skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Big Sur is hardly some little known park. It's well above Muir Woods in annual visitors (I'm seeing 3M vs 700k) and not too far behind Yosemite (3M vs 4M).

I'm pretty surprised that there hasn't been an uproar over it yet. This is the first I've heard of it. Good on Madrigal.
I have a problem with your first solution: patents can be owned by companies, correct? And companies can be bought and sold, no? Given how many patent trolls are using the patents of now-defunct entities, I don't think that limiting patent sales would help much, unless you go further and say that any company that is merged or acquired by another must give up its patents (which doesn't seem like a good idea).

Another issue with your suggestions: setting arbitrary limits on damages would make patents worthless in protecting truly ground-breaking inventions, like the telephone, for instance.
Not that these aren't legitimate concerns but unless it's someone like a coworker or a client I'm guessing 99% of thieves would have no idea what an ssh key or software code is. The savvier thief is just going to wipe the hard drive as soon as they can.
> I got less than half of what the car was actually worth...

First, the car is worth whatever someone will pay for it and not a cent more. Also, as of January 2005 you cannot use the KBB value or "fair market value" of your car for your deduction and rather MUST use the auction price for the car.

Here is the KBB page about that change: http://mediaroom.kbb.com/index.php?s=43&item=130
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That sounds like a perfect scenario for patent licensing.
Exact setup is how I watched the first few episodes of Game of Thrones, and opted to subscribe to HBO because of their sane streaming policy.
More importantly, after scrolling to the bottom and clicking the 'up' button, it took about 25 back-button taps to get back here. Don't mess with URLs, please.

Yeah, please don't break the back button. That's one of the surest ways to guarantee that I won't be visiting your site again.
Though not unheard of, I found this the least founder-friendly part too. It'd be more founder-friendly to do 50% vesting over 4 years. This is especially true if the founder has already put in 1-2 years work, which would be a good and common practice before raising an A round.
It all depends on who causes the leave, if the founder causes the leave I have no problem with such a repurchase right, but if the company causes the founder to leave (and this does happen) then the company should lose their repurchase right. Subtle stuff this.
The ulimate success of Twitter’s Bootstrap was the standardization of HTML syntax.

This is a great example of the "medium.com Style": a grandiose claim with no factual back up. It's getting a little tiresome. I suspect there are some good things written on the site, but if this is the standard then it's no different from 'random guy X's blog' except it all looks the same.

And, also, what does that sentence mean? HTML already is standard.
think of the over head that gets shifted or cut.

Instead of stocking the shelves and maintaining them now you place a pallet in the pick line and have an order picked once. Warehouse space is typically cheaper. A warehouse doesn't need to be built out to look nice, just fictional.

Your advertising, shifts and is honed so less is hopefully spent. You also get to tap amazon's logistic and ordering knowledge so less waste and spoilage.

Your order pickers can grab all the items before they go. Hell they could build in specials for when a supply has been sitting but still good.

You don't have to have people rounding up carts, watching automated checkouts, etc.

The margins aren't as great as other goods but if you cut the costs and match local prices you can still make more. I also would guess that as time goes on their could be a grocery prime account where you get a once weekly delivery
I never really looked too much at the LinkedIn API, I suspect for the idea to work well you'd probably need to scrape data from the frontend and preferably be connected to a few "super node"-esque people (recruiters, etc).

(You're welcome for what bits of chumby I touched. Of course I was just one developer in a team of wonderful developers and hardware designers. It was a great job and a lot of fun. I still haven't decided if we were a bit too late (introduction of iPhone and Android) or too early (explosion in hackable maker devices like Raspberry Pi). I guess a bit of both.
> this whole pseudo-utilitarian premise is just a nice way to ignore the harm your day to day activities may have on those you are donating your money to because any harm is spread out among the entire industry and has so many levels of abstraction that a utilitarian analysis is impossible

i'll give it a shot. jason is 1 guy works on a high frequency strategy. the net effect of this is probably something like: 10 low frequency market makers lose their jobs. meanwhile, dozens if not hundreds of malaria deaths are prevented.

i don't know, it seems net beneficial to me.
Good grief. I said "argue in fact", not "with facts". The point is to have a discussion about reality, using concepts from reality. Clearly you see the value in that becuase as shardling points out that's exactly what you did.

I don't see why you are willing to discuss the specifics of car dealership gamesmanship in Texas yet demand that I do so within the framework of an analogy to self-healing neural networks.

Basically: you're strawmaning like crazy. Stop it.
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I've told this one before, but I worked for a company that had a "lose your laptop and get fired" policy. They also had full disk encryption and remote wiping capability, but I guess someone up top thought a preventative policy was needed. I don't think anyone ever got fired and the policy was rescinded after a year, but it definitely clarified my focus when it came to keeping my laptop secure on the road.
These (or even participating, regular grocery stores) could also have 'Amazon Lockers'...
> So 88% of reexamined patents are modified or invalidated. But how does this lead to the conclusion that 88% of all patents would be modified or invalidated if they were reexamined?

Untested patents is of undetermined quality similar to untested code. How do we know that untested code has bugs if most people don't write tests randomly? Well, because developer experience would argue that untested code is not a haven of bugfree or high quality software. Rather, code is seen as non-working until testing has proven otherwise. Why should we treat untested patents differently?

> People don't randomly choose patents for reexamination, they only challenge the weakest ones.

Got a source for that? Normally, people spend money on reexamination when other people try to extract money from licensing agreements. When companies tries to extract money from licensing agreements, don't they tend to use their strongest patents as the stick? In that sense, people don't randomly choose patents for reexamination, they only challenge the strongest ones which is the ones used in patent litigation and patent licensing agreements. But I don't have a source for that, so I guess the argument goes to the person with a source.
To nitpick: on the Roku, all you have to do to search across all your installed channels is just use the search app. Also there's no official Youtube channel, as far as I know. But I get what you're getting at.
It also allows for multiple copies of the same application to run on the same VM. That is a nice dev feature.
There's not really a lot of technical analysis in this post-mortem - does anyone have additional details into the techniques used?
What I wouldn't give for a decent HDMI passthrough video setup for a better channel guide (on my own hardware)
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One way to hit the sweet spot is to figure out how much the founders have put in in 'sweat', their time at market rate and have that chunk of the stock be free from any vesting clauses.
Zynga could possibly turn it all around if they achieve their goal of bringing real-world currency to their gambling games in the US and on facebook. That is a very tough road to navigate though given the current US climate regarding gambling. Globally though it might be an option to rebuild the company.
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Correct but keep in mind that was a different era and also that involved a hardware (bloomberg terminal) component that was a barrier to entry (in addition to the data gathering that is). Also there are many more well healed participants in that market I believe.
Abandon - a text based, double-entry accounting system
RESTful interfaces use HTTP verbs (actions), and the urls contain nouns (things)
If there's no way to use the computer the thief will instead wipe the disk making it impossible to track.
I wonder if this could be improved also by "time stealing" - if the mutator is idling, it waives its slice, if the GC doesn't expect to collect much, it waives its slice. The result would be more irregular but still able to give guarantees.
Obviously it's a little more complex than my one-sentence summary, but basically, yeah. I do think it's a great thing.

http://www.coastal.ca.gov/access/accndx.html
Sometimes, companies like Parse make me think having quality backend engineers is unnecessary for a startup. AWS made it cheaper to run scalable applications, Heroku made dev ops ridiculously easy, and Parse may eliminate the need for backend engineers. The outcry against Parse amongst some of friends who are backend developers is reminiscent of factory workers who feared the advent of machines.
Indeed there is. There exists Android malware that infects your PC with a Zeus variant and then the two work in concert to intercept your SMS-based two-factor authentication.
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Just a note to others checking out Sickbeard. It does not download the actual video clip. It only downloads a torrent (or in my case an nzb file) which needs to be further piped.
Delivering non-grocery items seems huge--apparently the end game of the delivery service could be a lot bigger than just groceries. Also the early morning delivery window sounds great. I used to get CSA delivery early in the morning and it was extremely convenient, but they just didn't have the selection I wanted.
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there is a known (great) benefit of donations towards preventing malaria. a ~$2,500 donation prevents about one death.

there is a unknown (probably small, maybe great) harm in being a small part of the high frequency industry.

seems like a no brainer to me
Why did you take it offline? It sounds like it was quite successful... was that not the case?
so if you were unlucky and got mugged you would be fired, sounds like a really bad policy...
Only if the defense will pay for it. However, given that only 1 out of 10 patents will go through a re-examination with all claims intact, paying for re-examination is a working tactic. That is, if one can wait the many years it take for a re-examination to finish.

A better approach would of course be that the PTO did not 9 out of 10 times create a patent that they later will find to be incorrectly issued. That the state has an 88% error rate when issuing 20 years patents should really not be allowed in 2013.
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If you're already relying on OS X's FDE, it's not a huge step to link your laptop with iCloud. You can then do basically all the things you can do with a lost iOS device: beep, send messages, or wipe it (instantaneously if FDE is on, it just clears the keys).
Kinda. All coastlines are public-access, but if you own the property up to the coast (say, a cabin on a river), you do not have to grant access across your property. So, you could walk down the river and hang out in front of this cabin, but you can't trespass across private property.
There are many imbeciles who think that social programs just rain from the sky. Maybe not so much here.
At a Tesla store last week, I was quoted 6-8 weeks for a Model S. How does that jive with being massively oversubscribed?
This sounds great--I've used Google Shopping Express and it's definitely convenient. If Amazon can offer something similar that would be fantastic.
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Yes, but how would they get their next interview?!

Rock the boat too hard and suddenly you're outside the circle of trust. Enough talking heads out there kiss ass to the point that press releases posing as journalism rule the day.

But hey, at least you'll be on the guest list for the next Apple event!
I met Hugh in 1984 and was always enjoyed conversations with him. Sad day today.
I wonder how much Amazon (and similar) will effect urban planning in the future. Delivery lets them undercut existing sotres that pay exorbitant rent for storefronts in urban areas. They did this with bookstores, then the general store, and now it seems grocery stores.

Think about what remaining businesses are based on locality, but whose margins are eaten by the rent. Car dealerships. Malls (for clothes). Furniture. The uncracked problem with these is you can't easily try/fit the item before buying.

If Amazon can somehow solve that...
Did you not read about economies of scale when you were reading whatever libertarian crap you found?
I think it is physical materiel and fuel costs. The R&D efforts leading up to the launch were certainly not a waste, as the Ariane V flew again after the accident, so it doesn't make sense to include them in the loss.
I don't think amazon would want to trust a third party with a new venture
Matt -

I've never received a notice of bad or spammy links. Am I correct in assuming that there would be no gain in gambling with the disavow tool?
Data is always nice but most investors invest via gut, but this is probably more about not missing a company than finding a company.
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The problem isn’t that the car isn’t worth the book value. As the article stated, you can only deduct the price that the car gets at auction. The problem is that you deduct the gross auction price rather than the net amount that the charity can use. It comes back to the question of how much overhead a charity should have (see also Dan Pallotta’s talks that have been making the rounds).

What I don’t understand is what prevents a for-profit service that provides hauling, and returns to you the auction proceeds minus hauling fees and zero value insurance. Then car owners would have a real choice between pocketing ~50% of the car value and giving it to charity and getting only ~30% as a tax deduction, and they would be less likely to give the car to an unsavory profiteer.
it's not a myth. just look at CSS Zen Garden - http://www.csszengarden.com/

if bootstrap markup becomes the lingua franca for common UI patterns, that's a plus in my opinion. no need to reinvent the wheel for something like a set of tabs.
Aren't there already remailing services at cities with interesting names? I wouldn't think this could be worse.

I also wouldn't think it would be worse than the drop-off boxes at post offices. Sure those have a known physical location, but that just means you go slightly out of your way next time you leave town for a big football game or whatever.
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Cars which are "written off" by insurance companies are also known as a "total loss" or "totaled" and the title for that car will be branded as such. These things only happen in the case of insurance claims after accidents and such.

Those cars are, as you say illegal to operate as-is, but there are many non-running cars which would be (if certain repairs were made) perfectly legal to drive. Buying up several of these cars and assembling the best pieces is neither illegal or nefarious. Even buying a few "totaled" cars as donors for certain parts is perfectly fine as well.
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You should always use disk encryption and shutdown(hibernate) your notebook while traveling. There is no noticeable performance degradation on modern hardware.

Windows: Truecrypt

Linux: dm-crypt + LUKS

FreeBSD: gdbe

MacOS: probably FileVault
"I knew the so called pivot to compete with medium was a bluff"

Um you are wrong about that. I worked with someone who was helping them, with, let's call it branding, on that idea. So unless that was part of the elaborate ruse, they were thinking of doing the pivot.
I agreed with this sentiment a year or so ago but Bootstrap sites already look pretty dated. I think something like Foundation is a better idea because the site looks pretty great "after 5 minutes" without looking like a Foundation site.
Agreed, if he could somehow get the $70k now. He mentioned no existing backend experience, so that was my point about getting this future backend ruby job. One thing in his favor is that people are throwing money at it now, and he might be able to trick his way into such a job with just a Code School course or two under his belt. This would be the "job hacking" way to accomplish it, at least.
Depends on who you think is in charge, the government or Wall Street.
There are other forms of excess than monetary.

Building an environmentally damaging shrine in a protected wildlife zone for a one time event qualifies as excess.
The idea of transporting your encrypted data seems a little flawed. That opens another failure mode because of the inevitable need for key escrow (never trust a backup to what's in your brain). Yes, you can do that securely. But like everything else you probably won't. So either you'll goof and expose your keys accidentally, or (typically much worse!) you'll goof and lose data.

It seems better to do your backups to a separately-secured environment, either with a distinct (and differently managed) encryption key, or just to a physically secure location without encryption (frankly my preference).
It's a neat concept. However, with any product or service that's so narrowly defined - wouldn't you be concerned about your markets size? There are only around 500 active VC firms in the US... How much would they pay for the intelligence?
Additionally, there's hub [0], by a developer at GitHub. It can have 'git' aliased to it, and then pass through the git commands it doesn't handle.

0: http://defunkt.io/hub/
Interesting take. I looked at it almost the opposite way: "You are turning yourself into a set of numbers that has no identity outside of those numbers." Certainly if this were to be a thing (a la online charts or Microsoft Health) it would have that end result.
We had one where I used to work. I wasn't responsible for it or anything, but I'd guess it's base was around 8ft by 4ft, and it stood about 6ft tall.

This one worked by depositing a thin layer of aluminum/magnesium powder over the working base. A laser would then fire, igniting the magnesium which would fuse together the aluminium. The laser draws the shape of that layer of the feature. When the layer is complete, the process repeats for the next layer.

The biggest thing I'd worry about is liability and cost of operation. Because their raw material mix is basically thermite, they have a not insignificant potential to explode during use. While removing parts, for instance, you need to worry about sparks igniting the airborne mixture creating a firebomb. The material is also quite hazardous to your lungs and eyes even when it's not aflame.
Ask HN: I suck at technical telephone interviews. Is it for life? 
I kind of happened into being a team lead, with no formal background in coding. And whilst I can code OK, and probably do an OK job in onsite interviewing, I cant shake the suspicion that my telephone interviews are unfair to candidates.

I've tried various things, going very wide and asking only general hand wavy questions (what's interesting about Java 8.. have you heard to Go etc) or asking about specific data structures like Hashmaps and so on. None seem very satisfactory, and I usually end up quietly listening to long harangues with low informational content (for my purposes).

I suspect there are tried and tested interview questions that `work` handed down from programmer to programmer, just, I lack access to a mentor knows these dark arts.
So what makes for a great first round telephone interview for a coder then? Questions you always personally ask?
For those looking at this, just a head's up - this is YC '12 DataNitro (formerly IronSpread) talking about their product.

Also, as a side note since I like python, it's definitely not the only way to do python in Excel. With pyWin32, you can register python code as a COM server and call it from Excel in VB. Additionally there's projects like pyxll which, while not the prettiest, are at least free for non-personal use.

I will say this though - thank you, DataNitro, for having a free tier.
Well, about 300 million people, but less than 100 million taxpayers. About 130 million workers in the US [1], of whom about 30% have a negative income tax rate[2]. Doesn't completely change your point, since less than half of Finland's population works as well[3], but I thought it worth mentioning.

[1] http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/05/employed-persons-1999-2...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/18/w...

[3] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/finland/employed-persons
What are you using as a delivery backend? L-Mail?

If I asked you: Why should I use your service instead of, say, ezgram.com, what would your response be?
As a designer who builds out a lot of early prototypes for testing, Parse is really amazing. Previously I'd do some localStorage hacks to store simple data for prototype demos but since it was just on one machine it was really limited. Now I use Parse for all mock backends and can "mock" entire user authentication flows, objects being created/edited/saved, first-use state (no objects), secondary use state, error and success messages, the whole thing. I put "mock" in quotes because my prototypes are now essentially MVPs with real data being stored and accessed. It's pretty incredible.
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I just got my first client, one in which I'm designing a few simple pages in CSS and HTML. I was wondering how to determine which hours I should bill for -- should I bill for something like brainstorming and mocking ideas -- and if there are any good apps/services for tracking these hours.
When working in Clojure, you tend to experiment a lot with the REPL. And the environment (Emacs, clojure-mode, nRepl and Lein) feels like having a dynamic IDE ... so you write code in your text file and with a single short-cut, you recompile your code and then move over to the nRepl window that you keep open in Emacs and you invoke whatever you wrote, to see if it works.

So it's like working with Ruby's irb, or with iPython, except that the integration with Emacs is so freaking nice. So the whole workflow ends up being a back and forth between the code buffer and the repl buffer. And it happens really fast too.

Clojure does have a slow startup, thanks to the JVM. It's not so bad on capable computers though. But that's not the point. The point is that having to restart a repl session interrupts your flow.

Note: I only played with Clojure, haven't done anything serious in it. My favourite is Scala and it would be nice if the Scala repl would do a fast reload on file changes. I don't need it in Scala though, as in Scala you tend to rely less on the repl.
And that's because only leftist engange in propaganda? Sorry, couldn't help it.... but for the theory that the ONLY reason the bomb was dropped to intimidate the Sowjets is as wrong as the oppossite view point that it soley anded the war and saved millions of lifes. it's both propagande, just from different camps.