skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not meant to be P-A taunt, though hell this is the Internet so reasonable supposition :-)

No it was really "the public" I meant. Voters, jurors, us in other words. If Texas juries in one county are making patents a laughing stock, it really is upto the rest of us - either in that county, or in juries in other counties and countries, to change that. Or perhaps vote it out of existence. It just seems to me that we read an article and get the "something must be done"'feeling, and are happy when the something does not involve us, hard work, care or a long time. Yet those something's rarely work out.

in short, the current problem with patents is not the fault of various jurors and voters in a small part of Texas. it's our fault.
These come from our open source instant answers platform: http://duckduckhack.com/

So, anyone can suggest or create instant answers and it works out better that they're open source, since people who are most passionate about a topic (movies, legos, pokemon, gardening, etc) will know the best sources for it and the best information to display.
tl;dr: Lucid dreaming is accompanied by increase in gamma waves in the brain. Inducing gamma waves can induce lucid dreaming. Applications are theoretical, but may include therapy for stress disorders, e.g.
Virtuoso is great for handing large-ish graphs and then being able to use SPARQL to walk the nodes. We used it at the last company I worked for and we were able to get fairly good performance out of it while walking hundreds of thousands of edges. I think it would have scaled even beyond that, however the python RDFlib bindings we were using were a bit slow.
It is mostly greed.

If it is ignorance it is usually an editorial decision.
I mean, you can't have idealistic and conscientious writers influencing public opinion against Big Co if you need their ad spending, can you?
> http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/

Hands down, this is the one of the most retard "arguments" in the whole debate.

>"ship everything and let the user chose how they want their
sound to not work" starts with fallacy and ends with disaster.

Ok, if you think so use OS X, but stop braking linux, please. (By the way, it's 2014 and my network-manager does not work, it randomly crashes and needs to be restarted. Thanks god there is wird and linux is actually about choice.)
Indeed. The added option of leveling up your compendium was a genius move by Valve. There is a screenshot[1] of someone with level 1058 on his compendium already. Seeing as $10 buys you 24 levels, he spent over $400 on it.

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/VSPWNDu.jpg
Linux came first.
Who said it did? Consider that I was commenting in a general sense.

djb's work, whether it's coding style or build system or something else, tends to differ from what is "popular".

The parent's comment is along the lines of: what is unfamiliar can appear more difficult, but after the adjustment it may actually appear easier than the prior alternative.

If you view the parent's comment in this light, then you will see that both the Linux kernel coding style and the GNU build system are very familiar for lots of folks.

If you are migrating to using tinyssh and other software that follow's djb's style for the first time, then you will no doubt have to "get used to it" and you might even perceive it as being difficult.

To be crystal clear, I'm not singling out the Linux kernel or the GNU build system. The GNU build system is but one example; the Linux kernel coding style is another.

I could make a lengthy list of "familiar", popular approaches that I could argue are inferior to djb's approach to the same task.

It's just my opinion. If you disagree, feel free to state your own opinion.
That's interesting stats and great leverage of their community by Valve. League of Legends seems to boast a much higher (in number of players but also in toxic trolls) community, but they don't have the distribution/media channels per se although online viewership of League of Legends can surpass 100k on twitch.tv

I think this segment of the gaming arena will really hot up when Blizzard release their competing title directly against Dota2 and leage of Legends.
The post script comment about typing swear words into google patent search is hilarious, even if it is only a translation artifact - for example the first one I stumbled across:

https://www.google.com/patents/CN202375763U?cl=en
Google usage stats – Infographic
I thought only Oracle was the copyright holder of DTrace? Are there individual people who have some copyrighted chunk of DTrace?
If that coffee had been 180F, the outcome would have been the same. Perhaps slightly less tissue damage, but we would still be talking about third degree burns.

It think it is illuminating that so many people believe that Mcdonalds no longer serves their coffee that hot, but in reality, the only changes they have made in response to that lawsuit are changing their packaging, including adding warning labels. If you go to Mcdonalds and buy some coffee today, it could be just as hot as the coffee that that woman bought.

So to address this question:

> "Would you ever expect your coffee to be so hot that it could melt your skin? No."

You really should, because it still is!
You can append ?share=1 to show the content. (A workaround which should not be required but sadly is.)
violent adult games are also cancers to the society. that's another topic.

As parents we're doing our best, I'm just saying gaming is in the most part, a bad thing, I'm not saying every game is bad, as some drugs are useful for medical reasons too.

it's a shame to compare most games to music and painting, that does not make the game industry looks artistic in any way. it's more in the ballpark of alcohol, cigars and drugs, yes they're all popular, same as games, but they do not get the positive images in the society, games should be treated the same. Games do not deserve anything more positive than drugs, again, for the most part in general.

I am fine to be down voted to zero, though I hope some of you game developers know that, there are other ways to make a living than being a game developer.

I'm interested in knowing, in general, how games help kids, teenagers, even adults to be a better person to the society, by reading more, working harder, be less voilent, and staying touch with the real world? There are indeed some good games, again for the most part, they're the opposite.
The first fax machine was made using synchronized pendulums and large pieces of paper with black and white rectangles.
Usage during peak times is already discouraged by the network degrading during peak times: rather than charge more you simply get less value, which is equivalent. This causes traffic to naturally smooth out some over time. You thereby in fact do need some way to cut back on the total usage, as a bunch of people randomly using Netflix really does cost more than a bunch of people randomly browsing the web. The goal of the network is not to support the peak load: this seems to be a key misconception in these arguments :/. It just isn't economically efficient to build a system that can support the peak load. If people really do want to have a system that can stream Netflix to everyone's house at 7pm when the traffic throughout the rest of the day is nothing like that amount, then someone has to bear those costs: either Netflix needs to subsidize the weird bandwidth requirement, customers need to opt in to "supports Netflix" plans, or we have to give up entirely on pricing models that don't take into account usage in some way. You might disagree with how that usage is calculated, but right now the problem is that most people just want "lots and lots of bandwidth for a flat rate", and that is inherently incompatible with a demand for network neutrality :(.
Tarsnap is really great service. It's obviously targeted at tech people, but if you are one, just check it out. I do not feel the need for any wrappers as the CLI is quite nice, but your mileage may vary.

What I'm backing up are a few true crypt containers. Not out of paranoia (well...), but because I use TC anyway to separate different kinds of context (by usage and importance). The nice thing is that incremental backups feature still works great. Compression is not really useful though. Currently I have ~70gb of data, ~20gb being unique.

The service is also priced quite reasonably. Highly recommended.
"Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results" this expression should be used more often when data has a big human element attached to it.
It's got Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication":

(warning, large PDF files)

Parts I-II: http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-3-...

Parts III-V: http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-4-...

Cool!
You still seem to imply that there is a maximum height potential, and getting closer to it, is better.

This just seems to be a very inaccurate model.

All accounts point to the fact that there is a whole range of heights that you can achieve while living a perfectly healthy lifestyle and nutrition, and that you can fail to reach this range, or exceed it, by excess or defect of some elements in your lifestyle and nutrition. You can even stay within this range while being unhealthy because height is by no means a perfect or even a good measure of health. It's a very loose measure only in rather extreme situations, and a decent measure for whole populations under some circumstances. It is a proven fact that you can unhealthily push someone's growth during childhood.

Completeness of nutrition is mostly a non-factor across the Western World when it comes to height. Exercise is a bigger factor as many kids slow down their metabolism by lack of exercise. Migration of Mexicans and Asians into the US is a bigger factor too. These people are healthy, they are just typically shorter. There is no problem at all with that in itself.

Albert Einstein was average Ashkenazi jewish at 5 ft 8~9. Nikola Tesla was your typical tall Balkan man (some accounts measured him at up to 6 ft 6). Does it matter? Should we be trying to push up the height of the jewish by eugenics? The whole "worry" is silly.

Malnourishment also leads to lower weight. Do we try to maximise weight? no, right? because we realise it's stupid and it's quite evident that excess of weight is not good, and it doesn't even look good in most cultures currently. In fact there's a cultural trend about being unnaturally "lean". People need to immediately stop mixing up their personal aesthetic preferences, however common, with real issues like science and health.
Ironically not asked on Quora.
Blizzard's making a competing title? Heh. I'm pretty sure the creator of Dota offered Blizzard the chance to create Dota 2 back in like 2009, but they turned him away. He wound up going to Valve and they made Dota 2.

What's Blizzard's new title? Thanks for pointing that out!
We open sourced our instant answers platform a couple years ago, in the hope to get more eyeballs on them (for quality and quantity): http://duckduckhack.com/
It might not address your point but any underlying flaws (randomness, etc) can be caught/fixed by the community.
I'd be curious to see how it compares to LSM, Sqlite4's new underlying KVS.
You can earn levels through playing the game, and earning drops in-game as well. It's not necessarily from buying levels alone.
Thanks! To answer your questions: yes, we flag some subthreads as off-topic (especially when they become weird local optima that would otherwise sit at the top), and no, we haven't turned pending comments on. We decided to try other experiments instead (such as changes to downvoting, which we've posted about quite a bit) and reserve pending comments as a last resort.
How to establish password-less login with SSH
This is a simple write up how to connect to over ssh to a remote computer without entering a password.
This exercise was an enlightening when I read it for the first time.

I came just after 2.5 which was already an awesome magic trick.
That's interesting. I once took a sociology class about the behaviour of panicking crowds and we covered exactly this phenomenon, that is, if you put a pillar in front of the emergency exit (without completely blocking it, of course), panicking people can get out faster. It seems counterintuitive but it's been shown numerous times.
Blizzard's new title is called Heroes of the Storm. It's free to play as well, but works in a similar manner to League of Legends, where there is a rotation of free heroes to play every week. If you want other heroes, you earn them through playing the game, or microtransactions. It seems to be aimed more at a casual crowd, though.
A framework is like a puppy.

It is not just for Christmas - its for life.
UK police ask blogger to remove UKIP tweets
Found a security issue with the Goodies (XSS at duckduckgo.com). I just posted it through your feedback form "I found a bug", hope that reaches the right people.
Here's a video with with a demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teFyAqj1eog

Just amazing how close to an official product this gets quality wise. I really regret updating to 7.1, too bad this guy plans on releasing it commercial instead of open-source.
What a strange article to feature on Hacker News, front page two days running. Written by a kid just out of college, with little or no life experience, no legal expertise, and quoting biased sources like a liability lawyer to make his rather whimsical case about "eroding the 7th Amendment".

It sparked a tiresomely predictable debate about hot coffee, as happens every time this case comes up; there are always a couple thousand reader comments ranging from "She was stupid" to "McD's coffee is too hot, she deserved more money". I've read a lot of them and it does get repetitive.

As I see it, the Liebeck incident was unfortunate and tragic but does not represent a trend. This hapless woman appears to have been manipulated by an angry family into hiring a lawyer and blowing this up into a big case that took on a life of its own and caused her to be reviled by advocates of tort reform as a classic example of the legal system run amok. Others hailed her as a hero for the little people sticking it to the big bad corporation.

Yet, considering that McDonald's sells 10 million or so cups of coffee a day, 70 reports of coffee scalding a year seems like edge cases. Could it not be simply that there are 70 careless people a year? Much easier to believe than that somehow the coffee is leaping out of its cup and scalding innocent customers about 6 times a month, and they each should get $2.4 million from Mickey D's which after all is a giant corporation so "they can afford it".

Now every damn cup of coffee I buy comes with a little warning "Caution! The drink you are about to enjoy is very hot!" Well, hell yes it better be hot. I asked for hot coffee, and the hotter the better.

Once, in a coffee shop in Harvard Square, Cambridge Mass., a stupid young waitress managed to dump a decanter of very hot coffee onto my lap off the tray she was carrying. I got burned on the thigh very close to my genitals, it hurt, it blistered. I got over it. They didn't charge me for the coffee. Life went on. That's a case where it truly was "their fault". But I didn't sue them or anything.

I think in my case they could have apologized a bit more profusely, but then again, they don't apologize anymore because they figure that's an admission of guilt that you'll use against them in court. That's why Pennsylvania recently passed an apology law for doctors. Yes, they have a law now saying it's OK for docs to apologize without fear of lawsuit. The tort lawyers opposed the law. What a twisted world we live in!
Ask HN: Which office chair do you recommend?
For all of you who don't use a standing desk, which office chair do you use / have you used that you'd recommend for programmers?
"Insurance" is a form of risk mitigation. The reality of bandwidth is that we know someone who likes using FaceTime, or who has a Netflix subscription, is going to use more bandwidth than someone else. Sure: it makes sense if you aren't certain how large a web page will be to buy insurance on it, but you don't want to be in the same insurance bracket as a true "heavy user": I am happy to take part in a pool where everyone subsidizes the risk of accidental trauma, but I know someone who insists on smoking is going to increase their health costs, and they should be forced to take on that increased burden. This is especially evident when the playing field changes: the cost of insurance for all users goes up dramatically when something like FaceTime or Netflix is released, because the people using it are using dramatically more bandwidth than the people who aren't. If the bandwidth companies said "ok, thanks to Apple's FaceTime service, everyone's connection is now twice as expensive even if you don't own Apple hardware", people would be pissed. This is why insurance charges people differently for their inherent risk, and why you can't use insurance as a metaphor here (well, unless you want to make the opposite argument ;P).
http://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-did-Quora-join-the-20...
Perhaps the shakti design, a God helmet, could be used for this purpose? http://www.shaktitechnology.com/shiva/god%20helmet/index.htm
Thanks! Looking for it now.
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Sometimes, smart people will think your idea is stupid because your idea is, in fact, stupid.
Things may be completely dark indoors, depending on the type of lighting.

For example, fluorescent lights emit three spectral spikes centered on where typical human eyes are most sensitive to red, green, and blue. They emit basically no light in other parts of the spectrum. So if the notches in these glasses' spectral filters don't line up with those spikes, they'll be totally opaque under fluorescent lighting.

On the flipside, instead of wearing glasses indoors, someone could probably make an LED lightbulb with LEDs whose output was centered on the same frequencies as the notches in these glasses. It should have a similar effect for the colourblind - same principle, just applied in a different way.
Quora is valued at $900M? Wouldn't that mean its worth more than the stackexchange network? I'm not sure I understand the rationale behind that.
> but coffee that causes 3rd-degree burns is a lot different from coffee that hurts a bit.

Fresh black coffee from just about any shop will cause 3rd-degree burns if you spill it in your lap. Mcdonalds coffee was not somehow unique in that respect, despite opinion to the contrary.

In this thread, meaning to condemn Mcdonalds by holding the "reasonable Starbucks" up as an example, Starbucks coffee has been pegged at "145-165F".

145F coffee can cause 3rd degree burns in less than five seconds. 165F coffee can cause 3rd degree burns in less than one second.

Industry standard coffee causes third degree burns.
In accounts, we often hilight negative numbers in red. It's one of the defaults in things like excel.

So red text has come to mean '-'.

'-' is also 'taken away', so I can see why it's logical to have it in red.

As for green.. well - opposite.
I know, right?

Normal:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-a-german-soda-became-ha...

Abnormal:

http://www-refresh.vice-motherboard-test.appspot.com/blog/ho...
Ha, let's make it a game too! IAPs to get a better lawyer or choose where you sue infringers, global hiscores for the most successful patent trolls (players), share successful suings to Facebook..
I don't think this is terribly good advice. Many databases have specific domains in which they excel. I agree you shouldn't be worried about scaling before you have users, but you should absolutely evaluate different tools before picking one.
I know it's cliche to say, but my god, where did the $141 million go?
Welcome to 2007
INSERT works fine too, but you cannot SELECT tho :(
> ... that leaves Java as a language and tool set. Dev time is too costly, the language is too clunky, the memory pressure is too high.

Are there languages out there with lower memory pressure that cost less in dev time?
How to Organize Your Grunt Tasks
7 Ruby Forks Worth Checking Out
I partially agree, but I want to clarify that "open up an editor and start typing" is not the sine qua non that it used to be. I would argue that Scratch (for instance) is very much a programming tool, and kids that play with it are learning to program, even though there's no text editor and all the manipulations are block-based.

The "check" and "count" cards in this game remind me a lot of the sorts of control flow you build when you're just starting to use Scratch---one control element, one command inside it---and as such I could very much see using this board game as an introduction to be immediately followed up by putting the kids in Scratch. So as I said, I partially agree with you: this board game does not, by itself, teach programming. But, I think it's not anywhere near as distant or as tangential as you claim.
Thanks for the reminder! Unix, blue box papers, Shannon theory, switch blueprints, nice lore.
One of Quora's problems is requiring users to sign up before they can evaluate the quality.
SoftWheel: the revolutionary design to give wheelchair users a smoother ride
> But the expectation is that those injuries will be first or perhaps second degree burns, certainly not third.

That expectation is unreasonable. If you go to Starbucks today and get a black coffee, that coffee will be hot enough to give you third degree burns. If you buy black coffee from Mcdonalds today, it will likely be just as hot as the coffee was that burned that woman two decades ago.

The industry standard was and continues to be serving coffee that can cause 3rd degree burns. You would do well to expect that.
I'm looking through the source I have for DTrace, and there is code written by folks other than Oracle, so changing the license is more difficult than just that. Regarding the GPL, one must ask at the same time why the GPL makes itself deliberately incompatible with four-clause BSD code, or other Free licenses that predated the GPL. Viral licensing just leads to petty fiefdoms and precludes the very sharing they claim to protect.
The four gates that all multibillion-dollar software startups must pass through
Thank you. If you would know my industry - you would be quite amazed how backwards post production is. You will find often trainees renaming hundreds of files manually and similar smart things. I started that blog to bring better IT and understanding into the industry.
Any interest in sharing some of your setup?
Has anyone written a little web app to turn an HN poll into a nice chart, automagically? (Extra hipster points for using D3 and some random and inappropriate visualisation no one has ever heard of.)
Poll: Are you burnt out?
This is a question that gets asked quite regularly here on HN and I think it would be interesting to see what kind of results we can gather.
Like quasar but much more polished :)

The problem with quasar was that is was so different that there was allot of stuff that became weird as ipad user interfaces are not designed for multiple windows.

I had quasar however I have not tried this.

I wonder how battery consumption is effected?

One a side note: my next pad will probably be some kind of linux thing. Just tired of the apple lock in.
this is the worst writing style ever!!!
What you're saying is true, but worrying about scaling before it's necessary is unfortunately common, and I've felt the pain caused by this (modern) premature optimization.
This is not a popularity vote, it's a vote on what DB you actually use. For a "Best DB system" question, you need to evaluate each DB and rank them all.
Since PG has criticized Quora for it's registration wall tactics[1] does this mean they're going to turn into a good net citizen?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5217449