skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days it seems rare that examiners find anything other than existing patents... Perhaps its because they are overworked, underpaid, and actually incentivised to process as many patents as possible.
By most standards, when it comes to legal verisimilitude of anything found on the internet as far I can see... If it didnt come from your own database of stuff... you cant trust it. So why would the patent examiner even bother opening google if he cant legally trust it.

I'd love some proof that examiners actually search outside the USPTO database, not references to their guidelines etc that imply they should, actual proof they do.
That's not the most accurate interpretation of Alice, but it can be approximated as such. However, I cannot think of a comparable analogy in history to blockchains, so I don't know if Alice can be directly applied.
I have a friend working on the Connectome project (http://cbs.fas.harvard.edu/science/connectome-project) who told me last summer that all brain logic happens in the outer millimeter of tissue, everything inside is essentially routing.

I'm summarizing his summary, so I'm certain it's more complex than that, but to a first order approximation, I'd guess your guess is correct!

And so it wouldn't be particularly surprising that someone with cavities in their brain could be smart. One might expect deficiencies of some sort, but one might be speculating; I probably wouldn't bet on it.
How does this standard deal with issues like user privacy, rogue hotspots, etc.?
Every New Yorker can already get good enough internet to apply for jobs and do homework, both from an ISP and a local public library. That need is already well served by current infrastructure; there's no point in duplicating it. If current options are too expensive, than subsidies would seem much simpler than new infrastructure.

Municipal fiber is not proposed in places that lack internet service, it's proposed in places that lack good internet service. People are upset that aging and oversubscribed cable company infrastructure isn't good enough for their media consumption desires, and municipal fiber is the solution.

Where we have problems getting people online at all is in rural areas, where 1) there are no municipalities and 2) distances are far too long for WiFi. There, the best option is low-cost point-to-point antennae on high ground. The hard part for rural Wireless ISPs has been finding someone to sell them transit at a fair price.
What's so special about "saying no"? I have my principles, and companies better respect them.

I got several downvotes for my comment, but in the end more upvotes.

Btw. shipping is free for my check outs too. Maybe I just don't want and need their streaming services? Maybe I already use something that fits my needs? Maybe I live in an area where they tested Prime and therefor made the delivery time worse (from 2 days to 4-5 days)?

Ask yourself: would you like to pay a membership fee for Walmart/etc and for shopping centers? Nevertheless, Amazon.com is first and foremost an digital shopping center. It's my right as a customer to say "no thanks", and Amazon should acknowledge my decision.
With prices like that, seems like insurance companies could arbitrage this by paying their patients to live on a beautiful resort island somewhere near India for the 3 month treatment course. You can afford to bring the patient to the pills instead of the other way 'round.
And here I thought this was cutting edge technology...
Yes, What else could it possibly have been about? You don't seem to be a native English speaker, so I thought you didn't understand what "aren't means.

It's a bit curious that you haven't answered my original question, or come back with anything substantive apart from expressing surprise at someone not understanding what you meant by "Aren't?"
I would personally use a bit array with an associated value to indicate what 0 or 1 means.
That's an interesting rundown.
It's sad the guy got essentially fleeced of his inventions, but in a karma like fashion the outfit that would have benefitted in turn got fleeced.

I'm going to guess Kickstarter is a decent place to mine for ideas in a place with lots of line manufacturing plants and a loose regime with regard to patents.

I'm wondering if Kickstarter isn't firewalled.
An appstore program that costs nothing up front is the same amount of effort as opening a webpage, but with less risk.

Open browser->type in appname->hit enter

Open appstore->type in appname->tap install (with what is likely to be less risk since it's not only sandboxed but also at least Apple's appstore is inspected)

If distribution is king, you're going to get more eyeballs from people browsing in an appstore than sitting out there at www.urlhere.com. Where you'd have to actively advertise in some fashion.

I stand by the viewpoint that all these issues that arise from misusing a tool. And the author isn't too far offbase either. As noted, a 10MB page is ridiculous and it sounds to me that should be in an appstore somewhere. That's just misuse of the platform and far off what was the intended purpose.
Does anyone know good resources for geeking out on things maritime?
We do have gittip, flattr, etc ... this doesnt seem to have produced much success.

Patreon does seem to be developing a bit of a traction here too now. "I work on xyz, keep me funded so i can continue working on xqyz"
well if your opponent has 100 lawyers, especially lawyers who are well-versed in different areas of the law they are able to make a more varied range of arguments than your one lawyer is, your one lawyer has to respond to those arguments and say why they are wrong or not relevant in your case or risk losing because of the existence of a particular argument, therefore your one lawyer has to do a lot of work that they might not have the expertise to do well or the time to do at all. Furthermore your opponents 100 lawyers may be more cost effective than your one, depending on the contract they have with the firm. Finally the 100 lawyers can take the time to file paperwork etc. that your lawyer has to respond to or again risk losing for not responding to some piece of paperwork. Finally when your sitting in that courtroom for a day that is a day when you will not be innovating and you will not get any money for the time you took off, courtroom days are not few and far between and your opponents 100 lawyers can spend their time making sure you have more courtroom days than you can afford.
I think the correct logic is more like this: Because the winning entries are all solving the same problem, any discrepancies in how they solved it (logically or stylistically) are magnified when grouped together.
>then the artists have a shot at people actually purchasing the music.

Or they'll just pirate it.

>So I definitely think maybe they need to hike the price to $25 or $30 per month.

Spotify will charge what the market will pay. They think that $10 a month is the sweet spot, any more and they will lose more revenue in lost subscribers than they gain.

>Cable TV doesn't give you unlimited everything but we pay like 10x that per month and we still have to listen to the ads in many cases.

And cable TV is currently losing subscribers. I'm not sure that's a business model you want to emulate.
The Ascent of Money is filled with great citations to the academic literature. Don't have my copy handy, but you should check it out if you're interested in more info about fractional reserves.

You should also read up on "natural experiments." They got us things like the elimination of cholera from major metropolitan areas, the link between smoking and heart disease, and Hubble's Law describing the expansion of the universe. Sometimes looking at the world tells us stuff about the world.

You should also maybe check out the work of John Ioannidis, and the hoax research of John Bohannon, and articles on publication bias. Check out how frequently lab p-values cluster just around publishable.

We've reached a weird state where, give me a natural experiment in economics, where the author actually has to think about and discount possible alternative explanations sufficiently to sway aggressive critics on a contentious topic. Then give me a modern nutrition study claiming that some fad food abruptly cures cancer in rats, with a convenient p of exactly 0.05, which becomes an isolated media frenzy before it's never cited again. I'm going to treat the economics with far more deference, despite my general fondness for double-blind RCT.

EDIT: Also, the original reference was a simile, signaled by words like "essentially" and "like." Ease up a bit with the 'toy words' accusations, I was not trying to claim economics is literally indistinguishable from physics, just that the case studies here are surprisingly compelling, and seem to point in one clear direction.
I'm planning to work on a project using Elixir/Phoenix very soon.
I'm pretty sure that every company with a fax machine whose number isn't private is accustomed to receiving "automated unsolicited faxes". At $work, we receive just as many (if not more) spam faxes as we do legitimate ones. People just toss 'em in the trash and don't think twice about it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/28/cuba-lung-cancer-vac...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/19/cuba.cancer.vaccine/ind...

> A Phase II trial from 2008 showed lung cancer patients who received the vaccine lived an average of four to six months longer than those who didn’t.

> CimaVax EGF does not prevent or cure lung cancer. It is a therapeutic vaccine which stimulates the patient's body to make an antibody against the epidermal growth factor (EGF), which is a key driver causing lung cancer cells to grow.

Thanks for sharing, I had never heard of this, but to call it a "$1 cure for lung cancer" is a bit misleading.
The higher income people must pay less taxes, because society cannot provide enough services for their paid taxes. It seems as paradox but that's the Truth. Otherwise the rich person will find a way to pay 0's taxes in one of dozen tax-haven places like andora. As result government got nothing. That's why the richest you're the lover taxes you have to pay.
I presume this is the exterior facade? What's the interior construction?
I want to know if people like this are less susceptible to concussion. If so, and if it's true that there's not necessarily a decrease in ability, it seems like a strictly superior arrangement.
> What kind of trouble can they cause that company? How does not having a lot of lawyers make it dangerous?

imho, it's not the number of lawyers, but that you get involved in court cases at all. If you're a small, independent developer lonewolfing it, you can't even afford to hire a lawyer, let alone retain one on staff. A settlement, where you get a relatively favourable outcome compared to paying the court costs, is probably tantalizingly good.

i want to see the losing party pay in civil suits!
This is similar with Bayer’s Nexavar (Sorafenib)and its India-market-only counterpart.

India had to impose an export-restriction for these drugs.
funny how that automatically happens when someone mentions posture
What kind of market has it been?

Local monopolies were granted by municipalities, certain officials and not the prospective end users. The very first winning bid from a cable company carried the monopoly clause. Once the monopolies had been granted, the market was no longer free; basically the market was (and is) no more.

I'd argue that a free market for cable / broadband access never ever existed.
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Bullshit... marketing budgets outstrip research, development and manufacturing all by very large margins... in most big pharma companies it's over 80-90% of the budget.
That's assuming the insurance company is fine paying whatever the vacation to India costs.
That's quite an aggressive stance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_instructor#/media/File:D...
Unfortunately I have neither read nor written anything about it. This would require some thinking and large scale consensus building.

(i) Futures market and (ii) bid to bring to public domain are the two market apparatus I could think of. Individuals with better knowledge in economics and finances would likely be able to come up with other mechanisms.
Honestly, I would too. Having plywood subfloors might be ok if they topped it with gypcrete, but living with floor squeaks and footfalls from another tenant above is no fun.

Plywood has it's place in economical housing that's earthquake safe. The shame is just if the market rent is high enough that better construction could have been afforded by the developer in the first place.
JavaScript everywhere.
>but what right do you have to say what something like that is worth?

About as much right as every other person who participates in the market.
If I ever make a driving game... This will be in it.

I just love the absurdity of running a red light somewhere like California, Texas or Florida, then just going "F*&( it, TO CANADA!!!!!" <sound of engine revving up as driver floors it>
"Formulas, Facts and Constants for Students and Professionals in Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics" by Helmut and Kurt Fischbeck. Just download it now and thank me later. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-72555-5
You might be surprised when you try it.
Emscripten probably is the most reliable route, and also the most secure (Javascript VM sandboxing, which you don't have with native CGIs). If your C++ code doesn't directly use system APIs (CreateFileA, execvp(), etc.) or extra I/O libraries (OpenGL1.0, SDL2), Emscripten will compile it just fine.
Bank of America closed down my business checking accounts last week, right before I went away on holiday. No access to ATM, no way to deposit or make payments.

When I tried to find out the reason why, they literally said "we don't have to provide a reason". Keep in mind I've had these checking accounts for 15 years.

So yeah, Fuck Bank of America!
Sooo many good books! I'm exhausted!
Here are some good ones:

MPEG Video Compression Standard:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b115884

Chaos and Fractals:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97624

Proofs from THE BOOK:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-05412-3

Joel on Software:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-0753-5

Programming Challenges:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97559
I got to the 6th line of your post then I got bored.
> Click ... to expand a sentence that fills its place syntactically and semantically!

proof of concept of something like what you're describing:
http://www.telescopictext.org/text/pFjkqQY9bmfvQ (not the best example, but telescopictext is very cool)
Thank you, this made my time period. "Graphs and Networks (Transfinite and Nonstandard)" woo-hoo!
1) this information is mostly public information, it contains information about party affiliations and participation in elections but doesn't contain details about votes.
2) it looks like the data came from nationbuilder, which spent around 2-3 years building/compiling a voter registration database that's more accessible to the public than other proprietary solutions
265 per pill? if you need two pills per day then it is out of reach for i would 80% of Indians it is required for more than a week. Average per day for coolie(low level worker) is around 300 bugs , our maid worker charges Rs 1200 per month for 1 hour work every day with 4 day leaves in a month but she works in another 4/5 house as maid as well for similar pay.
i think this is rad.
Pricing a medicine, like pricing any other product, will have its own complexities.

* You need to fix a price which would cover the cost of your research that went in (and also for unsuccessful researches that you write off for other ailments)
* You have idea about the scale of the ailment but little idea about market acceptance and reaction to your price.
* After market has accepted a price, even if it exceeds your predicted consumption by many fold, you have little incentive to change the price especially if insurance is paying for it.
* In a new market, because you have already recovered what went in to build the medicine, you can price it better.

In fact, insurance itself work very differently in US vs India. In India, in most cases your insurance won't pay for your medicines and medical expenses (diagnostics) if you don't end up hospitalized for at least a day. And that can govern how medicines are priced here because price has a direct implication on adoption.
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Pulsar is also a great Actor Model Concurrency library for Python. It gives you Erlang/Elixir style actor concurrency in Python!
From what I've experienced, it's common to have mostly expensive texts (for undergrad level) that can reach upwards of $175. Occasionally there are free texts from professors at other universities, or just authors in general. But more often than not they're quite pricey.

Free would be great! I think a lot of students go the alternative route and torrent books or just Google to find their respective .pdf's without paying after they see the price tag at the campus store/amazon/ebay.
>both him and Bostrom imagine AI operating simply by humans giving discreet, rational commands to AIs and having the AI twist the wording of those commands, malevolently or just incidentally, to give rise to terrible things - the myth of Genie writ large.

These are just hypothetical scenarios they write about, to help explain problems with AI. I don't think they actually believe it will happen exactly like that.

>However, the failure of Gofia, of logical specification AI, shows us that to be intelligent, AI would have to go beyond the level of just taking explicit orders. Such an AI would "know what we mean" in the fashion that a person would.

Any truly intelligent AI would probably be smart enough to understand what we mean with our words. The issue is that there is no reason it would care. In the same way that if an alien showed up and started giving you orders, you wouldn't really care, even if you deciphered his language and figured out what he meant.

This is known as the Control Problem. The problem of controlling an AI's motivations so that they actually want to do what we tell them to.
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They did pretty much exactly the same here with our corporate account on the 24th. Had to spend 6 hours(!) Monday to get it unfrozen and don't actually know if it worked yet...
> I'd argue that a free market for cable / broadband access never ever existed.

I agree. This is because that market was never regulated. A free market for POTS/DSL access did exist (and to a large extent still exists). Federally regulated mandatory line sharing made it happen.

It does not benefit the public good to run multiple, competing sets of infrastructure to carry commodities.

However, -as we see in things as disparate as Instant Messaging networks, remote-controlled lightbulbs, and wired Internet access- private business places far more value on capturing and walling in sections of the population than they do helping to facilitate a vibrant, competitive marketplace that promotes customer choice. From a business perspective, this lock-in makes sense. This isn't the best thing for society, though.
One language which seems to be under consideration is Dart. Check out Flutter[1]

[1]https://github.com/flutter/flutter
They did the same to our account, and informed us that they had sent an account shutdown warning notice to an address with no zip code.

Then they reminded us that they do not have have to provide a reason, a month after they sent the letter, and of course after we called them.
So I have this big chunk of legacy C++ code, I don't want to rewrite it, because it's a huge horrible mess and I don't have the source code of all its dependencies anyway.
So I'm gonna compile it to native code and run it as a CGI.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Except the pharma companies:

Spend resources on cancer "treatments" that give two more months of survival compared to placebo (with insane side effects though), have marketing budgets twice bigger than their R&D, try to push statins into baby milk (I hope this is sarcastic, for now) and totally abandoned antibiotics.

We also have patent extensions and other nasty tricks.

While the current model is somewhat effective, I think that direct NIH grants to develop drugs with the IP left in the public domain is a better approach. Also that way we can funnel more money into the pockets of the scientists.
To be fair, China produced toxic drywall. For my epilepsy, I'm happy paying $1k for drugs produced in the US compared to $10 in China. Even countries like Japan can barely manage human trials. My father is an oncology physician/researcher/consultant. He goes there yearly to tell them to stop chopping out every prostate that walks through their doors.
As the old expression goes, "open source is more than just source code".

Honestly --and I'm not trying to be snarky here-- in this case, I'm not sure I understand how "not bothering at all" would actually be worse. Maybe I don't understand something about the value.
What's stopping them is the vision of those who are in a position to change things, and a mix of arm-twisting by superpowers into signing laws that make these hard.
Establish a government monopoly for purchasing drugs. A painkiller costs maximum X or the government won't subsidise it. A drug to heal a disease costs maximum Y. People will spend everything they have to save their lives, even when it's to the detriment to the rest of society - There's a limited set of medicine available, and it's funnelling society's resources into the pharmaceutical industry because everyone's trying to compete for the best drug. Eventually people will work their whole lives to save up just so their parents can live 2 more years when they're 75, and that's not really good for society. Living out years isn't the end goal, enjoying what time we have is. An appropriate government institution will ensure that happens, while providing sufficient drug supply (but not as much as if everyone spent their life savings on drugs and nothing much else).

That's how it works in many countries outside the U.S.

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmac
"to mine" =def (trans.) the act of declaring exclusive ownership rights of an object for the speaker of the sentence.
You win the rationalization of the day award: two aspirins. ;-)
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I don't think the drive-on-the-right rule is only about safety. It's also about efficiency. We could also be safe without the rule, we'd just go a lot slower. I note that we have the same stay-on-the-right rule for walking, and it'd be hard to argue that it's mainly about safety there.

As the author explains, for journalists the rule is widely consistent by country, which is a sign that, as with driving, there's something pushing us toward consistency.

Given that there's a switching cost, and given that journalists change employers (and often write for multiple publications), and given that material gets reused between publications), I think there's good reason to have widespread agreement.
> Hackers, can we construct a better market?

No, you can't. Any solution you come up with will be illegal in some key respect. You are dealing with one of the three most heavily regulated industries in the United States.

You don't need hackers; you need an army lobbyists of lobbyists powerful enough to overcome entrenched opposition from every corner of the healthcare system.
this announcement made my holidays even more wonderful. all i need now is sneak into a corner and start soaking up this treasure trove of knowledge.
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In India it is always a concrete slab but still get above the floor furniture moves
Is there a benefit to local credit unions over the larger credit unions? I'm a member of a state-wide credit union.