skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to remember that this is not a question of patents or nothing; if you can't protect your inventions with patents, that require a thorough disclosure of how it works, then you might use other methods, such as trade secret law, which lasts quasi-forever and by definition has no disclosure.

Obviously you can't trade secret law in a variety of contexts, but if you're making something physical and can hide the secret details inside a factory....

(Of course, I'm not talking about software patents, which are entirely bogus ... although many encryption patents seem to have a lot stronger basis for validity. In particular think of RSA, which seems so obvious in retrospect ... but Diffie, Hellman and Merkle didn't think of it, and used a system they knew was weak so that they could demonstrate a proof of concept.)
it depends on who you ask.

and what decade you ask it in.
Hi Cederfjard, author here, the guide won't work on iPad (or mobile devices) :(

Let me know if you have any problems looking at it from your computer.
Spreedly - Multi-Gateways payments platform
I'm not a bitcoin expert, so I may end up off base, but...

The US government seemed surprisingly warm to bitcoin in the senate hearing. I suspect that if governments end up getting involved in bitcoin, each merchant will require some form of ID for each wallet that they interact with. This will mean that tracking down crimes like this will be fairly easy, since there's a record of each transaction. Trace down the chain, find the people involved, and if an anonymous wallet shows up, you investigate the people that it transferred to or from.

Sure, it erodes privacy, but bitcoin has the potential to make things much easier for law enforcement (and anyone else interested in money transfers) by causing registration of endpoints, giving very strong leads to investigators.
Apple tried allowing cloners to copy the hardware and being software for a while, it nearly killed them. I don't recall if the clones were ever price-competitve with x86 clones though.
It's too easy for people to call too many meetings. There is no real cost. Perhaps if it were deducted from your pay or something ... ;)

I find commuting and all it's associated challenges exhausting (traffic, public transit, parking, etc)

You also have to factor in how tired you are when you start to actually work.
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As long as you can target your content to the various different types of people in your life, why does it matter if they are all in one place? You don't stop using your phone because your parents have a phone too. What Facebook needs is a good, reliable way to keep your conversations with your friends away from your conversations with your parents. Who wants to have to go to a bunch of different places to talk to the people you need to talk to?
when i mention the slowness of the message mechanism this is both by design of Objective-C (for runtime features) and very measurable. this is why, for example, NSArray becomes prohibitively slow when you want to iterate across 1000s of members.

Objective-C is nice, but its slow by design, and this rules it out in a concrete way for a lot of the work I've done.

Its sad when optimisation comes down to 'knowing better than the compiler' only because of language constraints. (even C has this problem with struct layout for example - its just prevalent when using Objective-C/Cocoa (Touch))
We are deluged by these narratives because they are easy to understand. Same thing with a lot of money is synonymous with success; money is easy to quantify.

When we start talking about randomness and luck, my sense is, that people begin to feel uncomfortable because it makes the world a much more less understandable place.
The game industry is a special case because it is at an intersection between technology and entertainment. Success is very difficult to predict or repeat. You can't just fill a need in a niche because any other game, really any other form of entertainment, is a substitute for your product.
Neural Networks and Deep Learning Book Project
The bits and pieces you take also work in a very certain way, Backbone is also just a small collection of them. You can in fact easily piece together a backbone-like framework from small components available on components.io or bower.

Unless it solves a specific problem you have, not using any framework will almost always mean more bugs, brittle code, a less consistent API, lots of documentation effort (or lack of) and a much larger learning curve for people other than yourself.
Sorry, I don't follow this field closely and it was some time ago. Could be entirely wrong, I don't recall whatever I read as citing statistics.
Sorry. Irrepressible nerd pedantry. Carry on!
Meetings != being at the office. I work at an office (and get lots done), but only have a one-hour meeting every other week with my team. That's it. I'm very productive at the office, and I really value all the face-to-face interactions (discussing how to structure the code, debugging together etc). I blogged about this in "Programmer Productivity - Interruptions, Meetings and Working Remotely": http://henrikwarne.com/2013/04/02/programmer-productivity-in...
Well...we have a video of Oppenheimer saying this quote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8w3Y-dskeg

Your quote is wrong.
Consider caching your element selectors like this:

var $image = $('#my-div img');

This way jQuery doesn't have to traverse the DOM more than once to select the element.

Also, I believe you can do all of your mousedown() event code in one block.

Edit: oops, upon further inspection, I see you are doing this all in the console. Caching the selector is still possible, but now I understand why you did the mousedown() event the way you did.
Why would it be Google or even an intel agency?
I use plenty of tools/libraries, some I've written (and OSS'd on github), some totally popular and widely used/tested.

What I don't use, nor do I try to force on others, is the best ways to glue these pieces together. I have my ideas of "best practices", but those ideas are highly adjustable per site/app, and also just my own opinions. No piece I bring into a project makes an intrusive assumption about how the rest of my code will work.

I love the assumptions that because I write any amount of glue code, the code I write must certainly be less tested and therefore less quality than that which shows up in a popular framework.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylstilbestrol causes some drastic problems for the daughters (and arguably also the sons) of women who took it while pregnant.

This example is rather famous in the legal world because a) the drug was off-patent for many years before the problems were identified, and so there were many different manufacturers, and b) the problems were often not apparent until decades after exposure had occurred - two factors which make it very difficult to fairly ascribe liability to those who suffered avoidable injuries. This led to some innovative thing in damages/liability allocation which is now an essential part of understanding tort law.

I mention this because I've had some conversations with libertarian legal thinkers where they bring up this same argument of Thalidomide vs. opportunity cost - and its true that the barriers to approval were so low back in the late 50s that it's very unlikely such a drug could ever get on the market these days. Also, the effects were so drastic that that they were quickly noticed, and the number of birth defects ascribable to Thalidomide are in the low 10,000s. By contrast, millions of people are living with the impact of DES, and the magnitude of the affected class is also a factor in the legal significance of the damages formula. So any lawyer who's talking about balancing innovation and regulation in the drug market without addressing DES is being a bit disingenuous, and you should weight your judgment accordingly.
Former Facebook/Twitter/Quora Growth Expert Andy Johns On User Growth
You can do anything if you allow massive handwaving. ("out-of-band mechanisms for approving transactions")
I think the author's greater point is correct but you're right, those two are terrible choices. I also think most people would not stop and question whether Jobs & Zuck are "white" and that says something about how we pick and choose who is "white." I'm black and I remember a time in high school where I was planning a trip to a baseball game with my friends (who were white) and one friends' father told us "I don't like the idea of you three white kids in that neighborhood late at night." Which was funny because, as I said, I'm black but he certainly didn't see me as so in that context. People use race to describe how they think of another person as much as they use race to describe skin colors.
Unless the rails are super radioactive.
>You can have the hot wallet only deal with multi-signature outputs

Then you don't have a cold-wallet scheme. You have a hot wallet scheme.
I think everyone is used to Indians blaming Pakistanis and Pakistanis blaming Indians as the default case. Crying wolf and all that.
Yep, my Amiga 500 was the first machine I had with a hard drive: a whopping 30 megs! I had to beg my parents to buy it for me for Christmas, being only 13 years old at the time. It also came with a 2 meg memory expansion, giving the Amiga a total of 3 megs of RAM, which was pretty decent for 1989 or so.

A year or so later, with some birthday money, I bought a copy of Lattice C and managed to teach myself C! That was basically the beginning of my interest in programming.
Idempotence, convergence, and other silly fancy words we use too often
Exactly. I am no fan of the FDA, but what 23andMe did here was extraordinary: they essentially ignored the agency. If Anne Wojcicki was CEO of a similarly-sized medical device company she would have gotten her walking papers today.
The IMDB link says it's a HK film, and the actors listed are HK stars.
I like the article, some nice points.

I think mostly, you want to always know what the limitations of your framework are, and never be afraid to dive into the source of the framework to see why certain things are slow/buggy, etc. If you can do this, you will be in much better shape than 75% of the users using that framework.
Also, this statement isn't proof of anything! Assuming white males have the same probability of being successful as any other demographic and there also happen to be more white male engineers, then it makes sense that the majority of "key players" in the computer industry will be white males!

It would be much more convincing if the author said X% in the industry are white males and Y% of CEOs/founders are white males.

It's important to separate the argument that society is failing in encouraging/promoting engineers outside of certain demographics and the argument that Silicon Valley is unfairly supporting one demographic over another.
None of the altcoins really interest me right now besides Zerocoin, which should be launched in a few months.
of the point this guy's trying to make

i think this guy

I think this post makes the article's point nicely.

(take another look at the article byline, and lookup the author on Google)
Has literally anyone actually completed that certification?
JavaScript: Giving a meaning to stacktraces
Hulu seems to have a lot of Korean content, but the first time I try to seek something specific out, it comes up empty :(
For remote work: I've heard good things about Sqwiggle. https://www.sqwiggle.com/.
I first saw an Amiga on Computer Chronicles in the late 80s or early 90s and remember being blown away that they could edit cartoons and show 3D graphics. I had a (gulp) Mac Plus at the time and remember that was the first time that I was really disappointed in my computer! Macs wouldn't have similar abilities until the 60 MHz PowerPC came out.

Tragically Apple's weakest link was always unimaginative hardware, which made most Macs unable to play even the simplest 386-era PC games. My first experience with crippled Apple hardware was trying to blit a 256 color screen on a Mac LC II with BlockMove() and if I recall, it only ran at 20 or 30 fps because the ram bus was only 16 bits wide instead of 32. A quick back of the napkin calculation showed that 640x480@256 should have gotten around 100 fps on a 16 bit, 16 MHz bus, but something about how the VRAM worked cut that by 2-4x. I wasted a lot of years on things like interlaced lines and 2x enlargement blitters that never could quite make up for the lack of a 320x240 video resolution. The system also didn't allow direct access to the palette entries, so palette animation blocked for 1/60 of a second so games couldn't use it. As an aside, the other system libraries for sound, input and networking all had various failings so I found myself reinventing the wheel at every turn. To me, those shortsighted decisions were a big part of why Apple almost went out of business before the second coming of Steve Jobs and the iMac (which had a decent enough video card to at least do 2D in thousands or millions at 60 fps).

Of course, Amiga realized all of this early on and went completely around the problem by providing decent video hardware. Whenever I hear people talking about various limitations with 3D graphics, physics or AI today, I mourn the lack of outside-the-box thinking that Amiga exemplified. Our hands are tied by the CPU/GPU/OS oligarchies for the foreseeable future.

I did a quick search for Amiga and found these videos, not sure if there are more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-hJ_3MvH7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_zuSrjRMWk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rssl5hbJI_0
I'm really interested in this kind of sentiment. Why do you feel so certain SV is a meritocracy?
Sadly such things go largely unreported or unnoticed in India. The country is bleeding and we are caught up in a first-aid circus. I think the social & financial gap in India is playing havoc on its future. We simply can't reach a consensus on fundamental day-to-day problems.
All my meetings are conference calls, so working remote doesn't help there. For me the big benefit or working in my basement is not having co-workers blabbering about hunting or football or whatever the topic of the day is. In my cube at the office it's really hard to tune out the noise. At home in my basement office, it's just me and the furnace.

I do miss out on human interaction and being able to bounce ideas of co-workers.
Who determines what is good for humankind? Ugh.

I am so sick of every political argument in the US being reduced to some kind of technocratic majoritarianism.
Libertarianism is completely compatible with unions in general. You are free to join unions. If libertarians look like they don't support unions, I think it's because they become uncomfortable with the ways unions themselves sometimes (sometimes!) become coercive organizations themselves ("union thuggery" is a thing), we'd be more hesitant to encode into law that certain unions have certain special statuses, and we also recognize the freedom of the employer to just fire the lot of you; I would say it's on the union to prevent that, not the government.

I'll concede as a pragmatic matter that unions may need a bit of extra protection under the law, but it's very easy to overshoot, especially once you've created this new special interest group (the union itself, as distinct from its members) that is going to lobby for ever-more protection.

A libertarian may not look "for" unions to a liberal, because we won't check off the list of things that they define as being "for unions" (mostly various legal protections), but that's all a point-of-view thing.

I'd also observe as a libertarian that well-intentioned "protections" that initially appear to be in the union's favor may not be; the aforementioned "pricing out" of the UAW's labor was in large part enabled by excessively-strong union protections. They would, ironically, almost certainly be better off today if they had less power yesterday. Balance is complicated. Excessively-strong legal protections also provide the environment where it becomes easier for the union to start acting on its own, without consulting its members or even occasionally in defiance of its members. We must not ignore that the union is a new entity with its own existence, we can not simply model it as "a group of employees". (If that worked, we could simply model the corporation itself as "a group of employees", the whole reason we have a need for unions in the first place is that corporate entities like unions or corporations can take on their own existence.)
Also there is a series called BETA
Damn, was hoping for more reading material :)
The article, like most following this formula, assume that because rewards are not distributed among a sufficiently racially/sexually diverse group, meritocracy must therefore be absent. They fail to account for the possibility that merit might not be distributed in the manner that they think.
I haven't spend anything as well.
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For the same reason that the FDA tends to care if an MRI or a CT scanner displays accurate results. People make life/death decisions based on diagnostics.
[this was pointless comment by me that i deleted]

Does not work well for me at all. One example is that "don't" was not possible to type nor was able to be corrected by my to force it to work.
I tried to imagine someone being poisoned by Polonium beforehand, but that results in a rather slow death, not an unmarked corpse that can be dumped on the tracks.
Is anyone on here trying to solve this? If so, is the difficulty similar to how the writer describes?

This seems like an elaborate recruiting tool to me. Google and Microsoft come to mind, but it could be a security firm or agency too.
So does the 2x scaling of Mac OS-X with any app that isn't retina-enabled...
Stop using an alarm clock, if you use one. Having an alarm clock lets you think you can keep your body up as long as you want, and then wake up when you want to. Getting rid of the alarm clock also lets you get up out of bed the first time you wake up, rather than drifting back to sleep and waiting for the alarm.

If you ditch the alarm clock, you will pay attention to the quality of your sleep. You might end up going to sleep a little earlier, and waking up earlier.
you should read some papers and books about network effects, going viral and so on... you know in this world, only the lame stuff goes public and becomes widely popular, because the majority of people in this world are lames...
Make sure you read the discussions below on the validity of using ad hominem arguments to undermine witness credibility. Hard to watch/read when the witness in question is an idol of yours, but still a valid approach in the court room.
It's hard to tell what position you hold, since the kernel of your argument seems to be that 23AM is a low-cost democratizing alternative to existing licensed medical technology, and should therefore be free to market itself without FDA approval. Do you also believe that of the companies who sell apricot pits as a cancer cure? I doubt it, but the logic you use sustains both arguments.
What Pepsi Discovered by Monitoring Millennials During the VMAs
So what does this mean for the ordinary American Joe Schmoe? What kind of effects can one expect if/when China starts pricing oil contracts in yuan instead of dollars and lets the yuan float?
+1 on Swiggle. I had my team using that for a while until a reorg broke up the team. It's awesome to be able to see when someone is at their desk, click their picture, ask a quick question, and hang up. It really helps feel like you're more connected to the team while avoid the noise problems on being in the office.
Yes, that's right; if you believe that you truly have developed a remarkable healing elixir in your garage, the burden is on you to obtain scientifically valid proof that it does what you claim it will do before you can go around selling it to people.

Whether or not you see this as a horribly unjust burden imposed by an unfeeling government will probably depend on whether you are the inventor or the person the inventor was planning on selling it to.
Looks nice, but not sure why I'd use this over the more general-purpose Mousetrap[1]?

[1]: http://craig.is/killing/mice
If you believe 23AM's technology is so important that its use will save lives, it's hard to understand how you might believe the FDA is out of bounds in regulating it. Unless your argument is that the FDA should be abolished entirely.
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You know full well what decade we're in, and virtually everyone today outside an Aryan Nations get-together is going to call Zuckerberg a white guy.
RE: Warfarin.

When you receive a Warfarin prescription, you begin very close monitoring that involves daily then weekly then monthly blood tests (for the rest of your life) to determine your dose and monitor the effect of the drug in your body. Someone choosing to take a lower dose because of 23andme results would be blatantly and intentionally disregarding the results of testing and the advice of their Drs. The 23andme result that you may be sensitive to Warfarin is something to mention at the outset of your treatment, and nothing more. Also, taking a lower than therapeutic dose of Warfarin would not cause an aneurysm, but would be more likely to cause a clot.

1) I dont see how 23andme results for Warfarin would in practice negatively effect a patients drug regime.
2) You seem to know very little about Warfarin and should take that into consideration when commenting on issues surrounding it.
It goes both ways. We can't determine how many good things never happened because of patents.
When I typed "It's" it corrected it to "said" and selected it, meaning that typing "It's " (with space) got me ending up with nothing but a single space.
Frameworks and libraries are tools of our trade. The reason to use them or not to use them depends on the context. While it is foolish to become a 'Backbone specialist' and look at every project with those eyes; it is equally foolish to dismiss frameworks as prototyping tools.

Lots of frameworks interoperate well and are amenable to customisations. The good ones are more than sufficient for most client needs, even for prolonged production usage.

Most open source frameworks are results of thousands of man-hours of effort by specialists from different backgrounds. Many aspects like security, modularity and functionality are examined by hundreds of eyes. It is perhaps naive to assume that one's knowledge of the domain is so good that they can roll out their own framework much better than what anyone else has produced.

In fact, if that person is so capable, they should be encouraged to post their code for a public review and help others (or possibly be severely critiqued for their questionable design choices).
She might be referring to the 36M African-Americans & 50M Hispanich-Americans in this country. So American still has a White majority at around 60% of the population.

In the year 2010, only 36 million African-Americans in the US, is that right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...

Anyway, these groups are under-represented in the Technology field. I heard one response that maybe these groups "don't value education" - I don't know how to respond to that one actually.
It's deliberately wrong. It's a joke.
statistical correlation can be substituted for fact

Well let's stop this Science nonsense and get on with full blown Political Correctness as our guide to the future we're heading toward.