skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought I'd go and have a looksee who Dr. Rhyne, the opposing expert witness, is and I found this:

Dr. Rhyne, who will lead the three-day Boot Camp, is a broadly experienced expert witness who has provided in-courtroom testimony in over three dozen federal patent cases and ITC hearings over the past thirty years. He will be joined by legal and technical staff members from Patent Calls, as well as selected guest lecturers.

Carefully designed to be a program that will be “Conducted by Experts for Experts,” Boot Camp participants will learn that serving as an expert witness is a unique and productive way to use their technical knowledge. “By their nature, patent trials are highly charged competitive environments for companies and attorneys who have a great deal at stake,” Dr. Rhyne has explained, “and an expert witness is often a key part of that process. I am pleased to have this opportunity to share my experience as a witness with others.”

Patent Calls’ Patent Expert Witness Boot Camp will provide an opportunity for individuals who have some patent expert witness experience – or who are aspiring to become an expert witness – to benefit from both intensive instruction and interactive training that are intended to increase their effectiveness and appeal to potential clients. Participants will receive a highly integrated combination of classroom instruction, team exercises, and simulated examination and testimony that will serve to challenge them and thus maximize their learning experiences.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101115007716/en/Pate...

Which contrasts nicely with the questions put to Diffie about his status as an expert witness:

Fenster noted that while Diffie was testifying in court for the first time, he had other expert witness work lined up. His rate varies from $500 to $600 per hour, and it's $700 for testifying in court.

"Your agent helps you to get expert witness jobs, is that right?"

"Actually, no," said Diffie. "My agent handles the arrangements with my clients. All of the jobs have come in directly through me."
That number isn't right at all. I just pretended to be a single unemployed female with one child, and they said I was entitled to this:

Jobseeker's Allowance (Income based)	£71.70 per week

Child Tax Credit	£62.72 per week

Housing Benefit	£115.39 per week

Child Benefit	£20.30 per week

Total weekly income	£270.11 per week

(This excludes the below market rent, $500gbp/month, I claimed to be paying for council housing.)

https://www.dwpe-services.direct.gov.uk/portal/page/portal/b...

That works out to 6.75GBP/hour.

As for the incentives on the business side, I agree with you. Rather than being private sector jobs, these should be low skill government jobs. We can even help the budget by replacing overpaid unionized govt workers with job seekers working for their benefits. But it's dishonest to claim that they are paid only 50GBP/week for their labor.

[edit: I took out the child, benefits were 187 GBP/week, ignoring council housing subsidies.]
The difference between this and a mortgage for a house is that the value of the collateral will decrease over time, even in the best case.
Shellcheck recently found a bug in one of my old scripts. You can use the web interface or compile it for local use:

http://www.shellcheck.net/

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
>> That number isn't right at all. I just pretended to be a single unemployed female with one child, and they said I was entitled to this:

If you're childless and (for instance) living with family then it would be accurate. Adding child allowances into the picture is pretty much beside the point here.
Disconnected the TV from the aerial. I now watch a fraction of TV that I used to (via streaming or personal library).

I used to waste so much time watching reruns and trash TV just because it was there when I turned the TV on.
these, plus:

- The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires

- Pirates of Silicon Valley
+1 on the coursera classes, Mr. Mehrling is an amazing teacher and really knows the subject well.
I finished part 1 of his course and am close to finishing part 2.
Not true. The fact of the matter is, low wage jobs usually require less skill , and therefore less education. It is part of our responsibility as those who are better off, to help fight for the rights of not just ourselves, but _all_ laborers
Stopped adding sugar to my hot drinks, completely.
Not that this has any business on this site, but as long as we're discussing it, it's worth noting that Tone Loc didn't write those two songs.

They were written for him by Young MC, which explains why Young MC had a rather successful career thereafter, and why the rest of that Tone Loc album was so amazingly horrible.

Thus ends today's 80s Lycra Rapper trivia corner. (And also, hopefully, exhausts my entire stock of anecdotes on the subject).
Sounds like it, but unlike HN arguments ad hominem is allowed in court. It seems that discrediting witnesses is a pillar of our court system.
Interesting read: "One Child Policy and Arising of Man-Made Twins". http://paa2013.princeton.edu/papers/130113
It doesn't work like that. As someone who has been unemployed you have to deal with the following:

1. Child tax credit works on your previous year's income so it can take up to a year to get adjusted. Same with child benefit.

2. Housing benefit takes 8-12 weeks to come through. Not only that it won't cover most private rents inside the M25. The council waiting list is 3-5 years in London so you'll have to go into arrears. The only way out is to stop paying your rent and go the council and tell them you are homeless. At which point either you or your children are split up or you get wedged in what I can only describe as a "crackhead den" at best. My other half had to clean the needles away before she could wash in the morning when this happened to her (after she was made redundant and the market was suddenly saturated with her speciality).

3. You don't get JSA immediately. It takes 4-8 weeks for it to start.

You don't just clap your hands when you're unemployed and cash starts rolling in. There are other concerns.

It's a fucking rough ride and not only that you have to do the legwork and deal with government incompetence and prejudice along the way which is more than rife.
Is the iPhone 5s gold real gold?
Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
Your reply sounds a bit fishy. Your second sentence "he doesn't explain why his advice is worth a damn" is inconsistent with a rhetorical question.

I agree he doesn't have much cred by the way, and his method is nothing new or special. But I think his advice is generally sound for an uneducated player who wants to improve.
Read their material - that does not appear to be accurate.

While they did appear to believe the world would be "recycled" and potentially that this means a lot of people would/will die, the excerpts on their website does give vague descriptions of ways that people can be "protected and 'saved' from the approaching recycling". The difference would be that these people would still be "stuck" on this world, though they could "one day find them a member in the Level Above Human".

Consider the similarity to the idea in christianity of the Rapture, where some christian sects expects certain sets of "true believers" to be "raptured", while the rest - believers and non-believers and sinners of all kinds alike - are "left behind", with various means of eventually being saved:

The "recycling" or "spading under" of civilisation from Heavens Gate appears to be a form of the Rapture, with the possibility that many good people who have just not advanced far enough can survive, while the "true believers" are raptured. The difference being that in their version, it appears they believe in some sort of cyclic history for the earth, where there will be another opportunity at some point in the future.
Leaving aside the point about making folks pay their own traveling costs, which I agree is unfair, what would you do with these people?

[And for record I have started a company that employed a few hundred and (long) before that had been unemployed for a while and had a few rather grim laboring jobs].
Houdini is the best now. v 1.5 is free

http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm
http://lichess.org/ is another free alternative.
Thanks, I've edited the comment.
Amazon recently purchased a company that builds warehouse robots(kiva robotics) for a quarter billion dollar. This company had sold systems for some reasonably large warehouses.

Those are pretty good signs that robots in the warehouse are about to happen in a mass scale.

Also ,there are rumors that amazon is building large amounts of robots , and will launch a service in 2015 based on those(just rumors).

And to the question why does it take so long? for many expensive technologies, 20 years from talking to industry acceptance is normal.It takes time to improve the technology in reliability , cost, performance , convince industry to use it and scale it.
Try the same trick with "Scientologists" and "The Church of Scientology" and see if you feel like its so easy.

(Its not.)
I did the same thing, and it is funny cause now that I only drink sugar-free coffee I actually enjoy it much more!
And I'm also able to tell difference between good coffee and bad coffee cause there is no sugar in the way hiding coffee's taste.
New Research Aims To Teach Computers Common Sense
And vice versa: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497801/closures-are-poor...
How Node.js has revolutionised the Mail Online (Worlds No.1 Online Newspaper)
Wow, talk about strawman attacks by the lawyer "You do not have a PHd, you are not an academic" etc.

I am surprised he was allowed to get away with it.
I think even more interesting is founding organization (Citi Foundation).
Huh, Amiga (1000 onwards) was big in video. Especially smaller TV stations that couldn't afford SGIs. Amiga (and SGIs) were light years ahead of Macs in graphics. People often forget this fact.
- I stopped trying to control life. Started focusing on how I can make the best of what Im presented in life.
Many of the people I knew in the beginning of 1990's ended up running either DESQview or OS/2. And that was because they were running either one node bulletin board system on their only desktop computer or they had a multi node BBS on their dedicated BBS computer.

Around that time I had updated from 1200 bps to 2400 bps to 14400 bps modem. Mostly the multitasking was running smooth enough to provide reasonably speedy BBS experience even for the 14k4 caller. The multitasking mostly was visible when the system was building and compressing the QWK archive for offine message reading (Blue Wave FTW).
"Desk jockey does manual labor and his feet hurt, story at 11"

I worked the graveyard shift as a picker at Amazon back around '00. Back then Amazon was so nervous about anybody introducing a bug in the site that all software engineers were put to work either at warehouses or as customer service agents during the holidays. I worked customer service one year and picked for two years, both times during graveyard shifts. This involved flying out to the middle of nowhere from the Seattle headquarters and living out of a hotel.

Honestly, it was a lot of fun. Seeing those parts of the operation was fascinating, and Amazon encouraged you to look for inefficiencies and offer solutions or think about how you could fix things once you got back behind a keyboard.

Our shifts were exactly the same as the full time workers, but they were faster than us, especially at first. Your feet do indeed hurt and you do indeed walk a ton, but that is more because you've been sitting on your ass for 12 hours a day instead of actually using your body.

Yes, you are a mechanical turk in the strictest sense of the word, being dispatched by your hand scanner to go find something and put it in a cart, but it isn't hard work, just a bit boring. If you take it seriously and get good at troubleshooting shortages, then you start getting to do things that require a bit more problem solving, but even the really menial stations aren't terribly bad.

In short, this is just a bunch of whining that manual labor is hard work and not terribly engaging. The conditions themselves are plenty good, hard to imagine them being better while doing the same job.

They are nothing, nothing at all like the conditions any number of people work every day to manufacture your shoes, t-shirts and electronic equipment. You get to move around, you aren't on an assembly line, the work is varied in its environment.

So shut your trap and get back to picking, there's product to get out to customers.
Finally, we're starting to see some people stand up to trolls, and judges and juries are beginning to understand what these people are.

I don't follow patent troll cases too closely because they make me so angry, especially given that so many of them end up with the troll winning, or at least going right back to doing what they were doing after losing in court in a specific instance, but not losing the patent (or they just continue attacking people with other patents in their portfolio in the rare event the patent is invalidated). So, when I see a positive story...and this one looks pretty positive to me.

I worry vaguely that the judge or jury might not recognize the vast difference between Diffie and some unknown asshole who makes his living testifying in court as an "expert witness" in patent cases.
- The CIA Movie With Colin Farrell.
Chessmaster - not that great of an app by itself - shipped with video tutorials by Joshua Waitzkin, now these were truly great
What time in the day do you jog?
Ask HN: What's the best writing you've ever seen online?
If you had to make a list of "Best Writing I've Encountered Online", what would be in it?
Interesting how payments work in different countries. For example, in Australia when dealing in AUD, banks can participate in end-of-day multilateral netting. That is, all the banks' inflows and outflows to all other banks are netted and sent to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

The RBA is the banks' bank which holds bank's AUD denominated deposits in their separate accounts. Once the bank-to-bank net amounts have been calculated the RBA shuffles around a few numbers in databases to execute all the interbank transfers.

It sounds like in the USA banks have to have accounts with each other in order to affect transfers. The RBA effectively adds a layer of indirection and in some ways ensures banks are meeting their capital requirements.

Edit: I didn't read far enough. The UK has an impressive implementation of a Real-Time Gross Settlement system. My thoughts on the US interbank transfer system were coloured by a recent NPR Planet Money podcast (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-...) where they compare the US and UK systems.
- How America Was Built - (Rockefeller & Mellon)
I started waking up at 5.30 in the morning. Code for about an hour and then go for an early morning walk with my spouse for another.
Nice to see Microsoft encroaching on this territory .. but I already have a pretty good reference on the subject of ARM assembly:

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~nelson/courses/elec5260_6260/ARM_...
Apple completes buyout of Kinect sensor company PrimeSense
Good for you. That's what we need. Been in the same situation.

That's easy as I've already done it before on several occasions.

I'd employ them for the minimum wage and pay up their travel allowance (be that oyster or season ticket). If they have any needs such as caring for relatives, which appears to be the main reason people are unemployed from what I have seen, I'd make sure their time and work location was flexible. I'd then make damn sure that:

a) they get some training and the ability to self improve.

b) they get a secure job.

People are grateful of both of these. If you make a positive contribution to their lives, they will make a contribution to your business. Everyone benefits.

The problem is that the prevailing opinion is that exploitation and bottom line are the most important things. While sipping champers at the wine bar, your slaves are turning the wheels for you. No thanks.

For ref, all of my business were fully reinvestment based. No profit was made, no investors were used and good, reliable salaries were paid. They weren't sold off for profit - they were given to the employees when I started venture+1 up. That was it.
A litigated court case? I'll have to think about that for a while. But the question you ask, are patents good for humankind in general, is yes. Transnational comparisons make it easy to see over the course of history that people invent more in countries that have secure rights for inventors. Patents can be overbroad (that's often what we talk about here on Hacker News) and patents can be for "prior art" already known to other workers (and that's what often gets litigated), but in general patents are a helpful public policy, along with copyrights (I think current United States copyright terms are much too long) and trademarks. Protection of legal rights in intellectual property encourages creative people to produce more intellectual property.

AFTER EDIT TO REPLY TO A QUESTION:

I was asked for a written account of transnational comparisons of intellectual property law and its effect on innovation. Here is one.

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/intellectu...

I have to go to a conference today for work, but perhaps other participants will join in with other comments on the international legal comparison issue. I have lived in two countries (the United States and Taiwan), and I lived in Taiwan before and after it developed intellectual property law enforcement, and it is plain to me that intellectual property rights encourage innovation (as contrasted with mere copying).
Arena and Lucas chess are good. I like Lucas for it's simplicity though. And it is fun for my kid to play with. It comes with a tutor option also.

http://lucaschess.pusku.com/

http://www.playwitharena.com/?Download

Edit: Not sure if all of these are Open source though. But they are free.
Yes there may be a button but it still renders most apps "blurry".
Show HN: Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot
5 Expensive Social Media Mistakes Small Business Owners Are Making
10K run every day and 10 hours of sleep.

The productivity gains are in the 2-3x range.
Not just cross-currency, but also cross-border payments.

I've implemented processing of cross-border payment instructions delivered via SWIFT and there's no way banks will STP a cross-border payment for $150 million. Large payments will always be subject to an authorisation review, at least where I work. That costs money and takes time.

Fundamentally, cash payments will always suffer from counterparty default risk without a central bank. How are you going to build an international central bank or central bank system? The best you'll see are regional efforts like TARGET2.

Digital currencies solve these problems without requiring ridiculous amounts of infrastructure to be created first. If we had to sit around waiting for banks to solve these problems, it would simply never happen.

This is fundamentally why I see digital currencies as the future, and why the hype is indeed warranted (even if perhaps people don't understand why).
No, it's not. Visual is basically bad for anything but toys.
The idea that "computer analysis should be done only after you analyze the game on your own" does not come from the notion that computer analysis is not accurate enough (which is obviously wrong, as you pointed out), but that you develop your skills way better if you put effort into working the solution out on your own rather than having it served on a plate by the chess engine.
It does not unpickle every time you get something from cache. It maintains a first-level in-memory LRU per-thread object cache which is the actual Python object (not its pickle representation). In practice, that means you don't need to maintain your own results cache (with e.g. redis or memcached) as you do with most SQL-based systems. If it's slow for you, it's probably not due to its cache.

Write conflicts are indeed hairy to deal with. Using a BTree in places where you might instead use a dictionary usually makes this a lot better.

It sounds like you got burned by using it without understanding it very well.
:D. Why is anyone even considering FP vs OO programming a choice? I've used functional patterns within OO before and I'm sure the opposite is possible.

Both have merit depending on the skill-set and staff available to you, scale of project and existing infrastructure.

I was however very disappointed when the author bundled interfaces into the mix as if it was the same as the rest of it. The interface enables you to support many different types of behaviour and enables you to structure your libraries in different ways. It's a different aspect from just classes themselves.

Genuinely I don't think shit like this is healthy. Smacks of religion.
Ukrainians riot in Kiev to join EU after deal collapses over Yulia Tymoshenko
As a comment posted to another participant before my comment here to you pointed out, attacking a witness's statements on the basis that the witness may be biased, or may not have a basis of knowledge for what the witness said, is all standard procedure in a court case. The rules of trials allow the finder of fact to be informed of why not to believe everything that is said during the trial. It's up to each side in the litigation to follow the rules of evidence (a THICK book, interpreted by thousands of court cases) to suggest why some evidence presented at trial is better than other evidence and more useful for truth-seeking.
I wrote this earlier this year - 10 services to consider when starting a SaaS business - http://sahilparikh.com/post/50074249352/10-services-to-consi...
where do you run? (as in outside, gym, etc)
Of course, "people won't have to do it all" also implies "the future doesn't need us".

Currently those poor workers are cheaper than the machines that could do the same job. Once the machines become cheaper than a sustenance-wage for a human, there will be literally no jobs for those people, ever.

And than means that either by that time we drastically change our distribution of resources - where 'having a job' is not needed for living; or expect literal class warfare.
Wasted in what sense? What do you consider a better use that could have been made of a great chess player's mind?
Yes. That's how I know, but nice job of being an example.
The original tagline was "IBM doesn't make operating systems anymore for a reason" which could have been debunked by knowing anything about IBM's product line or about 5 seconds of Googling.

Disclaimer: I'm an Ars subscriber and <3 Ars but when my bullshit detector is already off the charts before the article begins ... it makes me wonder how good the article is.
Yes, because that what we need - more cars, more traffic, more pollution and more health problems.
It's best to keep object records small when using ZODB. This does mean you need to do some planning about object structure. Objects that inherit from "persistent.Persistent" are kept as separate records in ZODB, so you can break up a large object into several smaller ones by attaching persistent attributes to another object. If you just make a big structure out of nonpersistent objects, ZODB will have all the downsides of plain old pickle (like slow loading time for large objects) indeed, but its entire purpose is to allow you to not do this.
I think it's the other way around.

Because the economy is so crappy money is flowing into the one area which still has the (perceived) possibility of a significant positive return on investment.

Unfortunately, like markets tend to do, that's been raising the prices/valuations to levels at which few investors will be actually able to get market beating returns on investment.

If I'm right then this market is indeed experiencing an artificially high demand, but the dynamics make it more likely to simply have it dry up eventually rather than having it pop (like a bubble would.)