skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Former lawyer here:

One of the key takeaways from this is that even if you don't want to exclude other people from using and building on your invention, you should still patent it. It's much cheaper to file the patent--you don't even need to hire a lawyer to do it--than it is to fight off someone else.

But I also agree with the other comments here that if patent examiners need to do a more through search for prior art than just examining other existing patents, especially in domains where there are open-source communities. That would involve a modest increase in cost to the government, much or all of which could be covered by increasing the patent filing fees, and be a huge economic benefit for companies large and small that get harassed by dubious patents.
Sensor packages and near-AI compute clusters constantly get cheaper as the technology improves.

Today it doesn't make sense, but in 10-15 years when a full self-driving solution costs maybe $1k? It's a no brainer, especially for long haul trucking.

I'd guess that putting a security guard on a truck will be an exceptional occurrence, probably only used when the truck is hauling an especially valuable cargo or going through a known trouble spot.
How lucky Marriott is, to have some good Samaritans to stress-test their security without the intention to misuse their user data.
Nowadays I mostly just do OMAD (one-meal-a-day) or close to it (eating window is about 1-3 hours) as it's simpler. Initially some will power was needed to stop myself from snacking in the evenings, but as long as I make sure I have a fair amount of protein in that one meal, it never seems to happen now.
Occasionally I'll do alternate-day if I feel 'stuffed' or had a big day of lots of calories (holidays, social events) - whatever is more convenient at the time.
HP paid $11BN for UK-based Autonomy, only to discover accounting irregularities and crashing sales within a year.

The British criminal investigation was closed last year.

Sigh..
I used to volunteer for a first aid organisation and often we would be providing support for large events like county shows or sports events.

The radios we used were simple VHF radios on licensed frequencies. There was no encryption which meant anyone could listen in, so obviously we weren't allowed to discuss personal details over the radio. Depending on the actual event we may be covering a large area or uneven terrain, so the radios may not always work.

For backhaul we'd either use our phone if we needed to call the emergency services or for larger events we'd have them onsite so they would forward the message on - for example to warn a hospital of an incoming patient (often it was in remote areas where the nearest hospital had limited A&E facilities) or to call an air ambulance.
If you're defining extreme by the shifting Overton window of European politics then suddenly fascism is not going to be extreme and mild post-war social democracy looks like Stalinist communism.

California isn't that progressive.
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I'm also interested (about to start my own diet but I hate non-varied diets).
Any fasting method worked better than others?
Awesome, thank you for posting this!
As a developer, I want to live in a world where I can make a business case for security of something along the lines of "if we don't do this, we'll be hit by crippling fines"
Temperature exceeds 35C, and humidity exceeds 90%, but not both at the same time.
I'd love to see some in-game screenshots of where the author thinks it doesn't look realistic.
Yes, everyone should read feminist theory ( of course we must exclude Paglia because she is not a true feminist as she contradicts the true feminists ) to debunk Evolutionary Biology.

/s, in case it was not obvious.
A lot of these ERGs link together peoples with little cultural connection.

Black -> AA as well as African immigrants

Asian -> Japanese, old migrant Chinese, new communist-raised Chinese, Indonesian

The religious ones make more sense; at least religions are belief systems.
They do if you are automating them to avoid having to pay human drivers. It's kind of silly to go to all of the effort to automate a truck and then make someone sit on their thumbs behind the wheel for hours on end.
State Street also used that as a marketing stunt to launch an ETF while they were being sued for sexual harassment and pay discrepancies between male and female employees. Marketing is marketing is marketing.
In practice most applications that require a chars(str) function can get away with returning the wrong result for things outside the BMP, as opposed to UTF-8 where you need to start caring as soon as you hit words like "café".

Even if you you do require chars(str) for large strings outside the BMP those characters were so rare before emojis that you could waste a single bit on "contains any non-BMP?" and almost always do the work in O(1) time as opposed to O(n) for UTF-8.
And with Apollo Core it'll be fast too :)
Crossovers seem to me to be the worst of all worlds. They have poor gas mileage and terrible highway aerodynamics like large SUVs and have limited trunk space while lacking "utility" features such as trailer hitch mounts or 4WD as standard.
I see. I agree the industry should change, but like alcohol/tobacco they won’t without government mandates and regulation (ie age of consumption laws; warnings; child advertising)...each one of those were lengthy hard fought battles.
Great massive fines, significant lawyer billing, some worthless credit monitoring service free for 6 months and screw the affected consumers.

Let's see Target is probably the most obvious parallel: $202 million in reported legal fees and other costs. $18 million to states (fines). $39 million to the financial institutions affected by the breach and a whopping $10 million for the consolidated class action lawsuit (along with the $6.75 million for plaintiffs’ attorneys fees and expenses).

Oh wait, Target annual profits are $20 billion? Never mind.
My wild guess is that it will be added rather soon than later to CIDER. The protocols are part of Clojure, and Emacs is great with browsing buffers, so it doesn't seem very hard to implement.

That said I'm not Emacs expert so it may be harder than I imagine.
> In modern C++, wchar_t is a built-in fundamental type: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cwchar/wchar_t/

But with the slight problem that it actually means UTF-32 on everything on non-Windows (there's char16_t (C++11) and char32_t (C++20), but somewhat obnoxiously, they're new types, so you need explicit casts for pointer conversion)
How to run a full Bitcoin node on OS X
Your DNA is not constant (it changes over time), and not everybody has just one DNA sequence (chimerism).
Going payout is around $.80/1000 views from what I've heard.
Rent control insulates current residents from paying market rates for housing. This reduces their incentive to fix the problem (expensive housing) because they have already have cheaper housing... as long as they don't need to change housing (often prompted by new job location/family growth etc). Rent control has the follow on effects then of decreasing mobility and increasing commute traffic.
like allowing people to look up addresses and file complaints without being a customer

Complain to who, and for what purpose?

If your neighbor is breaking the law or violating the terms of their lease, complain to the city or to the property owner. Why are you dragging this platform into it?

I don't really want to live in a world where anyone on the internet can destroy my income via anonymous complaint. That seems really ripe for abuse.
Google fonts does a bunch of stuff, it looks at user-agent to determine what css to serve and there are at least 10 font files for each weight of each font you want to use. It's not impossible to replicate but using Google fonts is convenient
On the purely async focused side the two standouts where Discourse (https://www.discourse.org/) and Flarum (https://flarum.org/).
I am amazed that so many people honestly expected a cookbook for meals in the movie 'the matrix'...
> There is a single common ancestor of all living things today.

Are you sure about that? Viruses too? (depends on your definition of "living" of course) To clarify: I don't know if there is or isn't, I just don't think anyone does.
Mattress firm tells customers beds do not record them sleeping
Is that intuition, no.

Correct, that does not meet the definition of intuition he has proposed.
People don't seem to understand how dangerous browser add-ons are. Protecting people from eg. malicious add-ons emptying their bank accounts is probably one of the reasons for restricting add-ons.

However, restricting add-on installations to a community-moderated app store model is not a secure enough way to do it. It's hard to prove that it helps at all, but it sure is annoying.
I use `refresh=True` on my insert/update/delete, which forces the writes to complete. Then all the reads work as you would expect.
The 800 calories number indicates that this might be related to the Fasting Mimicking Diet of Valter Longo. Since actual fasting has a "scary" reputation among some patients and doctors, Valter Longo developed a 5 day fasting like protocol with severely restricted calories that appears to have similar benefits to fully fasting for 5 days. It looks like this modified version of complete fasting is gaining popularity among the medical establishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valter_Longo#Fasting_mimicking...

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/does-the-fasting-mimicking-d...
This I believe is also hammered on in Thinking fast and slow which is an excellent book.

It condenses the major findings on behavioral psychology from 21st century into an accessible paperback.
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It appears that the maximum fine is 4% of a corporation's global earnings[1] which could be a lot of money, but still "just a cost of doing business" at the same time.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
Not frivolous, but reasoned.

If a forum had the option of requiring real-world ID, they'd make the reasoned business-case tradeoff of whether that's likely to improve the forum/business (less trolling) or worsen it (far less signups because people want to be anonymous on that particular forum).

And as for hotels specifically, they require a real identity for public safety, so police can (not just at check-in, but even months or years later) determine where someone stayed in order to solve cases of murder, child trafficking, or other violent crime.
On a mobile device, they are collapsed. On desktop, they are not. that was the point of my comment saying that on desktop they are not collapsed.

as a comparison to the linked reader view, which only works on desktop, the behaviour on mobile isn't really relevant.
Yes.

I can see a time that software developers (leads at least) will need to be chartered just like someone that designers a bridge.
But trucks aren't that much 'bigger' on the inside than sedans. Go sit in a Toyota Avalon and a Tahoe and tell me where you have more room.

The Avalon probably has 80% as much noise on the freeway and if you set the cruise control to 80, the sedan is going to get 2x-3x better MPG and the Avalon costs half as much as the Tahoe.

What's the adage about a fool and their money?
That's wrong for many reasons. Others have covered the simple fact that you couldn't start any app with lots of users and zero capital. The downside is huge. Barriers to entry become more impossible than they already are.

But that's not the worst of it. The Economist here is doing a static analysis, oddly enough. They're making the simple observation that if things cost more or have more risk, they get more attention.

That's if they have more risk today. Once you collect data, it doesn't go anywhere. Every bit that sits on your servers can easily be copied to another server, today, tomorrow, ten years from now. Do you know what all the bits are on your computers?

This isn't copyrighted DRM or porn. You could have a blob hashes and userids. If I put that on your computer, would you know? Could you be expected to find it? Know what it was?

As Facebook and the other platforms are demonstrating, this data continues to have value many years after it was collected. And once somebody gives some data to you, it's effectively both invisible and trackless. Over long periods of time, your cost becomes infinity to maintain this risk. Meanwhile, attack vectors get better and people come and go out of your offices all the time. Could you manage that risk? Forever?

I can't think of _any_ sensitive data on the web that's stayed safe. Why would attaching any amount of value change that?
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[Hi from Argentina!]

This is a English speaking forum, so news in other languages are usually ignorer or killed, unless it's extremely interesting, it's the original source and there is no equivalent in English.

I recommend submitting the English version of the page, but empty sign up form for the waiting list are usually not very popular.

Do you have a blog post about some problem that you had solved while making this app? What about internationalization/localization of the questions? Some topics are more cultural/country/language dependent. Do you have freelance translators?
God, I find this "falsehoods programmers believe about x" concept so irksome. Give people guidelines and tools to do the right thing, writing shit like this is just lazy sniping.
I just signed in to Marriott.com see what info they have on me that was stolen, and was forced to change my password. It even required email verification, which is good.

Then when I tried to log in with my new password I was rejected, saying my account is 'under audit' for suspicious activity. God dammit.

Is anyone else unable to log in?
Of all of the ones on that date, this is my favorite.
Agreed. For a less reductive perspective, I've found Emily Feng's reporting for the FT to be informative [0,1,2]. I'd be interested in other reading recommendations, if anyone has them.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/ac0ffb2e-8b36-11e8-b18d-0181731a0...

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/721192f4-a1fa-11e8-85da-eeb7a9ce3...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/f0d3223a-7f4d-11e8-bc55-50daf11b7...
wdewind was presumably talking about Fast Company, who are most certainly celebrating them.
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Pretty much this. I live out in the country and when I mentioned to a suburban friend who owned a Yukon Denali that we were going to buy an F250 (3/4 ton full size pickup), he said, "OK, just tell her that it's hard to find a parking garage it fits in."

My wife's response was "when am I ever in a parking garage?"

Once you leave the city/suburbs, there's essentially infinite free space for vehicles, so these things cease to be issues.
It's naivity at best. At worst it's this:

> He watched on. Now that he had changed sides to the SS, he admired the strength of Fritz and the police man even more. He finally had left the camp of those who were wretched enough to let themselves be bludgeoned like that. He was glad to have made his choice. He did no longer have to fear the suspicion of the masters. He was on the side of good. The beatings the men received hardened his consciousness to embody good. One cannot receive beatings and be right, one cannot be dirty, eat garbage and be right.

-- Robert Antelme, "The human race"

And there is not a single spot in between these poles where a person could be found and remain in the intellectual, moral and social tradition of the best humanity has and is. The people who sided with the Nazis also didn't feel what they had done in that moment. Yet they had done it. It took Europe turning to rubble and death camps being discovered, but they had done it much, much earlier.

Nobody who understand that can be moved by numbers. A human adult responds to human adults, and obedience and adulthood are incompatible.

Speaking of seriously still excusing totalitarianism in the 21st century: China is the country which realized last that the Earth isn't flat, and they needed Jesuit missionaries of all people for that. So as a German, who doesn't even accept what the US is doing because it has no clue what it is doing, who is shitting bricks about what Germany is doing in so many respects -- I certainly am not entertaining any "they are different, they want that" notions about China when actual fucking concentration camps get built. When a person looks away, what they are okay or not okay with ceases to matter to me.

It's not about what they know, it's about what I know. It's not about what they want, it's about what I MUST NOT partake in, excuse, rationalize, give an inch of room to, ever. Should I ever shrink one inch from this may God strike me dead.

I will not shit on the victims of the Holocaust to humour some fucking contemporaries. I will not shit on the people who get murdered today, either. How dare anyone to even think suggesting otherwise, to anyone, much less people in the West with our history and our libraries. Unforgiveable. You can sign away your own human rights, not those of others.
I can't help but to believe that GM and Ford are making the same mistake they made in the early 70s and the 90s. Piling on the big cars when gas prices are low, then watch their share of the market collapse when gas prices get higher as they always have in the past.

To GM's credit they claim they'll be putting a lot of the short term savings into EVs and AVs, but time will tell.
I don't know of any forums built into GitHub? They have issues and the wiki, but that's as much as I've ever used/heard of.
I had to read the title multiples times to truly believe what I was reading.

« Microsoft is Acquiring Spectrum through GitHub ».

Regardless of what the title says this is what my brain keeps reading.

At first it seems like a nonsense, but after all it makes perfect sense.

Microsoft must repay the inversement in GitHub, it was an expensive acquisition. Best way to do this ? Probably to bundle GitHub Enterprise with Spectrum.

It makes sense as GitLab have Gitter but GitHub has nothing to manage communities.
I recommend this book - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1628600012/ref=dbs_a_def_r... it's written by a doctor specializing in applying fasting.
That's because all it is is (unconsious) learning.
Probably because the operating temperature is about 0 Kelvin.
yes, and also 300 companies added female directors

nothing exists in a vacuum
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Because "in a day" carries the implication "Man makes $2500 every day doing this one simple trick". That's why it's in the headline.

"Man made $2500 doing X once, never to be repeated again" or "Man made $2500 in a year doing X" might be equally true headlines, but a lot less attention grabbing.
> Ignoring the basic int type and using a zoo of preprocessor defines

My C is a bit rusty but why should #defines be used in this scenario? A typedef set in a config.h.in is more than enough to meet the requirements of this usecase.
HN continues to impress
I assume it's the paradox of a resistor that doesn't resist.
This reminds me of one of my little sayings... "Common sense is just a first approximation of reality". So yeah, common sense is more likely right than not, but it is not reliable. If you need a reliable answer, you need to go deeper than common sense.

Of course, intuition is somewhat different, in that intuition can be wrong more often than right. See Hans Rosling's findings in Factfulness to grok that, and start to understand just how dumb you actually are.
> Of course it also serves the public to encourage inventors by giving them a limited exclusive use.

Yes.

> But primarily when instigated the purpose is a mutual benefit that is best embodied by education of the public arena as to the mechanisms and working of an invention.

This is the debate - how significant is the "education" aspect in promoting progress and public benefit? Is incentivizing new creation sufficient to promote progress without the (lacking) education aspect?

Then the whole question of whether the limited monopolies really create those incentives or just magnify profits that would already exist and open the door for abuse.
It's interesting to note that California has some incentives in place to help increase housing and Accessory Dwellings are one that frequently are easy to get permission to build. I know here in Berkeley we have new laws in place making this process way easier.

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/03/20/new-laws-make-even-e...
I don't understand what point you are trying to make. First you agree with the OP that the reviews being done by volunteers who can makes mistakes somehow makes Mozilla less culpable, then you jump in to say that these volunteers are just as accountable, technically capable and security wise as an employee would be.

You only seem interested in letting Mozilla off the hook rather than acknowledging the systemic issues that gave rise to this situation.

> Also treating Mozilla as a company is not really the ideal mindset. Mozilla is at best a NGO, a foundation, who owns a company for legal reasons, who is also a community, who builds a ton of stuff.

Except the Mozilla Corporation is the entity that develops Firefox and is a company. That company may be wholey owned by a non-profit, but it is still a company.
I somewhat follow this field (listening to startup podcasts, this has become pretty common theme) and they always seem to graduate to online courses etc. Very few can get away from basically nickel and dimming their way to profitability. It becomes a high labour business with shoppers, packers, shippers etc. As you said, they either need to graduate to drop shipping which is less hands on but perhaps more saturated with more issues, or do course etc.

The guys that make a living in retail arbitrage usually end up buying direct from manufacturer in large quantities. At that point, they still call themselves a retail arbitrage startup because "distributor" is much less sexy.
They all need to access S3, which I believe requires public.
Hah, looked at a place in kilkenny ourselves. Waterford too, which seems underrated. Looks like we'll wind up in Offaly, buying a modest place cash with what we saved for a deposit in Dublin.
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Correct, Americans have preferred larger cars for a long time. American cars in the 50' and 60's were quite large, especially luxury brands. For families, the large station wagon with a huge engine to tow a boat on the weekend and weighing over 2 tons were not uncommon[1]. Americans preferred cars over trucks and I image would have continued to do so if a huge amount of marketing over decades was not used to convince people to buy vehicles that were protected from foreign competition with a 25% import tax.

[1]https://www.automobile-catalog.com/car/1965/787220/ford_coun...
That's a shame, and increasingly out of touch.
What does regularity mean, more formally? The phenomenon needs to have a probability distribution that looks something other than (uniform?) random?
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Headline says “Company”. Article says “Google”. Is this being softened in Google's favor?
Vietnam has 95 million people and a larger economy than Greece. I would consider it a major country.
I think daily weighing is important because it is hundreds of daily decisions to not eat that need to be made. Our current society makes food available at all times, and daily weighing is one part in actually thinking about our body and being mindful for at least twenty or thirty seconds each day. With the ridiculous calorie density of modern processed foods, a few minutes of mindless eating can add an enormous calorie load, without even beginning to feel full.

We hackers can geek out on the math in the Hacker's Diet[0], which goes into various smoothing algorithms and plotting styles to show the daily weight and smoothed trends.

[0] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/