skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an article covering a report which covers an actual study. The actual study is here: http://www.rpxcorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/RPX-2013-N....

Chart 1 of the WaPo article is a bit misleading. The America Invents Act, passed in 2011, limited the circumstances under which multiple defendants could be joined in the same suit. So what might have been one suit with three defendants pre-AIA might be three suits, each with one defendant now. If you look at Chart 1-2 of the RPX study, on page 10, you can see that the total number of defendants peaked in 2011. The same trend holds when looking at NPE cases only (Chart 4-5 of the RPX report). Chart 10 is also interesting, which shows the number of campaigns (suits related to single patent or set of patents), down since peaking in 2011.
Multiple times and not just for IBS but many reasons ranging from breaking a weight loss plateau to preventing anxiety attacks after the probiotics. It definitely reduces IBS symptoms while I'm not eating, but the hunger makes me unable to think about anything but food.
I think it's unfortunate that LLVM has no first-class public targets smaller than ARM to help guard against ‘all the world's a VAX’ pitfalls. There are/were projects for MSP430 and AVR but it's not practical to keep up with LLVM without full-time developers.
That's great, I also didn't know it existed. The only thing I need to check is if it will copy the updated values to the archived ipa.
Wow, this is really neat!
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The commission-free withdrawals abroad were offered at the wholesale VISA rate. Nationwide didn't take any vig.

Their "Select credit card" still offers EUR and USD purchases with no surcharge and no vig.
And that's one of many reasons why you should always allow users to configure their shortcuts. Thanks Chrome.
"...patent trolls — also known as non-practicing entities because they simply stockpile patents without making anything with them..."

I never liked that definition. It sounds like ordinary specialization in an economy, to me.

"The latest effort would have required the loser in a lawsuit to cover the winner's legal fees and for NPEs to state more clearly what was being infringed at the outset."

Now we're talking: address the real problem. The real problem is not NPEs; the real problem is that they can impose huge costs on others at little cost to themselves, which sets them up perfectly for an extortion-like racket.
That's a very low wage for a skilled software engineer though.
That might be true, but what effect does that have on his sales? Unless we call in to question the veracity of his claim because of bias, the fact that he may be a raging fanboy doesn't weigh much on me.
If it's 3-4 times bigger than the Uranium, and Uranium will last us 10 more years - Thorium would last us 30-40 years. What to do after that?

If there ever appears a new intelligent civilization millions of years after humanity, they'll be very disappointed to be on an Earth without any Uranium or Thorium!
I've requested scan of ID in the past for suspicious sign-ups, the reasoning is that almost all malicious people would just move on at that point to another target.
Naive question, but I keep trying iTerm and not being able to quite figure out why I should switch. In the mid-2000s it was a much better program than Terminal.app, but that doesn't seem to have been true for quite some time. Terminal.app has tabs, 256-color mode, themes, full screen support, and as people have mentioned in other comments, session recovery and much better performance. The only things I can think of offhand that that leaves in iTerm's court -- at least in the 1.x series -- is tmux integration and autocompletion. The latter I've never seen the point of (my shell does that pretty well, thanks) and after trying the former it seemed like it was more bothersome than just letting tmux handle everything on its own.

Okay: iTerm can put borders around its windows, which one of my friends says Terminal.app's inability to do makes it unusable for him. But beyond that, I just haven't been sold. (If that's the right phrase for free software. You know what I mean.)

[Edit: I think the tmux integration was a 2.x-dev feature, so I must have been using that. IIRC, I actually preferred tmux's own "window" handling.]
Certain destinations (outer-boroughs) will earn you a "shorty" that lets cabbies skip the airport taxi pool lines. Most cabbies prefer this scenario.
No. The closest simple example is the broken window fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
The Duden abides. (sorry!)
Ferric chloride etchant can be safely poured down the drain if it is neutralised with washing soda and filtered to remove the precipitated copper. Alternatively, it can be mixed with a proprietary neutralising compound and disposed of as solid waste. The etchant itself is quite harmless; It is the copper ions which pose an environmental hazard.

Many alternative etchants (e.g. cupric chloride) have an indefinite working life and so pose no disposal issues.
Well, of course I don't have permission. I'm a dude, and there are already too many dudes in STEM. /sarcasm
I work in a pair-programming shop. I came to them after freelancing for a while.

The pace is fantastic. We sit down and work. We take breaks, we take lunch, but when we are at the terminal we are absolutely working.

The whole logic of the place is: remove obstacles to change. Reduce the cost and risk of change. Then make changes quickly in the direction of business value. Repeat.

And it works. Very, very well. Like the NYC subway, even when it's terrible, it's amazing.

I've never been as productive as I am now.
Which is ridiculous but strikes me to be done so as to ensure that emails prepared in MS Word render correctly in Outlook?

Of course they could fix MS Word's HTML output and fix Outlook to use MSIE's rendering engine ... but that'd only reduce lockin by allowing Outlook users emails to be read properly in other MUA. Never going to happen.
Not really IMHO. If hcho's candidate leaves quickly after an expensive relocation, hcho's boss is not gonna like it ("come on, you made us spend 20k on relocation for this guy who ended up leaving after one month!"), while the pill will have a less bitter taste if the relocation cost is much cheaper.
B2B is dead It’s time for H2H
Somebody took "the user is drunk" UI design method quite literally :)

Here is a video about the "the user is drunk" idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2CbbBLVaPk

Basically, the idea is about assuming that your user has an attention and a vision of a drunk person, not designing a UI for literally drunk people.

I highly recommend the video.
No.

As far as I can tell, there is no ctrl+f/F3 style find function in Outlook. You have the search feature, but that behaves differently from ctrl+f.

I've taken to copying email threads and pasting them into Word or Notepad if I need to do a proper find.

^^edit^^

I went out of my way to find out how to do a "find" in Outlook:

ctrl+shift+F for an "advanced" find

F4 for a simple find
The problem with the old Soviet planes is that they're old. The USSR collapsed in 1991; they're now 23+ years old. The design life of a civil airliner is 30 years, after which it's effectively a beater flying air freight in the developing world. For a warplane, it may be shorter -- either it flies regularly, racking up airframe hours in a very demanding environment, or the pilots are so undertrained it's useless as an asset.

So my guess is that the supply of ex-USSR planes is going to gradually dry up over the next decade, leaving only refurbs and aircraft that have been stuck at the back of a hangar. The price will climb -- after all, Russia is still exporting newer, better versions -- and sooner or later the lowering cost curve of the largely-COTS-based Scorpion will overlap with the rising cost curve of keeping the old Soviet kit airworthy.

(India ... is not a good comparison. India builds nuclear reactors and sent a home-built probe to Mars on a home-built space launcher. India is developing its own supersonic strike fighter. Upgrading old Soviet kit is something they've got a lot of experience at. I expect Scorpion to sell to the sort of governments who don't have much of an aerospace industry. Argentina, for example, who've bought no new warplanes since the kicking they took in 1982. Or Iran, if a decade hence they come off the US government's shit list and turn into the west's BFF against wahhabism.)
Yes! This is almost exactly what I do, except s/command/control/, and I'm using Alfred instead of Quicksilver.

Not sure if Quicksilver has this, but one nice feature is that if, say, Chrome is currently active, and I hit its key-combo (control-shift-c), Chrome is hidden (the equivalent of command-h). This is great if you're installing something in the background and want to see if it finished without reverting back to the dark ages of command-tab.

It's especially nice on a laptop, because I can expand all my windows to fill the screen while still having near-zero overhead when switching between apps.
I am super-glad this is finally happening; I was getting close to starting it myself, given the rubbish options which are currently available for building a proper end-to-end home automation system.

However, I'm concerned about the openness of it. I'm like 99% certain that the only realistic way to get a system like this to work is a 100% open, unlicensed, freely-implementable protocol with absolutely no restrictions. It doesn't currently sound like that will be the case, which is going to be a problem.

Perhaps I'll be working on this after all…
Use lead-free solder folks; I strongly believe we should keep lead solder the hell away from children.
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Meh - no-one's perfect. Apple Mail treats cmd+r as reply; acting as an alias for 'get mail' would make a lot more sense as it's analogous to refresh. I'm forever switching between text editor and browser, then hitting cmd+r before I've realised Mail was in my 'switch chain' and inadvertedly starting a mail reply.

In an ideal world, there would be ~ 26 core commands that do (essentially) the same thing in each application. We're nearly there (cut,copy,paste,open,save,print,etc.) but actions like 'refresh' are poorly served.
"Right to be forgotten" - I am sorry but these positive rights are getting ridiculous.
Yo! app warns Israeli citizens of missile strikes
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Did your mobo have soft-jumpers?
Plotly Chrome Extension: finds data files on any page, imports them into Plotly
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The full list: https://twitter.com/mdavep/status/488246365865009152
From http://www.threadgroup.org/About.aspx ...

"What will be the licensing and royalty terms of membership?

The Thread technology will be licensed to members under RAND-RF terms."
Bitcoin is a free market.

The theoretical limits on efficiency also apply to regulated markets. The question worth asking is, which one is more efficient?
F4 for simple search & ctrl+shift+F for advanced search.
Except it's more like they're willing to make your life a little more irritating in order to massively improve their lives and those of their dependents.
How? The closest thing I can find is configuring a couple of shortcuts for a tiny number of extensions that support it.
They are two sides of the same coin. What use (aside from the incredibly useful feature of making actual phone calls) is a smartphone if there aren't services in the cloud that account for the "smart" part?
Alot of these people seem to have found themselves in trouble they would rather forget. I can understand that.

However, it doesn't work that way. Just because Google might forget you doesn't mean DuckDuckGo and friends will, how about Usenet and news aggregator sites like HackerNews?

No matter how much these people want whatever happened to go away that can't and won't happen, it's only a matter of time until this new law is abolished too.
Another Raymond Chen (blog post author) on the that topic: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/23/60474...
It works for me, It looks like you've just pasted a ? on the URL.
I'm willing to try anything safe and shown to be effective scientifically. However, at the moment I have poor health insurance and little disposable income, and my GI doc wants me to do a CT scan that would cost me $1600 out of pocket to rule out IBD and a few other things before continuing. So basically I've hit a brick wall for the time being.
1) What steps will Google be taking to ensure timely vendor acknowledgement and fixing of issues? It often seems a public disclosure is the only thing which will trigger them to finally act (and then they like to fire back with litigation). If a vendor simply ignores Google, will the bug go unannounced indefinitely? Is there a reasonable timeline in which all bugs - fixed or not - are made public?

2) Will Google take bug submissions from 3rd parties and offer any degree of anonymity and/or protection for the bug-finder? I routinely come across gaping security flaws but when we have an over-zealous judicial system and the CFAA, it's often not worth the personal risk to get something fixed.
Thanks Facebook We Now Live in The Truman Show
One thing that I noticed was the lack of Xeon processors for Intel. When I built my current rig, I could get an i7 level chip for an i5 price, but without integrated video. This is totally fine for gaming rigs and something that isn't uncommon. Was that a specific decision?
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They didn't launch any protocol. They launched a site to get (paying) members to come up with a protocol. Big difference.

I'm not too hopeful yet. Maybe it's just their ".aspx" website that has a proprietary flavor to it, when we terribly need an open standard here.

We do need an open standard, so each inventor just needs to implement their idea, & not spend 90% of their time building the whole supporting architecture, and trying to train the customers in the differences in the setup. The wearables/IoT ecosystem will continue to flounder until the equivalent of W3C arises.
Outlook is really great at (Exchange) email. I just started at a place with Notes. In the 18 years since the last time I'd had to suffer with Notes for email, I cannot identify a single improvement.
Why can't you perform compatibility checks on hardware in free build mode? That would take so much headache out of the composing, and be an awesome middle ground between the prebuilt ones and the completely free builder.
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Would have been nice if the spinning was smoother, for that added dizziness-inducing effect.
It's still better than the reason why modern browsers like Firefox and Chrome adopted the absolutely terrible backspace-for-back shortcut: because someone on the IE team decided to do it 20 years ago, probably because it was a shortcut in Windows' file Explorer as well.

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/53176/why-does-backsp...
I'd rather C-s was save, and C-f was find, consistently across all applications rather than the nightmare world you're proposing (which, to be fair, we're halfway in already). Unless you're distinguishing between search and find (even then, I'd rather not have a shortcut for whatever search does).
The NSA pays quite well, and has excellent benefits. Also, if you want to work on really seriously challenging mathematics outside of academia, the NSA is close to being the only game in town.
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I find it unfortunate that I can't completely remove the graphics card from the mid-range system, and I'm not allowed to select a SSD for it either. If I could do those things I would be able to compare this site directly to the PC I built yesterday.

Also I notice that you're missing estimated tax, shipping, and a Windows license from the price.
Research has focused on other methods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Recovery_from_se...
A bannable offense in my opinion.
Raymond also answered that question on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/23/60474...

WingDings mapped the 'J' character to smiley face; when the email goes to a client without that font installed, it just displays the original character in the default font.

Old New Thing is an awesome blog! J
What does this do that PC Part Picker can't?
Wouldn't similar idea be to ask your friend who wears glasses to take them off and try to navigate your website?
At least you would get real and honest review from real user.
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Cant comment on the rest of it, but angular's creator was definitely a Java guy before getting into JavaScript.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCR7i5F5L8c

Jokes in there about how one of the first things he did after learning js was make a framework (super early version of angular)
And then there were N+1 competing protocols...

Bureaucracies and committees are good at developing protocol specifications. Instead of throwing spaghetti at the wall maybe those of us interested in pervasive network computing should get an ANSI committee (or IETF-like task force) together to develop the de-facto standard language.

I don't want to have to build out an API in front of my cluster that speaks every possible permutation of language from every device and sensor. As a hardware vendor I wouldn't want to lock myself out of an ecosystem because my device only speaks a particular language that only a portion of the cloud speaks (or may become obsolete in a few years).

It's nice that this stuff is happening... but a Cambrian explosion of protocols isn't going to make the IoT very robust, IMHO.
> The tradition of innovation is there -- see Microsoft Research, one of the best funded institutes... Microsoft has produced tablet PCs, smartphones, voice and handwriting recognition, mapping, and so on.

I don't see how you can claim Microsoft has been innovative, ever. Windows was a reaction to the Macintosh, the Zune was a reaction to the iPod, C# was a reaction to Java, IIS to Apache, Surface to iPad, MSN to AOL, MS Money to Quicken, XBox to PlayStation, Bing to Google, Internet Explorer to Netscape Navigator, Excel to Lotus 1-2-3, DOS to CP/M, Windows Phone to iPhone, Azure to AWS, etc., etc.

Microsoft's history is a long list of occasionally successful (but mostly not) efforts at me-too-ing the competition. In the 90s this worked -- occasionally -- because they were able to enter those markets and dominate from their sheer size. Now, however, it does not. In any case, I cannot think of a market that Microsoft created or a product that they introduced that has seen success since the 1990's.

> Google is mostly winning the mobile war because it's cloud services.

I don't understand this at all. Apple is making the lion's share of profit in mobile. Last time I checked, Google wasn't making much money form Android at all.
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I'm conflicted about this. I strongly believe in focused local government, and California is awfully big. At the same time, I'm with you on socio-economic gerrymandering. This would be awful for much of the state.
I've been using it in a small side project of mine. Love it, thanks!
That's great in isolation, but the overall score is extremely low here. The ones where the programmer is explicitly male are 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.3, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.2, 8.3. In many of the ones where the programmer is gender-neutral, there are often other characters that are referred to as male, such as a manager, a farmer, a prince, a warlord, a corporate executive, a magician and a father.

The only mention of a woman I found was a hostess (!!) in 2.1.
Google is doing this so they can give you another reason to buy Nest -- it now acts as a bridge!

Yale is doing this because they have locks that already have Zigbee.

ARM is doing this to sell chips. They have their fingers in a million different protocols. I don't blame them.

Funny enough, there are very few things in home automation that actually need battery. Everything from light switches to light bulbs to smoke alarms and security systems are wired.

The better way would be to use BLE which has the same benefits of 802.15.4 stack. BLE 4.1 allows you to do mesh routing, like Zigbee. The biggest boon is that you can talk to the nodes directly with your phone.
That is the key, even a small country can deploy these things with people as opposed to drones. It will be interesting to see if any of them take a bite.
I've never used Scala, but a few weeks ago it was really hot outside so I walked into a book store to cool off. I noticed "Scala for the Impatient"[0] was sitting on the bookshelf and I was intrigued. I sat down with the book and about an hour and a half went by without looking up. I think it's a great book and a very interesting language. I might have explored Scala more if I wasn't already quite busy with Elixir[1].

0 - http://www.horstmann.com/scala/index.html

1 - http://elixir-lang.org/
Unfortunately that always happens when someone has the dominant market position. If you look at last generation's email leader (Lotus Notes) they were lazy and terrible until someone else came along who did it better (namely Microsoft).

Now Lotus Notes is dead. Exchange/Outlook at the current front runners, and they are producing really lazy email clients and not really pushing email forward at all.

What can be done? No clue. The only organisation seemingly able to compete with Microsoft in this arena is Google with their Google Apps for business/education offering. But that has its own issues.

At least Microsoft has made "Outlook Online" a lot better in recent years thanks to their push for Office 365 Subscriptions.

PS - Search in Outlook is shockingly terrible. For some reason during the Vista era someone at Microsoft said: "Let's make search terrible in all of our products." So Vista's search was junk (read: replace a nice Windows 95 search sidebar with hidden obscure magic keywords which didn't work, and only index "known" file types (which is none)) and that filtered down to Outlook which got a huge bloated indexer which is inconsistent, slow, and still relies on magic keywords to accomplish anything.
PPS - Thunderbird also has a terrible search indexer, however it also offers simple filtering which is wonderful. You can disable what they call their "global indexer" (which you should, it sucks) and then just use the "quick search" box within each folder, it is insanely quick, and the filtering options offered a huge efficiency gain.
Yes, it's a little more difficult pinning down problems with the human body than in a piece of code, and these kind of functional problems even seem to have stumped most of the medical profession. However I see it as an engineering challenge. Essentially you are looking at a complex system and trying to solve a problem in a piece of machinery that you don't have any information about. Sometimes working around bugs in android or iOS can involve similar detective work.

In terms of IBS, there is very little doubt that in my own situation that stress causes the IBS rather than the other way around. Diarrhea during the week, followed by constipation during weekends. Or diarrhea preceeding before a novel event. These are repeatable and predictable - it just requires taking a close look at your situation and seeing if you can see any correlations. Unfortunately it can be easy to get fooled into seeing correlations that don't exist.
I think it's a bad definition too. But the problem is mostly unique to NPEs. There are definitely some NPEs that I wouldn't call a troll, like universities and R&D firms.

I think I could even support a patent monetization entity as long as it relied on legitimate patents and went after legitimate infringers.

The issue is few, if any, NPEs actually do that. They resort to extortion-like demand letters or use hopelessly weak patents.