skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Prior art" is only stuff that was at the time available to the public, so wouldn't apply to internal company secrets. The relevant defence here is prior use, which is different: unlike prior art, it doesn't invalidate the patent, it's just a defence to infringement.

An example of a prior use defence in a first to file jurisdiction -- here, the UK -- is:

"Where a patent is granted for an invention, a person who in the United Kingdom before the priority date of the invention—

(a) does in good faith an act which would constitute an infringement of the patent if it were in force, or

(b) makes in good faith effective and serious preparations to do such an act,

has the right to continue to do the act or, as the case may be, to do the act, notwithstanding the grant of the patent; but this right does not extend to granting a licence to another person to do the act."
Like, right now you can sync iCal on your Mac with Google Calendar, but next year that won't be possible?

What about on an iPhone?
yes, gdb can expand inline calls in a backtrace.
The question to me is why would someone want a faster Z.

Normally people only view their GPS in 2D, granted elevation could be useful for GPS speedos and the like, but when inside a car the barometer will lack precision.

The Private Pilot (ie n00b of t3h pilots!111!) in me knows that its incredibly unlikely to have issues seeing many GPS sats when flying, and I wouldn't ever want a static source that wasn't outside.

So I think this will be only a speed optomisation at most, however combined with GPS posistion and tempurature, such barometric data could no doubt be of use to weather forecasters who are trying to model incredibly localised patterns maybe?
There can be a possibility of fraud, it's just that bitcoin doesn't care or know if it's fraud. If you want to care about fraud, you could use escrows and additional layers on top of bitcoin.
This is AWESOME! I'm totally going to use it in my project
What's your purpose in posting that link? Were there interesting comments in that thread that you thought should be mentioned here? If so, would you mind pointing out which?
I do like how passport utilizes the Strategy pattern, Passport has to be one of the most intuitive authentication libraries I have ever used and I have been through a host of them. Authentication, especially browser based authentication has been traditional one of the most painful portions of an application if you needs stray from the norm. I remember trying to do REST authentication back in the day, on Java servers when REST was just a bunch of crazy internet kids messing around. It was painful the bend the authentication away from the standard page post models of form based authentication without writing a load of custom code. With Passport you write a small strategy (if one does not exist) and you are up and running. Passport was one of the first solutions to impress me in a long time.
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Android plus Chrome OS equals Google's future operating system
I believe there was also a major version release (4.8.0) fairly recently.

I read some development notes a while back and one of the key features planned for 4.8.0 was a new optimizer based on flow-directed lightweight closure conversion; this is the same technique used in STALIN Scheme, which is widely considered to be one of the fastest known Scheme implementations (i.e., it produces the fastest compiled code).

More info on this, for anyone who's interested:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8859486/other-references-...
Yes, to keep people from copying a movie or a book requires more-than-totalitarian control over people. But that's from a special property of noninteractive works, that one viewing is all there is to them. To copy-protect a program, in principle you could deliver it only to tamper-proof machines that self-destruct before giving up the code. You can't infer the program from its behavior, in general, unless P=NP (though of course you can do well enough for many programs; but black-box reverse engineering is more like creative work than scanning/recording). And releasing an app only for a particular platform is not a human-rights violation, at least not on the scale needed to suppress cameras and Turing machines.

That would take engineering beyond the current state of the art, but I know of no proof it can't be done, and at least one person I respect seems to think it can: http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Chapter_11.html#section...

So "DRM is impossible" strikes me as short-sighted. DRM is bad for humans, impossible for the media that Big Media currently cares the most about, and currently unable to keep anything from escaping into the free world.
Anglo-phobe! ;-)
Congrats Afshin
Tools, platforms, and Google Reader
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No, perhaps it would be better phrased as this: Bitcoin does not meet the minimum standard of security required by modern cryptography despite being built on systems that do meet such a standard. Even that phrasing is suboptimal, though, since the definition of "security" for a hash function is different from the definition for a signature system and both are different from the definition used for digital cash.
Great project! I would, however, recommend an API with more namespaces. Functions like Address.ukCounty don't sit well with me; such an API would be a mess if you added support for countries other than the US and the UK. You could (and probably create namespaces for each country code, e.g.:

Address
|-> US
|-> state
|-> UK
|-> state

An alternative would be for country-specific generators to take a country code as an argument. I am not an experienced API designer, though, so take my comments with a heaping of salt.
Raising hand as one of the suspicious number of very new commenters. :p As suspicious as I look, however, I don't belong to them and it's not my first post either.
I see that's core (once it's done) as listing consultancies and startups, and clusters accross the country, and referring to external sites for specialised areas.

There'd be value in making a decent search & fuzzy matching of cofounder types, and helping people in embryonic stages of a project progress along the 'next step'.
A rare glimpse of North Korea’s version of Facebook
I'm hoping to plan my next holiday to Chile so I get a better feel for the country. With that said, here are my observations so far...

I suspect Chile might be an pretty good country to live in. From the Wikipedia page it's stated that perceived corruption is low. The country has a major focus on IT (start-up Chile) and has a nice Mediterranean climate around Santiago. Spanish should also be an easy language to learn, I try to follow the free DuoLingo courses. It's also a major wine country :) I really like the ValdiVieso wines from Chile.
Steve Ballmer's Microsoft has made more money than Steve Jobs's Apple. John Gruber thinks that money is the final arbiter of success, and that Steve Ballmer is a complete idiot.
I find it much more tiresome when people complain that something is not news.
Hey thanks :) I glad to see your comment here.
>Immigration is a problem if you are welcoming workers with little education, who come from social or religious group who holds their beliefs are superior and better than anyone else's, and are more likely to develop hatred towards the host country and grow that hate when they are forced into a social net they have no hope of escaping - and that'll also be forced on their kids due to racism etc.

Are you quoting Rush Limbaugh?

>How good could it be for say Isreal to welcome immigration in open arms from say Iran ?

This doesnt make sense, there were plenty of Iranian Jews who immigrated to Isreal. From what I understand, Isreal will take you if you are Jewish, they aren't very selective.
Hey - KingOfSpain, get in touch http://ianmoss.com/contact

It'd be great to know which of the basic features beyond 'available and nearby' you'd like to see...
If by compatible you mean that the code are portable between them, the answer is maybe.

Strict R5RS code that don't use eggs (chicken libraries) has good chances to run on Racket. But note that Racket support stuff that is not even Scheme, hence the change of name from PLT Scheme
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3D Printed Stools provide an alternative to Ikea
Am I understanding correctly? They compiled C to Lua and got comparable performance with LuaJIT? That's amazing.
Salaries aren't that low... the standard entry level right now is about $42K USD, keep in mind that includes the mandatory Austria 5 weeks of paid vacation. Also when calculating an offer it's important to note that you're usually quoted a monthly amount which is paid 14 times per year. (Two months you receive a double payment, before the summer for vacation spending and before Christmas for christmas spending)
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Yes, and they return the money if they remain unclaimed for a month or so.
So if the laws that are raised relate only to trade and free movement, then fine. However, what about rules such as the maximum working time directive? Or limiting banker bonuses? Those are examples of a non-trade related laws that are imposed on the UK.

The goal of the EU isn't free trade, it is political union.
For me it is a crazy leap, I have huge student debts, some other random debts, normal corporate jobs don't pay enough to cover the debts, and finally, there are no bankruptcy for individuals in Brazil, you stay forever in debt, and when you die relatives inherit your debt.
Do you not still buy and sell licenses? Sure, it's not the product itself, but a license to use the product, but you're still buying it (it in this case is the license).

Sure, maybe using "license this product" instead of "buy this product" is technically more accurate, but at least 90% of customers don't really care. And seeing license is just going to confuse them.
People do appear to completely forget why companies are atracted to DRM.

But yet smaller companies can sometimes find themselves in the situation of having the vast, vast majority of their user base as pirates.

http://smellslikedonkey.com/wordpress/?page_id=274

What I found most interesting about their situation was the conversion rate, we hear the cry all the time of I'm just traiing it, if I like it, I'll buy it well they had a 0% conversion rate, despite good reviews and the pirates playing the game for many hours, to get the high scores. One would assume they enjoyed it right?
We need a generic pipe for internet services. Yes there is IFTTT and open-source clones, but they are not generically useful like the unix pipe on the command line.
This is AWESOME. So is Cory Booker. Now tell me, which major publications covered it?
I understand that. It's just that I hear so many people making the confusion and it irritates me.
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If you can't find good devs, create them
This simple little idea has been keeping my OpenPandora in my hands a lot recently. Passive social gaming has always been one of the more interesting and non-explored parts of multiplayer.

I remember playing a TRIALS HD on my 360 and my friends are shown as a passive dot. I kept wanting to chase that dot and beat the high score of somebody who wasn't even playing.
Facebook releases XHP, PHP extension allowing inline XML document fragments
thx. Done already!!
Nifty little thing! Thank you. :)
Wantrepreneurs, I'm calling you out
your project is such a great idea, we're going to use it at theRedPin.com

keep me updated on your other projects. i may have more works for you

very proud of you.
In the same way that Droid is a Motorola brand. Officially, Droid is a Verizon brand, and Nexus is a Google brand, but other companies make the phones. In the case of Nexus, half of the models were made by Samsung.
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I don't get it. You use an Anti-Virus software to protect you from threats, a common threat vector is email, so the software scans emails to detect such threats. All consideration of how well that actually works aside, it's doing exactly what you wanted it to do.

The software needs elevated privileges to do that, and you granted them. You have given it the keys to the castle and now you complain it's using them to install an extra certificate? That might come as a shocker to you, but all security is compromised if the system ensuring it is. They don't have to install that certificate; they can patch software and APIs all day and it wouldn't show up in any fancy GUI. You don't have to break the crypto or MITM it if you have exclusive control over the software performing it. Nobody tries to break disk encryption; they sneak into your room and replace the TrueCrypt bootloader on your laptop with one that looks the same but phishes the password.
This was a great write up - thanks!
Taking the leap is especially scary, particularly when I've got a mortgage and so many bills. I hope to make it one day.
I don't know how chaperone services work, to be honest, but if I were paying for it, I'd want the chaperone around in the airport, not on the plane itself. A kid can wander off and get lost, or get kidnapped, or hurt themselves at an airport, they're not exactly going to get off the airplane halfway through the flight.

> If you buy a car and drive it off the lot and the wheels fall off, you don't say "well, I guess they should have charged me more."

But the company should say, "We should have spent more money building this car, and thereafter charged more for it."
this sounds like great fun and although I'm not much arcade champion, will give it a go on the next rainy / relaxed day!
I really like the idea, but think you need to work out how to make yourself look genuine to people who are receiving the tips.

There are too many spam variants of "Free money! Claim it here!" which might make people cautious and never even try to claim.

Work out how to solve this, and I think you'll be good to go!
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What's the difference between Chicken and Gambit[1]? I've been reading about/playing with the latter for a few weeks, because of its interop with C (and therefore potential for integration with other C-friendly code, which is why there is an iPhone app that runs the repl.) My interest is that I'd like to write an application core in Scheme, and then write a GUI for iPhone, OS X, Linux and Windows, and I figured Gambit was best for this.

If I should be playing with Chicken instead, tell me why! :)

[1] http://gambitscheme.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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I love how quickly you jump down his throat rather than talking to him rationally. I'm not saying I agree/disagree with the way MailChimp handles this kind of request, but it's obvious you were ready to jump on "the customer is always right" bandwagon from the moment you started this conversation.
The article is one single quick paragraph, take a look at it.
AWESOME!

The next button could be way bigger though, I felt like I was trying to catch it every time :)

And maybe you can pre-focus on it with JS, so you'd give users the affordance that they can press enter to move on. (You enabled the right arrow key, but I didn't immediately know I could do it).
Well, company mottos are meaningless because companies always use their own versions of words. For example, in Google "evil" could mean "anything that doesn't make us maximum profit" if they want it to.
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No matter what your screen is showing you, you are currently occupying three dimensions of space, and if you want an accurate representation of that without already knowing at least your rough location, you need to lock on to more satellites than you do if you already know approximately how high you are.

At least, such is my limited understanding.
Sure, if you don't trust your AV. But if you don't trust your AV, you've already got problems.
There have been a few Interix projects, but I always thought the system was dying.
China also.

And then there is also the fapiao (stamped receipt).
It remains to be seen. Google has said that they will "whitelist" certain developers to continue using CalDAV which is what iCal uses to sync both the Mac & iPhone. One would hope/expect that Apple will be one of those developers.

No one from either company has commented or confirmed it either way. It's a major reason why people are so surprised and incredulous about Google moving away from the standard.
curl http://example.com/some/api/resource/json | sort | uniq | whatever?
Yes, but a 30% cut gives them all incentive in the world to further destroy the open marketplace (html). I do not have evidence that it is happening - but this must be an Apple goal. Simply because of how they are profiting from this arrangement.

Or, to put it another way: the financial incentives for Apple are not at all aligned with my personal interests.

Whereas I can not say the same thing about Google. I do not see how their financial incentives are colliding with my personal interests. Yes, privacy is a concern, but I am not - that I know - affected by that, and there are worse players here (Facebook).

In that light, Apple==bad, Google==good.
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> they are directly attacking our ability to stay in business.

You have no right to be in business. If you want to be in business you have to earn it. Pissing off your customers to the point that they take extra steps to make your content readable is a fail on your part.

>Removing ads from a website is no different than pirating software: You're getting the product without paying for it.

Total bullshit. I have a web browser. It lets me point at the web and consume content in any way I want to. If you don't want that put your stuff behind a paywall. So long as it's on the open internet it's my choice how I view it, not yours.

Piracy isn't remotely comparable and shame on you for saying it is.
I'm totally going to read that.

Also, I'm really interested in the debug-ability of Chicken. Instead of a stacktrace, which sort of captures "where you're going", a stacktrace in Chicken captures "how you got here", which in conjunction with using immutable data structures would make the most absolutely amazing blob of data to be sent back by a customer - you could potentially restart execution with their data and step thru.
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What I found happening (as someone who started with Perl 4, then Perl 5, then largely moved to Python) is that my scripts often went through this evolution: shell (+ sed, + awk, ...), then Perl, then Python. That is, as the program grew more complicated, the best tool for the job (in its entirety) often shifted.

The Perl to Python transition was usually due to Python including something in the standard library that Perl didn't. e.g. the example usage of pawk outputs json, which Python includes in the standard library. Doing that in Perl would mean installing a CPAN module.

Anyway, at some point I started going from shell to Python and skipping the Perl step. These days I mostly reserve Perl for one liners and 90% of the time that's perl -[pn] -i -e '...'.
You seems biased.

I'm PRAYING that there will not be a war, and that immigrants will find a way to feel happy in the society, and that the french society will welcome them.

This will require a lot of changes on both sides- but for now, only hate is growing.

I'm just very sorry I don't see that happening. I'm making predictions, hoping I'll be proved wrong.
I'm sorry - this has to be written by someone who just doesn't get why someone wants an RSS reader. " Engagement is Key" is just not all correct. People who think that "RSS is about social" just don't get it. People subscribe to a specific RSS feed because they want to have the option to read everything that comes from that site. Period.
http://fotoforensics.com/ still does.
You don't need a local atomic clock for fairly accurate positioning using 3 satellites it just takes longer. Basically, what you need to know is distance from each satellite and an atomic clock let's you find that directly. However, GPS satellites are moving so much faster than you that at over time you narrow down the possible distances involved fairly quickly. Though this does take a lot of processing and is not on any consumer device I know of.

Also of note, phones get a reasonable fix using base towers which can speed up GPS calculations though I don't know of any phone that does this.
"Fucking" is a vulgarity, not a profanity.
Chicken Scheme is purportedly very fast (which might be important for your project) and has a friendly, knowledgeable community behind it.

It's also BSD-licensed -- not so important for a personal project, but nice if you want to build a commercial product in Scheme. Gambit Scheme also has this (it's available under the Apache 2.0 license).
I am not complaining about the link not being news. I am complaining about the lack of explanation about why it is relevant today.

This is similar to if somebody would post stuff like:

Mono C# compiler [http://www.mono-project.com/CSharp_Compiler]

Pypy [http://pypy.org/]

Those are interesting implementations for well known languages that aren't new. If I post them without explanation of why I found them interesting and relevant now, then I would mislead people and they might conclude that it is advertising.

Am I alone with this?
Drinking and Google Glass could be a bad mix
Moving RSS forward
Where have all the gadgets gone?
Google has a similar library that supports Windows:

https://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/wiki/StackWalking
sorry they're just my friends but obviously not myself
That's really cool !
I'd be curious to know more about the things you do, if you can speak about it here or mail me (info on my profile).
Apparently we share the same analysis. No hate, just plain facts.

Europe seems up for a very nasty situation indeed. The nobel peace price for the EU was to remind Europe that in the past they had been at war every 40 years or so, but since 1980 they had stopped that bad habit (let's ignore the balkans)

Maybe Europe will see the light? I hope so, but I don't see that happening at the moment.
s/parity/parody/ perhaps?
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>For Windows Phone, which integrates Skype by default, to really take off in the marketplace...

If only this were true! I can't install Skype on my new Nokia 920 (maybe they'll give us the tomtom version eventually?). But Skype isn't really a good deal for anything but international calls....I'm guessing you are in Europe.
If Isreal will take you if you are Jewish, that seems selective. It doesn't seem to be than >50% of the Iranian population is Jewish.

Maybe it means they will welcome people less "likely to develop hatred towards the host country" because of their preexisting beliefs and religion?
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Also if I'm plummeting out of plane in the middle the night with no sense of position, then I'm not saying relying on my phone is a good idea but knowing when to pull my chute so I don't spend too much time in the stratosphere would be pretty handy.

I mean I'm not saying it's likely but...luck favors the prepared right?
As others have already suggested: I think it would be even better if the explanation box was fixed (e.g. top left corner of the screen) and had a FAT red arrow pointing to the area of the screen that it explains.

This would (imho) make it more obvious what's going on ("Ah, this is explaining that") and would improve usability.

But either way, this is a great start (I love the limelight-effect) and we are definitely going to build on this. Thank you for open sourcing it!
Superbly awesome work, afshinmeh! :D
Not to mention the e-mail address ends in @live.com. At least take the time to set up a proper e-mail address.
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