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>"Or do you expect this guy to work for free?"

Yes. Remember, we're on The Peoples Republic of the Internet. Capitalism and money are the worst thing ever.
> This is an absolutist position that permits no subtlety.

Where is the problem with such positions?
Also, keep in mind that patents don't mean the invention works, and they certainly don't mean the invention is useful for anything.

https://ploum.net/working-with-patents/

> Note that by « valid », I mean that the Patent Office didn’t found a trivial prior art for this. It doesn’t mean that there is no prior art or that I’m the real inventor or that my invention works.

An example of an insane patent:

https://www.google.com/patents/US6960975

> Space vehicle propelled by the pressure of inflationary vacuum state US 6960975 B1

(via https://www.metabunk.org/do-patents-mean-the-invention-works... )
If you just need to quickly share a file from command line, you can use https://transfer.sh, I find it quite useful sometimes.
Nokia's N770-N9 Maemo/Meego saga was profitable despite being a side-project and having little to no marketing.

It's the best mobile platform I've ever tried. After all, it was just a tweaked Debian distro.

It's exciting to see Purism might head the pure Linux stack way, not just a de-Googled Android route. I also wish Jolla eventually open sources Sailfish, or gets bought by someone who does this.
> There is a price for density: crime, trash, prices, overcrowding, urban decay, poverty and homelessness, etc.

One does not necessarily lead to the other. Urban life is far more complex than that. There are lots of places, even in New York with high density, but low crime, poverty, etc...
its good to know you judge people by where they come from and not what they can do / have done.
Trade secrets are worse because then the design never gets disclosed, and has to be rediscovered. Time limited patents are a good and explicit trade off between the personal benefit of the inventor and the benefit of society.

> Michael Hanack (the materials chemist) used a different strategy: he would not patent anything so his inventions could be used my any market participant, and he would consult for all of them.

That won't work if the invention is easily copied. Chemistry is tricky and there's probably plenty of money to be made in consulting in it. A lot of industries aren't like that.
Anyone who is miserable has already left in 2017. Many long time employees are waiting for SoftBank deal to close before leaving which makes sense. They deserve to be enriched for their hard work. But they are only a couple of hundred employees at most. We have 15,000+ employees and 3,000 engineers.

I’m extremely proud of the work I’ve done at Uber. I have no worries about finding my next job. I have a laundry list of companies who have contacted me since Jan 1, 2018, including FANG.

If the company doesn’t want to hire me because of where I work, I’m happy to not work for anyone who makes snap judgements based on resume line items. That’s basically like excluding people because of the city they grew up in, the school they went to, or the football teams that they support. I’m happy never working for or alongside people like that.
As a UI developer, I think we tend to over-think too much with the aesthetics and workflow. I think a simple confirmation prompt/or a 5 second timer before initiation would have prevented the issue.
Capitalism currently... according to the GOP; take corporate welfare... as much as you can give or take from the state and tax payers..then... with a straight face, pretend its Capitalism.
I don't expect him to work for free, but I do want Intel (and AMD, ARM, NVIDIA, TI, and anyone else who makes a floating point module) to go "sweet, thanks for the fix" as quickly and, almost more importantly, as collectively as possible.

I want this guy to be compensated, but I'd prefer this guy be compensated in a manner that doesn't prevent third parties from fixing their hardware. In general, I think bounties are a good solution to this. Failing that, there are plenty of trade groups and nonprofits and regulatory bodies that could be tasked (and funded) with acquiring and freely redistributing this class of innovation if we wanted to.
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What about them? You're free to discover new things, and not patent them, instead publishing them. If you have a problem with patents, take it up with the legislature and the judicial system, but there's no reason to attack inventors for using a common legal system for protecting their intellectual property.
Sorry to sound so negative, but the closed ecosystem for this is a very bad fit for encouraging young people to code.
They won't be able to share it amongst themselves, share to other devices such as smartphones etc.
There clearly is a gap in the market and someone with enough resources could come up with an ecosystem that let's young people code in a simplified environment and share those results.
in fact there's quite a few of such initiatives, it's just that they are lacking in terms of embracing many modern devices and latest trends such as sharing via github etc.
Don’t know any details about this one, but some bugs are just not exploitable beyond denial of service. If all you can do is provoke an action that makes the OS kill the process immediately, for example. Like a null pointer dereference under the right circumstances.
Is there a reason why we can't have that as a compiler warning?
This maybe US specific. Google "tesla can't sell directly to customers"
The oval tool doesn't respect the fill setting. It is always opaque! Otherwise, fun project! Now, make a js version of photoshop! (I've done several js painting programs, some with pretty unique brushes and weird "helpers".. they're pretty much all in my private repo doing nothing lol)
I just don't see why Boston is in that all likelihood...

The apartment rent in Boston is already hiking towards the level of Manhattan while the living condition in many places is old and antique; and the traffic there can be as slow as 10-15 miles/hour in the area around I-95 crossing I-90 between 3pm to 6pm...The subway system is well confined within the Boston proper;and outside the Boston proper, the public buses and trains come to a stop once each hour...

The current population in the city is roughly 670,000; a 50,000 growth would be an increase of 7.5% (approximately)...and if we take account of their partners and kids, the increase would be more than 10%...

I really feel that, at least for the Boston proper, the trend of gentrification has already been pricing out many residents with regular income; and the capacity is quite saturated to accommodate another large corporation with 50,000 employees...
Co-signed, especially the idea that studying the humanities is useful even though (in fact because) the conclusion they give is often that these problems are hard and complicated. The most common reason I find myself wishing people approaching these problems in tech formally studied humanities is not because the humanities have "the answer" but because if you think you have an answer, it's almost certainly been thought of before, and analyzed for decades.

Not reading admittedly boring and often inane philosophical books and instead trying to build your philosophy from first principles... tends to lead to whatever philosophy was created 50 years ago and has now permeated culture. Like how for a while, every geek I knew trying to re-invent moral philosophy ended up at utilitarianism, only to find out that the good counter-arguments had been made a long time ago; these days, people thinking about the internet, social pressure, and the nature of reality seem to be slowly re-inventing Foucault and Baudrillard without daring to touch the confusing French texts.
I live in CO but not front range and the front range population impacts the entire state from natural resources to transportation and recreation. When it comes down to it I would be OK if Denver didn't win though at the same time feel as if that's squandering growth and cool things for my own personal gains. Ultimately if Amazon adds 25-50K population to the front range that's a drop in the bucket of the already ~4.4M citizens living there.

When you deliberately choose not to live in a city and that city has impacts both near and far that affect you it's tough to want them to grow much especially considering their already large problems.
Ask HN: Anyone using jenkinsfile for ci?
Jenkins has had a version controlled pipeline setup for a while, but googling around yields fairly few results that arent just basic tutorials. Dev mindshare seems pretty low. Is anyone using / recommending jenkinsfile for ci over the mainstream gitlab/circle/travis etc?
>Or do you expect this guy to work for free?

Apparently he did up until now, didn't he?

I agree he should get a percentage of the profits other companies make off of his invention, but it's not like he's entitled to any payments just because he liked to tinker around. Inventor's not a real profession.
If no one's thought of it before, how can it be obvious? If they have thought of it, the prior art can be brought to the attention of the patent office and the patent invalidated.
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If we're counting third parties, what about chocolatey? It's not my favorite package manager around, but it does do the job.
On the other hand, the dependencies are right there for all to see in requirements.txt or Pipfile.
The journalist quoted the "inventor".
I can't access the full article, but is anyone else seeing the teaser for "China’s Great Leap to Wallet-Free Living"?

It seems awfully distasteful for an organization like the WSJ to make a dismissive play on the Great Leap Forward.
IANAL, but if other companies have already done it and it's that easy to find, then it wouldn't be a good patent troll, because there's obvious and easily discoverable prior art (which would invalidate the patent anyway).
> Who gets to decide what is "Good" and "Ethical" behavior ?

Why should any one person get to decide? Right now we have given the power over that decision to the worst people.

I think a good first step is to recognise when someone has the power to incentivise behaviour and see whether they are using that power to incentivise negative behaviour. This is currently the case with most of the powerful institutions in our capitalist society. We do not live in a world of scarce resources. In most places there is more than enough food to go around, more than enough housing for everyone to be housed. We are forced into "survival mode" by the fact that wealthy people and institutions are hoarding resources and preventing access to them so that they can exploit us for profit.

If we simply checked and limited the power of such institutions, allowing people the freedom to act in a less competitive manner, we would probably have more co-operation and a more ethical society. We've seen plenty of examples of this before.
Maybe it's my industry, but I've worked for quite a few companies and never seen this. I meant magic in the sense of me wishing I was working for such a company.
> I just fire up the Arch installer

When I switched to Linux full time, I basically replaced Ninite with a one line shell script and was done. It also removes any worry that Ninite might go sour in the future.
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So he should have either hoped that corporations would feel charitable, or submitted himself as a guinea pig to a system that doesn't exist. Got it.
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Simple: you are unlikely to affect any change by taking an absolutist position. Beyond making it look like you're inflexible, patents have extensive pre-existing legal support, so it's really unlikely anybody is going to change their mind just because you feel strongly.

It's better, when you're arguing on the internet, to limit yourself to reasonable arguments that people are receptive to, and working to convince people.

I used to feel very strongly about patents (that they were "wrong") but, over time I've come to believe they are the least unreasonable protection for IP that also encourages long-term sharing. Trade secrets are worse because society as a whole doesn't get to benefit.
> Under a different system that doesn't incentivize holding back global progress for small amounts of individual enrichment.

Patents were explicitly created to avoid, "incentivize holding back global progress for small amounts of individual enrichment." The other realistic alternative is keeping the invention a trade secret, which is much worse for progress.

> How should he get paid for this? In a very-ideal world, people and corporations that used his idea and had spare capital would voluntarily give him donations.

That sounds exactly like how patents work except with no protections for the inventor. With a patents, the corporations that use the idea do give the inventor donations called license fees, but they can't screw him over and pay him less than he's worth (which they would otherwise do so they can keep the profits for themselves).

Basically, it sounds like you're proposing worse, more awkward systems because you irrationally hate the concept of patents for some reason.
This reply right here is why I turned down Uber when a recruiter reached out to me. I have no moral qualms about a company that ignores taxi laws, but the irrational reputational damage has been done, no matter how much they cleaned up the workplace.

Hiring is already enough of a mind game with without adding "worked for a company the tech press loves to shred every chance they get" to my list of worries.
I think what's helping here is also gradual commoditization of mobile hardware components.
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Oh yeah, but as a new season of Takeshi's castle! That would be amazing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi's_Castle
> If you have a problem with patents, take it up with the legislature and the judicial system, but there's no reason to attack inventors for using a common legal system for protecting their intellectual property.

Many people attack companies that use tax loopholes even though the government does "allow" these loopholes. So if one is opposed to something, but it is formally allowed, one should attack both sides: The people doing it and the government.
That's what I was thinking too; If I do 1 / 3, then of course it will have to truncate, and integration errors would still be inevitable.
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Yes, I know how similar WPF is to UWP in DPI support. What "touch first" as a philosophy adds on top of raw DPI support is the concepts of: strong margins, strong minimum sizes, readability when partially obscured. Those things benefit mouse users too, they drop the number accidental clicks, and speed in which a mouse user can click a specific target (faster to find it, faster to mouse over to it, less accuracy required to click it means more speed to go ahead and click it). All of that is UX knowledge that's been passed around for decades before "touch first" (Fitt's Law), but "touch first" helps cement the concepts. If you can touch it, you can click it quickly.

The classic 16px-by-16px/32px-by-32px "toolbar icon" of the Win32 era is now far smaller than most FPS's "headshot" hit boxes on current monitors/DPI settings. Enterprise users shouldn't need to score headshots every time they try to accomplish a task.

Edit to add: …And yes, you could do all of that in WPF too, there are some great "touch first" WPF apps I've encountered over the years. The difference between WPF/UWP here is mostly default stylesheets. But the argument here being replied to is that "touch first" doesn't matter, which I think is incorrect, "touch first" is huge, and does matter, even for (maybe especially for) "Enterprise".
They haven't said it, but probably because it's not a criterion cities can do anything about.

Having HQ2 far away from Seattle reduces business risk from e.g. major earthquakes.
> The whole point of the patent system is to foster innovation

And if it seems like the patent system is being gamed to hinder innovation (not really in this case, but yes absolutely in the case of pharma) it should be revisited. Intellectual property laws are based in pragmatism, not natural law. If the costs begin to outweigh the benefits, they should be changed.
Arb depends on lots of other numerical libraries (namely FLINT, MPFR and GMP or MPIR). If you want pure-Rust alternatives, the ecosystem is just not there yet.
The floating point error problem has not been solved. This patent describes a floating-point representation that includes fields for storing error information. The standard IEEE floating-point representation has three fields: a sign field, an exponent field, and a mantissa (or significand). This patent proposes reducing the size of other fields and adding additional fields to store error information. The error information would be updated by hardware during regular operations. The patent proposed adding a configurable amount of precision to the numbers. If an operation exceeds this limit, an insufficient significant bits signal "sNaN(isb)" would be raised.

Not only does this method not reduce floating point error, it reduces the precision that you have for any given number of bits.

Unfortunately I can't find any of the figures referenced in the patent to help me understand the novelty of this patent.
That's the Silver Rule: "That which is hateful to you, do not do to others."

Sometimes reformulated as "An it harm none, do as ye list."
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My reply would be that while both Pony and Erlang are actor model languages, the semantics are quite different.

I never speak of either being better than the other. Rather, they are different. I'm an expert on backpressure in Pony, not so much in Erlang, so I'll leave it at that.
Not everyone can afford to choose a better place to live, but they still deserve reasonable things like quiet at night, clean air and so on.
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Where do you draw the line between political pressure and the management's political beliefs?
In the patent he contrasts his "apparatus" with interval arithmetic. He says IA greatly increase computation (while his method doesn't) and requires twice as much storage (while his method doesn't.

To me, it looks like a specific mechanism for encoding the bounds and scale of error into a floating point representation, along with a pipeline for processing operations on operands of this form (presumably efficiently). So to me it looks like a specific variant of IA.

It looks like the purpose is to be implemented as an alternative to conventional floating point libraries and CPU modules. E.g., Intel might license this and add a floating point module based on this + instructions to access it to a future CPU. (Well, even if it's great and all is as advertised, and proves to be generally useful, I'm not sure it would jump right into the CPU. It would probably have to grow more organically first, but that's another discussion.)

I mean, I have no idea if this does all of what it says or if it does, whether that would prove to be generally useful enough to make it out of niche cases.

But it's interesting.
Even for driving in for the evening, i.e. a reverse commute, Boston/Cambridge traffic has gotten sufficiently worse that I don't go in as much any longer. And the commuter rail I take on the sometimes occasions that I go in for a work day was standing room only starting at Waltham, 30 minutes outside the city, the last time I took it.

There's already the GE Headquarters and a large Amazon building going into the Seaport and building continues in Kendall Square. And this is a city that has a relatively good public transit system.
I tried to repeat the test in FF and you're right, it does not lock it up, but once I click in the black area of the page, it becomes unresponsive.
This reminds me of a cryptocurrency approach I've been suggesting for years: allow anyone to mint coins any time, and move the scarcity into the transaction network: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-coin/
Less efficient but far more secure.
OK it sounds like you just want to have an internet argument to win internet points.
Here's how I'm inclined to reason about it:

It depends on whether he would consider the filing's "invention" to be within a reasonable definition of what should be patentable.

If yes, then he's just playing his part in our society's overall machinations for technical progress, and there's nothing really blameworthy about the filing.

If no, then he's being deeply selfish: He's capitalizing on the government's unjustified encroachment on our individual liberties, via the patent system, for his own personal gain.
Cost of living is bad, and it takes an entire day to get back to the mainland.
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My guess is that China is inflating its numbers, but even so, the growth they've had is impressive and a lot of it is real. And even with further inflation of their numbers, I don't think they will be a paper tiger with nukes, like the USSR was.
No you just need to publish it, then it becomes prior art.
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I like 4 hours too. This is realistically the largest amount of real programming most developers do a day, sans interruptions.
Seems to me like "shitty software" is just a moving target. All software is shitty because we can envision something better. In 10 years we'll all be complaining that Windows 20/macOS 23/iOS 21/Android {{confectionName}} is shitty, though surely it will be something that our 2018 brains would find amazing.
Bah! Real engineers have their ethernet cable plugged straight into a logic analyzer, and read the raw packet data.
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Patents are the way the government allows the inventor to require compensation.

Ideally, that would be how patents are "supposed" to be use: An idea you patent can be used by others in exchange for a royalty fee. In reality, that happens quite a bit, but we also get anti-competitive tech companies who wish to keep advances to themselves, and patent trolls who wait on violations to sue.
Meh, the Dutch solved that problem hundreds of years ago.
Very cool!

Sorry for the basic question, but is it legal to do a lottery application like this with Crypto Coins because they aren't real money?
If you have a business account with them you get a rep that you can actually speak to, just fyi, google has been improving business support vastly over the last few years. Everyone else though is relegated to those ms-support-esque forums.
At least they say USB keyboards are supported. SmileBASIC on the 3DS is great until you realize you have to use the stylus for all input. I think I’d rather go back to TI basic on a calculator at that point.
Speaking for myself, I worked at Uber in 2015/2016 and did not wear Uber swag in public because I was afraid of awkward encounters with Uber drivers, which happened on several occasions sitting in the car when it somehow became known I was an Uber employee.
I didn't look at the LLVM IR (since I'm not really familiar with it), but I might investigate it a bit further in the near future.