skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are missing some of the subtlety of _greim_'s point by presuming that Lab A and Lab B are on equal footing and that Lab B has a genuine interest in producing a product based on the patent they were granted. If the patents have sufficient overlap and Lab B has sufficient funds and legal firepower, they can convincingly threaten to sue Lab A and/or Lab A's customers. This may help to persuade Lab A to license the patent on terms more favorable to Lab B. If they are not in a position to do so themselves, Lab B can sell the patent to a non-practicing entity. In fact, even the theoretical existence of a sufficiently powerful NPE who could purchase Lab B's patent may compel Lab A to purchase or license it at the asking price just to prevent it from falling into adverse hands. Viewed from this angle, rather than being harmed, Lab B can be treated as a beneficiary of the patent system rather than a victim.
You should take a look at the ScratchEd community - they have a lot of resources for educators: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/

Also, we have started to build a Scratch Extension system, where Javascript can be used to extend the functionality of Scratch (you can define blocks that call web-apis, etc.) We will have more information about that in 2015.
According to the wikipedia page for the "1080" pesticide [1], it can be toxic not only to mammals but also to birds and insects.

What if we invented a substance that was only toxic to mammals, perhaps by targeting their unique reproductive method? Could we use something like that to eradicate all mammals from New Zealand, while taking sufficient care to protect ourselves?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_fluoroacetate
I think a bigger issue is that it's (at least perceived to be) hard to deal with government for anything. Plus this is about physical infrastructure. I think many coder's fascination with train networks and the like would help fuel an interest in fixing Detroit IT, but those meatspace issues...
Wow that's generalising a lot, it's not like it's an IT sysadmin problem, it's a city problem.

You're in a bubble if you think that.
Sounds like a fun road trip.
> as soon as I saw Arthur's comment, it made sense

Interesting.

I'd like to talk more about this part.

> If so, we could share notes.

Sure. You want to email me your details?
The federal nature is a blessing and a curse, since though it's highly variable, you can sell this to one city without getting the rest of the nation to agree on it as well.
The business model is based on only rarely having to retrieve old data. I suspect they spin down the drives (or possibly hibernate the whole box) when not in active "load" mode.

You would need to compare the pricing here to Amazon Glacier, if anything.
Interesting, thanks. Somehow it seems that Google didn't index up to that page.
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The practicality is a very personal thing. For me, it's helped me see that a wider variety of things match the definition. Realizing an Actor model, communicating processes, microservices or nodes in a storage model can all be seen as objects, and applying some object oriented modelling techniques to them, has been a very powerful tool for understanding them and building them.
This value is entirely personal to me, though.

No apologies necessary, it was absolutely fair to call me out on a bias on my end. You too thanks for the discussion :)
Even more remarkable that the person who gave testimony on it is named Charles Moore. I'm assuming it isn't the Charles Moore who invented Forth - although that would be wild.
And a subset of those problems are the insane RFPs and ridiculous red tape you go through when you design stuff for the government. Try it sometime. It's a blast.
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Yes, the problem is man made, but not only due to unofficial access to antibiotics. I suspect that's not even a major factor, but correct me if I've missed something.

As discussed: TB currently takes a long time to fully treat. A lot of patients can't afford a full course of the recommended combination of drugs. Even if they can, and are getting their drugs from official channels, they need to be monitored regularly (sometimes daily) to ensure proper treatment. The resources to do this monitoring simply don't exist in India (and many other countries). Thus, even if you could stop all unofficial access to antibiotics (impossible in practice), there is simply not enough funding to ensure every patient is properly treated.

This is why a shorter regimen is a key breakthrough. It makes proper treatment much more accessible (the big issue), while also reducing the discipline needed to complete a course (a small bonus).
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One legitimate argument against helium drives is they contribute to the depletion of the relatively scarce helium supply.

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Absolutely, with any serious application, it takes time to break it down and understand it. But the majority of perl generated in bioinformatics are basically advanced shell scripts and should be immediately comprehensible. This is rarely true, mostly because there's so many ways to do things that everyone uses their own personal conventions. Learning perl 5 is a bit like collecting pokemon.

As for the Perl 6 features, I had already looked at the list and was hoping you may have some insight as to why these might be killer features for bioinformatics in particular. e.g I know what currying is, but I don't think most computational biologists will care. I actually can't see anything there that says, "Science, do it here".

Julia is a very promising language due to its focus on mathematics, readability & performance and seems to be gaining traction. R has an unbeatable set of statistical libraries. Python is now deeply embedded and has IPython, and links back end to web very nicely. C/C++ & Fortran are are miles out in front for number crunching. Java is excellent for reusable code and distributed development, and can be used in almost any layer and has proven very difficult to dislodge as the general purpose language. At the moment I don't see a niche being available to Perl 6, unless something really useful for scientists (like IPython notebooks) is brought to the table. If they really backed it as a parsing language, and provided some really sweet tools for handling biological data files - e.g. something more like an interactive IDE rather than having to write out a script in emacs. Actually give me that, I'd be very happy. But I honestly think it's the associated tools & ecosystem which will determine if Perl 6 can succeed, not a laundry list of features.

And will it ever come out? :) I remember going to a Perl learning course in 2002 where the instructor was very excited about the new version 6, which was going to be out by 2004.
I have found that the best papers are hard to read because they’re informationally dense, so you have to slow down to really process every sentence and unpack the author’s thinking in your head—but once you do, you get a lot of knowledge from just a few pages. So it ends up being worthwhile.

Average papers are hard to read because they’re trying to emulate the style of the good papers, but without having enough actual content. The length and register of a blog post are definitely a good fit for the average essay.

Crappy papers are hard to read because they’re crappy, and recasting them into a different format would reveal that they contain no information at all. :)
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I'm curious as to where you get your news instead. I feel like you do and I've been looking for more thoughtful places to get news.
You have to realize even if your "natural" food is free of toxins, the traditional cooking methods are likely to produce them, especially in grilling, frying and baking. And the worse part is the chemistry there is complex and may differ depend on source material and actual cooking method. On the other hand, the plastics are simpler and easier to analysis of possible transfers(or changes) in given temperatures. For the types approved for microwave uses there are more research done than say the interaction between beef and your pan. So I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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"The data is ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) encoded, with no special characters."

This should not happen in 2014.
Thankfully for the rest of the world, that particular disease is primarily an affliction of the computer industry.

It's not an incentive to make incremental improvements, it's an artifact of the industry's strong need for interoperability in the face of overzealous patent issuing, and seemingly a way for anticompetitive behavior to dodge antitrust scrutiny.

The patent pools come before the standards. If your patent doesn't cover what's in the standard then nobody will use it, and if you're not one of the cool kids then nothing your patent covers will get put in the standard (see also Rambus).

The net effect of those patent pools is that the likes of Apple, Microsoft and Google pay each other amounts that essentially cancel each other out, but anyone wanting to enter the market has to pay a tax to all of their incumbent competitors. Not clear how that benefits innovation.

Most of the patents in the pools also aren't incremental, they're independent patents that cover different parts of the same standard.
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There's another pest in the Wellington hills that needs eradicating but they're mostly concentrated in the Beehive
There was a polio outbreak in China in 2011 that was traced back to Pakistan. Prior to that outbreak, the last case of polio in China had been in 1999.

The outbreak was contained after 21 confirmed infections plus another 23 suspected. The Chinese public health system mobilized 1000 health workers, spent $26 million, and vaccinated 44 million people.

If we can't get rid of polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan, then this will just keep happening.

NEJM editorial: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1311591
There are two perspectives when looking at any job: project objectives and social utility.

The first sees a job as an effort focused on some project goals, e.g. designing a car, building a house, curing a disease, finding Higgs, running a restaurant, landing on Mars. The second sees a job as something simply done for money: those who do it need the proceeds.

Politicians have a tendency to put the social utility above project objectives. This explains situations where some jobs are equivalent to digging a whole in the ground only to bury it back again.

It's sad to see NASA come to this, too.
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This is a huge case, maybe rare, how money is better used than a tax payment. Non of this would happen if sunk into the government
I suspect that this can have something to do with designers thinking themselfs as kind of artists. Primadonnas do beautiful things and expect gratification for it.
I must say i have small but the same experience with asking for small help without keeping cash in other hand.
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Here's a link to software that Code For America has open sourced:

http://www.codeforamerica.org/apps/free.html#nav-tabs

There's also some companies doing SAAS apps for cities. I hope Detroit jumps ahead of other cities in using the cloud. Maybe even replace some of those aging computers with Chromebooks.
Do you think the difference (especially for medium and large versions) is worth using a patent encumbered format?
Note to myself: put all source code into one file ;)
" .. at home".

Experiment and explore without the wait for Mr. FedEx.
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This conversation showed up a couple of weeks ago...

Any new "image compression format" isn't going to gain widespread traction unless is can displace JPEG in terms of hardware support and ubiquity in cameras.

I was part of the JPEG-2000 support. The company I was with at the time had technology around how blocks were encoded (it gave up block independence at the benefit of 20+% encoding efficiency -- downside would be an intermediary step to reconstruct the JPEG steam).

None of those solutions took off.

Explain to me how beyond a hobbyist market BPG will make a splash?
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wait, did you just cite yourself?
If Lab A has the original patent then it can make or license the original invention. Nothing Lab B does afterwards is supposed to be able to prevent that, and as long as Lab A and its licensees have that in their pocket as an alternative course of action, they have Lab B over a barrel. Lab B spent money improving the invention and the only way they can recover any of it is on Lab A's terms.

You're introducing an alternative scenario in which Lab B is an unscrupulous patent troll with no qualms about filing frivolous lawsuits for nuisance value. Sure, they can do that, but that isn't an incentive to improve the technology, it's an incentive to engage in patent trolling. And it's just as profitable whether Lab B makes a genuine improvement to the technology or not, so it provides no incentive to actually make the improvement.
Absolutely, it's hugely important. The core idea that subjective beings will disagree holds obvious weight, but it takes serious commitment to improving the process to offer up this kind of experiment to prove it.
in your very first line, you have just proven my point. I do understand what UI/UX is - and I'm not conflating them together, but talking about a common behavior inherent in both.
Forgive me, but I see your reply as fairly vitriolic, whereas my question was anything but (I hope!). You are still thinking of me wanting to get a whole design for free. Where did I insinuate that ?

But I'm generally curious on why you bristle when I ask for design help - I think from your answer that you believe that I'm asking for an inordinate amount of help a.k.a a whole design for free. If that is indeed the case, then your answer is immediately very helpful because it helps me finetune my request for help !

I have another question for you - as developers, we are pretty comfortable with people asking us to look over code and share opinion. In a lot of ways Dribble is just that. Is it impolite to show someone an existing, badly designed MVP and ask for some open ended design help - whether it be in colors, typography or layout ?

Or do you fundamentally believe this cannot be done without engaging in a contractual discussion.
While I agree with your arguments, our digital footprint is the closest thing we have to mind reading and governments will simply not back down on warrantless surveillance, therefore I believe a line is being crossed that shouldn't be.

On the other hand, if you're not doing client side encryption, preferably offline, then you're not protected against a global threat, period. This is because, even if FastMail refuses to cooperate, well funded security agencies can do MITM attacks in spite of SSL/TLS.
I want to see a comparison with a normal JPG picture.
It’ll make a splash if (0) the legal issues are sufficiently sorted out so that adopters don’t feel threatened using the format (1) the polyfill works everywhere, as it seems to, without too substantial a slowdown, (2) it saves enough bandwidth that major websites start sending BPG instead of JPG to at least some web clients, (3) one or more major browsers decide to build in native support, and maybe an extra boost (4) it manages to support use cases that other formats don’t handle well (e.g. photographic/naturalistic images with full alpha channel) and carves out a niche as the main format for those particular types of images.

I can imagine Safari and IE building support for this format entirely as a counter to Google’s WebP, since they already need support for HEVC as a matter of course.

Many current websites send very heavily compressed JPEG images to save bandwidth, and just live with the big hit to image quality. If they had a similar-filesize alternative that they could use for some or all clients that didn’t degrade image quality, and still was guaranteed to work smoothly, it’s plausible they might adopt it.
I think it's pretty unfair to say that this facility does not fit within NASAs new side-job of assisting commercial enterprise with vehicle development.

I'm sure that this facility would be useful to lease to aerospace companies such as SpaceX and Armadillo that will want to QA and optimize their second/third stage engines.

This facility could be a pretty huge competitive advantage to US space industry.
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Unfortunately, this is a huge failing of large federally funded projects.

Contractors (and federal agencies too, to a large extent) have long since learned that the best way to get a big contract from the US government is to spread yourself out as much as you can, over as many districts as possible, in order to maximize your political pull.

Look at the supply chains of companies like Boeing, or defense contractors, and you'll see they have this down to an art.

This then leads to more and more entrenchment - there's less funding for truly innovative research because so much gets locked into those awful projects that are sacred cows and absolutely impossible to touch.

I don't really have a good solution. I strongly believe in federally funded research. Maybe something like the base closing commission should oversee all federal contracts?
I bet you can't reproduce that result ...
As someone else here stated, nobody can prove this happens
True, but it is also true that the best papers would be even better if they were written in less terse and cryptic style so that the same information could be obtained more easily.
Probably because we had Soviet bloc manufacturers of printers, Mera-Błonie in Poland, Robotron in East Germany, etc.

Im guessing Polish delegates were representing Pewex, or Baltona. Those were the only two institutions allowed to openly sell goods imported from the west. You could buy anything you wanted, including cars :o, the catch was you had to pay in western currency or fake dollars called "Bon towarowy". Their only purpose was to extract foreign currency from black market.
No, those things aren't obvious FYI.

And if your summary was "boy, new ideas from different stages" you kind of missed it.
Who is going to re-encode their images en masse? Content companies? Photo sites?
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Hey there, nobody is picking a fight. You sounds quite condescending.

I'm a developer and I have lots of designer friends. They are always very helpful with "small" tasks. However, what a developer thinks is a small item equivalent to looking over code may be actually substantial for a designer. Sometimes it's hard to tell and you may come off as rude asking for substantial work to be done for free.
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Ah, I skimmed the article but didn't notice that. Thanks for your reply :)
It doesn’t need to be done by anyone en masse. It can easily be phased in gradually.
There is no social utility in digging a hole to bury it back. Targeting social utility would mean to run a business at break-even or even at a loss to provide value as a side-effect to the community.

The cost of restarting tower building from a hibernate state would be enormous. I think they did the right thing in continuing building even if the immediate utility was lost. It's not like they will never need such a tower. They can't use it _now_ and that's a different thing.

In perspective, the $300M do not compare to the $8B mentioned in the article. Hey, they don't compare even to the budget of a box-office Hollywood movie today. That should mean something.
Time costs money. And you want free time from other people. That little piece of advice you really really need might take a half an hour for an UI designer to write or talk about. And that half an hour can easily be charged to someone else who is willing to pay for it.

It's just supply vs demand. UI/UX design is in very high demand. Every startup and entrepreneur wants a logo, graphic design or a website.
Why waste time helping someone out for free when you can charge for it?
Im a kiwi in my late 20s. I spent much of my childhood and teenage years in the mountains and bush (jungles) of New Zealand hunting introduced mammals. I wouldn't have spent so much time in the bush if there weren't these mammals to hunt. I'm not a yee-haw gun toting hillbilly, I'm an educated guy who, as a young man, got so much informal education from being in the mountains trying to stalk in on Deer, Tahr, Pigs (all introduced) that I could take home and eat.

It taught me resourcefulness, physical discipline, patience and survival skills. Having now traveled the world and spent many years living outside of New Zealand I have come to realize what unique abilities these are and in what a unique way us Kiwis have them. My grandfather used to tell me how appreciated us Kiwis were in World War Two for exactly these reasons.

There is nothing special in our water or our climate or anything like that. We just have an incredible resource that many young kiwis have traditionally engaged, often for the purposes of recreational hunting.

There is a chunk of conservation advocates who hardly engage the New Zealand outdoors, like myself (and others), yet they have a say in how it is run. They live in cities and have an idealistic but impractical understanding of our resource. The outdoors and the animals within the outdoors are a concept to these people, not a part of their lives.

Some mammals in New Zealand are an absolute resource and would be easy to control if we saw them as such. We wouldn't need state sponsored poisoning runs or organized culls of NZ's large mammals if youth were shown the educational value of going out and learning how to survive, be safe, be brave, in order to hunt a deer - and then how to not waste it.

I really hope the larger mammals in New Zealand remain and are treated as a resource for NZ's ambitious young people who want adventure but instead find it in playing video games and driving cars fast on public roads.

I see myself as a conservationist, I just don't see the need to wind back the clock 300 years. Lets control the large mammals and protect our unique environment: the two aren't mutually exclusive.
Why would you expect anyone to work for free? That's great you have some friends who are willing to, but expecting it from anyone is very bizarre.
This is interesting heading. Humans are essentially mammals. Will extinct Kiwis reign over these two islands once again?
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How do you write a type which fully describes, for example, "given a user, some content, and various bits of metadata, this function transforms them into a blog post with all the data in the right places"?
True but that doesn't imply you run at capacity all the time.
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My opinion is that file sending is a market that can support a lot of competitors. Maybe start with a basic prototype and see if you want to continue.