skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah... duh. For some reason I thought you and the parent comment were the same person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
According to 18.37.3 and 4, microorganisms cannot be excluded from patentability. I assume this is to allow patenting of things like probiotics. However, all humans rely their skin, mouth, and gut floras to be healthy. If the bacteria and yeast in that flora can't be excluded from patentability, are they considered not a part of the human animal? I understand that probiotics should be protected, but I wonder if someone could take advantage of this and claim patent on any naturally occurring microorganism by just isolating it and showing that it has some use.

Something else not specified in this section are viruses. Viruses are not strictly microorganisms, and no mention is made of them, but yet they can be manufactured and used for treatments- recently even for cancer:

http://www.mayo.edu/research/departments-divisions/departmen...

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/02/fda-approval-...

If viruses could be excluded from patentability since they aren't mentioned, then any research or manufacturing done would not be patentable, and therefore some companies may hesitate to invest too heavily in research.
What did you find? Or what can be in it?
Awesome find :thumbsup:

I don't want to wait forever for their service to generate pictures that are nowhere near printable :)
I really wouldn't worry about that. The bank wil have no loyalty to you.
Prolog seems like a good fit for that. Any PhD student wants to publish a paper on a Prolog translation of the TPP? :-)
What's the "ref=cm_cr_rdp_pdp" on the end of the URL? Is this an affiliate link?
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I'd have thought a wristband would be too easy to damage/remove - especially if they become indicators of people in that kind of situation. Similarly I think things like tattoos or embedded chips are spectacularly bad ideas - for all manner of reasons.

Maybe retina scans or something like that?
"some rather expensive fruit branded laptops"

So do some rather expensive shiny-metal-branded laptops.
Maybe the file was stolen from phewitso:s computer? Or someone who actually knew what they were doing and adjusted the metadata.
If you excluded cannabis from your comment, I'd agree with you 100%. Cannabis can be both, but for me, and a lot of people I know, regular use just promotes bad habits and lifestyle choices. But to each his/her own.

(btw I support legalization of cannabis and other psychs)
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where is that downvote button when you really need it...

anyway, it's pretty damn obvious you didn't grow up in one of those marvelous "socialist/communist" societies that look wonderfully on the paper, yet fail miserably and consistently in real life. I've been there, and still getting to position of understanding naivety of some otherwise clever people in this topic (popular in western europe among young who grew up in a different systems, not sure about rest of the world). All these regimes do is bring out the worst in people in it, get into very ineffective modes of rule and centralized management, gradual (or sudden) loss of various freedoms, etc.

Hard work, innovation should be rewarded, not corrupt allegiance to current ruling elite. This mode brings the best out of people in matter of contribution to mankind. What we can improve is the ruleset/boundaries in law, punishing usage of loopholes, off shore taxation and similar. But people on that list didn't get there by avoiding taxes.

it would be nice if some Star Trek utopia would work, but we as humans and mankind are just not there yet, for various reasons. Maybe you are, but according to what you wrote, in contrary.

Now go throw a rock on some McDonald franchise, that will surely make you feel like contributing to well-being of all of us a bit. or even better - move to Russia, it's a fine example of a country sliding back to where it came from, or even better, true communist paradise - North Korea (let me guess, you don't have something important for that, do you)
I think the idea is that we'd achieve the same effect by changing working hours. There's nothing sacred about 9-5. If you're dealing with people in different timezones, you need to know the offset of your timezones, and take DST into account. If this were changed, you'd need to know the offset of your timezones, and take local working hours into account.

The benefit is not having to upgrade all the numerous specialised systems that may or may not be supported anymore every time a politician decides to change the clock. Having to throw out or hack around timekeeping problems with outdated-but-working embedded equipment carries costs.

(This discussion is of course completely tangential to the article)
Something I miss on all these howto posts about Let's Encrypt is the revocation of the old certificate on renewal.

Say I have a cert that is valid until 2015-12-31, but I want to renew it now.

./letsencrypt-auto --agree-dev-preview --server \
https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory certonly

will get a new certificate, but the old one, as far as I can see, is still valid and could be used for the domain until it expires.

letsencrypt-auto has a revoke function, but there is no easy way to tell it to revoke the last valid cert, or it should do it with a `renew` function.
Oh wow, Scenic looks really nice, thank you. I have a unreleased, home-made solution like that, but the gem looks much tidier. And apparently supports `change` migrations, something that has been on my to-do list for the longest time now :)
It's a different flavor. Sweet, instead of smoky. It's completely okay in my opinion to like scotch and not bourbon, or the other way around. I like scotch, but I prefer bourbon. The smoky flavor turns me off a bit.

Everyone has a personal choice, but I'm of the opinion that if you don't like Maker's Mark, you probably won't like bourbon.
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Great question! We're aware of the Heroku issues, and they don't fully apply in our case. We currently do not have any queues in the router other than the kernel's accept queue. All incoming connections are assigned a goroutine immediately and the requests are proxied back to service instances without queuing. So if your application instances can handle concurrent requests, the performance impact of random load balancing should not be huge.

We are absolutely open to implementing other balancing algorithms, including least connections. The one caveat is that at any time multiple routers will be in operation and we're not going to do extensive coordination between them, so the balancing will never be perfect.
But letting search be affected by tags more than the description text would be a way to let the devs prioritize the most important keywords. Other people don't really need to know anything about them.

As opposed to putting "tags" in the app title (motivation for all calendar apps to be named something with Calendar) or X number of times in the description text (motivation for unnatural copy).

Disclaimer: Based on what little I know about search priority in Google Play.
Maybe. The kubernetes 1.0 proxy is a pure TCP proxy so would need more details. Could you file an issue?

Kubernetes 1.1 will have an iptables based proxy too: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/3760#issueco...
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I designed a personality test based on the word experiments of CG Jung. I can see this as a coaching/therapeutic tool for individuals and couples.

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The printable version can be purchased on Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/l/criticalstimulus

Working on an instructional video and will release that soon.
Nice little problem. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for posting those links. The original link isn't to explanatory about what types of content the mailing list will have.
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> ignoring their substance

I explained our disagreement over terms and suggested a path forward. Instead of responding to that, you ignored it and proceeded to lecture me on how "intentionally obnoxious" I was being. You even went out of your way to trivialize my experience; at least I'm not being executed!

> But you can't be upset about blowback

And you can't be upset when people react negatively to comments dripped with condescension and subtle insults. Do you really think that is an effective way to engage another human? I don't. This isn't me "attacking your tone." This is me saying, "I'm not longer comfortable speaking to you because I believe you've lost the assumption of good faith."

Say what you want about me, but at least I didn't stoop to your level.
But it's not out of reach for Apple or Google to change the premise on their own market places.

They just need motivation to do so, and avoid scaring away the majority of developers that don't have a big company backing them up _might_ be that motivation.
Have you ever thought about using a natural language interface with ledger? For example, the Mac/iOS calendar app Fantastical lets you create an event by typing or dictating a sentence like "lunch with mike at 2 on Tuesday at Wendy's", and the app will parse the input to create an event with the right parameters.

I ask after reading your vacation write-up. Seems like the input side could have been a lot easier if you had a speech or text NLP interface to ledger. "$10 entertainment expense paid from MasterCard today," for example. That could be the holy grail for people who are not inclined to keep a detailed ledger, or for situations where input is difficult. (Theoretically you could email/iMessage/SMS/slack that string and have it picked up by your ledger file.)
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I'm kind of in the "so what" camp. Making mobile apps is a choice an individual, team or company undertakes.

To then turn around and say these people are "suffering" is daft. You're a dev, go make something else.
Good point. I've now updated the text on the landing page, to the extent that's possible with TinyLetter.
Could you please give some examples? I understand the cultural criticism in the original post, but it seems extreme to me to wish ruin on someone because of their photography project.
You are probably not wrong overall (if blunt) but his approach sounds consistent: if women MPs are overall more junior, it makes sense to give them junior ministries first, and try to promote them faster, rather than leapfrog what sounds like a steep learning experience.

It’s been tried elsewhere, and the success rate is less than it could be — but that has certainly more to do with how politics changed recently.
I see that they are retaining the paragraph that leads several countries to join Russia in burning and bulldozing food and other commodities, if and when trade mark infringed.
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I think the spirit of this to allow for drastically modified yeast that produce, say, anti-cancer drug X to be patented. To make the biological equivalent of an industrial methods patent. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to protect your IP even though significant effort has gone into creating a chimeric yeast, because its just a collection of natural products (natural product's are currently not patentable).

Still, seems a little odd / slippery slope-y to me. On the one hand, I understand and, to some extent, agree with the need to protect / profit off what you've developed. On the otherhand, USPTO is pretty bad at biological patent screening and I can see a huge landrush to patent bacteria for no good reason.

(Full disclosure, I am in the process of patenting a modified natural product made by a bacteria)
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Note the ex officio statement in the IP chapter: even if a copyright holder does not want to initiate border measures (e.g. destroy fanzines), this can be enforced by governments, http://www.mfat.govt.nz/downloads/trade-agreement/transpacif.... In 2013, Japanese lawyers warned about the fair use implications, http://japanitlaw.blogspot.com/2013/01/tpps-effect-on-fanzin... & http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/IP_Theor...

Article 18.76: Special Requirements related to Border Measures

5. Each Party shall provide that its competent authorities
may initiate border measures ex officio [118] with respect
to goods under customs control that are:

(a) imported; (b) destined for export; (c) in transit,

and that are suspected of being counterfeit trademark
goods or pirated copyright goods.

[118] For greater certainty, ex officio action does
not require a formal complaint from a third party
or right holder.
An important difference with the web is the barrier to entry. Testing an idea for the web is orders of magnitude cheaper (time and money) than an idea for an app.
The units have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not something is scientific.
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This may be true, but you still want someplace to start when you buy or recommend products. With certain brands / companies, you can become familiar with quality, cost, design, etc. You don't want to waste hours upon hours researching when you need something.

Even though Anker may not provide perfect products + service every time, they may be a good place to start looking for an accessory.
You are describing NixOS/Guix rather than containers.
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It's linking to their internal dev site (http://dev.mfat.govt.nz/downloads/trade-agreement/transpacif...), they forgot to update the link, just remove the dev and you're in: http://mfat.govt.nz/downloads/trade-agreement/transpacific/T...
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This is great!! I just subscribed.

It would be helpful if each past issue in the archive list would tell what sets it presents, instead of all having the same subtitle...?
"Container" is a rather vague term and the implementation details vary. For example, Guix containers (though not fully baked yet) do not have the downsides that we've come to expect from Docker and friends like being based on opaque images with no useful provenance, relying upon complicated overlay file systems, duplication of the same software amongst different container images, and not doing anything to solve the very crucial reproducible builds problem. Instead of using disk image layers, Guix can simply bind-mount the required package builds (we call them "store items") from the host into the container. One of pleasant consequences of this design is that software shared amongst N containers is on the file system in exactly one place. No need to rely on complicated file systems that may or may not actually deduplicate things depending on the circumstances.

Let's use heartbleed as an example. It is easily possible with Guix to walk the dependency graph for any package or system configuration (container or otherwise) and inspect for known vulnerable software. Docker simply does not, and cannot, know the level of detail that Guix knows about the composition of software and systems.

Furthermore, the Guix tools that build containers use a functional, declarative programming interface. Contrast this with Dockerfiles which are an imperative sequence of steps in which you mutate a disk image in a specific order. To utilize Docker's caching abilities, you have to very careful about the order in which the directives in the Dockerfile are evaluated. In Guix, the order doesn't matter and the "cache" (it's really memoization) can be effectively used when any component of the system has already been built before.

I've picked on Docker a lot here because it's the most popular, but you can substitute Docker for any other image-based container system and the same things will more-or-less apply. Docker is great for making things easier right now, in which the status quo package managers are weak and you need on average 3 to 4 package managers to deploy any given web application. But it's not the future. Docker is based on binaries whereas functional package/configuration management is based on source code. We can do much better (and we are doing it already) by building on the functional package management paradigm.
Given how fit the people in California/NYC are, I'd say gluttony is off the table.
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I saw a documentary once about two ghost cities, the documentary was 6 years old and those cites were almost with 0 resident, I saw on comment Chinese people saying that those cities are full now. It's just China being two steps forward.
You're Godwinning it pretty hard. Do you have a more lucid and less Godwinny argument than "well, Hitler!" ?
Somehow, I agree with you on the idea that Girard may consider himself a prophet. But, it must have been depressing for him since (as far as I understood him) he only reframed and repeated what he seemed to read everywhere in literature.

As a layman, I try to sum it up from my memories: according to Girard, desire does not stand by itself. It only rises to meet another's desired object. Somehow: you don't desire a shiny car because of the shine of the car by itself, but only because someone already has or desires a shiny car.

This phenomenon generates conflicts when the desired object can't be shared. This leads to crises in human groups where the only escape was traditionally to take someone (anyone, actually) as culprit for this crisis and kill them, honestly pretending that they are responsible the the group disease.

I don't recall how, but Girard says that this killing cures the group. Which proves to the killers that 1) the scapegoat was indeed responsible for the trouble and 2) it was in the situation of providing the miraculous cure and is therefore some sort of goddess.

This is what Girard explains but refutes to have found by himself. According to him, denouncing this unconscious process is the very purpose of the gospel. This is what has been hidden since the creation of the world.
I found it rather surprising to see Cuba being a "major exporter of medical products" and a "leader in biotechnology".

I can understand the medical tech - it makes sense given the level of cuban medical education. But biotech? What kind of biotech? Could anyone comment on that?

An article I found [1] mentions some serious products, but what about the regulations?

[1] https://t.co/yElsLVfZdt
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Yeah this is the bizarre part of this whole enterprise.

The core and biggest problem here is getting valid certificates for free. That enables the process for people who are interested, and means those people can go on to make everyone else aware of it, which raises the amount of crypto in use overall.

On that backbone, people will build the tools.
I believe NZ allows legal home-distilling, maybe it's related to that? Similar to home brewers making Belgian beers by using the correct yeast and methods, people could be mini-batching TN/KY bourbon & whiskey using the style and methods.
New Zealand copyright laws extended from 50 to 70 years with grandfather clause. While it aligns with the Mickey Mouse clause used by other countries, it goes against the original intent to benefit society as people can't extend or make use of copyright works for an extra 20 years.

There is also provision to unlock DVDs purchased overseas that is still retained.

I could not see provision to restrict tax free havens or to curb tax avoidance by multinational corporations.
> What gives you the authority to institutionalize him?

A government has the duty to provide for the welfare of their people. It's every government's goal to make their people healthier.

> How do you force a person to take their medication?

In a psychiatric institution you could for example inject the medicine into them.

> Why should you do it for this particular person but not that particular person?

If a person's mind is gone so haywire that they're destroying their own body, that they don't have adequate control of their mind (as is the case with schizophrenics), that they don't eat or even respond to human communication, and they have been diagnosed with a mental disorder then you should institutionalize them until their mind regains control.

> Who is responsible for the cost of doing so?

Taxpayer