skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends entirely what their end goal is.

To make money with no regards to anything else? Yes, they are dangerous to the human race and should be treated as the absolute worst terrorists possible.

However, if their end goal is to actually leave the world a better place than when it was when they were born, and it just happens it takes being one of the richest people ever to do that? More power to them, and I hope they succeed.

Not all rich and powerful people are assholes, some just want to make the world less shitty, and some actually succeed at it.
Many big companies file patents for defensive reasons and do not pursue offensive activities. If BoA thought they might use a block chain in the future for example, having a patent can neutralize the threat of a competitor limiting their ability to use that method to support business activities. It's sort of a mutually assured distruction approach.
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These maps were made by detecting small differences in sea surface altitude, and inferring the gravitation field. But changes in gravity can also be measured directly, using a gravimeter.

However, they tend to be finicky to work with--difficult to calibrate and to eliminate sources of error. After all, we know from Einstein that there is no measurable difference between gravitational acceleration and inertial acceleration (like, say, bumping a sensor).

Still, gravity seems like an area of immense promise for sensors of the future. We've spent immense effort improving and miniaturizing sensors for things like magnetic fields, electrons, and photons. But we've recently discovered--using gravity--that these things might represent only 5% of the total mass of the universe. We haven't even detected a gravity wave yet. We're just barely getting started at using gravity to observe and understand the universe.
Muphry's law: I meant Agnieszka. I hadn't noticed their extra 'n'.
If a professional hockey player thought checking made the game needlessly violent, that wouldn't mean they could stop checking and remain competitive in the game they loved. The pragmatic option would be to keep playing the game, checking included, and advocate for change.
Or do what I used to do - just ask the neighbours what the noise is like.
Because they don't want patent trolls extorting them.

Let's say I patent one of these myself and BofA develops anything with cryptocurrency. I can go to them and say they are violating my patent and they can either pay me $75,000 or we can go to court. Going to court costs them more than $75k, so they would settle.

It is much cheaper to file the bogus patent yourself upfront then to be extorted later. Challenging a bullshit patent is often far more expensive than settling, but exceedingly more expensive than a patent application.

So no, they likely won't sue anyone else.
Transform any text into a patent application (2014)
"There are problems here I haven’t talked about, and most languages don’t make this particular style of programming very easy or performant."

...hmm, that's a rather big caveat arriving at the end of the article
I've long observed this, but in an company context rather than open source. The glory goes to people who start things, even when what they start is a buggy mess. The people who fix the problems and put out the fires are appreciated, but well, that's what they're supposed to do!
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-balancing_two-wheeled_boa...

> Shane Chen, an American businessman who founded the company, Inventist, has made an early claim of inventing the device.[5] Chen started a Kickstarter for Hovertrax, in 2013. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Chen voiced his frustrations regarding patent rights in China. He claimed that Solowheel, his self-balancing unicycle, was copied by other manufacturers after it appeared in Happy Show, a Chinese television show.[6][7] In August 2015, Mark Cuban announced plans to purchase the Hovertrax patents from Chen.[7] Also in 2015, the American company, Inventist, claimed to hold patents and announced its intent to pursue litigation.[8]

> The fast pace of the Chinese manufacturing industry makes it difficult to pinpoint which Chinese company was the first to manufacture the device. According to Wired's David Pierce, the device was likely invented as the "Smart S1" by Chic Robotics, a Chinese technology company founded in 2013, and associated with Zhejiang University.[4] The Smart S1 was released in August 2014, and found success at the 2014 Canton Fair trade show. The company patented technologies associated with the board, but due to China's lax patent enforcement, the product was copied by several Chinese manufacturers.[4]

> As of June 2015, the board is made by several knockoff manufacturers in China – a pattern common in the country's technology and industrial sector.[9] The copies vary greatly in price and quality, and may exhibit various defects.[4] Most of the boards are produced in mass manufacturing factories in Shenzhen, China.[10] Some newer boards have incorporated Bluetooth speakers, allowing the driver to play music.[11]
It's not necessarily ironic. Oracle (or specifically Sun, which Oracle purchased) chose to create and distribute OpenJDK. They didn't choose to create Google's competing implementation, which perhaps they view as fragmenting the Java ecosystem.
Yeah it's not going to happen that way anyway. If you look at the history of science, multiple discovery is the rule rather than the exception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

There are going to multiple groups... one of them could be small and elite I suppose. But we have no idea in general how it will play out. People seem to be scared of Google (OpenAI mentions them a lot), but the time frame is long enough that that's far from certain, and perhaps unlikely.

I mean just like the Human Genome Project and Celera were within spitting distance of each other. I think that's how it will play out with AI.
I'm still new to FP, but I like how PureScript solved this problem by having an Effect Monad: http://www.purescript.org/learn/eff/
This resonated with me so deeply. I have played this conversation over and over in my head, wondering "why?" ... but somebody has to. It's often a labor of necessity, not love.
They wouldn't need an agreement with Apple.
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Given Windows 10 and its phone home approach, they are still acting like a bad player.
Something that can transport a grown human quickly, can probably also transport a roughly equivalent weight more slowly? Or at least it will be able to do so given enough R&D? Electric motorcycles have been available for several years, from a variety of companies. Either the right battery is available now or it will be soon.
When I was apartment hunting I refuse to live on any floor but the top for this exact reason. My heating and cooling bills are terrible because there's not much insulation, but there's no one walking around above my head.
It's not the game that's the problem, it's their objectives: to gain as much power as possible.
You can do the same in ipython notebook (I'd presume jupyter as well) using magic commands: http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-2.4/html/interactive.htm...

It's kind of weird to use but it works for the most part. You can clean up some data in python, then push the data over to a cell written in R to do some other evaluation, then push the results back over to python.
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You can hang a /lot/ of diffusors and add bass traps and the interior soundscape will change and feel more intimate (and your TV/stereo will magically sound better!)

But that doesn't change exterior noise transmission.
You can call it whatever you want, but it's still truth. Many people do things that you can't imagine I suspect.
"Would not recommend to a friend..."
This is what i'm doing in javascript over in redux-effects: https://www.github.com/redux-effects/redux-effects
The New York Times has an excellent team of web developers/designers. It's one of a short list of websites that consistently amaze me with their presentation.
No, it's community service-- just with people that are willing to go a bit further than the archive. There's also an amount of pride associated with being well known for quick releases like ettv or rartv -- or with having the smallest encoding like yify or nezu or something.

Game of Thrones is a good example. Everyone loves GOT, right? Shit some people even read the books. But you can only watch GoT if you have an HBO subscription right? Up until this year I think (?) that meant you had to be a US resident, with a physical cable subscription, and HBO service. What about people in fucking Thailand? Should they not get to watch GoT even though the whole internet is posting memes and whatever all over the place?

Or what about Django Unchained, lots of people in China went to see that film in theatres in China... minus about half an hour of edited footage. These Tarantino fans cannot legally obtain the entire version of the newest movie from their favorite director. Does that seem fair? Pirates to the rescue.

Most groups do accept bitcoin donations, but I have no clue how much that actually nets.

Honestly, it's just like a library, no clue why people get so worked up about free books, movies, music, etc. The only issue I really see is prereleases -- like cams and especially dvd screeners of films still in theatres, those can do some serious profit damages.

I fully plan on downloading this new star wars shit when it comes out. I also fully plan on going to see it in theatres because _that_ is what a movie is -- I spend 30 bucks on new movies wvery month. I download Ozzy music. I also paid fucking 150 pounds to see him in concert.

The war on pirates is just a pointless exercise by do-gooders with superiority complexes that for some reason think that copyright law as it stands is reasonable and are somehow deluded into thinking that the revenue stream of entertainment is working in a reasonable fashion. In reality that 10$ you spend on a DVD is just 10$ going into the hands of a corporation that does not actually produce anything but just runs around frantically trying to justify its own existence -- usually by harassing fans like this.
By "treat like a game" I mean, play to win, with winning defined as beating the other guy.

I arrived at this line of though when I started wondering why would the head decision makers of (for example) trafigura decide to horribly pollute the Ivory coast just so they can squeeze out a bit of extra profit, when they are all already super-rich. You can only enjoy so many yachts and so on. I arrived at the conclusion that their motivation is not to get more money per se, its to beat the other guys.
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Or this one. The alternative fuel source makes it slightly quieter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc#t=23s
The only time I felt at all cared for by a bank was when I had an account at a small local bank with a handful of branches.
Sun specifically approached IBM for merger talks, I have a hard time believing they were that secret given Oracle's actions. Looking at the threats, Sun under more litigious hands probably was more of a threat than Motorola.
Ars just put up a decent article with some background, and explained how to reset your recovery keys (even on the Home edition):
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/micros...

I have a lot of sympathy for Microsoft here, given some professional history with Chrome's Sync feature. Originally Sync data was always encrypted locally with either your Google password or a custom passphrase, and recovery wasn't possible (well, practical) absent that passphrase. The result was a bit of a support nightmare, as people would lose their sync data because they changed their account password and forgot the old one, or upgraded their machine and had forgotten the password years before, because it was being autofilled.

To solve the problem we ended up changing the way we managed the encryption, so we could recover the data for the default case, and kept the custom passphrase as an opt-in for local-only encryption. That's not to say I think we did everything we could to promote and support the use of a custom passphrase, but I am thoroughly convinced that it's not something the majority of users are concerned about or want to hassle with. If the average user forgets their password they still want to be able to get their data back (and there's no good way to forewarn or explain away why it won't work).
There are electric versions by Boston Dynamics but they carry less weight which probably disqualifies them from the project. I'm sure someone was hoping that the firms involved would pump out an all electric version that could meet everything but it just wasn't feasible within the parameters.

I remember in one of the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare games, there is a mini cooper sized APC looking thing that would carry supplies. It would either follow the player or could be controlled. I think that would be a better solution. A gas electric hybrid offroad vehicle would be pretty cool. It could carry supplies or serve as an automated medevac and still be silent in electric mode.
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Buffett owns about a quarter of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns warrants to purchase about a 10% stake in Bank of America at a deep discount to the current price. Berkshire does not currently have voting rights because the warrants haven't been exercised. That's not to say Buffett can't or doesn't influence Bank of America, but it is much more of distant relationship than, for example, the dozens of operating companies whose CEOs report to Buffett. It seems a stretch to imagine him involved at this level at all.
Shift liability to the credit card companies and you can watch that problem take care of itself.
That's interesting, it's an operating system emulation running in the browser, and the one thing missing is.. a browser.
It has a lot more obvious utility than a lot of the things I see people building. For example, it could add a lot more capabilities to a ChromeBook.
So cool thanks!
I'm trying to state this is a way that would just get massively downvoted.

It doesn't feel to me like internet access works the same as other utilities. The need for water per individual hasn't changed much in 80 years? 100years? more? The need for electricity has gone up a little since say 1940. Natural gas, and other utilities. Maybe even streets also seem relatively static?

But internet? So NYC installs gigi wifi today. In 10 years Korea and Japan and Singapore and China will have tera-wifi or peta-wifi and NYC would likely have nothing. Getting public tech services upgraded at or near the speed that tech accelerates seems highly unlikely. Having public wifi would seem like it would remove a huge incentive for anyone to come in and offer better faster service because competing with free will be hard for a very very long time.

Am I wrong?

Also, please don't devolve this into ISPs suck in America. I fully agree with that statement. I'm just not sure public wifi is the answer.

For example in Japan it was competition that got internet faster in general. Specifically Yahoo/Softbank Japan kept undercutting the competition with faster and cheaper internet and all the other ISPs were forced to respond. That doesn't seem to happen in the USA because of poor regulations (local government approved monopolies)

I'm just curious if public wifi is really the correct solution or if it's actually going to end up much worse in the long run.
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ps. Above is just the product of my idle musings. One thing that is very interesting and related and certainly worth mentioning is one of the elements of Jared Diamonds framework for societal collapse: Decision makers being insulated from the negative consequences of their decisions.
They don't care. The bottom dollar is all they care about. Even new single family custom construction will be built like crap if you don't ride them hard and pay premium prices.

The only quiet low/mid rise buildings built now are the precast concrete building (think Hampton inn). They only get built that way because of the building codes.
>Because they don't want patent trolls extorting them.

Both they and patent trolls can file bogus patents covering the same ideas. The system is that bad. The patent office just grants and assumes the courts will sort it all out.

Having patents is zero defense against trolls. Trolls make nothing and have nothing to cross license or lose. It is only a defense against another company that is patenting and making things in you industry.
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This is what regulation is for. It would never work just by asking them.
I'm guessing "ordinary paper process that we've been doing since 1750 but in teh blockchainz!"
Pretty impressive UI/UX. If that's possible using "web technologies" (JS + HTML + CSS, I gather), shouldn't it be possible to create such things on mobile? All the mobile-optimized web stuff I see still feels sub-optimal.
The demo domain is cool too : 0o.no
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Excellent question. Here's my chemistry cred: I'm married to a chemist, related to a couple more, and have worked in an area related to analytical chemistry, though I got my degree in physics, 2+ decades ago.

So here are some generalizations.

While in school, I noticed that the physics students were far more interested than the chemistry students, in math and computer stuff. Maybe we were computer science wannabees, or maybe we guessed (correctly in my case) that proficiency with computers would make us more employable. This was true in both undergrad and grad school.

And there's a long tradition of physicists stealing ideas from math and computation for solving physics problems. When I was in school, computation was considered to be a specialized branch of chemistry, but was at the forefront of physics.

Another difference is that the physics students were generally more interested in making our own tools. The current "maker" and "hacker" trends are old hat for small-lab experimental physicists.

Chemistry has always been a bigger field than physics, which I suspect has attracted more interest in making commercial equipment and software. I've noticed in an industrial setting, that managers are often looking for closed solutions that can't be modified by the user, either for regulatory reasons or adversarial labor-management attitudes. The industry wants your boss to think that letting you make your own tools is either dangerous, or a waste of your time.

In contrast, even in industry, physicists still have to make our own tools. And management already knows that we're freaks. ;-)

So the absence of FOSS tools for chemistry doesn't shock me.
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That's the modern day equivalent of "I was just following orders".
What about the political implications of AGI? This concerns me most.

We need to carefully consider who exactly controls such a powerful tool and what they use it for. Right now AGI is capital-intensive and risky: you need large-scale computing, top PhDs, and plenty of time. This means that only the most well-heeled organizations can justify earnest AGI development: big tech, government agencies, etc. Those orgs already have plenty of political power, and it seems to me that achieving AGI (or steps toward it) would amplify that power. Perhaps to the point of being unchallengeable.

Do we want a political landscape where power is even more concentrated than now?
I noticed that too.

Also, they didn't do a side-by-side comparison of building affordable units and not. How much does the profit change?

It's important to remember that just because you turn a profit on an investment, doesn't mean you should make it. You need to look at what else you could invest in.

If constructing a building in SF with affordable units turns a profit of 10%, but constructing the same thing without affordable units in, I don't know, Houston, gives you 20%, where do you think the investments will flow?
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> All the mobile-optimized web stuff I see still feels sub-optimal.

That's probably because all of the mobile browsers are terribly inefficient when compared to desktop browsers. It makes creating a mobile experience that's fluid and fast.
wow this is pretty awesome
You mean, build houses where people want to live and where the jobs are?

I am pretty sure you only have to build enough houses for three hundred million people.
As someone who has done no Android development, could you elaborate?
HN really freaks me out sometimes!
Looks cool! Certainly fits the "why not" category of why it exists though I can't figure out a way to make it useable; without a proper window manager (which can't be done inside of a web browser) using apps inside of the window becomes more difficult than simply having a tab for each app. In fact if every app opened up full screen and into a new tab that could almost be handy depending on the extension API, etc.
> Man, the Tasmanian devils just can't get a break.

Neither can the guy in that Wikipedia article you linked to. He had HIV, then got a tapeworm, which gave him cancer.

> Only one known instance of cross-species cancer transmission is known, that of a 41-year-old man in Colombia with a compromised immune system due to HIV. The man's tumor cells were shown to have originated from the dwarf tapeworm, Hymenolepis nana, making this a case of parasite-to-host cancer transmission.
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Its almost as if the patent office should be disbanded entirely. The courts will sort it all out.
Cute, but I'd be concerned that automated unsolicited faxes are not necessarily something that people want to receive.
> I've noticed in an industrial setting, that managers are often looking for closed solutions that can't be modified by the user, either for regulatory reasons or adversarial labor-management attitudes. The industry wants your boss to think that letting you make your own tools is either dangerous, or a waste of your time.

It's interesting to consider in this context that workers owning the means of production is what links the GPL with Marxism.
Don't worry, it's being worked on: webkit.js [0]. Give it some time :D.

[0] http://trevorlinton.github.io/