skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For software patents, I'm a fan of Richard Stallman's idea that software patents should require working, annotated source code be attached. I think that this would make it easier to compare ideas to those in previous patents.

If patent filers chose to obfuscate their code, ideally their patent would be rejected for being unclear, or at least, they'd have a hard time defending their patent, as the difference between it and an alleged infringer would be quite large.
> The solution? Stop eating so much sugar. When people cut back, many of the ill effects disappear.

I understand the article focuses just on sugar, but when it starts getting to the health effects, the focus shouldn't be on just sugar but rather all high-glycemic-index foods, including bread, pasta, potatoes, and so on -- at least from what I understand. It doesn't do much good to cut back on sugar if you replace it with bread.
For me, the ad at the bottom of the page is "How To Patent Your Idea".
Looking at your comments, you seem to prefer a more direct and assertive style of debate than is normal on here. So do I, but I've chosen to adjust because I've found that a harsh tone signals aggression to people here where in other contexts it instead signals passion for the idea.

Or: I propose the hypothessis that your calibration for how other people are perceiving things is incorrect, and that if you adjust that, then while there's still a lower percentage for whom it's true than there used to be, on average people still value signal more than you do.
I'm still not sure why it took an immediate digression into editors.
I'd assume that some people are unable to cash out of Auroracoin directly, so they dumped AUR for BTC before people on the crypto markets were aware of what was happening.

This didn't drive the price of BTC up, but when they cashed out into USD it drove the price of BTC down.

Alternatively, the events might not be related. Cryptos are very volatile.
That is a little scary. I would toss that sucker.
the numbers used in the report are from 2010
Noah, Sabotage, Cesar Chavez and Jodorowsky's Dune
Student Sees The Light With Walking Power
That won't happen, the exchange will be on only one of the two branches and thus will only accept transactions on that branch. So double spends are not possible unless the exchanges switches branch at some future time.
It seems to be related with a leaked, possibly fake, PBOC memo that would ban transfers to exchanges in China on the 15th of April.
20 ways to slice Europe
Just came here to post the same quote. This particular article doesn't give any information that would clearly suggest an actual increase in incidence (rather than an increase in diagnosis).
> He or she would be living in one of the nice cities, surrounded by people with similar values and education, enjoying quality-of-life metrics that are significantly higher than the broader American averages.

Where would that be, though? I've lived in a few cities (Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, L.A. area, S.F. area), and even though I lived in relatively nice areas of those cities, I wouldn't say any of them are nice cities full-stop. For one thing none of the urbanized areas are actually particularly safe, unless you are very careful where you walk (and if you drive, careful where you park your car). I lived in Midtown Atlanta for years, and it certainly wasn't; you had to only take one street a few blocks in the wrong direction to go from $1m houses and $2k/mo lofts to "I wouldn't walk there alone after dark".

You can run into those issues in Europe as well, but mostly in "poorer" cities. The amount of care you have to take walking around Chicago or Atlanta, taking note of which streets and neighborhoods are safe and which aren't, feels more the kind of caution you need to exercise in Istanbul, Sofia, or Athens, rather than Copenhagen, Frankfurt, or Brussels.

In practice I find most upper-middle-class-and-wealthier Americans just don't walk anywhere, especially not after dark. That is a way of mitigating the issue, but leads to a different lifestyle. In my opinion, a lower-quality-of-life one, though many Americans genuinely seem to like the car-centric lifestyle, so that may not be others' opinion. One place America does excel is if you like suburban living. But I don't think it does cities nearly as well as it does suburbs.
Nonsense. Google Flu was not "Big" data, they had only a few years worth of data at best. Additionally, when combined with current CDC data, it's predictions were better than models based on CDC data alone. And in all likelihood they can improve it with better methods.
> And it would have all never happened had they just locked their doors to begin with.

This is an attitude that ruins communities. As a nonscholarly example, I like to run ~5 in the morning. Sometimes, something is off in my pre-run snack and I have to go to the bathroom. For a long time, public bathrooms along the esplanade in Boston would be unlocked at all hours. In modern times, due to attitudes like yours, they get locked at 8 PM and unlocked around 8 AM. So, there are no longer public bathrooms available for me to use, just because I like to run before work. (On a side note, I've talked to other runners who have the same issue. Some of them have been put in situations where physical necessity resulted in taking a dump right outside the door of a closed public bathroom. I'm quite sure this was not the intention of locking these doors)

Another case is the Harvard library. You are required to have a Harvard id to enter the library. This is in stark contrast to what makes libraries hugely valuable to other communities. I've regularly had collaborations with Harvard that didn't rise to the point where I obtained a Harvard id, so I would need to drag my host along to the library to quickly look up some material in a book. It is incredibly frustrating.

Tightened security spends a vast majority of its time quelling desired behavior while spending very little time actually disrupting undesired behavior.
I think just about every software company I've worked for exhibited most, if not all, of these traits. Two in particular:

Urgency

I've observed, on several occasions, at multiple companies, senior managers talking openly about deliberately instilling "a sense of constant urgency" into the team. I don't know if we were perceived as unmotivated (we were) or if there was some external threat coming that warranted urgency (debatable), or whether management just picked up on the "a sense of urgency" phrase from some HBS article (probably). Either way, the end result was this kind of "forced urgency" with motivational speeches about how we should all feel urgency about the company's success, and that every task assigned to everyone was always an emergency. Needless to say, it was a great place to work.

Reaction Mode

I've worked at very few software companies that seemed to have an actual long term plan AND were willing to stick to it. It's easier to "just do what the customers are asking for today and then change to do what they are asking for tomorrow". I've worked at companies that pretended to be selling a product, when, in reality, nobody wanted their product as-is and they would get roped into constantly doing custom engineering for VIP customers (bonus: every customer was a VIP customer). So, while the team would be ostensibly working on improving their core product, in reality, they were adding buzzers and lights that had little to do with the core function of the product, in order to react to what one or two customers wanted. The recent "agile" craze has not helped in this regard.
repost, but looks like the article was fleshed out some more since I last saw it on HN. Included recording of 911 call, which I'm curious how he obtained.
xTab – Chrome extension to limit maximum open tabs
How can that site break so much on mobile devices/small screens, wth completely unreadable. How do they do that escape from view effect?
I don't really have a dog in this fight, but:

> People who get banned can either start again with a new account or can write a short email showing understanding of why they got banned and asking to be unbanned.

The issue people are bringing up is, what happens when the banee doesn't know why they got banned (not to mention that they got banned)?

For what it's worth, I usually point out Metafilter as a site that seem to do moderation pretty well. There are of course a number of important differences in the way the sites work, but I bet there are a great many lessons that could be shared in both directions.
There is nothing in dropbox's message suggesting he cannot upload or access archival copies. It says they got a dmca notice so they disabled sharing on some of them.

This is either a bug on dropbox where the message shows to anyone having some flagged file(s), or he was sharing copyrighted content and conveniently emptied the folder before taking the screen capture to paint dropbox in a worse light.
Actually, thumbs down for KeePass from me - it's excellent on a multi user system. It totally sucks for a shared password store (like we tried to do in a company) though as you just can't effectively merge binary files in a Git repo. Pass could totally save the day here. I like!
The first 2 examples are not dividing the work between the threads, but having each of the threads repeat the full work, which is not poor OpenMP use, but wrong use. I would have also used the collapse directive and played a little bit with the schedule. Finally, looping in the inner loop through the first index is not a good idea not only when working with OpenMP.
Thanks for the mention of Camlistore[1]. Wasn't aware of the project -- it seems to mirror many of the ideas I've been mulling about concerning storage.

[1] http://camlistore.org/
Umm, I would argue that a good percentage of it likely is [1]. What is a twitter post doing this high up?

[1] https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github
Yeah I did, but the author seems to brush that aside and say "it needs to be accounted for directly" and I would argue that's not necessarily true.

The problem is that I value my first gallon of water every day very highly for drinking. The next gallon also pretty highly for drinking and brushing my teeth. The next two gallons are for cooking and stuff, so they're less precious; the next five gallons for bathing and sanitation; the next 10 for cleaning and washing, etc. All the way down until we get to the market price which in Houston for water that comes out of the tap is $0.01 per gallon.

I think it would be utterly exhausting to list out every subjective value that I place on every thing that I exchange for every transaction of every day. It's something that I can do in my head with very little effort since for many transactions the value/cost delta is high and I don't need to do careful accounting.

One of the great things about money is that it has basically zero transaction cost as compared to bartering which has a substantial either time cost to find the best price, or price cost to find a deal in a short period of time. Engaging in these kinds of nonlinear transactions (if they need to be done honestly) would bring an economy to its knees.
There is no "test" for autism, no blood market, no brain scan. What is the false positive number? This sounds like the diagnosis for "hysteria" in women 50 years ago .
A few other comments have raised this point, but Big Data is basically the new Web 2.0. Aside from being a buzzword, as a term it's so nebulous that half of the articles about it don't really define what it is. When does "data" become "big data"?
I'd be pretty happy with a system that gives only short-term (two-year?) patents on the current criteria, with a 5-10 year extension awarded only after presenting evidence of significant investment or extraordinary novelty to an independent panel of experts.
Isn't it just a matter of time that someone will make ASICs also for X11? To me any type of algorithm can eventually be implemented in an ASIC. Perhaps some algorithms take longer than others, but it's just a matter of time.
Nate's approach is based on evaluating the quality of the various polls - which is the thrust of the FT article. In fact he actively weighted each of the polls & corrected for known biases.
An important distinction here is why the alleged invention should not be patentable: 1) because it is obvious in view of what was done before; or 2) solely because it is software, regardless of whether those in the field would regard it as a significant advance. The latter is a much bigger change from the status quo, but the article sort of conflates the two.
Wait, there's someone in Delaware besides me? Unpossible!
Police brutality is terrible and should be eliminated from our society. Hopefully the proliferation of officer mounted, always-on cameras can help minimize it. We should continued to do what we can to minimize it and should pay attention to stories like this one.

This story invokes emotion but even after he released all the documents it still doesn't ring true. Part of it is the language used and the overly cautious structure about his thoughts and actions. The following paragraph just didn't seem like a true representation of his thought process:

"Rich SOMA, poor SOMA. My instinct was to make this distinction go away, to show them I know our neighborhood is more complicated than that. To connect on human terms. I told them that it was an early stage startup; I’m doing this because I feel it’s a way to make the world around me better, to bring people joy through better food. I live here, right on this block, in a loving home with 16 roommates. I love this community. I asked them where they lived. And they responded in unison: “Far away! We can’t afford to live here.”"
Kings Assembly: a computer mouse full of awesome
Just wanted to provide a little bit of context. This extension is NOT for everyone.

It fulfills a very specific purpose. I have found that I constantly have way too many tabs open. I often click new links to open new pages without closing out older tabs, and it was getting crazy. Somedays I would have 30-40 tabs open.

I wrote this extension so that I could keep a cap. You pick a maximum number of tabs an algorithm (least recently used, least accessed, or oldest) and as soon as you hit the cap it will discard an older tab.

It will never close a pinned tab or a tab that you have never been to (never been to means you haven't been actove on the page for more than 3 seconds)

The source is available on Github here: https://github.com/ccampbell/xtab
>a new currency

That's the answer to your question. It really is a new currency, but everyone with Litecoins gets an amount of the new currency equal to their Litecoin stake.

After that, Litecoin and Litecoin X11 are separate entities, which will not have the same price. Possibly Litecoin X11 will be worthless, if it doesn't get much support. Like any digital currency of this kind, it will be worth whatever people are willing to pay for it. Exchanges will have to opt in to accept Litecoin X11, as a separate currency from Litecoin.
Gmail's 'Did you forgot to attach your files?' feature
What is X11?
Ever since I studied how the *BSD and Linux kernels worked I felt it was not very elegant, it used to be like a web of spinlocks(analogy taken from a mail by Terry Lambert, FreeBSD developer). I think FreeBSD and Linux today use kernel-side threads and mailboxes a bit more, but it's not the foundation of how they work.

I'm hoping for an operating system where the kernel works like the AmigaOS exec.library with Tasks, MsgPorts and Signals, but offer a barrier where the outside could be a traditional ABI like the one Linux offer.

I've not looked, but I think Matt Dillon's DragonflyBSD is heading towards something like that.
Grafana –  feature rich Graphite dashboard replacement and graph editor
I thought learning by isolation would be a way to enforce deep understanding, it turned exactly into what's described there. Time for a change.
Psdash: A linux system information web dashboard using Psutils and Flask
+1 for this article of bad reviews. I would have difficulty counting the number of replacement power adapters I have bought for my, my wife's, my grand children's, etc. Mac laptops.

There is a reason Apple is such a profitable company: they exploit their little walled garden.

Of topic, but I really fell out of love with Apple when I discovered that my iTunes music library was unusable on my android phone. Converting all my music from my $25/year iTunes Match account to Amazon Music Cloud was a nuisance, but now I can play my music on all my devices.
Well, how about not diagnosing your kid with autism just because he's an uncontrollable little bastard, just to justify your bad parenting?(This includes ADD, ADHD, ASD).

That should bring the stat down.

Qualifier: not all obviously, but it has certainly become a way to remove personal responsibility as a parent.
The problems of make are in the scope of what it actually tries to do versus what we really want it to do. I explained a few weeks ago in another thread as to why all other replacements don't actually provide the solution.[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7221515].

Almost every problem with makefiles is nothing to do with the tool itself - it's something to do with the environment, and the tool not being sufficiently intelligent enough (read: psychic) to figure stuff out. Most of the hacks built on top of make (eg, pkg-config) are attempts to fix some of these problems, but IMO, they're going about it from completely the wrong direction.

The Nix/Guix approach - declare your entire environment up front - will greatly simplify the requirements of any build system - there no longer any magic involved. You won't necessarily make the same mistakes, or even need to consider half of the problems Make has had to deal with over the years.

Make is still relevant and useful in combination with Guix/Nix, but it shouldn't need the hacks built on top of it, like pkg-config.
Microchip and the 16C84 made the list.
Or open the mobile link.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/abstract...
Virtual Panel on Immutable Infrastructure
Chinese farmers build their own incredible Transformers out of car parts
I don't know what's the X11 protocol, but to think a protocol can be "ASIC resistant" looks naive

Scrypt has a bigger memory footprint, but ASICs can work with more memory, no problem

Not to mention decreasing mineability may end up isolating their fork (causing their value to go down)
They mentioned in the thread that this will indeed happen. But it will take at least 1.5-2 years at which point they just want to change the algo again.

See: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=549572.msg5981748#ms...
MongoDB –  install instructions – excellent
>>1 in 68

I would like to see a geographic distribution heat map? Does anyone know of one?
We have started wrapping supporting tape at the stress points. Does anyone know if there any reason not to do this for safety reasons? (It does not look good, but we don't care).
Noam Chomsky had the best response to "big data": it's basically a nonsense concept (which I agree with) because "thinking is hard."
Yes, a lot of people in europe understand English and could deal with somebody else in English. But the general level is for from being enough to make everyone comfortable with it. Technology poles are possible, but they will remain technologic, because non-tech people don't want to speak English, even if they technically can. That's why I don't think we will see much more mixing in Europe for a little while.
Spelunky in HTML5
It is a combination of hashing algo's[1]: "X11 consists of the following algorithms: blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, and echo."

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/21bely/have_...
Can we talk about paywall links on HN?
MongoDB vs MySQL -very funny *caveat: contains fruity language
MongoDB vs MySQL - very funny! in fact it is possible to agree with both sides (though perhaps not the bit about contracting ecoli from cow pooh) *caveat: contains fruity language
The misconceptions about big data are similar to those surrounding the word science.

Many people associate "science" with things: cells, microscopes, the inner workings of the body. But science isn't a set of things; it's a process, a method of thinking, that can be applied to any facet of life.

Big data is similar, in my opinion. It's not so much about the stuff — the size or diversity of a company's datasets. It has more to do with the types of observations you're making and the statistical methods involved.

This distinction is important for two reasons:

1. If Big Data is recognized as a process rather than a circumstance, businesses will be more deliberate in deciding whether to use the methods. They will weigh the benefits of, say, MapReduce against other approaches.

2. The idea that "Big Data" techniques have everything to do with size is somewhat misleading. A comprehensive query of a 50,000 user dataset can be more computationally expensive than a simple operation on a 100,000-record dataset.
An overview of Floating Point realm
ThinkMap – High performance WebGL Minecraft viewer
Having seen a lot of very successful, but somewhat autistic people working in tech (probably Asperger's), it seems a little strange to be classifying it as a "disorder"...
This stood out to me too. What hardware has Facebook brought to market? I don't recall anything specific.

What companies might have offered more obvious synergies? Google, Amazon, Apple who have shipped successful hardware?
Tools Don't Matter
They're recorded and they're covered by the California Public Records Act. You just have to ask for it; they can withhold for privacy reasons. In this case (and as with many others), no such withholding was made. Just ask.
I believe the accepted definition for big data is data you can't handle on a single machine and need a cluster to process. So Moore's law makes it a moving threshold.
The point of scrypt isn't really to be "ASIC-resistant", but to make it much more expensive to build ASICs to efficiently reverse its outputs.
You can already get a patent on processes that turn an abstract idea into a practical application. That leaves open the door for other applications of the abstract idea to still be used.
Native Extensoin for Adobe Air
Two thoughts on this. Note that I'm not explicitly disagreeing to you, just responding.

(1) No blood marker, no brain scan, true. But, it's something that does become evident in people later, so the test has later symptoms that it can be checked against for its error rate.

(2) It could be "hysteria", but it's still people acting unusually (at least later in life). Perhaps it's something that's changed in the way we raise our kids, or environmental, or changes in prenatal/birth-giving/etc practice. Any way, it's a change in our population and is interesting enough to follow.
This is a no-brainer. Use Cgit or Gitlab.
Someone once published a statistical analysis of the HN front page, where they were able to distill which domains are penalized. Medium.com was one of them. The post itself was quickly flagged and dropped from the front page, and I can't remember the link, sorry :/
Yeah, I can also execute it by myself but that's not the point.
How many senior managers of US telecom firms do you suppose the German sigint service owns?
Hopefully the CDC is a little more thorough than simply asking parents if their kids are autistic.
Living in survival mode past couple of years. It's beyond painful.
We seriously thought we were bad parents until a doctor we saw in passing said we should have my daughter evaluated

This opened up options for medication and therapies that will help keep her from shooting up a daycare someday We hope - her tantrums are so bad the neighbors have called the police

That's the worst part of ASD to me, and frankly one of the least talked about