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> My question is where are the inventors that want a patent system of any sort?

I spent the early part of my career at a startup working on cognitive radio technology. Basically, algorithms to allow radios to use spectrum opportunistically, and to allow networks of such radios to maintain connectivity while dynamically changing radio channels.

Like everyone else in that field, our company patented its inventions. It's expensive paying roomfuls of PhDs to work on network algorithms. At the same time, cognitive radios are not a consumer product you can launch overnight to a billion people. It's not a market where first-mover advantage or network effects have any value. It's not a market where you can hide your "secret sauce" behind a web API. In fact, you usually have to deliver source to your customers. It takes years to get into the market, and competitors waiting for you to do all the work and reverse engineering your design would eliminate any possible return on investment.

Moreover, as a startup we had no expertise in manufacturing radios. Nor did it make any sense for us to get into that business--there are tons of companies that have the manufacturing expertise to build those radios. We could never compete with them on that front. The idea was always to develop the technology, then sell it to someone whose expertise was building radios.
> Jack: I'm Jack, Sam's brother, and we are here in our backyard, where we also live with our other brother.

Wait do all three of you live together in one house in your 30s? That's awesome!

EDIT: Just to be clear, this comment is in no way intended to be sarcastic! I really think it's amazing for three brothers to live together in their 30s. The notion that each has to go their separate way after one turns 18/21/25 is bullshit. Life is more fun together and there's inherent economies of scale as well (both financial and social).
I have a Brother HL2270DW printer, does duplexing and wireless, looks nice, doesn't take up much space. Got it on sale at NewEgg for less than $100. Replaced the toner cartridge once with a third-party brand. It's been great.

I use Debian and Ubuntu, and the driver has mostly worked very well.

However, there have been a few times when, after upgrading Ubuntu, which upgrades CUPS, some very obscure thing in the driver was incompatible with something else in the chain of commands used to print a job (ghostscript, etc--there's quite a pipeline), and suddenly the duplexing would print an extra, blank page between pages, and every page was offset by about an inch to the side. I was able to find a bug report on Launchpad and manually edit one of the driver files myself to work around it, but it took several hours of fiddling, and it's nothing any "average user" would be able to do.

And, sadly, Brother hasn't released updated drivers for this printer in many years; they don't seem to care about keeping up with newer versions of Ubuntu or CUPS, etc.--at least, not for this printer.

And I haven't been able to get it to print on envelopes correctly, no matter what I tried. It just prints as if it's printing on a normal sheet of paper.

So, anyway, whenever it needs replacing, I will probably try to get a printer that just does plain old PostScript. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that if a printer correctly handles PS, then basically anything can print to it correctly, without having to worry about arcane, manufacturer-specific drivers.
Getting back is actually much easier, and we won't send anyone until there's a return ship ready for them on the ground.

Mars escape velocity is ~5 km/s compared to 11 km/s for Earth, so right off the bat it takes half as much delta-v to get off Mars. The numbers get even more attractive when you consider that Mars's atmosphere is so thin you can use vacuum-optimized engines on the surface.

It's a near-certainty that the second stage of ITS will be able to launch fully fueled from the Martian surface and return to Earth orbit, and possibly Earth's surface, without any refueling on the way.
You can do this on Android. At least I can, as a Google music subscriber (so I have YouTube Red). I just tested it with a random video.
There is nothing for him to apologize for. But our masters at Gizmodo apparently require their pound of flesh.
Your comment is so simplistic and inaccurate. It's not lowballing and undercutting employees to pay $41.6k to lower level people for 40 hours of work. Especially when you layer on good benefits like we do that aren't accounted for in the salary requirement. We do 3% of salary automatic contribution to 401k each year, allow employees to work from home, good healthcare and vacation/discretionary, etc.

Other states don't have these rules and competition in many industries is across states or globally.
I guess you have little experience with embedded bring-up, "without any power management features" is a fairly whopping qualifier, and quoting battery capacity is a far more useful indicator for a prerelease device.

I've been on projects where the dev builds would last 30 minutes on battery right up to days before initial factory run
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Some of the recent proposed international trade treaties would forbid governments from requiring companies to supply source code for their software, if I recall correctly.
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"Make bank from both sides"

Can you point me to the part of the HackerRank website where they ask people (not businesses) to pay them money?
> I don't think adding a button or two is some fundamental change

Neither do I, but the change here isn't "adding a button or two".
No don't expect that, if Clinton wins there won't be a United States left by then! :)
Same affect achieved with social media. But instead of coercing us with barbed wire and machine gun nests... they watch us drug ourselves with dopamine-jerking apps that let us feel "connected" to people we aren't really all that connected to... and ah, that tingly feeling every time someone likes a photo we've shared, or a comment we made. Or "swipes right" on us.

And the beauty is that these days, the guardians of State Security don't even have to do anything for all that metadata, all these photos, likes and heartfelt confessions of lust and ardour to be neatly digitized... they just have to sit back and (carefully) suck it all up.

Except this time around their "cabinets" are about 850 million times bigger:

http://apps.opendatacity.de/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html
Notice the progression of Red, Green, and Blue Mars at the end.
Alternatively, those are orthogonal problems, and we can pursue improvements and achievements in both.
Well, I know a few people with damaged joints. Weight loss helps but does not fix the problem. The main thing is if your joint are damaged due to overload and not some other issue, surgery may be less effective or only temporarily effective.

The joints can and do regenerate except from chronic problems. Unfortunately, obesity is one, just losing weight does not fix joints as quite a few long time former weight lifters can attest.
Here is my take on what RDF is

http://ontology2.com/the-book/rdf-a-new-slant.html

JSON-LD and SPARQL are fine, OWL as an inference system has some good ideas (implementable by macros on top of production rules) but it is not adequate to do what people need for data integration (multiply, divide, add, subtract for one thing.)
Very nice, thanks for the feedback. To give it a bit more context.

The reason I'm not sharing the url is because the code is somewhat outdated and may be insecure. In my spare time I'm working on a new version which matches some of the recent security 'standards'. The website started as a project just for learning how to develop a basic website with interaction between users. So about seven years ago I tried becoming new instance of \Zuckerberg. I started chatting the website all over de chat-places. I added a twitter account, following (by hand :)) all those singles and lonely people out there hoping they follow back. Greeting them every day and helping other twitter addicts keeping their following list clean with new tools also presented within a backoffice on the same website.

My situation only allows me to work just a couple of hours a week on a side project. The reason I'm looking for some new ideas to monetize the project a bit more is because I want to buy a new house, like within a year or so. Just need a 100K in euros additionally to buy a nice place to give my son the full experience of life as much as possible in the way me and my wife dream about it. I can't just switch jobs, because the company I work for did alot for me. And I am a v
ery loyal person when it comes to people/businesses helping me out with stuff.

Now, for the chat service, its more like a lonely-chat-service. About 100 visitors a day, saying "Hi, is there anyone around here?" or something like that. Then, the silence is killing them at which point they probably start clicking thos
e ads :) So as I removed the usefull stuff from the website, people started clicking more on ads, to just get away.

When I read the feedback, I think I should just add some sort of feedback button or create a popup with a textarea in which they can add their dream they expected to get in by entering the website. And then start building them those dream
s, for just a penny a day.
There's also Blackberry QNX and Windows mobile.
Perhaps non-enterprise does not have widely deployed support for Hyper-V, for example VT-x/AMD-V support & BIOS enablement.
In my experience, the question of who the contributors are and how much they may contribute is less important than the question of who has control of the project.

If you're claiming that Google has delegated authority over Kubernetes to the open-source community, and therefore is not in a position to place its needs over those of the community, please say so explicitly here.

Why quibble over statistics when we can get an official statement?
I've struck out on my own twice now. I worked my butt off both times, and made no money either time. The first time, I burnt out after my business partner left, and the second time, we tried to make/sell a video plagiarism detection service.

These excursions did not just cost me the income I would have received from a corporation, but they also decimated my savings. I have friends who are my age who have worked at corporations consistently, and they have about 10x the savings I have now. Two of them are retired (just over 40 years old).

I don't regret my excursions, because I hated many aspects of the corporate life, and I am the kind of person who has to see for myself. But I won't be striking out on my own again. Money, like software, is hard to make reliably at scale. I would no more tell an engineer to strike out on their own in business, than I would tell an entrepreneur to start making an MMORPG.
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Agreed, but as you likely know they are directives to the entire executive apparatus that cause it to discover, and then pass, the legislation it needs (therefore it's inclusion next to NDAA).

They are similar in kind to the Executive Orders, for example the now infamous EO12333 that carved the legal space and interpretation within the US government to justify many information activities, including propaganda and it being the authority the NSA points to for many of its activities - including domestic and global surveillance.

Note the content of the aforementioned presidential directives declare authority to use Civil Affairs Information Support (military capabilities joined on civilian infrastructure) during moments of national emergancy - such as Hurricane Katrina but also used for civil unrest like Occupy Wall and Ferguson.
People are still filling in the seats. There's a reddit live thread that's gathering some of the tweets from people there.

https://www.reddit.com/live/xnrdv28vxfi2
When we were climbing down from the trees a million years ago, similar doubts were surely being raised as to the inhospitality of the ground environment. Not as educated doubts, of course.
Elon has been clear in the past that this is a fully reusable architecture. i.e. he needs his spaceship back! Bringing some passengers is (relatively!) trivial.
There's got to be something like that possible. If nothing else Newegg has been reaping some rewards from very publicly fighting these cases and gaining good will.

If the government can't put together competent reforms, maybe they could put up some money to reward people who get bad patents struck down? Hell, maybe some percentage of infringement winnings could be directed into a reward pool for patent strikedowns.

It'd decrease the overall value of patents, but I'm pretty ok with that.
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People should be able to solve FizzBuzz provided it is explained properly and fully.

This is the same for a lot of the basic algorithms we learnt and forgot.

This, to me is the big caveat. Just as there are a lot of people who are horrible at solving stuff they should easily be able to, I've conversely seen so many horrible interviewers that under-specify the problems they ask about because they assume people should understand algorithms that would make it easier to understand, or just assume people will infer things most people wouldn't.
I hate to break it to you, but when you make a payment online, the recipient learns your legal name, probably a billing address i.e. where you live, and you probably don't even think about it.

I do see a lot of double standards in these discussions. People never articulate who is specifically being hurt or what the specific problem is. Instead allusions to fascist governments are made, which would be fine, if these companies were governments. But they aren't: they have no power. If you're rightly scared about the combination of information and force, it's government surveillance that deserves the attention, not harmless chat apps.
You're right -- HackerRank does leave out those things. It's a filter, not a replacement for the entire interview process.

By having a filter, it allows a company to evaluate a lot more people and not rely entirely on the resume (which might not do a good job of representing your skills). Presumably, they are already doing these same style of coding+algorithm questions later on in the process, so this is just weeding out people who clearly wouldn't pass (and identifying people who would unexpectedly pass). Not a bad thing.

If a company is using it as total replacement for the hiring process then, yeah, that's broken. They won't be able to evaluate team work and a bunch of other things.
Google translate is quite good, and uses KNN. Does this beat KNN?
well it would be cool if i could tag a bunch of videos to be viewed offline in the app.
I have a music list on youtube and sometimes i have for example a political debate that is an hour long, it would be cool if i could just tap on it in youtube to make it offline viewable instead of going through the massive hassle of downloading it somehow, transferring it to the phone etc and then maybe i dont want to watch it anyway..
Thanks a lot for the explanation. I'll try out exponent and see how far I can go without resolving to native :)
Will driving your own car become the same publicly-scorned risk as smoking?
Estimated by whom?
It might make more sense to do just hourly. Fridays are way less productive anyway for people in California. 32 hours/week is plenty for many roles and a lot of people would love Friday off in Cali! However, for many that need/want 40 hrs or more - I think they'll end up finding less full-time opportunities or have to work for a staffing company as a result of these laws as companies have to contract with a company directly.

They're cracking down on hiring freelancers directly so businesses should ensure that their freelancers have a registered company (LLC) or be an "employee" at a staffing company.
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That's actually not a bad way to put it!

Think about it this way. What if there was an uninhabited island out in the Pacific that was hard to get to. What makes it worth trying to get to? There isn't anything any more special there than here. In fact from all we've seen so far it's much less special. Same goes for Mars.

What is the value in being "multi-planetary?" I mean the idea that this is a hedge against some existential threat to humanity is silly. Mars is more hostile to human life TODAY than earth would be after a massive ELE asteroid - and the likelihood of an ELE asteroid is actually higher for Mars as it does not have a stable barrier atmosphere as good as Earth's - meteorites are more frequent as a result.

So best case scenario is that we have a group of people who put 75% of their time into just surviving because there is no atmosphere or biome to support them. On top of that these people have the same biological makeup - including cognitive limits, biases etc...as the rest of us on earth so even if they sorted everything out, tribalism and the rest of our hardwired heuristics would just make them behave like the rest of us.

The better approach is to start engineering our faults out using data to make us better, more resilient processors of information and discovery. Improve humanity and everything is easier.
Watch the end of the video. I think he intends to terraform it.

Edit: looks like he's aiming for a city of 1m people in the short term, Terraforming in the long term.
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It does support raster tiles, using them in production here.
While there are many legitimate criticism of whiteboard-style coding interviews, I have yet to see a convincing alternative that scales well to the size of big companies. Google [1][2], Facebook et al. hire thousands of engineers per year, meaning they conduct at least 10-100k interviews per year. How do you design a process that is consistent, measurable and efficient at that scale?

[1] Google gets 2 million resumes a year https://www.fastcompany.com/3044606/hit-the-ground-running/g...

[2] Headcount increased from 57,148 to 66,575 between Q2 15 and Q2 16: https://abc.xyz/investor/
We're talking about WhatsApp here right? Which already uses strong encryption?
Independent review of source with published hash for binary or analysis of assembly to compare it to baseline. Many problems that due diligence avoids can be detected at ASM level. You'd know they were at least doing that.
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> I hate this "multiplanetary species" garbage.

It's one thing to offer a contrary view, but please don't fulminate. The more contrary a view is, i.e. the more it contradicts the audience's beliefs, the more important it is to present substantively. Otherwise (assuming you're correct) you do a disservice to the truth, in addition to igniting the obvious flamewar and making this site worse.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12591757 and marked it off-topic.
I would guess he's pretty busy actually running his companies, hence the delays for the PR events.
Why not the oceans? Much easier to populate than Mars.
>>The earth isn't the problem

It is. If you are yet not convinced, you might want to take a look at how many species go extinct every day.

There are a many threats to human existence beyond human behavior and preparing for them is a good move forward.
I'm not a fan of material design, but your implementation of it is more subtle and better than the original IMO. Also, your site is beautiful.
Facebook for work is about to launch
>computers and internet access also costs money, so does this mean that the introduction of these technologies presents an ethical problem, because the poorer part of the population may not be able to afford it, thus increasing inequality?

some folks argue yes, that internet access should be a basic human right.
This is great, good to know the options are there, can't wait to try it out!
No doubt inspired by bottom line and SIGINT concerns. In that case, it can be voluntary as a differentiator.
"In addition to releasing this research paper today, we are announcing the launch of GNMT in production on a notoriously difficult language pair: Chinese to English.... we will be working to roll out GNMT to many more of these over the coming months."

interesting news for all the translation startups... like yc's unbabel.
As I said, the money is there, being wasted every day, it's just a matter of people caring more about something they can actually change, rather than (for example again) fighting an expensive and losing war on drugs.
I'm sure learning to sustainably live on a hostile planet will result in technology we can also use at home. And vice versa -- pushing for sustainability at home will lead to technologies we can use elsewhere.
27 minutes late, this is Old West vs. Matrix vs. Batman style symphony right here
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He's right, but those are not "choices". Few people I know choose to be fat consciously. As opposed to drug users and smokers.

This kind of language is part of the problem, shifting blame onto actual patients.
The first colonists will most likely not come back. Make no mistake, people are going to die in the first several runs. This will be one of the most dangerous endeavors mankind can attempt.

As far as war breaking out, we're not going to make it to Mars in our current state. I don't think Mars is viable until we enter a post scarcity world. I find it unlikely we can even attempt it if we're still in a money based economy.

I highly recommend The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's one of the most believable and well thought out sci-fi novel about what populating Mars would be like conceptually.
This is not a useful argument.

One could certainly stop stop Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Snapchat and so on. But you'd have to consider what the impact is; maybe you'll become more distant from friends and family. Maybe you'll miss out on events. These things are pretty important, for obvious reasons, and it's a shallow argument that everybody can simply walk away "instantly with no ill effects".

It's up to the individual to decide if the trade off is worth it. Clearly, for some, it is.
Cool thanks for checking.
I was polite but ended a phone interview recently when they wanted me to code in a Google Document.
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I can't imagine any human endeavor that lacks the potential to go wrong, but I also don't think that's a reason not to try anything, ever.
While this remains a paper rocket for now, its engine (which looks to be a pretty big deal in its own right) was test-fired for the first time yesterday:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/780275236922994688
you are right on. This is google-version of the facebook PR fiasco with free internet.

They will never sell youtube RED to that market. RED is only for the san francisco bubble, where everyone already pay $100 overall for streaming services (hulu, netflix, pandora, spotify, etc, etc).

But for those other markets, they actually still rely on eyeballs and ads. And on those markets, they have to open a few concessions to actually get the eyeballs.
28 minutes in, false start. Music giving way to hungry audience members grumbling about Elon Musk
I am sorry -- since Gayle's book of the same name is a product worth ~$30, I assumed there was a paywall at some point behind https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/tutorials/cracking-the-co... -- I guess I was wrong? It doesn't clearly say on the page that it was, and I don't want to sign up for their product.

A slightly weaker version of that argument is that having a vast base of signed-up users and data about their challenges is still making bank out of the efforts of individual users, but clearly not as bad as requiring you to pay for this tutorial.
Hey, Aida, how long does it usually take to hire senior scala dev in Seattle with your bot?
Please don't reply to trollish comments by making the thread even worse, and please don't make it personal.