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> So if the govt already gets a license to the patents, and the tech has been developed with defense purposes in mind, how am I going to profit as a private company?

Let's break that down a bit...

So the government has patent rights. They'd have to exercise them, which requires product development. Are you aware of the government selling many widgets to citizens? They sell road maintenance, insurance, and security services. But they don't really sell citizens "things".

Companies are savvy. If the government approached you and said "we have this patented tech, we want you to use it in this widget", now that you know about CRADAs, wouldn't you be a bit worried about a lawsuit from the other people who have rights on that patent?

Further, without commercialization, the government has rights on that one thing. They don't have rights on version 2, or even version 1.1.

You mention defense. Why? Are you in the defense business? Dept of Transportation might be better for self-driving cars. DoE or NIST might be better high tech partners. USDA or FDA if your in the food space. Etc.
WARNING: clicking this link may try to redirect you through facebook and expose your identity. Also, it didn't work for me as far as bypassing wsj.com to get the full article. I was logged off of facebook, but due to cookies, facebook still knew whom I last logged in as.

If this worked for anyone, please just copy/paste the article text in here... assuming that's allowed.
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New Antibody based drug to prevent Migraines
Yes, the thing is the claimed pattern IS the one with the dot etc. the mistake we made was seeing how close the GCD triangle version fit and thinking it was the same when in fact it was not. The only claim I am making is that this is an interesting way to transform the ulam spiral into something less chaotic.
At the very least, there would be no point in taking "compiling to javascript" seriously anymore, which is the future I'd like to see.
Have you ever worked for a corporation on a really big project?
It's a little different than all those myths about corporations we like so much.
If Amazon retail is barely profitable when using traditional delivery networks, and their own Flex offering is a dumpster fire due to abusing independent contractors, they’re going to have to burn way more cash to compete at the last mile.

This is not a bad thing.
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Hello,
I'm a middle technical manager at a largh-ish private agribusiness conglomerate. Not a tech company, but of course we use a lot of tech. My area is platform, i.e. Windows, Linux, middleware, and cloud. Out of our 3K+ servers, probably 90% are currently Windows,but that's somewhat by choice (we could probably run 50/50 with some effort over time). My observation, based on recent hiring experience, is that the highly technical and stoic Windows workforce may giving way to a highly energetic and creative Linux workforce. My question: would it be wise to force that ratio closer to 50/50 in order to better position for the future workforce? Disclosure: we have a few top-talent Linux admins that could take on a lot more servers. Thanks for your answers.
Interesting, this reminds me of Proton Native. Both are based on libui.

Proton discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978901

libui: https://github.com/andlabs/libui
Interestingly enough I was at the doctors today with my wife to get her every 12 week Botox shots for her Migraines (30+ shots). Her doctor brought this new treatment up. Anything that fixes this is great! That being said, she is getting free anti-wrinkle treatment as a bonus feature of the Botox. I said that - and she was not amused :)
This is not exclusive to Asia. I know more individuals whom have found success doing this than attempting to sell software which is the result of a one-off idea.

It might seem rare in the States, but only because 1) the entrepreneurs heading these ventures do not want to give away profitable niches in the market and 2) they are not as fun to talk about as startups with lofty billion dollar goals.
The old joke that “it’s a command to the users, not the employees!” still applies, and I guess fits their increasing meddling with people’s behavior.

Alternatively, “Do the right thing” could easily mean “correct” thing, as in the sentence, “If Dr. No did things the right way, he would have immediately killed Bond when he had the chance”

They really can’t win either way.
Obsession about muscle buildup strategies at the gym has rarely been associated with rhe term “nerd“. Those people can be quite nerdy, and even connect well with regular nerds if they find common ground, but isn't the mainstream accepted term “jocks“?
For anyone needing to bypass the paywall, if you google "WSJ Theranos Inc.’s Partners in Blood" in an Incognito window you will generally have no problem getting access. Not guaranteed but works most of the time. Sometimes there will be a pop up to close. Using Incognito increases the likelihood of access if you have previous WSJ use.
> Do they have customer support?

Their free services have no direct support channels, as expected. I wouldn't provide free support for free services either.

I've received excellent support from Google for GSuite/Google Apps and Google Cloud over the years, both via chat and calls, usually out of their Ireland office.

I live in Fiji and my account with them isn't worth all that much (~$100/month).
I'm a NYer.
Also, it depends on the interviewer. I have been on both sides of the table and I can tell that as an interviewer you need to convey these type of questions very clearly. A interview is typically 45 minutes in most companies, where about 5-10 minutes are wasted in introduction etc. You have about 35 minutes and if you waste 15-20 minutes explaining a problem to the candidate and in the end leave the candidate with 15-20 minutes to solve a dynamic programming question, then it is very unfair on your part.

Most companies in bay area have 3-4 whiteboard interview rounds and I have experienced at least 1 interview, at every place I interviewed(FANG and other top bay area tech companies), where the interviewer wasted enough time either explaining the problem.

As an interviewer, it is really important to keep the time aspect in mind and choose a problem which could be easily explained. The problem itself could be hard, but story based problems waste candidate's time and have little value in assessing the ability of the candidate.

PS: I interviewed at one of the tech companies(the one you all know and I won't name), and in one of the technical rounds, it took the interviewer 20 minutes explaining the problem. The problem basically boiled down to finding largest number at any time in a given sequence without sorting the array. The problem had a background story of some cell towers where each tower had a strength and blah blah. The interviewer was also had communication issues.
> Paracetamol is not handling it, they often stop it, or rather, it stops the thing that is causing it to develop.

Actually, this is pretty interesting. I'd be really curious if NSAIDs like ibuprofen or naproxen have the same effect. APAP has a novel mechanism of action at the cannabinoid receptor type 1, because it's a prodrug for AM404. That's the only target that I've ever found that kills my migraines (N.B. prescribed synthetic, not so much smoking joints or anything).
There are no quality IQ tests that go up to 190. If a test purports to be valid up to that level it is very strong evidence that its authors are frauds or don’t understand statistics or both.
Hell Town's hot, but according to the Wikipedia article has record highs of 42C in the summer - rough, but bearable. Not sure about the acidity, though.
does knuth also come and kick the guy out, if he fails to solve it?
Call me racist, but I also don't like blackboards.
We live in this Utopia where we can click buy and in 1-2 days we get what we ordered. Yet no one is ever happy. I think we protest a bit much here.
Here's a link to the libui library that Vuido is based upon:

https://github.com/andlabs/libui

Both libui and Vuido are works in progress but seemed quite promising and are being actively developed.
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Built before the idea of bad actors was a thing..
JS took over not just because it ran everywhere but also because of the network effects of everyone learning it because it ran everywhere. wasm has no such benefits, as an intermediary format. Nobody's ever going to get a job as a "wasm expert" building anything other than a wasm build pipeline. wasm may afford us more freedom, but that very freedom is in opposition to its broad adoption. It'll certainly be interesting to watch it play out over the next few years.

Oh, and:

> Alternatively, if you focus on getting web assembly up to speed, you can compile any flavor of JavaScript you want directly to web assembly

You can already compile any flavor of JavaScript to... JavaScript. It even maps better than wasm. wasm really doesn't help there. Today's ecosystem _is_ that ecosystem. Except there's some hope that some variants become future core language, unlike if you were using wasm, where you wouldn't even have such a thought because you'd be using a compiler forever. But... If you're ok with that, why wouldn't you be ok with transpiling forever?
Vagus nerve stimulation, eh? As in the infamous cure for intractable hiccups[0]?

I mean...of course that improves depression outcomes. How could it not?

[0] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2299306
> In 1999, he joined CommerceBid.com as its president and No. 2 executive; it was developing a software program for companies to pit their suppliers against one another for contracts in live online auctions. Business-to-business e-commerce had become hot, and in November 1999, the sector leader—the similarly named Commerce One—acquired the startup for $232 million in cash and stock, though it had just three clients testing its software.

Ah yes, the dot-com bubble at its finest.
Are you serious? the fact that your email isn't yourname@mailprovider.com doesn't make it any less identifiable.
My IP address is 192.168.1.1 identify me...
It also doesn't matter if you think the information is identifiable or not what matters is how the GDPR defines it.

The GDPR defines PII and there isn't anything you can do about it you can't ask users to make a throwaway email account and hope that you can pass GDPR by claiming that it's not PII this isn't how regulation works.

What matters isn't that the email address reveals your name is that someone can use it to identify additional information about you such as if you are subscribed to a specific service or not.

>So the website says dont give PII. User still does. And GDPR would penalize the website ? Citation please.

If the website asks for an email address that is PII under the GDPR.
Thx for putting this out there. Really super cool. I'm thinking about doing "something" in the TLD world, this is great to have as a reference. Of course, I'd have to think long and hard right now before committing to 100% reliably running a project like this vs farming it out to an Afilias or whomever, but maybe it'll come in handy.
Ask HN: What are all the “hacker news” sites for other disciplines?
For example I know that for designers there’s designer news. Is there a place where all the mathematicians hang out and share links?

Or is reddit pretty much the de-facto place for online niche communities?
I don't think difficulty is complexity. For example, the bitcoin mining protocol complexity is the same but the difficulty goes up or down.

I'll attribute difficulty to the energy required to resolve a system. For example, pulling weight. The complexity of the action is the same. But the difficulty depends on the weights to pull.
If the costs are the same, isn't employing people a better use of money than insurance?

I've never used a full-service pump, so I don't get what the problem is. Why do you prefer to pump your own gas?
Hmmm. Fine in Firefox (59.0.2) for me.
I made a version of your program in SmallBASIC: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smallbasic/smallbasic.gith... I found with packSize less than about 20 the shapes vary, then increasing values of packSize results in two alternating sets of shapes.
But maybe hard-nosed entrepreneurs don't want to work with the village idiot?
Don't complain too much it is what produced the starting capital that made YC possible.
Given YouTubes weird stances on content moderation, I'm not sure that's a wise bet.
There's not enough open-source back-end tools that would allow a site to host and publish videos on their own, without going through a third-party service.

Where is the video equivalent to WordPress?
I'm a big fan of George Carlin, so I can see where you're coming from ('Elmer Fudd', if it rings a bell) and yet I can't cross that particular bridge. Sorry. But thank you for the conversation.
> You should not be blamed for assuming, when talking to Google, that the O(n!) or O(n^2) solution is not even worth talking about.

If the naive solution is O(n!) then describing an O(n^2) solution is perfectly acceptable.
I'm glad I don't gain/depend on income from adsense any longer as well. Moved on to CPA and then SaaS.
Then you’re basically renting a 3lb $50 commodity- anyone who wants one could gave one with them at any time. There’s no real market for mass rentals of that type of thing - cheap and portable.
People like to dramatize things way too much, most "breaches" are accidental there are 1000's of companies that manage to keep their data secure on a daily basis despite targeted attacks.

With a few exceptions it's much easier to either poach your competitors or simply buy them outright which is why "corporate espionage" is mainly employed by nation states these days that need to catch up.
It's also important to note that stealing a design isn't that useful these days since you are too far gone what would be more important especially in the semi industry is to know the characteristics of a specific design or process in order to be able to preemptively position your offerings to compete without giving up any unnecessary ground.
They're nowhere near the same. WASM is based on linear memory and has no concepts of objects and methods. CIL bytecode as used by .NET has a full runtime which has objects, methods and GC. Even with the GC proposal, as currently spec'd, it would not be able to handle .NET's object model.

The only similarity, really, is that they're both binary formats.
There is nothing more ironic than a what aboutism meeting an article about what aboutisms.
In one quarterly earrings reports, Amazon as a whole earned $500m- of that, AWS earned $600m of it.
A site can't do that. You need a CDN and streaming transcoders, etc. Of course if you only have a few viewers then HTML5 will play your self-hosted video files but I don't you think that's what you mean.
Wikipedia is useful, no denying that.

StackOverflow might as well just be put into read-only mode at this point. Asking new questions is more likely than not going to end up with your question locked for some reason. It's a super useful archive of questions and answers from back in the day when they still let people ask questions, but as far as I can tell no new useful content is being added. A few of the stack exchange sites are still allowing questions, but on the programming one the "ask a question" button is just a decoy.
> Your center of gravity is lower than on a bike

I do t believe this is/should be true. On a bike you are lower than you would be standing up - on a scooter you’re several inches taller than when standing up.
It's fast enough for many applications.

I think ucontext is an excellent starting point for a general implementation. You just abstract it with a thin veneer and adopt faster implementations as needed where applicable.
This is actually one of the biggest reasons I’ve not bought one already. The colour selection is deeply flawed in my opinion. I say opinion but it’s my opinion based on years of paying attention to user experience and ergonomics. It has a low contrast and low contrast is bad on items intended for swift and decisive use. Sure, too high of a contrast will be bad, but that’s partly dependent on font and other aspects of the design as to when it becomes “too high contrast”, regardless of that, this colour scheme is far too low contrast.
This great video from 8-bit guy has sounds from Apple II drives and some other examples, together with various technical details and views of the drives insides:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHRc-QMoUE4
Publishing is usually not the issue. The delivery is. Besides being it very expensive to re-encode, store and delivery content (in comparison to text), it's incredibly challenging to create good experience for the end user.

This is where companies like mux [0] come in the picture, but it's a paid product. YouTube is "free" with a chance to also generate, in some cases, pretty significant revenue stream.

[0] https://mux.com
The downside is that it's extraordinarily difficult to create a single runtime which has a satisfying object and GC model for all parties. The GC proposal which adds such a thing on top of WebAssembly is nowhere near complete and is currently being punted on, with the intermediate solution being host-bindings. And keep in mind that this GC proposal doesn't handle JavaScript's dynamic objects which can change shape at runtime. It only handles ones with known shapes.

It will be a long time for it to be possible for JavaScript to "just be compiled" to WebAssembly while keeping the same performance characteristics, if it ever happens.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/32 has some concerns from language implementors.
Filing complaints against the CRA or the company who "mis-reported" things to the CRA?
Discovery is the problem. If they’re on YouTube they can show up in people’s recommendation lists, target users with particular history, etc.

Hosting your own video means you’re not likely to catch users who are binge watching videos, which I would imagine is a more lucrative demographic for ad dollars.
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> I can recommend this paper [0] that talks about simulations that show a black hole just implodes in a weird way and kind of does not stop imploding, due to space-time getting stretched with a speed above that of light, as measured within a frozen moment in time, and summed over some line from inside to outside

I would not put too much credence in this paper. First, it seems to be contradicting the well-known singularity theorems proven in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and that doesn't give me very high confidence in its results. Second, just reading section 1 of the paper I'm seeing what look like obvious misunderstandings of the simple collapsing dust model; for example, this:

"Consider the case of a particular set of initial data or conspiring alien civilization that seeks
to extract mass from this infalling cloud by moving much larger and denser bodies near it so
that some of the particles leave the collection and follow and, possibly, join the larger mass. The
aliens have infinite time to pursue this project..."

This is wrong: the aliens do not have infinite time to extract mass from the collapsing cloud. The fact that light signals emitted outward by the cloud will continue arriving at the aliens' ship, far away, indefinitely (in practice how long will depend on how low frequency radiation they can detect) does not mean that the aliens can continue going down to the cloud, getting material from it, and bringing it back up indefinitely. In fact it's simple to show (and is a common textbook problem in GR) that, if we call the time by the aliens' clock at which the collapse starts t = 0, there is a finite time t > 0 after which even a light signal emitted by the aliens towards the cloud will not reach the cloud until after it has collapsed beneath an event horizon and formed a black hole. (And for a black hole of mass a few times that of the Sun, this time is not very long: for example, if the hole has 10 times the Sun's mass and is collapsing from a starting radius of a billion kilometers, which is about 100 million times the horizon radius for that mass, the time t is about a million seconds, or about 12 days.)

In other words, the paper is making a simple mistake: it's treating processes going inward towards the collapsing cloud, as though they worked the same as processes coming outward from the cloud. But the two are not the same, because of the asymmetry of the cloud's gravity: it pulls things inward. And when I see a paper making this kind of simple mistake in the beginning, my credence in the rest of what it says goes way down.
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What about non-obvious threats? Generally speaking, nations that fall behind technologically fare poorly against more advanced nations.

What about software that is adapted by the military for new use cases instead of tailored use cases? Should Microsoft be responsible for damage caused operations planned in Word and PowerPoint? What about iPhone with sniper windage apps? How many layers removed before a company is considered ethical?
Exactly. Title is misleading in a very 'click-baity' way.
This looks interesting, but I'm pretty skeptical of the revenue model. I have a hard time believing a general purpose discussion site can survive on donations. Especially one with a moderation policy. If you see any success, you're going to end up at a point where you need paid moderators - volunteer moderators who are only motivated by the tiny bit of power they have been granted are a big part of the problem with toxic discussion sites like reddit.

If you have no revenue, you have no guarantee of trusted community management. And thats assuming that you can somehow collect enough donations to cover hosting, which also seems unlikely.
I'd worry that this was somehow acquired rather than just random. If it is exceedingly rare, I always worry it isn't a coincidence but rather a yet not understood method of transmission.
Since it has not been posted yet, the open sourced Apple ][ source code (the 16-bit read/write) from Paul Laughton and Steve Wozniak and Randy Wigginton and some technical design docs can be viewed.

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/apple-ii-dos-source-cod...
I assume MRAM and FRAM refer to the same thing? If so Texas Instruments have some pretty cool (I think) microcontrollers using FRAM allowing for a user defined spit between volatile and non vatime memory, the MSP430FRxx series, I don't think they have it in any ARM parts though.
Early version of WebSockets exposed bugs in HTTP proxies, some of which were security problems: http://www.adambarth.com/papers/2011/huang-chen-barth-rescor... To fix these kinds of problems, the final version of WebSockets does not use a straightforward upgrade but instead has a kludgey handshake and content masking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket#Protocol_handshake https://trac.ietf.org/trac/hybi/wiki/FAQ

HTTP/2 doesn't have the same problems because it requires TLS+ALPN, but IIRC that "clean" solution was only arrived at after years of discussion and experimentation.
> anything that falls into the black hole will, even in it's own reference frame, _never_ reach the center

Are you saying that the standard GR model of black holes says this? It doesn't; it's simple to show that the proper time, according to the infalling observer, from any finite radius r to r = 0, the center of the hole, is finite.
VR bubble is going to burst pretty quick