skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A guy will say, 'Well, I make my luck.' And the same guy walks down the street and a piano that's been hoisted drops on his head. The truth of the matter is your life is very much out of your control."

-Woody Allen
Why not Eminent Domain for patents then?
I followed the citation for "secret jail time". Fortunately, at least for that allegation, it appears to be speculation in another article [1].

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
Presumably you could use client site JavaScript to decode your message. However, that brings up key management issues.
TIL 'Scheme with Types' is a thing. Thanks!
The business is not based around mobile, but if you're going to have any kind of mobile apps - however incidental to your core product - you have to put up with it.
The problem with that is that 99% of designers (or their boss) would not consider screen reader users as their audience. Designing purposefully for the visually impaired means using semantic markup, ARIA if needed, and being careful to offer annotations where content is mainly visual. Creating a separate experience would mean duplicating your whole site, and nobody would do it because of the cost - or even worse, create a limited, reduced version, like the mobile-specific sites with all their problems we all hate.

It's a hard issue, but the goal of assistive technology is to include people with disability, not segregate. If you want to create a specialized version for them, by all means go ahead, but HTML and ARIA were designed with this goal in mind. I don't think there is a better tool for this.

> I wish there where layout oriented and data oriented table tags [...] I also wish you could designate where the 'content' actually is

That's where `display: table` comes in. New elements in HTML5 allow you to designate content, supporting text, images, navigation areas: main, article, nav, figure, aside, etc. This could already be done with ARIA "role" attributes in HTML4/XHTML.
Yeah, that was only in the README. Fixed.
>The same could be done to bring creative works like books into the public domain.

This is a great idea. Unpopular works would be inexpensive to acquire rights for, so dedicated fan communities could try this.

Some out of print works might only cost a token amount. Might be able to buy them in bulk from publishers.
Low brow dismissal. Typical.

Anyway, the idea expressed is a special case of common wisdom about rules: exceptions are okay so long as they remain exceptions. The tough part is making sure this doesn't become a habit for the client where they keep coming to you with last minute crises.

I remember reading that successful societies are those which have rules that are enforced _almost_ all of the time. If you enforce rules by the strictest interpretation all the time or don't enforce them at all then you have less success than if you permit a small amount of bending. I may be misremebering this, so if anyone remembers a similar work, do share.
Do not forget Mario Piano (http://www.mariopiano.com) which has most of the same, including written score.
But his degree did involve computers. He got his undergraduate degree in natural and artificial languages
Actively harmful to the industry. You'll just end up creating similar market forces such as the MPEGLA that is currently making advancement in video compression close to impossible. Troll-defense patent pool simply creates a large artificial barrier to entry into the market.

It's probably better than nothing, but actually removing the patents and allowing open competition is more beneficial for the public and economy overall.
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That's an argument from authority, though. There's no direct evidence to suggest that such a thing will happen, just that it hasn't been shown to be impossible.
>If entrepreneur wants money out of the company (like for rent), she pays the taxes twice. Once as a corporation (28%) and then again as capital gains tax and/or as an income tax (+ all the costs that comes with employing yourself). Rule thumb for starting entrepreneurs that you need to make at least twice the money you want to make as an individual since taxes and costs the other half.

An entrepreuner may be taxed the same way for his/her work as an employee is if he/she wants to. If he pays the income tax, I think that can be reduced from the corporation's profit tax just like any other corporation. There's also tax free possibilities up to 60 000€.
I would worry about the opposite problem: Troll gets crap patent for $X, sells it to community for $10X and then goes out and gets ten more crap patents.
If your noise is algorithmic, and even worse, the algorithm is known (as would be the case of an open source project), it makes your protection fairly vulnerable.

E.g. in case of biasing the method towards time of day, the attacker likely can filter it out using fairly basic statistical methods. Generally any kind of pseudo-randomization would render the method vulnerable; at least to the caliber of mathematicians which work at NSA.

If there's messaging system's own statistical analyzer, that learns your communication patterns and adjusts false messaging to rectify that, it could work. However the other messaging clients have to play along, which makes it fairly challenging problem.
The only way I can imagine secret jail time working is by publicly charging that person with a crime they didn't commit to cover up the actual reason. This is similar to what is alleged with the CEO of Qwest, who would not cooperate with the NSA and was then charged with insider trading and is still in prison.

However, what possible reason would the person have to remain silent about the real reason they're in prison once they're already in prison?
The problem with this - at least as I understand it - is that patent trolls make a lot from patents on a one-by-one basis - much more than companies want to pay or feel is affordable.
The patents won't be killed if they're valid; it still has to go through the USPTO. Why do you think that killing those patents is not the right approach?

Your approach (if it worked) would just incentivize filing more patents to try to get bought out.
They do software for traveling nuclear power plant employees... I think it's a pretty good name...
That doesn't matter, you had it right the first time and there is a still a reason and a need for being able to specify single elements of a property. Say, you set a specific font size and font family for the body, but want some element to have a slightly smaller font size... having to explicitly repeat all the stuff would make CSS unworkable. (look up the "font" short hand, there is quite a lot in there, and that's just one of so many, e.g. backgrounds and background images)
It's not about inheritance, it's about specificity. If you have a generic module that specifies

padding: 5px;

And you actually the bottom of your element to have more padding, you need to be able to do adjust the bottom padding independently

padding-bottom: 10px;

Otherwise, you'd be required to tightly couple your our padding requirements with the defaults of the original module

padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px;
"However, what possible reason would the person have to remain silent about the real reason they're in prison once they're already in prison?"

Probably threats against family members and threats of increased jail time.
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Good luck then in that case! :)
I don't think you miss a single clojure thread with your rhetoric about "what a true lisp is." It really is rather tiring. I'd kindly ask that if you want to promote scheme or common lisp you do it by submitting relevant articles and promoting them in a positive way, rather than the very negative way you do in every single clojure thread.
My argument is based on the premise that most software patents are bad for our economy.

Amazon's One-Click patent is a perfect example. Amazon would have developed one-click whether or not it was patentable. By granting the patent, we granted Amazon a monopoly and didn't get anything in return.

I LOVE the shorter patent idea - particularly for software patents. It wouldn't work for pharma, but that's okay.
No one ever really decided that floats were the way to layout columns as far as I know. It's completely about "current language features". The standards group was just too slow to implement a decent alternative so we had to use floats. But flexbox[1] is the solution to lots of the problems you are mentioning, and it's almost support in all modern browsers, so very soon we can start abandoning floats and absolute positioning in our layouts.

Meanwhile, CSS is still a well-designed language in terms of syntax and principles. We just need a few more features that weren't in the original spec as new uses for the web emerge.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Flexi...
Its a "what's the sound of one hand clapping" situation. We purposefully have not put ourselves in a place where international law cannot be enforced against us. Without that, its a total fiction to say there is any law. Unenforceable obligations aren't law. They're conventions or guidelines, maybe aspirations.
Ask Patents is for stopping patents from being granted. I'm suggesting a way to kill patents that are already granted + monetary incentives for the worst / most expensive offenders.
> In logic, it's fruitless to try to place the burden of proof on a negative statement.

That's unnecessary. We've already seen, via the leaks, that dragnet surveillance is happening. The NSA's claim that domestic communications are sacrosanct are put to lie by the revelations that the DEA and IRS are both using laundered NSA domestic surveillance data. We're now well beyond the need to prove that the government is in a state of sin with regard to the Constitution. The issue now is what remedies we'll pursue.
Ask HN: Diffie Hellman for Email?
Just as with OTR - (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/) for XMPP, would it be possible, or feasable to implement something like that for email, as a server-side addition?

- User alice@example.com types and sends email for bob@server.com
- Mailserver from example.com contacts mailserver at server.com
- They do a Diffie Hellman key exchange and MTA at example.com uses that key to encrypt this specific email message
- It passes as encrypted plaintext over the internet
- The MTA at server.com recieves the encrypted message, decrypts it, and discards the key.

It would have a few of the drawbacks of MTA ssl, because both ends have to support it, but it does provide better protection against private key leakage.

What are your thoughts and opinions on this?
Same here, reason being is that every other default tone is just plain obnoxious or makes no sense as a ring tone. A pinball machine? Church bells?
>or: use codes that only you and the other person know, hold hands and tap morse code into each others palms, find secure rooms.

What? What am I some sort of criminal on the run?

You're missing the point!!! -- This whole damn thing is completely unacceptable.

I don't give a shit about "legal" the government is an institution made by men, and these actions and programs are wrong. The term "legal" holds absolutely zero meaning to me any longer.
It doesn't open for me on Mountain Lion 10.8. There is no window. I've tried to open it from terminal and it gives an error with:

$ ./MacVim
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/liblua.5.1.5.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim
Reason: image not found
with a web page using correct markup, a good screen reader interface, and some practice, they can navigate and consume information much faster than we can visually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1tlLOavvM <-- Léonie Watson, "Design like you give a damn: Practical accessibility for Web Pros" = very good talk, crucial crash course, and includes a great demonstration of the bit of your post I quoted :D
Quantity has quality of its own. So does efficiency. When you make a process much more efficient you after a tipping point convert it to something else entirely - like the surveillance that. Technology is amplifier.

Of course getting 10 more years just because he used wget instead of bash scripts that loop with nc is absurd.

But the fact that he used simple automation to do the job should be taken into consideration. So should be the fact that solitary confinement is torture.

But the whole trial seemed like Kangaroo court to me anyway ...

Edit: Also technically he was authorized to use wget - he had permissions to download it from wherever or to install the package and had permissions to set the executive bit to true.
I don't know about coffee, but I've figured out when tea becomes a problem. There have been times when I drank 4-6 liters of tea per day. If I'd quit cold turkey, the next day I'd get a growing, eventually stabbing headache, nausea, and eventually vomiting.

But it's very easy to kick: one or two days of drinking 1 or 2 liters and I'm fine. Even less might probably work; I've had times when I was worried that I didn't reduce my tea consumption in time, and I just drank some cola and was usually fine. (I don't like cola. I just drink it to ease down my addiction.)

I never actually noticed any significant fogginess as far as I remember.
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How large?

Piwik is really ancillary to the discussion at hand, but I often see the claim that Piwik can't handle busy sites, and it's important to quantify the claim.

I've had success (and others report similar behavior) with 500,000+ hits per day. http://piwik.org/docs/optimize/ reports adequate support to higher levels. It's quite easy to set this up with EC2 + RDS, and using autoscaling gets you a very resilient solution that can easy handle those numbers. Also, in the case of mediacru.sh, many of the optimizations have little impact since they optimize for reporting on the already-gathered analytics. With only two analytics viewers/users - this is not much of an issue.

If you're doing more than 1mil per day, then I think something like snowplow, a commercial solution, or a fully custom solution are appropriate anyway.
"However, what possible reason would the person have to remain silent about the real reason they're in prison once they're already in prison"

Look at Qwest CEO Nacchio's case. He claimed exactly that, see e.g. http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/13/jailed-qwest-ceo-claimed-t... and what happened?

He's jailed for 6 years, I'm sure most people believe it's because he's eeevil capitalist scum, and whatever the truth, everyone else in his position has to take it as likely they'd suffer the same fate.

Now that this seems to have turned a corner it might play out differently, but "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
> If by 2-turn you mean majority-runoff, that still has perverse incentives against voting for other than the more preferred major party candidate, though slightly less so than does plurality.

Highly less, I would say.

When the two most voted candidates go to the second round, you may vote for a third candidate knowing that, in case this preferred one fails, there is still the chance to vote against the one you hate more in the second round.

In a single-run voting, people are more compelled to vote against the candidate the hate more, instead of voting for the one they like more.
Most of my driving skills, and my disdain for other people "who use a car and can't drive" comes from driving games in arcades as a kid.

Now that arcades are dead in the US? There goes easy access to a really useful "simulator as a game". "Driving" in a game on an iPad is nowhere near close as Race Drivin' which had a clutch, a starter key, and relatively functioned as a real car (i.e. if you picked manual expect that bitch to stall).

If I wrote a blog post about driving, I would be far more snarky and dismissive than this author. It's one of my biggest pet peeves. I borderline consider myself a "professional driver" though I would lack the credentials but it just rubs me so wrong that people are this fucking careless at it as I see every time I get behind the wheel. I'm frankly surprised some people still live.
Absolutely agree. The FBI agent investigating me was quite friendly on his first visit until I said I didn't want to talk to him without an attorney. He didn't even visit me until he'd spent a week talking to other people first, none of which mentioned it to me until much later. He was even less friendly in court.

It's no accident that they showed up dressed casually or that one "had" to use the restroom. Entirely planned. These are experienced investigators. The fact that multiple agents showed up is a bad sign. That means they're devoting some significant resources to this investigation.

I don't know if I would hire an attorney yet, but it might be time for everyone involved to ask around for recommendations and have some contact info for an attorney on hand in case you needed it.
From the URL that ibejoeb posted above (italics are mine):

Unceremoniously titled “Destruction,
Alteration, or Falsification of Records in Federal
Investigations and Bankruptcy,” and part of § 802 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, § 1519 provides:

Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates,
conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false
entry in any record, document, or tangible
object with the intent to
impede, obstruct, or influence
the investigation or proper
administration of any matter
within the jurisdiction of any
department or agency of the
United States or any case filed
under Title 11, or in relation to
or contemplation of any such
matter or case, shall be fined
under this title, imprisoned not
more than 20 years, or both.
I recently set up group health insurance for my five person company. Before then we'd all been on individual plans. I felt really awkward making medical decisions for our employees. The HSA high deductible plan was the best option for my husband (co-founder) and myself, but I didn't know if anyone had any medical issues, or when they intended to start families.

Also, we founded our company five years ago, and it was just the two of us for years. One of the things that kept us in California was that we had selected Kaiser health insurance, and it was unclear if we could get pregnancy coverage on another plan in another state.
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It seems a lot of posters in this thread share that same positive meaning, which lends creedence to the definition. There are several posts that interpret this sound as the optimal sound for its associated task, as if it would have been less recognizeable if it had not been a marimba, or that particular group of intervals. My point is that this is a conflation of correlation and causation.
It's an article about a tangible step forward in solving DL problems.

Will RSA be broken because of this? Of course nobody knows.

But are the recent breakthroughs interesting "hacker news"? Absolutely. Would you have really preferred not to hear about this?

Edit: As per tptacek's comment, changed "breaking RSA" to "solving DL problems"
Added as a hosted app. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news/gdljjm...

Let me know if you can install on your chromebook.
I don't see why the entrepreneur wouldn't just pay herself a salary to make rent. That would be deductible from the corporate tax as an expense.
With cafeine, going cold turkey is more likely to be accidental. You don't realize how addicted you are, go somewhere where you don't have access to cafeine (a weekend of sailing, for example), and on the second day the withdrawal hits you.

Next time: bring a few cans of cola to drink during the first day, and you're okay.
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I use Intel Smart Response SSD caching on my work PC - 1 x 500GB HD and 1 x 60GB SSD as cache. (I think you can set this up to cache multiple drives but you might need one SSD partition per HD.) It was a little fiddly to set up but since then that it's been trouble-free. It was not expensive to buy the parts and it does a good job of balancing the competing requirements of disk space, performance, cost and general hassle.

Flat-out performance is a little ropey by SSD standards, but random accesses are fast, so it mostly feels SSD-like. (I have the system set to write-back mode, so write speed is decent too.) Of course, as with any cache, it is possible for it to become filled with inappropriate data, or for a data set to exceed the size of the cache, but for my purposes (mainly building C++ and running the result) I've found it to do a good job. With a 60GB cache I've found these situations pretty rare day to day anyway.

(Smart Response is Windows-only; I don't know how it compares to the Mac OS X or Linux equivalents.)
Maybe mine's different - any medical cost over the deductible is covered - prescriptions or hospital visit or whatever??
Prediction: In a few years you will realize that voting does not matter at all.
A very paranoid one.
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+1

I'll also add: this works best for me when I switch to decaf and take caffeine pills. Then I can start to decrease the caffeine dose independent of the tasty hot drink.
I agree that non valid patents should be killed. If a patent is valid perhaps its usefulness in monetary terms to the community is still worth more than the present value of what trolls and legitimate patent holders could expect to earn by holding it.
Year, it didn't really work well for me and the objective-c support was subpar. But I used some of the code for pointers. I think I tried all available emacs clang completion limbs before trying to port youcompleteme
How do you know what is running corresponds to the provided source?
Hmm. I guess turning on Lua was a bad idea. Apparently forcing a static build didn't work right. Will be fixed in around 20m.

EDIT: fixed! Disabled Lua for now, I have both my own build and brew's installed, and it will take some time to sort out.
If you have a plan to fix the entire American political system, I will happily listen. I just spent 2.5 years working tech in US politics and it did not fill me with optimism.

When you have eliminated the implausible, whatever remains, however distasteful, must be endorsed.
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Feedback on a feature (duplicate)
(Sorry if you are seeing this again, not sure if this showed up correctly last time, so submitting again.)

Hi All I wanted to get your feedback on a feature I was thinking of adding to ShareCred (http://sharecred.com). Before I proceed, my sincere thanks for taking your time and providing your valuable feedback! Thanks!
As you may know, ShareCred is based on the philosophy that we need to reach out to people outside of our immediate circle. (Yes, HN allows that, agreed, but HN is very limited in expression, and not really interested in exploring the possibilities. You can think of ShareCred as similar to HN, but based on a blogging model, and bringing in controls based on one's relationship and expertise.)

Assuming that you are with me so far (with regards to what ShareCred is), I would like to ask if the following feature is of any interest to anyone.

Feature: "Ask questions to our 1st, 2nd, 3rd degree of relations (or to people with certain recognition), and getting feedback anonymously or not."

You can think of Quora being brought down to your 1st/2nd/3rd degree relations or people of certain recognition.

What I am seeing in this idea is couple of things. 1. Asking questions to people outside of your circle, but still controlled. 2. Getting answers anonymously from people in your circle, or not.

For example, a question such as 'What wine do you drink?' is not something we want to put on Quora (of course, you can put on Facebook, but as I argued sometime back, it has limitations.) Such questions are ripe for limiting to your circles, and in some cases, benefit from anonymity.

What do you all think?

Thanks again for your time, ShareCred