skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks very much for posting here.

I agree that the law needs to be changed. Instead of the burden of proof being on the examiner to prove obviousness -- which is basically impossible, as it's a subjective judgment -- I believe we should place the burden of proof on the applicant to show objective evidence of nonobviousness. 35 U.S.C. § 103 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/103) needs to be clarified to establish that the burden of proof falls on the applicant (during the application process) or plaintiff (in an infringement proceeding).

We already have a pretty good list of some things that could constitute objective evidence of nonobviousness; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._John_Deere_Co. [the trailing period is part of the URL]. To these we could add publication in a peer-reviewed journal or conference proceeding.

I'm not necessarily suggesting that a patent couldn't be granted absent such evidence -- an applicant might reasonably argue that there has not yet been time for her invention to have enjoyed the commercial success that would constitute one kind of evidence. In any case, a granted patent should be annotated with the evidence provided; if the patent is later litigated, the court should review that evidence and allow additional evidence to be presented. If the evidence at the time of litigation were still insufficient, however, an infringement suit could not proceed.

I think this requirement would not much affect most fields other than software. For a drug patent, for example, the applicant could simply list all the other molecular structures they tried that didn't have the desired properties. Most non-software patents have substantial R&D behind them; it would be sufficient to provide evidence of the work that was done.

It would make a huge difference in software, though. Mere novelty would no longer be sufficient. There would have to be some objective reason to believe that another person, faced with the same problem, would have difficulty coming up with the same solution.

I think this proposal addresses all three of your points. It would obviously increase the burden on applicants and patent holders. It would reverse the burden of proof on obviousness. And it would give the examiner -- and then the defendant, if the patent is litigated -- a powerful way to push back against the applicant/plaintiff.
I called my reps last week, but it also might not be a bad idea to drop Rogers a line on twitter, explaining who and what you are, and telling him that you oppose the bill.

I found it quite cathartic.
$_ is a variable for the same thing. The only difference winds up being the effect on the current line's result in your history: !$ is replaced while $_ stays $_ and so its meaning will change if you run the same command later, which can be what you want or not, depending.
Sigh. No, they don't, CNN was wrong and still refuses to admit it by describing "conflicting information". The only conflicting information is in the CNN newsroom.

How much would the world lose if we just waited 30 minutes for verification before reporting? News being such a cut-throat competitive environment isn't always a good thing. They may well have arrested someone and chosen for it to not be announced in order to guarantee safety. Who knows. All I know is that I don't trust CNN to make sensible decisions around this.
But why on Earth would you need skill and technique when you've got so many overtime hours of good old Japanese hard work? /sarcasm

Idiots...
Matt, I don't think feedback is non-sense. Never! What I find difficult to understand is why one would expect something to be free. And more, negotiate on that 'free product'. It's really not about moqups here, but about products in general.

And I think that it's not about companies vs. individuals. It doesn't matter if you're a company or not. What it matters is that the products does a job for you and you benefit from it somehow. There is a profit you gain from using the product. You should accept the idea of making a little investment in order to get that profit. You don't get free coffee at Starbucks, or free chips or McDonalds or free breakfast at a gas station, just like that. You pay for everything in the real world.

Software should be cheap, but not free. My opinionated 2 cents. :)
This is the truly great part. It's the same reason I use emacs.
Gerbers are fine for sending PCB layouts to board manufacturers - but what about my schematics and my library of footprints for parts I've used before?

Traditionally EDA tools are weak at importing and exporting this sort of thing which makes moving between tools a total pain. Could be inconvenient if your commercial offering had a price increase, presuming you plan to have a commercial offering (it's not 100% clear from your website; I assume you're planning to make money somehow?).
LMAO...
Was poisoning = KGB a joke or is it actually stereotype?
(a non american here)
The royal families of the world need this more urgently than Icelanders
If all you want are backups, then no, I don't imagine this is very compelling.

The idea is to actually access these files regularly from more than one computer. Hence the web interface and the emphasis on mobile devices. It could also serve as a media library for various devices, not just in your home, but presumably anywhere.

Dropbox and plenty of others basically do this already, but $10/mo at Dropbox only gets you 100GB. And I don't think it does streaming, though I could be wrong.

Personally, I'm curious how they access the files externally. The device must act as a server, I suppose, but it seems like firewalls would present an issue to less technical people. Maybe they just assume those people would never buy this?
Dear Islam: We don't blame you for the Boston Marathon, Fox sucks
Useful post. NTILE operations are also useful for evaluating the results of 50/50 tests against revenue or other metrics where your data fits an exponential curve, or where outliers tend to skew the performance of one group incorrectly. After normalizing your datasets so that each group has identical numbers of users, a graph comparing the distribution of your metrics on a percentile basis can make it trivially easy to visually evaluate the results of a test.

As far as using NTILE to find the one metric that matters is concerned, it's a useful tool, but the challenge isn't in structuring and executing SQL queries so much as it is deciding which metrics to focus on and attempt to correlate to user retention.

In my experience there can be hundreds of metrics to search through, and correlations between your metrics and user retention are not always obvious at face value, or worse, they might represent a tautological consequence of retention without being the cause of retention (ie, the user has lots of badges because the user is active on the site, but they are not active because of the badges). In these cases, you risk investing valuable development resources optimizing for something that will have no impact on the bottom line, when that time might have been better spent trying to identify novel metrics and getting them into the database for analysis.
Cool!

Is there any way to filter it down to a single transit line?
More or less this

Let's go back to the 80's. Electronic products had to be done with lots of components. There were chips, but they did much less than what they do today.

Also, more mechanical parts (think VCR, Camcorder, etc)

So the real work was doing more with less components and good quality.

Today, with better chip technology and 'solidization' of technologies. (magnetic tape to flash memory, crts to lcds) today you can realistically have an LCD tv with only a couple of chips (apart from the power source, lcd panel and some other components like speakers and maybe the tuning part). There's nothing much to tweak. There's software, but that's increasingly commoditized as well.

And the japanese apparently can't innovate software-wise.
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One might question the extent to which someone on a student visa can "consent" to a search, when faced by numerous government agents at his door.

I am sure that legally there are no problems there, but ethically? There is unstated element of coercion there.
The original title wasn't the greatest either, probably engineered to be link-bait. Nobody cares how fast you can get power out of the thing, they care how much total energy it holds - and the article is clear that it is comparable or slightly worse than current technology.
Even though I deeply sympathize with all the people in Boston (and everywhere else) that suffered from these attacks, I still believe HN is no place for this kind of news.

From the FAQs:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
They now have drones with a very wild field of view so that you don't need to target the camera anywhere, it just records an entire city from above.
This is actually good PR for 37signals. We already knew that all apps go down from time to time. What we now know is that (a) 37signals has a great status page, (b) they are transparent about their uptime, and (c) that uptime is in the 99.98–98.99% range.
I don't think you understand what "checking me out first" implies.

This person is now labelled across the United States as a potential terrorist. Even if he is exonerated, the damage would have been done.

It will likely have a great impact on his future. We also don't know at this point how he has been treated.

You state that the "likelihood of him being suspect were greater than others". Who decides this? If there were 1000 runners with a heavy middle eastern accent, would they all have been arrested? Do you put all middle eastern people in camps (as was done to the Japanese in US and Canada during WW2)?

I don't have answer to these questions, I do object to your notion that there is nothing wrong with this.
how about we make this regular. monthly or something. I cant make it in April but definitely next month and I'd love to meet more like minded people and hang out at least once a month.
Shouldn't HTTP Digest still be preferred, so your server doesn't need to see the passwords?
Let's fix that...
Isn't that basically what he just said?
Had a long talk about this recently with friends - people have different comfort levels with different "class" levels and what that says about us. It took me a long time to be comfortable with having a cleaner come by once every 2-3 weeks even though it made total sense both financially and relationship-wise (neither me or my fiancee are deep cleaners). Same sort of thing regarding hiring lawn people - even though they have better tools and can do it faster than I could. And a friend caught herself saying that she uses Amazon Fresh but that "she feels guilty about it". I think it's that we're all from strongly middle-class or working-class backgrounds.
I agree for the most part, but lately I have started noticing more glitches with it. In particular, new "generated" numbers are being created for existing contacts in response to SMS, and calls are being dropped from the server when attempting to answer on my cell (seems to work fine if I just disable call screening entirely, which is what I may end up doing).
This makes me wonder if it's a hardware vs software problem. Hardware is universal, the same design can appeal to any culture. Cars are still generally hardware products, and even though they're run by software under the hood, the interfaces are still very hardware oriented (though high-end cars are moving toward software interfaces).

Consumer electronics, like smart phones, tablets, media players? The hardware is being commoditized, the interface is heavily touch/software oriented, fewer physical buttons, etc. I wonder if the Japanese aren't at some cultural/linguistic innovation disadvantage there, at least relative to the very software-oriented US.
I understand that Paul Graham doesn't want people commenting about whether stories are germane or not, probably to avoid exactly the repetitive discussion we're having now, but I disagree with him and think it can't hurt to remind people:

The site has guidelines. The belief you have about the importance of votes is simply not true. Votes are one of the mechanism by which stories are selected for the sites, but not the only one.
Why is this post being flagged?
Usable Live Programming
> Random people on the internet are not going to see something that agents from multiple federal agencies wont see.

I think you overestimate people who do that for a living. I think that what 4chan did, analyzing all those pictures with such minutia, real investigator would never have done.
Again, personal taste leads me to say "yuck" to this one. You don't think that the appropriate spot to do an ad-hoc build integration is the source directory? You'd rather put it somewhere that has to do with the window into which you're typing (which for obvious reasons won't survive a reboot or copy) and not a place that corresponds to what you're actually doing?
High-overhead based on what, the compressed packages? I'm guessing you're a fan of the OSX .dmg approach... which also supports file compression.

The 'unstable dependency graph' is anything but, instead it's quite straightforward to manage. To explain, think of PATH variables in most modern operating systems. You have a bunch of paths to folders that state where to find your applications, libraries, image assets, etc... Programs that rely on dependencies search through these folders for what they need. This also allows flexibility for file system layout, as you can add additional 'watched folders'. Furthermore, you don't need to install or uninstall a program in the same way, so this 'splatting files all over the drive' can also be avoided.
You could do that, but energy density is the key metric here.

Energy density determines the size of the battery required to store a specific amount of energy. There's only so much space in the car, and you also have to factor in that any battery that will be moved by its own power loses efficiency with lower energy density. You've got a huge battery to move, and physics dictate that accelerating this battery is going to use more energy.

So, let's say you split this hybrid battery 50/50, your quick charge-discharge battery quickly becomes too small to deliver meaningful range, and you've given up space that could be used for the traditional battery.
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It's being voted on today and tomorrow, make these days count.
No not yet—the actual route/path information is currently decoupled from the views and animations. Probably shouldn't be too difficult pull the information for published routes as well as do some processing on historic movement. Pull requests gladly accepted :)
Yes, I've had this thought too. Have a panel of engineers who get to see a description of the problem the invention supposedly solves, but get no information about how it solves it. If any of them come up with the same idea within a couple of days, it was obvious.
Logo links to the blog because that is the blog your reading. I clicked it too thinking it would take me to the site.
Yeah, it's literally correct if you understand the difference between power and energy but most people don't.
Immigration reform bill’s proposed changes to high-skill and STEM visas
A semantic merge tool that understands your code
Continuous tracking is far more valuable than having an image of a person's face and obtaining the latter from the results of the former can easily be done.
On the contrary: virtually every story can be framed in terms of opportunities for "analytical thinking", and the only purpose served by hashing most of those stories here is to spark pointless incivility.

If we're going to have debates on these stories, I prefer the meta-debate about which stories are relevant to HN over the fight over who hates racism more punctuated by the person complaining about the unfairness of it all.
This is a site for technical news, not sociopolitical commentary.
Google gets 95% of its revenue from advertising, so nothing else is essential.
Obscurity of the secret is a necessary part of being secure :-P

Security-through-obscurity refers to the notion that your algorithms are a meaningful part of the key.
Anytime someone's argument is the moral equivalent of 'my opponents are doodie-heads' I pretty much start ignoring them. It is a shame that an elected official, ostensibly 'leading' our country, is making such idiotic arguments and isn't more embarrassed about doing so.
It said I'm 36. It guessed 30.
IronMQ Handling 250M Requests Per Day, IronWorker Executing Over 500K Jobs
Kind of a joke, but certainly during the cold war that's probably what we would have suspected. We haven't had any assassinations in a long time, but I think people would assume a national enemy if we did.
You know, I'd think this would be an embarassment rather than a source of pride.

I certainly would take my business elsewhere if I discovered the company was doing their accounting on a punch card machine because the 60-year-old white guys were too afraid to learn how to use windows.
That's not how HTTP Digest auth works, and you should never, ever be using "passwords" for API authentication.
This is a common approach popularized in the Amazon Dynamo paper [0]. Riak[1] is a nosql datastore that derives technical and philosophical underpinnings from that paper and is written in erlang.

[0] http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dyn...

[1] http://basho.com/
Security Awareness – Is 10 Hours Enough?
In some aspect he is exactly right - our CISPA fight needs support not only from tweeters, but from people like founders of Twitter who can speak in the language of money and campaign funds.

The tech industry is so much bigger and more important to USA economy than the content industry that allowing them to dominate the lobbying discussion is just a 'tail wagging the dog' situation.
Good nannies can command $60K-80K/year in metro areas like NY and SF.
IIRC, It's pretty common for the Israelis to use poisoning for assassination these days, but you can't say anything negative about the Israelis lest you get Godwin'd.
It's C-x C-e in my bash, fwiw. And I tried getting used to this but it breaks locality by dropping the new file into /tmp instead of $PWD. Quoting a line isn't really that hard, or you can always cut and paste with the mouse.
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This example Web application isn't really "done right" until it authenticates a user and restricts photo requests based on user credentials and gracefully handles a large number of user photos (say hundreds of photos, not just ten).
I recently started working the USA as an Iranian born Canadian. My co-workers are openly racist, and my immediate supervisor refers to me as "Car-bomb". He does this in company meetings in front of senior management, and they laugh at his jokes. This never ends, and he has called my family (including my deceased father, who obtained a PhD in engineering from a top Canadian university) a "terror cell". I could go on, but if I do I worry that I may tender my resignation by the end of this post.

Suffice to say, the USA is a very diverse country, both with upstanding citizens who defend their freedom and are beacons of rationality, and people like my supervisor. who are weak, pathetic low-lives who have been spoon fed propaganda via their televisions for their entire lives, learning to fear all that is different from them and thus supporting oppressive government regimes.

To all those who swallow the "american dream" BS hook line and sinker: you have been warned. The grass is not always greener on the other side.

I will be returning to Canada as soon as I possibly can. For reference, I work at a large multinational engineering company as a professional engineer with many years of work experience.
The following is possibly a better link. It has the
paper and a few videos by the author.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4715
Definitely macbook air or macbook pro imo.
Love this, to chime in with suggestions, something with color indicating inbound/outbound would be awesome for seeing through some of the noise. Love the line selection idea as well.
The problem with ignoring politicians is that it just encourages them...
Maybe for the same reason that doctors don't give you shots or do the various other things that nurses do. There's a theory, I can't remember the name of it, that basically says the more you know how to do, the less proficient you can be at any one thing.

Dunno if this is why, but just a thought
you can also use the previous directory like this:

cat ~-/sub/path/to/file

(that's tilde-minus-slash, which tilde-expands to the previous directory)
I don't know much about Bayesian statistics, but wouldn't it be "terrorist, given Arabic descent AND participation in the targeted event AND proximity to the explosion AND high probability of a follow up explosion (judging from past events) AND ..."?
Thanks Ed. This really great. I'm in my mid 30's and looking to start a company.

There is a lot that can be done to mitigate risk. My biggest issue is that my time is limited and I don't have the luxury of taking a couple years off to make a go at it (not yet at least).

So I am trying to find a potential business (software related) that I can build on the side that gains enough traction that I need to devote full time to it.

I feel like under my circumstances, I shouldn't even try but I think its worth an effort.
So, basically, people in positions of power can get away with almost anything. Even murder and torture. What the fuck is wrong with society?
Ask HN: handling customer support calls as a small business?
Are there any cheap phone systems that a small business can use for customer support phone calls? Our support staff is really just one guy but we would like some order and efficiency.

We need basic functionality like:

* allow callers to select a menu option and placing them in different queues depending on the option they've selected.

* set up opening hours so that callers are greeted with a message after a certain time of day.

* allow callers to enter their member id and password so that it might be retrieved by support staff.
Ctrl-R finds commands that contain the string anywhere. The method the OP posted finds commands that begin with the string. This is an important difference, and if you give it a try, you'll likely agree the latter is what you want most of the time.
Serious issues like abortion must be approached with more care than you are offering it. Call things like they are, firstly, and avoid bending the English language for dramatic effect. Abortions deal with an "embryo" or "fetus", not a "baby" or a "generation", both of which are born beings (out of the womb). The argument is thus not "is it ok to murder people?", as you're trying to make it look like (we've solved that ethical problem already...), but rather, the question is "when does an embryo become a 'person'?".
Yes, dogs do sell. I've used:

- babies (various poses, ages)

- tools (wrenches, screwdrivers, axes, etc)

- clothing

- auto parts

- aliens (as in fake grey aliens)

- people in weird situations

- women crying (this one works well near saint valentines)

- an animal with a cast (better yet if its a small bird)

- toilet paper (a new roll. not used)

- random charts (pie, bar, etc.)(The charts doesnt even need to make sense)

- a lock (big master lock)

- and one time I ran an alpaca. Weirdly, it converted better than anything else. Don't ask.
The "best" stories page includes content about Gitmo, the Boston bombings, sleeping patterns, economics, India elitism, investment banks, etc.
spam, literally nothing more than a rant saying there's too many that are unqualified