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> We know that the Eastern District of Texas handles a lot of patent troll cases because they happen to have the most favorable judges.

Wrong, if you believe Mark Lemley [1, 2]. Apparently the plaintiff friendly days at EDT, if there ever were any, are long gone (about as far back as 2006, according to some). EDT is preferred these days because it's a "rocket docket" for patent cases and allows speedy trials. Well, as speedy as trials can go.

[1] "Where to File Your Patent Case," Mark Lemley, 2010: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1597919

[2] A nice, brief overview of the paper above at patentlyo: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/05/patent-litigation-fo...
> It used to be that there was REALLY good stuff posted there.

Like what?
That is one of the reasons I dislike socialized medicine. The state allows one and only one solution, so you have to get into it, whereas you can likely buy a little more expensive "fat" insurance and not have to change your body (or, just as likely fit people get a rebate).
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That doesn't automatically make it ok for him to go ahead and exploit someone's profile for attention (for the 2nd time). He wrote a lazy report and knew they did not understand him. He could write a more detailed report and tell them that they have misunderstood him. Or he could write one in Arabic and ask them to get help from one of the Arabic-speaking employees.

After two messages back and forth, he says "i have no choice other than report this to mark himself". He did indeed have many other choices but he jumped straight to posting on Mark's profile which he knew will create a global shit-storm.

It's clear he wasn't very reluctant to posting on Mark's profile anyway. He was just waiting for them to ignore him so he can drop his "i have no other choice" line and go ahead.
Yes. My work (not public as of yet) is in this area and the creators of this are also the creators of wikihouse, which has produced modular units for structures, some of which have been built as prototypes. If you're willing to count the Whole Earth Catalog, then there have actually been many things like it. Unfortunately phones suck for typing and trade shows suck for burying your head into HN :)
What a loaded title. The article is much more balanced than it might seem.

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Most of our modern food is very, very good for us. Compared to the alternative.

There's some magical thinking that nature intended us to eat some foods and not others. This is confused at best.
Nature consists of a system of every-creature-for-itself. Those 'natural' foods were doing their very best to kill you whilst propagating their seeds. The foods we historically ate were just those that injured us slowly enough that we could still reproduce.

Nowadays we can assay foodstuffs and make a chart of their benefits vs issues. For the first time in history we can know which hurt us quickly, and which slowly.
Take it one step further. Processed foods are those where we can remove the injurious portions and keep the part that benefits us. Add hybridizing and we can make that easier by having desirable components in higher proportions.
Modern farming techniques allow feeding our teeming billions without periodic starvation, even in 'bad years' i.e. irrigation, chemicals to suppress competition (bugs, fungi, other weeds).

Comes down to this: eat 'natural', eat 'organic', you are one in a million that can afford to indulge yourself with fad/cult foods at the expense of your carbon footprint. Go ahead; its a free country. But please no more with the evangelizing - only a tiny fraction of us can afford that foolishness. And some of us find it offensive, like eating cheetah or endangered animal meat. You indulge yourself, inflate your carbon footprint drastically, to keep your karma aligned or whatever. Cottage industries spin up that are devoted to taking your money and giving you whatever the food of the month is. All very self-indulgent seen from the outside.

Anyway, I thank civilization for providing me with a corn-based food infrastructure that guarantees plentiful calories and protein, and even some variety, year in and year out.
Fighting cancer and curing it are hugely different.

Does it actually matter? It's not like you can clean your body completely of pathogenic viruses and bacteria either.
Yes. He had one motive, to get elected. He said whatever would convince money to contribute, and he said whatever would convince people to vote. And none of it meant a thing.

This is true for all politicians. Even the one you think is yours.

There will be no Messiah.
That would be great, especially if you can license it such that local building code adaptations are also published automatically.
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I'm not sure how Facebook was supposed to know this was a vulnerability. If you look at the actual conversation it looks like Khalil is reporting the ability to post on other people's walls as a vulnerability.

In the first email, Khalil simply says that he can post to Sarah Goodin's facebook wall. He makes no mention of the fact that he and Sarah Goodin aren't friends.

The Facbook engineer replies that he is unable to see anything from the link that Khalil sent. This is because the engineer and Sarah are not friends.

Khalil responds with a screen shot of the post. Again, Khalil makes absolutely no mention that he and Sarah are not friends at all. In fact, at this point it would appear that Khalil is friends with Sarah, as he states that only her friends can see her wall. I guess he is able to see the post he made though.

At this point, Khalil decides that the only course of action is to go post on MZ's wall. How is that sort of escalation appropriate? By paying Khalil at this point, all you are doing is telling people that MZ's account is a an acceptable place to report vulnerabilities, which is a horrible precedent to set.
I think most Russian-speaking programmers are intelligent enough to understand it's a foreign name, especially since it's written as "kal" and not "кал".

> I.e. name shouldn't sound funny obscene in any of the major languages.

My point is that this is probably more difficult than you realize.

It's also pointless; if you're the maker of a consumer product (like a soda) and you expect to market it in Russian-speaking countries, then of course you need to watch out for such things. Something like this which is only incidentally used by a small portion of technically literate Russian speakers - it's not really worth bothering with.
This may not be entirely true if people like Sen Feinstein have their way - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/why-sen-feinstein-wron...

By changing the definition, or narrowly defining it, they can exclude all of the great new forms a journalism from the protections that 'journalists' provide. The next step would be a government license for 'approved' journalists.
https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms?locale=ar_AR

It's translated. I believe it requires you to be in a local to get this page to display automatically. It certainly exists for people creating accounts in arabic, and absolutely includes the relevant lines.
I did not phrase that properly. I meant: technically in the law books and interpreted as such, but violates the spirit of the law and is unconstitutional. At the risk of beating a dead and buried horse, consider the legal definition of "torture".

I doubt he would have had assassins on his trail, but he would have been put through the legal system the same way Manning was.

Also consider the court of public opinion -- there's enough of an uninformed mass who think this is a scumbag who gave American secrets to China and Russia that an administration can bend the laws quite a bit and get away with it.
The Javadoc shows this to be some sort of a general VM construction kit, with access to some very low-level stuff (machine code generation): http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/javadoc/graalvm/all/index.htm...
Hasn't there been some sort of train route proposed for decades?

A friend went to Las Vegas a few years ago and said condos are sold along a proposed high speed train route but it's always "just a few years from completion".
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Do you mean that you prefer the method names in VerbalExpressions, or the lack of nesting? I've been experimenting with my method names a little bit here and there, so that's been in flux. The lack of nesting in VerbalExpressions, though, I think really limits the ability to produce arbitrarily complex regexes, such as https://github.com/wyantb/js-regex#business-logic-regex . Perhaps it could be said that one shouldn't write regexes that complicated anyway, though, so there's a case for their API anyway :)
Your right to consume drugs (which I fully support) stops when you begin to pollute the air I breathe.

People shouldn't have to hide in their houses, but neither should they be allowed to spew smoke where others will breathe it.

The problem is that this is really an air pollution issue but is being painted as a drugs issue, from both sides. Grandparent poster thinks that air pollution from portable fires is somehow related to the legal status of cannabis. Conversely, lots of smokers probably think that efforts to restrict their ability to pollute is some sort of effort to outlaw their drug.
I don't think this story is as much about game dev work culture as it is about cultural blinders. American bosses simply had no idea about the market for what one guy called "proper football".
Just tried for 1 minute and found the following issues:

1. The so called prince doesn't die even when he falls from greater heights :)

2. Needles/knives doesn't come up even when he walks/runs on the holes

All the best!!!
It seems like KDE already handles your needs: it's well-integrated, stable and has all the modern capabilities you could want. Certainly far better than XP! I've used KDE a fair bit, and the recent versions have been superb. Sure, it's heavyweight compared to some of its bare-bones competitors, but that's the only way to fulfill all your conditions.

Of course, the truly "professional" choice would be XMonad layered over something minimal. But that's a different discussion for a different time :P.
I never thought I'd see the day when I'll see a sentence with both "Obama" and "change" in it with a "not" in between.
Its fascinating to look back at the origins of this game. I remember getting hooked on FIFA98 on the playstation. I would venture to say the hardcore fans of FIFA each have dropped over $500+ lifetime on buying new versions of the game. Some easily $1k+ ($60/year over 10+ years).

I am surprised no one has built a truly good link between fantasy sports and FIFA/Madden or other sports franchises. Despite both being multi-billion industries, they still seem siloed from each other.
Why isn't anyone doing languages that compile to a trampolined form of JS? It would kill two birds with one stone: you get to write recursive code without wasting memory, and you can easily implement a lightweight thread scheduler. It seems like people are just picking the low hanging fruit, i.e. "JS syntax is ugly, let's implement a desugarer". I haven't seen many people try to change the semantics of JS much. maybe Whalesong or something, but nobody is using that.
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Mozila didnt start from scratch. It started by open sourcing what netscape was. So you need to add those costs/ years in the calculation. I mean even if they rewrote it completely, these man years should be added in the estimation of cost.
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>there is no market available for that product. The people that would benefit use Windows, OSX, iOS, and Android already.

There's a huge market for that product - everyone already using Windows, OSX, iOS, and Android. Talk about validation (minus Windows at least, where it's not clear what portion use it b/c they have to vs want to).
Cute. Appealing at some basic level - how simple!

But I've spent weeks camped out in a hotel room, similar in size and even superior in facilities in some cases to tiny houses. And I come away drained, dead, yearing with all my being to get home again where I can be with my people, do my hobbies, stretch my legs.

Can a tiny house really be home? I notice they're usually custom-built. I have to imagine that makes it possible at all to bond emotionally with it. Why? Because there's not much else there to satisfy a person.

A dorm room was ok, for a while. So much else in my life going on, it hardly mattered. But at some point I spend a few days at home, on my own. Then what? Build a chicken coop? Need a garage or shop for that. Take up luthier's tools? Need a workbench, some storage space. How about just play bridge with friends? Better be at their place; a monk's cell won't do.

It seems to me, with just dorm/hotel/cottage tiny-living experiences, to be a spare, empty life.
I have no interest in consuming marijuana but I wholeheartedly support legalization, because it would save a lot of public money and because criminalizing it ruins productive people's lives. Anecdotally, a lot of people I know in the tech community think similarly.

As for the age limit, take it step by step. Insisting on a perfect solution immediately accomplishes nothing except to delay any solution.
I think your optimistic view misses something important: nomatter how well browsers can execute JS, it's not truly general purpose computing as long as the stuff beneath the browser - from OS to hardware - is out of your control.

It's great that the in-browser ecosystem is expanding and improving, but IMO we will still lose The War if we cannot tell our chips to do whatever we want. I hope we won't settle for the browser when we can and should have it all.
I agree with your assessment of Obama essentially kicking the can down the road via placating sound bites ready for consumption by the masses. However, I'm curious what would lead one to expect any other response from a politician. Are there any examples where an empower has been told he has no clothes and then the emporer agrees and takes corrective actions?

Unfortunately, I suspect the average American prefers a leader who always gives confident, reassuring statements in response to any crisis. It helps reinforce the illusion that intelligent, honest, and benevolent actors are leading the nation in a healthy direction.
Totally agree, I've probably spent around that.

What's really interesting is where the game started and where it is now, and what FIFA 2023 might be like.

I posted this question on Quora and got a response from a former employee, here's what he said

"In 20 years time, FIFA will advance towards the real sport as much possible - in both aesthetics and emotion. Where it will be exactly depends on how much the technology advances in parallel.

Graphically it will go down the way it has always been going down - more polygons and well scanned faces. Unless FIFA regulates that the pitch be a virtual hologram, there's really no other options for a football game to go in direction other than real life. Maybe bigger fireworks.

Emotion and Gameplay is probably where you will see the biggest difference. One of the biggest problem in FIFA right now is that the game still has to live within the restriction of the 17-button current-gen controllers. These controllers don't have enough fidelity to replicate what you want the player to do. It's actually impressive that EA Canada has been able to replicate football to this level by only using 17 buttons in FIFA 13."

http://www.quora.com/Electronic-Arts-company/What-will-the-c...
Status Quo is the name of the game in Washington politics.
I did sign up. But then signing up does not bring out what others learn or understand.
Or you just book a round trip with a few hours inside the US and you're good to go for the next 12 months in your home country.

This way you can opt for the wait-and-see approach regarding the evolution of the surveillance state trend and its ramifications.
Ask HN: As an investor where do I start to invest in companies on YCombinator?
Who do I meet, is there any form to fill, stuffs like that.
Obama talks like the president of the ACLU but acts like Dick Cheney.
So what, you think there are no economies of scale? Obviously traditional retail will keep being strong, because it will remain cheaper and with higher margins. You are instead looking at and expanding market.

When something new comes, it does not mean it replaces something existing. Same mistake people do with tablets, thinking they will make all desktop computers completely disappear. AGain, it just leads to more fragmentation and a bigger cake overall.
I think he's saying that if the money is raised through taxation then it's not charity.
Can I somehow replicate that using the link you provided? I've seen D3 struggle when handling more than a couple thousand nodes, so I'd be interested to see how you got it to go up to 100K.
what vpn? (thanks)
> it says "Each of these visas requires the prospective employer to first file a petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services"

That's correct -- you have to apply before arriving, and I think it's also true that you need to have a job lined up as well. But you can certainly work here.

> as freelancers have no employers this is not a solution for my case.

Even freelancers eventually settle on an employer.
Completely agree. Their focus on design as all of how-it-looks, how-it-works, and performance-is-a-feature is very promising for a Linux Desktop, as are the hard work and sacrifices they're willing to go to get that - rewriting everything in Vala and GTK3 namely.

Their app-data-sharing component, Contractor, is also interesting. I've had at least one idea I wanted to try in the past but couldn't figure out how to implement it b/c apps are not aware of other running apps. I wonder if Contractor will make that possible.

These guys have created a really strong base to build upon, and appear to be innovative problem solvers. They're also tuned into the problems of power users, referencing the whole Gnome2/3 brouhaha. Really looking forward to seeing how this develops, and to it getting to a point I can completely replace Ubuntu desktop with it.
While I agree with your premise that Elementary is nothing more than a repetitive clone of a well trodden trope, I could not disagree more with the "steal" aspect.

Instead, I would suggest that any further designs should drop the privileged terms of "intuitive" and other such rubbish[1] and instead focus on designing a system that specifically meets the needs of a very particular demographic / audience.

Finally, there is little to no evidence to suggest that Picasso said that infamous line. It was likely misattributed by Mr. Jobs from a biography.

It is instead a mangling of the words of T.S. Eliot[2] that seriously detracts from Eliot's original (and relevant to this discourse) intention.

[1] http://www.uigarden.net/english/easy-intuitive-and-metaphor
[2] http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borro...
The author clearly has a language barrier. Not all bug reports are going to come with sterling reports to back them. In the end, Ḱhalil fell back on the lingua franca of the internet: a working demonstration.

The onus is on the organization, not the bug reporter, to vet the information. From what I see, there was more than enough in the report to conclude there was a problem, and follow up.

If Facebook security fails in coding the application, in QR, and when a user files a bug report, it is awfully hard to place the blame with the bug reporter.
When I design native apps it makes sense to prototype them in a medium where it's still cheap to make a design change. This is a framework I have for doing just that.
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Here are his other - potential - projects as well as an RSS feed for them:

http://bl.ocks.org/rkirsling

http://bl.ocks.org/rkirsling.rss

Project website: http://rkirsling.github.io/modallogic/.

GitHub: https://github.com/rkirsling/modallogic.
Invoke your right to remain silent when dealing with the government, but be loud as hell in public.
The bank example's a tad off when trying to draw a correlation to this particular case. I do agree with your sentiment though.
I would reword it and say: if someone pointed out to a stubborn bank manager who refused to listen that the vault and my h of the bank's money was easily accessible, by taking out afew dollars from the bank & handing it to him. The a very embarrassed manager would be right to reward the person for showing the institutions flaw and not robbing them blind.

They might even throw a little fanfare his/her way to send a message that the bank appreciates being told and not robbed blind. (Especially given that they're a "community bank" built by pioneers and not a monolithic marble statue institution :-P)
Goverment is clever enought to change the law befor doing anything. So they can clame that what they do is within the law.
We live in a world where anyone with $25 can purchase a rasberry Pi and hook it up to a television/monitor. General purpose computing is more accessible than ever before. And if people want a locked down device why shouldn't they have a device that actually meets their needs?Unless the need for programs dried up and ran away, we will always need(and have) general purpose computation.

I'm sure a lot of people here constantly fix the computers for their friends and family. Tablets and smartphones help decrease the amount of help they need. isn't that a good thing? Or is Doctrow scared of becoming irrelevant when hackers are no longer needed as techno-priests?
> just like in that "parody" video where the SWAT team shoots the kid who was downloading songs in the head at the end

IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
That's what I was wondering about. Grunt is absolutely perfect for these kinds of workflows and if you want realtime changes that don't involve refreshing the page, just use the developer console.
> It seems like good journalism has taken a back seat to flashy visualizations

Slate just wrote an article about this at the end of the week:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/...
> No, it merely has to be about as reliable as a "cure for pneumonia".

You're overlooking something very important -- we know what causes pneumonia, but we don't know what causes cancer. When we treat pneumonia, we're treating a cause. When we treat cancer, we're treating a symptom.

The reason for "remission not cure" is because we don't have any way to definitively say there won't be a recurrence, and this will remain true until we fully understand cancer.
Isn't it incorrect to simply compare the capacity of the Hyperloop vs. the High Speed Rail. Shouldn't the transport time also be taken into account?

I mean, simplifying of course, if the Hyperloop can carry ~3,000 from A to B in 30 minutes, and the High Speed Rail can carry ~12,000 from A to B in 2 hours, which is better? In this scenario wouldn't they be equal?
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I also think we can expect that things which are today 100% legal, like free software on hardware under the user's control, will be targeted too. In this area I expect anti-gun-like retoric: "with so many important aspects of society happening online, we cannot allow potential criminals and terrorists access to tools that can do so much damage". (~)

The future was supposed to be amazing. What happened?

(~) I finally see the pro gun rights people's point of view. I'm disappointed in myself that it took a "me-relevant" analogy for me to understand.
Not really, there is a small minority of democrats and a small minority of republicans that don't support him on these issues and all the rest do on both sides.
Graal is Maxime's successor.

Oracle is planning eventually to replace the C++ based JIT with Graal in some version following 8.
The measure is capacity per unit time. The hyperloop's capacity is much smaller.
This is really well thought out. I didn't have to read a single word other than the title before I intuited how to use the editor.

That's good design.
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