jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I work in tech transfer office of a major research university. We are responsible for protecting the IP of our inventors and licensing it. We work hard to get research from the lab out into industry where it can have the broadest application and best chance for making an impact. For biological and pharmaceutical technologies, it can take quite some time to make this transition, and there is often a lot of risk that techniques which work well in the lab may fail when scaled or otherwise adapted for industry. Clinical trials take a lot of time and money, and the FDA review process is stringent. Those are all risks shouldered by our commercial partners whether they be start-ups or large multi-nationals. For our part, we need to make sure that they have the protection they need to carry those risks over a span of years until a product can make it to market. That protection starts as soon as we first file a provisional patent for a technology and continues through the patent lifecycle (continuations, divisionals, international phase, etc). There is a large cost to this from a university perspective, and we are provided with the budget to handle that (federal funds are not used to cover the patent costs).

We are also very selective in how we license these technologies. The split is generally between exclusive and non-exclusive licensing, and we try to make the best call given the particular technology we're dealing with. In many cases, the technology is quite specific and there may only be a handful of companies in need of it. In many other scenarios we recognize the potentially broad application of the technology and work out ways to license it non-exclusively. There are also times when corporate partners aren't ready to bite due to the lack of maturity of the innovation. In those cases, we can help spin off startups to continue the development of the technology until it has reached a stage where it is more attractive to investors.

One of the most important parts of this whole process is the royalty side of things. Since we are able to protect the IP and license it responsibly, our office generates a large amount of revenue. That money goes back to the university in a somewhat-complex system of distributions where the inventor's department and lab get a cut to help continue their research. Importantly, the inventors themselves also get direct payouts from the licensing revenue. I think we can all agree that if we were unable to patent and license their inventions, then they would not be able to share in the success of their efforts.

* Full disclosure: We have licensed IP to the company mentioned in this article
Every now and then, I get a CBP agent that is having a bad day. Most of the time they are professional, polite, and efficient enough. This guy went on about all sorts of things, including stating that attending a tradeshow required a work visa.

I didn't miss my flight because I had a long layover. He took my passport and sent me to secondary control. Upon admittance, one of the agents there rolled his eyes and speedily got me taken care of and on my way. He did succeed at wasting 40 minutes of my time though.
That's true anywhere right?

But we shouldn't have to be flexible with an hour commute on a train while at the same time being told we live a life of luxury and are over paid. It appears to me the cognitive dissonance going on here similar to the SF people who say "It's not so bad, I found a studio for 2k/month in Oakland!"

If we were truly overpaid and in such demand we wouldn't live in crappy studios or be priced out of the neighborhoods we work in.
The article discusses a proposal to add new functionally to part of the standard library, which just happen to mimic a monadic interface. I fail to see how it even affect the language.
Sadly, even though it'd rile up their readers, the Daily Mail is unlikely to print it because it does so in a way that goes against the paper's political leanings. They're very selective about which outrages they stir.
This looks awesome, thanks! Definitely what I was looking for.
I think the funnest IP address site is http://www.moanmyip.com/ though http://www.ipgoat.com/ is also pretty funny.

Turn your speakers on before visiting either. :)
we store around 500gb of photos currently. They are stored with two classifications. Our photography studio and our family photos. Both are organized chronologically with a top level folder that is the year. Within that folder we have 1 through 12 for the months and then each month is divided up to events (and sometimes the specific date).

All of the photos are backed up daily to a 1TB RAID1 NAS and monthly to a single 1TB hard disk that rotates to my mother in laws house. My rule of thumb is three copies if you don't want to lose it.

It is important to keep in mind that 16+ gigs of photos is only going to grow over time. That is where we started too.
"Shop More, Pay Less! Use a Promotional Codes every time you Buy Online."

is that an intentional mistake for SEO purposes?
Max Levchin's married (and, judging by his Quora questions of late, also has a kid.) The lunch is purely professional.
This actually smells like a marketing post to me. Get some interest, then a few days from now post a followup with a link to demo video, name of app, and bam, instant interest from the HN community. I really don't see what the problem is.

It only happens on older devices [edit: or at least it only came to your attention after testing on older devices]. Many of the people who actually download apps have tend to update their devices regularly [edit: and thus are less likely to immediately see a problem]. And the update is imminent. No problem here.
If you're self funded and not even launched yet you're not actually living off the business. I'm not having a go at you or anything, just saying thats what the question was.
Duly noted. :) I'll be focusing on being rejected by women in the future.
They are not the market leader by far at least in terms of uniques:
http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/19/livingsocial-acquires-urba...

Regardless, that only supports your key point. In terms of the right time to sell, they are peaking and they should.

I think the fact they are out there seemingly shopping their company around says to me: "this b model is not defensible, the valuation is not sustainable, let's offload it."
This seems like a more complicated SPFjs over websockets that is deeply wedded to a particular Ruby framework.

http://youtube.github.io/spfjs/
The way I see it, if you need a map then it's too complicated.
I don't have expertise in this area, but my experience with other engineering disciplines is that nothing is ever as easy in practice as it is in words, because there are a lot of things that can go wrong or not be compatible with one another

"The devil is in the details" and "talk is cheap" are common expressions for a reason
As someone who came very close to dying when a refrigerant relief valve on an industrial AC unit lifted in an enclosed space I can attest that it is a very peaceful and painless way to go.
It made perfect sense for Microsoft to include a browser with its Operating System. Users liked Internet Explorer and its market share came close to 100%. Nonetheless, the EU fined Microsoft around 2 billion for violating antitrust laws and forced them to introduce the browser selection screen. Math or no math, user satisfaction or not, the same thing could happen to Google.
Actually, posterous does have a paid product - you can have custom domain with posterous blog and register that domain through them for $25/year.
How can you tell that it definitely was not done in R? He says

> As a sanity check, I plotted points at some of the latitude and longitude coordinates. To my relief, what I saw was roughly an outline of the world.

His plot doesn't "know" about the world - he is just drawing curves between points in a plane (lat. and long.). I haven't used R, but I am sure that would be possible.
So where's Kevin Bacon?
There are some good points here, I suppose, but the writer seems to be inconsistent. The title contrasts apostrophes with quotation marks, while the first image contrasts the prime symbol with quotes, seemingly indicating that the apostrophe and the closing single quote look the same.

The text of the article appears to agree first with one, and then with the other.

It is my understanding that the image has it right; the apostrophe is identical in appearance with the closing single quote (in English usage), while the prime symbol is something different. The two got confused, because typewriter keyboards and the basic ASCII set only included the straight marks, not the opening/closing curved pairs.
I wonder if google found him by posting this A/B Resume test.
Oh man I can't believe that the author wrote "iTouch" -- makes me cringe.
I would agree. Some of the books I'd highly recommend for anyone looking to be a well-rounded hacker:

* TCP/IP Illiustrated (Volumes 1,2 & 3) - W. Richard Stephens

* The Web Application Hacker's Handbook - Stuttard, Pinto et al

* The Shellcoder's Handbook - Kozoil, Aitel et al

* The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll

* Neuromancer - William Gibson

* ARM System-on-chip Architecture - Stephen B. Furber

* Operating Systems Design & Implementation - Tanenbaum

* The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System - McKusick, Neville-Neil

These are just a few, and I'm sure there's plenty of others, even better ones. But to truly round yourself out you need to know more than programming a few languages - you need to know the low-level end of things and the high-level view of the world.
Thanks Colin! You made my day.

Is there anything I can do to make this available to EU-West? Or should I just wait?
Absolutely. There are all sorts of folks looking for clothes made locally and well. I buy American Apparel for both of those reasons.
So much time, effort, and money put into monetizing the sexualization of pre-teen girls. As a father of two young girls I have always been disgusted by Bratz and everything it stands for.
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My MacBook Air was $1,799 and the equivalent MacBook Pro (top of the line 15″, because why would you buy the 13″?) would cost me just over $3,200 (adding 3rd party SSD, Apple 8GB RAM and the Hi-Res screen).

Man, this is disingenuous. 8GB RAM? As if you can't get it cheaper (or the MBA even offered 8GB RAM as an option)? Or as if the 15" MBP doesn't blow the Air out of the water in every other aspect? I bought a 13" Pro because (a) it's smaller and lighter than the 15" and (b) I don't play PC games.

When we run THAT comparison, well:

13" MBP with 256GB Crucial SSD [0], 4GB RAM, 2.3GHz Core i5 -- $1699

13" MBA with 256GB SSD, 4GB RAM, 2.13 GHz C2D -- $1799

Sure, I don't have a Hi-Res screen (the one Pro feature I wanted on the 13"), but I can actually upgrade my computer in 3 years when 4GB RAM becomes a bottleneck. Now that's a low year-over-year computing cost.

The MacBook Air is an awesome machine, to be sure, but it's awesome because of the built-in SSD--not because of the value it provides.

[0] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...
In NYC Uber has struck an agreement with the city to allow taxi cabs on its app as a service provider.

NYC (and other cities) have begun to use Curb (an Uber/Lyft like app for local taxis) but I've found it to be far worse than Uber and often even using Curb, traveling in or to any borough that isn't Manhattan is always a frustrating experience - I often have to give directions to the driver. Far from the frictionless experience that Uber does provide and ensure.

Uber resisted this for a long time in favor of bulldozing over local taxi companies to make their platform dominant and a near monopoly but I hope Uber ends up as a generalized service that any independent driver or taxi company can use in their own fleet.
Do you mean you want a discussion site with therapists or psychologists doing AMAs or leading group discussions or something like that? Or do you mean you want a more sophisticated user community, something like Math Overflow for self-help practitioners? The first seems like mostly a matter of how to pay the professonals, the second is likely to be more self-organized and closed and probably exists in many forms under the radar already.
I can't be seeing intention without identifying a person who is responsible. That's nonsensical.
>From there since Free Software has only lost ground

That's not true, it gained ground for a long time after that. "Free" as in freedom software, by Stallman's definition, probably peaked in the early 2000s.

And I would say that the losses mostly started happening when the FSF stopped producing software that people wanted to use. They effectively ignored the entire internet revolution.
TechCrunch article says 2 1/2 years.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/world-lens-translates-words...
What's next, universal translators that also make everybody's lips move correctly for the language we are hearing? Perhaps Star Trek got it correct?

Amazing...Android app next?
How many people are on the team that created this?
If you can't code, you should at least be good at project management/design.
The military has no interest in owning a software company.
The way it's been explained to me before is that you do have to be an adult to enter in to a legal agreement.
History says that security is a process, not a product (or artifact). I get it that C can be difficult. Pointers allow NULL dereferencing and use-after-free, strings are open to poor handling, etc. That said: we have OpenBSD w/ their re-written string/memory management and static and dynamic analysis tools with decades of development behind them.

I'm more hesitant to crucify C than I feel others are... are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater ?

To your comment -- that a C program is probably not secure -- most code written (regardless of language) is probably junk, with different classes of errors. Its tough.
Going to be hard to reproduce that bug since they are totally random long tail questions, but I have it happen a lot too FWIW.
Window's slow thread spawn time is incredibly noticeable when you use Magit in Emacs.

It runs a bunch of separate git commands to populate a detailed buffer. It's instantaneous on MacOS, but I have to sit and stare on Windows
Because we as a society decided a while ago that if a business offers a service to "the public" that means everyone in the public. Not just the members of the public you happen to like.
heres is a paper [1] from 1994 here the results of weighing thermodynamically closed reactions are "interpreted to reveal the existence of a heretofore unknown kind of non-bradyonic, cold dark matter with two different forms of interaction with normal matter"

[1] http://klaus-volkamer.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1994-Vol...
> writing out ~100s of factories would be a bit nasty to maintain

I've found that I really like Model Bakery (https://model-bakery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) a lot more than Factory Boy for this reason - no factories to maintain. It's very intuitive and easy to use.
However, a civilian cannot normally press criminal charges against a cop, so the distinction is moot in practice.
Any good resources on getting it working with Angular and Material?
Why would the black market not be sufficient to prop it up?
> Again, it is antithetical to their job to carry out injustice, and when people mess up their job bad enough, such a killing or framing an innocent person (intentionally or not), there should be consequences.

You can't talk about justice in one breath and vengeance against the fall guy in the next. If a police officer unintentionally kills an innocent person because they were, e.g., ordered to perform an armed no-knock raid in the middle of the night in a state where 42.4% of the population owns firearms, it is the local government -- not the individual police officer -- who killed that innocent person.
I might just have to switch now that Fry’s ISP is no more https://web.archive.org/web/20210224065426/https://www.frys....
Has the title changed in between your post and now? It currently is 'Netscape ISP Homepage' which makes sense to me?
Of course I understand that, only the example with the gamma ray burst is not really useful here.
in a similar vein, I love those mini CDs but they seem to have completely disappeared from the face of the earth. It's a shame, they were super cute.
I'm almost certain the Mafia does not care about committing fraud.
Which language is the top one depends on your criteria. Do you only consider first language or also non-first that people are native speakers of, what about non-native but fluent?

But either way you count Spanish is not #1, but one of the top few.
Funny how every time someone answers you with any sort of evidence, you don't bother responding to it in a later comment. Instead you move on to another "issue".

Can we at least agree the video you posted above was doctored, and demonstrably false?

Because otherwise I'm not assuming your faith at all. You put your deceit on clear display.
minus vacation, taxes, health insurance, overhead (time tracking, billing, book keeping, etc), time between gigs. 2050052 you are coming in way high. You can cut that in half and get a reasonable estimate for take home.
This is disappointing news. Their app is pretty nice and they made shared banking with my wife easy. I also have a backup Chase account. I just fired up their mobile app for the first time in awhile. It's a slow and cluttered mess. Hopefully a spiritual successor to Simple will emerge.
It really depends and I don't track my time all that well, though one of my 2021 things I'm doing is trying a bit of time tracking, just for my own sake / more visibility on how I spend my day.
This looks very good, but I'm not sure piggybacking on email is a good idea, considering the amount of metadata exposed by email headers that cannot be encrypted and are easy to monitor by listening in on SMTP port 25. Not to mention attachments which are likely not encrypted but just encoded in base64.
> Calling thousands of supporters to go to the capitol and telling them "you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong." is a very precise call to violence.

"Kill them", "Attack them", "Burn down that building" is a very precise call to violence. "You have to be strong" is not. "You have to show strength" is not.

#KillAllMen on the other hand is a very precise call to violence, and yet nobody cares about banning that on social media.
> Humanities are a mess just for the reason that they take tuition and time from students and leave them hanging out to dray, after they graduate with no direct job prospects (i.e. a way to make a living).

It seems like this is a rumor that refuses to die. Humanities majors do just fine.

According to a 2018 ACS survey,[0] humanities majors are looking at 2.13% unemployment, which is comparable to other fields. The same survey shows that people who majored in the humanities earn comparable salaries to their peers in other disciplines.[1]

A 2014 study in Forbes found that humanities majors go on to earn even more than their peers in other disciplines as they all advance on their chosen career paths.[2]

I'm curious why the image of the deadbeat humanist persists, especially in an era where we need people who have been trained to look at potentially misleading information, identify why it is misleading, and point us towards better sources. Rampant misinformation in this social media age has shown us that "the facts" are much more slippery than anyone would like, and we need people who have been trained in the subjective arts of parsing contradictory information and -- even more importantly -- justifying their interpretation to others.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ld4Ki99C_0WFUcyBXyix...

[1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ld4Ki99C_0WFUcyBXyix...

[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/11/20/surpr...
You're assuming the conclusion, that continuous buying and selling is the only possible way to run a market. But another way to run it would be to have an auction every five minutes. That way there are more buyers and sellers to match up, so it's more likely that everyone gets a fair price. And don't talk to me about liquidity - nobody really needs to trade that quickly.
You would need to plan your travel ahead of time with friends and colleagues who will be on the plane with you.

Traveling by yourself would not be an option unless you are very rich and can afford to buy all the tickets on the plane.
A link that has technical information on iPad album production: http://blog.soundcloud.com/2010/04/28/destroy-the-silence/
Unlikely. Very high speed trading of this kind is likely to lead to large uncontrolled fluctuations in the financial system, which is not efficient and results in boom and bust type behavior.
Hahaha point for you as regards physics.

Econ is always a coarse model. Trends or microexplanations. The "invisible hand" is not a steady one.
That's inaccurate. When you publish to a journal, the journal will give you a pdf of your paper which you can put up on a personal site. You always have access to distribute your research.

Another point - journals never charge to publish (conferences do).
As a side note, the Pentium II was largely just the PPro with the parallel developed Pentium MMX's MMX instruction set also integrated into the core ISA (as opposed to being a separate execution unit like on the Pentium MMX), with a better bus and a smaller fab size (theres other small issues, but you only need to know about those if you're into writing kernels or writing compilers).
It's seems like the recipe for success these days is to take an established, interoperable standard, and do something completely different. SIP, IRC and XMPP is not good enough for Skype, WhatsApp, etc. The Apple iDisk supported WebDAV, and was a failure, while DropBox has become a household name.
This Forbes article has a handy summary of what the changes would mean for people who are not familiar with Regulation A: http://www.forbes.com/sites/mraneri/2015/03/11/the-new-abcs-...
> "I got a string but expected an int"

It's not initially that it's an issue. Refactoring is where static typing shines.

When you change an anonymous (or otherwise ungreppable) function that's passed around all over from taking a string to an int, it's great to have the compiler tell you that you really did find and fix all calls to the function.
It might very well be that only having two user-facing products is what allows them to concentrate on their UI to this degree.
"Uses, or claims to use, one-time pads" is, by itself, strong enough evidence that an encryption product is bogus that you'd be wise to not use the product based on that evidence alone.

Similar is the claim that it uses a proprietary algorithm.

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1999/0215.html