skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah? My reading of that book was that there was such an inhuman marriage/life destroying crunch getting NT out the door that nobody covered themselves in glory, much less showed themselves worthy of respect.

And it explained to me, in clear terms, why Windows was such a buggy pile of shit. It was created of its culture.
It's open source.
If your company lives from the web traffic, hire a coder to patch it or just pay for it.

There is also other solutions like Cherokee web server and Lighthttpd.
Therein lies one of the problems with software, patent law, and our judicial process: if the jury doesn't understand the underlying technologies, how can they possibly make an informed and responsible verdict?

I'd also be curious to see the results of an unbiased survey covering the public's awareness and understanding of patent trolls.

If only I could change careers and go into patent law... And help fight the good fight.
Very true. Forgot to mention that part. Why not pay for a great product if you find it useful. I've paid for FOSS stuff before, and supported distros I use...
Having an array with more than about 1.2 billion elements is all that it would have taken to break the old binary search, and that's not all that uncommon anymore.

Pure JavaScript code isn't vulnerable to integer overflow by virtue of not having any integer types, and I believe errors like this were the reason for leaving them out of the language.
For info, even in a completely "nominal" launch there are holds. This is particularly true when you have a tight launch window. The idea is to build some slack into the countdown to allow for the possibility if correcting any unforeseen problems. This is possible because at certain points in the countdown you can safely wait for fairly long durations. So the countdown is started early with respect to its launch window, and if any minor problems crop up they can be corrected during the planned pauses without slipping the launch time, and hence missing the launch window.
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FWIW, a friend of mine who's an IP lawyer said the same to me.
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I am very impressed with Anaconda's Free edition. Works well in Linux and has more packages [2] than Enthought's free edition. Anaconda is the commercial offering from Travis Oliphant, the creator of Numpy.

[1]: https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/

[2]: Packages: http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/pkgs.html
Depressing, but this might be a good time to donate to those fighting for patent reform, like EFF.org
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No Texas district is even in the top 5 for win rates for patent plaintiffs. You'd think if they were "in the pockets" of patent trolls, the trolls would achieve better outcomes there.

The actual reasons filing patent cases in EDTX is popular are:

• EDTX does not have a busy Federal criminal case load. Criminal cases have higher priority than civil cases. If you try to litigate a complex civil case in a district that has a heavy criminal load (e.g., anywhere that has a lot of drug trafficking), it can be nearly impossible to get any court time.

• Patent cases are complex. If you have a judge with little experience with patent cases, things will go slow. So, people like to file in districts that have a few judges with patent case experience.
50gb/s ofCloudFlare logging data to "data science" at sounds like the most interesting damned problem I've ever heard. Well, probably second to how you manage that flow into a pipeline in the first place.
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I don't know, but I suspect it doesn't looks positive. Compass haven't had any new releases for a year now.
This is only part of why my local file server has a recent wikipedia dump.
Just out of curiosity, how much trouble would he be in if he'd answered:

"I never had a full-time academic job, no, but have consulted with a number of PhD students as a knowledge resource in cryptography."

Is overanswering a bad thing in a court setting? It seems like lawyers always fish for information they can slant; full disclosure on a topic would seem to correct that failing?
"Why Patent Trolls Worldwide Love Marshall, Texas" -- http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060203/0332207.shtml

Nearly 8 years ago. Unfortunately nothing whatsoever has changed.
Whoa! 5 seconds is still a long time. If you don't mind me asking, how many lines of SASS does the project have?
JFYI: The link to SassC on http://libsass.org is broken.
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Is the jury required to explain the logic of the decision, or it's simply "we decide this"? Rejection of such obvious proof of patent invalidity and existence of prior art looks pretty bad.
This is much better than the other FDA story today where the FDA declared walnuts a medicine because a manufacture made the factual statement "Omega-3 Fatty Acids found in walnuts have been shown to have health benefits."

http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/u...
That's pretty impressive. I never had the patience to sit through a full MediaWiki import for en.wikipedia.org.

Just to be clear, XOWA isn't an installer for MediaWiki, but it's own app. This allows it to avoid the dependency on the entire MediaWiki tool-chain (apache, php, mysql, MediaWiki). Unfortunately, this means that XOWA has to reproduce the same logic, which is quite a challenge...
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I agree, If you are aggregating logs so small that they can fit into memory, most likely that you do not care where it goes. Otoh if the logs are enormous you must have robust periodic log aggregation jobs like map reduce to do that and it is must to have logs on disk.

Moreover 50m/day is ~ 578/sec , which isn't huge for a cluster of servers.
FDA says walnuts are drugs.  
"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed the label for your "Diamond of California Shelled Walnuts" products and your website at www.diamondnuts.com. Based on our review, we have concluded that your walnut products are in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and the applicable regulations in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR)."
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By extension, would you prefer that a panel of doctors preside over malpractice cases?
It's perfectly reasonable to cringe at a $135K price tag. But if that's so onerous, why not spend a day compiling the source and setting it up for distribution on your servers? The answer is that you (or at least the hypothetical you) feel entitled to this software packaged how you want it with the features you want.

If you want to use Apache, use Apache. That's totally your right. Or you can fork NGINX and do whatever you want. It's even got a BSDish license to make that easy. You could even use the last version of the software that baked this feature into the standard distro. But you're using the official NGINX distro for a reason, and I don't see why the people who make it shouldn't demand a bunch of money for whatever that reason is.

To be clear, it's perfectly fine to say, "I don't think this is a good feature to put behind the paywall." I'm just balking at the whiny and entitled tone of the original post. "How dare they ask me to pay for the things I want!" If I were trying to monetize an open source project, per Jacques's comment above, this is exactly the kind of high-scale feature I'd target for that.
Do you know any further details on his departure from StackExchange? I saw this message on his profile:

> I do not participate on this site any longer, except to respond to comments regarding my own text, if that text is unavailable in another form. I do not accept the political moderation atmosphere here, it is not compatible with open science.

It seemed like he really enjoyed helping people on the site, and there's nothing (left) on meta to show that the situation for him was deteriorating
> I'm curious what business model the author of the post thinks would be possible for the author of nginx and not result in this scenario for feature x/y/z?

The author presumably belongs to the same cohort who download films and music without paying and sneers "how you feed yourself isn't my problem, go sell some t-shirts or something". I doubt the author gives a shit, they just want stuff for free, so they can continue to make money with it.
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pfSense guy here.

If you think a dual core D525 is the sh*t, just wait until you see an 8 core OOE 'Atom' with AES-NI support, and 4 i350 GigE Ethernets running pfSense 2.2 (based on FreeBSD 10, so multi-core pf, etc...)

Or the dual core 4 x i350 variant for under $200.

yes, very low power.
This comment makes you the bigot.
They had planned to appeal anyway if they lost. Getting a damage award reduced on appeal is relatively common. And the problem with taking about the award amount after arguing that the patent is flat-out invalid is that one can seem to be conceding the infringement argument.

IANAL, but it seems like a reasonable gamble to me.
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I have no special legal knowledge, but I spent several years within spitting distance of this district, so I know the area, was in the jury pool, and as far as I know might still be close enough to be called as a juror.

Based on that experience, I am inclined to disagree with your general premise. While these lawsuits bring a tiny bit of additional business to directly-related service industries (hotels, copy shops) my observation is that most of the "big money" stays within the legal industry, which is mostly based in the home locations of wherever these companies are. It is further my observation that the East District Court is not unusual in the kind of business that it brings to the surrounding area relative to other district courts (e.g., if not patent lawsuits, other suits) so there isn't much of a desire to protect its reputation as a patent court.

Finally while these stories do receive "national attention", this is pretty much entirely within the software development community, and patent lawyers. Ordinary people in East Texas don't follow any stories about patent lawsuits ever. They're boring.

Here's a benchmark for you: I am a software developer, who lobbied my congressman about patent law earlier this month, and on the day this lawsuit was filed, I was 45 minutes from the court by car. I am the textbook case of a person who would be following this story. Today is the first day I have ever heard anything about it.
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Why can't the world be just, I don't know, more decent and reasonable and just?
As a thought experiment, assume you were downloading and printing on low acidic paper (or otherwise storing for the long term) the entire contents of Wikipedia for insurance against some near extinction event. Is there a way to allow future generations to correctly interpret the arbitrary text on a page into meaningful information with only using "the page" as a medium?

(I tried googling the topic, but I'm very lost as to even where I should start. The main question that I'm interested in could be summarized as, "How do we ensure our knowledge as a species/society is not lost in an unintelligible format?")
Even though these libraries are open source, it cannot be built without their proprietary, binary-only "AMD APP SDK" [1], only available for Linux and Windows. Bummer.

1. http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/heterogeneous-comput...
I used to work as a state legislative aid; one of my duties was helping constituents work with state agencies on regulatory matters. I learned from that experience most regulators (at least at the state level, I imagine federal is similar) usually care much more about compliance than enforcement. As long as you aren't doing something egregious and make a good faith effort to work with them they'll often be pretty reasonable within the confines of the law. However if you ignore them, they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks.

It sounds like 23andMe has been ignoring them.
I really want a pure js impl.
They may "bring in" more than their salaries (I suspect they don't, which is a separate issue -- the incompetent bumbling cited in the article seems to be the rule rather than the exception) but even if they do "bring in" more than they cost, it doesn't mean they aren't bloat. Competition for students is a zero-sum game. Luring students to one university takes them away from another. The value of a strategic school administrator to society (the extent to which they better inform students of their options minus the extent to which they convince students to act against their interests) is tiny compared to their value to the particular school which employs them (some number of student tuitions). The difference between the two values can reasonably be called 'bloat'.

This is a known flaw of free markets that we usually write off as a cost of doing business. If you present the invisible hand with a prisoner's dilemma, it falls for it every goddamn time. The 'bloat' is then the difference between the cooperative solution and the nash equilibrium. In this case, the cost is egregious enough (it is very high and it is imposed upon a very vulnerable population) that we might want to pay attention. I doubt we will, leaving disruption as the only hope for the education market.
23 And Me should only have to prove that it is better than the alternative, not that it is accurate (to determine whether the service is of net benefit to the public). Depending on the counter-factual, 23AM could provide a relatively inaccurate test that would still be better than no test.

Unfortunately for us, the FDA is on a quest for "safety"; the agency does not try to help the citizenry live longer or happier.
To the NSA, presumably: http://exiledonline.com/read-yasha-levines-introduction-to-t...
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"Class" is the worst C++ keyword
sensible right up until they start rejecting patches for needed features because they conflict with commercial goals.

There's a legitimate conflict of interest here.
Not really. You're going to want to sell your products in the US anyhow; the New Zealand market is tiny compared to the US market. If you sell your products in the US market, you have to play by the US's patent rules or your products won't be able to be imported (but as Samsung has found out, popular US based companies like Apple can get federal government intervention to veto an import ban on their products, but Samsung can't do the same: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-08/samsung-loses-bid-f...).
No mention of HIPAA in their privacy statement. A perfunctory google search found mumblings online about them not being covered by HIPAA.

https://www.23andme.com/about/privacy/#Full
Strictly speaking, the others are not opinions, they are subjective.
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While I agree that stopping bad medication from being on the market saves lives, medication is not at stake in the case of 23andMe. Information is what's at stake.
No, the FDA says this company is marketing walnuts as drugs. It doesn't matter if the product is a walnut or a tomato, it's the marketing of something as a treatment for a disease that puts it under FDA purview for the protection of consumers.
I could have sworn that due to a below average crime rate, the legal system is able to get patent litigation through quicker.
To those patting themselves on the back as we begin another round of Texas bashing (because, let's face it, for a number of people here that's their favorite part of patent stories), may I ask why you blame an entire state?

When things go wrong in California or New York or Massachusetts, those states aren't blamed: the individuals take the heat! (What a concept!) But whenever something bad happens in Texas, somehow all 26 million of us are involved and culpable.

Case in point: a few minutes ago there was a post here saying we should poison the water in East Texas to stop this. Thankfully, it has been deleted.

Battling bigotry with bigotry is not likely to work. When Hollywood pushes for another batch of draconian copyright laws no one here raises up there hands and hopes for the "big one" to knock LA into the ocean. When municipalities go after Uber or AirBnb no one begs to push that entire state out of the union. Why the double standard?

(I know why, no need to answer that question)

Certainly as a Texan and tech person I'm not a fan of this ruling but the vitriol displayed here towards an entire state verges on disgusting. FWIW, I grew up in the Bay Area and across California, I'm not some Pineywoods hick who never left the trailer park.

I am, however, quite tired of the hatred and, frankly, gleeful malevolence sometimes displayed on this site towards Texas.
Perhaps he doesn't have the hours/skills free to do so. People are free to complain about things or do a 'call-to-arms' about things they can't fix themselves.

I think in the case of open source we have far too many people who feel entitled to the work of others without any recompense already. Working on a large OS project like this is mostly a thankless task - people will complain about the problems while taking for granted all the features that just work, and they're unlikely to be raking in lots of money because of attitudes like this.

Given the volume of sales, the 3 floor building and the use of NetApp, I would have thought this company has money to pay nginx for what is a core piece of software, even if they have to negotiate a special license or change their setup. If they don't want to or can't, they can use apache, find workarounds, or even patch nginx themselves.

Issuing a call to arms over this is pretty obnoxious behaviour, because it implies the nginx people have done something wrong or antisocial in wanting to be paid for some of their work. How outrageous!

the point is that a basic feature is being held hostage behind a pay-wall. It would be like MySQL requiring you to pay to any users other than the 'admin' SQL account.

Yes, it would be like that (though this feature is more trivial and could be worked around, and is not an existing feature, so not exactly the same). That's the way companies make money when they segment their market and have an OS offering and a commercial one. Nothing wrong with that. If you don't like the rules set by the creators, don't use it; write your own software or use other software. If they had retrospectively retired features and put them into the paid version, perhaps he'd have a point, but as far as I'm aware they haven't.

He's not entitled to have the nginx guys work for free forever on his terms on their software. Ending with the exhortation 'Fork it' sums up his position perfectly - someone else should fork this software, add the features I need, and then continue to work for free for me. He's asking 'Who will pick up the mantle', because clearly it won't be him; he's not a sucker after all.
In our era, it doesn't matter if two consenting parties agree, what matters is whether the judge or regulatory agency approves of the agreement.
NSA :)
You lost me at "Oh wait." I've had positive experiences with AWS support at both paid and free tiers of support, including phone calls with engineering to resolve issues. (Knowing your account manager certainly helps.)
Did airbrake.io stopped the free plan?
Today i want to use airbrake.io for a little side project. Some months ago, there was a free plan with rate limits and one user for the project. Did airbrake removed the free plan? Or am I unable to find the link?
Ah, that's because Travis is running all of the "to-do" tests as well. Reorganizing the tests and making Travis happy is ... well, it's on the to-do list.
Yeah, but how could electricity possibly be any cheaper there? What are the real estate prices like, then, $1000/m^2?
HIPAA compliance is attractive, as is the support.

(physician's husband and IT support guy)
And you think this because?
(Fred from Coinbase)

Agree, strikes me as a good idea.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/405259/a-haven-for-pate...

http://gizmodo.com/5824912/who-is-really-snuffing-out-americ...

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/05/app-store-patent-trol...

Damned near all patent troll are based in hickville towns. It is not coincidence and it is not because the judges are "experienced" with patent cases. It is because those judges side with the plaintiffs.

"No Texas district is even in the top 5 for win rates for patent plaintiffs. You'd think if they were "in the pockets" of patent trolls, the trolls would achieve better outcomes there."

Because they shouldn't win any of these software patent cases. We're talking about trolls...businesses whose only purpose is to shake down people who build real products for real people. Every damned one of these cases should be laughed out of court. They go to Marshall because they won't get laughed out of court.
If they won a previous case on appeal, and as micahgoulart observes didn't use a potentially valuable witness in this case. This suggests a strategy of bleeding out the patent trolls through their lawyers.

A troll's business model relies mostly on settlements, newegg can just keep selling computers.
>(the effort required to double spend a $15 domain would be far more expensive than the benefit)

Also the protection against double-spending greatly improved with a rapid alert system. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2382292
The FDA protects the public, but only from new things, it does not protect new from a disease, but it does protect you from a potentially unproductive test or treatment. One could say the FDA exists to ensure that all statistical errors are of type II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors
It's getting late and I don't really have the energy to dig into this patent (http://www.google.com/patents/US5412730), but on a cursory reading I don't see how it differs from the encryption work that Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were doing during World War 2, later embodied as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY ... is it just because it transmits the data in "blocks"? Pretty low bar for novelty, there.
I dated a few (attractive/high status) women in NYC whom I met at meetups about things like rationality and graph theory, the last of whom is now my wife. You really have to actively seclude yourself to have a quiet dating life in NYC (as a straight guy).
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Thanks for that. It describes the sort of reasoning very well that the plantiff's attorney knows appeals to people in the area:

> Fenster described the inventor of the patent, Michael Jones, as a hard worker.

> “He doesn’t have all these fancy degrees,” said Fenster. “He’s a hard worker, creative, smart, an innovative guy, and he loves technology. He’s great at recognizing problems of the future and finding solutions.”

The article is entirely one sided and reads as if the plaintiff himself wrote it. As it is the only exciting thing happening in town, many of the jury member's family and friends will be reading articles of this sort during these trials, representing only one side of the case.-

Amazing that the article notes the patent was awarded in 1995 and fails to mention that RC4 was invented in 1987.
No, that is not what they had to judge. I disagree with the outcome too, but the case was more complex than that. As far as I understand, part of the problem was whether or not this patent or RC4 had priority based on timing, which hinged on when RC4 and the method in the patent under litigation became known by enough people to be considered publicly known.
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