skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the comments (under the article) is very apt: better wording would have been to say "serendipitous" instead of "accidental".

This guy is sort of a hero, IMO. Given that this is affecting healthcare systems, he might very well have actually saved a bunch of lives! I hope he slept well, totally deserved it :)
Can you elaborate a bit on that ? It seems from afar that both Amazon and Ebay are crashing into eachother.

Amazon, for it's side, is opening up to sellers. From secondhand sellers to etsy type products getting listed on Amazon. It's focus is different: getting many producers/middlemen to list the same products.

Ebay is working to get part of the logistics, payment, etc. in house. Ebay used to be just a listing site. But then payment came into ebay (with a hefty fee raise I might add), and now we see the focus on ebay to classify things the way Amazon does. You're seeing that when you sell something on ebay. Ebay will ask "is it like this ?" and then ask a few questions to determine the exact product.

Seems like both companies are evolving toward the same middle ground.
Samsung just doesn't want to pay the licensing fee. TI has no problems selling arm phones.

Apparently the r&d costs in this space are higher then lawyer fees. Otherwise why wouldn't they dump some money into r&d and get some patents of their own to cross license with Qualcomm.
thats seems weird
Maybe some change is coming ... this song just won Eurovision (European Pop music competition) yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qotooj7ODCM
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The reason for a backup is not poverty or other things that you can possibly fix, but extinction events, such as nuclear war, evil AI, virus etc.
> we just have no idea which jobs will emerge as a result of new industries powered by automation

The question is, if you believe AI will eventually catch up with all jobs that exist today, what skill could a significant portion of the population possibly have at that point, that the AIs would not also match?

Perhaps we'll have social constructs to provide jobs, similar to how people are willing to overpay for designer goods instead of copies (e.g. maybe 'hand-crafted' will take on a whole new meaning). But from a solely economic perspective, it seems like a matter of when, not if, an AI could more efficiently do most jobs.
> First to file doesn't invalidate un-filed prior art or give it lower presedence.

I'm not saying it invalidates anything.

I'm saying this kind of arm-chair lawyering isn't going to impress a judge.

> First to file only really matters when there are overlapping patent applications.

35 USC 102 (b).
Definitely. Rhythm and beats are more important now, with dance culture, than they ever were years ago. It's a shame that it comes with a dumbing down of lyrical content sometimes.
why seems weird :(
"Say hello to Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s worst nightmare. His name is Sam Altman."
Yup. It doesn't make my scrolling janky or slow, it just works. Not tried on mobile yet, however.
What I still haven't had answered is how does the infection actually spread? The bottom of this article says not to open email attachments, but also mentions closing certain ports. Is this being activated accidentally by the users or is it spreading by some exploit?
I guess the key difference is totalitarianism. Totalitarian governments are so all-consuming, and the deceptions that sort of society uses are just profoundly different, because of the way such a deception must be approached.

With everything stemming from one big organization, the question is never if the government did it, but which government agents are the ranking officials responsible, and what are they up to?

When you have a non-totalitarian government, where officials are lesser celebrities if at all, and maybe such a government that acts as a referee for the rest of its citizens, the way it behaves gets weirder, and less predictable.
Aren't HTML5 EME plugins sandboxable, though? That is, aren't they definitely not rootkits?
Fixed in this commit: https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check/pull/4/commits/4f2fef...
The point made is that there are plenty of ways to secure older machines, some of them plainly obvious.
Read more about WannaCry/WannaCrypt/Ransomware Worm by NSA :- http://hackernucleus.com/hacker-news-countries-hit-by-nsa-po...
You're very wrong in thinking this is about glamorous legacies, and in fact it's a really terrible thing to say. The issue is that we're losing our technology, and Jeff and Elon and anyone else working on the problem is saving it. Look, in the 1970s we could send people to the moon, but now costs have ballooned to the point where we can't even send people to the ISS with US rockets, that is, until SpaceX came along.

And here you are, claiming that these people are ego-maniacs that can't get enough and want to be the best, when in fact they are preserving the very technology that once propelled the great country of USA to become the first people on the moon. It's insane that you could say that.

And let me also note that Bill Gates has set the software industry back decades with his campaign to destroy Linux in the 90s. But you're so proud to tear down other great technologists with him! Why?

Finally, you must take note that democracy, a great improvement for life on earth (the kind of improvement you advocate) was created by leaving the oligarchies of the UK and creating a brand new society in a brand new continent. In those times, you would have been a serf living under harsh rule saying that "Those explorers are so self-serving, so self-interested, they don't care about us" when in fact their actions improved your quality of life 100-fold in just two centuries.
Seems like a false equivalence to me. Your statement is:

Space travel cannot fix humanity polluting the environment, therefore we should not do space travel.

space travel is not there to fix humanities issues, it is there to provide an option for survival if humanity faces an (self-induced) extinction event.
Here's how one common scam works : the buyer sent you a fake payment mail. There was never a paypal transaction, nor was any money transfered. The money you paid to ebay was a listing fee, not a final value fee (yes you have to pay even if the item doesn't sell), but in reality the item was never sold.

This is like the old snail mail scam: insert extra bills for common things (like electricity or tax or whatnot) with fake payment instructions (ie. pointing to an account under your control). Suckers pay, then a month later receive another bill from the power company and complain, but of course the power company has no idea about any of that payment and will, of course, still insist on payment.

Make sure to go to paypal's site to verify paypal payments (and frankly if you can avoid it: don't use paypal). Check the sites YOU GO TO, not what ends up in your inbox.
Sorry, but you are just cheap if you complain that with 1 million profit you can't afford to pay for VS.
TI don't do mobile chipsets anymore, do they?
I'd like to add to your quote here. It's not something from the film, but it's something I feel like not enough people understand: The Earth doesn't need saving. No matter what we do, we cannot kill the Earth. We do not have that power. We can make the Earth inhospitable for ourselves, but it will recover. The Earth will keep spinning until the Sun expands and swallows Earth whole billions of years from now.

We, as a species, do not have any sort of power capable of stopping the Earth from doing its thing. In fact, one could argue that we are part of the Earth's thing. We don't exist on Earth, we are part of Earth.
I think tools like this should be secured at least as well as "research" stores of smallpox and other biotoxins. And certainly tracked long after they've outlived their usefulness within the agency that produced them.

Or maybe smallpox isn't actually stored as securely as I assume?
[known to abuse patents] ... as are Intel and Samsung. So it feels to me like reading a book where you don't really care about any of the characters.
Of course peoples greed contributes to this problem. Each and every one of us have some suspect ancestors in our gene pool. It's how evolution works, so saying "But we're greedy and we need to fix that first" seems silly to me - you're fighting millions of years of evolution. That doesn't mean that I want to see unfettered capitalism, but these problems won't go away by sitting around a camp fire and singing Kum Bye Ya My Lord.

Our consumer consumption culture won't change until it has to, whether that means folks going into space and living in an incredibly demanding environment or it becomes untenable on this planet. Wish it were different, but that's just how this stuff works.
I think summer camp jobs will probably still be readily available for teenagers in a decade. Maybe not working at a movie theater or something like that (cashier-intensive jobs), but a lot of jobs with interpersonal interaction will probably stave this off for a while yet.
> Edit2: It's also possible there are overlapping, earlier patents. This one looks promising...compare the drawings:

There's also:

https://www.google.com/patents/US5796402
I doubt it. That is more of a founder role you are describing. People hiring for robotics work will likely already be working on a problem.
Is there a similar app for Ubuntu-flavor Linux? I use it on MacOS, but sometimes play around with Linux on a laptop with a terrible track pad. I know you can customize keyboard shortcuts but haven't been able to replicate Magnet precisely.
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Which Movie Genre Gave the Highest Return on Investment in the Past Decade?
$1 million revenue.

Doesn't really change the point about being cheap, but a business with $1 million in profit is way more fun than a business with $1 million in revenue.
OLED and x86 aren't covered by FRAND, LTE is. When you push to make your patented tech part of a standard, you also agree to license it reasonably.
Works just great on iOS 10.
http://yararules.com/2017/04/06/yara-rules-strings-statistic...
But the amount spent on space travel compared to all the other expenses is negligible, making it orthogonal for all intents and purposes.
Actually there's a reason to think that space exploration may be one of the most important means for fixing "bad human tenancies".

Populating new places can enable a new start and experimentation with new forms of social organisation. Escape from the momentum of tradition.

But that's just speculation, right? It's actually not, because we've already seen demonstrations of this, like the founding of the United States and the democratic system they put in place there.

(I heard this viewpoint from reading Robert Zubrin's "The Case For Mars" https://www.amazon.com/Case-Mars-Plan-Settle-Planet/dp/14516...)
So your analogy is smart chess players playing against stupid ones, but both players can only bet a dollar and win 2?

That scenario only "works" if you have a limitless supply of suckers.

Sooner instead of later the worse players will realize they need to be able to win more than a dollar to compensate for their risk. The result is an unvirtuous cycle where the bottom players keep dropping out because their odds are getting worse and worse.
Plenty of things you can buy with 0 history. Mainly from large sellers that can absorb the cost.
I think the general point holds as $19.5B is a rounding error in the US's budget. There are issues with the lack of funding to EPA but with respect to this discussion it's a straw-man.
> ~90% of workforce were once farmers and almost every single one of them lost their job when mechanization came

It was very easy to go from one job to the other. weather it needs to be required or not, many jobs today effectively require 20 years of education (12+ school, 4 undergrad, 2 masters, 2 years experience).

we talk about coal mining jobs going away as if they should have seen it coming, but tech can also be vulnerable. people forget what it was like to search for a tech job even years after the 2001 bubble burst.

also, the reason why people are worried about automation isn't the number of people effected by each iteration. it was widely accepted automation would destroy jobs and more than what was destroyed would come.

the 2001 and 2008 recession seems to indicate that is becoming less true. i would categorize those recessions as mass unemployment, thus mass unemployment is not becoming less and less likely.
Just look at the way crime sorts itself out, and it's pretty obvious. People robbed banks, got away with murder, disappeared and took up new lives in the circus.

Now? The really pent up people just snap, shoot a bunch of people, and kill themselves, because they know they can't get away with anything anymore.
Point well taken, and of course you are correct...what is more subjective then musical taste?
I disagree. I feel that patents should exist to help companies recoup the cost of expensive R&D. Designing a window manager of this kind doesn't fall under that umbrella. Any reasonably competent software designer could come up with UX like this without a large time investment. Different companies should be able to iterate and refine these kinds of designs. This only has the effect of reducing the size of the software economy and does not provide the intended benefit of helping anyone recoup expensive development costs.
C# and .Net (both versions) are cross platform. Core being made from the ground up to be cross platform.
"I can’t pay but I can send you some pretty sweet stickers!" Yeah.. Very promising ;)
There is money to be made in space (such as mining asteroids), but I don't think that's the biggest driver of going into space. If it was, you'd see much more emphasis placed on unmanned space travel. What we have instead is people motivated by exploration. When people first travelled to the North Pole, South Pole, top of Everest, etc... they didn't do so out of greed, I'd suggest they did it 'because it was there', for the challenge and wonder of experiencing somewhere new.

Colonies on Mars is kind of a grey area, only because Mars isn't the final destination, there's plenty more in this solar system/galaxy/universe to explore. There are some people who probably see it as just another place for humans to take over, but I'd suggest those aren't the pioneers, they tend to be the ones that come in later once the risks are reduced.
I love this book. Its so- human, so deeply human. Everything falls apart, and Pratchett could have been cynical, and mocked the whole endeavor of regime change - turning Ankh Morpork into a blood bath- instead, he put grandmothers on the barricades (mind where you put the good furniture!) and the whole civil war afair ended in a happy little turmoil with free steaks and not free pasty (i m obviously ruining myself here). Always think of that book smelling Syringa

I always read that book when i despair about the species, or im hyped by something and want to get down to earth.
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It doesn't have to be that complicated though.

For example, there's a window of opportunity in everyone's lives where the brain is at its most plastic and 90% of development occurs: between 2 to 5 years old. Yup, preschoolers.

We can focus the education there to create a more compassionate and creative generation.

One source: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.medicaldaily.com/brain-deve...
Then, could you explain me why Mediatek can not sell x86-compatible SoCs for 5 USD?
I meant disabling the ME-side stuff from BIOS. That’s for disabling the Windows-side component.
I don't think you should think of dance music vocals as lyrics in the traditional sense. They're as much about sound and texture as they are about meaning.
Would be interesting to know whether repetitiveness of lyrics affects international sales vs English speaking ones.

I would expect native speakers to be more sensitive about lyrics complexity then others - and international people might even prefer simpler lyrics due to them being easier to understand.
Now I’m curious how a self-assembled computer got into the provisioned state.
People very much have beliefs akin to this. "Wear and tear" of joints, for example, is just not that simple. And avoidance of exercise or any movement in persistent back pain is common.
Forget about this argument. USA needs tech companies, and they need attractive ones that get investment. You think our tax money that builds roadways and schools materializes out of thin air? No, we need great, powerful, sexy, innovative companies. And guess what guy, those are expensive as all hell! But in the long run the tech gets cheaper and we all get it.

Let's take a trip back to the 1980s. You're looking at a desktop PC company like Apple, tearing them down how their first computer costs $5000 in today's dollars. Should anyone have paid you any mind at all? Of course not! Because of Apple pushing the tech so hard for so long, we now have another behemoth tech company on our country's soil. Have some perspective before you go cutting down tall poppies.
According to the article, their would-be competitors are legally blocked from competing. That's the opposite of competition.
A bad patent is still a patent, and if it shouldn't have been granted the burden is on you to prove it. With all the costs and risks involved.

What galls me most about the patent system is all of the things that are trivially obvious once an enabling technology becomes available, and the first person to apply gets a government sponsored monopoly.
A million years? I think you over-estimate how insignificant we are to this planet.

I'm not advocating we destroy the environment, but we really can't do a whole darn lot to it. Can we set off every nuclear weapon at once? Sure, but even that will likely just ruin the surface for 50,000 - 100,000 years. Life will continue, just not humans and most likely nothing of any size.

If we manage to throw the planet into a run-away greenhouse cycle like Venus, yeah, life's done here but that seems like a tall order (though I am not well read or well versed on this subject matter so I could be wrong on this count.

Ok, off the soap-box, you were making the same point as me :)
I don't even believe that the author knew about the WinKey/arrow key shortcuts. They let you size a window to half a single viewport without the rigmarole described in the application.
Some would further argue that learning underlying meaning (which can only derived from context, AKA the pragmatic), is completely impossible without agency. Until these AI systems can grok information relative to some sort of spiritual/ philosophical/ metaphysical "self", they won't be able to make quality judgements.
Yes. Actually, there was a malware in iOS that displayed "Please Enter Password of Your Email..." and many users were trapped in that ruse.

It must still be active on my iPad, because often times, I get that message to enter my email password while Email app is working well.
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I did an experiment to look for synergy from combining Prepack with the Closure compiler: http://www.syntaxsuccess.com/viewarticle/combining-prepack-a...

The result was pretty good.
They just never really read the Scottsman-scrolls right and how could they thus do a true implementation of the Scottsmann ideology!
How to Create Error Handling Framework in PHP Codeignitor?
Everytime a users who is accessing the platform and get an error, the session should send a trap message to the admin with the browser name, version, OS, OS Version, IP Address, Error Message etc
Not Mediatek, but Intel did actually license x86 cores to RockChip for use in low cost SoCs: http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/05/28/rockchip-x86-soc-inte...
And there is a memory leak in all of that.
Synergy from Combining Prepack with the Closure Compiler
Thank you. Yes, I understand that theoretical computer science is math and the result is a proof. I'm more used to papers where the interesting part is a benchmark, with a "proof of correctness" part I can safely skip. And in order to produce the graphs of the benchmark results, they have to implement it.
I am not surprised. I used to sell old iPhones and MacBooks on eBay but stopped since every experience became bad in some way and the fees are already high and getting higher.

The last straw for me was a MacBook sale. I took great care of it and listed it in great condition and included pictures. The buyer considered it "good" not great condition and after several back and forths arguing I sent him $50 to buy a cover. I searched around for information and experiences from others during the process and eventually realized that he had all the control and eBay essentially always sides with buyers. I'm glad I only got taken for $50 instead of the outcome from the story. Never again though. F eBay
For those interested in this topic, I highly recommend "The Song Machine", by John Seabrook. Music is no longer written by single songwriter-singer, it's manufactured on an assembly line to optimize for 'hits'. Hits are to record labels as unicorns are to VCs :)

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/books/review/the-song-mac...
I recommend Buddhism when it comes to accepting loneliness.
So the only thing I see lacking in this is props to Knuth. His intuition seems to have been right on the mark.
Your point and the OPs are not mutually exclusive. It's sad to think that we may soon have the capacity to colonize other planets, yet remain incapable of calming the handful of petty & destructive emotions that plague us.
Can I ask when you've devoted yourself to dancing classes/parties? Is it because you really enjoy it, apart from meeting women? Or is that a strategy?
In my view, this misses the mark. The primary benefit is the second-order effects. Inspiring the next generation of scientists, engineers, and innovators. New technology developed in the process that improves life on Earth. New scientific advancements. A deep feeling of awe and wonder, that ignores borders and nationalities, and brings us closer together as a species.

Now from an economic and investment standpoint. The most important angle here is one of marginal benefit. If we are already spending 100 billion a year on disease, poverty, and climate change (this is a very conservative guess), how much good is adding a few billion more? It's likely not going to move the needle extensively. However, that money that will make an enormous difference in our space endeavors, letting us reap some of those second order benefits.

This idea is core to approaches that involve casting a wide net or diversifying your efforts -- essential strategies for when information/understanding is incomplete and the possibility space is broad. Very much like where we are at today.

Lastly, we need to look longer term. A space program is essential in moving humanity into the next technological era, and will likely have many unforseen positive benefits. Looking at the two paths, I think 200 years now, all else being equal, the GDP and happiness quotient of a society that invests in space exploration will be significantly higher than in one that doesn't.

P.S. This is also a bit ironic coming from Bill Gates, given the impact the space program had on the nascent computing industry:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2525898/app-development...
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I was going to ask, how does Node then know to free the string when all JS pointers to it are gone?

... guess it doesn't?
@luu you submitted two links about dynamic succinct data structures today, what picked your interest?