skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There used to be a mechanism called the "statutory invention registration" but that got eliminated in the 2013 AIA.

This is another option (although kind of outside the box in terms of what RPX normally used for), although it's likely to be pricey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPX_Corporation
$99 for a smart cup that will add to the list of items I have to regularly charge.

Seems like a cool concept, but it's too expensive and the idea of having YET ANOTHER item to charge really pushes me away.

I love that people are doing these kinds of things, though.
I suspect that an ambiguously-worded blog post would not be legally binding.
Assuming that this search represents nearly all of them, that is approximately 133 patents:

https://www.google.com/?tbm=pts&gws_rd=ssl#q=inassignee:%22T...

Edit: Nice catch, peter_l_downs ... I didn't realize that the estimated search result of 6,430 would be off by such a large factor.
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'They laughed at Galileo. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.'

The platypus is remembered because it was one of the many hoaxes which turned out to be real; the OP even lists a whole bunch of hoaxes and fakes!

Similarly for the comment about rogue waves: are giant waves really that improbable? Now, how about giant ship-sized sea snakes? (What do they eat? Why haven't we gotten any real samples of their bodies, when they aren't even abyssal creatures? Why has the rate of discovery of sea-going reptiles been zero for decades when human populations, scientific research, travel, and sensor technology have all been increasing exponentially?)

The OP links a short statistical analysis of discovery rates: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/182368464/2008-woodley.p... What struck me was not that the most reasonable analysis, the logistic regression, estimates zero species remaining to be found, but the authors' list of lame discoveries in 'cryptozoology': stuff like moths, peccaries, and whatnot. Really? Really? That's your defense for the plausibility of giant sea snakes - moths and small land mammals in extremely remote locations?
Sounds to me like the "in good faith" clause is to retain the patents for a defense should someone try to come after Telsa for infringing.

Quite an interesting business move and pretty unprecedented as far as I know, at least for a non-software company. Presumably he is hoping that this will encourage improvement to infrastructure. He is also probably thinking he can build higher quality cars and cheaper than others, irrespective of if they are electric or not (probably this is true).
Do you have a copy of the presentation in beamer's "handout" mode? I think that is what it is called. It is the mode that condenses the 140+ pages into 20-30 by collapsing all the reveals.
Without an explicit licensing agreement, one should consider the fate of Troy, even if Tesla's present intentions are good.
Let's talk server monetisation
This article does have aspects that could be reasonably criticized. But we can have some fun trading rhetorical devices too. I see your Dismissive Tone and raise you a Gentle Mock.

The article sites numerous non-XXX-droid sources too. Shall we dance?
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Patent_non-aggression_pacts is an option that is a tad more legally binding.
Rust gives you the option of either static or dynamic linking, but prefers static linking by default.
Don't forget you'll also need to know Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, all .net languages, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Nginx, Linux, Nosql, MySQL, Photoshop, Art and Design, among other skills.
"I know it's been years since I won the Wimbledon, but I can still beat a seven year old kid at tennis!"
It would be nice to know how it works, literally the only question I have is not answered on the FAQ page.
We aren't running out of elements (2013)
I feel like (again, until clarified) it's more broad than that. "Wants to use our technology" certainly implies to me that I can seek out Tesla's patent applications and attempt to build using them.
Some of the APIs you list (like Bluetooth[1]) are available on Firefox OS, but only for system applications and not yet in Firefox for Android or desktop. This may change if the API becomes a web standard in the future.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/WebBluetooth
Hopefully they'll issue a more formal statement, but even if they don't, this is grounds for estoppel.

Beyond that, anyone who wants something signed and in writing could likely drop a note to Tesla for it when doing their due diligence.
FFS, change the title back to what it was submitted with! "All Our Patent Are Belong To You" makes no sense out of context. At least the original title said something about Tesla Motors.
Our goal with Firefox OS APIs is to create open web standards for the sensors / capabilities on mobile devices.

FxOS is a demonstration of new open web APIs, not a new platform to lock people in.

Web standardization takes time and Chrome OS / FxOS will hopefully converge and become standards.

We should write web apps with standards and progressive enhancement. Raw access to the camera? Use that. No, getUserMedia? Use that. No, file upload? Use that...
The mobile interface is really well done. I appreciate especially that through accident or intent landscape works well. Everything is quick and quite logically setup.

The only downside is that I personally know nothing about rap, so the best I could guess were Real slim shady and another Eminem one by accident.
$(window).unload(function(){
localStorage.setItem("cqstate_v7", JSON.stringify({'achievements': {}, 'counters': {'clicks':998}}));
});

Enjoy! :)
Yep. OpenSSL is too important and widely used software to not have security-fix-only patches for at least several years (if not more) of releases.

If the only way to get security fixes is to update to a new version that has other changes that may accidentally break things -- this is really bad for such a key piece of (security!) infrastructure.
We are working closely with the Cordova team to align our API's with those existing plug-ins. Meanwhile, this approach lets your app take advantage of Gecko's awesome WebGL and JS performance, plus goodies like WebRTC and Web Audio API.
I do now: http://daemonology.net/papers/crypto1hr-small.pdf
Thx for the link. It's interesting that a couple of years ago this technology would have required thousands of dollars of chemistry equipment and now you can build it into a cup.

Very cool.
I work on the software team at MassChallenge, a nonprofit and startup accelerator in Boston. We work hard to make the process of applying as valuable for startups who don't make it into the 128 that actually come into our space for the summer. Multiple companies have gotten rejected, used the feedback our judges give them, and gotten in the 2nd time around, won money in the end.

The criteria we look for are slightly different since we don't take any of the company's equity and thus look at broader impact than just profitability but everything said here is true for us as well.
> PowerMat's resonance charging supports multiple devices on one charging matt, whereas Qi uses inductive charging which require more precise placement to charge.

Both PowerMat and Qi use inductive charging[0][1].

There are some technical differences, but the two are separated more by licensing and legal/political reasons than by actual underlying functionality and technology.

[0] http://www.dvice.com/2013-11-15/opinion-unnecessary-smartpho...

[1] https://www.andrewmunsell.com/blog/fight-for-wireless-power
Sorry, deleted my comment while you were posting this. Repeating verbatim here:

“Chrome OS APIs, like Firefox OS APIs are not web APIs, so a Chrome OS app is not a web app, it’s just a regular app developed using web technologies.”
No, those are just random. If I find I actually want an account, I'll log-out and sign up with a real e-mail/password. (It's very rare.)

Most sites that require e-mail I will just leave an never come back. If it looks SUPER useful or amazing I'll go to the trouble of getting a disposable e-mail account.
That font is giving me a disability
I have watched my father go through this as well. 2 masters degrees under his belt, +35 years of programming experience, self employed contractor for around 15 years.

He has and will travel across the US for any assignment that made sense. He has worked for a lot of well known large organizations.

He too is unable to find work. It has been hard for me to watch my father give so much of himself for his family and now he is unable to find a source of income to pursue his own hobbies now that his kids are on their own.

I have had to talk with him about settling down and retiring, even though he was not ready. He still loves what he does and he is good at it by all accounts.

It is as if he is giving up a part of himself. I tell him he now has the time to do what he wants, to build what he wants, but to him it's not the same. He wants to be a productive member of society. The rejection is hard.

I too feel that ageism is a live and well.

I am trying to learn as much as I can from this. One thing for sure is to make sure you are prepared for anything. Save as much as you can while your young. I am trying hard to accomplish this while I can. Who knows I may even start my own business or at least grow more of what I have. Nowadays it is hard to rely on just one source of income.
Roofies. It solves the problem of roofies.
While this may be uncomfortable for you, please understand that the absolute majority of people in the world is much worse off than you.

And while contributing simultaneously to github, stackoverflow and others community projects could be cumbersome for you, positive externalities are immense. The whole ecosystem benefits from this.

Even if this burden is too heavy, there are always options of 4-day working week, freelance work, project-based work, etc. etc. Programmers are lucky to enjoy most liberty from their profession.

So come on, don't complain, you DON'T HAVE to do anything, unless you want to be the very best.
While I know the basic differences between info and man pages, can you shed some more light on your preference here for the less well informed.
We changed "strategy" to "policy" in the title in an attempt to address this. Happy to change it again if anyone suggests a more accurate one.
If Musk is smart (and serious about his belief in OSS), he'll keep the patents as a defensive tool and provide $0 perpetual licenses to the patents to anyone who asks.
Yeah, it reminds me mostly of the MediaWiki outgoing link icon, which is used as an "exit sign".
#663399Becca would be even better.

Edit: I was thinking page title. #663399 as the color for the header would be really nice too.
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> I'm not familiar with US legislation, but from my perspective this is just Musk on his soap-box making a statement. It's not something I can rely on while building a business that possibly (!) infringes one of Tesla's patents. They may retract their statement and reconsider at any time, especially when times get tough.

The question is whether its a specific enough statement as to reasonably induce reliance, and whether promissory estoppel would apply. It seems to me (and I'm not an expert) like it may be close enough as to seriously threaten Tesla's ability to successfully prosecute suits, and vague enough that anyone else would still be leery about using anything Tesla has patented.
You write a web app, throw it up anywhere, and it's an Open Web Application that can access anything the user lets it. There's no required "store", no need to enable sideloading, it's just a bunch of APIs you can access... on Firefox OS and Firefox for Android.

It's part of Mozilla's push in their portion of the mobile space to get away from the walled garden app ecosystem as much as possible.
Dan Boneh's free "Crypto 1" on coursera. A new session will be starting on the 30th of June.
I've taken it myself and this is hands down one of the best MOOCs (and class overall) I've ever taken.
Probably. As I said elsewhere, this is subject to the caveat that sometimes you need the performance characteristics of ECC; I'm providing advice for general-purpose computing environments which do not have any such constraints.
The pre-declared lifetime worry seems unsubstantiated in my opinion. There's no reason why OpenSSL can't have an expected life cycle based around the expected release of the next new version number. eg 1.0.2 might have an ETA of Jan 2015 and 1.0.3 of Jul 2016; so then you know that 1.0.0 will EOL at Jan 2015 and 1.0.1 18 months later.

I do agree that there needs to be some predictability but I also think managing 4 (including betas) code bases add a lot of unnecessary maintenance. If they can remove one branch, enabling them to better focus their time, then I can't see that as a bad thing nor mutually exclusive from having pre-defined EOL dates.
Got it, and it makes perfect sense. Your initial comment was a bit too dry so I wanted to clarify. Thanks for those links, they look very interesting.

Brazil aspires to be a world power but its execution is always sub par. I really like the quote that says "Brazil is the country of the future, and will always be". It is so true.

We're certainly no military (our presence in Haiti is a joke) or economic power (our GDP is increasing mainly due to population size and small improvements in quality of life for really poor people, but industry productivity and innovation are, again, a joke and not taken seriously here). We like to think that in diplomatic issues Brazil has played some kind of middleman role but that's questionable (people won't give you status/credit just because.. and we don't even use the economic weight correctly, often trying to be the good guys) and in cultural sphere.. well, soccer and carnival are not something I'm proud of.

Thanks again for your explanation, it's certainly spot on.
What's with the downvotes? As a big fan of Biggie I'd like to know what it means to say he's the best rapper. Lyric-wise? Entertainment-wise? Intellectual-wise?
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Someone posted the bliptv link above: http://blip.tv/fosslc/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cryp...

$ youtube-dl http://blip.tv/blahblah
$ ffmpeg -i file.flv file.ogv
If you build an app with Cordova you can easily get stuck in their APIs. If you build a Firefox OS web app you get stuck in Mozilla's APIs :) BUT Mozilla is making a strong effort at standardization and is working with Chrome and others to reach consensus. Cordova strays farther away from stable HTML5 APIs than Mozilla does so in Firefox OS you will definitely be building a more webby app. I.E. some HTML5 APIs work great on mobile, no reason to use a custom Cordova one in many cases.

However, if you need rich cross platform support for your app (like iOS) I'd still suggest going with Cordova. There is a Firefox OS backend! https://github.com/apache/cordova-firefoxos
I dare say most people who read the headline knew OpenSSL wasn't planning on killing itself after getting a few million dollars in funding.
Things like this seem more useful as a honeypot.
Fun aside: Tesla patent wall in question via Steve Jurvetson

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/14405402742/
That is certainly the most plausible reading of that phrase, but it still seems like it could be put into a licence pretty easily, along the lines of "User of these patents hereby relinquishes all claims of infringement against Tesla Motors for any patents the user may own or license".
Especially since Google represents 80%+ of Firefox's global revenue...
I know lots of great people who have died, lots of good charitable efforts, and a few good charitable efforts connected to good people who have died.

Can I get HN to put something in their banner every day for a different one?
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Mr Musk, I expected better grammar from you.
You're over-thinking this. The point is simply that no matter how good the cryptography in a system is, if there are humans involved then you need to worry about human factors as well.
If you are literally taking Ritalin, I highly, highly suggest you get your doctor to prescribe long acting variants such as Adderall or Vyvanse instead. Short-acting Ritalin has awful side effects--it lasts maybe 2 hours, you can feel it kicking in and leaving in a very harsh way, you get all the nasty dry-mouth, etc. Vyvanse lasts 12-16 hours, you don't feel it kicking in or leaving, minimal side effects, etc.

Honestly, I would rather go without meds than have to take Ritalin every day. That stuff is plain awful. The long-acting meds are where it is at.
If you hypothesize that the odds of a coin flipping heads is 50% and you get heads 9 out of 10 times, the odds of getting that result if the odds were really 50% is like 1/500. You should be pretty confident that if you were the flip the coin billions of times you wouldn't get close to 50% heads based on looking at 10 samples.
I was very excited by this title and incredibly disappointed when I read the actual article and saw that they're using Powermat. Given Starbucks's historical relationship with Apple, I'm fairly convinced now that this means that the next iPhone will have wireless charging through Powermat.

Format and standardization wars benefit literally nobody (look at VHS vs. Betamax and Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD). In this case, it's even worse because it'd be fragmentation for the sake of fragmentation - from an end-user perspective, there's essentially no difference between the two[0], and the main issue is really patent royalties more than anything else[1].

[0] This was not the case with VHS and Betamax - there were clear differences between the two formats
[1] http://www.dvice.com/2013-11-15/opinion-unnecessary-smartpho...
There is no legal covenant here. I imagine Tesla’s definition of “good faith” is “we evaluate on a case by case basis”.

Which amounts to “if we like you” and “we reserve the right”. If they wanted these patents to be open source, they would license them explicitly.
He's not saying that. He's arguing that, were Tesla not to take the patents, there was a good chance one of the established auto makers would have taken them. This would have been the problem, as the entrenched players probably would have used the patents to stifle innovation in order to maintain dominance.
Another option is that they use a capacitive sensor, which reminds me of the smart pill bottles being developed by AdhereTech and others (http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/8/5289022/adheretech-smart-pi...).

Although, I think this is less likely- I like your guess better.
No information on how it works, what material it's made of, etc. The last thing I want is all my liquid intake to go thru a plastic cup.
That definitely doesn't sound right to me, because it says "wants to use our technology." That implies awareness that one is using Tesla's technology, because otherwise this promise wouldn't mean anything since people who don't believe they're using Tesla's technology wouldn't think they fall under it anyway.

I am having trouble working out what it does mean, though. Based on the rest of the article, my best guess is "Does not act in a predatory manner toward other carmakers, such as initiating patent lawsuits of their own." Basically, I think Musk is trying to say that Tesla are willing to cooperate toward the goal of making electric cars a bigger presence if you are, but they don't want people using their patents in conjunction with underhanded tactics to try and monopolize the market.
From my understanding, no. The tools are not linked by code.

I'm free to write a proprietary coreutils test suite and charge $100 for it, so long as it doesn't hook directly into the source of the tools. If it's only interacting with the product, so be it.
That's not what he said. He said it probably wasn't rendr for
angular. I'm pretty sure he's saying they preload the initial viewing
template (not a prefilled template) based on app state - stuff like
clientside routing and such. The browser still has to render the
template, but it doesn't have to be fetched by a separate request.
All 100% true. Big companies consistently botch this - by treating a person like a person and going out of your way to solve issues (being preemptive is even better) you can outcompete bigger competitors
Aggregate Functions Gone Bad, and the Joins Who Made Them that Way
Need? I didn't need a smartphone when I bought one, but it changed my lifestyle such that it is now irreplaceable. How do they do it? I really don't know but this article on electrochemical biosensor arrays for "electronic tongue" is interesting: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijelc/2012/986025/
Nice work! Love the flexibility and extensibility of Firefox... That's quite impressive
Yes, at the end of the day, software developers have it pretty good in the current job market.

Sometimes it gets a little ridiculous on the requirements/wants on job postings. Some companies just ask for the world; it can lead to impostor syndrome and it can be stressful.
Agreed, although, the aim here is not to focus on the 'why' part? It's to focus on the 'where to go from here' part. The 'why' will always be anecdotal as it's one perspective vs another. The key to this post is really honing in on the fact that the best entrepreneurs can take setbacks yet still move on to succeed in their endeavors to build amazing companies with our without YC. Which 'anecdotally or otherwise' makes for the best YC applicants.
This is not about projects and work that help other people, but doing this for future employers an a career, not out of altruism for others. For example you didn't bring up a linked in profile in your list of things.
The website makes no such claim. So no, I don't think the problem of roofies will be solved until certain men learn that sex isn't something you take by force.

Instead, we have a 100 dollar cup that peforms a neat trick.
Typically, you pay a fixed extra cost for a gigabit or 10Gbps link, but beyond that you only pay for traffic. So, a DDoS will cost you a fair bit, but having the spare capacity to weather one shouldn't cost you all that much. (Depending on just how much you expect to get hit by.)

I'm more curious why we don't start large-scale investigations in response to each DDoS attack: each one gives you a list of machines likely participating in a botnet.
Do I have to take this to the pub for my beer too?
My first computer was an Apple IIe with the DuoDisk drive, supplemented soon afterward with a then-blazing-fast 1200 bps modem. The Apple-branded one that hung, kinda bizarrely, from the wall. Add an Apple mouse (I recall the hardware took up a whole slot), a Super Serial Card, an Apple 80 column memory expansion card, and it was a dream computer.

That is, at least until the Woz-edition Apple IIgs came along a few years later!

Like someone else in this discussion, I don't know how my life would have turned out if it weren't for the Apple IIe/IIgs. I likely wouldn't have learned how to program, wouldn't have been exposed to those early glimmerings of hacker culture, wouldn't have gone into technology journalism, and wouldn't have left technology journalism to found http://recent.io/. On the downside, unlearning the bad habits of Applesoft BASIC is a life's work! :)
Since many auto manufacturing companies doing R&D and Tesla, having already created technologies good enough to bring to market, there will definitely be incentive for taking action. Tesla has already created technologies to run cars that rival (performance) gasoline cars, and access to those technologies/designs will accelerate their own EV efforts.
You and I have exceedingly different definitions of "free." It's not even ad-sponsored free like basic Spotify is, it's a full-on paid product that comes bundled with other paid products. So the price of Amazon Prime (which just went up) reflects this half-baked music streaming service. I'm paying for this, as is everyone else posting complaints about it (because only paid Prime members can access it).