skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Filing a provisional patent application costs $70 when filing as a microentity (common individual case). You can do it without an attorney (see Nolo Press and others for DIY help).

After filing, the applicant has one year to file a utility application (what most people think of as a 'patent application') based on the provisional application.

The provisional app is never published. If there's no derivative utility app, the provisional sinks out of sight.

I forget the current utility filing fee, but it's a few hundred $ for an individual. Attorney's fees are in the few $K range and worth it if you have a valuable invention.
Nitpick: the "Sir" attaches to the first name, not the last. He'd be Sir Richard.
Ah, I owe you an apology then. I was super confused when I saw it on the list, and found a bunch of stuff related to Slim Fast and sibutramine but I guess I didn't read it close enough. Thanks for the clarification.
Nope; neither was bombing a school bus full of children. Weird, huh?
Systems, not Programs
drugs are technology
We can detect dark matter via its mass, that's why we know it exists. We can see it speeding up galactic rotations and acting to gravitationally lens more distant galaxies and so forth. But we have yet to detect it on the small scale, especially at the individual particle level.

Keep in mind that one of the key differences between dark matter and atomic matter within a galaxy, for example, is that dark matter has a nearly uniform density over very large volumes (many light years across) whereas atomic matter has enormous density variations, with huge expanses of near vacuum punctuated by ultra dense stars, planets, neutron stars, etc. Within our own Solar System the amount of dark matter inside a spherical volume that would extend out to Neptune's orbit is only as much as a comparatively small asteroid. As you scale out to larger and larger scales the fact that the density of dark matter is relentless causes the mass enclosed inside a volume to start to match (and ultimately exceed at the largest scales) the mass of stars, nebulae, planets, etc.
Now we have that: http://www.ptinews.com/news/10109087_Air-India-Express-plane...
is this a serious comment?

i am not that old and not that young, and VR has been "around the corner" for 10 to 15 years already. even with all the hype and the amount of people that have been feverishly working on it, there's basically nothing to show for it. it will come eventually, but not in any useful form anytime soon.

what does moore's law have to do with ease of programming?

blockchain has no relevance to the common person.
Thanks for looking into this and finding that PR!

I opened an issue with SurfingKeys: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/837
Perhaps worded a little sharper than I really intended. Other than that, it's not terribly different from what you are saying.
First off, why would you use a research file system on enterprise hardware? Secondly, if you read just a little bit further you see that they are testing using spinning rust (HDD). Since they mention threads, I would hope that they are testing using something that supports hardware parallelism. So probably some relatively decent modern hardware. Mind you this is all speculation, and conclusions you could draw by reading the FAQ carefully.
lol

holding the front? they just removed rss.
I, for one, have been busily working in my backyard launching nano-rockets filled with water bears that I've manipulated via CRISPR to contain encoded messages of funny dad jokes.
Of course but how is that relevant? Lots of places in the US don’t have chip and pin. Just because PR does means little about NYC.
Why are there so many people who trot out their theories that they've put about 30 seconds worth of thinking into and are based on the assumption that professional scientists fundamentally don't know what they are doing and are completely clueless?
Mostly the compiler just needs to slap your hand harder, and tell you no when you do something stupid or depend on undefined behavior. Also better static analysis would be nice.

I completely agree with you on all points. Languages exist to make our lives easier.
> it predicts income, health, longevity, and so on [1], [2], [3].

We already knew that rich people live longer, so what's the point in using "academic success" as an intermediate predictor?

> if you actually believe that because some people are successful (by many reasonable measures) without an education that this somehow means that education itself is not valuable.

Straw man.

It's not a valid (scientific) conclusion to apply the result of correlation studies on a large mixed group to selected subgroups and assume it will apply equally. IOW, rich people with college degree might not live longer than those without just because the general population does.

But my point was something else: a better life is neither measured by wealth nor academic success or life expectancy at 25. It's entirely subjective and such click-baity titles are misleading. It should read "it's better for academic success to be born rich than gifted", but then it would't be sensationalist enough.
It's not a misunderstanding, I'm asking if that's the best way to achieve optimal results. How many social problems are caused by people not being offered opportunities for spurious reasons?
What makes a technical architect?
I don't think searching works properly as it only searches posts your instance knows about.
cgi-bin all over again?
Sure. I guess I'm old enough I still see the internet as a thing that we could hypothetically choose to shut down (without killing half the population) -- unlike, say, agriculture and civilization. Maybe that's not realistic, though.
I don't think this suffering is worse than what people lived through back then.

Imagine if your full time job was just finding food to put in your mouth and wake up the next day.

I appreciate the comforts of modern society. I doubt I'd have been a good scavenger...
No, it can collect fragments (query building) and auto-declaration. when I add features it's not lightweight anymore :)
Funnily enough, these two comments are now the top 2 Google results for "plusx 5501".
I remember names until that person is in front of me. Once they've gone away, I remember it again. It happens all the time. I guess there's a name for this?
I think some believers see a steady state universe. Life then becomes a boltzman brain.
But I think panspermia is likely a thing and I think life naturally arises in open dissipative systems. Get a rock, water, and a heat source and wait a few million years...
>Something needs to happen to challenge them, as they really are holding back a tonne of potentially viable businesse

How do they do this exactly?
It's actually just a query-builder and request tool to a GraphQL server. It's only 9kb. And it's agnostic, doesn't require any other package(s). Just download and use without any dependency. Apollo is a very dependent tool to make a simple HTTP request. According to Apollo, it has less features, but the most required and important ones.
If the normal way of consuming caffeine was snorting a powder that was mostly the pharmaceutically active conpund and bulking agents they’d look reasonably similar. If cocaine was available legally as tea or as powder but taxed much higher there’d be a lot of coca tea drinkers who wouldn’t touch the powder.

The dose, and the delivery method, make the poison.
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I suppose a procedure that responds to an http request is now called a lambda.
janelle monae is awesome, but could you elaborate on what you mean by mentioning black panther? i felt it was the same action packed drivel and cgi fest as all the other marvel movies. the fashion in the movie is great, but it also has some rather antiquated elements, like the primal way of choosing who is king, that are the opposite of futurism. the social and cultural commentary performed by the marvel movies is about as superficial as you can get.
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Well, there's a little more than that, as we actually have told compiler devs we don't want that.

When developers demand that compilers compete with each other on fractions of a percent of runtime performance, we set ourselves up for things like UB acting in unintuitive ways. When people give us the choice between safer but slower systems, and fast but unsafe ones, until recently people have overwhelmingly chosen fast and unsafe and pretended they're superhuman enough to not write bad code.
No link to the actual study?
Airdrop is pretty much useless because its proprietary and only works on apple devices. A useful tool for photo sharing has to work for almost everyone.
Exactly! That's why I created this. Apollo is nice but too heavy for a simple query for small projects. graphql.js also, can scale big projects (I'm using it in a large project) since it has fragment collecting feature which makes your codebase manageable.
> Was [...] the thought that the car was going to change life on the street, really so beyond envisioning

"Prediction #6: Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today. Farmers will own automobile hay-wagons, automobile truck-wagons, plows, harrows and hay-rakes. A one-pound motor in one of these vehicles will do the work of a pair of horses or more. Children will ride in automobile sleighs in winter. Automobiles will have been substituted for every horse vehicle now known. There will be, as already exist today, automobile hearses, automobile police patrols, automobile ambulances, automobile street sweepers. The horse in harness will be as scarce, if, indeed, not even scarcer, then as the yoked ox is today." Dec 1900 [1]

I enjoy reading commentary about this set of predictions... to see how people misunderstand the past. Or why something didn't happen.

Take horses. One commentary says, 'no, wrong, horses were cheaper than cars are today'... and compares only purchase price, being unfamiliar with stabling. Another claims horses were more environmentally friendly than cars... forgetting that horse fodder was once a primary import of cities, their waste a primary export, and that it and carcasses once decorated streets. A major use of horses was... shipping fodder for horses. And I fuzzily recall an SV person giving a talk at Stanford, arguing you can't predict the future (sigh), and dissing the article in general, and the horse prediction as 'they thought horses will become extinct - silly them'. When they didn't say extinct; and some commercial breeds are; and given the change of urban horse populations (from like cars, to like giraffes), a non-technical "extinct" wouldn't have been wrong.

Unfamiliar with the past; inattentive to the present; and lackadaisical in thought; we watch the future arrive, and find it unexpected. There's a surprise.

Perhaps VR ("so this is what it was like... oh, that's weird"), and AR ("overlay the past on the present"[2]) will help.

[1] "What may happen in the next hundred years" (Watkins; 1900; The Ladies Home Journal) as jpeg: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/John_Elf... ; as text:
http://yorktownhistory.org/wp-content/archives/homepages/190...
[2] Old photos overlaid on new: Zoltán https://www.facebook.com/ablakamultra https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsultan/sets/7215762614911821... ; assorted https://www.google.com/search?q=then+and+now+composite&tbm=i...
Listen, I am from European country where NATO by mostly US backing bombed and killed more than two thousand civilians, among the targets were train full of civilians, Chinese embassy, etc. And of course nobody would or will ever be punished for that. And that is only my country. So first please clean up your yard.
40+ and I can tell you, this is the case. basically industry just wants to suck the life out of you from 20-40, then dump your ass hard. just the way it is. last week I was talking to an Indian working two jobs, because his take home pay was < 20k, billable at 60k, for a job that market pay is 120k at entry-level.

So when somebody tells me to "take a paycut", I tell them to go fuck themselves. Particularly if they are the CEO banking millions of dollars, and block-busting labor with H1B's under slave conditions.

The crazy thing? I asked the Indian guy, do you even want to live in the states and he doesn't care. He actually prefers India. So they're coming over here, ruining the job market, and they don't give a shit if they're even here. Mentally I'm going "then why the fuck are you here?"

If they totally repealed the H1B, I would be a happy camper. They already transferred the tech to India and China; but do they have to kill/give away the next generations of tech?
I'm exactly the same way, and as a person in his mid-twenties, it's terrible. I sometimes feel like I have incredibly-early-onset Alzheimer's or something when I can't remember the term for something interesting I read about a few months ago, and apparently it's pretty bizarre that I remember almost nothing from my childhood before my mid-teens. Not to mention, it's very difficult to convince people you're not an antisocial jerk when you forget the names of people who have already told you their name more than once.

I've always wondered if this memory issue is at least partially genetic, though, because my two brothers and my father all have the same issue remembering names and other trivial facts. We all will also forget things that our wives have told us, not because we weren't paying attention at the time, but because our subconscious minds just decided that particular piece of information wasn't worth storing.

I really wish I could just run CCleaner on my brain or something...
Costumers? They seems to be as fanatic as the nazis when go to some hitler speech... Both on store employees organization and their client...

Personally i never bought anything from Apple, however I have changed an MBP faulty keyboard and it was a REALLY UNPLEASANT experience due to explicit design choices, like glued battery. So... Well IMVHO they charge correctly in the end: if someone want to spend big money for something that inferior, except for aesthetic, it's good to give a high-price lesson. Next time he or she will buy different stuff or keep loosing money. Natural selection at work.
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> What also happened is that this is not an area usually hit by hurricanes

Having grown up on the Gulf coast, it's still mind blowing that many folks living on the Gulf coast still think they are immune to hurricanes if it has been several decades (e.g. 40yrs) since there was a direct hit in that area. The entire Gulf coast should have building standards to prepare for the inevitable.
Your experiment has several fundamental flaws. Firstly, dark matter is weakly interacting (even with itself) which is why it doesn't "clump" the way atomic matter does. The only "clumping" of dark matter happens on galactic scales, because the typical speeds of dark matter particles are in the range of orbital speeds around galaxies. Our measurements of the dark matter mass in galaxies don't have nearly enough precision to be able to determine the relationship you posit with much certainty.

As to your own experimental design, using large spheres of matter, it's completely non-workable. As mentioned above, dark matter particles have velocities in the range of orbital speeds around the galaxy, which is 100s of km/s. So most of the dark matter particles in the vicinity of Earth are going to simply pass through your spheres without stopping, and certainly without increasing their mass.

Additionally, you seem to be confused about the scales of densities here. Dark matter is distributed in a somewhat uniform density on interstellar scales (there are density gradients across the galaxy however). Near the Sun the density of dark matter is about 0.0025 solar masses per cubic light-year, or about 5e-20 kg per cubic meter. So, there really is not a lot of dark matter passing through objects around Earth, mass wise. There's only maybe 6 kg within the entire volume of the Earth at any given time, for example.
But temperature alone isn't sufficient for life as we know it. Here on Earth we enjoy an atmosphere providing us with oxygen, a large planet protecting us from most meteor impacts, and a magnetic shield against radiation.
Its directly ageism. Because it happens as soon as you hit 40. Sports has the same thing. So does the military (passed over 3 times for promotion in x amount of years, you leave the military).

Military does it for competence. Sports does it for physical reasons. But is there a reason to throw away 20+ years of experience in an engineer, so you can cut payroll? Particularly when those engineers built the industry, your busy making unicorn-money off of?

The whole thing is ridiculous.
I think to qualify as an expert on dark matter you should at least be familiar with General Relativity, the standard model of cosmology, gauge theory (and in particular extensions of the standard model of particle physics), and have a good overview of the literature on dark matter experiments. Add in a novel contribution to the literature, and you have done the bulk of the work required to gain a Ph.D.

It is very difficult for a poser to fool actual experts. It is a lot easier for a poser to fool non-experts. Also it's often more lucrative.

Experts may disagree with one another without either party risking be considered non-expert by her or his peers.

Experts, also, having a decent overview of the literature (which includes observational and experimental results) will generally have a decent understanding of what they don't know. It is very rare for a poser to admit what he or she does not know. It's also fairly common for non-experts, who are not experts in some other discipline, to have no idea the amount of knowledge experts have been exposed to during the course of developing their expertise.

> No doubt they are very smart

Really, it's more that actual experts are excpetionally well-read in their narrow little disciplines, and along the way have lots of practice writing as well. The key to expertise in theoretical physics is actually reading theory (and the results of tests thereof). A lot. Writing enough will probably result in a dissertation. And, perhaps, getting a paper published, writing a book or a chapter of a textbook, and so on.

The other thing you have right is that experts can be wrong. But being wrong usually offers up an opportunity for more writing that other experts are likely to get around to reading. So being wrong can increase expertise, as one learns from others' mistakes and how they were caught, and as one thinks about how to avoid similar mistakes in the future (which offers up another opportunity for writing... and so on and so forth).

> I guess it gives me hope I may one day be an expert at something.

Noone becomes an expert without effort.
Mastodon IS better ... at not stuffing ads in my face. So it's not the same noise as Twitter, in that I don't have to share a home with a billboard in every room.
I think this is true for general full-text searches, but hashtag searches should return toots from the whole federation.
The threading situation in racket isn't great, but other than that it is a great language.
The Home Mini shipped with a DC adapter with cable stuck on, I have one and it's definitely a different cable, and no clip at all.
"Media to Meaning" almost seems like a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
I’m a little shocked at the expectation that the US should be the type of banana republic that imprisons people as scapegoats for recessions.
Very boardly speaking, if something can be easily copied, it means the value-adding part is not comimg up with the idea, but the execution of it.
Oh man, amasci.com was one of my favorite Magical Internet Places back in the day; I can't believe I'd totally forgotten about it.
What do you think of the possibility of 'dark sector' interactions?[1]

The idea that dark matter might consist of a class of self-interacting particles, and that we might be embedded in a universe full of hidden phenomena as rich as the ordinary-matter phenomena that are visible to us (e.g. dark 'planets', dark 'stars', dark 'galaxies', or something very different) was always intriguing to me, but it seems that a consensus is emerging, based on observations of large-scale distribution, that dark matter is dominated by a single type of particle incapable of self-interaction.

Is it still possible that some fraction of the dark matter in the universe is self-interacting, capable of 'clumping' and exhibiting physics similar to ordinary condensed matter, or are all the indications now pointing strongly towards a single non self-interacting particle?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_photon
Historically racism and fear played a massive role in the prohibition of cocaine, it's similar to marijuana in that regard.

Cocaine was present in Coca-Cola for over a decade before being removed, not because of the negative health risks but because blacks got access to it once it became available in bottles. Prior to bottles, it was only available at fountains accessible only to whites. [1]

It's not like caffeine is without its risks and negatives. I lived with someone addicted to caffeine for a decade and it was like living with a junky in a number of ways. She tried quitting dozens of times and it would just cause a week of migraines and dysfunction before she'd relapse. Every morning she would be pissy and make a mess of the kitchen until she got her caffeine fix.

Caffeine is also a major cause of suffering for surgical patients because the operation is oftentimes the longest they've gone without caffeine in decades, so they're experiencing withdrawal symptoms throughout the experience having already fasted for a day.

Some day Cocaine will be legal again.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/why-we-to...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01847 Abstract, it looks like a preprint so there should be a link to a PDF.
> if you are in the US, the estate tax is now $11.18 million per taxpayer

I think you mean estate tax exemption.
I think you're totally right that it feels like that wonderful old Web, the one that felt like a magical place, a weird place, seems to have vanished.

For me, some of that's moved on to YouTube. Even today, I find channels full of crazy stuff, brilliant stuff, beautiful stuff, educational stuff, stuff I'd never even heard before, just randomly stumbling around. It's hard to find them, what with the suggestions throwing only the lowest-common-denominator version of the stuff I get baited into clicking on, but sometimes I manage to run across it.
>is this a serious comment?

Is this a serious comment? VR isn't around the corner, it's here. I'm sitting in my living room right now looking at the vive lighthouses on the wall, and my wife and I frequently use VR for all sorts of things.
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That's the point: there's nothing self-evidently "rightful" about holding $100m either, and there are multiple political/economic systems practiced today that would consider it unjust.