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I come from Seattle, but haven't lived there for nearly two decades. For some reason, I seem to have spent the intervening time in desert-like climates (central California, the Middle East, northern China). The dampness of Seattle -- in particular the proliferation of moss and fern -- has become a symbol to me of life and health.

I remember once being in Wadi Rum, in Jordan, and amid the totally parched desert finding a deep crevice in a cliff, and way back in the heart of it there was a tiny, tiny trickle of dampness, and maybe a couple of square feet of moss and fern. Just the tiniest little patch, but delicate and absolutely beautiful.

And another time being in the Hoh Rain Forest, on the Olympic Peninsula near Seattle, and looking at a little rill of water that cut through the soil, edged with a profusion of overhanging ferns and mosses, the water completely crystal, and not a hint of death or corruption anywhere. Even the rot was full of life.

How lucky I am to come from a place where water really does mean life!

(And not like the Amazon, where there is water, and life, but much of it is the kind of life that can poison you or inject eggs under your skin or swim up your urethra.)
Thanks will check it out.
These are the same type of patent that came up during Apple v. Samsung, leading to the infamous bit about rounded corners.
As I said, MRAs are more active in other countries. I have no idea about USA but as far as I know MRA is very small and very unorganized.

PS: I am shadow banned. Won't post again.
Please read the thing you're responding to. Microsoft isn't claiming patent over windows, icons, and mouse pointers.
> Indians also face the choice of torrenting a movie or paying to see a possibly censored version of the same film. Paying to see an uncensored version of say Game of Thrones is not possible.

this. i would rather torrent an uncensored version of a program than pay for censored version of the same thing
double-action-only should be the default

But then, as another response to you mentioned, it's hard to hit what you're aiming at.

What's your objection to "traditional double-action",[1] aka double-action/single-action? At least that way, it's easier to control subsequent shots, while still requiring double-action for the first shot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_%28firearms%29#Double-...
You can do that through the regular AWS cli tools with "aws s3 cp..." or with external tools like s3cmd which is a third party s3 cli client.
when its a near identical clone, with corel outlining it as a selling point, Microsoft has fair game.

the lawsuit isnt about an "inspired" UI.

i think regardless of the patents, MS still has a lawsuit.
i dont think they should be entitled to profits really, but if they win Corel should remove the word mode.
FxStabilizer very accurately calculates the best situation to open trades
Pinyin with tone marks is a perfectly phonemic orthography (at least as to standard Mandarin). That's a completely unrelated idea. Nobody who doesn't know Chinese will be able to pronounce Chinese names because (1) they don't know how to read them, and (2) the sounds of the language are different.

Spanish also has a perfectly representative orthography, but you should see what's happened to Spanish place names in the US.

(I originally wrote that Spanish also had a "perfectly phonemic orthography". That's not true; some sounds may be represented in more than one written form. But the written form of a Spanish word gives sufficient information to pronounce it.)
Presumably http://www.brunswickbowling.com/products/sync/
AFAIK, in the above, the bit about experimental open-source drivers for mainline Linux is the latest news update.

Note that this last bit proprietary blob is only the low-level GPU driver. Linux device-drivers of the other controllers of the Tegra X1 SoC already appear to be available in source form at https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tegra/linux.git...
(search for 'Tegra X1' or 'T210' or 'Tegra 210').

Also https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/linux-tegra contains source-code(with supporting documentation) for the non-kernel parts like for boot-loader(u-boot), OpenCV, OpenGL, X11, Gstreamer and even CUDA on Tegra X1.
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Patents are (supposedly) a power granted to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" and it's rather hard to see how patents over mere ornamentation can further that goal, even in principle.
I had though the suit was stupid but I had a look at the Corel Office pics on Amazon and they do look kind of like a near identical copy:

Corel Calculate for instance Corel Calculate https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/software...

( from http://www.amazon.com/Corel-Office-5-3-Installs/dp/B006N1Q0W... )

vs Excel https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Microsoft_Off...
You're confused on several points. First, Java VMs don't "generate bytecode": if they have JITs, they generate machine code. Otherwise, they just interpret bytecode. Second, you're confusing OpenJDK-the-set-of-libraries with Hotspot-the-VM. OpenJDK probably isn't a disaster for performance: not because it's good, but because Harmony was abysmal. (Count the allocations inside String.format.)

Switching from ART to Hotspot is not a clear win. ART does AOT compilation (at least some of the time), is integrated with the system runtime (doing a compacting GC pass on app switch, for example), and interacts properly with Android's zygote-based start scheme. (It doesn't, for example, COW away all the memory benefits as a naive fork would.)

Both ART and Hotspot have pretty good code generators and allocators. There's no reason to support that the latter would be a better choice, technically, than the former. Google seems to agree, since ART development is ongoing.

Please read more about VM implementation schemes instead of continuing to make unfounded assertions (like "Java is based on the idea of a JIT" and "virtual method calls are slow without a JIT").
Every single branch of the US government jealously guards its ability to keep secrets from the general population. Not holding the individual civil servants to account is a Republican and Democrat failure of the highest order.
Yep. This is basically the same problem we have with Alzheimer's - the people you need to treat are healthy people. The FDA just won’t let you test anything with any danger in healthy people. Since all new treatments inherently have risk it is basically impossible to give a new drug or treatment to healthy people.

Even giving something like metafomin [1] where we have decades of knowledge is in practice impossible to give to healthy people. No new treatment stands a chance.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metformin
It is very well known that the out of order execution engine of modern cpu cores has a very high power overhead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-order_execution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnell_%28microarchitecture%2...
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Well, I only aim to be 90% right.
If the price tags on a bunch of clothing are doubled, did the store create money out of thin air?
I doubt that. I don't try to memorize commands (even more so - manuals), so it's more like I'm reading manual over and over again, which takes more time than reading TLDR. I agree that it's important to understand what command is used for and what capabilities it has, but trying to remember all these flags by heart is waste of limited brain resources imho.
You're very welcome! It's much much more readable, thank you for caring, and thanks for the article again.
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"natural experiments" like this case of the apparent success of fractional reserve banking are not "laboratory tests". There are many other confounding variables that cannot be eliminated.

See this Econtalk podcast on the topic: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/12/noah_smith_on_w.htm...
It does: "Only Southwest Airlines, which distinguishes itself among major airlines by largely shunning fees, does not charge to switch flights."
Interesting link. One of the core ideas behind Windows' success back in the day (when almost every program implemented its own unique GUI system and they were very inconsistent) was that it provided reusable UI components and Microsoft said that all developers should use their standard design, GUI components, and keyboard shortcuts to provide consistent interfaces for Windows programs. Seems rather hostile that Microsoft would now be suing someone for doing exactly what they always told everyone to do (especially considering that other developers using their UIs is a significant part of what made Microsoft itself so successful).

I guess the fact that they made it available to anyone not directly competing with their office suite is something. But the whole "Do what I tell you to do!" "Ok, I will." "Now you're in trouble for doing that!" routine still seems obnoxious.
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> Where is the support for the citizens?

Why should citizens be treated differently when H1Bs pay the same income and other taxes as citizens? H1Bs even pay into social security, even though they are on a temporary visa.

Anyone who pays the same tax as citizens should be treated the same as citizens.
>There's a very simple, constant-time, objective, mechanical algorithm to determine whether to grant a patent: "return false".

There are several empirical studies that indicate this is wrong. Google and ye shall find.

> That would work better than the current algorithm, which closely approximates "return true"

This is objectively false if you look at publicly available data on rejection rates and understand how the process works.

> good ideas (and a fair many bad ones with good execution) will succeed whether granted an artificial monopoly or not.

Oh yes, they will succeed, but from past experience, not always will they reward the original inventors.

> But a granted patent can litigate good ideas to death.

How often has that happened? Note that if you want to mention examples like Watt or the Wright Brothers, those apocryphal accounts have been debunked.

> Many wildly successful companies are built on technologies that could easily be copied, and yet aren't.

And many dead companies were build on technologies that were too easily copied by bigger competitors.

> Apart from that, why do you believe an inventor should be able to invent once and profit for 20 years off the work of others...

Because a good idea is something that has value forever? Should an inventor not reap some rewards off that?

>... without continuing to invent and promote further good ideas?

Non-sequitur. What makes you think an inventor will not continue to invent?

> Keep inventing new ideas faster than they can be copied, so that the copy is always last year's technology.

This severely underestimates the speed at which technology can be reverse-engineered and duplicated.

> Copyright stops others from directly copying code.

Often the value is in the idea or the solution embodied in the code, not the code itself. Copyright does nothing to prevent that, even though it could be the idea which is hardest to create.

> Patents stop others from creating new software, even if not copied from the patent holder.

In practice, they don't. New software is being created at an unprecedented rate, even as software patents have been in effect for the past two decades.

I'd agree we need a much higher bar for patents, but suggesting we do away with patents entirely is being dismissive of the unpleasant realities of the world.
So Columbus didn't discover America too, because there were at least few civilizations living there already. All continents (except Antarctica) have their indigenous human population, but discovery is often used from the perspective of western civilization. It's only a matter of the point of view.
The Swiss hold referendums on most big issues, every year they have quite a few of them and this has been going on for about 150 years, direct democracy is quite big there as it seems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendums,_2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendums,_2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendums,_2013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendums,_2012

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swiss_federal_referend...
Be VERY CAREFUL cutting carbon fiber on a router. You do not want that stuff in your lungs, eyes or electronics.
And this will also help in lowering the price.
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Because OS companies like Microsoft and Apple set standards for how applications built for their OS should look-and-feel, and tell developers to make them consistent?
Higher education is starting to feel very hackable.

Cost is substantially increasing.

Benefit is stagnating or decreasing.

Cost of substitutes is exponentially decreasing.

It's ripe for disruption, hence my fascination.
Which was also an equally inaccurate depiction of the patents in question.
Pretty sure IBM and AMD are both partnering with Xilinx, they're not going anywhere any time soon. (Plus they also have more enterprise contracts than Altera does.)
I personally make the better part of my living off being able to do custom D3 visualizations with some degree of speed and flexibility, so thank you Mike for your continued contributions and making it free for the rest of us. I'm seriously looking forward to D3v4 ;)
1: Volunteering to get bumped without a contingency plan during the holiday rush? Not a great idea.

2: Never volunteer to be bumped. Take the involuntary denied boarding credit and you could probably find and pay for a flight on another airline. Your voucher is worthless in these rush situations.

http://lifehacker.com/if-your-flight-is-overbooked-dont-volu...
Several universities are modeling Harvard's secret startup leadership program. Some of the alumni include Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Reed had a similar program.

I'm a little worried that these programs don't teach or focus enough on the fundamentals of electrical engineering and computer science. Nobody is going to create something useful or quality without understanding the fundamentals first. Mark Zuckerberg had a tutor teaching him the fundamentals while he was in high school.
I'd say UI design is an "useful Art". If somebody is forced to come up with their own designs rather than ripping somebody else's off, is that not progress? If there is no conceivable alternative way of doing a design (which I find extremely improbable) the solution is well-known: license it.
Oh, yeah, it replaces that cumbersome

.then(() => doSome(thing))
with bare
doSome(thing)

and

.catch(err => doOtherThing(err))
with
catch (err) {doOtherThing(err)}

A breakthrough indeed!

I just don't see how's that fundamentally different and why one should have synchronous-like semantics for async operations.

Moreover I do a lot of RxJS and like stuff and it's perfectly normal for me to have async computations steps wrapped in functions. Luckily no one tried to "improve" JS syntax specifically for RxJS.

So I totally get async/await syntax and semantics but it forces me to switch mental context for no good reason and thus is useless and disconcerting.

And it's ridiculous to see this minor "feature" as a reason to switch from CLJS to ES6/ES7
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Did you think for a second about what's the background for the patent and the lawsuite?

Sigh, haters gonna hate.
> Most people aren't bankers, and don't really understand how it works as a system, beyond their own account, so it's weird to ask them to make key decisions here.

That's a strange principle to hold, especially if it wouldn't apply to any other asset. People are generally free to own securities no matter how complicated their structure. But the fiat system seems to conveniently siphon lending power from account holders to account managers -- effectively centralizing economic planning to financial institutions by fiat.

Saying "central banking is good" is like saying "government is good". It definitely can be, but it can also be murderously oppressive. The question is, how did this economic decision maker come to be -- and why are they in control of your money instead of you.
If you can show that those UI controls looked exactly like the designs in these patents, you may have found invalidating prior art.
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Men avoid going to college because date rape seminars tell them (and everyone else) not to rape their classmates.

Just like drinkers avoid going to college because alcohol safety seminars tell them (and everyone else) not to get alcohol poisoning.

Men also avoid college because (certainly non-required) gender studies courses speak frankly about the long history of gender-based violence.

This is also why German-Americans avoid college in fear of learning about Nazi atrocities in a history class.

Ridiculous.

Men perform worse, on paper, in high school. Men disproportionately work in trades/vocations. Women seem to perform disproportionately well in the largest programs that exist (things like social studies, literature, education, nursing etc).

All of these are much more interesting, likely, and actionable hypotheses than "people don't go to college because they're afraid of a seminar that they don't even know they need to watch until 2 days before it happens." Are you kidding?
I've been using Photoshop since it's release. I use it daily and I have to be honest and say that I don't recall sliders looking like that, ever. Can you provide an illustration?
I'm not American but I went on Amazon and there seem to be loads of cheap hearing aids from about $25 eg http://www.amazon.com/Walkers-Game-Ear-Ultra-Pair/dp/B001FT3...

Which implies the FDA doesn't ban them. If the quality of $25 aids is not good that's another issue.
I'll make you and offer: we'll trade stories. I'd love to hear your stories of usenet back in '92. You go first.
I found flights to Singapore on flychecker at € 567
I know Gutenberg was thinking about click-through sales when he was working on his printing press.

Marketers took a good idea, and poisoned it to influence people for the purpose of selling them a product. Just like every technology they touch.

More marketers should take Bill Hicks' timeless advice to them.
"Cable and satellite TV subscriptions cost just $2 or $3 a month, which makes paying even 50 cents for a movie seem expensive."

While that might be true in Tier-2 cities, the cost of a cable/satellite connection in Bangalore is of the order of Rs.450+, which is about $7/month.

I'd gladly give that up for a service like Netflix which charges $8-$10/month.
This is a Design patent not a Utility patent.
In fact, RefCell can't even be shared between threads, it _has_ to be used in a single threaded context.

RefCell and the "no mutable aliasing" isn't something to be "worked around", it's something to embrace, because safety and many other things come from it.
I was thinking the same thing too. I have always had a much easier time working with the Xilinx/Mentor workflows, and I would love to see the competition in that space. But then I remembered the last time I tried to download my copy of Intel C++; over an hour lost in a maze of broken links, ending with having to open three different support cases, and I stopped holding my breath.
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Not really an agency but we (ISP/MSP) host sites (on FreeBSD) for many of our customers. Some of them we also design/develop and some sites are "managed" by the customers themselves (mostly these are just WordPress sites).

Sites that are 100% static content co-exist in a single jail but, other than that, it's one jail per customer (whether they have one or multiple sites). We would separate multiple sites belonging to the same customer into multiple jails if there was a good reason to, though.

Another jail runs nginx as a reverse proxy in front of the jails.

The big concern for me was the compromise of one site affecting other, unrelated customers. That's why we've separated them like this.
What are the pros and cons of using this vs Relay?
I train my replacements, much like every Sith should.
I don't really understand how this isn't a proposal to effectively end lending.

If banks are required to hold 100% reserves against their deposits, where exactly are they supposed to get money for lending?

The article says "they’ll only be able to lend money that they have from savers or other banks" but that seems inconsistent with the 100% reserve requirement. If I'm required to hold on to 100% of deposits, I can't lend them out.
They could also be auto completed, it's not that hard, but it would be slow unless you cache it to some degree.
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Thasos Group / Senior Quantitative Researcher / NYC Based / Full Time onsite

What:
Want to help redefine macro-economic forecasting for the 21st century? It ends up location data is a pretty good indicator of economic activity. We source and combine billions of geolocation events daily from mobile devices world-wide. By measuring real-time, aggregate human mobility, we estimate changing fundamentals for companies, industries, and key macroeconomic indicators. The team is world class and founders include Greg Skibiski, Founder of Sense Networks, and Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Head of Human Dynamics Research at MIT. We don't have any institutional VCs and we're excited to own our destiny. The business is growing and we need more curious and capable minds!

The role:
* Build efficient, scalable models to extract real-time economic insights from novel, large-scale data.
* Enhance and develop techniques for normalization, noise reduction, and error identification and correction across many disparate data sources with years of historical data.
* Work with portfolio managers to assess financial applications for signals, which may include asset selection, investment timing, and risk control.

Requirements:
* Masters degree or PhD in a quantitative field.
* 3+ years experience in fields related to financial markets.
* 5+ years experience in writing code for data analysis (Python experience is preferred) and applying advanced methods from statistics, machine learning, or related fields.
* Self-starter with a demonstrated ability to devise and build end-to-end solutions with minimal oversight.

For more information, please send cv/LinkedIn, GitHub etc... to careers@thasosgroup.com
My general experience with the GRE is that it skewed heavily towards multivariable calculus, since it's the one 'advanced' topic that you can pretty well guarantee that all undergraduate math students will have encountered. Upper level courses already diverge into analysis, groups, combinatorics, and more, so you can't really make a standardized test heavy on group theory, for example. So get damned sharp on your multivariable calc and you'll be good to go....

As for the bigger life direction question, I have no idea without further context.
Somewhat fittingly, the Slideshare link ends in a redirect loop (at least for me, right now).
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As josaka points out, this may be in retaliation to Corel's patent lawsuit:

http://www.law360.com/articles/684098/microsoft-word-copy-pa...

All the patents in this lawsuit, of which the EFF picked just the one in TFA:

8,255,828 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US8255828

7,703,036 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US7703036

7,047,501 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US7047501

5,715,415 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US5715415

5,510,980 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US5510980

D550,237 - https://patents.google.com/patent/USD550237

D554,140 - https://patents.google.com/patent/USD554140

D564,532 - https://patents.google.com/patent/USD564532

D570,865 - https://patents.google.com/patent/USD570865

The ones beginning with "D" are the design patents. The rest are utility patents.