skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you see as expressions of freedom and liberty can just as well mean the polar opposite. Calling somebody "rebellious" means they do not fit in a given system (which is bad if you represent the system concerned), while calling somebody "adaptable" means they will fit in no matter how the system changes; they are, in other words, malleable. In that sense, being independent can also mean the opposite of being socially minded, i.e. being egotistic.

Rebellious, adaptable and individual in a commercial sense might mean somebody resisting the mainstream and innovating. On the other hand, from a systemic point of view, it can denote an egotistical and spineless person that doesn't fit in (which is bad).

Whether the strong focus on individuality, adaptability, rebellion and cognitive advancement is positive or negative will ultimately hinge on your overall image of the wider society creating these values.
I'm not sure about your extrapolation here. For example, labeling a child 'rebellious' isn't necessarily praise, it might just as easily express disappointment with conformist expectations. I have to say I never heard the phrase 'oppositional defiance disorder' until I came to the US. In Europe people would just regard such kids as stubborn, but not necessarily assume it was the result of a pathology.
It says ANLEMC-Titan. Googling for ANLEMC reveals it has to do with telepresence microscopy. That leads me to believe that machine may be a FEI Company Titan electron microscope:

http://www.fei.com/products/transmission-electron-microscope...
Ask HN: How many patents do you need to license?
Assume your company has endless capital to invest in building a new
mobile phone, but you own no strategic patents that could be cross
licensed. Your plan is to design and manufacture all of your own
hardware components (processor, graphics, memory, GSM/CDMA, display,
accelerometers, USB, ...) and software (OS, drivers, touch interface,
voice control, video, ...) with all of it based industry standard
interfaces and technologies.

Since you're building all of your own parts rather than buying them from
licensed vendors, you are legally required to pay for patent licenses on
everything. For example, to have MPEG support, you'll need to license
the patent portfolio of the MPEG_LA group. To use DDR memory, you'll
have to license a bunch of patents. To use an ARM processor, you'll need
to license a bunch of patents from Arm Inc. GSM? CDMA? Slide to unlock?
And so on...

Patent licensing terms (costs) are typically not public information, so
no one can really guess how much all of the patent licenses will cost.
Also, assume you actually can license the needed patents for some fee
rather than being simply forbidden from implementing them.

The question remains, how many patents would you need to license to
build your own mobile phone from scratch?

If you know the number of patents needed for any specific chunk of tech,
or you even have a rough guess, then please post the number.

I guess another way to phrase the question would be, how many patents
are required for typical mobile phones we buy?
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Bullshit, everyone has a stake, even the workers.
Man this rings so true with me. Emberjs has so much promise but it is just so frustrating to work with. Every time I turn my head something fundamental seems to have changed (the router and now dependency injection). It does always seem like a good move but because the docs don't keep up it means you're suddenly googling solutions that don't work any more. Maybe a kickstarter would be a good way to get things stabilised? If yehuda etc. don't have the time maybe someone would like to step up and with some kickstarter money spend a few months getting up to speed with the project and getting it stable, docs done etc.

Edit: BTW my money is ready and waiting!
Switched from MS SQL to MongoDB with a custom written ORM.
More commentary from Reddit:

- http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bzekm
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I'm quite interested in this too, although I only heard it given a name recently.
Set to be retired on May 7th[1]

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates
I was left with the feeling that facebook home is the exact same as the facebook app
This one in especially good:

Specifying a set of forbidden passwords

How can one spend time and money for this?
I doubt most people can afford enough solar and battery storage to power all the air conditioning needed for the longer, hotter summers we are having.

We'll just use less coal which is a great thing, until the coal industry starts getting subsidies to stay alive in a few decades (which is certainly going to happen considering their political power).

Grid-tie is a much better answer for people and utilities though. Solves the daytime demand problem.
More like: business model of utilities disrupted by
distributed energy resources.

Also, peak demand in CA is at 9 pm, not noon:
https://www.caiso.com/outlook/outlook.html

The underlying problem is the mismatch between
the old business model:

Generate, distribute, and deliver electricity;
charge for connection to grid and for
electricity delivered and consumed.

and the new situation:

Generate *or* purchase electricity from various providers,
including households with solar panels,
distribute and deliver electricity,
charge for distribution, delivery, availability,
and for electricity consumed.

Consider the migration of television from broadcast to CATV to cable
to the current YouTube / TiVo / Hulu / whatever model - basically,
a shift from a hierarchical top-down head-end driven model to a
widely distributed model.

Utilities are facing a similar disruption, and their challenges
include restructuring their generation / collection / distribution
system; the costing and billing to support that; the regulatory
and funding environment to cope with all of that; and to do it with
generating plant equipment that will have very long term costs. I wish them luck.
Another money viz project(work-in-progress, using box2dweb)
I do much the same, rock on man!
I'm not sure it's completely practical, but this would have some interesting interactions with obviousness -- if you need to sue half the industry, it may say something about the obviousness of the patent itself.
Oh, I just meant to compete against specific species.

Seeing that they use a Glicko rating system makes more sense; not having the option to compete against a specific species means that top ranked players won’t have to worry about tradeoffs between game activity and game rankings. Well maybe they’ll still worry, but they won’t be able to do anything about it except build stronger AI.
You end up lost when you see there's a new reply on a thread you've been following (post count is 67 but yesterday it was 66) and then you go trying to find it for about five minutes. You end up re-reading about 30% of all the posts until you finally find what you were looking for. Repeat until you've read the entire thread 20 times.

But that's not a bad experience compared to when you go read a threaded conversation for the first time when there's over 50 posts — the whole thing is just unreadable. Add to this that even the most technical people can rarely reply to the right post 100% of the time.
For the whole population of a country it is probably fine to assume that curve form. The first time I had my own computer was at age 7 or 8 which was already highly unusual 20 years ago. But today this is less unusual, the availability of decent gear is more common for children. On the other hand, right now many 60+ year olds don't even use internet. Those who do might be bad-ass veterans that never lost interest... ;)
To be honest, that would be an awesome thing to watch it unfold.
Excellent work. This is why I love our internet age. A single person can have a huge impact on many people, and he/she doesn't need to have massive media behind.
http://gist.io/5378663 if you like your eyes or you're on a mobile device.
Note that it is still US only though, if you are based in a different country it will just forward you to the Spotify homepage.

On a different note, does anybody know why they started with native clients instead of one web client? I can think of some advantages of native clients (P2P streaming as the have it, better OS integration etc.) but when compared to the big disadvantage of having to maintain two codebases (Win + OS X) and deliver updates to both I would expect it to require more resources for them than one web client for all.
Visualization Summary: Scrooge McDuck use to dive into about 1/4 of a trillion dollars.
this is an awesome.. missing db!
Something that would be interesting: a map estimating the areas in which a typical suburban home roof covered with PV panels would produce enough energy to power a typical suburban home's worth of electrical usage, assuming some level of battery technology.

I'm not actually sure what it'd look like. Seems like there might be a tradeoff between hotter areas, which have both higher PV output and higher peak electricity usage (due to A/C running flat out on hot days), and cooler areas which are lower on both. I guess the ideal situation would be something like SoCal within a mile of the coast: tons of sun yet ocean-moderated mild temperatures. But not sure about the rest of the country.
Why have Spotify decided to make a Chrome web app rather than just making a normal website, such as Grooveshark?
can you expand? as a person who enjoyed reading rumi, I have no clue what you are saying.
My anecdotal observation is that the reality in US/Can is opposite of the desire. While parents say they value thinking, independence, and rebelliousness, they actually teach a lot of anti-intellectualism and conformity.

Genuine "outside the norm" behaviour is frowned upon and "thinking outside the box" and "rebelliousness" often means denying scientific position on well studied problems.
Cannot recommend this book enough - brilliant as it just looks at the figures - how much of Britain (Author is a Cambridge mathematics prof.) would have to be covered in solar panels or wind farms to replace coal etc.

Entertaining, memorable and instructive.

Go read.
Am I the only one who listens to Depeche Mode?

"You'd better learn your lesson well

Hide what you have to hide

And tell what you have to tell

You'll see your problems multiplied

If you continually decide

To faithfully pursue

The policy of truth

Never again

Is what you swore

The time before"
Does google docs count?
We really need to start naming and shaming the people willing to have their names listed on frivolous patents like this, and not just their employers. If you're listed as an inventor on an unethical patent, you have violated the implicit moral code of technologists and positioned yourself in opposition to progress.

http://paulgraham.com/6631327.html

Paul's patent would seem frivolous now, but it wasn't then. By applying for a patent, did he position himself in opposition to progress? Seems doubtful.

Here's another example: http://www.google.com/patents/US5204966 This patent was filed in 1990. I was two years old. The internet hardly existed then. Was this patent frivolous? Should these inventors be punished according to your ethics?

So what's our criteria for a frivolous patent? Perhaps "(a) it was filed since 2010, and (b) it covers some well-known technique." Yet that's completely arbitrary. Punishing someone for violating an arbitrary moral code is a recipe for evil.
You should always loose your motivation. That is no problem. Go wild!

Wait, did you mean "lose"?
I don't remember anyone calling it innovation. How about a nice feature addition to a service? After all, Spotify also has many other "innovations" Grooveshark doesn't: a clear legality, accurate track and artist catalogues, and paying all of their artists (even if it isn't much, it is certainly more than Grooveshark).
Yeah, have a look throughs omething like shodanhq.com to find webcams that are exposed. So freaking creepy.
The study:

http://brown.edu/Departments/Human_Development_Center/Roundt...

I don't see anything about controlling for variables, experiment design, confidence intervals etc. This is an ethnographic study, not a random survey. Don't treat it like one.
Show HN: Makemelisten - Just another way to listen music on Youtube
I think it's bullshit someone did this anonymously. Just stand up and say what you want and own it for crap's sake.
Why is there no HTML5 logo element?
Here's a trillion pennies:

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And if that's not enough, one quadrillion pennies:

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and if that's still not enough, one quintillion pennies:

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Using Ember.js and Firebase for powerful real-time applications
Oh great, now I have to remove this common and obvious functionality from all the web sites I have any input to.
Now that Mozilla no longer updates Thunderbird, which email client should I use?
It is a normal website if you have access: http://play.spotify.com/
The 'web app' is really just a bookmark for: http://play.spotify.com/

Hopefully they add some other features like storing music locally, which might require more Chrome integration (I don't really know).
Ideology is a powerful thing. The ideology of industry and work in modern society keeps us blind to many things.
This, back at 0.8.x, I choose Ember (over an array of frameworks), 4 weeks wasted fighting the framework. Switched to angular in under a day. Using ember is and continues to be filled with surprises. I don't like surprises in a framework.

Tom Dale said it himself, ember doesn't have enough manpower. I find it odd, that Dale & Katz, are unable to raise funds to increase the level of manpower on it. A simple kickstarter may help.
I've been using Postbox, which is some kind of fork of Thunderbird, for a while now and don't hate it.
They were leveraging p2p streaming to reduce their costs.
I do it like this:

bind-key ) swap-window -t +
bind-key ( swap-window -t -

So "<prefix> (" swaps the active window with the one on its left, and "<prefix> )" swaps it with the one on its right.

It seems to be what you want.
Secure cloud storage outfit Tresorit posts $10K hacker bounty
If the permission to get the user's location always bugged the user and most users said "no" the ad network library would quickly realize they're losing money by asking and stop asking.

In Android's case there is no way for them to know. The app either has the permission or it's not installed.

In iOS they do know. The user can give permission, not give permission, or can give it and revoke it later. Their analytics can then tell them what percentage of users are not giving them that info.

In any case, you as a developer could also choose to speak up and say to the network ad provider. "I'm choosing a provider that doesn't need more permissions".
Heat is bad for PV efficiency. Good solar areas are sunny but cool.
Why YouTube views freeze at 301
One thing that may save utilities for a while is the rise of the electric car. There will be a need for charging stations to charge these cars when away from home and solar may not be practical in all locations. This could be especially true in cities where there may not be enough room for all the solar panels needed. Electrified roads that charge up cars as they drive on them would be even better and would be a natural extension of existing utility services. If utilities were smart they would focus on helping to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles.
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I'd like to extend that request to

*.github.{com,io}
so autojump, z and fasd - which one is better and why?
I'm not a lawyer but this patent troll litigation would seem to be a textbook case for estoppel by acquiescence. [1] These patent trolls are deliberately waiting until the patents are firmly established norms in the industry so that finding alternatives are that much harder. Furthermore, the trolls wrongly allow time to go by so that they can claim a higher damage reward than they otherwise would have.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel_by_acquiescence
That's not the right approach, because usually an employee has an obligation to assign the invention to their employer. Frequently it's not really up to the inventor whether or not a patent gets filed on a particular idea.
While I agree with you 100%, I think the real challenge is going to be people not wanting to pay for the invisible "availability and distribution" when they've spent their entire life being trained they were paying for the electrons themselves.

If I were in that business, I would be putting a lot of marketing dollars into retraining people that the value of availability and distribution is a good percentage of the costs that they incur today, so when a customer starts generating their own electrons, they already know there is value in being attached to the network, value that corresponds with continued revenue for the company.
Thanks for this, although the title is bit misleading.
Actually, it looks like it's according to one consultant that one of the utilities hired. But it's about long-term trends that are interesting enough. A summary by a more careful writer would be appreciated.
Yes, browsers have this feature where you can hover a link and it reveals the href.
A stylesheet author's guide to terminal colors
The link is 404 for me.
Ironically widespread availability of solar power could lead to increased pollution. Purely hypothetically, if somehow it became popular for people to generate some, but not all, of the power they need from solar panels then perhaps people would pay less money to the power companies. Power production becomes less profitable and there's less demand for expanding supply. Meaning that the cheapest power production that requires the lowest capital investment will win out. And that's coal.
I'm in Flatland Northeast, and other foreigners here have made the same observation.
CBC ran a story today quoting the author: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/04/12/f-case-for-...

The commenters aren't buying it.
Designer turns negative client comments to funny poster
Relevant: https://github.com/dmbarbour/Sirea#what-is-reactive-demand-p...
Its annoying, but certainly possible to inspect the state of a local variable inside of a closure. Set a breakpoint inside of one of the exported functions, call it, and you have access to all the local variables within the closure.

I do dislike this pattern as I find the code is less structured, harder to debug, and less performant than attaching functions on the prototype. This outweighs the benefits of encapsulation to me.
There are places of employment where having your name attached to a patent is only barely optional. They hire "patent experts" to go around and figure out what is supposedly patentable with little to no input from developers and then have the "inventors" who touched those bits sign off on it (thus having their name attached to the patent). And of course you don't have to agree to this, but not agreeing essentially comes in the form of quitting or at least creating a schism that didn't exist between you and your manager and/or team.

While there exists a group of developers whose geographical situation and years of experience allow them to easily quit over such matters, there are plenty who aren't so lucky.

So while I am very much against software patents, I only support "naming and shaming" when it comes to those who are initiating, publically supporting or otherwise directly involved on the offensive side of patent lawsuits.
It's actually a pretty good ad. No comment about product.
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No, not trying to avoid tax all together;definately not personal taxes. Just trying to understand the savings vs hassle.
I tried a similar thing to replicate Eclipse's 'Open Resource' search functionality while I was coding in Vim.

https://github.com/hollingsworthd/POSIXplorer

You basically enter a search term or regex and it will search recursively down from your current directory to find the file. If >1 results are found it displays a navigable list of files to open, otherwise it immediately loads the file in your $EDITOR (or defaults to vim).

It also can search file contents in addition to a path regex, with all the same functionality to browse and open files.

OP's script looks neat. I think there are all sorts of things we could do to improve cmdline usability.
The classes are more fun, often you go to museums. You have something to talk about with other people that they might actually find interesting. It gives you another dimension to travel. You can meet other interesting and nice people in class - in philosophy class you mostly meet creeps.
This would make me unhappy and I believe it is also true for most people. This positions oneself as helpless and feeling helpless is feeling unhappy.

If you choose aggressiveness then at least make it active (advice to be taken with a grain of salt :-) )
At least here in Michigan, DTE Energy is pushing efficiency and solar. Part of this is a legislated requirement, but I think the big motivator is how the regulator calculates their profit margin. AFAIK, they don't make their margin on selling electrons, but on capital investment. Higher utilization of their generating capacity just means slimmer profit margins. Most of their plants are 40-50 years old so they have plenty of capital investment and profits headed their way even if solar cuts into demand. I could be wrong about any or all of this, since I'm working off memory and I'm not going to read 100 page regulator reports.
> Baby formula has more sugar than Coke.

Based on the nutrition info I found with a couple minutes googling, this seems incorrect.

http://productnutrition.thecoca-colacompany.com/products/coc...

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/baby-foods/440/2

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/baby-foods/452/2

The second one there comes close, but they all seem to be in the same basic range as human breast milk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_breast_milk#Composition
I am surprised by these threads too, and in general the ember vs angular turf wars. Maybe it's just that I don't work with this sort of thing often, but to me they look strikingly similar.

I'm trying to come up with similar software schisms: vi vs emacs? GNOME vs KDE? Linux vs BSD? C vs C++? C++ vs ObjC? All of these differences sound more substantive to me.
That wierd building is "De Oldehove", an unfinished church tower. It leans more than the tower of Pisa in Italy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldehove_(tower)
Surely you could just do it anyway, because there's no way a patent like that would hold up in court if they tried to sue you. I realise though that obviously it shouldn't happen in the first place, and doing it anyway could incur legal costs.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120326113805.ht...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/sleep-alzheimers-br...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/ul-tmo042109....
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2279744/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2864873/
From what I understand I've been lucky not to use the Facebook app. This ad told me exactly nothing about anything regarding why I should.
I don't really see the need for the extend at all. In fact if you don't use it, it will work the same as example 1 and you'll still have access to self.

Or you can just do this.foo = foo; this.value = value; at the end instead of returning an Object.
India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement