skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither Apple, nor Samsung or Google invented patents. It's a government's creation made before they came to the scene. Once you build a company in a framework of patents and police enforcing them (by threatening to take your property by force), you have to play by the rules. And the rules are: grab first to protect yourself against others. In absence of brutal enforcement, companies would have to find peaceful ways to agree on "merchant's code" (which was always happening in history where the state did not intervene too much). E.g. Apple could come to a voluntary agreement with BestBuy that they won't sell "copycat" products, or Apple wouldn't sell iPhones there. And everyone would try to find a balance where certain business practices are acceptable or not. And ultimately customers would judge if the companies serve them well enough. But when government introduces a paperwork for violence, then business gets ugly.
I've been working on an extensible console-based mail-client for the past while. (http://lumail.org/)

I abhor the idea that clients only ever interact with messages from a single folder.
This seems like the place to start. https://github.com/clojure-android/lein-droid
>>This is why newcomers find the learning curve steep: It is a new way to write applications.

As someone who's run the gamut of "trendy" JS frameworks, I picked up Angular much faster than Backbone, Ember and Knockout combined. Maybe it's the MVC thing, I don't know, but something just clicked with me with Angular. After watching a few tutorials, I able to build something from scratch without much effort.
My point is that not only search deserves a clean UI with minimal clicks to content. I may like Kim khadashian articles but it doesn't mean you must serve me a spaghetti UI with sport scores, weather, games etc. A simple entertainment link is suffice to take me there. Also yahoo depends on search a lot, I just finished reading 3 papers from yahoo researchers explaining how and why they use the Bing links to argment their search results.
If you're actually avoiding Emacs, Vim/Fireplace/nRepl feels pretty darn good =)
What do you customarily edit code in? Clojure works quite nicely with both vim and emacs.
I hear what you're saying, and I was initially tempted to feel the same way, until I caught myself.

I think your take on this is a function of our indoctrination into a particular form of capitalist mindset. We don't reward what's of value to society. We reward what can be sold. It's skewed.

In addition, there is this idea that we should be cogs in the machine as kind of a de facto life goal. Get an education and go to work for someone else. Want to be an entrepreneur and do more? Well, it will cost you dearly. You either go see the gatekeepers with capital and hope they smile on you, only to end up back in the position where you are essentially working for someone again (your investors). Or, you bootstrap and work your ass off trying to support yourself/family while holding down a day job. BTW, like you, I did the latter.

I think this is exactly why we don't have enough people using their talents to contribute something vs. just trying to make cash.

Society should encourage this, and if crowdfunding can help more people to pursue their talents/dreams (especially for the good of society), then I am all for it. We need more of this.
"A big breakthrough would be if Congress, as a cost-saving measure, allowed Medicare payments for out-of-country treatment."

If Congress cared about saving money when it comes to Medicare they wouldn't have passed Medicare Part D, which by design doesn't allow for the negotiation of lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies like the Department of Vererans Affairs is allowed to do. The fact of the matter is that a lot of palms are getting greased in Washington when it comes to healthcare. Thus why Obamacare doesn't have a public option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Part_D
Get a good idea of the world of work before you pick a university degree. If university feels aimless and the other students are not interesting, drop the course.
Well, then don't participate. Geez.
That's very true, you're well prepared. Much better than most teenagers I know.
I'm not sure if you mean user accessible in terms of User Accessibility or just a typical user having access. I think we're talking about UA, it wouldn't apply in this case, because they would be using a screen reader and using its features to find and copy the URI (rather than by hovering). In the case of a typical user, I think it does what they want, so it doesn't go against desire and ultimately enhances UX.

It's definitely hackish, though. :)
Hey, something is going on with the addresses. I am verifying each one and correcting the errors. Thanks for pointing these errors out!
Incredibly childish thing to do, endangering innocent peoples lives.
The #1 reason healthcare costs more is because of over-treatment. When providers are paid by the procedure, suddenly everyone needs a procedure (or ten). Combine that with third-party responsibility (insurance pays doctor, employer pays for insurance), opaque pricing structure (doctors are the only ones that can tell you if a procedure is necessary or not), and you have a "market" that is "broken".

Put simply, everyone wants "the best care" when they never have to actually pay for it. And as long as providers are incentivized to provide "the best care", they will do it, as lost as "best" equals "expensive".
http://TechBritain.com is doing that for the entire UK
> Using standards-essential patents as legal weapons is completely unethical.

I would argue, it's more like: "using patents as weapons is completely unethical."

And yes, it's a shame to see any patent aggressor get away with it. There is no fundamental difference between FRAND and any other patent. In all cases, independent invention is prohibited, denying inventors their natural right to gather the fruits of their labor.

Secondly, the "can't work around argument" is equally applicable to any patent discussion: unlike copyright, patent regime does not recognize the merger doctrine, placing some foundational methods at risk of being completely locked up by greedy entities.

Third, patent aggressors benefit tremendously from the work of third parties on whose shoulders they stand; patent aggression is an ugly contrast to this.
I'm not sure, could get confused with the web template framework in WebKit.

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/master/Source/WTF/wtf
WebKit is Apple's baby. It'll survive and do well. Google diverging with their own product is not a problem. Can't speak to XMPP since I didn't follow that discussion. RSS is alive and well, however. All Google did was kill off their product. They didn't move to a different standard. I moved to the Digg Reader. Freedly is good too.
I'm sure this sort of thing never happens anywhere else on the Internet.
How did Google kill Webkit now? Google was among the top contributors to the project till not too long ago. It then forked its branch to Blink and Opera went with it. It is an open source project, that has contributors from many organizations. The proceedings are public on blink mailing list. The proposals, changes everything is there.

RSS, by kill I assume you are hinting at how all the feeds were available through Google Takeout and Google Reader APIs that other SaaS applications used to very quickly get up to speed. And how it was recently reported (on Verge?) that these providers are doing great. Heck, I remember reading a Google blog post that even listed these alternatives. So as it was said elsewhere in this thread, stop spreading false information.
PUA teaches you to treat women like games. Some will say it's all about giving you confidence, but it isn't. It's entire purpose is to use a handful of gambits to fool women for sex. I've read several of those books as I was briefly interested in that world in undergrad.

Keeping fit, having hobbies, being knowledgeable and aware, being part of an outgoing social circle, will give you the traits and skills you need to establish genuine relationships.

Wanting a physical relationship is fine, but wearing a pink fuzzy hat, telling a girl she's ugly, playing cat and mouse and bullshitting about your Chevy Camaro is dishonest.
The issue I've consistently had with a lot of the "frameworks" coming out recently, is the lack of subject matter experts. It's like someone throws this stuff together, makes an attempt to sketch out some documentation and then just lets the developers have at it. Most of the developers who make videos or tutorials simply do a few basic ones, and leave the rest up to the community to figure out after that.

It would be nice if there was a team of developers who actually incubated this stuff so they could write some decent documentation, along with a gamut of examples from simple to highly complex so these frameworks didn't always looked like a half baked rush job on getting it out.

I know our industry moves fast, but I think we'd be better served with a complete set of documentation, with people who've been using these for some time and who can lay out a solid road map for developers interested in utilizing these frameworks.
Thanks for pointing out the mistakes! Fixing them now.
What's wrong with taking the risk out? If there are people willing to pay in advance, then it's a better solution for everybody. It could mean, for example, they can make a better product as they are not constrained by living on their savings. I find it bizarre that you find it "insulting".
When offered a chance to go to a school abroad don't be afraid and just go. You will end up at a university abroad anyway,but you will always regard those last three years at a shitty school to be lost because you were too afraid to go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_lead_generation and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_per_action
I'm sure ESPN could, but they probably wouldn't. Online streaming on this scale would essentially become pay-per-view, and the pay-per-view revenue for most games would not match the current broadcast revenue.
Would you pay $50 per football game you wanted to watch online? I only say that because I used to pay $20 for a Houston Rockets playoff game on pay-per-view in the mid-90's, and they went away from that model once the broadcast revenue from having every subscriber pay into a bundled package overcame the pay-per-view model.
I haven't read the comments so there might be duplication.

1) Try out new things on a regular basis. I don't mean technology. Try out running, jogging, swimming, pottery, origami, kickboxing, anything new you haven't tried before (You can do most of this without spending any money). But do this on a regular basis. A new thing every month, and you must spend 2 hour per week.

2) If you want to get good in programming, code for an hour every day.

3) Maintain a journal/diary. It doesn't have to be extensive or good prose. Just a rough outline of your day and a couple of lines on how you feel. I assure you, it will be fun to read it years later.

4) Read books. Learn how to read books. I have a habit of reading fiction and forgetting all about them or starting technical books and never finishing them. I am trying out a new method in which I write a small summary of fiction and a plan to work out all exercises of technical books in second pass.

How I wish I could give this advice to my younger self!
Glad I'm not the only one bothered by that.
I'm moving away from WebFaction because I'm afraid of the hand holding limiting my growth when my website hits more users. Why are you moving away from WebFaction?
People lie. People project onto others what they wish they had themselves. Advice not followed. Choices they wish they'd made. Past circumstances as opposed to current circumstances.

There's no getting around making your own decisions. And living with them.

TANSTAAFL. Google (Wikipedia) it. Maybe read some Heinlein. Realize that while Heinlein may have some interesting things to say, he too was writing fiction.

Physical health is the foundation of everything else. Don't compromise it lightly.

From Frank Herbert's "Dune": "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

My qualification: Fear is useful, in the short term. As are anger, and other "negative" emotions. Pay attention, and work to solve/resolve those situations. Left unresolved, they become poison.

There's a lot of good in the world, too. Nurture and trust your instincts. Don't put up with crap. Make it a priority to be in a position where you are not forced to do so.

Don't put other people in the position where they are forced to do so.

A good part of your strength and resilience come from your community (whatever that is -- not necessarily geographically defined). Take care of it, and it will take care of you.

People learn by example. Whether face to face, or in text -- the example has to ring true. Or rather, the example will ring true, whether what that ends up being is what you intended to convey, or not.

This is some random guy's advice. TANSTAAFL.
Yes, the design of browsers requires a lot of work to integrate any second VM, which is what I said. The objections that were raised on webkit-dev were that that work had to be justified by proven gains (e.g. developers will actually use added languages) and proven lack of regressions caused by the new bindings[1]. These were the same objections raised when upstreaming the V8 bindings happened, as well, btw and are exactly correct.

As for DOM GC performance, yes, it could be solved in other ways, or you could move it to the same GC-able heap as the language manipulating it. I'm still not seeing the connection to Dart, but, again, maybe I'm just out of the Dart loop (some simple searches haven't revealed much beyond the blink-dev list and associated code reviews). AFAIK oilpan is coming out of long-time work by haraken et al in webkit and now blink to bring huge performance improvements to the V8/browser bindings, which have historically been much slower relative to other browsers and their javascript engines.

[1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...
The Old Reader stays public and has a new team managing it
I'm not sure what responsive framework you're using, but the layout doesn't look good and the logo is messed up on mobile browsers.
You make some great points, and I can't say that any of them are off-base. My comment is obviously filtered by my experiences in the industry, which might be unfair to the founders in question.

However, my comment seems to have resonated with many others, so could be offered as advice for ways to improve the campaign.
I was going to comment on how ridiculous it was that your first advice to a 16 year old asking about his future was to avoid "dynamic typing", then I finished reading your comment and realized you were trolling.
Have fun. It's easy to work constantly and lose sight of why you're doing it but remember why you're doing it and take time to enjoy it.
Let's list some practical things:

Eat more bacon. I was a skinny teenager. After I was 22 I gained a lot of weight. I'm 33 and finally discovered keto/low carb eating and it's working wonders. I recognize that I never really had the interest in doing sports growing up, so if 16 year old me kept to a low carb diet we'd have maintained a low weight through the years.

Finish college. It's a real popular idea to drop out and "do the startup". If you have a side project that gets traction AND MAKES MONEY then that's probably ok. In my case, I did a bit of school and have self-taught myself a lot. I'm really good at what I do (web development), but there are holes in my knowledge. More importantly, I'm regretting now not being exposed to other potential fields of interest like astronomy, solar power, etc. I'll never have that experience unless I show up on campus like those guys in the movie Interns. Kinda akward and I'm not that funny.

Last thing would be to seize opportunities when they come. Always say yes. I don't do that enough. Go to that party, attend that meetup. If you have an opportunity to travel, do it.
Expect to underestimate the amount of time you'll be working, so plan accordingly. If you build something that puts more zeroes in your bank account than you've ever seen before, that doesn't make you invincible. An overnight success can't be replicated 5x. Save a large portion of your earnings. When you're older, you'll thank your younger self for helping you bootstrap your newest venture.
By noise, I mean:

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Don't be afraid to make a decision on choosing a specific path in life. The sooner you make a decision, the sooner you start learning and finding out things about the path. If you find yourself having a life where you are not happy for a really long period of time, re-assess things and make another decision. You have the rest of your life to figure out what you want to do, many people who are much older than you are still trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up and you know - that is totally ok. Grow your network of friends and mentors and never be afraid to ask for help - you are doing good so far :) Get involved in things that you wouldn't normally do, these opportunities lead to other opportunities and also help you grow your network - many organizations with great causes out there. Always have something that you care about and is personal to you on the side, no matter what happens in life, you always have that one thing that matters to you and no one can take away. Hope you have a fun and great 16th bday!
Seems like whenever Dart is in HN, we hear a lot of FUD and slogans. Do you even know what Dart is?
I wish I didn't know
I don't believe in intelligence, I don't believe in IQ, I don't believe that one person is smarter than another person.

I know this isn't HN material, but I've been drinking wine and taking my Klonopins and figured I would vent.

I hate my knowledge but I love my knowledge. I'm so unhappy and wish I didn't know. I wish I was stupid and lived in ignorant bliss. I wish I didn't have to drink and smoke to ignore it all.

I have "major depressive disorder" and I know where it stems from. I know too much. I read too much. I want to learn too much.

I wanted to be a genius when I was a child, I really didn't care about much else. I don't believe in the word genius anymore, because knowledge isn't intelligence.

I feel like there are many out there that feel the same. I feel like you visit this site. I know many of us have knowledge, but we don't know wrong from right.

I'm sorry you feel this way too, I wish that there was something that we could do. I think it's hopeless, but please tell me what to do.
> A lightweight but functional Scala-native IDE with builtin sbt support would be absolutely awesome for a pure-Scala project.

This would indeed be wonderful. I have been using Scala as my first language of choice for some time now and personally feel that Scala is still held back a bit in terms of tooling. Please consider this!
From the country that forbid car parts from entering Cuba...
Easy. Prove you know how to develop software. I've never had anyone ask about my degree(which doesn't exist).
Many 16 year olds are not interested in meaningful, genuine relationships. Perhaps most teenagers who get casual sex are bullshitting their way to it. Some are just naturally confident, attractive and interesting, but I'd wager a bet that the average kid who actually gets laid is bullshitting quite a lot, with or without ridiculous hats.
You are very, very confused and your comment is wholly untrue. Dart uses the normal binding layer (with refcounted object handles) in their Dartium branch, and the patch to add support to WebKit/Blink is quite tractable, both prior to and after the Blink fork. The largest changes introduced are dynamic language selection and another language binding target. Members of the WebKit project objected to accepting the original patch over concerns of: the increased burden of supporting another target binding; negative performance impacts from another layer of indirection due to run-time selection rather than compile-time; and whether such experimental feature work aligned with the WebKit project goals [1].

Oilpan is an wholly unrelated project that's investigating moving some of the DOM lifetime management over to GC rather than it's current reference counted structure [2]. It will have to integrate with any language engine, of course, but the work is being done as part of Blink and V8, not Dart. The impetus for the project is to address various recurring issues including: memory consumption, GC performance, object lifetime bugs, and general code readability.

[1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

[2] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...
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The problem might be you: are you trying to convince random unknown people on the Internet to change their minds? Absent knowledge of their true motivations, beliefs or biases? Don't bother with "nicely" but don't be critical either; just be factual - people always hear what they want to hear, and that's not actually your problem.

It is an order of magnitude more efficient to simply move on to the next person, because there are always more people.
Delphi had amazing data binding. You literally dropped two non-visual components on your form; plonked down data-aware components; and then pointed it at any number of databases via ADO, DAO, ODBC or BDE and you were flying.

Unrivalled flexibility and power and you could do knock together a CRUD app in a couple of hours.

Add to that the incredible flexibility afforded by 3rd party components like DevExpress and you had grids and other tabular components that even today any amount of HTML5, JS and CSS and backend programming could only dream of achieving.

And we did this in the 90s.
This is a great idea! Emailed you!
FTA:
> Dr. Cram, the Iowa health cost expert, points out that joint manufacturers are businesses, operating within the constraints of varying laws and markets.

> “Imagine you’re the C.E.O. of Zimmer,” he said. “Why charge $1,000 for the implant in the U.S. when you can charge $14,000? How would you answer to your shareholders?” Expecting device makers “to do otherwise is like asking, ‘Couldn’t Apple just charge $50 for an iPhone?’ because that’s what it costs to make them.”

> But do Americans want medical devices priced like smartphones? “That,” Dr. Cram said, “is a different question.”

Indeed.

Maybe mixing something that is designed to work better when no ethics is involved (free market and capitalist ideology) with a highly relative to ethics sector (healthCARE) isn't such a good idea. Well, not for shareholders of course.
My advice to you is whoever you take advice from, make sure they share your values or have a personality similar to yours. I personally don't regret anything in my life (mostly) but I know many people who would probably be miserable in my position. Likewise, I would be miserable in the position of many people who consider themselves happy and successful.
> Put another way: "those who can't do, teach" isn't an insult to teachers. It's praise.

Maybe that old saying should be rephrased to "those who can't instinctively do, teach".
True, and I'd love to see that kind of information. But it's a hard problem: doing solid outcomes analysis of hospital procedures is orders of magnitudes harder than crowdsourcing reviews!
Sorry, by 'currently' I meant current plans, you're absolutely right.

I think it's pretty likely that Opera might include it, and that could change things - even though their marketshare tends to be kind of small they've traditionally had some power in terms of boosting adoption of new tech.
I'm disgusted, this is such a rigged game.