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Yeah autocratic capitalist country my ass. Did you get your pills today ?
There is not a true communist state in the world. Not even DPRK. But China after DPRK has the most communist traits. It's ugly regime and if you have never been there or did business with them you have no clue what you are talking about. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Talented people created things for thousands of years before patents.
That's not particularly unusual.

You're forced to mention any car accident you've had to your insurers, even if you didn't claim for it. (At least, this is true in UK, not sure about US.)
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Well, I would say the common argument is that you send an intermediate format to decouple yourself from the specifics of the receiver. HTML is an intermediate format and the client is free to render it how it sees fit for the device on which it is running, which allows compatibility with newer and different clients.

It's like shipping some intermediate bytecode doesn't seem to make sense, because every client needs to compile it, until you realize it allows you to ship one format that can even be used by many different architectures and even new architectures that didn't exist when you emitted the bytecode. At the cost of a second component that needs to be present on the machine to do the compiling.

When a vast majority of clients is the same or sufficiently similar, it may of course make sense to offer an optimized format, that requires less client-side processing But what would such an optimized format for the web be?
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I agree with you that Apple built great Hardware. But i also think there is a difference in Hardware between a Case with electronics inside, and building a car with all its different components.
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Even in that situation there's an element of avoidable "own risk" that could be priced into the premiums. Someone whose parked car gets hit by a drunk driver is more likely to:

- Not park their car in a garage overnight, exposing them to various damage to the car.

- Not park their car in a garage when they go downtown.

- Park their car near bars or other places statistically more likely to have drunk drivers around.

I'm not saying your friend did any of that and that it wasn't a complete freak accident, but on the scale of everyone that's being insured there's surely correlations like that that justify the premiums going up.
People's incentive to create is the same as it always was: creative people just want to.

What patents were set up to prevent, IIRC, was trade secrets - they were a way to bribe creators to publish their ideas rather than sit on them.

IMO, they were a sledgehammer to swat a fly. Trade secrets would be reinvented. Locking an idea out of the commons for a whole patent term (and longer if they can attach new patents off the side) is a worse outcome.
Memory lookup can be considered O(log(m)) where m is the amount of memory you are using. e.g. If the addressable memory space exceeds the word size then it would take two cycles to do a load from memory.

In practice memory lookup is O(1) but there is hard limit to the amount that can be used. Except of course this is not true - there are costs to using more memory - because of the cache hierarchy.
Then you obviously have no idea what you are talking about. And the air pollution in China is something you can't imagine. The VW scandal is nothing compared to chinese air pollution.

And China is far worse than the former Soviet Union because they have more money and more control. Being lower class in China is far worse than in former states of the soviet union.
Arrested? Remember that cars don't pollute, drivers do or something like that. At the end of the day, what the engineers in the trenches did was design a device that is illegal to sell in some other country. It is correct that the blame goes to a place higher up, where the decision to sell was made. Which is what is actually happening at Volkswagen proper. The surprising part is that the VW USA CEO seems to be completely out of the loop about this.
>The report says that coal costs $75 per megawatt hour, while land-based wind costs $83 and solar comes in at a whopping $122. That's far from "almost competitive".

$83 is close enough to $75 that tweaks to tax policy can now be used to make renewable energy investment over fossil fuel virtually a no brainer decision without adversely affecting overall energy production that much.

Indeed, that's pretty much what Germany has done.

>Also note that these are not costs of production, these are what people wind up paying for it. That means that the coal numbers include extensive taxes, while the solar and wind numbers include extensive tax discounts and incentives.

I won't speculate as to why you didn't note that fossil fuel subsidies are also included.
If there is any issue, I don't think that is it.

The issue that might arise is that techniques that are invented might never be openly published (since there wouldn't be protection for it).

For stuff that is obvious, it wouldn't matter because it is obvious. The non-obvious stuff--the stuff that actually does deserve a patent--might be lost on occasion.

I'm not a big fan of patents in general though given my experience with them (and certainly not patents on genes, etc).
Also, more than that these rankings should weigh much more on the quality of education rather than the research outcome because a large mass of college students are misguided through these rankings. Is it the responsibility of these ranking systems or the students themselves to be more careful? I am not sure. Another way to tackle this is to have different kind of rankings- say, Research rankings, Teaching quality rankings- following more objective metrics rather than opinion based, as arethuza mentioned in his anecdote.
Governments need to directly fully fund studies in promising but unpatentable medicines.
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What annoys me is how Google is selling this project. At least Facebook is honest about their Instant Articles.

This isn't an "open standard" guys, and it's not about performance! It's about the single piece of js that's allowed on AMP pages and the amp-tags such as <amp-ad> and <amp-pixel> that only Google controls. Performance is just the story they are selling in exchange of absolute control of the Web. After all, any publisher can easily clean up their websites as they ought to do to make it AMP compliant, but use valid HTML tags instead of the invalid amp-tags. Google could have easily promoted performance by applying penalties to heavy pages via Page Rank. But it's not about performance. It's all about the money.
The government can, though. And should.
I simply pointed out that by using prices that include taxes and incentives, this report artificially exaggerated the costs of coal and understated the true costs of solar/wind. They aren't really even close to being competitive in real terms, but this report falsely implies that they are.

Bloomberg LLP, the company behind this report, is run by Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire radical environmentalist. Therefore it isn't necessarily surprising to see such misleading tactics used in a report produced by them, but it is disappointing because Bloomberg masquerades as a news organization.
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> Resources must declare their sizing up-front

This is such a great idea. Jerky web pages that jump around while you're trying to click on something are maddeningly annoying.
Yes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10358945
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Yeah, it's designed for perhaps middle-school to high school aged students, and perhaps a bit younger, but also potentially intro university classes.

BeetleBlocks is built on top of Snap! (snap.berkeley.edu) which is a re-implementation of Scratch in JS that has full lambdas, continuations (call/cc), first class lists, and bunch of other CS-y ideas in a scratch-like UI.
If they get larger file sizes then that probably means they are doing something wrong. Optimized a mpg encoder with SSE once. And larger file size was usually do to some lose of floating point precision. Going thorough the functions and comparing output from serial to vector function should give the bug. Fixing this stuff also can give some more speed up!
Except of course for the "Mines ParisTech : Professional Ranking of World Universities" :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_ParisTech_:_Professional...

Which is actually a really interesting ranking. Not based on academic research whatsoever.
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How would I express that sentiment civilly, then? The only intent of that statement was to convey "I think you should feel some shame for what you've done with your post." It seems like a perfectly civil statement to me - I am not insulting anyone here - so I'm honestly wondering. I disagree that I've stepped outside the guidelines here.

e: I've noticed you usually ignore responses like this. I hope you don't ignore this one.
Except that he didn't say that at all and has given extremely detailed accounts of the current thinking at the time in history (they were already looking towards the upcoming limitations and bottlenecks they would face in expanding RAM sizes).

Although it is true that solar and wind are dropping in prices recently I don't think an urban legend misquote has any relevance.
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People have lived thousands of years without refrigeration.
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You can request the specification for LoraWAN for free at https://www.lora-alliance.org/For-Developers/LoRaWANDevelope....

From what I've seen, voice traffic is completely out of the question because of the duty cycle requirement. Devices are only allowed to send 1% or 0.1% of the time, so after transmitting for a second or so (at a maximum of 50kbps), they are supposed to be quiet for 100 or 1000 seconds.

This is really designed for low bandwidth messages such as "switch X in device Y has been triggered" or "device Z has moved to position a,b".
Opera did something like this, but instead of PNGs they gave custom markup that is precomputed so that the flip phones don't have to do layout. Or something like that. Opera mobile had server farms rendering content and re-compressing large images.
> You might not like that governments are taxing some forms of electricity more heavily, but it's a valid way of encouraging the industry to migrate to cleaner options.

It's not just a "valid way". This is the way taxes are intended to work! Taxes are not just a way for the state to collect money (maybe in the past centuries). They are also the main way to frame the economy.

Here in Germany, the term for "tax" is "Steuern" which means something like "controlling/steering/directing/governing". This is exactly the official purpose of taxes, and includes collecting as well as spending taxes.
This really comes across as some sort of elaborate joke. Their solution to a slow web is to circumvent the standards and use a javascript library?

My only contribution to the conversation is utter bewilderment someone thought this would be a good idea.

The improvements are because they've removed everything.

Also, side note but I thought there was already a proposal in HTML for reusable elements?
If you're below middle class, large corporations (banks, insurance companies, media providers etc.) are most likely able to treat You as they please. While it's really hard to blame the less wealthy, given our history.
I think this is worldwide: If you're not able to protect yourself, no one will.
What about the cost of cleaning up the emissions from the coal? Who pays for this?
I tend to agree with Cyph0n that patents can promote innovation. But "prior art" ought to be defined sanely. If something has been well known in India for thousands of years, how can some multinational patent it? How can some chemical that occurs in nature be patented? And then there's the whole universe of stuff that's different by one atom over there, and so deemed patentable.
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AMP is just broken HTML, hardly a standard.

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.c...
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That's interesting. What I've heard (arguably second-handedly, but still) is that news sites purposefully troll in their own comments sections in order to create a heated argument - which means more people interacting, viewing pages and thus viewing the ads. What's changed?
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I've seen people arguing that you don't need a degree.

I think getting a BS in Comp Sci was the best decision I've made.

It made me well rounded and I've done many different things within the field of comp sci (web dev, full stack, mobile, etc...).

But I'm going back for a master in statistic so I can do data science. I don't believe a master in comp sci would help much because I have the foundation of BS in Comp Sci to pick up most comp sci book and further myself in CompSci.
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCA1

"The first evidence for the existence of such a gene was provided by Mary-Claire King's laboratory at UC Berkeley in 1990. Four years later, after an international race to find it, the gene was cloned in 1994 by scientists at University of Utah, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and Myriad Genetics."

Myriad Genetics are the sole licensee of the patent. They weren't solely responsible for it's discovery, or successful cloning.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad_Genetics#BRCA1_co-disco...:

>BRCA1 co-discoverers
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
University of Utah Research Foundation
Université Laval/Endo Research – Quebec
The Hospital for Sick Children – University of Toronto
University of Tokyo
Myriad Genetics, Inc.

>BRCA2 co-discoverers
University of Utah Research Foundation
The Hospital for Sick Children – University of Toronto
University of Pennsylvania
Myriad Genetics, Inc.

The research was done by many organisations, not just "companies", and was done with no guarantee of profit. There are some researchers who are actually altruistic, and believe in medical progress to save lives.
Modern cars are cases with electronics inside and a side effect of spinning wheels.

Apple have (or had) corporate culture and system in which great hardware output is expected. Their greatest strength is the ability to produce slick design, premium feel devices, while having the uncanny ability to know which exactly performance features to throw under the bus.

Case in point - flash. Someone in apple obviously knew that battery life of the devices trumps everything else before iPhone was in consumer hands.
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Refrigeration is an excellent example of something that could have easily been developed and refined without patent protection.

Consumers win when innovators compete with each other. Patents replace market competition with a foot race.
I wonder if this says more about our sensor technologies than how the galaxy actually looks (the visible, infrared and microwave images look far richer than the others).
So… Everyone is righty pointing out the uselessness of ranking systems. But, these are also the same kinds of ranking systems that place MIT, Cambridge, Stanford & the rest in the elite. Publication, reputation, etc. It's not about a specific ranking system either. Every ranking uses circular, subjective or self fulfilling measures. These reputations are also very long lived and carry outside of their context. Great research in biology does not really indicate great undergraduate teaching in the humanities.

Universities attract students, funding, press and all the other goodies with their reputations. Students then trade on these reputations. It's a big problem overall, and it doesn't have good feedback loops of the kind which will encourage universities to improve.

Also, the more attention the rankings get, the more they get gamed and corrupted.

Here's the thing, say you are looking for a place to study mechanical engineering, it will be difficult to find the new upstart schools that are doing great work. It's even harder to get employers, parents and colleagues to respect it. That's to say nothing of a course attempting to teach a subject like engineering outside the paradigm of Universities altogether.

It's a pickle.

The world is way too big for us to rely on a vague name recognition & reputation system anymore. It's too dynamic to wait for them to self correct and it's way too thirsty for better ways to train and educate to be without a dynamic system where new approaches and institutions can emerge.
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Yeah, I'm such a complainer too. Blogs are one of the last places you should ever see such a spinner because they're just static content with sidebars. There should be little to none client-side rendering involved. And the spinner on Blogger is only a (very visible) symptom of the bigger problem - the whole site is incredibly slow and resource heavy.
viewport size can only be detected when the page is loaded... Afterwards, the images are loaded.

It feels slow ;)
It makes sense if you invent a better lightbulb.
One of the benefits of this new network is the range of the base stations.

A Wifi router in a house will have a range of tens of meters. They are claiming several kilometers of range for the unlicensed ISM bands they are using.
Odds are the "make a cure from it" part would be a human invention and therefore patentable.

And even if all "cures" are no longer patentable - society wants cures to diseases. So if the system isn't delivering cures society will change the approval system[1]. It's not like the current approval process was handed down from god on stone tablets.

1) Or change patent law to cover discoveries from nature.
No joke, it's all about the money.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10358945
There's enough billionares who want to live forever. They'll fund it, if only so their own lives last longer.
AMP reminds me of "i-mode", a Japanese mobile HTML variant originally launched in 1999 that was hugely popular in the country for many years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode

Then, as now, regular HTML pages were considered too slow and complicated for mobile phones. I-mode was conceived by the large network operator NTT Docomo.

The big difference is that NTT Docomo were the exclusive gatekeepers for publishing content. Google also gives you the option of publishing AMP content on their CDN, but it's not mandatory.
These are options and not shares. So I assume the value of unexcercised options add to the company's issued stock when the options expire.
U can also use something like openMP (Newer versions has pragma's for SIMDs) to help the compiler expose parallelism in your code. (Hard fore a compiler to figure out the intent of the programmers. So be nice and give the the poor compiler some hints ;) ). Also many consumer grade chips have GPUs integrated, this can also be used for speeding things up.
If that complexity isn't exposed, then it isn't more complicated. Lots of init scripts used to be quite different across distributions and very long. Nowaways the systemd unit files are shipped upstream and you just package them. That's vastly less complex.
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Buy one directly from Germany, in contrast to what the US division CEO is saying, people are pretty much taking the fall in a top down pattern at the headquarters. (golden parachutes do play a role in this though)
But on the other hand reproducing the result without reading the patent, should be able to invalidate said patent. If I don't care how you achieved the one click purchase button, I should be able to have my implementation on my page.
Well, not "people" as a whole but rather the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet which partook in the transition to democracy.
Wish Mozilla used this type of sandboxing on Firefox
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They're false-color so if anything, this says more about our Photoshop choices.
I don't know if 1000x is something that can be backed up, but the difference between a program written with poor memory locality and one written with great locality plus 256 bit SIMD can give a performance boost of around 100x.

This isn't theoretical, I've done it personally and this is just one core.

So the claims are anything but outrageous although that is basically what GPUs are - transistors going to actual FLOPS instead of dealing with memory latency.

Intel cores however are structured like this because most code isn't written with cache locality in mind, they are written in god awful pointer chasing spaghetti styles so all the work that Intel puts in to make that go fast pays off.

Skylake almost had SIMD scatter and gather, which could have been an enormous boost to properly written software, but they had no reason to put it in when they are curb stomping AMD on one hand, and very little software takes advantage of the SIMD units they have now on the other.