skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there's a contingent that won't ever be happy with a commercial arrangement.

Just thinking about the way that version control was done for Linux before Git. The author of the system was happy to have people using it as long as no one reverse engineered the product that he was actively selling to customers. The reaction from the community was, "thanks for contributing your hard work...now I'm going to make a clone."

There's a sense of entitlement that really turned me off of open source *nix for a long time. That's just me though. I'm over it, it won...OSS won...free beats everything in the end.
So we are going to have to rely on the goodwill of Google not to sue others if they are awarded the patent? How about being a good corporate citizen like the others and not trying to patent it in the first place?
The fact pertains to "nonincumbent president". I think the OP just left that out.
Hmm. This highlights the importance of statistics AND insane threshold edge detection. Good one to file away, thanks.
> Their main goal is to not get sued.

So there's no practical way to demonstrate prior art without filing a patent?
It also provides a great "retirement plan" for your company's business model: When people stop buying your products you can hold your patents over the other tech companies.
Actually, the origin story of Elasticsearch started with Shay Banon attempting to build a cooking app for his wife who was a chef.

> JAXenter: You started Compass, your first Lucene­-based technology, in 2004. Do you remember how and why you became interested in Lucene in the first place?

> Shay Banon: Reminiscing on Compass birth always puts a smile on my face. Compass, and my involvement with Lucene, started by chance. At the time, I was a newlywed that just moved to London to support my wife with her dream of becoming a chef. I was unemployed, and desperately in need of a job, so I decided to play around with “new age” technologies in order to get my skills more up­to­date. Playing around with new technologies only works when you are actually trying to build something, so I decided to build an app that my wife could use to capture all the cooking knowledge she was gathering during her chef lessons.

> I picked many different technologies for this cooking app, but at the core of it, in my mind, was a single search box where the cooking knowledge experience would start a single box where typing a concept, a thought, or an ingredient would start the path towards exploring what was possible.

> This quickly led me to Lucene, which was the defacto search library available for Java at the time. I got immersed in it, and Compass was born out of the effort of trying to simplify using Lucene in your typical Java applications (conceptually, it simply started as a “Hibernate” (Java ORM library) for Lucene).

> I got completely hooked with the project, and was working on it more than the cooking app itself, up to a point where it was taking most of my time. I decided to open source it a few months afterwards, and it immediately took off. Compass basically allowed users to easily map their domain model (the code that maps app/business concepts in a typical program) to Lucene, easily index them, and then easily search them.

> That freedom caused people to start to use Compass, and Lucene, in situations that were wonderfully unexpected. Imagine already having the model of a Trade in your financial app, one could easily index that Trade using Compass into Lucene, and then search for it. The freedom of searching across any aspect of a Trade allowed users to convey this freedom to their users, which proved to be an extremely powerful concept.

> Effectively, this allowed me to be in the front seat of talking and working with actual users that were discovering, as was I, the amazing power that search can have when it comes to delivering business value to their users. Oh, and btw, my wife is still waiting for that cooking app.
Now, 10 years later, it is the basis of Elasticsearch.

https://jaxenter.com/elasticsearch-founder-interview-112677....
C came from B, which predated the PDP-11.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
> the more you care and provide for the society - the more you are punished for it.

Could you expand on your argument? It appears that you are arguing that income directly correlates with social benefit, which I would argue is at the very least not obvious. What is the precise benefit of say a Ferrari dealer compared to a typically lower income trade like a teacher?
One reason the number of applicants is so low is that the regular visas are also just fine (and still have some benefits over the highly-skilled ones), so a lot of people don't get them even if they qualify.
I guess, speaking as a Brit, we don't take the tech stuff that seriously. The only thing to actually effect me so far has been their attempts to block torrent search sites which involve me having to fire up a free vpn about once a month. And token efforts to reduce copyright abuse are sort of justified I guess.

Re authoritarianism I worry more about the G7s spokesman for Russia. Also I went along to spectate the Brexit court case but parliamentary democracy won that one https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38733090
FYI, the author, Patrick Cockburn, has a last name pronounced “co-burn”.
The Origin Story of Elasticsearch
C64 had BASIC compilers back in the day.
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A digital ID or drivers license that forces you to take a test that schools you on fake news, deep fakes, phishing, ransomware, two way verification and other similar things I think would be a good thing! Also each time you post a comment or video your Identity is attached to it which would make someone think twice about posting a deep fake(if the video is reposted the orginator and the reposter(s) ID is attached) that depicts something harmful to society (president saying going to nuke xyz) or harmful to someone else.

For security purposes you’d have to biometrical ID yourself before posting/attaching your identity to it.

*if you downvote this .. why is this a bad idea? It’s just an idea I thought after watching deep fakes thinking wow something needs to fight such.
> > Nothing about software development is 'natural'

> Why do you say so?

Because building even the simplest computers requires large-scale industrial processes. All of this is based on a social/economic system that required the intelligent design of many many people and organizations.
Systrace was removed because it's unsafe for multi-threaded programs because of TOCTOU.
I got stopped at airport Port of entry and they had all the details of my roommates, roommates spousses. This was back in 2006. I can't even imagine what they have now.
Corporations do not act with goodwill, and those that do are often not successful corporations for long, as others take advantage of them. Remember that every time you see a corporation seemingly acting selflessly, either you don't realize how it benefits them, or its just a public relations play. But corporations always act in self-interest.
Thanks for sharing that! To me it also speaks to that it seems the general perception is that we as society especially in the West are always moving up, and that it's perceived to be impossible that earlier times had technology or awareness greater than what existed after that, or now. I think it could help to explain a lot of unresolved or not well understood artifacts from ancient civilizations.
If MPEG LA tries to patent it then they’d have to go through the same process. But they haven’t so why is Google trying to be a smartass and directly challenge the inventor, when it was him who gave them the idea in the first place? The most charitable thing to say is that they’re naïve but given how they’ve also considered working with the US government on drones to kill people I think they’ve really strayed from trying to “organize the world’s information”.
Exactly my thinking. I have no problem with intelligent, thinking, reasoning beings that aren't conscious and don't have qualia. But it's highly contrived that such beings would go around talking about consciousness and qualia.
Because the UK government is so incompetent right now that I doubt anyone would believe they could pull something like this off.

That and of course the predicted drop in tax receipts due to Brexit has basically caused a widespread freeze on IT spending across the government. So a Digital ID has zero chance of being implemented in the next decade or so.
Well then, I've must have been using the wrong compilers, as they did not output the rol/ror instruction last I tried.

edit: For example, VS2017 x86 target does not output rol instruction for your code with /O1.
It would be interesting to see if the prevalence of comments of the common internet form “I am deliberately ignorant, but I think...” caused a decline in quality on HN, or if the decline in HN quality was caused by the prevalence of such comments.
I agree that Republicans are generally more hawkish, but the Democrats are at the very least deeply complicit. Most of our politicians appear to be quite okay with big brother statism.

I actually do believe in the existence of the deep state, which may explain some politicians'reluctance to reining in the intelligence community. (However, it's also absurd that corrupt-assed people have latched on to that idea to defend their blatant corruption.)
> fewer people would participate in such mobbing if they were all forced to do so with their real identity.

I disagree. Mobbing existed before anonymity; in fact, it was very much the norm -- the concept of "honor" is often tied to public displays of condemnation for the "dishonorable". Publicity makes it harder for people to disagree with what is perceived as the opinion of the majority, as unpalatable and uncivilized as it might be. This is why political votes are secret, among others; or why the Gospels explicitly warn against public displays of faith.

Every group of people will have its "dishonorable" enemies, and will always be keen to publicly shame them. Forcing people to attach their public identities to online activity will do nothing to dissuade people who see such actions as a badge of honor, but it will chill the display of dissent from the status quo.
Because if they were taxed, municipalities would see their interest rates skyrocket. Having municipal bonds be free of taxation benefits the investor (they don't pay income tax), the municipality (more people will be interested in the bonds, hence lower interest rates), and the citizens of the municipality (their tax rates won't go up as quickly).
As much OP did lazy work by posting this question, I don’t think your response was fair or helpful in any way. In the end you didn’t add anything to the conversation either.
Cognitive dissonance of this level has no place in the Canadian government, she clearly lacks any interest in deriving insight from his policies. Rather than trying to understand what is going on, she retreats to ideological blindness.

This mindset is endemic in the Canadian government and it greatly saddens me. I can only hope things get better and sanity returns to Canadian parliament.
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100-200 services would add up to $1000/mo not per year.
Feels like they moved to blockchain
Have a look at https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt - "write into host buffer(s)" is a very common feature, and I don't see why you can't just define a giant buffer.
One thing that comes to mind for the three which exhibit these patterns, is that they're high volume, slow moving ecosystems. Given the SO community's high penchant for closing questions as duplicates, I wonder if we're just at the point where these languages have exhausted their supply of "sufficiently-unique-and-not-homeworky questions for SO".
I feel like many of these patents start with the idea 'if I had a nickel every time...'
For our use case we don't really need a strict verification. Everything that should go to ES is put in a queue (using DB triggers) and then sent off to ES. If something should cause errors we'd see that by observing the error rate on ES ingest I assume.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paclitaxel

History section explains NCI screening in the 60s
My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift
Ask HN: Received CP01E Letter from IRS (Identify Theft)
Hello All,

I just received a letter from IRS (CP01E) stating my SSN has been used to obtain employment.

I have contacted the credit bureaus to a place a fraud alert on my account and am in the process of reviewing my entire credit report.

In addition to changing all passwords / pins, is there anything else I need to do?
> the author should have patented the idea, then freely licensed it

This is the brutal truth of how crappy our current patent mechanisms are. The definition of what constitutes a patentable extension to practice of ideas that are well known or explicitly in the public domain is very weak. So, until something is patented and actively protected by bulldog lawyers, there is a risk of someone else trying to umbrella it in their own patent. Google's move can even be justified on defensive grounds that some other jerks could do the same. But the core problem is an arms race to the bottom of what trivial distinctions can be claimed.
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> in fact one of the properties of good encryption is that output is indistinguishable from random noise

Technically this is not correct, though your point about high entropy nonetheless stands. Ciphertext indistinguishability (IND, and more generally computational indistinguishability) refers to the inability of a polynomial-time algorithm to differentiate between two different output streams of data, given some input stream of data. To be precise, it is sufficient for a ciphertext to achieve indistinguishability under an adaptive chosen ciphertext attack (IND-CCA2) if an attacker cannot distinguish which of two ciphertexts corresponds to a plaintext message with greater with 50% probability in polynomial time, even when they can arbitrarily decrypt ciphertexts of their choosing.

Academically speaking, distinguishability against a set of uniformly random bits is a nice model and a bar to strive for. In practice it's not necessary, and it's harder to achieve with public-key cryptography than secret key cryptography. AES's substitution permutation network should generally have output that appears uniform (except for special cases, like GCM). But public-key cryptosystems like RSA rely on so much algebraic structure to achieve their encryption that it's very regular to find some latent structure which clearly distinguishes ciphertext data from random data. This doesn't diminish the security, because you still can't distinguish between ciphertexts themselves in polynomial time. But from the perspective of attackers and onlookers, if it's not already obvious how a ciphertext was generated from context, it's usually not infeasible to figure it out by looking directly at the ciphertexts or their accompanying metadata. It is much harder to do this with hash functions.

There is not much research in cryptographically secure stenography because that sort of obscurity is usually not desirable except for very special cases. To combat the appearance of high entropy, I would use a specialized encoding algorithm that breaks the ciphertext into many short, variable-length fragments, then intersperses it into a commensurately larger corpus of randomly generated plaintext. Localized pockets of entropy would still be evident even if it's less "loud", so I'd then disguise them by putting them into e.g. very long URLs, which often have great length and pseudorandomly generated tokens.

With an actual research team and a few months I'm confident you could massage this plan into something pretty decently secure as long as the underlying cryptography wasn't too radical. The real question is why go through all the effort to impose secrecy on a platform that's clear antagonistic to it? If you're at the point of considering stenography for a direct messaging system, just message a redditor and ask them to chat with you on a different system for security.
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> Granting a license to the code doesn't automatically prevent someone else from patenting the idea.

But doesn't the fact that the code has already been released mean it's prior art?
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Yeah, I mean the project is specific to JS so not do relevant to consider other languages here
And then the author remarked that Granger causality doesn't indicate causation. It is a measure of how well one variable predicts upcoming changes in another. It doesn't mean that direct manipulation of the first variable will necessarily influence the second one.
> Some companies are averse to using software they need to provide attribution for

why would that be? They certainly already need to put in a license page/dialog/display somewhere, so it makes so little difference adding an extra piece of text there.
I think you might be confusing "wanting it bad enough" with "going to a sufficiently well-funded school" to a point there. Some schools had that kind of equipment available for the students to use, but it certainly wasn't universal. I imagine it's a lot closer now, but poor schools are still underfunded to the point of teachers having to buy pen and paper from their own money, so it's possible that that still may not be available.

As for time, I think the suggestion that the choice is between "learning to program" or "watching sports" is extremely reductive and not accurate to a lot of people's experiences.
Your question suggests their goal is to win when sued. That can be expensive. The goal is not to be sued in the first place.
Ever been in a Tesla? The current system requires you to keep your hands on the wheel, and they always have. In fact there are YouTube videos of idiots showing how they use clamps and other defeat devices to take their hands off the wheel, which the car is inherently designed NOT to let you do.
>I don't even know what definition of 'natural' you're using here.

Copying data is a fundamental operation that all computers are able to perform and it costs nothing. Therefore, data is naturally easy to copy.

Software doesn't need to be manufactured like physical goods do: the software construction step is fully automated by compilers and build systems. The cost of all this is approximately $0. Networks aren't free because of bandwidth costs, but they still make it really easy and cheap to copy data to a lot of computers.

Since games are software and software is data, it is rather easy to distribute them to an unbounded number of machines. Even if you come up with some complicated copy protection scheme, people only need to crack it once and produce a DRM-free version of the game that will work everywhere and won't do stupid things such as require an internet connection. Even cryptographically secure platforms such as the PS4 eventually got cracked and the first thing people did is enable the execution of unsigned software.

>insisting that reality should be the way that fits nicely with my arbitrary mental models

That's exactly what copyright does.
The interesting thing about this paper is that the "intelligent" component does not select the binarization threshold directly, but is contained within a loop (see figure 1) which iteratively adjusts the threshold.
Surely fuel is specifically not included in the plane's "empty weight".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH
Two problems, first the tax system needs to raise a certain amount, just to cover government expenses. So putting forward a proposal of lowering taxes should always be accompanied by a proposal of how to cover the shortfall.

Second, I would actually argue that everybody being unhappy with the tax system is an expression of the too complicated tax system. The problem is, that everybody has the feeling that their neighbor is paying less than their fair share, because the neighbor has found the one weird trick to avoid taxes. So I would actually argue that the opposite is the way forward, radically simplify the tax system, say you get some tax free minimal income and everything above is taxed with 50%. Then people would at least have the assurance that they understand how taxation works, and I would assume are quite a bit happier paying taxes. (Well, nobody likes to pay taxes, but at least compared to now.)
Not sure this is true though.

Mobs existed before because there were so many people that you were effectively an anonymous member of it. Similar to behaviour in protests today.

However removing anonymity today would be difference since everyone could see your name and could get you fired, killed etc. Hence the OP is right that you would see less mobs.
> at the cost of the rest of humanity

This is the main reason why I'm on the fence regarding nuclear non-proliferation. We're approaching the point where nuking the 'plex from orbit will be humanity's last option, the only way to be sure.
One of the reasons that I switched from Linx to OSX was so that I could pay for more of my software. Why? Because then I more of the software I used could be maintained by someone who had the time to dig into bugs and UI problems and to fix them. But in Linux, couldn't I just edit the source myself? Realistically, no. It takes a tremendous amount of effort to source-dive in a totally new project in a language I never use, especially without someone willing to give me a walkthrough of the architecture and fundamental models of the program. It is waaaay more efficient for these to be fixed by an engineer working not in their spare time, but as their full-time job.

A developer targeting OSX knows they have an audience of people willing to pay him money so he can spend his whole day doing usability tests and his evening watching a little league game.

I do miss strace though.
Amd64 port of VMS hits first milestone
Interesting thing about Ionic
Comparing trump to hitler just dilutes the severity of hitler's crime and makes a mockery of ww2 and genocide. One shouldn't use the name of hitler to attack people one simply disagrees with.

I wish the nytimes and the rest of the media would go back to actual reporting real news rather the nonstop flamebaiting and clickbaiting.

Everytime the nytimes, politicians and celebrities compare trump to hitler, it makes trump look good and the nytimes, politicians and celebrities look bad. Trump may be incompetent, but no sane person would compare him to hitler.

"Hitler" should be reserved for the most reprehensible of people committing the most heinous of crimes, not people you don't like. It's disgusting what this canadian politician did and nytimes "reporting".
Pretty neat consequence of Flutter using Dart is that one can write an App studio and use it in the browser!