I can shoot them really well, so I'm a member of the church of John Moses Browning (PBUH).

And that's exactly what happened in the 1994-2004 period; there were plenty of standard capacity magazines for existing designs, but they got a lot more expensive and there was always the concern you might eventually use up all the ones you could procure. And for new designs....

Well, .45 ACP indeed became a lot more popular; if you're limited to 10+1 rounds or less you'd better make every one count. And M1911s ... well, everyone makes them nowadays. Even Remington returned to the handgun market with one. Despite thinking it's the best design---and certainly they don't fit everyone's hands, like the Glock doesn't for me---I'm just amazed. Of course, the design is long past patent protection, I'm sure someone has a affordable CNC package for them, and then it's just normal fitting. But, still.

And it's a century year old design!
I agree! Long ago it was possible to determine whenever a signature was genuine, but these sort of "digital signatures" don't provide any level of security, verification or anything alike. Even signing using an e-id and card-reader would be a better way to sign a document really.
You can always require plaintiffs to post bond in advance. This is what is done with shareholder derivatives suits in most states. Bond requirements are undesirable in cases where meritorious plaintiffs may have no money at all, but that should not be a concern for patent cases (the idea of an "individual genius inventor" is more or less romantic mythology these days).
Those features are the madness of standards enforced under penalty of law. CSS is a recommendation, and the only penalty is a competitive disadvantage.
Back when the Internet was a graphically simpler place with a browser monopoly, there was little disadvantage to implement CSS however they damn felt. If Ford sold 90% of cars and a consortium recommended they add 12 new safety features, imagine how they'd respond.
Details of the December 28th, 2012 Windows Azure Storage Disruption in US South
That is exactly the thing that drives charge inflation. You don't just get indicted for committing a crime, you also get charged with walking the streets while intending to commit the crime, wearing the pants with intent to commit crime, not telling the policemen you're going to commit crime, using your laptop in committing the crime, using public airwaves while committing crime, concealing your identity with criminal intent, etc. etc. That's where 30-year charges come from. I think it does indicate serious problem - why changing MAC address should be a felony in any context? If somebody did something evil and changed MAC address - convict him for something evil, not for changing MAC address. Only reason I see why such charges exist is to coerce plea bargains.
Hmm... sending a device into an embassy, that is recording data (video), possibly sound, and transmitting it.

Isn't this an act of espionage? While cool, this seems like a bad idea to me.
I just had to interview people for a (non-tech) job who didn't even want it, and who we had no intention of hiring, because of our company's rules about how many people you have to interview before hiring. At least the hiring process described in the post has some sort of point, however badly executed.
Have a spare activation code. Drop me a message if you're interested.
Start menu alternatives for Windows 8
Thanks for the illustration: what is considered common behavior in one community is not necessarily considered common behavior in another and today people are disagreeing on, among other things, even the definition of fraud (which I agree, "should" be simple) in computer networks.

I could just as easily argue it's fraud to restrict any copying via a network that functions for that purpose. MAC spoofing might help demonstrate mens rea to you, but that is far from universal. I don't care if Google crawls my domains, regardless of the presented user agent, so why should I presume anyone else would? (Google didn't start by presenting themselves as Googlebot... They committed your definition of fraud.) Why do your presumptions win over my presumptions? We need better reasons than a legislator's "because I said so." If we are to live together, we have to come to a consensus, but at the moment there is a long distance between some pretty inflexible points of view ("just lying").
Here is how I would change patent lawsuits:

1: If the defendant wants the patents reexamined, then the case should be stayed until a review is finished; only litigate the upheld patents.

2: No more avenue shopping.

3: The party who filed the suit should pay if they lose. And the law should allow for getting that money from parent companies.

4: Awarded damages should be close to zero for non-practicing entities.
Oh, thank you. I intended only a very narrow point about chloride reactors being untested (not MSRs: just fast-spectrum chloride MSRs). I didn't mean to provoke a debate between molten-salt and liquid metal reactors. I claim neutrality. :)

LFTR safety is based on passive cooling. Pu breeders do not share this property.

I'm unfamiliar with the details, but I read that liquid-sodium reactors are capable of fully-passive decay heat removal, e.g. [0] (slide 6). Certainly sodium has a much higher boiling point than water.

By the way, fast-spectrum MSRs are really Pu breeders -- that's the point of actinide burning!

3. MSR reactors don't suffer from the control complications introduced by Xe poisoning in solid fuels.

This is not a relevant issue with fast-spectrum reactors, e.g. [1] (c.f. [2]):

"The xenon-135 and samarium-149 mechanisms are dependent on their very large thermal neutron cross sections and only affect thermal reactor systems. In fast reactors, neither these nor any other fission products have a major poisoning influence."

4. MSRs involve a continuous liquid process. Essentially all industrial chemical processes work that way,

Pretty sure it's a batch process?

[0] http://rpd.ans.org/presentations/DesignFeatures_Economics.pd...

[1] http://www.hss.doe.gov/nuclearsafety/techstds/docs/handbook/...

[2] Xe-135 absorption: http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/sigma/getPlot.jsp?evalid=15174&m...