skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how a Microsoft exec described the patents when they filed suit against B&N [1] (see [2,3] for details)

The Microsoft-created features protected by the patents infringed by the Nook and Nook Color tablet are core to the user experience. For example, the patents we asserted today protect innovations that:

• Give people easy ways to navigate through information provided by their device apps via a separate control window with tabs;

• Enable display of a webpage’s content before the background image is received, allowing users to interact with the page faster;

• Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content;

• Permit users to easily select text in a document and adjust that selection; and

• Provide users the ability to annotate text without changing the underlying document.

And here's a list of patents from a lawsuit against Mororola [4] (the first two concern FAT16 I believe):

5,579,517: Common name space for long and short filenames

5,758,352: Common name space for long and short filenames (yes, again)

6,621,746: Monitoring entropic conditions of a flash memory device as an indicator for invoking erasure operations

6,826,762: Radio interface layer in a cell phone with a set of APIs having a hardware-independent proxy layer and a hardware-specific driver layer

6,909,910: Method and system for managing changes to a contact database

7,644,376: Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes

5,664,133: Context sensitive menu system/menu behavior

6,578,054: Method and system for supporting off-line mode of operation and synchronization using resource state information

6,370,566: Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device

As for your questions: So why is it wrong for them to put a claim on it? Wouldn't Apple do the same? It's not like Apple gets a free pass when they sue Android manufacturers for patent infringement...

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...

[2] http://androidcommunity.com/barnes-noble-reveals-microsofts-...

[3] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011111122291296

[4] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/01/microsoft-files-itc-p...
I was just trying to find this site via google yesterday, and I could not. I'll be sure to bookmark it this time (surprised I haven't already, or maybe I have but couldn't find the bookmark either).

Thanks for making it!

Edit: I did bookmark it, it was just so long ago that it ended up being overshadowed.
Vitamin D is critical to health and should be called something else, not a vitamin.

BTW, as you get older, your body loses the ability to convert sunlight to Vitamin D. Of course no one who reads HN would have this issue :-)
I take a multivitamin sometimes to be sure I still get various nutrients even if they're not in my food. This may or may not be true, but it's an entirely different thing from taking supplements as a cure for anything. The article did a poor job of arguing against my use case. It just showed how foolish cure-alls are.
After reading https://github.com/nudgepad/space/issues/54#issuecomment-212... , I don't see how your method is superior to the existing BIND zonefile syntax. It requires one to keep significantly more state in one's head while editing the file and (because the meaning of the data in the file depends on where it is in the file) makes drive-by one-off editing much harder. (Being able to "echo '@ 60 IN A 1.1.1.1' >> my.zonefile.zone" is pretty convenient.)
This would be an ideal solution for this situation, but the problem remains: if I cannot authenticate via the 3rd party initially, the service has no way of knowing that I am actually the owner of the account. I am not sure what the working implementation of this looks like.
> you take those vitamins because someone, somewhere at some time was pushing them as an amazing cure. A couple studies were done, data was likely cherry picked, and now you pay money to some company to give it to you. That company makes very sure that beneficial studies are done as often as possible.

I didn't state my reasons for taking them and you have no idea what they are. This is a strawman.
I feel similarly. What I've been doing is just deleting my G+ account each time Google creates it, but if it becomes too much of an issue, I will be forced to switch. A real pity - I love gmail.
The farming techniques used today are different than the ones used in the 1800s and before. So the vegetables/fruits today are not as healthy as they were. Especially when you consider consumers use visual guidelines for health (ie are the fruits plump, juicy, and colorful) instead of nutritional content.

The demand for "good looking" food is higher than the demand for healthy food. The food grown in Cuba is probably healthier since the farmers can't afford the more expensive, modern farming techniques.
They're using a NTAG203.

2 is a "platform indicator", 0 is a generation number, and 3 is the code number for the memory size. 3 means 128 to 256 bytes. (0 is less than 64 bytes; 1 is 64-96 bytes; 2 is 96-128 bytes)

(http://www.nxp.com/documents/short_data_sheet/NTAG203_SDS.pd...)
Apple's user IDs may have been compromised following dev center downtime
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I've now read those pages. I knew about E for its capability model but not at all for its concurrency model, which is indeed very interesting (more interesting, to me) and close to home. There's a presentation mentioned there that I found slightly clearer than the page itself; the link is dead but it can be read here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070626045558/http://www.drjava....

This model deserves to better known, especially since all this stuff is in play again nowadays. Are there other implementations of it? (Node.js might be a natural platform, given its event loop and the popularity of promises there.) I also wonder what the biggest differences are between it and Erlang.

In your pipelining example (t3 := (x <- a()) <- c(y <- b())), what happens if the messages arrive out of order? (Or does the system prevent that and if so how?) I suppose if an expression can't be evaluated because a promise hasn't resolved yet, it could just go back to the end of the queue and eventually everything will bubble up?

Also: that Xanadu? Wow, no idea.

Edit: I forgot another thing I wanted to include in this omnibus comment. The paper "On the Development of Reactive Systems" that's mentioned at your first link and which can be found at [1], starts off with a very interesting and exciting distinction between "transformational" systems (which take inputs and transform them into outputs) and "reactive" systems that "are repeatedly prompted by the outside world and [whose] role is to continuously respond to external inputs. A reactive system, in general, does not compute or perform a function, but is supposed to maintain a certain ongoing relationship, so to speak, with its environment". I think this is extraordinarily lucid and that the authors are right to talk about concurrency—and probably complexity in general—in the latter sort of system as being a different challenge than in the former. Unfortunately, the paper quickly sinks into a pit of software process goo and never returns. A little Googling gives me the impression that important technical work did come out of it, though, and if anyone knows what the high points are I would like to see them.

[1] http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dharel/SCANNED.PAPERS/Reac...
They list a bunch of uses near the beginning: "reduce the amount of energy needed to control environmental moisture in the electronics and drug formulation industry as well as in hockey rinks and ware houses. It can also be used for collection of toxic waste, chemicals or oil spill and in drug delivery systems, for odor control and sanitation after fire."
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The scientists who do that are lazy then. Publish less, but high quality papers, reflect a lot more. Ya, it's tricky, but then why are we doing this anyways?
this is a relevant read - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-m...

it seems that the types of interactions you're referring to require repeated, unplanned interactions, and an environment that encourages people to let their guard down.
for those who are frequently searching paths with a large number of files stored on an SSD or ramdisk/tmpfs, the bottleneck is very much the CPU time.

in these cases ag is noticeably faster (orders of magnitude, in some cases), especially if you're just searching a literal and not with a regex pattern.

the author has done some really cool performance hacks, and written some great blog posts[1] along the way.

[1]: http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/09/03/profiling-ag-writing-my-own...
Kevin Rose (Digg founder) throwing a raccoon to save his dog from attack [video]
There is an entire class of materials called MOFs (metal organic framework) with similar characteristics. This is a highly interesting emerging science.
The next election, or the election after that, or the election after that... As soon as they can, even if it takes then twenty years, they'll stab it in the heart with jubilant rapture.

They're still attacking Roe vs. Wade, after all.
The other comments seem to suggest that this is unworkable, but services like this already exist:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/technology/19screen.html
It's hard to square these quotes:

> SILICON VALLEY IS A GREAT PLACE TO BE IF YOU'RE IN THE 1% OF TECH STARTUPS. BUT IF YOU'RE IN THE OTHER 99%, YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME TRYING TO FIND TALENT, AND NOT ENOUGH BUILDING A BUSINESS

> Detroit has just 11,000 young professionals between 25 and 34 who hold at least a bachelor's degree

Or is it "once we convince people to move here and work with us, they're trapped"?
All vitamins are crucial to health.
I think it is useless. It is about as meaningful as Bush standing in front of a banner that says "Mission accomplished".

Yes, you are right. No one can change history. That is not my point. My point is to emphasize that the gesture is meaningless; if people want to actually admit they fucked up, they should actually prove that they learnt from the mistake and do something about current problems. Otherwise, it is just a big hoopla about nothing.
Since when does the amount of venture capital raised equal the success of a startup? A much more interesting statistic would have been which founders are still running their business after let's say three years.
I don't know why this doesn't end up in every thread, but Synology's inexpensive NAS systems have a "be your own cloud" feature built in, with corresponding iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux (I think) and android apps. All in a little box you can keep in your house.
Most Americans for whom healthcare and college costs are an issue probably can't afford to move to Europe either.
All NP problems are decision problems. When you say "x is in NP", you're implicitly referring to the decision problem. NP-hard does not mean "harder than NP", although that is its colloquial interpretation.
I remember seing a study on the WWW about how vitamin fanatics are healhier than regular multi-vitamin users: http://www.landmarkstudy.com/

I wouldn't trust a doctor compared to a bunch of eggheads who studied vitamin fanatics. Doctors are constantly misinterpreting studies. (Not to say I don't either.)
"Even if they were, they have no right of condemning their children to such life"

So who does? You? Western society? Don't you find that thinking a bit arrogant?
It is safe to take many vaccines at once; in fact, this is the standard of care. Offit does not have credibility issues. His work on vaccines has probably saved millions of lives.
Unfortunately that's a little harder to determine from the data given. The amount of deadpooled businesses in the data set is not high. :\

Using funding as a leading indicator is not perfect, which is one of the reasons I have provided the raw data.
But why does it need to be obvious? Traditionally sexism led to people liking to flout their boys, but today I would hope we would be passed this (albeit pie in the sky thinking, we obviously aren't past whats in a kids nethers).

I can't wait for the day people just don't give a crap if the 5 year old has a dick or not.
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So long as you have clear definitions for what is or isn't porn, and you have some protections and easy reporting mechanisms for images of child sexual abuse (as smartwater says, that's going to be a tricky legal area.)

But how much are you going to pay the people looking at the images?
This Hoare 1978?

http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cop4020/sum2009/CSP-hoare.pdf

On my list to read too.
"I called both of them yesterday and learned not only how the Rowling investigation worked, but about the fascinating world of forensic linguistics."

Cringe.

From my experience (gleaned from dutifully reading every Bitcoin-related article I can get my hands on) I am very wary of reading about any topic which the author admits to just having learnt about yesterday.

The majority of the time, unfortunately, English majors aren't the best at understanding technology.
In slightly less words and with slightly less accuracy, you're unwilling or unable to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

To an extent I wonder how much of that is due to lack of recent experience with starting from scratch. The United States hasn't had a revolution, a war on its territory, or a regime collapse in a long time.
Is there any data these things actually do any good?
Or it's the entrance to your home, entertainment-wise. How long do you think that cable companies are going to be putting these hideous, power-eating, under-performing boxes from Motorola / whomever in your house, which serve essentially minimal purposes. In my hypothetical future, game consoles replace those. Why have 3 pieces of hardware when you can have one (wifi router + cable box + xbox)? As TV changes over the next X years, I think Microsoft is positioned very, very well to make moves in this space. They have the weight to lean on the Comcast / Verizon / Cox / Turner / take your pick, and the technical ability to make things work.

Looking further down the line, you can see a future where home automation is centered around your central console, another area where I think Microsoft could make some moves. In a sense, they could own the operating system of your home. But this is probably a decently long ways out, so who knows.
I agree. I got relatives living in Florida. They spend most of their time in air conditioned environments. Their idea of "going out" is taking a walk in a mall or mega-store (Wal-Mart, Sam's Club). I once gave an uncle some Vitamin D3 with some magnesium citrate. He got better sleep. Wasn't even interested in how that worked.
Using Paul Graham's disagreement hierarchy (http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html), your first paragraph is DH2 (responding to tone), and the rest is DH1 (ad hominem). Do you have any arguments relating to the points being made?
Saw it yesterday somewhere. Sounds rather impressive. I ordered a sample[1].

[1] http://www.disruptivematerials.com/request-sample/
Nurse practitioners are used in many countries with great results. Why is using them illegal ? of course it's because of regulatory capture and the general power doctors hold, which is probably the biggest reason why healthcare is so expensive(and also not very good).

You see it in million places: The limited number of medical schools, The lack of nurse practitioners doing the simple routine jobs in most specialties(dental, family, colonoscopy, anesthsia. Many others could exist), The lack of automation and expert systems[4] and automated patient interview[3] tools, the fact that family practitioners could replace a lot of the specialists work at lower costs[1], Many medical jobs could be done with a lot less training[2], the lack of use of proven processes like checklists[5], etc.

All those changes could save a lot of money, and raise quality. We know what to do, But how do we implement it ?

[1]http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/grantees/project-echo.html

[2]Because there's a brain drain in africa to the west, some countries have started a 3 year surgeon degree program. Doctors who finished this degree seem to have equivalent results to fully trained doctors in simple/medium complexity surgeries.

[3]Research showed doctors only ask about half of the questions needed in a typical visit. Automated interview systems could at least gather more complete data.

[4]There's research review showing that correct implementation of decision support/expert systems could improve results.

[5]Peter provonost showed that checklists could reduce infection rates in one procedure from 8/12 percent to zero.This was around 10 years ago. I think gawande showed similar results in other stuff. checklists are still not commonly used.
5-HTP is potentially cardiotoxic by raising blood serotonin levels.
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What is your internet speed.
I love that this was the result of a mistake, and the brief note about the only available reference material for part of their work being in Russian. Sounds like the makings of an excellent story.
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I have this unsubstantiated belief that most people taking supplements live an unhealthy life otherwise. Many people want a magic solution to things, and taking lots of pills seems to be cure du jour.

This is made worse by the fact that there do exist people for whom supplements are required. Without justification, everyone thinks they fall in that group.
Excellent job. Wonderful tool. Do you have plans to monetize? (ebook ALA Learn Regex the Hard Way, a mac desktop tool, editor plugins, etc...)
> Neither do I see any other reason to stick with FAT16/32 unless it is somehow required on booting.

It is required under UEFI. Fat16 and 32 are the only recognized file system formats used by UEFI firmware, so you have to have a UEFI system partition using that filesystem. If Microsoft can patent troll people over it, technically that means there is no way to prepare a system for UEFI booting unless running Microsoft software to create a fat partition, and write to it.

Which would be stupendous bullshit.
At the same time we can think of the whole thing as a smart marketing plot.
Guess what, you are arrogant and wrong.
Don't most of those "free" public health care systems only apply to citizens? I recall a story about a foreigner in Germany having to pay for their care, even if the price was reduced. Non-emergency care in the UK, for example, requires legal residency, which may be hard to come by for someone too poor to afford health care in the US. France requires non-EU citizens to have insurance for care in France to get a visa, as I understand it.

So, it's not just as easy as "let's pack up and move to the EU so we can get free healthcare tomorrow." Otherwise, you can imagine that every time a non-insured American got sick, they could compare the cost of getting new insurance to the cost of a plane ticket, and the plane ticket would win, I'm sure. =)
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Your claim, as I understand it, is that Target, Costco, and Walmart stock substandard vitamins compared to those you can find if you are "very very careful". This is an extraordinary claim: and you are asked to provide extraordinary proof. Do you have any?
Hope you try Tizen / Sailfish / Ubuntu Phone / Firefox OS. Because they are also options.
People have an infinite capacity for wanting, so towards infinite growth we go, I guess? Seems sustainable.
The epidemiology of MS is incredibly interesting. There's three groups of people with low rates of MS:

1) People born in northern latitude areas (europe, USA), who then move at a young age close to the equator.

2) People who live their whole lives in an area close to the equator

3) People who were born and raised in areas close to the equator then moved to northern latitudes in adulthood.

Compare to people who are more suspectible to MS:

1) People are born in areas close to the equator then move at an early age to northern latitudes

2) People who live their whole lives in northern latitudes

3) People who live their childhood in northern latitudes then move to the equator.

So there is a correlation between growing up, regardless of what happens in adulthood, near the equator (maybe from Vit D dosage) and having a lower risk for MS. Cool stuff.
In Washington state, the law says you must stay right except to pass.
Instead of a gradual reform, what about enabling a new medical system , bound to new relaxed laws and new people to control it, to exist side by side to the current system, that would focus on low cost healthcare ?

Maybe it would be "lower quality", but least it would offer choice for many , and be a great research lab for low cost healthcare.
Well, Americans don't really vote, they prefer the government stay far away (imagine someone in Wyoming viewing a Federal solution kind of like Brussels solving Greece's health care problem), moneyed interests/cartels have a lot of sway, and some groups don't like paying for other groups' healthcare.

Local solutions don't really work for medical care, in terms of the legalities and economic structure, you have to require everyone to participate.

In this case, size and diversity work against us, it's just a lot easier in a small homogenous Scandinavian country.

Anyway, we have Obamacare gradually being implemented, where all employers above a certain size are supposed to offer insurance, and everyone else is supposed to buy it (the 'mandate' which the Supreme Court says is really just a tax).

So, maybe a minimum level of health care will start to be universal. But in order to get it through they made sure everyone was well greased. If the doctors, the hospitals, the insurance companies, or the pharmaceutical companies had to tighten belts a notch that would have been enough to sink it. So, it's going to stay very expensive.
Normally I would have expected Danielle Morrill here, but good job anyway ;)
Wohoo! They seemed to have fixed the back button issue to some extent. But it still has a weird behaviour those in-app tabs.
Thanks for the link. I never knew about it.
fat16/32 are the only recognized file system formats of EFI system partitions in the UEFI firmware standard.

If they are patent encumbered, that is worse than the secure boot nonsense. It would mean you can't format a drive for booting on a system using UEFI firmware unless you had windows software to create and write into that partition.
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If you're worried about this, use an incognito window to search for your name. Its a good idea anyway, because it turns off personalization.
I've appreciated extraordinarily positive customer experience to the point of having a new feature released to solve an issue.

They sent me a replacement unit without billing me, giving me a month grace period to send back the old one. Turned out it wasn't the unit at all, but an environment issue (direct sun on sensor), that they then patched.
Thank you! Not as of right now, everything I do I release for free given I can still pay for the server bill. I have plans on expanding the website quite a bit though... :)
Yeah, I remember reading this. From the comments here and the comments on the article, I guess it seems fairly representative of adult life.
All of the statistical analyses sound to be fairly easy to beat.

Say you want to pretend to be another author: first build a language model of the target author, then use the model to single out sentences of high perplexity from your writing. Then, have the model "rewrite" your sentences by replacing your words with synonyms of higher n-gram probabilities according to the model. Similar things can be done to fool the character n-gram analyses, or analyses above words (e.g., parses).
I've been to the doctor in Australia and Germany, and you do have to pay but the price was less than what I had to pay in the USA with insurance.