skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without treble damages, there's no incentive to license a patent. Worst case is paying roughly the same fee it takes to license.

The trouble with requiring "willfulness" is that it requires proving the state of mind of the infringer. This is difficult, and it's not even clear what "state of mind" means for a corporation. See in re Segate, where the CAFC tried to define "willful infringment" with an objective test.[1]

A stronger remedy than triple damages exists in patent law - an injunction against infringement. Some years ago, Polaroid won an injunction against Kodak for infringing their instant photography patents. Kodak was given 30 days to exit the instant photography business and had to buy all their cameras for that process back from consumers. They did, and that was the end of Kodak's instant photography business. The injunction remedy still exists, but is no longer routinely available since eBay vs. MercExchange. in 2006.[2]

Without patents, there's little incentive to innovate unless you can throw enough money at a startup to get dominant market share before someone else copies you. VCs used to want to see a strong intellectual property position before putting in money; then they had some assurance of not losing their investment even if the technology works. This has been less of an issue for non-technology startups; Doordash, etc. are not technology companies.

The case to which this brief is attached is not about software. It's about a new way to attach transformers to printed circuit boards with surface-mount soldering. Halo, a small startup, developed a way to do this which solved a problem with the solder joints cracking during heating. Pulse, a much bigger company whose transformers tended to crack loose after soldering, copied this and refused to pay royalties. Halo has won the infringement issue; the only remaining question is how much Pulse has to pay them.

[1] http://www.law360.com/articles/102863/seagate-the-issue-of-w...
[2] http://www.bna.com/supreme-courts-ebay-n17179924841/
I have a pair of sunglasses that blocks light below 490nm. Even with flux in the "Candle" setting I notice a small difference, so there is definitely some blue leaking.
That's a pretty good comparison. In both cases you are adding warmth to a source one via software and the other via an amp.
If you're using Ubuntu, it's this package:

sudo apt-get install iwyu

I agree the name isn't clear; I also wasted time downloading and compiling stuff until I realized it was in apt after all.

On my VS 2015, in C#, the IDE grays out unused includes, so Microsoft has at least ~something. I'm hoping these tool are just a first step towards mostly automatic #include management.
like the GP, I was also disappointed not to have links to the original syllabi if it's available online.

For subjects like Human Anatomy, the list of potential books is very limited, but I'm more interested in how the course is structured. Which anatomical structures or body regions are highlighted or covered, whether the syllabi uses systems or regional approach etc.
> Spanish prosecutors say that Mr. Moreira opened at least three bank accounts in Spain that received transfers of almost 200,000 euros, or $217,000, from two Mexican companies. Along with records of the transfers, the evidence against Mr. Moreira includes police wiretaps, according to court documents.

No,he is not going to prison because his corruption in Mexico. He has been arrested for breaking the Spanish law in Spain
The server code in the example allocates a new buffer inside the server loop at every iteration. Is this intended?
How to deliver a TED-like talk
Or The Cancer Imaging Archive: http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/

Though I'm not sure how much of it can be accessed without an account.
Maybe if you disable inlining and beat your coworkers up when they add more code to a function. Where I live functions with several hundred lines are still common.
> For line inputs, as they're usually AC-coupled

Headphone amplifiers often have DC-coupled 10k potentiometer from input to ground with washer feeding a DC- or AC-coupled gain stage. So much for AC/DC detection.

I think impedance measurement is used in practice. I can hear a quiet beep when I connect headphones to one of my laptops, for example.
Not sure what your point is. About 60% of the federal budget is Social Security and Medicare. Besides defense (a large chunk of which is VA and pensions), the other big ticket item is SSDI which lso goes to the older at a very high rate. So it seems like the majority of federal dollars do, in fact, go to the elderly.
> While hot water may cause shrinkage in wool garments, for cotton and polyester t-shirts, the washer settings don't make a big difference.

This is also more or less true of wool, in fact. It's not the hot water that shrinks a wool sweater, it's getting it damp and agitating it. The hotter it is while agitating, the faster it will shrink; being fully wet (as opposed to damp) mitigates the felting process somewhat. It appears that cotton is the same way (although its shrinkage is less extreme and less permanent than shrinking a wool sweater!). You can certainly get a wool sweater wet with hot water without shrinking it at all. If you're careful, you can wash it in hot water and agitate it to wash it properly, as long as you don't overdo it, without shrinking it. With some treated wools you can tumble dry on no heat, although I wouldn't recommend it; but under no circumstances should you wash a wool garment (in whatever heat of water) and then put it in a dryer with any heat at all. That will shrink it.

I knit, so I have extra awareness of how many people just don't know what to do with wool these days, and I have to educate them if I want to give them something I made. :)
The lack of control of the formatting is frustrating. For example, it seems very obvious to me to put my name and title on separate lines, as opposed to just concatenating them and having it wrap.

Also, having the images uploaded hosted on your AWS account is basically a non-starter. Casual users probably won't notice this, but it's kind of a bad idea to have your email signature logo rely on some service that might disappear tomorrow. Offer an option to pay now to make the whole thing self-contained by converting the image src to a data: url.
Having the city on there is maybe more readable in many ways. The other thing that sets this apart from what3words is that what3words won't give out their word list as far as I can tell. This could be because they have taken $5 million in funding.
Show HN: Synced edits in contenteditable divs experiment source
No, I mention: Here is a stupid server at the beginning, but let no stone be unturned...
This reminds me of the old concept of "tab damage"[1] on usenet/mailing lists. People used to leave little "devices" in their signatures that based on this that would point to the number of times a message had been forwarded or quoted, because client software would typically indent the quoted message.

[1] http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/#tabdamage
Thanks. I had read that someplace else and went digging for the link and simply assumed that was it.
And mine: http://sampulator.com/tr_babb/blackwater
I'm really enjoying this. Great set of default samples, it seems to limit the paradox of choice.

I also can't resist sharing mine:

http://sampulator.com/skandermz/cruisin
No problem taking a clothesline indoors in case you can't or don't want to take the laundry outdoors: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_horse
As a non-scientist who's seen that quote tossed around in a few different places in the past couple days... Is there a non-awful way to read that? It sounds almost like a parody of a tone-deaf status-obsessed researcher; is there some kind of context that makes it ok?
You see no difference between sitting 0.5 meters away from a screen that's projecting its own light or sitting 15 meters away from a screen that has light projected onto it?
How does it infer the names of fields?
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How did you get samples from all the manufacturers, did you buy them all? In particular for the variance test (20 pieces per manufacturer).
At Analytical Flavor Systems[0], we have a ridiculous number of traditions... and as Founder/CEO, I have nearly no control over them!

A select subset of our traditions include:

- Daily: 24 hour goals (what did you accomplish in the last 24 hours? what do you plan to accomplish in the next 24 hours?) every morning as a standing meeting, with pour-over coffee (usually client, sometimes... almost clients). We always discuss our analysis of the coffee and the brewer/barista (which rotates through employees) after 24 hour goals.

- Daily: Highs and Lows. What was the best part of your day? What was the worst part of your day? (confusingly, we start with the low, and end on the high note).

- Monday: we have a modified version of the Rebeca Black Friday song... about how much we like to work/twerk on Mondays... This was created, died, and revived a number of ties has the team has grown and changed.

- Friday: Beverage Exchange: We don't hold official panel tastings on Friday's, out of respect for people who have lives outside of the office (this is totally theoretical) - so we exchange and share rare and interesting products we've collected. Considering the company is building AI for the beer, coffee, spirit, and wine industries... we have access to a lot of rare products to share and taste outside of official panel tastings!

- Hazing of new employees: It takes a long time to become an able barista (coffee tastings during 24 hour goals) or capable beer/wine taster. We're very upfront about how much new employees suck until they get it - experience and trust scores are read out, deviations in perceived quality due to brewing skill is listed, and missing variables that needed to be interpolated are explained (in excruciating detail).

Clearly all of these traditions won't continue as we move from 12 to ~40 employees over the next ~18 months... but the important thing is that we've set ourselves up with a strong culture that cares about our clients and cares about the same things our clients care about (these two topics are very different!)

The best piece of advice that I have for other founders: create the seeds for traditions to form, but allow the employees to decide which to water and cultivate - allow them to decide which traditions get proginated and carried forward from generation to generation. And if possible, record past traditions in your Phabricator[2] Wiki.

[1] www.Gastrograph.com
[2] http://phabricator.org/
Would you blame those that didn't vote in the one-candidate elections held in the Soviet Union? How bout the recent Venezuelan 'elections '?

Now ask yourself just how much more honest are the national elections in the US are these days?
What's that saying... "If voting mattered, they wouldn't let you do it."
BBC:  Forget CO2 – Here Is the Real Cause of Climate Change
I've been there :). If there's anything I can do to help, feel free to reach out!
Every time there is a thread about f.lux I get the feeling that I stepped into a cult meeting ;) Maybe it's different if you have trouble sleeping, but it seemed to be completely irrelevant to my sleep and I don't want my screen to look like cheap instagram filter.
Side note on fancy favicon stuff ... be sure to check out:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/contr...

You want your favicon asset on the same domain serving the page otherwise there is a bunch of CORS work.
GP is talking about the people, not the language. "Frank" and "French" are two English words that refer to the same-ish people living in the same-ish part of Western Europe. Saying that a particular Hindi word means "Frank" not "French" is a distinction that doesn't really make sense in context.
Also, a keyboard shortcut to delete/reset the current loop (if I made a mistake early on) would be cool, too.
The lack of an efficient IME for verbose math input on a computer certainly accounts for why math is still terse when done in real-time such as when extemporaneous lectures or when working something out. But I don't think it fully explains why the convention persists even in published works that took months or years to prepare; there's got to be a significant effect for the readers and not just the writers. If a longhand style of presentation were as clearly superior for mathematics as for software source code, one probably would have caught on by now.
> But the broader concern is, in fact, that by offering people a secure messenger, you're accepting some responsibility for securing traffic that can jeopardize lives if you're compromised. You have, I think, a moral responsibility to be as conservative as you possibly can be. When someone gets hurt because this system is flawed --- assuming you ever learn about it --- I think you're going to be surprised by where it happened. People with causes you've never even considered will use this thing in ways that, if you knew about, you'd say "fuck! stop! i like my application but i can't let you bet your life on it!".

I agree with you about web crypto, but I disagree with this point. A point that Roger Dingledine (of Tor fame) made a few years ago was that people who are going to say something which their government doesn't want them to say are going to say it anyway. If they can't communicate using the internet, they are willing to make protests in the streets, to shout and scream to try to improve their world. The job of people making cryptosystems to try to keep such activists safe is to minimise risk and do the best they can. You shouldn't think that you're responsible for what happens to those people, you're doing the best you can for them. But at the end of the day, they are willing to die for their goals and it is disrespectful to ignore that fact.

But yes, I agree that the service in question probably needs much more work. And it should probably say "this is still Alpha".
Tomcat could have a bug change under you as well. I don't see how its different. Maybe more stable? Boring?

Sure there is that, but nothing fundamental about Dokku is different-- its just newer.
The majority of boomers don't actually have much liquid wealth. Most of it is in the form of homes, which, I agree, will not be worth much at all.
تور کیش ویژه هفته دوم بهمن ماه(از ۱۰ بهمن)
it was a quick fix, the real fix has just been merged https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/pull/1625 and will be published with next release. Thanks for reporting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10961813
Without patents, there's little incentive to innovate unless you can throw enough money at a startup to get dominant market share before someone else copies you.

I don't believe this matches what we know of history. It also doesn't match personal experience -- I've worked on open source projects because they're fun, and on trying to grow better ETL tools because they make the rest of my job easier.

It probably does change who does the innovating, tho. Patents mean that instead of people innovating things to make their own lives easier, you get outsiders throwing money at trying to innovate around what they've guessed other people's problems to be.
> You should go read some philosophy of biology

I mean... I have. The thing is that the issue really is "biological determinism" for Mehta: it's even one of the most frequent bigrams in the piece, between "of science" and "Levins was".

But for Mehta, "biological determinism’s intellectual foundation [is] the reductionist fallacy that it is possible to detach genes from environment." If Mehta thinks that any of Levins's opponents agreed with that (or any working biologist, for that matter), then he's using the word "detach" in a very curious way without warning.

And again, the only example given would actually seem to imply that genes are more powerful than fundamental physical forces in their effect on phenotype, which doesn't sound to me like such a ringing endorsement of the role of environment.

If I'm this confused as a scientist with training in philosophy, I can only imagine how other readers are coping.
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I think we should push for Axolotl (the cryptosystem used by Signal, which is an improvement on OTR) support in Ricochet and get a Ricochet phone app.

Ricochet uses Tor hidden services to anonymise your social graph, which is something you don't do with Signal (not to mention that Signal does identity key lookups with phone numbers). I'm not sure there's a low-latency way to do VOIP anonymously. The best method I know of is to literally record and send audio files, which have a few seconds of latency.
I don't think you quite understand IBM's value proposition - IBM's business has always been about serving the late majority and laggards.
I believe this is a contradiction. How do you quantify subjectivity?
Also, the Raft consensus protocol was designed to power the LogCabin project which was designed to manage the configuration for RAMCloud.
Instructors teaching problem-solving techniques for which students have no intellectual need is at best wasting their time. I certainly do not feel like educators care about my education or me as a person when I am forced to learn something merely so that I can be tested on it, rather than because it is intellectually useful. Students are a great deal more perceptive of this than you might think.

At a fundamental level - if there is no intellectual need for a concept, how do you justify teaching it? You might say, "well, because the state or national standards test for it." But then why is it on those tests?
I think this paper summarises everything that is wrong with academia and why a lot of people have enough and are looking for ways out.

A second concern held by some is that a new class of research person will emerge — people who had nothing to do with the design and execution of the study but use another group’s data for their own ends, possibly stealing from the research productivity planned by the data gatherers, or even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited.

According to the authors, trying to reproduce results or possibly disproving them is worse then theft. That already says it all. Especially in medicine, where reproducibility is severely lacking and research fraud is certainly far from uncommon.

There is concern among some front-line researchers that the system will be taken over by what some researchers have characterized as “research parasites".

Wow, strong language here. Imagine everyone who used someone else's results to advance science would be called a research parasite. The authors have an extremely cynical view on science and are simply equating it to business and career.

To be honest, I am not surprised that this is coming out of NEJM or another medicine/molecular biology journal as this is a fairly common attitude once you rise in the academic ranks in those areas.
"Virtuous" was obviously shorthand for "working very, very hard and smart and" etc.
I use dokku, but instead of using buildpacks I just write Dockerfiles directly. That way you'd never experience a problem, really.
E was already known, and thus, taken into account.
Awesome. I've had just about enough of the bullshit captcha. Hopefully it's marketed as "make it easier for users from oppressed regimes connect to your website".
> Shame there are no open source alternatives for movies.

I'm not quite sure I understand what "an open source alternatives for movies" would be, but as for open distribution, there's at least:

http://vodo.net/

Unsurprisingly, their catalog is not as impressive as Netflix US. But there are at least a couple of titles that are worth (IMNHO) checking out:

http://vodo.net/joshbernhard/pioneerone/

http://vodo.net/vodo/stf/ (Steal This Film)

Then there are of course a few other projects, like:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1282316546/c-299792-km-...
As a new IDE user, I was very excited about the language-aware "rename" refactoring ability. But I realized that the variables I rename are mostly badly chosen names in IDE code-generated boilerplate, i.e. names of widgets inserted into forms. When I'm writing new code in vim I just choose good names to begin with, so it's a bit of a wash for me.

I hope there is room in my brain to stay good at vim despite using VS at work.
Full real-time collaboration would be so annoying with various latencies. Would be super difficult to set up, but I've always wanted a way to do something like that too.
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Great post. Couldn't have said it any better myself. Point 3 is essential, IMHO. Superforecasting by Phillip Tetlock & Dan Gardner [1] relates an excellent description of this process in the realm of human forecasting even though they don't phrase it as a Bayesian approach. Essentially they found that those best able to predict world events continuously honed their estimates using an iterative process updating what really could be described as the priors of the superforcasters.

It's an enlightening read as they describe some of the processes used to hone intuited estimates using an outward and inward looking processes. I'm going to have to look into what you mean by using intuition to judge independence. Any good sources on that?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting