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I would. Financing development with monopoly on making copies is ridiculous unenforcible idea when anybody can make a copy for anybody at near zero cost with use of equipment posessed by almost anybody. It should be abandoned as fast as it can be with all its legislative luggage. Setting max price of software copy would be awesome step in the right direction.
I mined about 50k doges for fun, and now I'm looking forward to having more fun playing with it :)
The story from Command and Control that sticks in my head is how, a few months after WW2 ended, the Truman Administration wanted to get an exact count of how many A-bombs the U.S. had available in their inventory. The answer came back from Los Alamos, "Hmm, we could probably put together one or two in a couple weeks."

This quickly led to a crash program in standardization of atomic (and later, nuclear) weapons and increasing their shelf-life.
One group that would benefit from cheap patent-free drugs is health insurers. It would probably be worthwhile for them to fund development, except they have a public goods problem. Insurers who didn't contribute could freeload off those who did.

Recognizing that, Bernie Sanders introduced a bill a couple years back, taxing insurers for patent-free drug development. To keep the government from picking research projects (which it tends to do very conservatively), it would fund prizes instead of funding research directly.

http://boingboing.net/2011/05/27/bernie-sanders-intro.html
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Interesting reading. Thanks for the link.

So what does that formula say the average temperature will be in 2014? Because I'm pretty sure we'll be able to predict very precisely where Pluto will be throughout the year.
I love the idea and execution of this simply because I find making myself practice vim commands to be the hardest part of learning vim, but $25 for a 6 month limited license?

I'm all about game developers getting paid for their work, but that seems crazy overpriced to me & really turned me off of the whole project.
No both of the examples are 1 showing the political naivety of Microsofts senior managers and 2 MS's HR being incompetent
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Thanks for introducing me to профессор фортран! I'd never heard of him before. Looks fantastic.

I agree - the Usborne computer books made a huge impression on me as a youngster. I'm all for Hello Ruby.
You must be kidding. Developing a new drug can easily cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Also note that majority of drug development efforts (>90%) fail, thus each successful drug has to pay for its own development cost as well as the failed ones.

And no, you can't pay for the costs with "satisfying intellectual curiosity"
I've only seen one person using a Surface.. but they work for Microsoft.

Maybe things are different in Silicon Valley vs. everywhere else.
The big difference is that Handlebars always produces strings that your browser has to parse as HTML. Handlebars also doesn't know how to mutate between states, meaning if you add a class 10 levels deep in the template the best you can do is re-render the entire thing.

JSX + React produce functions that return React's representation of the DOM, their "virtual DOM", and React knows how to make small mutations based on state. If a change in state only needs to add a class 10 levels deep in the hierarchy, that is the only change that happens in the real DOM; it doesn't have to re-render the entire template.
Governments can take your land through Eminent Domain if it is shown to benefit society as a whole.

Also is the government "taking" the drug, or just not extending monopoly patent rights for it? Also even patents (in the US) have a provision that they be reasonable licensed in exchange for gaining the temporary monopoly.
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Different societies have determined different things. Indian society in particular has determined that reducing this reward to risk-takers in order to widen access to drugs is a worthwhile trade.
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They actually released a new version of the 360 recently. Presumably it's cheaper to manufacture than the previous one, and it signals that they intend to sell both for at least some time yet.
I had BioPython, BioRuby, BioPerl and BioJava on the list - hadn't thought of BioGo! Thanks.
Does the concept of possession exist because we have laws concerning theft? Or do laws concerning theft exist because we have a concept of possession?

Lawless animals have concepts of possession, even the concept of possession of land. The difference between humans and animals is that we have codified our social standards and generally do not have to resort to violence or direct threats of violence to resolve disputes over possession or territory.
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No, a more accurate comparison would be that Germany declares that a software algorithm cannot be patented.

I think we have a lot of support for that here. :)
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It looks more like this : http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/02/06/worldwide-hardware-sa... (from 2010) where the Wii was 50% more units.
No there was an interesting item on the world service last night about how China is supporting Chinese artists music as a form of soft power.
Check out the Python JIT compiler NUMBA. It compiles annotated Python and NumPy code to LLVM (through decorators). It's been wicked fast for my use cases: http://numba.pydata.org/
The list could be practically endless, but Azure should probably be listed too.
I refuse to believe he could be that naive, especially considering the amount of wealth and power he has.

In a recent interview with Wired, when asked about NSA activities and data privacy in general:

Gates: " ... There are legitimate reasons for the government to watch what’s going on, particularly with nuclear and biological weapons. So it’d be nice if there was a way that some part of the government that we really trusted was looking at that information. Right now, people are going, “Oh my gosh!” and you wonder—did they not think anything was going on? But it’s probably good there is now an explicit conversation." [1]

He also has, or at the very least had, a Top Secret security clearance. [2]

While the purpose is debatable, one of the most likely reasons was so he could receive State Department briefings prior to meeting with foreign leaders and businessmen. A lot of that information would likely have come from NSA intercepts.

Another purpose could have been to facilitate Microsoft's cooperation with the NSA on software backdoors, cryptographic or otherwise.

[1] http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/bill-gates-bill-clinto...

[2] http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/bill_gates_has_top_secret_c...
I think that's reasonable, but ultimately I'm not sure it matters. It doesn't change the fact that a consumer can spend it at a given location. The ability to spend coins directly, from the consumers' perspective does impact acceptance. I'd argue that's the most important thing here, not whether merchants actually hold the Bitcoins.
Great writ up. I've actually been meaning to do this for a while, but hadn't gotten around to it. I'll probably write a guide in the next few days and have a VA create variations for it on related fields.

Thanks for the reminder and the push, hopefully I'll see some results from these efforts in the next 6-12 months.
Only mention I could verifiably find on the interwebs so far: https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/source/detail?r=9876b2bd107...

By the way, I'm adopting https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/ ASAP -- yesterday, if it were possible. I was just contemplating writing my own C++/jni bridge but I'll take what already works, especially if it's being battle-tested by Google. :)

Edit: And with bugs like https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/issues/detail?id=224 I'm considering changing my mind. My Java code isn't that great either, and a few classes with JNI might go a long way compared to hacking together ObjC from Java code. The hard part that neither directly addresses is how to integrate Gradle-powered flavours and build types with Xcode/iOS targets and simple macro keywords. Sharing language files, string/config values and some assets... all seem project-specific at this point and not very well generalized.
I think it's really hard to say. The efficiency provided by companies trying to make money can't be overlooked. They make every attempt to reduce costs and increase development speed, and it's possible that in the long run, things are better.

Also, if research is publicly funded, it would probably tend to focus on whatever the public is more aware of. Public awareness of diseases doesn't do correlate well to the severity of the problem. For instance:

http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/05/breast-cancer-receives-muc...

If the market wasn't given any incentives to perform research on its own, then I could see this problem becoming magnified.
This guy got 5yrs for 2 rapes http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/21/ex-marine-serving-rape...

Gary McKinnon was looking at 70yrs. The guy who made credit card fraud sites and was busted in the carder.su op got 7yrs after pleading but was looking at life. Rape and hacking are impossible to compare though because usually a rape happens once, whereas charges are stacked a mile high for computer fraud because nobody steals one login or card they steal a db full of them which means multiple charges, so technically rape on the federal books is a larger sentence compared to 1 charge of fraud or trespassing.
They talked about the sender doing research and writing an e-mail specifically to them. Spam is bulk e-mail sent indiscriminately, not all unsolicited e-mail sent for business purposes.

That said, people's tolerances are all very different, so I think anyone who did send e-mail of this nature would have to work very hard to make it a truly personal, well researched e-mail without any trace of it being even semi-automated.. because I delete e-mails that miss the mark for sure.
Yes, and that's a great use case for it.

But you can also use your existing Backbone Views (if they have some nice, say, formatting or data-munging-for-display logic in them) and simply replace your render function with React.

The next step you can take is replacing your HTML templates with React's JSX templates, if you'd like...
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Comcast does offer fiber up to 500 mbps in a number of northeast cities (D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, etc). Companies don't have unlimited capital. If Comcast were freed from the requirement to run coax to a whole bunch of people who can only afford $13.50/month, they could spend the capital they freed up on other parts of their network. This is the basic cross-subsidization arrangement at the heart of cable and telecom regulation all over the country.
So what's it? Xbox division is a loss leader and should be dumped or a revenue source? HN can't make its mind :)
This is the same company that sold off their stock of HIV contaminated medicine to hemophiliacs in Asian and Latin America in the mid 1980s while a newer version was sold to western patients.
>There are other incentives in life other than money.

But there aren't other ways to fund drug research.
The first journalistic source to report the statement,[1] an article published by Bloomberg Business Week, includes the statement near the end of a general article on patent protection in India. Both the reporter and editor who put the story together are based in India and (at a wild guess, based on their names) are perhaps citizens of India. This sort of national policy issue, of course, often results in different countries coming up with differing laws. Then the countries have to resolve differences about their laws in negotiations when they look at overall trade between their countries. And that (nothing particularly nefarious) is all that is involved in the United States negotiating with India about this issue.

I'm very glad that somebody is developing new medical treatments (both drugs and medical devices). All of that work is very expensive, and much of it results in products that never turn a profit. I can't think of any social justice reason why my childhood best friend, a first-generation college graduate from a working class family, who now develops medical devices, should have to work for free. Nor can I think of any social justice reason why anyone who needs effective medical treatment should be without it, in general, but until new medical treatments are invented, wishing doesn't make that so. India's approach to compulsory licensing on non-negotiated terms for new treatments developed outside India may be very politically appealing in India, but it's not completely clear that that is the best national policy for responding to the grave health problems[2] that still exist in India.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-01-21/merck-to-bristol...

[2] http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-23/news...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230344420...

http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Facing-the-Reality-of-Drug-R...

http://www.tbcindia.nic.in/pdfs/RNTCP%20Response%20DR%20TB%2...

AFTER EDIT: I see some wild karma swings on this comment, so feel free to tell me what you really feel about this comment. India, of course, would have no objection to how drug companies market drugs if only it had a country full of companies that are already innovating affordably to solve all the health problems of India.
The companies can move to another country. One with more nuclear bombs! And force the people from the other country to travel if they want the treatment.
He's looking at citywide data rather than "what is happening to the Spanish Mission down around 24th Street," which is where the "uptick of evictions" comes from and also where the protests are. There was a wave of evictions before around "Mission/Dolores" which is immediately west of Mission Street, but the new ones are east of that street. This is a somewhat run-down neighborhood (compared to Dolores) where everyone speaks spanish and all business is (or was) conducted in spanish. The evictions amount to an attack on one of the last really cheap places to live in SF.

I've only been living here since 2011 but even since then a lot of businesses have been replaced with hipster coffee houses and bars, and a lot of triple deckers have changed hands and then mysteriously burned down. If you lose your apartment in this part of the city you will pay thousands more to get another one just like it, or you won't make that kind of money and literally no longer be able to afford to live anywhere in the city you probably work in. As an example I took the cheapest place I could in 2011 at $1200/month for something about the size of the cube you work in, and I'm sure I am paying more than twice as much as my neighbor. The next cheapest place was $1650, and over by Dolores was about $2k. I look at apartment listings and there's nothing studio sized in the area for less than $2500 now. If our place changed hands and burned I'd be inconvenienced and maybe have to cut back on comic books, but my neighbors would literally have to leave the city. It seems to me they have a legitimate gripe over having their neighborhood ripped out from underneath them, though I don't know what they should do about it. They might start demanding the city intervene or build public housing, but the existing new apartment fees that go into a pool to build public housing either don't get paid or just don't get built.
Why is price point not a valid way to sell a product?

Remember why Henry Ford was such a big deal?
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If you consider the price in terms of the utility you'll get out of it I think that's a reasonable price. This book[1] is recommended up the page and that's $23 minimum.

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That Indian generic sold elsewhere would be subject to patent licenses active elsewhere, payable to Bayer. If people try to get it across borders without paying the license, customs are generally quite helpful with collecting such contraband.
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All I can tell you is that there are a ton of people at About working day and night on making the content as good as it can be. They are some of the hardest working people I've ever worked with.
Well depending on your definition it probably is not tapped - merely the metadata collected. And that is I suspect Gates' point - we have entered a world where the genie will not go back in the bottle, and there is only one solution - carriers to offer protection. And that's an expensive solution.
Now that the ACA is in force, you don't need an employer. Just go on the healthcare.gov or your state's equivalent, buy a plan with no worry about pre-existing conditions, and get a max annual out-of-pocket of several thousand dollars. If your income is low enough you'll even get your premiums subsidized.

(But personally I'm against pharma patents. There are ways to solve public goods problems other than turning them into private goods.)
The problem with the U.S. "War on Terror" is not that it is an irrational program that was trumped up to facilitate corruption.

The problem is that it is a program that was created rationally in response to a truly horrible set of terrorist attacks.

That is a problem because most U.S. citizens don't want to be corrupt. What they want is to serve a good cause, and be effective in doing so. The "War on Terror" gives them both. And that's a problem because it makes it much, much harder for people waging that "war" to perceive the tradeoffs they create, and the lines they cross.
> There doesn't have to be; that quote applies to a lot more things than just the Indian independence movement.

There's also a lot of things it doesn't apply to, and its pretty much impossible to tell which things it does and does not apply to a priori. Its pretty much why the quote is stupid when uttered by anyone other than Ghandi.
If United States patents can be discarded at will by global markets, it creates serious intellectual property concerns for research and development groups in the US.

Without a possible profit incentive, what will incentivize drug companies to spend billions on cancer medication or other research if the compound will be lifted from them the next day and sold at pill cost, not compounded R&D cost?

It's definitely in US interests (both public and private sector) to strengthen the value of a US patent and US patent law globally.

Why would a government not argue in favor of this?
They haven't actually been selling much. They patent-trolled google over some smartphone patents and won. Now they include the billions in revenue as "Windows Phone revenue". AFAIK they make more out of this patent trolling than from actually selling windows phones.

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/microsofts-newest-billiondollar...
I'm guessing they'd like to but adding new payment options to a website is a hassle (even when it's bitcoin)
The difference becomes some what less when the moral entity in question says to the dying in want of that necessity "I could charge you less for this and still survive myself, but I won't", and especially more so when they use government regulatory capture to make sure that no one else is allowed to either.
I'm not saying that Brand is right, but there is reason to worry that this could happen again

There is reason to worry that a great many things could happen again. An increase in the number of Zoloft prescriptions in the greater Washington, DC area is pretty far from the top of my list of concerns.
To echo this point, there are many people who take the PS2 approach of buying a console at the end of its lifecycle to take advantage of buying all used games or old games and rock bottom prices.
Err, what?! Companies don't exist to save lives or explore intellectual curiosity. They exist to make money. Therefore we do have a responsibility to try and make the profit motive line up with more humanistic motives.

A strongly decreased financial incentive is disincentive in a system where

1) Equipment and the necessities of life cost money, to say nothing of opportunity cost. Even the most ascetic lab rat can't eat good feelings and intellectual curiosity.

2) If you're looking to raise capital, E(ROI)>0 makes it 100x easier to raise 100x as much capital (perhaps this is exaggerating, but capital markets are MUCH larger than charity markets).
The Windows Phone OS usually gets pretty good reviews. The lack of premium phone hardware parts until recently made MS create a very lightweight but pleasing OS. But it still suffers from a lack of app selection. And for me, I personally prefer the customizability of Android.

If you're a camera geek though, the new high-end Windows phone are very appealing...
MSFT has been in the position of buying pretty much anyone for a long time. I don't see how "now" fits here.
Even though I don't have any particular privacy concerns with Google+, I'm just fed up with Google abandoning their strengths to basically chase after Facebook and impotently ram G+ down everyone's throats.

Google has great services, Gmail and Calendar are great, Android is a great mobile platform, and of course there are dozens of other amazing services. They've done some important work to unify the logins, but then they dilute the whole thing by making a second-rate Facebook clone and hoping everyone will flock to it.

Meanwhile though people are realizing that none of these companies really give a shit about your privacy, and even if they do, they don't care enough to really protect it, so inevitably trust will be eroded over time as Facebook, Google and their younger brethren strip-mine the naive goodwill of consumers in search of the new shiny. You already see teenagers abandoning Facebook because it doesn't have the privacy they want (everyone and their mother's mother is on there). I think this trend will accelerate over the next decade and we'll look back and laugh at the pipe-dreams of these companies thinking that they could consolidate and own the whole social graph.

The irony is Google is much better positioned for this future than Facebook is. Let them have unified accounts, let them datamine everything, just stop worshipping at the alter of Zuckerberg like he's the second coming of Steve Jobs.