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Ask HN: How well/badly have patents treated you and your company?
We’re on the edge of a burgeoning industry, and we’re discussing the need for patents and other forms of direct protection for intellectual property.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on what IP has been well protected and what projects you had to drop because someone else came at you wielding a patent.
This is peculiar US thing where anything said against doctor is taken as personal slight. All healthcare issues have been caused by insurance, government, bureaucracy or anyone except doctors.
The thing is the subsidy was only 10% of the expected tax revenue and only $500mm was exclusive to Amazon (mostly in the form of property rights). The rest is available to anyone who sets up shop outside of Manhattan. As far as tax breaks go it’s fairly minuscule.

But because of poor numeracy and a poor understanding of the conditions of the break or the nature of tax deductions, a lot of people had sticker shock at the $3b number.
I work for a client that designs and builds these 100MM+ yachts. They just can't build them fast enough to keep up with demand. Some of their clients buy a yacht, and sell it within a year for a hefty profit, then buy a new one, repeat. There is quite a business in selling 'used' yachts simply because it takes 2-4 years to build a new one.
Why Amazon’s New York U-Turn Is Good for America’s Tech Economy
Yeah, I had the same history. Google worked better than keyword search because the web was young and naive and not built by evil spammers yet, and people had not figured out how to game PageRank. That lasted a few years. Now it is mush again.
I do not understand how you guys can call Google the new AOL, Google search works like a charm at a huge scale. What is the problem?
Googles’s fragment solution should gracefully degrade to behaving like the normal link in other browsers (as long as there isn’t some fragment conflict) but creating a new pseudo protocol would have to be supported by each browser to even get to the site.
Pretty much nailed me. Interestingly it gave me two strong options; one was where I actually grew up, the other 150 miles away was where my grandparents lived.
I bought my WRX STI without worrying about bothering to drive it.

I already had a WRX I was trading on it, but still. It was kind of neat buying it like that.
What about PiHoles as well as consumer devices like Chromecast? Once CC uses DNS over TLS etc it’s game over for local consumer DNS servers. No way to configure a custom CA within CC.

(I’m a fan of local DNS for many reasons and so I think DoT is two steps forward for privacy and 3 steps backward for everything else)
I fear all we have now is anecdotal evidence. :-) In my case, it was a gradual conversion to Google from Altavista than something immediate.

So, funny thing: Back then, if one search engine didn't have what you were looking for, you would try another. Now, if Google doesn't have what you are looking for, where do you go? Does it mean the answer does not exist on the Internet? Do you try Bing or Duck?
Password entropy – oldie but goodie
You're right, I was thinking of the Phoenix accident, I'd forgot that was Uber, not waymo
This is to binary IMO. I think imany ban is about increasing the cost of a certain behaviour and by these means decreasing the likelyhood of an actor to adopt it.

No human agreement will ever be able to stop a 100% of anything. But that doesn’t imply it isn’t worth increasing the cost (financial, social and otherwise) to certain types of behaviour.

People seem to agree quite uniformly with banning and punishing murder for example, although these laws and punishments don’t seem to stop murder as has been proven over centuries. Few would murder their neighbour over a small dispute, because the cost for doing so is extremely high. Much more people would e.g. kill the rapist of their child, because the notion of cost might be irrelevant under such circumstances and it is much more socially acceptable to do so.

Of course there is more than just cost. It can also be a matter of culture. If you live in a culture were getting shot for miniscule reasons is not something that happens, you are also far less likely to see shooting at somebody for miniscule reasons as an option
He is not its marketing to a niche audience a couple of years ago I worked on one of the big yacht broker sites sorting out their tech / SEO.
Health care insurance CEOs are paid well, and better than others in that system. [0]

Insurance companies in general are generous with their CEOs. Total compensation for CEO of Allstate was $42 million in 2010 (last time I checked them).

[0] https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150425/MAGAZINE/3...
Flywheels, superconductor storage or supercapacitors are somewhat more efficient [1], but they are an order of magnitude more expensive per unit of energy they can store. (Thousands of dollars per kWh capacity, rather than $200-$300.)

The real competitor is Li-Ion batteries which now cost about the same as pumped storage, and have similar cycle efficiency. Problem is the capacity decline after a few hundred cycles, which is unfortunate if you want to build infrastructure that is low-maintenance and survives decades.

If you are interested in the area, this blog post gives some thoughts to implications [2] though it is a bit outdated by now.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-various-EE...
[2] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/08/nation-sized-battery/
Wales is a curious one, I've tried to establish when it became a "nation" best I can do is some time in the last 100 years or so.

Unless you're going to separate out historic county kingdoms (Wessex, Sussex, Kent, Gwent, etc.) then England annexed the counties that compromise the region we now call Wales as lands of the English Crown.

The UK was initially formed by the Union of two kingdoms, England and Scotland at which time all the parts of Great Britain were under the same Monarch.

Your contention doesn't necessarily disagree with this historical fact.
This might be better titled "C# 8: switch expressions" (edit: it was previously "statement", as the author's post is titled).

Or actually, to bait a few more hn clicks (and provide a fuller description): "Pattern matching in C# 8 with switch expressions"
For the most part, MFC was and is a thin wrapper over the user32 and comctl32 libraries that ship with Windows. So the true Windows equivalent of statically linking Motif would be to statically link user32 and comctl32, and that's impossible.
Shell acquires German battery startup Sonnen
This is not a question.
I'm glad you've bothered to answer.

I don't need a fancy proof either - any proof would be enough. What we both can agree is that things or processes are happening. They don't need time for that. Constant change, constant mutation doesn't require past or future, but now only. But as I said, we - intelligent species - need a concept of time to predict how the change will proceed.

What we measure in clocks depends on a clock - a sand falling down in a sand glass, a pendulum or a spring cycle and so on. After this we make a relation from this event and start to measure other events with it. Still it's just things happening, not a prove of a time existence.

If you say that you experience time. Well. That's how neural network works - they are shaped by events/impulses which happened to the network and accessing this information gives you illusion of a past - but this information encoded in your brain exists now.

> Doesn't matter. It's enough that we can measure it, we don't care for the "thing in itself" or if it's merely some illusion. We live in a universe where whether it's an illusion or not, it has the same effects for us (e.g. we grow old, things change state, our clock dials rotate).

So we agree in a part that things change state and this is enough to imply growing old and rotating clocks. I don't agree it doesn't matter - as if the time doesn't exist, we don't need to have a pointless discussion about "travelling in time".
I asked why it was important to anyone, not what it was

why is this glorified
I think you will have better luck static linking against a different libc, like uClibc or musl libc. Statically linking against glibc doesn't work very well, and isn't supported by upstream.

uClibc and musl libc have much better support for static linking, and you will be able to make a much smaller binary with them than you would static linking against glibc.
Is catering a big portion of the ticket price? Surely one can venture outside to nearest starbucks, pret, other-fancy-coffee-shop-5metres-away, and dozens of other eateries? Or the food delivery service apps. I'd be pissed off if shitty non-choice catering was going to eat into the ticket price more than 15gbp.
Sponsors pay the booze after usually. So what's left after speakers, token tickets, and venue fees?
Because it's not as if they didn't already have a public backlash against the HQ2 search, against their labor practices globally, and even in their hometown Seattle where they dominate.

Seeing as the state controls the incentives and the governor and mayor were on board, there was a decent chance they would have gotten the incentives no matter what local opposition was, and eventually the issue would have been dropped. For incentives totaling billions, it's difficult to imagine them dropping the whole thing over some heated meetings with councilpeople and union leaders.
Neil Postman, Technopoly, and Technological Theology
This isn't about overpopulation. It's about the effect of climate changes.
Medivis Launches AR Technology Platform for Surgical Applications
I didn't say popular.

Cities of similar size: Albuquerque, Milwaukee, Louisville, Oklahoma City (and more).

Out of these, Kansas City comes up more often tech wise. I waste a good bit of time on sites like this discussing tech related matters, and not once have I read an article involving any of these cities.

This is why I said well known and on the map, not 'popular'.
Benchmarking AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Packet, and Vultr
Apple demanding 50% cut from news publishers
our society has thrown out the baby with the bathwater with our modern hatred of organized religion.

this question and related questions about when violence and war are morally acceptable has been thoroughly discussed for thousands of years in multiple religions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory
Indeed it was always effective. Geometry was indispensable in architecture, mechanics, and geography; arithmetics, pretty much everywhere.
TN as in Tennessee? I thought altanta was the tech hub for that general geographical area.
It's not a business. It shouldn't operate like one.

Your views seem quite old-fashioned, neoliberal, maximising shareholder value. Both concepts that are increasingly under a lot of scrutiny as they seem to have failed to deliver on any of their promises for anyone apart from the super rich.
Thanks. That's what I was thinking of. Classic "this parrot is dead" riff.
> Don't hate the player, hate the game

Without the players, the game ends.

Amazon can afford to pay its own costs many times over. Many SMEs cannot. I'd have had a lot of respect for Amazon had they just chosen a site on logistical criteria and built it out of pocket. Instead, I despise them even more than before.
Astalavista! Reminds me of warez listings and downloading Photoshop for days.
I suspect it's a reflection of the way the majority of their audience interacts with search.

For a large number of people, Google's ability to answer the underlying question, rather than explicitly identify pages where all search terms appear, means it works better. If you think of Google as a way to get answers, this is good.

If you think of Google as a search engine, and particularly if you have historical experience with (and expectations of) search engines, this is very frustrating. And the workarounds of clicking the "must contain" link (or surrounding all of your search terms with quotation marks) are a seemingly unnecessary inconvenience.

As a personal anecdote, I was an early adopter of smartphones (particularly relative to a non-technical audience). So I was excited when I could speak to my phone, then disappointed when I discovered that I had to structure my queries and instructions very carefully.

A few years ago I was on a road trip with a very non-technical friend. We decided to stop for Chipotle. Had it been up to me, I would probably have pulled out my phone, opened Google Assistant (or perhaps Maps directly), and told my phone (speaking as clearly as possible) "navigate to the closest Chipotle" or something similar.

But I was driving, so she just pulled out her iPhone and half-shouted "I want a burrito!" at it. And that worked just fine.

Point being, I had expectations for how things should work based on interactions with earlier iterations of an interface. She didn't.
Not bad! It's not my kind of game but it was a fun way to kill a few minutes. It took only 2-3 seconds to figure out how to play. It ran fast and didn't show any lag at all despite a relatively high number of sprites and the particle effects.

Your boundary detection for the top and left edges seems to be off. I can run the sprite just out of the area of visibility. (Linux, Chrome, 1920 x 1200 resolution) Also, occasionally I die when I'm certain that an enemy sprite came close but didn't hit me.

Ideas:

- add more diversity to the paths the enemy sprites take, or to how they bounce off edges
- block off the corners so it isn't so easy to hide in a corner and simply dodge the occasional enemy which floats that way
- add an impossible mode where the edges slowly move inward, so not only are there more enemies but your field of play is also shrinking
Even if the hustler takes everything?
I agree that we'll have to have an "Oh shit" moment and that moment will have to happen in the United States for things to happen. I don't deny there will be pain. I don't deny that time is short.

I just think that we can move towards being a more perfect species, and that it will soon happen.
>I think the government could modify safe harbor laws. Require sites above a certain size to minimize censorship to retain their safe harbor status. Eg allow everything that isn't illegal, is on topic, isn't advertisement, isn't spam and probably some other categories I didn't think of.

I think maybe it would be good to draw from the physical world. I'm not a lawyer but IIRC some states (eg California) let you leaflet on private property like malls if they're open to the public... I wish I could recall details but applying a similar logic online could be interesting.

But any modifications of safe harbor would worry me greatly.
Tiny particles can switch back and forth between phases
I think that's more risky in that most browsers and many intermediate proxies or other traffic inspectors are likely to have special casing around http: (at least) and https: and for most traffic to be over http(s): and a tiny sliver over web+text: seems fraught with more peril than a (fairly small and intention-aligned) abuse of #fragments. Even mail agents, markdown processors, and other text-display applications often have special casing to turn http(s) URLs into touchable/clickable links.

Page authors are unlikely to use web+text: if it means cutting off old browsers from access.
I still don't understand how that makes it better.
Yes I know. I've had it happen to me with a Huawei HG556a. You could disable it with admin access... which the ISP would not give you. Fun times.

A good way of bypassing this would be to simply have Google run their DNS server in a port other than 53. But I don't believe you can set a different port in /etc/resolv.conf
It turns out that in many cases there is no " net profit (...) regardless of subsidies"

In fact, in some cases the jobs that the subsidized company 'creates' are move expensive to taxpayers (due to subsidies) than it would be to just pay the same people to not work, or work on something else that is actually productive for society at large.

Here's a good analysis of the issue: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2018/jul/0...
Ca. 1996 we implemented ad blocking Altavista in our corporate net through DNS rewrites because the ads were already annoying back then. Comparatively small but also with comparatively low bandwidth.
I'm reminded of an old colleague of mine. She worked as a food safety inspector for Cara Foods that service many airlines around the world. They have kitchens in airports and prepare the food for airlines. She would travel the world inspecting the kitchens. She would always travel business class and had an IATA pass/badge and had the ability to bump business class passenger and hold the plane. She wasn't paid well but was young, single and loved the idea of travelling the world in swank business class. She quickly learned two things, her company wasn't willing to give her time to take day trips into the city (so her sightseeing was airport hotels and the underbelly of international airports), and more importantly, flying economy feels really bad once you've spent time on business class flights.

So for this influencer, I imagine it's tough to live a regular life once he is forced to. If he wants to vacation with his friends, they are renting a 20ft boat rather than a 200ft boat.
True for Windows, but not true for macOS. See DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH in https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/dyld/ -- the dynamic linker will look for the library at the proposed absolute or macro-expanded path (specified in the load command), and failing that look for the leaf name under a few fallback paths:

$(HOME)/lib:/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/lib

You'll notice that those fallback paths do not include any location relative to the application. It's actually pretty difficult to get the object code to lookup libraries relative to its own directory. Explanation here:

https://birchlabs.co.uk/blog/alex/juicysfplugin/synth/cpp/20...
> While it's practically not possible to compare performance, just the fact that this is a part of the initial design and a core of Plan9 vs adhoc feature (actually ported from Plan to Linux) is enough to speculate on performance.

It really doesn't. For all we know, because the plan9 version has to be more general it is much slower than the ad-hoc version.
Philosophy is, as far as we know, a pure human-specific construct.

A true hive-mind species, or a species that propagates asexually, for example, will not relate to a lot of the stuff we do, let alone be able to care about it.

However, if you cannot influence anything in the universe beyond your home planet, and don't leave a lasting impact or any trace for any potential observers in the future, you may as well never have existed.

Consider never having found any dinosaur fossils.

If humans die out on Earth, and the effects of our time here do not influence anything after even say 1000 years, we will be no different than the Elves and Dwarves and all the fictional species of our own imagination.
> 25k jobs paying 150k

I've seen a few people make this remark, on the assumption that every single job was going to be a high paying job. I believe this is an assumption as I don't recall seeing anything from Amazon stating that they were intending to do this either.

A citation would be helpful for this position.
Everything you point to is speculations they are not scientifically demonstrated. This is the main problem here.

"It can lead to", "it might", "potentially" etc. that's not actually science.

Science is not about consensus. Science is what can be tested and thus demonstrated. And just because you can show something in a lab you can't necessarily show that in larger scale systems.

I am well aware of the claims about the 12 years and all that but I challenge anyone to show where it's demonstrated and I would invite anyone to dig into the material themselves.

What you will quickly realize is that the actual science is a very small fraction of all the things you read about. The climate is changing yes. Besides that, the actual science starts to turn into more speculative territory. And then there are the issues with curve fitting etc. So much fud on both sides.

IPCC does not actually do any science themselves, they don't even check the data they just do meta-studies and much of that is based on best guesses. They are an organization who only exist because there is a fear of climate change. That's not science that's politics. Let the scientists do science rather than this absurd political circus which gets in the way.

There is no shortage of speculated outcomes. What there is a shortage of is demonstrated outcomes and that should be a big red flag to anyone who claims to be a critical thinker.

Furthermore, none of the things you claim are things we won't be able to deal with or can't already. The frog metaphor would work fine if we didn't become better and better at dealing with the challenges nature puts towards us but that's not how things work.

Nature doesn't give us a safe environment we don't make unsafe. It gives us a hostile and unsafe environment we then make safe and will continue to affect.

There is no consensus that climate change can become an existential threat in anything than a speculative sense and it doesn't matter. A consensus is not proof nor is it science. Only demonstration is science.
Ask HN: MacOS Wi-Fi Diagnostics files were the culprit. What's next?
Recently I have been constantly getting a low disk space alert by Mojave.

In my quest to handle the issue, I desperately removed many applications and moved so many files - most of which I have to use daily - to an external drive. But the problem resurfaced again shortly after, leaving my utterly helpless.

Until I realized that almost 2 GB of my 128 GB disk was taken by Wireless Diagnostics *.tar files. (each file is between 140 MB to 240 MB). Strangely, macOS's new storage management system doesn't suggest to remove these files, but has no shame telling me I have to remove my client project in xcode...

That is plain crazy. I wonder, what other files does macOS produce that could be safely removed? As a starter, I have decided to remove many binaries and libraries installed via "brew" and "Anaconda". For example, if don't use Ruby, why on earth should I have it on my Mac?
This is not necessarily to force ads, although that is a good side benefit. It's more to force geoblocking of content which smartdns operators circumvent. chromecast is afterall is a consumption device. If you stop consuming things you are fed, what are you ?
> I am now totally sure I don't want a super yacht. If I did have one, I'd want the toilets to be clean and the dining room to serve good dinner.

If you own a super yacht then isn't this sort of up to you? I mean, you don't have to invite a tone of people to mess up your toilets.
Amazon filed a facial recognition patent that could identify you and your job
> bind it to it's own local dnsmasq or whatever and then send DNS onward to DHCP DNS servers supplied by your ISP... There's a reason for the push for DNS over HTTPS.

This is looking at things and totally backwards. You have a local problem, a broken router and you suggest we fix this by changing how all edge nodes on the internet works.

In the age of ever increasing, untrustworthy IOT-devices, you don’t solve this problem by taking control away from the network operator. You need to increase his control. Taking DNS out of his hands is literally madness.

Good luck trying to block their attempts to spy and report on you now!

DNS over HTTPS is going to cause a shitload more problems than it solves.