skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it answers the question whether replanting the seeds of a patented GMO plant counts as a permissible use under the patent exhaustion doctrine or whether it's patent infringement. Absent this ruling, a court might have concluded that harvesting and replanting was such a typical use of a plant that it could not constitute patent infringement.

(Also, what's the clear-cut contract situation? I don't think there is one in this case.)
Agh, pedantic semantics!
The Top 6 Exploits Used by Government Hackers
Eh, definitions are not always useful. The argument is precisely over whether immigration should be criminalized, so just pointing out that it is currently criminalized is begging the question.

The sodomy laws in Texas were struck down by the Supreme Court in 2003; do you consider everyone who had anal sex in 2002 in Texas to be criminals?
It seems a bit silly to infer corruption from the court not ruling on something that was never in dispute.
Tell-all telephone
This Guy Is Selling His Book Exclusively Through Bitcoin
Another Frank Underwood quote:

"Such a waste of talent. He chose money over power - in this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries."

I wonder if this lobbying group thought that by throwing a little money their way they could persuade the Republicans to stop being Republicans. Instead the Republicans dragged Zuckerberg down with them and probably capsized FWD.us. There aren't any moderate Republicans, at the end of the day none of them are going to support what Zuckerberg wants with immigration reform and this whole thing seems fantastically naive.
Cases related to intellectual property of genetic material and/or code (which has a dual nature and can be copyrightable or patentable in different situations) are notoriously difficult for judges and justices to sort out.

When judges do not have a personal interest in code (like Judge Alsop had, at least a little bit), and no personal interest in the nature of genetics and biology, it's simple for an Oracle or a Monsanto to make reasonable sounding (but completely wrong) arguments and for the court to accept them.

I don't think critical thinking is effective without at least a little personal investigation into the subject matter. Judges depend on reading opposing arguments and distilling the essence of the conflict from that, but in some subjects you can't get an understanding of the essence of the conflict without a neutral investigation of the subject itself.
If matt says it's more substantial than penguin 1.0 then its going to have a big ripple effect, the last penguin update effected more than 10%+ of SERPS.

If your worried about this update then you haven't being doing "SEO" right.
Yes this is old, but its new to me, I found it interesting, thought others might too.
So, organized crime (i.e. 'the mob') is evidence of a police state?

If the US were really a police state this either wouldn't be news (it happens all the time), or it wouldn't be allowed to be on the news.
The persona non-grata status isn't limited to the .sa region -- he will likely feel retaliatory measures implemented against him from within the safety of the West.
But again, that makes a tremendous number of assumptions as to why the person is saying those words. I get that it is a term meant to degrade and shame those who use these terms, but I just don't think it's an accurate description in the majority of cases.
The map is difficult to interpret. You are making the mistake of conflating the national average rate with "no racist tweets at all". It is a jump to say that the difficulty interpreting the map results from intent of the creators, which is the line I would draw for trolling.

It could be titled something like "The Apparent Relative Visibility of Hate in Tweets at the County Level". "The Geography of Hate" isn't such a far jump from there, especially if you are just trying to show that the tweets are coming from all over.
But he still hit the lottery.

Since you want to go there, your above statement is true for pretty much every human being. That makes it rather meaningless in the context you've used it.
Hmm. I'm getting a

undefined method `group' for #<Array:0x3a32f0c>

error with

<%= pie_chart @pixel.hits.group("referrer").count %>

using mongoid 3, Pixel embeds_many Hits, Hit embedded_in Pixel. referrer is a string field of a Hit.
Looks really nice - I like it. I did have one small issue though: I had Spark Inspector add itself to one of my projects that has two targets, and it added its frameworks to the wrong target. Not a huge issue, but perhaps something for others to be aware of.
How does this square with the Flynn Effect? Alas, I'm not clever to figure it out myself.
We do take it seriously; it's a hard tradeoff between Novelty and Utility. Given that the whole point of macros is to change the semantics of the Python language, this (valid) criticism applies not just to case classes but macros in general. If you go haywire with macros, all hell breaks loose.

We think that with some discipline, it is possible to come up with macro transformations which are both useful and understandable by a programmer. This means setting clearly defined semantics for the transformations, which is difficult but doable.

If you think macros are kinda crazy (well, they are!) you should look at the implementation of such pythonic constructs like `namedtuple`, the `ast` module and the new Enum library coming out!
Thanks Ron! We hope that others learn from this and avoid some of the mistakes we made.
But didn't the movie gross $550 million with the original look?
ethics, maybe?
For those that want to read the ruling: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-796_c07d.pdf

or hear the oral arguments: http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio_de...
> The problem with packets is they go through the Unix kernel. The network stack is complicated and slow. The path of packets to your application needs to be more direct. Don’t let the OS handle the packets.

Why don't you focus on simplifying the network stack instead?

The stack is complicated and slow for a reason: it takes care of many things. I will believe that you can do better when you provide the same amount of functionality (QoS, firewall, probing, tracing). If you say that you can do without all these additional features, why don't you go and optimize the stack so that the most basic code path is smaller and faster?
Hacked sites are a dominant strategy is many markets right now. Perp will Hack N sites, cloak them so only the googlebot sees the hacks, and use those links to drive rankings of a site in a highly liquid market place (Pharma, gambling, payday, insurance).

When google can't devalue hacked/cloaked links well, I expect much collateral damage with Penguin (since it has primarily been focused on low value links). It won't be a precision attack on webspam.
There was a lot of collateral damage done to innocent sites during both Panda and Penguin. I think there's good reason for everybody who relies on Google traffic to worry a bit.
I can sign a contract to be someone's slave, but that contract isn't valid since it contradicts the law.

We just had a ruling that the first sale doctrine is in fact real for copyrighted items and that they can't be controlled after they were sold once. They're selling an organism that makes copies of itself. The onus is on them to control that by engineering the plant to produce non-fertile seeds. If they can tailor make a plant to resist roundup why can't they make it not produce infringing copies of itself?

Imagine if Hollywood sold DVDs or Blurays that spat out two DVDs after you played and then ejected the movie. And you were required to destroy one of the copies lest you run afoul of their copyright. Wouldn't they get laughed out of court?
> The problem here is that the patentability covers even extraction methods. You find a gene in a plant, you come up with a way to extract it and now you "own" that gene. Even though you didn't discover it nor make it or anything. If the patents ONLY covered tailor made genetics I might find it a bit less onerous but the patentability is VERY broad.

I was talking about the latter (owning a modified gene), but I completely agree that it is ridiculous to "own" a gene just because you were able to identify and extract it. I recall many years ago there was a row when a bunch of biotech firms were trying to patent the genome for Basmati rice and Turmeric. The Indian government was not happy because there were native plants and it would be ridiculous to pay licensing fees to some biotech firms in the US to grow plants that were native to the country.
If you're interested in using Titan from Clojure, then you'll probably want to take a look at Titanium[0] and Ogre[1]. We've been working hard to make these libraries as useful as possible. If you have any questions about how to get started, then please get in touch! My contact information is in my profile. I've been immersed pretty deep in this stack lately and it's been pretty rewarding so far.

[0] http://titanium.clojurewerkz.org/
[1] http://ogre.clojurewerkz.org/
The difference is smaller, yes. However, when you make simple things of poor craftmanship (in design, code or anything) you can't fool anybody. That's a good thing too.
Google combines free storage across Gmail, Drive and +Photos
[sudden-clarity-clarence] "full stack" is a pretty serious error condition...
"the average software project contains 64 open source dependencies, and an average of 8 different open source licenses"

Do any audit tools exist that one could use to confirm suitability of all licenses used to a business model?
WhatsApp doesn't use TLS, and their protocol has a fairly long history of criticism.
I am truly impressed by how much mileage the parent poster has gotten from his negative experience at Google

Are you fucking kidding me? I would be far ahead of where I am right now if I hadn't had that misadventure. That spell (and its aftermath, including the horrible startup where I landed afterward) took 3 years off my career, easily.

HN karma doesn't come close to buying that back. I'm still owed.
This looks really great! One thing really bothers me however: a dependency on all of Backbone. Pulling in a bunch a view-related code for an ORM has a certain code smell.

Is there any effort to modularize Backbone itself, so that Bookshelf can only depend on the model and collection pieces?
I think this article would have been better worded "Flat design is great for lazy designers like me."

This isn't exactly limited Flat UI, anytime you're grabbing set of premade content, be it Designmodo's flatui, Bootstrap, a word press theme, a JQuery plugin, you're outsourcing levels of your design.

You can leverage these in your favor. Sometimes this is the best choice and will enable you to focus on other aspects of the project or extend onto functionality without having to reinvent the wheel and other times you're a lazy designer.

Flat UI is just a rejection over-design, part of a cycle of design that loops. We'll edge back towards more over-design until we hit the reset button again.
So if you don't try to manipulate girls into being tomboys, then you are a sexist.
It's a cool idea, but this basically sneaks new features into the Python language through a backdoor, bypassing the public review/feedback process. I would suggest the author create a PEP for these features instead.
[Current PostgreSQL user]

Oracle-like partitioning syntax support (including composite) would be great - although possible through inheritance and triggers/rules, it is the only bigger feature missing in PostgreSQL in my opinion. The current form requires a lot of overhead but is definitely worth the effort when working with 1B+ rows.
What are those predictable numbers? Is this a US thing? Thanks!

Probably '1600' for the street address of the White House.

(For those non-Americans the White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC)
I think it's here to stay in some form. If you think of UI's as a language, it seems a natural simplification of that language. Simplification is a normal and natural thing to happen to a language.
I am currently using PostgreSQL for all my work, but have always been missing a convenient way to do upserts. In some systems are large precentage of all write operations are upserts which makes coding those against PostgreSQL a hassle. I am not convinced though of the SQL standard MERGE syntax. It looks way too messy when used in simple cases.

Another feature I would wish to see is ORDER BY + skip for update (or any equivalent solution) to easily implement queues with multiple consumers.

EDIT: Just ORDER BY (without skipping locked entries) for UPDATE would be excellent too to avoid deadlocks when doing multi row updates.
Google Babble would have been exciting a few years ago. Right now, however, I'm already on iMessage/WeChat/Skype/FB Chat/Whatsapp, which is too much, really.

Since I don't already use any of Google's chat platforms, I'm going to avoid Babble. In fact, I'm kind of hoping it fails to gain traction. I'd hate to be 'forced' to use it in the future.

I suspect I'm no the only one thinking this.
Improving Site Speed with Redis
Hack Back?
The implementation of namedtuple is pretty crazy, but the interface is simple and doesn't change the language semantics.
Author of SuperDB here. I think you should be able to embed most of SuperDB itself directly in Spark Inspector. I'm not sure how you're doing runtime inspection, but SuperDB already has most of the underlying stuff already hooked up. I think they'd make a lovely pair!
Ah I see, so then there was no point in mentioning it right?

Since rikacomet is not indoctrinated, the suggestion to read the works of Greek philosophers was also not a suggestion to correct that line of thinking, and I doubt you were referring to the people responding to him. So it must just be an off the cuff remark. I like carrots. Carrots earned their reputation for improving eyesight in world war two, when the allies spread the rumor that they were giving their pilots a high dose carrot diet to improve their eyesight, as a cover for their shinny new radar system. After all, given the fact that they arn't related, it doesn't seem to apply to anyone really in this discussion.

Or maybe I'm wrong? Did your comment about indoctrination relate, in some way, to something? I think I'm missing it's purpose.
I like this distinction. I walked into a world of hurt when I was brought on to look at application user data after years of working with international trade data and national statistics. Even when it comes to formulating a hypothesis and subsequent experiment, the approach is entirely different.

I will say that the article's distinction between small and big data is also important, but that just comes down to processing power. I think the distinction you make is far more important and knowing whether you need coarse or fine data can help keep you out of the issues that are introduced moving from small to big data.
SignNow acquired by Barracuda Networks
Yes, it could be bad, but at the same time the "@case" isn't the only indicator that this class is special. A case class definition can be very visually distinct compared to a normal class.

One thing case classes let you do is implement functionality externally to a class using pattern-matching functions. When you do this, your case class definition will consist of nothing but empty class definitions:

@case
class List:
class Nil(): pass
class Cons(x, xs): pass

In any case, Python's enums will use fully qualified names, so we may change our current system for compatibility and consistency.
I think there are many little police "fiefdoms" in the US. Bakersfield itself sounds like one.
Penguin opened the world to scalable negative SEO. This is now a common tactic in competitive markets. If you rank well it is worth worrying about.
I don't think this will change your thinking much but, for what it's worth: I am a lawyer, and I work day in and day out with other lawyers (including some federal judges) with no stake in this case. I've yet to speak to a person who disagrees with this opinion, at least as a legal matter. I for one think it's absolutely correct given the extrinsic legal landscape that exists today (i.e., congressional statutes, relevant precedent, etc.).

(Of course, the nature and existence of a distinction between a "legal matter" and a "moral matter" is a famously controversial issue ... but that's a different kettle of fish altogether.)
I'm still hoping they'll someday announce Drive (the local file sync part) as the universal Google Data Liberation mechanism.

For instance, it would be awesome if with this change you could click a button that says "also sync my gmail with drive" and you'd get a local backup of your email in your drive folder. Many people wouldn't want to waste the GB of local space for the backup, and I don't know what format they should actually use, but having the option would be amazing.

Eventually it should be that all your google data should go through Drive and by syncable. Imagine the ease on people's mind -- no matter if all the Google datacenters were struck by lightning or your account alone was disabled for some reason, good or bad -- if you already had your data saved locally with no more than clicking a checkbox.
Feedback :

- An overall calendar would be good.
- Software updates would be good, including what you're about to update and what type of php version the updates need.
- Is it possible to change the text in the html ? I'm thinking about using another language because I live in Europe.
- Not sure I understand the concept of using the timer. When I click on something else, the timer stops, and when I go back, it starts again, and eventually I end up with a list of numbers. Also, the timer stops at 99 minutes, is that right (didn't check it) ?
The site's not loading right now. Is the customer able to see the timer ?
If so, give us the ability to remove it.
- Not sure you should stay on Codecanyon for this if you plan on giving support.
- Make sure you offer good support, even if it comes at a price.
- It's not really loading very well right now but that's probably because of HN.
I now see 2 screens underneath each other. I will have to come back and give it another try.
- Make How To videos.
Many folks are stating this was a clear-cut case of violation of contract law: the guy at one time signed something with Monsanto stating his exclusive source of RR soybeans would be Monsanto.

However, if I buy 160 acres of land, and plant that land in soybeans from a non-Monsanto granary with some RR seed in it, then how could I be culpable if I had no dealings at all with Monsanto? I am guessing a case wouldn't be a straight 9-0 SCOTUS ruling.
Now if they can just fix the actual syncing of files...
I would imagine that http gzip compression would cut transmission size just as well regardless of whether the file text is minified or not.

And I would be wrong; this guy found that gzipped minified text can be 50% smaller than the original gzipped file:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/807119/gzip-versus-minify
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmei... I believe this is the closest case, yet, to that scenario.
I used to work for a wordpress shop. All these other shops we're basically just a one-man show, but the one I worked for was flourishing, with 12 employees. When I asked why, the director explained that they used to only do business development when they didn't had clients, and stopped doing it when they did. The moment they hired a full-time sales manager, whom was doing business development constantly, the business thrived and grew faster than all the other shops.

This is another viewpoint to the same morale in the article...
HTC First discontinued by AT&T: First ‘Facebook phone’ a flop
I think this is enough customer feedback to let me know I should do something about this because it's such a turn off for some people - so consider it done.
It's unethical to give people what they say they want?
I have by my desk Henry Dreyfuss's Symbol Sourcebook [1972 edition]. It contains symbols he collected over a lifetime - he died in '72. Rococo is the fad [Perlis says it comes before rubble]. Flat design dominates when clear communication becomes more important than signalling via fashion. There's a reason stop signs don't have gradient fills.

http://www.amazon.com/Symbol-Sourcebook-Authoritative-Intern...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dreyfuss
Strange, in Denmark they have been raised. You can get up to 1 TB mobile 4g lte plans for 70 usd (including 25% vat - http://www.3.dk/Privat/Mobilt-bredband/Abonnement/MB-FRI/).
I really liked this up until the inheritance bit.

Child classes have to be nested classes of the parent doesn't sit right with me. Also, wouldn't it be better if these classes inherited object in some way?

For the record, I liked everything else that it mentioned. Just the inheritance bit was something I didn't like.
What do you mean by "support constraints"?

If I, for example, violate a unique index, a ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique exception is raised.
Interesting. What other market is there though? They do different confidences of cyclists and leisure routes already?
Just a heads up, maybe you could rename twitter-hogan to something else. I'm getting ´ReferenceError: Hogan is not defined´ and a blank page because "twitter" is blocked on my corporate network. (http://f.cl.ly/items/2o2p3c2X173Z3u2t1F2j/bug.jpg)
Thanks, didn't see that in the linked article.
Value Proposition Testing: Optimize Through Email in 5 Easy Steps
Black hatters these days don't really even care about long-term rankings, they're more about exploiting the inadequacies in the algorithm in the first month or so of a site's live. Build it, rank it, bank cash, and burn it out. That's the modus operandi right now...I don't see this update changing much of that.

It's going to be great for those of us building out quality sites though!
CATO institute maintains a website with police misconduct news from across the USA: http://www.policemisconduct.net
The Future of Lustra Magazine
Yes, all soybeans are prior art by virtue of countless generations of selective cultivation by unincorporated humans which has resulted in the soybean which Monsanto has modified in their quest for profit and market domination.
I haven't thought about it enough to decide whether I'm for or against patenting genetic modifications.

That said, the farmer in this case knew what he was getting into when he signed up with Monsanto. He obviously supports the concept because he was buying patented, modified seeds from Monsanto. He signed the contract with them, then he broke his end of the deal. It seems like an open and shut case.
FYI, this opinion explicitly does not cover a situation where a farmer plants a patented seed accidentally.
Looks very nice and will purchase a bit later on. If you interested in charging a couple of thou and add some customization for us, please email me.
Why on earth would that be slower in a relational db? That makes no sense, since indices in both nosql and relational dbs are variants of b-trees.
You would not say that if you knew him. I can tell you as both someone who does know him at least moderately well, and someone who knows a lot of other startup founders, that very few people indeed have his combination of brains and tenacity. I wish more did, because I'd love to be able to fund them, but Zucks are rare.

It's comforting to think that successful people were merely lucky, or became successful by underhanded tricks, but as I've said before, if you have to choose between two explanations and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, choose the other one.
A Crony Capitalist for the Space Age