skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It very much depends on the age of your target market. I'd say there's a cutoff around age 30 where people simply omit the www. when talking about addresses and assume everything is just whatever.com.
While I have not attempted to use Ember in well over 1.5 years, the key phrase being "attempted". These days with Vue.js and React, why would Ember still be a solid choice? For me, Ember was too complex to groc, and seemed over engineered with no clear focus on making development easier and faster.
> Your basic proposition here is that rules you don't like shouldn't have to apply to you. Society cannot function that way.

No, I never said that? Obviously when you break a law you should be prepared to face the consequences for breaking that law, as stated in the law. That's the baseline of paying fines. (And then possibly contesting the fines in court or building a public case for changing the law based on being fined for something really silly).

What is not necessarily good is the additional public punishment for breaking a law; whether in form of bad PR, people boycotting them, protests, etc. That outrage should not be encouraged based on legality of actions, but only based on their morality.
I love Hu. Very good to help fall asleep. My goto version https://rootlight.myshopify.com/products/hu-sacred-sound-ins...
The quality of every domestic product has consistently declined as corporations (and shareholders) eke pennies out of every part of manufacturing. If it saves 5 cents per machine it gets cut from the process, even if it means years off the lifespan of the end product.
Just think about the nonsense Disney did with all the characters that should be in the public sector... But aren't...
I don't understand why the patent office doesn't understand the point of a patent - to protect a novel idea, not to allow people to patent everything and she each other over it...
Yes, but what we're learning now are increasingly 'bread crumbs' rather than full data sets. For instance, once upon a time I knew of most Win32 API functions. I couldn't tell you the arguments but I could tell you there's a function called X that does Y, and maybe give a couple of tips for using it that aren't in the API reference. That's all I needed to know because it was enough to bring up MSDN with the full details of the function.

It's no different to, 30 years ago, knowing that when a piece of equipment is having a problem with its anterior doohickey, the troubleshooting guide is on page 25 of the manual. It only plays up every 18 months and you always have the manual on you, so you don't need to remember more than 'doohickey problems, page 25'.
Technically drugs have the same patent lifespan (3 years, 2 year extension for testing/R&D). Sadly there are ways to game the system (only patenting part of the molecule, part of the process, part of the anything) and then continually keeping the hold for years and years on specific drugs.

The same would happen in software. They'd write all the software, patent a part of it, and then repatend a different part of the software as time went on. If anyone else attempted to patent an unpatented part they claim they invented it first and will be awarded the patent (because it is their patent). If anyone uses an unpatented part they just file for the patent and sue when they're awarded it.

What's broken isn't the lifespan, it's the patent system.
GM Tries a Subscription Plan for Cadillacs–a Netflix for Cars at $1,500 a Month
Oh BTW, I answered a similar question in a comment a few weeks back -- I had more time that day, and I was able to give a more detailed answer:

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713199

Also I've been posting a lot on math lately so if you want more examples and references, scroll through my HN posts and comments (I tend to cite everything so there's a ton of links in there).

Of special note, as others have started to discover, Grant Sanderson's 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel is a masterwork, an evolutionary tour de force in the way mathematical concepts and visualized and presented.

Grant wrote a custom software library (in Python, on Github) that enables him to create video visualizations to show the geometrical intuition behind abstract mathematical concepts. And this is key. Being able to visualize the geometric structure and transformations the mathematics is describing is the key that's been missing from the way math is traditionally taught, and this lack of visual intuition is why many find math so hard to penetrate.

3Blue1Brown's YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

Go there first to develop your visual intuition -- watch all his videos, and then watch them again, and again -- and soon you'll discover your new, powerful mental models forming, and things that were once opaque will suddenly become clear.

Start with his "Essense of Linear Algebra" series (it's one people are usually blown away by, and it's being discussed on HN a bunch lately).

He's going to release an "Elements of Calculus" series in April, and while Calculus is usually a prerequisite to Linear Algebra, it's not critical for understanding the visualizations the way it's presented here. But if you need a refresher, MIT's "Big Picture Calculus" is great (it's linked to in the HN thread I referenced in the first paragraph).
Dayısının Tecavüzüne Uğrayan İstanbul Escort Asena
Is there a similar status page somewhere for DTS/DCA? I think that's the last of the first generation multichannel audio codecs which is still both widely used and patent encumbered.
It really depends on the industry I think. Some industries like machine learning move fast enough that a 20 year patent can kill a whole field. Even 2 years is forever in machine learning.

But I also think some fields move slow enough and need enough R&D that much longer timescales make sense. Things like wind tech, nuclear tech, fusion tech.

I'm really not an expert on any of this, but a I don't think a one size fits all scheme is sufficient.
isn't that a copyright issue, not a patent issue?
People don't "collect their news from multiple sources and make their minds up". Even if one is ignorant of the decades of substantial research on political ignorance (Phillip Converse, Ilya Somin, Hibbing and Theiss-Morse's "Stealth Democracy", etc.) that demonstrates this to be false, they need only have multiple interactions with other Americans to realize that in most cases they're dealing with parrots.
If the Past 8 years are any evidence, I would disagree with your analysis of "establishment" bias. Even with Snowden revelations its every body but Obama that was guilty.

edit: I m being specific to NYT.
Thanks, interesting division of duties. I think as a title it's certainly more common in non-tech companies. Oddly though the VP title seems to be a dime a dozen. I have worked at many places where there was department with one or two people and one of them was the VP.
Maybe I'm not paying enough attention but seems programmers are very much in demand. I also live in a big tech hub and have very employable skills on my resume, so not too worried that I won't be able to find another job in a reasonable amount of time should I choose to. I suppose everything could collapse during my break and there truly won't be jobs when I'm looking again, but thats a risk I'm willing to take.
fedora finally ships an mp3 decoder, but won't ship the encoder until then.
Microwave ovens are another classic. We got ours 25 years ago, and it's still going strong. In fact several people who know about appliances have warned us never to ditch it - apparently the magnetron tubes for all modern microwave ovens burn out in a couple of years.
Any reason to expect them to last longer?
The people I know at Uber don't think it's a toxic work environment and I have no reason to distrust them in favor of a couple of accusatory blog posts from disgruntled ex-employees that I've never met.
Point of order: The non-filter cleaned item is the longest lived.

Also, do you guys even dishwasher? You clean them by using a wash pack like this[1]. You don't need to physically remove the filter save for a blockage as you just wash it in place.

So yeah, I exaggerated, what a dastardly scallywag!

[1] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=25945475...
What's the practical upshot of this? Are there some apps that are waiting for this bit to expire so they can finally make things work the way they should?

For example, Audacity for Windows doesn't install with MP3 support. You have to download a plugin from Germany before Audacity will read/write MP3. Which I presume is because patents.
It's really weird seeing F&P as an appliance maker, they also make (or did, the design keeps getting sold off to various companies) the CPAP mask I wear every night.
Compared to copyrights, patent expiration is much more reasonable!
Thanks, Altbau was the term I was grasping at, a commenter above managed to articulate it where I failed.
Set yourself goals and accomplish them.

If it involves money, write out how much money you can potentially make by not making excuses, and do it.

I have been working on a project for a year and every time I lose motivation or find excuses NOT to work on it, I open up that spreadsheet to see how much my pricing is and how much money I can make.. and that motivates me to continue working on it and not make excuses.

I also was pushing 260 pounds... and I said to myself, "Wow, I'm over halfway to 300 pounds... I really don't want this to be my life." No more excuses. Ended up losing about 80 pounds. Read more about that here: https://mypost.io/post/no-bullshit-diet

Laziness. Procrastination. Even taking a day off. Totally fine. But for how long? Reward yourself with those things. Don't live on excuses. They don't pay the bills or get you anywhere in life.
Study finds potential breakthrough in determining who’s at risk for heart attack
Glad to hear it worked out for you. Not interested in buying a house any time soon, but I probably will be someday in which case I wouldn't be able to take a break like this and why I want to do it now.
tl;dr more proof that capitalism is broken
Scoping resources in C
What if a technology takes 3 years to develop? Should the company only have 3 years of protection?
Let's not forget Bayer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#World_War_II
Honestly, I don't think there is a good argument for patents at this point. If your thing is truly groundbreaking, keep it secret. The reward for having great ideas and successfully productizing them is lots of money; why do there need to be patents (and effective monopoly protections) on top of that?

There's a decent argument for drug patents (drugs cost a fortune to develop; makers only recoup losses if they can mark up the cost of drugs massively; competition gets in the way of that), but I'd argue this is a better argument against the whole industry and an argument for more public funding of drug research.

If you can't make your business work without patents, I think that's a bad sign.

I don't think it's feasible to get rid of patents, but I think they could (and should) be made easier to challenge and invalidate, and there should be some restrictions to discourage patent trolls (what restrictions exactly is debatable).
Actually, it was quite difficult too. Which is crazy, considering Poland is/was a part of the same union...
Here in Australia, my apartment came with a dryer (required by law), a dishwasher and an oven. We had to buy the washing machine and the fridge, though.
The US went first-to-file in 2011 for those that live or do business there. And in software, it would be trivial to determine the other parts.
There's a huge international ecosystem of sorts. Cf. "Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade" by Adam Minter.

Metal is made into shoddy components and appliances and sold to the consumer. When they break, they're scrapped, recycled, and remanufactured into new shoddy components and appliances. The material cycles in a loop, pumping cash.
Yup. To clarify, I was pointing out that the author may not have been aware of the hubris of "making the world a better place" or how little meaning it holds for those that have been here for a while. I think if he were to read this now, he'd agree a lot of it is bullshit.
I share your sentiment exactly and look forward to someone chiming in on this.
>Moderate inflation is good for an economy based on credit, _especially_ so when so many individuals are overburdened by overwhelming student loan debt and underwater mortgages.

Inflation is good for borrowers and bad for lenders. I don't see any reason to prioritize borrowers.
I find that very hard to believe. Also, telemetry comes in many forms, many of which are not visible as unwanted network activity.

An application could:

* send telemetry in URL parameters when it checks for updates

* send telemetry data exactly one time after, say, an hour of use.

* send telemetry data during a time when you are already sending a lot of traffic, and send it to an amazon web service endpoint (good luck plucking that out of normal network activity based on IP data alone, when so much software communicates with most likely the same AWS endpoints.)

My point is that there is probably < 5 people on the planet who scrutinize every scheduled task, every Wireshark trace, and everything else well enough to know for certain that nothing is going on. The only people who know for sure that no telemetry is going on are those who airgap their PC from any network at all.
> why the electoral college was created. To help rural America from being completely ignored while the cities with denser populations sway the votes towards their issues.

This is a seriously revisionist interpretation of why the Electoral College was created. Almost everyone circa 1800 lived in rural areas[1], and it would be very generous to suggest the founders predicted the massive urbanization of the population more than a hundred years in advance.

For a starting point on reading up on the arguments of the time, I'd recommend Federalist #68 [2] where Hamilton laid out his views. The Wikipedia article below also goes into counterpoints from his contemporaries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1800_United_States_Census#City...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._68
Because when you have an unpopular leader making decisions that are unpopular with customers you lose those customers. I no longer use Uber and don't see myself using them again until he leaves.

More recently I've been considering closing my Amex card now that they've partnered with Uber.
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
The sad state of test frameworks
Well, those 'high performers' are a liability more than they are an asset at the moment so that would have been a very bad call. Uber is not exactly SpaceX and any 'high performers' that think they are so above the law that they get to destroy the company culture and cause a tsunami of bad press should be sacked pronto.

Nothing less will start to stem the tide.
Weird I got a whirlpool washer that looks almost exactly like the washer in the picture in 2011 but I have 0 rust.
Thanks for this, some of the best advice I've heard so far. Makes it really hard to rationalize not quitting. Maybe I will have to get another job, maybe it will be lower paying and I'll have less savings in the bank, but at least I will have tried to live life on my own terms.
A serious problem in the US was that regulation demanded clothes washer lids be locked when in operation. This led to forced electronics on clothes washers starting several years ago just to handle the automatic switch. I know Speed Queen was trying to delay this mess but I don't know if they are still manufacturing purely mechanical washers or not...
Heh, our house is 20 years old too but the appliances they put in are terrible! Got a cheap warped Westinghouse oven that we have to prop closed with a guitar stand.
The MPEG-2 patents also ran out recently. Even MPEG-4, as used online, may be out of patent. The newer patents in the MPEG-LA portfolio for MPEG-4 are mostly for things nobody uses online, such as interlace and 5-channel audio. It's about time for someone to take a hard look at the remaining MPEG-LA patents.
If the unpatented part is put into production by the original inventor, can they still patent it many years later?
It's not a complete waste, at least not all of the time, though I do forget much more than I remember. It's just frustrating to know I could achieve something but miss out again and again and again due to lack of discipline and perseverance.
Best for people who want these new services to continue.
I remember seeing on HN a year or two ago? About Samsung smart fridges calendar app not being updated when Google phased out the API it was using.

Also Blu-ray players don't get updates after a long while too I've heard as YouTube and Netflix changes their APIs - the devs of these devices don't keep them up to date.

I would prefer a dumb TV, and just buy a replaceable box with the computer part. The only way I could see embedded software lasting is if the company made the firmware/OS across all their devices and made it more generalized to work with all their devices of that class.
When we moved into this house, the wife made noises about replacing the "ancient" oven [0]. I asked "Has the technique of cooking food with heat, changed drastically since the 70s?" We left it in.

When I went to college in 1993, I was given my grandmother's original Amana RadarRange microwave from 1968 or so, the model with the two dials and the "done" buzzer that wouldn't stop until you hit a button [1]. It was huge, HEAVY, and we joked that it was full of lead shielding, but it got used for three years of college and after that was donated to my workplace when I moved to Austin. As far as I know it kept working there for another 2-3 years, and by then was most likely 25+ years old.

[0] https://goo.gl/photos/qrgoixCJDViks8am9

[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hLhXgVAYoAE/maxresdefault.jpg

Addendum: I just realized that the microwave I have sitting in the kitchen was given to us as a wedding gift in 2001. The clock no longer works properly, but it cooks just fine.
No one can follow that guide.

I thought you would tell them to stop posting pictures on Facebook, but apparently that is better than not updating your OS.
It seems like the exact date was March 16, 2013 and if so then I stand corrected on that part.

I thought FtF applied to any part of the invention. So you patent a specific part of the invention, then you've filed that invention. I could be wrong. IANAL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inv...
Uber president Jeff Jones quits, deepening turmoil
Technically drugs have the same patent lifespan (3 years

You might be thinking of New Clinical Investigation Exclusivity, which is 3 years, and is an entirely different thing. https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/ucm0790... Drug patents last 20 years, same as any other patent.

The patent expiration tricks you describe don't... exist? (You do have to patent the entire molecule.) Pfizer made a hojillion dollars from Vigara. Its patent expired in 2012, and it's now a generic. "From 1996 to 2012 under the trade name Lipitor, atorvastatin became the world's best-selling drug to that point, with more than US$125 billion in sales". Lipitor is a generic now, and is dirt cheap. If Pfizer could have keep Lipitor under patent, by any means at all, they would have!

Drug companies make sequel compounds, sure, and market the heck out of them. But you don't have to buy them if you don't want to. The old drugs still exist.

Your description of software patents is equally strange. You know patent examiners don't actually look at code, right? The process, or "apparatus" is described, and they award the patent based on that. You can rewrite the implementation all you want, as long as it's doing the same thing, it's covered by the same patent. You have do something different to get a different patent. What counts as "different" has, of course, been a topic of heated argument for the last two centuries.
Yeah, it was over the news when they announced that. There's also some effort to get H264 through cisco's openh264, but that's also very basic and doesn't do most of the useful stuff
Huh, I thought Barclays and HMBC have 'walk-in' international banking accounts. They're strictly speaking 'offshore' accounts but usually what you care is having an account with a british bank, rather than having an account that is legally in UK.
Brain is 10 times more active than previously measured
They're built for commercial/industrial service.
VLC: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=125032
I've been doing regular week-long retreats for 15 years and recently did a 30 day retreat. Personally I just think there's way too much variation amongst my experiences, let alone if you include the gamut of others', to come to any solid conclusions. For example I've met people that meditate more than me that I consider a social liability. Correlation does not imply causation and all that. Are coffee drinkers more productive or are possessors of palettes predisposed to coffee's chemicals/culture more productive?

What is the magic ingredient in meditation that the mainstream seem to be missing out on!? I'm sticking my head out and firmly stating: nothing. All the scientific and anecdotal evidence derives purely from the sober and unromantic intention to pay attention to something -- how you pay attention, the sincerity with which you pay attention, the subconscious emotions and intellectual knots illuminated from such attention, these are the factors that determine the various reports we find concerning the 'magic' of meditation.
They have an obligation to provide the service they already agreed to, do they not?
You would never give away general_ai.exe at most you would rent it as a service. If its capabilities were linear with computing power you would just have it exponentially fund its own capabilities. Start by having it operate as a poker bot, run mechanical turk, do data analysis, imitate a software development contracting business. Then as capital accumulates add more capacity. Even if general_ai.exe doesn't get smarter than a human but can just perform more operations its probably the biggest opportunity ever.
Does anyone even really care?
Thanks for the question.

I need to process the information, but any sharing from recruiter to company will happen after approval (e.g. positive response) from the applicant.

Not in the least because it's relatively useless to introduce someone who isn't interested.
Are H.264 and MPEG 4 the same thing? I can never remember the relationship.

Does this mean that the WebM fight is closer to being moot?
Isn't this the problem that Angies List/Amazon Home Services/etc is attempting to solve and monetize? For a goof I submitted a plumbing work order to Amazon and received at least three competitive bids, all from businesses I had never heard of before that are vouched for to some degree by Amazon. It seems to be either the above or Yelp/word of mouth are the only ways that contractors can be seen by prospective clients, at least until they grow large enough to have more marketing funds and return business.
I have a Goldstar microwave that I bought about 30 years ago. I belive this company is now named LG. But it's been flawless and still works great.

I also have a chest freezer that my parents bought in the late 1970s and it's still working perfectly as well.
You can "disagree" with it all you want, but you just cited an example in support of it...Obama and the NSA (the establishment) wasn't the bad guy, Snowden (i.e. Emmanual Goldstein) was.
Product inflation could be caused by exchange rate changes, increasing the price of imported goods for example. Low interest rates could funnel more into asset prices than it does to wages. Wages can be competing with foreign labour, automation etc.