skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This remains an untested field of copyright law, as far as I know. I've been waiting for literally over a decade for some test case on this matter to come up, and it never does. Perhaps by 2023.
Nope, I don't have it. Are you Canadian? Maybe it's a Canada thing? Doing it to tell you about your data allowance is a bit excessive, for sure.
Why not just have an editor in the browser and render as the source changes? A la codepen, jsbin, etc.
Kinect can now be used to diagnose depression with 90% accuracy?
Where is the Chrome extension to block this?
I suppose calling on the phone is out of the question.
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I thought the same thing when I saw this. Even if you haven't heard of Helios you've probably heard Keith's music on TV or online. The website for his film, tv, and ad work is http://www.unseen-music.com/
Yes! If you really, truly trust your input data, and it is in a single flat array, you can call capnproto::readRootTrusted<MyType>(ptr) instead of setting up a MessageReader. All bounds checks and other validation will be skipped.

But, IMO this is only a good idea for, like, static constants embedded into the source code. Anything you read dynamically could be corrupted if not malicious, and you don't want that to kill your server.

That's up to you, though.
By statute the Copyright Act provides for attorney's fees to the prevailing party (Plaintiff only). An attorney representing themselves (or with interest in the matter) is not entitled to the statutory attorney's fees, so it appears that ownership of the company was willfully obscured by the Firm so the Firm could represent the Company and seek prevailing party fees that they would otherwise not be entitled to.

You are correct a lawyer can purchase IP or a Company that owns IP and enforce the same, they can hire another attorney to represent them (as you suggested), and if they win be entitled to attorney's fees, or they could represent themselves but not be entitled to prevailing party attorney's fees. To take it a step further, even if an attorney owned the IP, and had the Firm he/she worked for represent the individual attorney this can still be very problematic.

Here they appear to be having their cake and eating it too, not only does it appear to be willful fraud on the Court but willful fraud on the Court by a officer of the Court.

As the saying goes the lawyer that represents themselves has a fool for a client.
Cable companies, IIRC, aren't common carriers the same way a phone company is. They aren't regulated by the FCC the same way phone companies/tv broadcasters are.

They can do pretty much whatever they want to.
Nobody at OkCupid thinks like this. We want people to enjoy the site so they're inclined to pay for premium membership, which they won't do if it sucks. We want people to return to the site if they're single in the future, and to recommend it to their single friends. Optimizing for ad impressions over user experience isn't a road we want to go down.
It was especially funny because I originally announced the project on Google+ (where my former Google coworkers follow me) on April 1st. Half of them thought it was a joke. :)
It was a cruel thing for them to do, honestly. As someone with ADHD-PI who was diagnosed at 11 years old (jeez, 24 years ago) I never appreciated being lumped in with hyperactive people. I am the opposite of that (although I am prone to mania.. but it's very rarely manifests physically) by nature.

This damned problem has been just that. I went without medication for over 18 years but in the last year have had to seek treatment again. I definitely needed to do it sooner but as life becomes more and more complex and I'm beholden to other's schedules something had to give.

Life with the medication is a much better place for me. Wish I'd pursued it again sooner.
MixPanel reports 60% iOS vs 40% Android split when actual app usage comes into the mix. Probably why backend frameworks specialize in iOS first.
> Look, I am all for having an electric car do well, but I would much rather finance the world of Leafs and similar affordable cars than a luxury vehicle to people who could make the payment regardless.

Nissan Leaf, average owner income: $125,000
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1049202_just-who-is-a-ty...

Chevy Volt, average owner income: $175,000
http://autos.aol.com/article/why-the-chevy-volt-is-attractin...
This is just one more reason for using HTTPS everywhere. Doing so prevents ISPs from intercepting and rewriting HTTP traffic.

Shame on you, Comcast.
Look at all the work that went into that RFC. Unbelievable that they couldn't get a half-decent developer to verify that the notification is coded well enough to even show properly.
There are two kinds of operating systems, those that people use and those that people don't complain about.
after 2 weeks, 3 techs coming to my house,5 chat conversations and multiple phone calls I finally have service... I don't really like this legal monopoly for cable companies... I would switch to ATT but right now they are about twice the cost...
What's the difference between that and getting a similar amount through VC?
Market value has nothing to do with having 'earned it' or the numbers of years that you have put in at school.

It's a function of supply and demand and the value that the individual can create.
I will think that code has an audience and it's audience should be explicit. As long as the expectations are correct, it will just be 'sufficiently analyzed magic' and not only sorcery.
Aww. Seriously, though, it's pretty easy to write a code generator without understanding Haskell, and most of the work ends up being in the target language.

In the long run I'd like to do something like I did with protoc where you can write plugins in any language, but... more important priorities right now.
Well the implied assumption here is that the day of the free user is over. So it's only two options - Upgrade or leave.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the author, Matt Mickiewicz, runs developerauction.com. I imagine it is in their best interest to drum up the "talent war," to make it seem like there are no engineers to hire.

My experience tells me that this talent war exists... for the top few percentile of engineers. Where these people are dogged by recruiters and companies alike, there is a sharp dropoff; engineers who are smart but don't win in a tech bingo interview or didn't work at Google/Facebook or didn't go to Stanford get pinged by headhunters but passed over by companies. Engineers who have held jobs at start ups or less prestigious companies, who have authored plenty of CoffeeScript or ObC code for a corporate code base but don't remember how to implement a quicksort or don't have experience with framework x are rejected in the interview phase.

It's my opinion, but I think the "shortage of talent" is really a shortage of patience and mentorship, and a sign of the complete unwillingness of many companies to take a risk on someone.
I'll play: US20080002776.

[http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...]

Although I no longer work for the BBC and have already received my bonuses for the filing and granting (after I left the BBC) of this patent I have a personal curiosity as the core inventive step was (I believe) mine although it was greatly extended and improved by others with greater domain knowledge in MPEG encoding. As far as I know it was a novel idea and wasn't obvious in advance to experienced video encoding engineers.

The original idea was to treat encoding losses as errors/defects that can be fixed or patched by additional data distributed separately. This was extended to arbitrary enhancements and changes and potential implementations, consequences and techniques.

I believe that there was a real non-obvious inventive step in considering encoder losses as patchable bugs. Given that idea alone a (suboptimal) implementation is relatively easy to create but was not obvious if the task being discussed is using the early 2000's Internet to deliver better video quality than broadcast (SD) TV could.

I am not aware of any current usage of the ideas in this patent or what licenses the BBC may or may not have granted.

Edit: Time for me to sleep now, will check for any replies tomorrow.
Comcast is not available in Canada.
Feature detection, to start.
Well now you're arguing market value not entitlement, which I didn't say it was a bad thing.

If you're a Rails dev, yeah you're valuable and you should be getting paid that much.

However, you still have a lot to learn, and if you're asking for telecommuting and you don't even know what a thread is. That's entitlement, because you think that just because you know Rails, anyone will hire you and that you're 'good enough' to work from home.

Developers we'd want to hire don't just know Rails.
It is very easy to say that a company should fight a patent lawsuit instead of paying it up but that's not always possible. In many cases pragmatism is going to be better than fighting in court for a small business, especially if the likely court costs for the battle are going to exceed your businesses accumulated lifetime revenue.
Fear of a remote worker planet
Sign up for the SF Ruby group's mailing list. Write a post that you're hoping to move to SF and are looking for job opportunities. Also try directly contacting any companies you especially want to work for.
If you avoid inheritance js is just fine, inheritance is a pretty terrible concept to begin with IMO.
I would argue that it's possible for even an average web developer to create at least a comparable amount of economic value as the doctor or lawyer.

I don't know why our own community find this hard to accept?

We're a rare species who can create massive value for ourselves or our employers. We can build great products that many would pay for, or automate away whole departments of people with our code - not that I take any pleasure from the latter.

And yet we tacitly accept that there should be a whole class of people above us who have the right to earn more because they ground it out at school for a few years?
JetBrains is working on a cross-platform C++ IDE
They're probably just desperate because for some strange reason, people don't seem to be getting the alerts sent to their @comcast.net email addresses...
That's hardware. What about software? Can you provide a specific example (i.e. a patent number) of a "good" software patent?
Here is a pretty good approximation of what a normal person would be able to claim (to themselves) about the actual cost of owning the 85kWh. Comes to $940 a month of actual cost. This type of advertising is obviously very misleading.

http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/04/02/the-s...
Agreed that bounds checking is the correct default here, but it's nice to know that in true C++ fashion we can shoot our leg off if we so choose.
An important gotcha for JSON: it's not enough just to follow the JSON spec. If you want the data to be usable in a browser, you also have to take into account JavaScript's limitations.

In particular, the JSON spec says that arbitrary-precision numbers are allowed, but if you want to round-trip a 64-bit integer without losing precision, you'd better put quotes around it.
>So, if the people who PASS are that stupid, what kind of idiot do you have to be to fail?

This doesn't account for the possibility that someone couldn't or didn't attend college.
I wrote an implementation of the D-Bus protocol, which has maps, and after doing so I wish it didn't. Maps are a pain for implementors.

For example, the semantics of duplicate keys are not obvious. Do you throw an error, or keep the first value, or keep the last value, or do something else? Whatever the decision, somebody will be unhappy with it. Better to just give the user a list of (key, value) pairs and let them figure out what to do with it (e.g. pass it to a map construction function that behaves as they like).
Maybe, but not really. Two hours of google hangouts, screen -x, git and CI servers will do you for every conversation you can imagine apart from, let's grab a beer
It is really hard to testify to what others had done without implicating yourself if you worked together.
GPLv3 patent licensing clause was created as a copy/fork of the clause from Apache 2.0 license, and then had an added statement about patent license agreements.
The Strange Maths of Tesla’s $500/month Model S
I really hope you get over whatever has made you feel entitled to talk about others' work in this manner. It will only hurt your intellectual development down the road. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you or your comment (although I do disagree - that's not the point). I disagree with your attitude in general. When I read this comment, I think of the guy who gets really angry at the waiter/waitress when they bring out a food order that the chef messed up/misheard. I'm not asking you to stop being opinionated, I'm asking you to treat others with some level of decency.
Where do you advertise? How do you portray your company? Do you get involved in local meetups? Do you contribute to Open Source? Why do the employees that do decide to leave you, leave? What do they say about you? Do you know the going rate for your open positions? How do you know thats the going rate and how are you confident that that is a rate your potential candidates are likely to accept? Is there a big-brand competitor nearby that sucks up your potential candidates? Is your office hard to get to? Is there a local tech scene or is it a tech desert? Is your company in a non-sexy industry that has a common perception of being particularly boring (eg. Enterprise Java billing middleware) or evil (eg. recording industry, patent troll, oil industry)?

And thats before we get to how you are filtering resumes. It can very well be the case that there is a talent shortage in your area/domain. But I think its very hard to conclusively say so on the basis of a lack of qualified candidates flooding through every open opportunity.
there are others? what other frameworks render the page server and client side?

http://derbyjs.com/#why_not_use_rails_and_backbone

edit: ok I forgot http://www.socketstream.org/ but regardless, the realtime single page app sector really is dominated by those four products. everything else is already obsolete.

http://derbyjs.com/#introduction_to_racer
They said "never mind that 5 of the top 10 largest drug makers are outside of the US in countries that have abundantly socialist healthcare systems".

If the companies do (significant) business in the U.S., then the mere existence of those companies isn't useful evidence against the fear "that our system will collapse because no one will make medicine in America ever again". The specifics of where the pharma companies are getting their research dollars are more interesting than the specifics of their incorporation.

(but I don't personally fear that research funding would go away, and I accept that those companies have huge revenues outside the U.S., etc.)
I'm finding my own meme here - CI is the key to enabling remote working and so enabling a company to truly select the best

With CI it's pretty easy to see what needs to be built and whether it works - every few minutes if needed.

You can see progress happen throughout a day.

No other metrics matter.
A better search engine for videos
It is very likely the Judge will refer this to the Attorney General for criminal investigation and the State Bar to any and all state's the individual attorneys are licensed, but the Judge's actions were appropriate in a Order to Show Cause.

The problem with asking anyone involved questions regarding the other is that they may technically be co-conspirators. Since Conspiracy can be a charge unto itself compelling someone to testify about a co-conspirator would trigger the 5th, b/c that testimony could be incriminating as it would demonstrate how much someone knew about the conspiracy or what steps were taken in furtherance of the conspiracy.
What is the spirit of not providing the tax credit to leases as well as purchases? (Actual curiosity, not trying to imply anything.)
With names like pluck and splat... enough said haha
Twenty nine years you don’t get to decide how you spend
$100k+ for a senior developer is really not that much... but. The "properly market themselves" is a catch. I don't seem to be able to 'speak' west coast right, or something. Which is why I find this article about a relocating person interesting.

It's always been this way. When I got out of college, the division of the company I'd been interning with had an office in San Diego that was hiring for skills I had. I wanted to work there since my GF at the time was going to UCSD. Same industry, same company, same division of that company. Already vetted and approved by many months of interning. They wouldn't give me the time of day. Nor would any other companies I applied to out there.

The local (to me) office and several other companies in the area had no problem giving me offers, even though I was putting almost no effort into the local search (since, after all, I wanted to be in SD).

It's somewhat better now, when I'm trying to move to SF - I've gotten a few phone interviews, but nothing like the insanity the article is describing.

Edit: I forgot the original reason I wanted to reply: To mention that I personally have no interest in telecommunicating. I'm a social person, and to me, a lot of the appeal of working for a startup is to be working with peers that I can engage with every day. I don't want (to be) a voice on the phone during scrums that comes to the office once a year.
"The thing I can accept are cryptographic algorithms, since as an outcome we get a product"

Of all the things...

Cryptography is math in this day and age. Patents on crypto are patents on math, with only the measly "ON A COMPUTER!!!!" clause justifying their existence.
Since I primarily enjoy using Dart on server-side and like to use it as a replacement for Node when I can, I am actually working on a CRUD framework with middleware for Dart.

Inspiration comes from Express for Node, but it is similar to what you can achieve with flask.

Give it a look, and file feature/bug requests if you want to see something or something breaks.

I know of 1 person that implemented a Google Oauth endpoint with it, so it does work well.

http://github.com/Daegalus/fukiya
We're already on the a16z portfolio page. 3rd row, rightmost column. :)
You don't have what? Comcast had a data cap nationwide (250GB/mo) even if you weren't aware of it. They temporarily stopped enforcing it outside of two test markets (Nashville and Tucson) where they're working out exactly what limits people will put up with. You wouldn't see this popup unless you live there and you've used over 225GB this month.
Mind sharing the links you found relating to the $8 subsidy?
I thought this code looked familiar!

Here's my writeup on it for whoever is interested

http://blog.ryankearney.com/2013/01/comcast-caught-intercept...
I looked as [2]. It doesn't look like a case of scolding. It's a one-liner saying "there is no need to write to django-developers to notify us about ticket changes, we do follow trac and there is an extra ML for ticket updates."

I don't know the Django process, but this seems pretty standard. Your initial post doesn't add anything new to what the patch already did. They were letting you know that posting your request to the list won't speed up the process.

Unfortunately, with an all volunteer development team, it's hard to put time aside to helping new people with what doesn't seem like critical patches. In my observation, the way to solve this problem is to develop more patches, including ones that are more critical. Critical/useful/neat patches get priority. After you do a few of these, then you can get people interested in your other patches, and/or become part of the core team.

Where you'll then find that your time is spent working on new core features, and not enough time spent helping new people become core developers. ;)

For what it's worth, my oldest open bug reports are 10 years old. One for Twisted, http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/288 , and the other for Python, http://bugs.python.org/issue747320 . I still see occasional activity about each.
Cool! We recently released something similar for iOS devices:

It's called Pixel Booth https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixel-booth/id615962449?mt=8

It includes a color picker as well as the ability to save your images to a gallery, and then animate them or tile them. It's pretty fun if you're into pixel art. Happy to give out promo codes if anyone is interested - just give me a holler: c at playtend dot com.
"First, we’re going to refund all delivery fees paid by the people affected by this bug."
Just in case anyone is interested: I haven't tried it, since I don't own a Chromebook, but Crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton) seems to do exactly what he's doing in the article, only automated.
Ethical stuff aside, I can't imagine hiring someone to actually produce code THIS bad. Where the hell did they find the coder to make this?
The ActiveRecord example, to me, is an example of "clever". Any code that exhibits "spooky action at a distance" is too clever, in my opinion. When I can't hand trace a method or function and see what's going on, it is too "clever" - or at least it isn't "explicit".

Spring in the Java world does this with it's XML configuration and code injection based on annotations. You can't decipher what's going on by code examination. To code in Spring you have to fully understand the Spring framework. Rails (to me at least) is similar. The steep learning curve makes them less hackable.

With Clojure, by contrast, you can always look at a function or macro and (eventually) grok what's happening.
See, for example, Clifford Cocks who invented RSA before RSA did, but was unable to patent it, and thus didn't get the profits that RSA did.

He got a nice medal though.
Of all those examples you gave, only the space ship is within the last half decade, and full fill the requirement of an non-obvious, novel, and clear enough patent where one can out of the patent produce something akind to the claimed invention.

the LTE link is a good example of BAD patents. Their best example MPEG LA patents, which is neither novel, non-obvious or patents written so that someone can produce the claimed invention.

I guess the moral of the story is: If you produce space ship designs, then maybe its worth patenting it.
Definitely two excellent use cases and implementations of a similar idea (step-by-step "tour" v. full-page documentation/explanation), good job.
I didn't mean for my original post to come across as a challenge that there are no good patents (software or otherwise). I think the examples he gave are quite good.
I would like to think there is a talent shortage.

I pitch that we are in a similar position to Europe post Gutenberg - where they went from 2% literacy rates to 20% in a gut wrenching century. We are going to go from a lot less than 2% of people who are source code literate to that magic 20% in less - in short we are millions of talented people short.

In our generation, the observation talent shortage only occurs at certain ,price points is right - but when you want all companies to have the same code in their DNA as perhaps google or MS, we are so embarrassingly short of people it's a public policy issue not a Market lead one.

But I still laugh at the filbert cartoon - it's just I acknowledge that is true if your definition of talented developer is a software engineer who will write code primarily for a living and perform a sort of back office function. What about the CEO who codes? The deputy CFO?
It's worth noting that the $100/hr part is not included in the default calculation.
Of course, in the long term, these anti-discrimination laws really should change, but that is a different matter.
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Per "violation". So, $70,000 times a a few million pageviews.
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