skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've identified the key issue: "What patent policy is in the best interests of society?" In granting monopoly rights to inventors, we incentivize innovation and society gets the benefit of new and useful inventions that might not have otherwise occurred as soon. On the other hand, society pays a higher price than it would if anyone were allowed to copy those inventions and distribute the benefits in the most economically efficient way.

There are various safeguards in the law that make this trade more appealing to the public. Since the monopoly rights are so strong (there is no "fair use", for example), there is a high level of scrutiny before granting them. And there are high standards that must be met ("subject-matter eligibility", "novelty", "non-obviousness", "definiteness", "enablement"). And even after a patent is granted, it is contestable (but, litigation is expensive). The big safeguard is that patents are limited to a term of 20 years (in the U.S.) and after that the invention is dedicated to the public.

I am pretty sure that the 20 year term is non-ideal. For some types of inventions (e.g., those requiring only a small investment of time or money to innovate) society may be granting inventors too long of a term. For other types of inventions, the term may be too short (e.g., where an innovation required a huge amount of investment). As you pointed out, the effects on society are hard to calculate.

Because the rules are "one size fits all", I am pretty sure we don't have an ideal system. However, I don't know if adding more rules would make the system better or worse. At least interested parties can petition for changes either through the courts or through the legislatures.
A valid point, but it's ludicrous to report it as "FB found guilty".
Anybody interested in Andrew Wyeth (and general appreciation of illustration as art) should check out David Apatoff's blog - Illustration Art.

Blog - http://illustrationart.blogspot.in

His post on the passing of Andrew Wyeth - http://illustrationart.blogspot.in/2009/01/andrew-wyeth-abst...
You get mad because your assumptions about your own superiority get placed under doubt by reality and physics?

Now you're incorrectly assuming that the engineers' and programmers' assumptions about how I drive are correct, and they know better than me. Who are they and what do they know? Who am I and what do I know? What if I'm a professional driver or an engineer just like them, or both? You don't know either of the two parties, so how could you possibly judge this correctly? The answer is - you cannot. You are berating me for challenging what you perceive to be an authority, as if I hadn't studied physics and mechanical engineering and knew nothing about those subjects, and even go so far as to imply I'm incompetent and suffer from an illusory superiority complex based on Dunning-Kruger research.

Is this what we're coming down to nowadays, if someone says "I know what I'm doing, and I don't want someone else to tell me how to do it", they'll be sticker-slapped with a superiority complex? That's the society you want to live in? And that is okay?

Bottom line is: a car with an automatic transmission does not do what I want, how I want, when I want it, and does not drive the way I want and expect it to drive. It fails my requirements, whereas a manual transmission and a dry clutch don't try to meet my requirements or expectations - what I want, how I want it, and when I want it is solely up to me. If I mess up, that's on me as well. It's my problem, my responsibility, and that's great.

As far as I'm concerned, since driving is a very important part of my life and identity, dictating, through the use of transmission or shift points, for example, is attempting to dictate how I live. I, an individual, equate that with someone telling me what I must believe, and what I must accept, "because it's better for me", and this goes against what I believe is my basic right to self-determination. That is one of the reasons I reject the automatic. If I have no direct say in it, then at least I can indirectly vote with my wallet.

Must be hell of a way to live.

I deal with it.
Throw another delivery centre at it. They'll fix it.
At the risk of sounding callous this is why I carry a PLB with me (and you should too) when I go hiking.

Edit: just wanted to also mention you can rent PLBs (personal locator beacon).
>An astounding O(54% of global internet traffic) [2]!

Thanks for working this out. This matches with Musk's stated goals for the project from January 2015 ("the majority" of internet traffic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeZHyOnsm4&t=2m40s

>The focus is going to be on creating a global communications system. This is quite an ambitious effort. We're really talking about something which is... in the long term it will be like rebuilding the internet in space. The goal will be to have the majority of long distance internet traffic go over this network, and about 10% of local and business traffic. Probably 90% of people's local access will still come from fiber, but we'll do about 10% of business and consumer direct, and more than half I think of the long distance traffic.

>As you guys may know, the speed of light in a vacuum is somewhere between 40-50% faster than in fiber. So you can actually do long distance communication faster if you route it through vacuum than you can if you route it through fiber.

>And you can also go through far fewer hops. Let's say if you want to communicate from Seattle to South Africa. If you look at the actual path that it takes it's extremely convoluted[1]. It will follow the outline of the continents. It will go through 200 routers and repeaters, and the latency is extremely bad. Whereas if you did it with a satellite network you could actually do it in two or three hops. Well maybe four hops; it depends on what the altitude of the satellites are, and what the cross-links are.

>Let's say at least an order of magnitude fewer repeaters or routers, and going through space at 50% faster speed of light. So from a physics standpoint it's inherently better to do the long distance internet traffic through space.

[1] https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cyberge...
I'm not quite sure that the numbers are as equal as you might think.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/americas...

Also we should note that being Republican and bring a Trump supporter aren't necessarily the same thing.
DCM tags? VTs?
Those graphs are very hard to read, and don't show things like stdev. It just looks like to me that docker is a much more popular project (200+ people in single groups)
There are plenty of tickets to see the London Symphony Orchestra for £10, which is the price of 2-3 beers in London.

The same for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which is a registered charity.

At least in Europe, the cheapest tickets being around that price is typical.

http://lso.co.uk/whats-on/2016-17-season.html

https://www.lpo.org.uk/
52 people killed in those bombings, eleven years ago.

More people than that died in 1 week of road accident deaths in the same year, and in 2 weeks of road accident deaths in 2013 [1]

Talking about numbers and causes of deaths in the UK, for comparison:

The UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) published that death registrations increased from 2014 to 2015, saying "There were 24,065 more deaths registered in the first three months of 2015 compared with the same period in 2014, with 11,865 of these extra deaths registered in January alone, when flu was circulating at its highest levels." - totals, 501,424 deaths in 2014 and 529,613 deaths in 2015. [2]

ONS also published: "In 2014, nearly a quarter of all deaths (23%; 116,489 out of 501,424) in England and Wales were from causes considered potentially avoidable through timely and effective healthcare or public health interventions."

and "In 2014, just under a third of deaths (32% or 1,443 out of 4,571) in children and young people aged 0 to 19 years in England and Wales were from causes considered avoidable through good quality healthcare" [3]

In the news today, NHS people are warning that there isn't enough money to provide all the services it needs to, even with the planned budget increases. [4]

There just isn't any comparison in the numbers. Terrorism is not fiction, the hugeness of terrorism is fiction - at least, it appears to be, absent any concrete details of numbers of plots discovered and averted, which we'll never get.

But if 52 dead is one of the biggest attacks in the UK in decades, how likely is it that avoided attacks would even approach 1400 children per year who die of preventable causes, let alone 11,000 people/1 year who apparently died of flu while flu vaccines exist?

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-road-fatal...

[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

[3] http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthand...

[4] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38019771
Is there any way for advertisers to independently verify FB's reported numbers at will? Or do they all rely on FB being honest? If FB's self-reporting is all that advertisers rely on, that seems like it would be an obvious problem, and the same goes for any other platform. The problem seems so obvious there must be checks in place, so I'm curious what they are.
Is there an audit document for this?
This feels very rough around the edges, especially for a project with several releases. The documentation is very uneven and sparse, with certain sections like accounting, administration, etc having no documentation at all. Security is suspect even out of the box, with demo users added by default. Other problems are that you need to restart the server if you add a language package, a short support cycle -- two years is a tiny length of time for things like health care, synchronization is not real-time, etc. Yes, it's interesting in that it is open source, but I would very much not want to have to support this in production, it's just too admin and user unfriendly.
I'm sorry, I didn't want to appear rude, I just couldn't remember how to italicize text here on HN and tried to emphasize those words. By the way, here they're just telling you to stop messing with those files in a certain way because it isn't a supported scenario in a beta software, also giving you the reason why it isn't supported. By the way, I bet that thing isn't among the top 10 priorities.
This was definitely an issue at PTP. You start off with whatever you got invited with as a gift, and if you don't start making up ground quickly, you're basically in a hole, except by freeleech. I realized I had to pay attention to freeleech and participate that way, which worked pretty well, until I built up a suitable buffer, but it takes some doing.
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I didn't say that. There is certainly not a single rational argument, there can be many going different ways. I also didn't call anyone a dummy. If someone's choice is not to present any arguments that can be evaluated by some means I just don't have a way of making progress. But I guess we are not bridging the gap here.

EDIT: and to answer your question emotion and rationality are separated by coming from different places in the brain. I can be mad, or upset, or happy, or in love, without any rational reason. There's not a love=mc^2 equation. But just because I'm mad doesn't mean that gravity doesn't exist. I don't know if this makes any sense but that's my best answer.

EDIT2: Or maybe you're asking how I can tell whether a given position originates from belief, emotion, or rationality? Well, I can't. I'm certainly willing to engage in the discussion and entertain the possibility that erecting trade barriers between the US and the rest of the world will improve in some way something for those people in the US who are feeling hurt by globalization. Convince me. So far what I heard is "we'll bring those jobs back" not followed by any specific actions or explaining how those jobs will come back.
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Why do you want to stop watching porn? Do you suspect addiction that's impacting your life in a negative manner?

It's well documented that porn, like most other things in life, consumed in moderation has no negative impact.
NPR always pulls their punches because they receive, indirectly, government funding. Notwithstanding that Republicans will accuse them of liberal bias regardless of what NPR does, I actually appreciate that NPR is so earnest and conspicuous about it.

Sometimes what's not said is as important as what is said. Which isn't to say that I'm reading between the lines. What I mean is that it communicates something substantive about what partisans consider disputed, and does so in a very simple and convenient manner.

The fact that NPR reporting is so darned good despite their self-imposed constraints is a testament to the quality of their journalism, I think. Even Anton Scalia listened to NPR news, and he avoided most of the supposed liberal media.
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Btw most of the Trump supporters I've met overseas have had tied to the military.
They'll have local connectivity to the satellite antenna

> Home Internet customers would receive a "low-profile user terminal that is easy to mount and operate on walls or roofs."

You can place your firewall between your LAN and the antenna.

However there could be devices with their own antenna, much like iridium phones. I googled for them and they are not cheap. Mass production could shave off a zero and bring them under $50. Maybe.
leo can get those information about people abroad, using their phone on foreign soil, maybe even being foreigners.
WHOOPS, quite the typo there. It's 200e3 km/sec.
Their grammar looks like one clue.
Unfortunately it seems that BBC have an axe to grind with former colonies such as India[1], so they're not entirely objective on news related to those areas.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-BBC-publish-more-negative-new...
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I also thought that was the most interesting of the featured experiences. Actually gardening with anyone is probably a really great/fun social experience (I'd assume I do pretty much no gardening outside of some indoor experiments).
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Amazon is rolling out Alexa-only shopping deals
I'm pretty sure its just an accident. Any false news suggesting else will be filtered from people's newsfeeds for their own safety.
Perhaps the next step will be selling cloud services from in-orbit data centers that have no cooling bill.
Yes lets legitimize white nationalism /snark
150 wpm speaking is sort of irrelevant when half or more is verbal filler and rambling that doesn't provide any signal.
> How did you form that opinion? All on your own? Are you a lawyer specializing in the confluence of national security and free speech law?

I worked in the defense industry for almost 10 years. I know how that works.

> -is that the government interprets the relevant statues such that if you hold a security clearance,

So CNN's Cuomo was acting as the trusty Security Officer and was just caring for the poor souls who have clearance. How kind of him ;-)

Now, let's be honest, do think he said what he said just because of the security clearance aspect?

> You have an affirmative duty not to read it under their interpretation.

If you need CNN to remind you of that duty, you'd probably be in trouble one way or another at some point.

Also since you seem to know a bit about this stuff. Curious what you think about Hillary's private email server with TS SAP material on it. Do you think she should have been prosecuted and not allowed to run for President? Why do you think she wasn't?

I've heard of people going to jail and at best lost their jobs and probably a chance to get clearance forever for a lot less.
Although the temperature in space is very low, the ability to dissipate heat is reduced. So you wouldn't be saving that much, unless my understanding is wrong.
No, they work as-is most of the time. You just have to make sure you're not writing to your install folder or try to install services or something like that. The use of UWP APIs instead of/along classic desktop APIs is completely optional (and most of them are supported out of the box even without the bridge, the exception being the APIs that require app identity, like Tiles or supporting a Share Target contract, at least not in a easy way)
It's so obvious. The current narrative is that voters are stupid and believe in complete nonsense, otherwise they wouldn't have "voted wrong".
I'm devastated. Was on for a little over 7 years. It had become a huge part of my life. I'm having a hard time believing it's over.
What do you do if this is the will of the people?
I wonder which country's laws an in-orbit data center would need to respect. All? None?
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> Common API for getting and setting accessor functions.

This is a really good idea, and it solves the issue of coupling commonly see in d3.js examples, where the chart needs to know about the keys (properties) of the data.

I usually write accessor functions as part of my model to avoid this coupling but letting the chart component take in accessor is clearly a better approach.
Chronic: but the bootloader of the device is still encrypted and not subject to your audit (well, maybe you can audit it, but most people can't ;P), which totally undermines the chain of trust you just laid out...
What.CD did piracy and this is why it achieved these things. Piracy is a violation of copyright. Copyright is a monopoly granted by the state. Monopolies prevent competition and are counter to capitalism. The shutting down of What.CD is the doing of the government, not the doing of capitalism.[1]

Free market capitalism means economic liberalism. It doesn’t mean “big evil companies making big money.” In a real free market, the government wouldn’t grant these monopolies. What.CD would be more convenient than Netflix and iTunes because it costs nothing and doesn’t have DRM, so Netflix and iTunes would disappear and What.CD would remain. This is literally what would actually happen in an actual free market.

Economists aren’t stupid. They don’t literally believe there is a magical invisible hand guiding the market any more than biologists believe there is a magical deity guiding the evolution of species. Magic isn’t required for a free market to be efficient: it's just a phenomenon that happens and that we have a logical, non-religious, non-faith-based explanation for.

[1]: I’ll quote Wikipedia on this:

– “Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright)

– “Exclusive rights are a form of monopoly.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_right)
Well, David Brock and his Correct The Record army did exactly that for the past four or five months. Reddit and a bunch of other sites were crawling with copy paste Hillary spam twenty four seven.

But the story was about bots and 'fake news'. There was no mention of what your talkin about "persona management". If you have some liks to that then post them.

This flurry of stories about 'fake news' looks more like a coordinated media nariatve then anything else. Another angle to try and keep the political agitation going and keep people angry. As WikiLeaks has show the media is part of the party machine and they have an agenda in this.
I feel your joy. In my case, the pain has been gone for five years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtu7vV_HmY&t=31m25s

It's not even "show you the ropes", it's "shooting fish in a barrel"
"People pay ~20$ per month for under 10GB cellular data."

It depends on a country. Where I live, you can get unlimited 4G Internet for 15-30 eur/month (depending on a provider).
It comes with practice in the field. After a few medium-size designs, you start to have some data-points for design-to-FPGA mappings. If you _really_ need to get close the first time, the only way is to mock up the design and synthesize it.

At places I've worked, the general pattern tends to be:

1) Pick a target FPGA family based on feature-set and advertising copy. Probably you use the vendor you're already familiar with.

2) Make an extremely rough LUT count estimate based on some prior designs (and/or maybe based on the utilization numbers for vendor-supplied IP cores).

3) Most FPGA vendors sell a bunch of variants of any given family. Do your first round of prototypes using an FPGA that is 50-100% larger than you think you need.

4) Once you've got the design more nailed down, make a better estimate and pick a smaller/lower-cost part in the same family. On FPGAs that I've used, the FPGA is generally 'full' if you've used up 75%-ish of the available LUTs. This is because of limited routing resources and imperfect compilers.
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It's really bizarre that they would post this...
Yes. Any thinking person should be against democracy in the sense of "any time we can get one vote over 50% for something we should pass the something".

This is why the US government was set up with various undemocratic features. This is why there are things like constitutions that require supermajorities to modify.

Protecting minorities from the tyranny of the majority is one of the main purposes of good governmenance.
Is this going to scale? "Each satellite will provide aggregate downlink capacity of 17 to 23Gbps". Some 20 Gb/s per satellite times 4425 satellites spread around the globe is not that much bandwidth for any given densely populated area. We're going to keep having our local ISP in cities (they're giving between 0.1 and 1 Gb/s on fiber right now) but it will be great to get connectivity in the countryside and the mountains. And when traveling abroad, if they'll sell a small antenna that can be operated on a battery or connected to a laptop over usb. I wonder if there are chances that those antennas can be made so small to fit into a phone and tablet. Iridium's ones are still pretty big, like the ones of wifi routers.
Maybe your profile is private, your commits aren't. Your email in the commits can be scanned easy as well.
It's not an authentic experience if you can't easily share it on facebook or instagram!

Going back to the old philosophical question: Do you really travel if nobody sees your pictures of doing it?
The thoughts behind this is published in an article on their site (https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1405/airbnb-s-nondiscrim...), also the the external review and report (http://blog.airbnb.com/fighting-discrimination-and-creating-...
) is worth a read.
My first very simple SPA with Go and Vue
It's slow to connect, uses a lot of resources and cannot be installed without bringing in hundreds of megabytes of dependencies (e.g. X11, Gnome libs).
I thought it was interesting/a bit strange that Obama mentioned this problem during his "farewell tour" press conference in Germany (along with the portrayal of USA=Russia and the like on social media).
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We're sorry about this. It wasn't our intention to promote bogus upvotes. We're guessing as word spread throughout our group of companies, people got excited and up-voted.
We’re definitely going to be more careful about this in the future.
I think the heat would be just radiated out passively. Most space hardware, I'm told, needs to operate at -10°C – 50°C, and withstand continuous temperature fluctuations between those extremes caused by solar heat.