skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Newegg does is highly commendable.

To achieve a decisive victory in these cases, Newegg typically has to take the defense of its case through a full trial and possibly an appeal.

People often fail to appreciate just how risky a trial can be. We stand on the sidelines and laugh at how absurd this or that flaky patent appears. And yet - and yet - the law itself went through a phase in which such patents were almost routinely granted. Standards may have tightened over time but, still, a patent claim in a hotly litigated case will not survive to trial unless it has been able to withstand a host of pretrial challenges by which a defendant has already asked a court to rule that the patent, as a matter of law, should not stand. It is only when a court tosses the patent claim in the pretrial phases that a defendant avoids the risk of a potentially absurdly high verdict after trial. If the claim survives such challenges, then the defendant has no choice but to settle or to play it out through trial while incurring just a risk of having a large verdict entered against it. This is the point at which most defendants - even large, deep-pocket defendants who can otherwise afford to pay the costs of defense - will fold. Newegg, on the other hand, has made the tough decisions, incurred the major risks, and largely managed to defeat such patents on the merits.

In doing so, it incurs the very large costs of defense typical in such cases. And it has the guts to take the potential liability risks of going through full trials to take the cases to verdict.

Large, institutional defendants have occasionally (though rarely) adopted such policies in the past. For example, over decades, GM adopted a policy of never settling injury claims if its own experts had determined that the GM autos were not at fault. In doing this, it would often incur defense costs that far exceeded the value of the claim being defended. But it did so to send a firm message to the plaintiff's bar that prosecuted such claims - that is, "if you want to sue GM, your case had better have merit - you will get no nuisance settlement from us."

Newegg effectively is delivering the same message but with an important twist. If GM successfully defended a particular injury claim, that ended the case for that claimant but had no preclusive effect on other, similar claims. If Newegg successfully defends and defeats a patent claim by having the patent declared invalid, the law of what the lawyers call "res judicata" (meaning, "a matter adjudged") kicks in and kills that patent off forever.

So, not only does Newegg take out the garbage, it makes sure it won't accumulate ever again.

This is a true public service for which we all must tip out hats.
Nice work. I'm curious if there are any similar projects which use Oculus/VR to put you in the midst of these strange worlds. I wonder if it could be used to improve your intuition about things like hyperbolic space.
When I was younger (say, 7 or 8 years old), I considered myself a good swimmer and as part of my swimming lessons we were told to do length-ways with the aid of a swimming board [0] at arms' length.

Approaching the 3/4 mark of the length, I felt it slipping out of my hands and in my panic, I went down. I woke up after being resuscitated after a lifeguard noticed I was in trouble under the water. He had jumped from the top step of his high chair straight in apparently and literally threw me out of the water to a waiting colleague.

Not sure if I'd trust my own children with that type of flotation aid again, but as you said, it encouraged me to swim outside of my comfort zone and I panicked so perhaps more control is needed of when and where it is used.

[0] http://runforthethrills.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/kick-...
A few packages are needed, but in their standard configurations. Bocker does not require you to install hundreds and specially tinker with each one the way many web stacks do.
It looks like it's changed now, but at the time of my posting the parent repo was up and still used "retards", despite what the image says.
Do you think it's clever to point out 'archaic' uses? Someone else has been trying to make the case that we also live 200 years in the past and modern social context shouldn't be relevant.

"Uh", at least try to keep abreast of the conversation "also."
Disable WebRTC for Firefox – Defend Your Local IP(s) While Using a VPN
This article takes a rather fatalist perspective. Seems to me companies/government should have a strict need-to-know policy and some liability for failures. If you can't keep information secure, you shouldn't have it. Acting as though it is secure while it is regularly compromised is reckless wishful thinking.

I realize that perfect security is fantasy, but the practices of many of these organizations don't pass the laugh test. We'd be vastly better off if they would hire a security professional and listen to her.
> What makes one kind of neural net 'deep' and are all the other ones suddenly 'shallow'

Number of layers

It's that simple
>Have people become so used to things "just working" in home they don't think of the technical differences between a couple devices and a couple hundred devices?

Are people so used to working in inept and el-cheapo companies that they cannot fathom a company wide Wi-Fi with APs (professional, not your home router free with your cable connection) serving "a couple hundred devices"?

Is that considered IT voodoo in some companies?

Heck, your $30/night Motel 8 can manage that...
> The idea is simple enough: as the truck makes its rounds, the roof-mounted HorseFly UAV selects, transports and drops off a parcel right outside the recipient's front door.

It's a very good and practical idea. The truck becomes a moving honeycomb or the aircraft carrier. Cool!
I'm sure there is one or two firms being being that Toronto is the finance capital of Canada.

A quick google search turned up: http://www.intelliware.com/

But you could always search the job sites and boards for companies hiring developers to get an idea who is out there. Example:

http://www.simplyhired.ca/k-c++-finance-software-developer-l...

maybe craft your searches on specific languages and technologies used in capital markets. This may yield better results on LinkedIn.

Also checked out the quantopian.com community
After Facebook announced frictionless sharing I removed their app and only log in via mobile browser in a private tab.

For me Facebook is a necessary evil. I'm not willing to miss the family trips that only get planned there so I just attempt to minimize damage.
Yes, that was the point of my post. I think it's obvious that everyone on Hacker News is aware of purposefully created computer viruses and worms.
I would add to that list that it is a mixed bag of various versions of UI. When you go to the control panel you are welcomed by some big grey square. In sub menus you will find some windows 7 style white control panels. And if you keep digging deeper the old grey non-resizable dialog box are never far.

The only consistency with the other versions of windows is that the hierarchy in the settings is all changed again to make sure it will take everyone time to find its way.
'Leaders and lifters' help ants move massive meals
So not at all in the case of this repo?
Cool. One question: what if I'm not a company?
How many rounds of funding can a startup have? For example, has any company ever reached H round?
Kubernates design pattern
That was the plan with DX10 and we have seen, how that one went.

The thing is, the majority of gamers will update based on the available cash, and so gamedevs will be targeting the expected hw base at the time of release.

So it really depends, whether you except the gamers to go on spending spree (nvidia and intel would certainly love that), or not.
2 WFH coding days (Mon/Tue) - 1 day in office (Wed) - 2 WFH coding days (Thur/Fri) - 2 day weekend (Sat/Sun)

That allows every meeting, interruption, social interaction to be had on a day where no deep focus is required. I really really love this schedule.

1: US (Austin, Texas)
2: Software Engineer II
3: It works well for productivity. And my company is very flexible, so long as you get your stuff done
Right now I'm building something called Automata - for easily building customized, modular workflows to automate life's repetitive tasks (https://github.com/theideasmith/Automata).

People will be able to publish and download modules containing blocks which can easily be rearranged and configured both graphically and with code. It is shell scripting for the 21st century.

It will make finding all these super specific solutions, like the one you describe above, really easy to find and use.

Is this something you'd be interested in using? This solution could be one of the first modules.

Let me know what you think.
I use BaconJS as a FRP library to deal with async and store communication. In that way, you will have the root store that combines all events from child store. Then the root tree component will listen for these events to render.
With this architecture, you need to separate the root stores correctly based on those events, which needs to be independent from each other root stores.
One benefit of this approach is that, you don't need to deal with Dispatcher, ActionCreator, Constant, blablahh.
You just need actions(optional) and stores.
Everything I've read says that, in order to be maximally productive, software developers needs to have long periods of quiet time where they can focus (I've never seen anything to say this is true only of programmers who are introverts). This, not supporting programmers' introversion, is the reason people criticize open-office plans for software development work.
Worst xkcd ever. http://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/ is a decent reply if less pithy.
> "these people..."

gotta be careful with the generalizations.
Facebook loses battle over users' fake names in Germany
Lapham's Quarterly, incidentally, is fantastic. Each issue is devoted to some theme (War, Religion, Intoxication, Money, The Sea), and will contain excerpts from all kinds of philosophical, literary, and historical primary documents (as well as art and photographs).
> What makes one kind of neural net 'deep' and are all the other ones suddenly 'shallow' ?

If this is a serious question, then googling "what is a deep neural network" would take you to any number of explanations. But to summarize very briefly, it's not a buzzword; it's a technical term referring to a network with multiple nonlinear layers that are chained together in sequence. Deep networks have been talked about for as long as neural networks have been a research subject, but it's only in the last few years that the mathematical techniques and computational power have been available to do really interesting things with them.

The "fad" (as you call it) is not mainly because the word "deep" sounds cool, but because companies like Google have been seeing breakthrough results that are being used in production as we speak. For example:

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4687-large-scale-distributed-dee...

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
Which IMAP service providers do you recommend? I've been looking to setup my own mail server but the maintenance has put me off.
Taking someone else's widget, tweaking it, rolling it out across their product line and claiming to have built it from scratch isn't exactly a foreign concept to them...
> BTW Aswath Damodaran once made a very astute point regarding VCs: they're traders, not investors, looking to enter low and exit high. Period. Anyone under the delusion that these people invest for the greater good is (largely) mistaken.

I know at least one exception to that rule, so even if you might right in the aggregate remember that VCs just like founders are people too and generalization across populations is bound to treat individuals poorly.
Managing Secrets with Ansible Vault – The Missing Guide
Being able to use non standard ports would help. I usually just SSH tunnel it in. But needing to use port 443 makes it annoying.
From the feature deprecation list:

If you have a floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver from
Windows Update or from the manufacturer’s website.

I really wonder if there are manufacturers of floppy drives without a website.
Launchpad has git support now. Anything else it's missing?
Twitter has had a series G round: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding-round/6e6bf5db8245ac7b960...
http://sourcefourge.net/projects/xca/ is a nice gui for x509 certificate and crl maintenance, creation etc.

(edit: inb4 kneejerk about sourceforge)
Logan Paul has conquered the net, he can’t figure out how to conquer the world
Git may be a synonym (sort of) for "bastard", but not for all of its meanings. I doubt anybody would link "git" to birth out of wedlock.

(Judging by this particular hoohah though it may be true though that Github might eventually turn out unwelcoming to those fitting definitions #2 or #3 from the above link.)
Welcome to the new corporate imperialism I guess. Was a matter of time. But really what is this about? It's about economic growth at all costs, while tooting the horn of environmentalism.
Several years ago, they would just IPO. They seems to be in a great shape to do that:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/07/twilio-raises-a-70m-series-...

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/02/20/twilio-positi...

Yet another case of late stage private capital.
That's what users pay them for, is it not?
Big feature update is pencilled in for late this year I believe.
The fact that you are hurt by certain words doesn't actually grant you quite enough moral authority to call up a rage-mob and apply it to the face of every entity that acts as a medium to provide an open, public space in which some people say the words that hurt you. There is real harm in rendering public space hostage to the moral outrage of self-selected groups and individuals.

It's nowhere near the harm caused by genocide, of course, but we're not even physically in the realm of genocide, so that was never an accurate framing in the first place.
Same here! Only builders.
Even more? Fear is a terrible advisor.
I'm using http://gandi.net/ who incidentally handle my domain registration.

I ran my own mail server (postfix, dovecot) for a few years so I agree with you entirely there!
New add-on for Google Sheets adds Machine Learning to your data
It enables free-ish communication.
The argument is that Github's censorship is acceptable because those are the terms under which they choose to operate their business and if you don't like it you can go somewhere else (which seems reasonable enough to me).

I think toehead2000 was asking how that squares with a bakery not being allowed to operate their business under certain other terms.
> BTW Aswath Damodaran once made a very astute point regarding VCs: they're traders, not investors, looking to enter low and exit high. Period.

Notwithstanding the fact that investors look to buy low and sell high too, the point here is incorrect.

Venture capitalists, like many in financial services, are not really traders or investors. Sure, they might trade and/or invest, but their primary function is to raise capital that they can siphon fees from.

A 2% annual fee on committed capital on a $500 million fund that has an expected life of at least 10 years will produce $100 million or more in fees for a venture capital firm over its lifetime. Add a new, larger fund every few years (assuming you don't blow an earlier fund up) and you can see that the 20% carry, while potentially very significant, is really just icing on the cake.

Anybody who really wants to succeed as a venture capitalist should understand this. Incidentally, when you recognize that the limited partner side of the equation is more important than the startup side of the equation, it's not surprising that venture capital has a herd mentality and there are few true cowboys making bold bets. There is little to no incentive to stray too far from the pack.
> I only run Windows on virtual machines on my Mac desktop and Mac laptop; only for personal use; and only on the rare occasion when I need to run the odd Windows-only application.

Suggestions on VM software? I'm looking into getting my wife set up with Win10 on her Mac.
I don't think current system (with fast track) is conductive for any partial fixing. TPP should be scraped completely and USTR should taste their own medicine. They don't want open negotiations and democratic oversight? They shouldn't get any agreement altogether.
From the context, he starts virtualbox for coding and running his code, not for mail client and excel.

But I would also like the answer for a slightly extended your question: what are good mail clients (for both Windows and Linux)?
Got a Startup? Want to Be Featured on SnapMunk? Tell Us Your Story
The title of the story is heavily biased. These are not fake names but pseudonyms, of course.
Self-Taught Web Developer's Guide to Landing Your First Job
I'm indifferent to the situation. I don't hate traders & I don't hate VCs. I quite admire the few I've met. In a sense, one could say traders embody the essence of the human spirit. They provide an essential service for the markets, as you say, and that's fine.

I just don't desire to be a part of it.
7 Days with Java 8 – Day 4 Let’s Write Null Free Java Code
Hackers give up when they go up against this cybersecurity company
Now here's an article that the #healthcaregov developers should have read...
There is no upper bound. You can technically have more rounds than letters in the alphabet. But no one really does it due to diminishing returns.
A Well Known but Forgotten Trick: Object Pooling
A more likely scenario is reunification with South Korea.
Woo, rate limit's expired!

If you're not a company, or registered organization, or government department, you can't get an EV certificate right now. The cabforum EV guidelines [1] don't currently have provision for individuals.

I know that sucks. Especially when there is already capability to use government IDs for individuals in the EV guidelines for checking e.g. company directors in some cases [1].

But here's why:

- The certificate subject for an EV cert, i.e. the thing the CA is attesting to by signing your certificate is the unique in the jurisdiction registration ID.

Eg, visit https://github.com and click the certificate in Chrome - you can see GitHub is Delaware company 5157550.

The subject for an individual version of an EV cert would needs to be:

- unique in the jurisdiction

- publicly revealable

You couldn't use the number of the ID checked, since passport numbers, drivers license numbers and other are considered 'High Risk Confidential Information' in much of the world [2]

Unfortunately such a document don't exist in much of the world.

[1] https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/EV-V1_5_61.pdf

[2] http://security.harvard.edu/book/1-high-risk-confidential-in...
Another profound contribution to the discourse! Are you always so topical, or are you making a special effort here?
Absolutely, and that's why I qualified my statement with 'largely'. A sweeping generalization would have been irresponsible of me.
I don't advocate using the law to enforce web standards, but if websites all followed disabilities standards it would be pretty straightforward to strip out all of the extra stuff. You could just browse the web painlessly in Lynx.

It could be a lot worse. Misuse of HTML5 and WebGL could leave users wishing for Flash. Publishers are just scratching the surface for how poor web usability could be. Like really fucking bad. Prediction: we will see some hard sell porn sites make breakthroughs in this area first.

There is some humor in hitting a "mobile friendly" website and desperately requesting the desktop version because its such a pile of shit. Many newspapers have fallen in to this trap. Even companies that should know better, like AirBNB have had issues in the past (can't comment now because I haven't looked in a few months.) Ironically if your company is data driven and doing a lot of front end testing, your winning design that converts users in to app installs may be doing just so because it is broken.

As someone who has a decent number of users in developing countries I'll point out these problems compound themselves abroad. Users are on older phones, Android or Blackberry, broadband is limited, and resolutions are much lower. There are publishers and startups who are failing in other markets because their designers only test locally, may be not even on a real phone. You can't make the excuse that eventually everyone will have high DPI iPhones, because by the time they do, the first tier devices will be that much better and you will be developing for them instead.
$22M Says This Swedish Startup Can Take on Etsy
I built this site and appreciate any feedback from the HN community
How I went from finance to engineering in a year
Of course it goes to hookers and blow

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3174689/Lord-Snorty-...

How ignorant of human nature can someone be?
Legal advice startup Avvo raises $71.5M, plans to hire 80 this year
How do I apply data science to social good?
Yeah, 3D video is "easy". 360 video is "easy". But 3D, 360 video is hard. So far the only traditional solutions I've seen (without using several depth cameras set up around a room) involve a ball of cameras and custom software that can be used to both stitch together video and also interpolate depth based on the different angles.

Very interested in this stuff though. None of the current solutions in development fall within my video and VR hobbyist/enthusiast budget but that never lasts too long.
Use Nmap's SSL scripts. Especially useful for scanning STARTTLS non-web services like SMTP, POP3, and IMAP.
Spot the shill might be an interesting game. How would you go about writing software to do this?
First Round: 10 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Investing
What is the filesize limit? and is there any LESS time limit? like hrs? or days?
Is there no rotation in this game? Can't do much aiming without that.
Anyone know what the record is?
It's totally excellent that Newegg is doing this. As a side note, I don't like when people include silly infographics in articles like this. I think it sort of cheapens the message and this particular message is important.
You CAN, and that might be suitable for a ground station that's not moving and just providing interesting information to the Internet.

It's an entirely different matter to take that into an airplane and use it in such a way as that my life depends on the accuracy of the information. Has it been extensively tested in actual airplanes in real-life flying? Does it work with and not interfere with other aircraft systems? Does it work with the software I already use and know well?

Yes, $100 < $500. Now, if I built my own airplane (something I've given some thought to doing), I might be a little more willing to experiment with it. But the majority of pilots are not hardware hackers. They're average, everyday people.

I will happily pay $500 for a tested piece of hardware that is guaranteed to provide accurate information and work in my airplane over something I homebrewed using instructions I found on the Internet. My safety is worth the extra $400.
Oxford University: WildCRU Statement on the Killing of Cecil the Lion
"Windows 8 with Media Center" did contain DVD playing capability.