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This actually makes a lot of sense. Siemens has a number of different hardware systems and Mentor Graphics could provide a better solution for them as they work to transition away from hardware.

Avaya struggled with this in the telecom space and are struggling to survive. Siemens' telecom gear is a distant 3rd to Avaya and Cisco, but if they can do what both of them have been unable to do up to this point, they may be able to gobble up some market share in the enterprise communication space on top of their other hardware solutions.
Of course there are politics in research. But that is moving the goal post. The question is whether politics and science are equivalently grounded, and they are not.
That's okay as long as the magic holds. If it starts to fail, you have to peek behind the curtain, and you lose yourself among the meta.
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Why is this a bribe and not a settlement compensation offer? Good luck settling with your insurance company or an employer without signing an NDA and forgoing future action.
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What kind of settings do you have for reservations? Are you doing any kind of screening of guests? Forcing guests to register their passport on Airbnb and/or asking a bit about what they do for a living tends to be a decent signal for whether or not they will trash your place.
Words cannot describe how much I disagree with this article.
If you want to pair on this, I'd be interested. Even if I don't use it, it's something I've wanted to do for the learning experience. I have enough knowledge of all the pieces to be dangerous, but haven't actually tied all the pieces together.

My email is in my profile if interested.
I see you are on Verizon and telecoms team, the anti-innovation force run by the MBAs and bean counters over what is needed nationwide.

>> Overall broadband ISPs have failed at gigabit rollout for which they got tons of federal funds to do so.
>Factually untrue.

Factually untrue that it is factually untrue.

To this day most people don't have access to fiber[4], that is a failure. Maybe you do but most do not.

In the late 90s there were $400 billion given to broadband providers and the job was by 2006 for everyone to have fiber running to their homes. They stole that cash [1].

Verizon is horrible at keeping it's promises on fiber [2][3][4]. Verizon has sucked from the time it was BellAtlantic, for a doctor/pharma web network right when the internet started going we used to run fused ISDN lines for 128-bit (two 64bit lines together, one for video one for data) and they didn't get one line right the first time and rarely did it meet bandwidth needs. Whenever there was a Bell Atlantic truck around everyone's network went down. They are still as sloppy and slacking big time in gigabit/fiber. But then again so is every broadband mini-monopoly.

I live in Chandler, AZ one of the first places to get cable internet with Dimension/Cox. They were innovators then, now they drag the rollout of gigabit and Cox's gigablast stopped when Google Fiber slowed down. They can't even get fiber to the place that was one of the first cable internet locations (primarily because of Intel being here).

Telcos have purposely failed on the fiber/gigabit rollout. I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Broadband/cable companies were innovative in the 80s and 90s and maybe early 00s, now they are just bean counting and sitting back with their mini-monopolies comfortably slowing innovation in the US.

[1] http://newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852/decad...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/nyc-sues-verizon...

[4] http://gizmodo.com/after-billions-in-subsidies-the-final-ver...
> a race to zero

That's a much nicer phrase than the one I used to use: "complicit in your own destruction". One is too bland, the other too strong. Certainly there's got to be one in the middle.
Maybe he had renter's insurance or something, or some other form of liability insurance? (I don't know how this works in the UK).

If I were the lessor/host, I'd demand Airbnb pay 100% and then let them go after whichever other parties they want later. The host should not be the one on the hook for any of this, including float for however long reimbursement takes.

(If I were Airbnb I'd probably sue the guest; clearly there was some level of organization if they brought in an audio system and had an event. Even if it cost them $20k in legal to go after a $10k judgment it is probably worth the precedent.)
Um stalking much? Just because he's a public figure, it doesn't give this author the right to be a creep. We blast TMZ and the like for being slimy but always give a pass when it's in our own interest. So, I won't do that, this isn't cool, man. All it takes is one person to follow this lead, find the location of someone or their family member, and do something nefarious. No matter if it's anything else, it's inconsiderate and frankly dangerous. Poor show.
> That strikes me as a bit of an unfair argument. I can't speak for all religious people, but for many there's a huge difference between losing fertilized eggs 'naturally' and inducing this outcome. Within their world-view, this distinction makes sense.

Why should that be that the case? Their intent is already to lower fertility, and with IUDs, sometimes that (unintentionally) happens with identical symptoms to naturally "failed" implantations. ;-)
In the dark theme of Firefox's Reader View, it's white on black; it seemed like a significant improvement.
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The results suggest that outsiders to a specific scientific field are reluctant to challenge a research star who is viewed as a leader within that field.

I don't think this is how it works at all. I think people are unable to challenge stars in their field.

When everyone is celebrating some star, good luck getting heard if you disagree with them. It is worse if, like so many people, this star will defend their territory by following the maxim "A good offense is the best defense."

My observation of behavior in online forums is that a typical pattern of behavior is that everyone seeks to either align themselves with one of the "stars" of the forum or position themselves as being "against" anything that person says. It is very much about pecking order, not truth, and if you have two or three really popular people, then you get camps that revolve around each person. All conversation tends to default into a polarizing back and forth of "I am for STAR!" and "I am against STAR!"

Since all conversation is framed as either for or against STAR, no conversation can occur that genuinely diverges from the framing given. Even if you genuinely try to diverge from this framing of for or against the idea set that this star individual represents, people will actively paint you into a corner as being in either the for or against camp. Good luck with saying "Yeah, no. That isn't what I am saying At All."

This only stops when that person exits the picture. Dying is the most final and absolute means to exit the picture.
Yes, I understand that, but my point is that there are better investments than an annuity, so the "$1M or $5k/mo" comparison falls a little flat. The aren't really the same.
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Ask HN: Intellectual Property in A.I. Consulting?
Hi HN,

I'm about to launch a small AI/ML consulting group (we're US-based). We want to be able to own and spin out any commercializable technology we develop in the project. (Without infringing on clients' IP.[1])

How do we define "IP" when it refers to architectures, math, and systems? How do we write our agreements so that we own that IP, rather than our clients?

[1] We see it similar to a consulting firm like McKinsey – we can't sell a competitor the trade secrets/IP of our clients, but any approaches to solving the problem should be ours to sell. (Except in our case, we are developing protectable IP, not just knowhow.)
Relatively dumb drones and other military/security tech can have a lot of impact.
We are seeing a similar process as the last native speakers of now extinct languages pass.
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Have really enjoyed using Apollo Client with React, Redux and Redux Saga. It plays very well with TypeScript too.
The inaccuracy would depend on the sample size of the test groups. It might be useful to get standard deviation, or maybe the methodology excludes outliers?
Most computer programs are just very quickly run decision processes, especially in the MIS subfield.
well, they aren't running a restaurant. it's a delivery only service and the economics are very different.

For example, in the Brooklyn branch of the service the prep kitchen and delivery center was located in Gowanus (low rent, industrially zoned neighborhood) and they were certainly not running a full-compliment of front-of-house and back-of-house staff the way a restaurant would. They also don't have to pay high rent for a good location. They also don't have a head chef on premises, and they aren't locked in to a specific menu style.

I'm not totally familiar with the economics of it but I can easily imagine that it could, in principle, be a profitable operation even with the overhead of having a technology division to produce the website and app.

for point of comparison: https://order.andofood.com/

that's David Chang's delivery-only food service, which also has a technology division that produces a website and app. the prices on ando's menu are in line with their competitors in NYC. Munchery was always overpriced. I don't know if ando is taking a loss on every order or what, but I doubt it.
This is a modern reimagining of Herman Melville's story _Bartleby the Scrivener_. It's not as easy to read and Bartleby is less toxic and more just annoying, but it's still a great read and plausible, especially in larger companies.
Sure. The suit would be public though, and exactly and to your point, wise plaintiffs would be subtly trying their case in the media from day 1, because that gag and non-disparagement is undoubtedly coming. Journos live for David vs. Goliath cases like this. Tossing a contract at me after the case gets a little attention, where I didn't have to sign one for the first payment, makes me wonder what you're hiding.

I totally get the logic you're saying, that they're basically treating it as a settlement, but that maneuver is odd and tips a little of their hand that he should perhaps just go hit the courts. When I was at AT&T they were a little rough settling with someone and she ended up suing, and part of the discovery was her internal notes on the case which blew up the claim by 20x. That's mostly what I'm thinking of, because there are for sure emails that would be very interesting to discover here.

Like I said, a gag smells when there's no suit.
> My counter would be: what are the reasons to fight against automobile oriented infrastructure and urban sprawl?

Well for one thing there was a study that found that divorce rates spike 40% when commutes exceed 45 minutes!

There’s a wealth of data out there that indicates that compact communities are better for people’s health, well-being, and they’re cheaper on municipalities too.

I don’t really know how to answer because questioning whether sprawl is bad is a bit akin to asking a climate scientist if CO2 emissions are bad. There’s a broad consensus amongst urban planners on the overwhelming benefits in all sorts of categories of compact communities. I haven’t seen anyone promoting suburban sprawl as a superior alternative.

You’re right that autonomous vehicles could mitigate some of the downsides of sprawl. For example many communities are “car captive” in that they have no amenities and to escape this amenity desert and do any errand a car is required. This obviously becomes a big problem when one becomes elderly and is no longer legally able to drive. Autonomous cars are a solution to this problem. Another solution however, is to design communities such that common errands can all be easily accomplished within a 20 minute walk. This solution has the added benefit of allowing people to be active, which improves health and mobility as one ages.

One negative point about sprawl I will specifically point out is that it’s simply a waste of land. In certain areas this may not matter so much, but in some places the land has real value beyond urban uses. Vancouver for example is surrounded by an agricultural land reserve. The area of prime agricultural land produces 7% of North America’s cranberry crop. Real estate is incredibly expensive in Vancouver and I’m sure there are a lot of real estate developers that would love to pave over that land and build more suburbs. If this occurred however that export crop would be lost forever and there would be a real reduction in the economic potential of the region.
I don't. When that urge comes up, I indulge it, because it means I'm in a flow state and I'm getting a lot done. But eventually I'll get hungry, or finish mining out that particular vein of opportunity; then the work will stop feeling so compelling, and I'll leave.

The rest of the time, I leave work at a reasonable time because I have lots of other things I want to do with my life, and if I spent all evening at work I wouldn't get to pursue them.
That's because a lot of people we think of as famous scientists were really politicians. Rest assured the people who did the actual research weren't working 40-hour weeks.
Take Musk. He got rich from selling Paypal. Had he spent the money on charity as this post suggests (or demands) we would have had no Tesla and no SpaceX.

I think the world is often be better off by rich people doing more of what made them rich in the first place.
Software patents also exist in most of the EU and Asia as well, unfortunately. Check out one of the MPEG-LA license portfolios and look at the countries represented if you want your day ruined.
I believe that's been proposed, though I can't think of specific references offhand.

Certainly amonst the unintended consequences one might care to consider.
I'm such a fan of the apollo development community and how it is lead by some awesome individuals. Not good enough to contribute myself, but just watching the github conversations and the development phase is really cool.
A friend of mine is having similar issues with a neighboring apartment in their building in a more suburban neighborhood of NYC. Large parties of seemingly underage kids have been renting the apartment upstairs, throwing weekend long parties, and trashing the surrounding area (using the side of the house as a bathroom, for instance). The landlord doesn't seem to care since the unit would otherwise be empty and he can make the same rent in a weekend as he would in a month. That building doesn't seem to be the only one doing the same thing in the neighborhood.

I had never really thought of kids using AirBnb like that before, but it makes sense. When I was a teenager parties happened when people's parents went away for the weekend. Now an older kid can get a credit card, create a fake profile, rent an apartment for the weekend, charge a fee at the door, and have at it.
Didn't the original PC have lowercase? I thought I programmed TP in mixed-case, but can't remember.
Um, it certainly is how investing works. They think the company will be worth >X in the future ( >>X in the case of pre-IPO investing).
second reference in the introduction is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Why would they want to? Levi Strauss didn't get rich prospecting. Let Amazon sell the jeans and pick axes (both digitally and physically in their case) to the modern day prospectors.
At the risk of "ruining" it for some users, Amazon doesn't appear to validate nor re-compress uploaded images. I uploaded some bits from /dev/random as a .png, and it counted towards photo storage, and I got the same bits back re-downloading the test file. So you don't even have to resort to stuffing metadata or steganography.

For the record, I don't exploit this loophole and only tested to satisfy my curiosity. At $60/yr. it's already very cheap for unlimited -- it's my tertiary backup so I'll accept the risk that "unlimited" is qualified -- generic file storage.
The problem with a lot of Red's features is that core language/runtime features are added to the language last.

- GC is added after a lot of language is already there.

- Actors are planned to be added _after_ I/O, and _after_ GC, and _after_ all the GUI capabilities (Trello board lists "figure out how to rewrite event loop with actors")

- A lot of FFI is already there, so GC, and actors are coming after FFI.

These are not features you add on top of a language and hope they magically work. Actors directly affect how I/O and GC work. GC should be very aware of how FFI works. etc.etc.etc.

A lot of these issues are dismissed by the core team as "it's not difficult to write a GC, we have it in a branch somewhere" (referring to a naïve mark-and sweep stop-the-world GC).
You'd think Airbnb would be absolutely horrified of stories like this. How many hosts does this incrementally deter from using Airbnb?

Additionally, their SLAs for customer support are incredibly user-hostile, bordering on actively so. Look at how Amazon can do things better - no questions asked refunds and generally 24 hour SLAs on contact.

How can Airbnb fail so hard on realising that an internet business, such as theirs, lives and dies by customer trust...
You're right - if they're zero day. If you don't update your VM and someone lugs some old ones around just to see you could still get bit. Like I said though, odds are actually very low and it's probably not as major of a concern as many people make it out to be.
Why is there no pricing info on the website?
What about the fact that pursuit of wealth can drive innovation that benefits the whole world. The creation of mobile phones has allowed many parts of the world access to information and opportunities they didn't have before. The motivation to work hard and create new product is lessened if you know that all your money over $250K will be taken by force. Innovation would still take place but likely at a much slower pace.
It's not an out-for-good approach, necessarily. But it is a proposal to get you out of your headspace.

The established institution of a sabbatical year (every 7 or so years) fits into this. China also tried a ... not entirely unrelated approach in the 1960s. With mixed results.
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One of the hardest at things my teams have struggled with is the fact that for large parts of the software world, the user is not the person with the checkbook.

Getting both of them what they want is a constant challenge, full of compromises.
Siemens culture is aimed right at business integration. They won't buy an organization and pretend to run it.

They will oversee it and merge planning with the other divisions, but this is measured and well staged. Siemens AG is a very old, very smart people and metrics driven company. They are a very good example of how to do this stuff right.

Your comments seconded.
Let's not. Let's go ahead and assume such things matter in the here and now and are actively in the way of getting to clinical immortality (assuming clinical immortality is even possible).
To be really pedantic about it, RenderMan is an API. Photorealistic RenderMan (aka PRMan) was the Reyes implementation of said API, and the new path tracer is called RIS.
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That's a profoundly critical element of learning and creativity, by a fair amount of psychological work I've seen lately.
> aside: please don't abuse collections.namedtuple to make a simple Python object; the class is meant to help porting APIs that return a tuple to a more object-oriented one, so starting with namedtuple means you end up leaking a tuple API that you probably didn't want to begin with

I haven't heard this before. I subclass namedtuples regularly—whenever I need a simple immutable object. I haven't had any problems personally. (Except when pickling them. I would not recommend that.)

Can any experienced Pythonistas weigh in? Is this bad practice?
Seems perfectly reasonable to control this sort of thing. Loose lips sink ships; operational security is a big deal for a spy agency.

I would be entirely unsurprised to learn that the security agencies provide secured bars for after-work drinking as well; drunk lips talk too much. I'd also be highly unsurprised to learn that background investigations are par for employees getting married or living with someone - just as a matter of keeping information leakage to a minimum.

Foreign policy and operations is a very grim and tedious business, and it can be deadly serious. So you should be taking serious precautions.
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Wouldn't it be better for the old scientists to be the ones that go out and cross-pollinate since they can bring something to the new endeavors?
The answer to this probably depends on how much money you already have. If you're poor, you probably wouldn't want the risk and would choose the 1M.

If you're already comfortable, the random amount has a better expected return.
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5% = $50,000 = $4,166/mth

In any case, whereas 5% might be conservative in the long run, you could be totally screwed in the short term in a bubble.
"sweat" is poetry/metaphor in this context, too, so your description and the previous one are equally valid "in reality."
The young must kill the old.
Using CC-BY would be an improvement, though the intent here is at least relatively clear.

I've seen worse. Went a few rounds back in the 2000s with a developer who'd claimed simply "this has no copyright". I pointed out the several problems with that claim, and the (almost wholly) trivial approaches to fixing them.

He ... wasn't interested.
I'm not talking about hotels, I'm talking about the fact that you nor anyone else can tell the future. Your neighbor could start woodworking as a hobby, put in a pool, get a motorcycle, etc. You have no idea what may come, that's my point, and shouldn't expect compensation for inconveniences especially in the case of leasing. Your property value isn't affected, and in fact, it could lead to a decrease in your rent. For you, or whoever is disturbed, your option (as shown in the article) is to call the police. Furthermore, there are plenty of instances of zoning changes leading to hotels or other commercial operations popping up next to someone who did exactly what you suggest i/e living away from a hotel. If you (or whoever) want to be left alone and never be bothered, by a few acres of land, otherwise expect that at any point in time, you may end up being bothered.

Look, I get what you're saying and where you're coming from, and in theory, it sounds reasonable, but in practice (real life) it just doesn't happen that way.
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One of the biggest customers of Mentor for sure
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I'd say survival-related technical and medical skills. Climate change will likely cause mass migrations in the next 10-20 years.

First aid and basic understanding of common emergency medicine needs.

Building of shelters, basic carpentry etc.

Gardening, food preparation, water purification.

Community building.