skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A provisional patent is $65 if you are a micro entity, $130 if you're a small entity. You have one year after filing your provisional patent to file a "regular" (utility) patent based on the provisional, and your utility filing gets the benefit of the provisional filing date.

See fee schedule, refs of micro & small entities, etc:

http://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/fees-and-payment...
The key phrase there was"non publicly traded company". By definition, non publicly traded companies don't have (stock) market capitalization, which is the value of all outstanding shares (stock).
Driverless car review launched by UK government
I wonder if pre-launch Slack would have got in to YC.
Is it me or are these React frameworks heading towards the ideas in XAML and MXML?
Angry Birds most likely was written (at least partially) in C++ as Rovio has confirmed that they used Box2D, a C++ physics engine, as the engine for Angry Birds.

All the major mobile platforms support C++. Android through the use of the NDK. Windows phone has support C++ since version 8. iOS has supported C++ as long as there has been the app store, either through Objective-C++ or C++ libraries with a C interface.
More and more, I don't see addicts; I see people self-medicating for undiagnosed neurochemical imbalances.

Alcoholics are frequently people who don't realize they have anxiety disorders, and think they need alcohol to be calm. People who drink cup after cup of coffee/soda because it helps them to "focus" and "be productive" might do well with being tested for ADD. People with undiagnosed clinical depression get hooked on cigarettes way more often than other groups. Etc.

The famous Rat Park experiment showed that addiction is not nearly as common a thing, for neurotypical individuals living in an adaptive environment, as we assumed when we built our models of addiction epidemiology. Most addicts (sparing a few drugs like cocaine and heroin that create strong chemical dependence) are either not neurotypical, or in a mal-adaptive environment, or both. Fix the problem with the neurology or the environment, and the addiction becomes easy to break.
A company's valuation is roughly the estimated sum of all its future profits until it shutters or goes bankrupt.

Most of those 30 trillion assets are deep into the ground, and cannot be turned into profits for free. If you need to spend (say) 2 dollars for every 3 dollars of worth of oil you extract, then the value of the company is already <$10T. The operating expenses can be pretty high. There's also taxes and interest.

Also, we don't know what the price of oil will be in 5 or 10 years, so we have to price in that uncertainty too.
Bypassing Windows 10's Protections Using a Single Bit
Here's a fun trick.

You and a friend start a couple "businesses".

You each sell 50% of your "stock" to each other for $xmillion. Since it's a stock swap, no money has to change hands but now both of your companies are valued at 2 x $xmillion and voila you're an instant paper millionaire.

You can play a similar game with paintings and both become instant hot vogue modern artists. Imagine your next piece going up for sale at auction "his last piece sold for $30 million". I've actually known a few artists doing something like this at low $ amounts (a $3000-$15000) in order to stir up interest in their work in local scenes. If you go to a show and see some pieces up, but marked "sold" with a price tag like this, it's usually to create buzz. The best part is they'll both have receipts of sale that legitimize the whole thing.

According to finance theory you're also creating market "value" without there needing to be any new currency circulated.
Docker isn't a VM? In docker everything is native code. There is no emulation. It uses OS level sandboxing primitives to provide protection and isolation. Running an application in docker gives you the same performance profile as running it on the host because it is running it on the host. So if you write your job in C or Fortran you can beat any Java code on the JVM nearly everytime. Especially for linear algebra applications.
Though that only describes the Bayer array (which is used by most cameras except for Fujifilm and Sigma).

Fujifilm's mirrorless cameras use what they call X-Trans CMOS sensor tech - http://www.fujifilm.eu/uk/products/digital-cameras/interchan...

And Sigma uses the Foveon X3 CMOS sensor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor
Try it. You don't need to be an ex-googler or Stanford grad to be good at what you do. Be passionate, and convey your expertise and skills or lack of, in the application. Keep on working on your startup, although getting into YC would be helpful it does not come with instant success.

If you want advice or someone to read over your application, I'd love to. My email is in my HN profile.
This sounds promising.

I'd love to see a Haskell-centric (performance and robust code) but ultimately language-agnostic alternative to the JVM-heavy stack that's currently in vogue. (Spark is a promising and powerful technology.) I choose Haskell because pretty much anything that the JVM does well (e.g. concurrency) Haskell also does well and, while I like Clojure and can enjoy Scala when written by competent people, Java is ugly and its community has worse aesthetic sense than a taint mole.
Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. I stayed on 10.04 as long as I could, but eventually the lack of support for Chrome and so on convinced me to update.

Plus I have 14.04 running on all the servers where I have a choice.
MacBook Air survives 1000-foot, 125mph fall from plane
Influx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
The point stands that as you diminish the number of people needed to make aggressive decisions those scenarios can become more unstable / risky (as in risk of unethical orders). It's the same case as with nuclear weapons. But it's not an insurmountable problem: simply delegating the decision to more and/or better prepared individuals is the way to go.

The dangers and benefits in fact are strikingly analogous to nuclear weapons technology: the power will eventually overwhelm conventional warfare and major nations would probably only fight proxy wars up with robots, and stop immediately when the robotic resources depleted to prevent assured destruction. It could create the sort of calm that nuclear weapons bring. And precautions must be assigned the same way (multi-person authorization, strict safety, etc).
Big surprise. The government rules in favor of the government. Separation of powers is a myth.
This literally means that you can lose as much money as you want as long as you grow at a stupid-fast rate. It doesn't matter what you're building or whether anyone wants to pay for it, as long as you get what the monkeys call a "hockey-stick curve".

You're OK even if you literally win at losing. Good to know.

This explains so much.
Or just Larry Ellison versioning.
Nope. Skeuomorphism is a design concept whereby things that are in some way derived from other things retain design elements that were necessary in the original but aren't in the copy. The iOS shutter sound is an audio file played out of the device speaker, whereas it was a natural byproduct of the mechanism in the system from which the iOS camera is derived---a film camera.
Funny... I just put up a hadoop cluster last week and named it pachyderm.mydomain.com (i'm probably not the first to do that either)
Yup Linux has had a similar feature, kexec, for several years.
...Focault's pendulum... did you 'attempt' to read it six different times, or do six complete scans of it?

I ask because every time I pick the book up again, I seem to read only half of what needs to be read. Ideally, a binary algorithm like that would finish in logarithmic of the book's pages times, but it seems to get longer every time.

Amazing book though. I just...can't seem to finish it. Eco and Rushdie are my two biggest heroes. Now Rushdie's books, them I've read thrice for almost all of them. Except the much-hated Satanic Verses, which I've read twice that many times. It gets better every time its read.
He means "should equal or exceed":

> If you are doing better than the 40% rule, that’s awesome.
Sounds like a great way to pay $3 million in sales tax.
* Your hobbies and interest groups

* Your job (harder if it's just building tools for web developers)

* Your family members and friends' jobs & hobbies

* Basically anyone willing to talk about their problems with you
Is it pointless to reduce the attack vector against your website?
And, no, for a banking system, it is not that user-hostile to say things like "we have found that using <pattern> in your password makes it easy for people to guess, please choose a more complicated password".
MyCoin closes its doors, $387M in investor funds vanishes
And it was officially merged into Linux this evening:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
Cosmos Browser
From Atoms to Bits: A visual history of American ideas
Any prototype at all?
Big fan of React. For others using it, why use JSX instead of just doing everything in js?

In other words, why is HTML like this:

<Group style={styles.group}>
<Image style={styles.image} src='http://...' />
<Text style={styles.text}>
Lorem ipsum...
</Text>
</Group>

Preferable to something like this (which can easily be done with some helper methods wrapping the verbose React DOM methods):

$group({styles: style.group},
$image({styles: image, src: 'http://...'}),
$text({styles: style.text},
'Lorem ipsum...'));

No pre processing step required, and of course it's natural to imbed js in, er..., js.

What am I missing? Why keep the HTML part in all this?
Why would I use this over any other option? Was there a motivation other than "my own" to building it, then it would be clever to mention that?

The menu color combination for the navigation could use a bit more contrast (It's useable, but in bad light or with worse eyes it could become a problem)
It's Dropbox, the "b" is lowercase :)
Unfriend the Fed: Rand Paul’s Attack Re-Examined
I didn't say there weren't downsides. But it's a good example of how meaningless valuation figures are.
The caffeine in tea varies wildly depending on the processing, region, harvest, etc. Coffee is similar but of course on average it's something like 10x more.

When you drink tea you re-steep until the leaves lose flavor, and the other chemicals reduce in potency similarly. Coffee you re-grind for every brew.
It's not user growth -- it is revenue growth.

If you've got a hockey-stick curve for revenue and you're losing money, that's not necessarily a problem (within reason). At some point you can start spending less on user acquisition/marketing and you'll go from losing money/growing fast to profitable/growing slower.
It appears to me (from my quick glance through it) that all of the domains follow the pattern of alternating consonants and vowels (with an additional rule which is that it allows for two identical consonants in a row, e.g. "mm" or "ll"). Combinations of letters which alternate between vowels and consonants are typically at least somewhat pronounceable.
I tend to think that if your general attitude is to not even take the time to try, and instead keep focusing on the potential for failure, then no... it is probably not worth your time.

Or phrased in a more well-known way... whether you think you can, or think you cannot, you are correct.
Yes - https://events.google.com/io2015/offsite (scroll down). Currently it says "We're compiling a map of I/O Extended events in your area. Check back to find one close to you."
So one of my friends says that a potential issue is accessibility compliancy. And that due to lack of compliancy Flipboard may find themselves in a lawsuit. I know next to nothing about this type of thing. Anyone have thoughts on the issue?
Another of the devs here along with @therzka, happy to answer questions :)
Was that the Spectrum magazine article that claimed the Spectrum was actually a Spectrum Plus under the hood, and all that was required was to poke in the printed page of machine code - in hex, mind you - to unleash it's glorious abilities.

A couple of hours of typing later, and the big red 'April Fools' message appears...
Memoirs from the Browser Wars (2003)
The roughly one in a hundred citizens imprisoned in the US.
The government isn't a unified entity. It's worth watching what arms of the government and governmental elites cooperate with the totalitarian surveillance regime and what arms defect.
For me, I find it much easier to get an understanding of the structure of the components by looking at hierarchical markup vs. plain old JS. Everyone has a different idea of how they want to lay out their JS, but most people know/agree on what XML should look like.
I'll concede that a universe could exist where software isn't covered by copyright or any similar law. I don't see how the GPL would be any more useful in that universe than in the two that Raymond considered.
This article says the equipment vendors are going out of their way to lock in the farmers to specific platforms and making it very hard for farmers to do anything without the manufacturers/dealers.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-ni...
Hi, JD @ Pachyderm here.

We think Manta is pretty cool but it wasn't actually an inspiration for us.

I'm not sure I fully understand your criticism of the filesystem. Pfs was actually initially conceived as almost exactly what you're describing, a small service on top of ZFS. But we realized early on that ZFS was going to be a pain because of its patent status so we used btrfs instead. I think btrfs is worse than ZFS but I'm not sure I'd call it a shitty local filesystem.
I realize this is biased, but for me Joyent's involvement in anything is reason to be suspicious. Back in 2004 me and several hundred others fronted the money to get Joyent (aka TextDrive) off the ground. The marketing was fabulous, they had A-list blogger Dean Allen as founder and spokesperson, and Jason Hoffman as CTO spouting off an unending stream of pie-in-the-sky ideas about how awesome the tech was going to be.

Over several years it became clear that Jason was only interested in playing with cool technologies and a lot of public self aggrandizement in the process. However, never did they seem to deliver any stable game changing technology to the level they had hyped. It seems like they eventually they sort of limped out with an alternative platform that could be competitive if you squinted hard enough, and then sold it by means of aforementioned marketing skills. But for those of us who got the company off the ground, we basically all got screwed. And even though Jason has left Joyent, to me their DNA is suspect, and I would never trust them as stewards of an open source project.
Preview gradle files quickly in osx with QLGradle
I'm wondering if it's worthwhile going to Google I/O. I haven't been to it before, but I'm thinking it might be useful for networking (in the social meaning of that word).

I'm just not sure if the $3000 or so (after paying for flights and hotel) is really worth it. Perhaps going to a local I/O event might be better?
You may be interested in Cloud Haskell[0], which is an erlang-like distributed computation engine. The main thing that's missing in Haskell-land is an alternative to HDFS.

[0] https://wiki.haskell.org/Cloud_Haskell
Maybe I'm missing something important, but I don't see any rationale behind this. What makes 35% or 45% worse than 40%?
Ahhh, very nice option. Even better! Thanks!
This explains even more.

I've noticed that a lot of startups delay making any revenue, and that this might not be for bad reasons, because plenty of companies start to really suffer once they start making revenues (but fall short of what they "should" be seeing and how has they "should" be growing) not because there is anything wrong with them as businesses, but because their ADD investors lose faith and interest.

So now it makes sense that companies would delay revenue until they have enough of a free-tier footprint that they can control revenue growth for a few years and ensure exponential growth (this may involve intentionally tamping down early-year revenue in order to have a sharp upward trend).
I think it's because 60% of the time it works every time.
There are desktop-based farm management solutions out there from companies like Ag Leader, John Deere, Trimble/Farm Works, and others. Some of these interact with smartphones or tablets (sync on LAN, maybe Internet).

Many of these companies are also moving towards cloud/SaaS-based solutions and developing private networks to facilitate real-time data ingestion from their equipment (tractors, combines, planters, sprayers, irrigation systems, wagons, etc).

So there are local solutions, and they're installs like any other software.
> Docker Issue #1988 is still an issue.

These may help:

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8326

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8329
Well, that's the Disney Vault in action. (Which is a legitimate release strategy, and it's hard to claim that Disney doesn't generally try to keep its historical works available. I imagine it'll be re-released at some point in the future.)
If you read 20 pages a night, you can cover the whole series twice in 250-ish days. Once you've read it a few times, you can get through 20 pages in like 15 minutes.
Running multiple simultaneous X sessions
The Japanese imperial palace in the heart of Tokyo was once estimated to be worth more than California. (As in, the State of.) Bubbles are a funny thing.
> spy on their citizens

Mass surveillance has only become possible via scale-out solutions. The NSA isn't running HP-UX, Solaris, AIX or Windows to track your metadata - they're running Linux.

What responsibilities do distro of scale-out solution contributors hold? Are they immune while scale-up platform execs and developers should be swinging in the Hague?

What happens when Google maps are used in a war zone by ISIL? Or twitter search engines are used to target protestors? We're dropping bombs today on people via targeting from the their android phones.
The naturalistic fallacy should not be confused with a fallacious appeal to nature, a mistaken claim that something is good or right because it is natural (or bad or wrong because it is unnatural).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
Why are you being so mean? You look like a huge asshole in this thread.
> (People might smuggle coffee if it were banned, the way they smuggle Cuban cigars into the US, but as a prohibited luxury rather than an item of dependence that there was no legal means to fulfill.)

You do realize that caffeine is more addictive than cannibas right? If there is an illegal drug trade for that pot then I can't imagine people would just give up on coffee when it's harder to kick.
In addition to user namespaces, and the obvious sVirt / SELinux bits Dan W from Redhat has been contributing, what features / enhancements are necessary for docker to be considered mostly secure?

For reference I run all of my apps as different containers with different users on my own server. I then have iptables rules to block any outbound internet connections for containers that shouldn't. It was hilarious to see when someone hacked my wordpress install running in a container and managed to write out a perl daemon using a rexec bug in wp. But when it tried to contact its C&C server, iptables dropped it and ossec notified me. In a perfect world, I'd do something similar, but root inside the container would map to != uid 0 on the host. I'm just curious if there is anything else you consider necessary to deem docker more "secure" than it currently is.
No, this is in the case of fraud, and then unlock it after 3 months. If you want it frozen until you rescind it, it costs $10 per bureau, but there may be an exception for fraud.
> The only catch was that she'd have to remain sober. She preferred the alcohol.

This is a cruel joke that gets played on drunks. She didn't prefer the alcohol, she was/is addicted; and our society deals with addiction in probably the worst possible way. They may as well have asked her to jump over the moon. Rational people don't do that to themselves or their families. I didn't say that these things never happen. I said they are more rare than some would have you believe. I have my own horrible story in that vein (my father), but what I don't do is use it to pander to peoples' emotions in an effort to further perpetuate, or perhaps even expand the disaster that is the drug war. Addiction is an ugly unfortunate thing that exists, and as sad and regrettable as your wife's tale, and my father's tale, and the tales of others are; using these tales to support the continuance of, or the heaping of even more hardship (criminal sanctions) upon the susceptible/unfortunate/whatever is and always was the wrong thing to do.
Good stance, however, that leaves unaddressed two key prongs of this issue:

1) Is this actually a concern to the people you want to be selling to, as evidenced by talking to a number of them? Don't bother with surveys, just straight-up have a non-sales conversation about it with 10 people who match your target customer model.

2) Lots of people don't read a ToS. Or if they do, they're not going to be 100% confident that their interpretation is what will stand up. If this is a legitimate concern for your users, you need to allay that concern, directly, in your primary sales contexts. Make it a focus item on your landing page, with design such that people will see it and go "oh, okay, I don't need to have that concern after all."
GitHub's Pulse tab is a pretty good way to get a quick, high level comparison: http://i.imgur.com/zNWj776.png
Flipboard is now available on the Web
Of course, aren't you?