skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is worth looking at the results of a similar option in the US - the V-Chip. In theory, a v-chip ought to result in the lifting of basically all broadcast restrictions since parents are now able to exercise their own control over what their kids see on their TVs. The v-chip has been mandatory in the US since January 2000 - and since analog broadcasts were ended every functioning tv receiver now has a v-chip in it. It is basically impossible to watch broadcast television without a v-chip in the loop.

So what happened? Nothing. We still have basically the same levels of FCC censorship as we did before the v-chip. I think this fact speaks to the reason for the censorship in the first place - it is not about shielding the children of parents who want their children shielded. It is about restricting the access of everyone, imposing one group's morality on everyone.

I think you'll find that should the UK censorship system be created that it will only embolden the efforts of the pro-censorship crowd. They will be champing at the bit to switch it from opt-in to opt-out and maybe even further, like only time-limited opt-outs where you have to periodically re-affirm your wish to opt-out all for the kids sake of course.
My team dogfoods Ubuntu for Android every single day on the Nexus 4, and I'll say that it's performant enough to be a daily driver as a desktop replacement.

Edge has 4GB of RAM planned, and will run even better than the N4.
I sort of like http://www.google.com/patents/US4464650 (Ziv/Lempel compression), which doesn't seem obvious to me
They haven't spent money on a lawyer yet, so why should he?
THIS is why one "asks HN". Forked.
I actually want to set up a startup. But undecided on location, my current location will not do. I really want to go to valley, ideally get into YC itself, but the barrier to entry is high. How would you say is the startup culture over there in canada? How does it stack up against places like valley, london or NYC? Other and more accessible option for me is Banglore, no visa required (I am from India).
Ask yourself, then answer your own question.
Note that the entire campaign is about a month - 31 days to go. The $600 price has got to be an impulse one and get media attention right now.
Growing up in Hattiesburg, MS, innovation was stagnant. There were no technology related jobs other than Tech Support at Comcast(who I regarded as pure evil at the time).

People do not want to leave Hattiesburg. It is completely foreign to them. They want to marry young, have children, and stay within a few blocks of their family.

Move to California? You're going to fall into the ocean. Move to New York? Too much city. Move to Texas? Too hot. Each of those arguments is easily debunked. The humidity makes it hotter in MS.

My life changing moment was taking a Greyhound to Wisconsin with $1,000 and starting my life over. Afterwards, I moved from place to place knowing I could make it where ever I ventured to.

I have female friends in MS who got Masters/Ph.Ds and married the same year they got the piece of paper. Never used it once. It saddens me. Some of those people are brilliant beyond my abilities. Yet, they chose to follow the culture of the community.

People are so miserable there, but it all by choice. My mother had cerebral palsy and received a check for $500/month. We lived in a trailer, and I made it out when I was ~21-23. I had no car, fallback, or family to depend on. I just had to take a risk and go with the flow. It pays off well now.

I have offered people from MS jobs here or connections to jobs here. They would never take that bus.
> How many "terrorists" are really out there?

I was intrigued by this question and wondered the same. I created this Google spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhTjVTjz9GpldFJ...) with the estimated strength of all groups listed here: http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2011/195553.htm#ano. As of 2011, it would appear that the US government has calculated there are approximately 50,000-100,000 terrorists worldwide. I did not include the names of the groups in the spreadsheet, but I went top-to-bottom through the list and recorded the "Strength" of each group and put it into a cell. Unfortunately, the estimates are almost entirely vague and nebulous (probably intentionally), so I was very generous in my calculations. The spreadsheet is world editable, so I invite any contributions.

For scale, according to Wikipedia and this site: http://www.citypopulation.de/USA-California.html, all terrorists in the world identified by the US government would fit in a city between the size of Novato, CA (50K population) and Boulder, CO (100K population).

According to the DoD budget here (http://comptroller.defense.gov/defbudget/fy2014/FY2014_Budge...) we have spent $1.5 trillion dollars on "Overseas Contingency Operations" since FY2001. Taking that data into account, we have spent $17 million for every single known terrorist in the world since 2001, at a rate of $1.2 million per year (14 years).

According to this: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66 we spend $10,694 per year on pupils in the US public education system.

Are there any people out there who happen to know off-hand how much money the French government spends per person on healthcare?
Discrete Mathematics

Logic, Set Theory, & Proofs

Linear Algebra I/II
> An example might help. Imagine a simple application with these three claims:

> 1. A method of transportation

> 2. The method of transportation in claim 1, wherein there is an engine connected to wheels

> 3. The method of transportation in claim 2, wherein the engine runs on water

> Notice that claim 2 mentions claim 1, and narrows it... in other words, it claims a strict subset of things from claim 1.

> Now, suppose you invented the water-powered car. When you submit your patent, you might submit it this way even knowing that there’s prior art for “methods of transportation” and you can’t really claim all of them as your invention. The theory is that (a) hey, you might get lucky! and (b) even if you don’t get lucky and the first claim is rejected, the narrower claims will still stand.

I'm pretty sure this is not accurate. To my knowledge, the claims of a patent are considered only as a whole, not individually, so there should be no fear that this is somehow trying to patent "methods of transportation" broadly.

To make a broad patent claim, you can't have any narrowing claims on the same patent. Put another way, the maximum scope of claim by a particular patent is defined by the narrowest claim in the list.

Lawyers--correct me if I'm wrong.
There's also the

player1 & location.x .~ (+10)

format which has a nice scansion.
Short answer: you don't. How would you interpret reports filled with technical jargon, and most of it has no clear-and-obvious relation to normal every-day life?

You trust the people telling you what's what, and you analyze your standards and expectations of what can happen and plan accordingly. How do you plan against something you know next-to-nothing about, or you know so little that you can barely grasp the enormity of preparing for "global warming"? That's a great question, and it'll involve plans whose scope lies well beyond what you'll be doing tonight, tomorrow, next week, or 20 years from now -- it'll involve plans that include everybody and what we'll be doing tonight, tomorrow, next week, or 20 years from now.
From an undergraduate standpoint, there certainly isn't a lack of interest in the program - the intro CS course is consistently one of the largest undergraduate courses. Though the smaller department size means certain courses aren't always offered, the quality of instruction tends to make up for this (as well as the possibility of cross-registering at MIT). A side effect of CS being an up-and-coming department is that many CS undergrads come to Harvard intending to study something else (say math, physics, or economics) and thus bring with them their diverse interests and skills to the classroom.
This is an awesome project. I've signed up and will see what I can do to help shoot down patents!

There is one true and important point in the article that isn't supported by the example given:

> This patent was, typically, obfuscated, and it used terms like “pixel density” for something that every other programmer in the world would call “resolution,” either accidentally (because Microsoft’s lawyers were not programmers), or, more likely, because the obfuscation makes it that much harder to search.

The patent uses "pixel density" to refer to the physical size of the pixels on a display. This is a fairly common term, with over five million results in a Google search. I've used the same phrase myself for over 10 years with the same meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_density

"Pixels per centimeter (ppcm), Pixels per inch (PPI) or pixel density is a measurement of the resolution of devices in various contexts: typically computer displays, image scanners, and digital camera image sensors."

Of course here we can see where the terms get a bit confusing: "...pixel density is a measurement of the resolution..."

But display resolution these days usually refers to the number of pixels, not their physical size:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution

"The display resolution of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed."

Advertisements and spec sheets almost always use "resolution" this way, for example the MacBook Pro specs on Apple's site:

"Supported resolutions: 1440 by 900 (native), 1280 by 800, 1152 by 720, ..."

Forgive me if this seems like nitpicking, and I completely agree with Joel's point here: patents often do use unusual terminology to obfuscate what they're talking about.

This just isn't a case of that. The patent is using the correct term, and it even does a very good job of explaining what it means:

> A particular characteristic of display components that may affect presentations rendered thereupon is the pixel density of the display component, such as a pixels-per-centimeter measurement. It may be appreciated that such characteristics may be independent of the size of the display component (e.g., two display components of the same size may present different pixel densities; conversely, two display components of different sizes may present the same pixel density) and/or the pixel dimensions of the display component (e.g., two display components displaying a presentation with a particular pixel dimensions may do so with different physical sizes).
Does whoever downvoted me care to explain why or offer another opinion?
What percentage of those exploits are 0day? Part of "knowing what you're doing" involves keeping your software up to date, after all. Commodity malware isn't a large threat if it can't run.

Very cool link though, thanks.
Considering it is a gaming industry site I think the idea was mainly to bring up how low paid many game programmers are and how poor their lives are due to the long hours. I know at China related events particularly it has also been mentioned you can get pretty much free office space in the right areas thanks to the government incentives as well. So if anything, the publicity on the low pay and long hours for game programmers might encourage investors/companies to start their own out sourcing branch over there/etc..
> How cool would it be if Apple, Samsung, Oracle and Google got into a Mexican Standoff on Ask Patents? If each of those companies had three or four engineers dedicating a few hours every day to picking off their competitors’ applications, the number of granted patents to those companies would grind to a halt.

Wouldn't the result of this be that the company who finds out that they have the earliest implementation of the code in question be able to get the patent for it?
>>>6 years ago there was an initiative at Harvard to focus on teaching and not just research, but I don't know what came of it.

This is actually fascinating to me. I attended a large Midwestern college in the late 1990's and contemplated a career in academia. At the time, there was a huge debate over the effectiveness of tenure.

By the time I graduated, the normal "right of passage" of getting tenure had turned into a multi-year process which focused entirely on what research you had conducted, the amount of money you were bringing into the school, how many articles you had published, how current those articles were, etc. It had absolutely nothing to do with how good of a teacher you were - and everything to do with how much research you were doing and where your articles were published.

Needless to say, I opted not to enter academia, mainly for this reason. Tenure became the carrot they dangled out in front of you so you'd bust your ass for the university while not receiving much in return. As one long tenured professor told me, "They've turned tenure from something that was seen as prestigious, into a mafia racket."
I don't think he's seen any "Game of Thrones", or "Tudors", either.
Things are definitely relative. You couldn't rent a 1 bedroom apartment in the Bay Area for my parent's mortgage on a three bedroom house, which my dad manages to pay as career military. But there is huge resentment against teachers because of how much they make compared to the bottom half in town.

My real concern isn't with the take home pay of the local college educated elite, but rather the tremendous gulf between what professionals make and what "regular people" make. By national standards the community doesn't have many truly wealthy, but the disparity is still there. For example, an acquaintance of mine who is a kindergarten teacher had to cancel a class field trip because her principal wasn't comfortable asking parents for $3/child to cover the busing cost. To me, that suggests a big problem with poverty.
I can't speak with relation to reactive because I honestly don't have any experience with it. I have another tab open with you link though and look forward to reading about it. As for Angular, as I mentioned in the blog, by its very design it seems to guide you into making the _right_ decision. Its been the easiest framework I've found to keep a decent amount of separation between the view and controller logic. The binding-bits can reside in the directives. With the right approach, it is very easy to unit-test as well as A-B Test by easy swapping out views that are decorated. I definitely seed your point though that the mark-up can become a bit attribute-heavy.
If the moral advice is punt it, the legal issue is moot.
If the Ubuntu Edge reaches its goal of $32,000,000, Indiegogo makes $1,280,000 off it.
It would be cool if there was a way to penalize high number and high ratio of rejected patents from a single company. OTOH I don't see a way that allows genuine mistakes from small shops while being immune from big bad corps acting via shell companies.
The UI is not based on HTML, it's QML. It's a GUI declaration language similar to XAML from MS. The whole QML described UI is an accelerated OpenGL scene backed by Qt technology so the performance should be much higher than that of HTML5.
Google Analytics does have an Android app now [1]. I think it's been added within the last year.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
I think Wired is using this "Google Sets New Internet Record" [1] as the source material. I think the far more interesting quote is "60% of all Internet end devices/users exchange traffic with Google servers during the course of an average day" [1].

[1] http://www.deepfield.net/2013/07/google-sets-new-internet-re...
Not true, snowballing is a good and common procedure to find more relevant literature.
Could you expand on what you mean by "I very rarely trust the author"? Isn't using their work a statement of trust?

Source or binary, you are still embracing their description of tasks for an automated machine to perform very rapidly.

If you are wary of what they have done, it's true that source is somewhat more accessible to examine than machine code, but for any non-trivial program source is still quite expensive to evaluate.
For those interested in the Harvard tenure process, this article detailed some of the history and statistics:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/4/11/scrutiny-tenure-...
The 10th Discipline of Social Media; Socializing Your Content Effectively
Running a diesel engine off of waste oil works great, as long as there's enough waste oil. They usually seem to be talking about restaurant frying oil. A medium-size city generates enough waste frying oil for, what, a couple of dozen people to fuel their vehicles? Maybe a few hundred? That's nice for them, but what will the other 99% of the city use? Try to scale it up to fuel their vehicles too, and it'll rapidly get much more expensive and much worse for the environment than ordinary gasoline and diesel.
You really nailed it.
How about just increasing the costs for filing and maintaining a patent as a quick way of getting rid of some of the really weak ones? Say double the fees and see what happens.
I've never really understood why drugs are often considered as mitigating factors in crimes, rather than (IMO) aggravating ones.
Google copies Apple diagram in patent application
Apple overhauling developer systems after security breach
Your locked door is your protection of privacy. This is akin to requiring people to register to look at your door to decide if they want to open it.

We all know how wonderful government registries are, because nobody has ever been unfairly prosecuted for sexual preferences and/or orientations, religion, race, etc...
Not a lawyer, but I'm pretty certain that you're wrong. There are 2 types of claims, dependent and independent. dependent are those that refer to a previous claim and expand on it, (2 and 3 above). Claim 1 above is independent. The dependent claims are taken together with those they reference, but the independent claims if accepted are taken independently.

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claim_(patent)#Basic_types_and_...
Doesn't that make the parent's comment about correct? 80% off 25% is 5%, so it matches pretty well.
One thing that I think bears study and consideration is the attitudes towards moving. One of my chief remembrances from my collegiate/high school years is that some students would simply not want to move somewhere else to get a job: they wanted to be near family, even if that destroyed their chances at a decent job.

I hypothesize that willingness to leave location correlates strongly with income mobility.
I don't understand. I recently incorporated a C-Corp in Delaware remotely from Malaysia (never stepped a foot in American soil), single founder. So it means if you're _there_ under H1B then you can't do that? I wonder if you can setup a company in your country of origin and have that company incorporate a company in the US, will it work?
> In fact, it's specifically one of the things that the DMCA does.

Well, the specific thing the DMCA does is to stop circumvention of an "effective technological protection measure". The crazy thing here is that there is no such measure: no use of encryption or scrambling -- or even passwords! -- that I can see, just simply using a network service's exposed command set. That makes it different to most (if not all) of the case law your link mentions.
Pretty interesting. Is there an equivalent to 500 or YC in Canada? What are the best tech cities in Canada? I know Vancouver and Quebec have universities with good CS programs, but that's about it.
In many states, the self defense laws DO protect the defender from civil and criminal cases brought by the assaulter.

> A person is justified in engaging in conduct otherwise prohibited if he has legal authority to do so.

http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title35/ar41/ch3.html
I'd love that. The biggest problem for me is that I have a number of monitors and laptops that don't support HDMI. If there was a sub $10 adapter I could get for VGA->HDMI<-VGA then it would be a perfect world.
When people tell me I'm lucky, I take it as a compliment they didn't intend. One of the marks of quality of execution is making something difficult look easy, and something complex look simple.

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity," said Seneca, a first century dramatist and philosopher. "It takes twenty years to become an overnight success," said Eddie Cantor, a performer.

When you're doing all of your paddling under the water and all anyone else can see is graceful movement, you're doing something right. Some people might call it luck if they know no better; when they do I call that a compliment.
Start-up and land an Enterprise client in one week
You can probably just set up a web server with WebDAV support, mount that as a storage volume on your various devices, and use SSL to keep your transfers encrypted.
Simple things like being able to prove that OP received the request can be useful to an attorney.
Disney algorithm builds high-res 3D models from ordinary photos
Makezine: I Need a Spider Tank Robot Kit
Haha, I find the ads annoying as well. Sometimes I just want to go read my email and it's a full page ad for some Google product like Wave or Google features I don't want.
From nearly every perspective, this seems like a no brainer.

1. The hardware they talked about would be better than anything out there now, most likely better than anything in 2014.

2. They mentioned dual boot. If you don't like Ubuntu, you can put on Android and have a better phone than anything out in the next year.

3. You'll get the first Ubuntu production phone.

For $600 (today) or $830 (not today?) this is a freakin' no brainer.
I think they have miscalculated completely. Everybody in the internet generation looks at porn, not only is it normal joking about it is and while one might not want to discuss this over the dinner table much politics have started in bars or over alcohol - here attempts to ban porn would be discussed and laughed over.
Or Rust. Or D. Or Ruby. Or C#. Or Dylan. Or Lua. Or OCaml.

Lots of languages have concepts from multiple paradigms. What is the correct mix of concepts is up for debate.

I honestly believe that Rust has the potential to become the perfect mix for me, but OCaml and D are pretty good second places with the benefit of exponentially greater stability/maturity.
How To Transfer Your Blogger Blog From One Account To The Other | Onenaija Blog
An idea that might help in killing patents: Have one daily sticky post on HN (ala job post) with a short description of a pending patent and a link on where to post prior art. It is very likely some reader will be able to provide this prior art.
This example production website uses require.js to dynamically load only the static files needed for the current View, so initial page loads are fast. After a user has loaded the static files, they will be cached by the user's browser. This means a page transition will be ONLY 1 api call to retrieve the View's data.

view-source:https://www.wakati.me/

https://www.wakati.me/static/js/router.js

This also allows changing 1 version number to invalidate the user's cached static files. I don't know if the OP's build script supports that or not.

Above site was built using conventions found here:

http://ahamlett.com/Backbone.localStorage/
Our Coming Food Crisis
i have to wonder how many ubuntu users are using ubuntu simply for the cost of owning it ($0). If that group is high, which i think it is, it may imply that a lot of those same users, might not want to put money into a project. Speculation.
How old are you? What's the max age for this?
In large projects, and especially legacy ports, you don't have that luxury.

Hence, careful selection of projects to work on is key.
Clients vs. customers
I am not the right person for this, I guess.

I constantly break my phones by smashing them (by mistake) into various solid things or water, so I never buy any phone more expensive than 200 dollars. I really won't buy a phone for 830 dollars.
Digitalised collection of handheld electronic games