skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These stats do not reflect the effect of recent changes in the law. Money being awarded now is from lawsuits launched at least one or two years ago. New case filings are down 40% year-over-year[1], and anecdotally, we're hearing that many troll-friendly firms are severely curtailing their new filings due to new procedures at the US Patent Office to attack patents in parallel early in a litigation [2].

[1] See for drop in filings, http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=dadf4dce-0f75...
[2] See for stats on IPR: http://www.insidecounsel.com/2014/03/19/patent-owners-beware...
Not one example on the front page.
Almost all services have a "forgot password" link that will send a reset to your email account.

The solution in this article isn't really "relocating" the attack... more like removing additional attack vectors and limiting it to the email vector (which already exists right now, anyway).
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Anyone who lives in China knows it's "complicated," but journalists just report, they don't editorialize. The quote thing is used more often by Chinese reporters to talk about the "president" of Taiwan, which is obviously sensitive for them. They might also say the leader of Taiwan, but this is unprofessional. Incidentally, the ROC government has more congruity with pre 1949 China than the PRC one.

As for DPRK, reporters say that, and they refer to Kim Jong Un as "dear leader" since that is what the North Koreans use, not because he is particularly dear.

Even when Stalin was in charge, communism was more of a name than a stringent mantle to uphold. The communist party might not be very communist, the Nazi's weren't very socialist. Names are just that.
Relearning Fortran Through the Medium of Star Wars
The author makes a good point that's worth exploring, but I think his view misses the point that Bootstrap is really targeted at and most beneficial to those who aren't full-time developers.

The cartoon near the bottom of the page [1] illustrates what I don't think is a common reality. In it, we see the developer adapting a designer's mock-up (rather poorly) using Bootstrap. To me, your full-time backend developers are not the target audience for Bootstrap and aren't thinking in those terms. The designer who's creating mockups in Photoshop is going to handoff that design to the developer whose task is to use their languages to make a design web friendly.

Still a nice article and definitely got me thinking about who uses Bootstrap and how they use it.

[1] - http://www.punkchip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/580-boots...
Please upload any working cray image to bitsavers.org.

I wrote an emulator for a Motorola Exorciser (6800 development system: http://exorsim.sourceforge.net/ ), and am totally in debt to whoever uploaded the MDOS disk images.
> If your iOS app uses custom controls and deviates from the Apple design language, your design is rightly criticized.

Not necessarily true, even ignoring games (which are a whole 'nother bucket of filth) deviating from Apple's guideline and creating your own aesthetics can work nicely.

It is a huge amount of design and implementation work, especially if you want to match the spit and polish of the built-in solutions, but because iOS applications are "full screen" it can in fact work better than on a desktop: there's no chrome with different aesthetics around.

Tapbots has been pretty successful at building up and using their own non-native aesthetics. They're completely insane though, their attention to detail is even higher than the platform's.
Much of the developed world

Hardly relevant when we're comparing the USA to China however.
I am already behind my institute proxy. Does it have a cascading feature ??
A Kansas Developer Was Fired for Subverting the Kansas.com Paywall
Banks harvest callers' voiceprints to fight fraud
Andresen has mentioned that government's funding of science is more crucial because it takes a while for a breakthrough into a new area to happen, like 20 years long - companies can grow on results achieved in science. However well intentioned VCs are they are more goal oriented.

Bell being huge and not unlike government organizations had bell labs - i am sure you all know that transistor came from there. Idea for bell labs was to put many great scientists together and wait for things to happen. Internet is the other thing - one cannot imagine private money investing that much in such nebulous goal - where everything from microcircuits to software stack had to be developed to birth the Internet.

VC doing science is not a bad thing but in the long run government can provide a steadier hand to people that do science than market driven entities. Financial market cycles are detrimental to projects that run on 20-30 year span or clusters of research projects.

If VCs can do a hybrid model where government can step in during lean times and help science projects survive with minimal bearacratic interference I think that could the best IMO.
For solar, hardware prices have decreased so much that soft costs are now the significant majority (64%)[1] of installation costs. This means that in an industry that's growing exponentially[2], there's enormous opportunity in improving efficiency with software.

Why aren't there more software startups in solar? In my experience, it's for two reasons:

1. Most entrepreneurs associate the energy sector with hardware. Hopefully, the DOE's publicity of the soft cost problem[3] in solar will help change this perception.

2. The pain points are really only visible to energy industry insiders. For my startup (UtilityAPI), the pain point we're solving was only really visible after a year of working in the industry.

[1] - http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/12/nrel-soft-costs-now-larg...

[2] - http://www.seia.org/research-resources/solar-industry-data

[3] - http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/soft-costs
A look at how your voice is being used to ID you
I think this is the minority view of LaTeX: it's built on top of and is a subset of TeX, not a superset. No one would ever consider \def to be LaTeX for example.

Not to denigrate what you produced of course.
A Fan-tastic Remake of Empire Strikes Back
Is this string templating? I can't find anything about that on the site. (I'm guessing it is, if it can run on the server and the client.)
Agreed. This article is a good example of #2 when they reference the cartoon that shows the developer using default bootstrap style. Being lazy with Bootstrap does not make Bootstrap itself a bad thing.
There is quite a lot of resiliency hidden in animal feed. GMO field Corn and soy beans aren't the most exciting thing to eat, but the annual US harvest (~350 million metric ton of corn alone) provides something like years of calories per US person.

(I am presuming that it would be possible to bring in at least 1 seasonal harvest on an emergency basis, I don't think this is a huge assumption, especially given the way big harvests are already done, with specialist equipment starting in the south and working their way north)
Almost everyone¹

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite#Government_response
Monad/Monoid are a different category of things from transducers—think of them more like an interface than a thing. For instance, a basic model of Transducer is as follows

type Trans a b = forall r . (r -> b -> r) -> (r -> a -> r)

and it turns out that this is isomorphic to (e.g. an optimization of) the list Kleisli arrow

type KleiList a b = a -> [b]

and lists are monads. For a slightly different reason, this argumentation leads me to believe that Transducers ought to be monads via the Reader/List transformer stack. I haven't verified it, however.

Transducers could be monoids, too. You'd need to have two operations like so

zero :: Transducer a b
add :: Transducer a b -> Transducer a b -> Transducer a b

and perhaps there would be necessary restrictions on the choices of `a` and `b`. It's immediately obvious we could make this work if `a` and `b` were equal

zero :: Transducer a a
add :: Transducer a a -> Transducer a a -> Transducer a a

as this is now just the "identity" transducer and transducer composition which satisfy all the laws of monoid.
This is mental and I love it.
> Innovative designs which defy conventions

Some of these "innovative design" ideas are: video as background, overriding/breaking the back button, weird scroll animations, overriding/breaking scroll etc.

I'd rather use pure HTML site than to use something like the above. And I'm speaking as a web developer, people who are not technical are frustrated even more by these "innovations".
The better social safety nets are damn obvious. Much of Europe (including UK) has free education up to College-level, truly universal healthcare (State-Sponsored for all citizens).

As for income inequality, the statistics are pretty telling.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/08/news/economy/global_income_i...

But it is the goal of liberalism to have strong social safety nets and equalize pay to all. The US has a different culture with different values... tending towards the "conservative" and with great trust in market forces.

"Obamacare" is seen as Socialism and half the population seems to hate it. But Obamacare only establishes rules for the free market to operate under... standardizing health care plans across insurance companies. There is no state-sponsored health care from the law, and yet people are still worried about socialism.

Obamacare is closer to Credit Card reform, in that it forced all credit card companies in the US to standardize upon the "Annual Percentage Rate" / APR so that everyone can comparison shop across credit cards. With Obamacare, all insurance companies have to offer similar plans (bronze, silver, gold, platinum), and they must cover certain provisions (contraceptives make the controversy here). So now when you see a "Bronze" plan from say... Aetna Health Insurance, you know it is similar to "Bronze" plans from Kaiser Permanente.

As far as the "Socialism" goes... US has had Medicare / Medicaid for nearly 80 years now. The "socialist" part of our health care system has existed for a very long time, but no Republican seems to want to attack it.

But inside the US, any new laws upon the market is seen as a "Market Distortion" and is criticized as "Socialism". Because most American's don't even know the meaning of that word. The absurdity in the "Net Neutrality" argument is more proof of the free market sheeple ignoring important issues and placing their trust in the free market instead.
I use bootstrap when clients request it, otherwise I prefer Foundation. Bootstrap is a good grid framework, but generally I have found that Foundation is more easily customizable (read: you don't have to "undo" as much when developing for custom designs).

Also, bootstrap has minor issues that bug me: parents of dropdown menu items aren't clickable, and there is no block-grid class which is an easy way to organize looping content (e.g., blocks of text, images) into a grid.
Lisp is optionally statically-typed. I am not aware of any type error Java can catch at compile time which Lisp cannot catch at compile time.

Now, whether or not a particular implementation does catch it is an entirely different affair.
Integrating React.js into Jekyll
Well, just saying:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26671

On a slightly larger scale, I will, eventually, in my infinite space time, have a full size wooden cray I in my rec room as a sitting couch. I have the carpentry skill and tools and structural experience to pull this off. For many years I have periodically worked on dimensioned drawings. My strategy revolves around making eleven identical 22.5 degree segments with a framework and panels mounted in slots and two "about half" segments and then bolting the column detail from one to the internal framework of the other. This makes it very easy to build and very easy to move (well, sure, 13 total segments and maybe 10 bolts each means a lot of wrench time when you move it, but no segment is individually too big for a person to move.)

To warn other people, this is a typical "large machine in a giant data center looks small, but it looks huge in a normal size house" kind of problem. Its about six and a half feet tall and about eight and a half feet across so its a rather substantial investment in space. Then again you can use the enclosed volume for storage. Essentially you have eleven small full height coat closets and under seat storage also.

I have a basement rec room / craft room / lab that runs the length of my house so it will be more or less in proportion other than height.
Are you sure about that? My understand of it was that the place of supply depends on what is being sold and not on the VAT registration status of either party. Digital goods would have the place of supply defined by where the customer is. Services have it defined by where the seller is.

If both you and the customer are VAT registered, then you can zero rate the VAT, but the rate (if it were applied) could be different (based on what you are selling).
I have absolutely no problem with them changing the rules and regs between seasons. I find seeing which team/driver rises to the new challenge to be a fascinating part of F!. But it does rather annoy me when they change the rules within a season. That always feels like interference and moving the goalposts...
The meandering run-on garden path sentences make this post very hard to follow at times.
In case you missed it they are also shutting down. [1]

It's unfortunate, I think, since the model for a publication was interesting.

[1]: http://glog.glennf.com/blog/2014/10/8/the-magazine-is-making...
Long time fan of https://github.com/inuitcss
I think putting words into the author's mouth in order to criticize is not constructive. I believe he meant simple things more like deviating from 12 columns/4 breakpoints.
They may have faked the explosion at the end, and obviously their explanation is total nonsense, but the launch looks pretty authentic, see this alternate angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoMKy043j_I
I'm wondering how this is different from using CakePHP or Ruby on Rails for generating a similar interface. I've used CakePHP heavily and am generally a fan of CakePHP - plus, CakePHP lets you customize your application once you have the basic CRUD scaffolding in.
Excellent! The article manages to make two opposing arguments simultaneously (same problem can be seen in Firefox too).
Considering that this is already the case in D, it seems like it might be a good idea. Though who knows how much havoc this will cause in older code bases that are riddled with hacks.
It's also worth noting that sites only look "bootstrappy" to developers. Among the general public and user base, they just want a site that looks decent enough and functions well across devices, which is what bootstrap offers.

This is, however, very much a follow the leader industry, where the purportedly innovative designs are all follow the leader. Right now the trend is overwhelmingly for the overloaded scroll, the images that fade in on scroll in, the fixed back images, the hero board (a lot of these came into parlance via the NY Times Snow special feature which was quite innovative at the time. Similar to how AJAX gained broad awareness with Google suggests). These are absolutely cliche at this point, but it is held as the high point of design. In two years it will look positively beginner.
Since Fiddler is just a proxy listening on port 8888, you can use some proxy profile extension like SwitchySharp in Chrome to control it, make only necessary urls access through fiddler.
I am not sure what the value of this service is. Simply loading a website in your web browser will verify all of those things bughunt.io does - something you do before push to production anyway.
Just in case somebody else is facing this issue, following the steps in below link fixes it:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/connection-untrusted-er...
Next Big Trend: Robots That Follow You Around
At Florida State, Football Clouds Justice
So what exactly is your point?

> Our designers strive to create layouts that best fit the business and shouldn’t be limited by what framework we choose to use on the front-end.

Name any framework that doesn’t have an opinion about how to do something. A good developer is also one that sees a design and knows what tool fits it best.

>To use Bootstrap efficiently and understand it well you need to dedicate time to reading through the documentation, digging into the source code and figuring out how to customise it for your requirements.

Again, name a framework that requires 0 documentation reading time on the part of the user.

>Bootstrap doesn’t follow best practices or good semantics

This is an opinion best served by backing up what you feel good semantics or best practices are, because often times frameworks define what those best practices are.
It's more like a taste of their own medicine.

YC exists largely to con VCs into being attracted to their golden child chosen companies[2], right? YC batches spend most of their time a.) making their product and b.) refining their pitches to trigger VC fad likability signals of "yah this be hyper megagrowth companay!" [Reminder: early funding is based mostly around personality and psychology first ("gut feelings")[1] largely triggered by the people factor, and then only company details second since early companies change so much in the long run. You can train people to give better first impression gut feelings to increase their funding chances easier than giving them billion dollar execution capability.]

The focus around "we can teach you to manipulate the VCs by telling them what they want" also has an amusing effect: VCs are pandered to so tightly now with such high quality pitches, they get annoyed if you haven't been perfecting a 90 second pitch for 3 months straight. [Bitterness disclosure: I've been rejected by the people who funded Clinkle. Stab me in the eye with a rusty spoon already.]

So, it only makes sense the base of manipulation also has a phase of pre-alignment too.

But—all is not lost! When any process becomes too manipulation-focused, you can out maneuver the manipulators by being good+sincere instead of weak+manipulative.

[2]: with the side effect of creating an extensive "network of friends"/mafia/collusion-sphere/[union?] so they can collectively kick the asses of People With Money And Power who treat any of them poorly. (but, this also creates a great "Let our powers combine!" capability of getting new things done quickly or helping others in need who are part of the family.)

[1]: Are you under 24 with a Stanford background and were born a white male human person? Step right up for your free money!
Ask HN: How long should money the 1st investment last?
It's a bit weird situation. I got accepted into an accelerator, will go with them unless there's something I like more and there's just ~10 days left before I have to sign the papers.

I just finished an initial Skype call with two guys from a really nice VC fund (made of people who have created successful startups themselves). They like my startup and are willing to work under this unusual time pressure. My gut tells me that when it comes to non-financial aspects of the relationship, it could be better to go with them.

They asked me to send them a list of expected expenses. I know pretty well how much I'm gonna need, but I don't know how much it should last for. While I have some income and it's likely it will increase over the next 6 months, it's not guaranteed and I think I should assume it won't go up, just to be safe.

So how long do I need to be able to run on this 1st investment? 6 months? 12? 18?
Sure, 2-factor auth (by its very nature) prevents sign-in from a single source, but 2FA is an additional layer of security on top of passwords, NOT a reason why email isn't already a central way to bypass password security.

To put it another way: This article describes logging in to a service via an email sent to your account. Every major service already has this in-place via the use of the "forgot password" link; if I have access to your email account, I can already log into any service which sends a reset link to your inbox.

2-factor auth is great as an additional layer of security on top of either this method or the traditional password method, so why not just remove the additional vulnerability of permitting logins via passwords stored everywhere else on the internet, too?
Pragmatic and Rage-Driven Approach to MySQL Indexes
The essay you link ultimately endorses the economics Nobel.
I haven't looked at all of it but I noticed that some of the content is from YC itself, or Partners and alums. As such, I imagine it's the kind of advice that YC might want to have widely disseminated. It's not really gaming the system if you're doing what they suggest (build product, talk to users, etc).
http://getbootstrap.com/customize/

Tweak colors, fonts, border-radius, box-shadow and the like to your heart's content.

Or, set these variables in a SASS file and include it before the main Bootstrap SASS. Bootstrap will happily use your variables instead of the defaults.
That's a straw man argument. Nobody proposed using video as background or overriding established defaults.
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Has anyone tried the Edison? Is it good? It seems to me that it's a Raspberry Pi with better specs, wifi, etc, plus Arduino compatibility, which sounds amazing, but I haven't figured out how it connects to stuff. How do I power the little die? Do I need breakout boards for everything?
I use Bootstrap on small apps that I need to get up and running quickly. I don't use Bootstrap on existing apps or deeply responsive apps.
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As a developer I am a big fan of Bootstrap, as a user I am starting to hate it however.

Previously for mobile versions of sites they would simply check the user agent and if you had a mobile browser they would display the terrible/broken/useless mobile site (e.g. m.example.com). Most mobile browsers built in "Display Desktop Site" functionality to fix this problem.

However now with Bootstrap instead of using the user agent they use the screen size. So "Display Desktop Site" is ineffective and you're left using the terrible/broken/useless mobile site (which still has missing content, breaking content, and dead links even using Bootstrap).

This type of thing is the main problem:
http://ageekandhisblog.com/css-how-to-easily-hide-content-on...

The main issue with Bootstrap is that escaping the mobile version is almost impossible.
That area in Meatpacking / Chelsea is home to an increasing number of established brands. You have YouTube and MLB.tv in Chelsea Market; Google across the street; IAC on 18th; and then BetaWorks a few blocks south.
I use Bootstrap, because the majority of the apps that I build are for internal use within the company that I work for. The default look and feel is perfect for these utilitarian apps, and we don't have to worry about being inconsistent in our design by using it. It's just the right tool for my job.
> My first intuition was that this is impossible

Isn't that the case for so many problems in cryptography, though? DH key exchange, zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, fully homomorphic encryption - all achieve things you could be forgiven for assuming were impossible.
The dataref package is intended to be useful (and it acutally is). Avremu was only a long trip in sweden without internet, an editor and a reference manual.