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Is that really true though? The right to distribute a work isn't tied to a specific medium. A contract between an author and a publisher can divide up the right by medium if it wishes but an unspecfied "right to publish" would include the web already. Seem like you'd need to read the specific contract in question and have a good knowledge of the relevant precedents to draw a conclusion here.

Even if you're correct, works after 1923 would not enter the public domain, because the author never relinquished their exclusive right to web publication.

Of course even for a public domain work, there's nothing to prevent a publisher from charging for it.
> I have come to believe that patents are not essential to the way medical research works today.

> Patents are essential to the current business model of pharmaceutical companies -- they are necessary to guarantee a return on investment, but the portion of the investment devoted to R&D and clinical trials is dwarfed by the marketing.

Your comment contradicts itself.

If, as you say, patents are "necessary to guarantee a return on investment", then it doesn't matter if the R&D is the largest cost or not, because the company won't produce a profit (and therefore won't produce new drugs) without the patent.

In fact, it's quite reasonable to think that both massive marketing and time-limited protection from competition are necessary to ensure enough of a return to guarantee continued investment into the industry. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
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Yes the British civil service has a long history of ignoring British engineers and just doing whatever the Americans tell them. A key example is Black Arrow. Or the TSR-2. Exactly the same with the PC. Imagine how it could have been...
>Are you saying you "got" what a project like angular that has more than 1000 contributors "didn't get"?

Sorry but that's a BS argument if I ever saw one. It's basically an arguemtn from authority and/or popularity.

Something could have 100000 contributors and still be crap and they could still "not get" that it's crap.

JavaEE circa 2002-5 had all the enterprise world using it, tons of aftermarket companies, the best people at SUN and more. And yet, it was utter crap, and a few years later everybody admitted it and were ashamed to be associated with it.

Or take PHP. I'm not against it, but it has tons of contributors (tens of thousands if we count the whole core ecosystem) and it's widely considered a "fractal of bad design".
Ask HN: Is the online education market exhausted?
I am a student interested in building something for education based on the problems I have faced with the current online resources.

Just wanted to know if the market is completely exhausted or is there a chance for new players?
In my experience using grunt, gulp and broccoli as task runner / build systems for complex applications, they all end up doing about the same thing.

In a way, it makes a lot of sense that broccoli is part of the Ember-CLI system - I found broccoli to be the most opinionated of the runners. As long as your structure mapped easily onto the opinions of broccoli, things were easy and speedy. If you want to do something not supported, or customize how things work, not so much. As an example, I submitted a PR to configure where and how broccoli stores its temp directory structure a year ago (./tmp wasn't right for my project), which is still open (and admittedly wasn't the most elegant solution).

Gulp and Grunt, on the other hand, make far fewer assumptions, provide very little in the way of out-of-the-box "just works", and are far more easy to tweak. In my own experience, my issue was getting certain cat/minify/sort processes to work in broccoli (to deal with angular module declaration ordering) was annoyingly complex enough that I just moved to gulp where it was easier (and someone else had already written a gulp plugin).
> usually fail because they are bad at convincing anyone of anything.

Without any data on usually vs. unusually a debate is lost anyway! FWIS there are enough stories of successes from solo-founders to contradict your theory - flat on its face.

> can't even convince one more person to join you

... is not the same thing as don't want another person in the founding team. I still do not see how that 10 year old logic of a co-founder must-have is going to hold good in the coming next 10 years. I may individually fail but times for startups have changed, haven't they?

Also it is still a bad deal for most entrepreneurs (especially those who are outside) to let YC become the fulcrum of startup destiny - for it has almost become a monopoly and a monopsony as I'd mentioned earlier. It doesn't matter whether YC likes it or not.
> very fast (single CPU cycle) memory access

> That was possible only because at the time, memory was faster than the core and could keep up. Modern CPUs run the core at several times memory speeds, and there is latency involved due to physical constraints.

That begs the question: Would we be better off if CPU clock speeds were set such that the memory could keep up again, and we software developers learned to work within real constraints again, rather than expecting the CPU makers to keep working miracles to deliver ever more performance? I have no wish to go back to programming in Applesoft BASIC or 6502 assembler as I did in my childhood and early teenage years. But programming a 32-bit processor clocked to match the speed of memory, in C++ or Rust, wouldn't be so bad.
Would you guys mind serving up some higher res assets please? :)
Regarding angular, please see this previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651641 There appears to be lots of things the 1000 contributors didn't get. They are after all abandoning Angular 1 and working on Angular 2 which is a completely new framework which just happens to share the same name as the older framework.

I agree designers shouldn't touch code (i.e., javascript). But designers should be able to directly edit the visual aspects (i.e., templates). This was one of the goals of XAML.
Lacks handling of <p> and <br>. For <p> prepend (append?) two newlines. For <br>, suffix two spaces.
Commodore's more significant mistake was as the article said "Commodore hedged their bets everywhere — except in the Amiga’s most obvious application as a game machine, from which they ran terrified."

Which is the exact opposite of what they should have done. Instead they should have split their market into two, one focusing on high-end workstations and the other game and home computing.

I remember when they were talking about the next generation of custom graphics chips and there was all of this hold up, which was so unnecessary because there was a simple solution. They only needed to add three of the same chip in one for each color red, blue and green or for controlling every third scan line (I had even read of someone doing this with three separate Amigas). There's your next gen workstation right there.
That's a very interesting point. We'll probably focus on user interaction first then. I'd like to think we've done more than enough to make the website usable for now...
Is this not the same vector used for the GitHub DDOS, just in a slightly different form?
I think it was submitted as "SQLite and Pandas for Medium Data Workflows" (that's what I see in my RSS reader), but may have been changed to reflect the article title.
>What is an interesting mental exercise is imagining what would have happened if the 6502 or 6809 architectures had expanded and done well.

It was, but for some reason Hitachi didn't publicize it, and word only escaped years too late: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_6309
Ben, I think you should write a blog post about your experience. Many of us would love to hear more about it, including me.
There's always http://smarden.org/runit/
As a rule of thumb, if the data can fit on something smaller than your literal thumb nail (i.e. a single microSD card) it's definitely not big data.
Surely some internal Google projects were developed alongside Go in the language.
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I mean, using this approach I imagine you can do the same with much more data...

(Also Big Data is one of those words whose definition sucks to pin down)
Except everyone was opposed?

On the other hand, ICANN made a whole lot of money out of it, so that's something.
The whole blog is interesting to read. Thanks OP.
Yes it has special meaning that lawyers tend to forget confuses laypeople. A legal action is a term of art that means a legal proceeding such as a lawsuit or a petition at a gov't agency. From Black's Law Dictionary:

Lawful pursuit for justice or decision under the law, typically leading to proceeding within the jurisdiction’s court system. An entity accuses another for a unlawful action, to protect an entity’s rights from violation
It's so big, that you can't even fit it in a single Excel sheet! /s
The vhost does not really need to be configured if you have just one of them. I'm sure the default apache config handles that just fine (listening on any address port 80). Also for "run node app.js" don't forget "add a script that runs 'node app.js' at server startup".
Related - anyone have the link to "the last anonymous hosting service"? If you send him a dollar & a un/pw he would set it up for you. I think "void" was in the URL, too.
Well, this is surely useful for some use cases. But for reapeated analyses that 50 min loading time is a no go and there is certainly big room for improvements.
For instance, using R with data.table to process ~4GB file would result in few minutes spent on loading and processing, while giving a very similar flexibility of REPL and scripting. There should a similar way to do it in python i guess...
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The medallions are still the only way to run a yellow cab - nothing has changed with regards to that. It'd be like cabbies complaining that new subways were opening, or the busses got better, and their business was going down.
You'd be surprised by the connection speed and devices used by the majority of our users... But sure, you can see we're doing that partially already, with a more general overhaul coming!
Is it worth doing as a non beginners course, ie I have 'some' Linux knowledge, but would like to improve it?
Ugh, this is my main issue with the whole "i fucking love science" movement, it's not about science, it's about regurgitating sound bites and memes, and when they try to tackle a real scientific article, they get it wrong.
Am Benerd From Kenya and my start up dint get an invitation into YC this summer.. I have a great team n awesome prototype but Since I really follow what YC start up school teaches about start ups,They had a reason of Not inviting us for the next batch ,this has made us go back to the drawing board and rethink what we haven't got right yet..infact we have started seeing flaws in our prototype that we didn't see before
If a team was invited from Africa ,that is great and it was my dream to have at least an African team in YC.Thanks you guys for the great efforts you are making to see start ups through the emotional roller coaster.
Enlightenment means to open one's eyes to what is in reality. But the problem is that you can't confirm the degree to which you've opened your eyes. How do you verify whether you know or really do not know a given thing? How do you see and verify the precision of your eyesight?

The thing is that someone's 'eyesight' (of their individual consciousness) is a function of their own individual degree of truthfulness. I hope that's understandable. In other words, how much and how precisely we can see the world is determined by how truthful we are individually. Degree of truthfulness can be defined as the degree of exactness of confirmation. For example, I might have 65% truthfulness and therefore 35% untruthfulness. But we can't tell how truthful we really are - we don't know how precisely and how closely we are able to confirm things. That's why even if we make a confirmation about something, we can't just believe our confirmation, and we have to keep checking. Through this process we can improve our own individual wisdom. And it's through wisdom that you can find the way to whatever abilities you want to have for yourself. All the ways exist in the world. It's a question of recognizing what way has the result you want and then you need the willpower to correctly practice the correct way.

There are many enlightenments along the way to obtaining the supreme, perfect, final enlightenment. However it's only a totally enlightened master, i.e. the one who has opened his/her eyes completely to the world, who can tell how truthful we really are.

If you really think you've obtained an enlightenment, I'd like to confirm it. You can either tell me what you can see, and then we can check it through proof, or as an alternative I can also ask you some questions about very simple terms that we learn at a young age and check through your answer what you can see.
"2) Do more to cut costs, companywide. (“The most valuable long-term dollar to an organization with declining revenues is a dollar you don’t spend.”)"

This one worries me. I don't have better proposals to save the industry, but we keep redefining coverage to be less direct and less expensive and we all end up paying for this by being further removed from news as it happens.

As a digital-only subscriber, I find NYT's current subscription model bizarre. For the base ($20/mo) tier, I get access to web and iPad but not iPhone (which costs an additional $10). This structure means I use and value the service less, making me more likely to cancel. Feels like a business model that privileges their needs over their customer's experience. And as a result, I opine that it is not likely to meet their expectations. I'd rather see an attempt to broaden the subscription base by aggressively lowering the cost ($7.99) and aggressively expanding the entitlement (sub includes crossword, for example).
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Like what? Loading multiple terabytes of data into sqlite on a single server?
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That's not an unreasonable perspective. But is the dynamic he describes predictable, is it the only dynamic or at least the dominant one? I assume he is not suggesting that the only effect will be minor adjustments to the way these industries work. If patents disappeared tomorrow, a tornado would run through the pharmaceutical world.

That doesn't mean that there aren't gains to be had from a moderate version of that approach. I just don't think there is a theoretical framework capable of telling us the right answer in economics. Economics is at its best more similar to zoology than physics. Zoology will not accurately predict the way species and populations will react to a reduction in available water sources or the introduction of new species. On the rare occasions that it's feasible, repeating the experiment will rarely yield the same result.
cbeach,

I checked your site. It's very interesting. I agree, people love the idea, but it's not about what people say, it's about what they actually end up doing. It seems there needs to be a very special approach to crack this nut.

I'd like to chat about this more if you don't mind. My gmail chat: usenkanov@gmail.com.
I remember being take out to CIT on a school trip and seeing the TSR2 sadly sitting at the back of one of the hangers.

A plane so hot that one of the protype's on a single engine could walk away from the fastest fighter of the era!

If I ever run a laundry files game 666 squadron will be using the advanced version of the TSR 2 rather than the Bombcords
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Haha 3.9Gb, thats nothing. I'd argue that anything that can fit into ram of a relatively modern laptop is small data.
That was not particularly big data in 1995. You'd just load it into Oracle running on a desktop machine and query it in SQL, draw some graphs in Developer/2000.
I think the limit for PowerPivot is 4Gb of data when saved so you might be able to do this that way in Excel - the row limit is just under 2 billion.
two pictures of waveforms would be much better than text here ...
Here is a discussion exactly about "Why mixing templates and logic is not necessarily bad": http://www.thisisvoid.org/article/03

I have a math research background: if you can prove something in 2 pages with no extra tool, it's far better than doing the same by invoking a big difficult Theorem.

Moreover, I am not a profesionnal developer. And for me, installing Apache+PHP is enough.
I don't want to add more tools, more layers. The list could be endless:
Let's use Symfony, Composer, Brew (random name here, I don't know what is Brew)... and at the end I'll have a big big thing...

I really want to keep it simple...

Each new layer is like "minus 10 points" for my project ;)
> the legal setup for property is foundational to an economy.

I would agree on that had we not recently had a massive change away from products and property and into service and contracts. Citizens do not own cars, coffee machines, or books. They house devices which they have a licensed permission to use, and it is contract law that rules and not property law.

Patents could also easily be redefined as a contract between state and inventor, where inventor provide knowledge in return for privilege and protection. It doesn't change anything for the economy, but it would remove the need to talk about property and it would imply that the contract could be changed in the future.
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I'm 18, and my co-founder is just turning 18 in a week.

So we never really expected to get in. We are both completely broke, so we're going to launch a kickstarter campaign to see if we can get the funding for more hosting (and the ability to work full-time over the summer). From there, well, I guess we try to grow and take over the world.
The Apple II family straddled the divide between work and play pretty well, though it was probably more of a play machine in later years. In 1988, when I was almost 8 years old, my parents bought an Apple IIGS as our first computer. My mother, who is an accountant, ran accounting software on that machine, but the rest of us also had a lot of fun with it, in both the 8-bit Apple II emulation mode and the 16-bit native mode. A couple of years later, she bought a PC. Whether it was so she could have better accounting software, or just the same accounting software as her colleagues, or because the rest of us liked the GS so much, I don't know. I don't think she ever told me directly. In any case, the net result was that I could spend more time on the GS, both playing around and learning to program. Of course, my siblings spent quite a bit of time playing games on the GS as well.

I didn't know anyone with an Amiga, and there weren't any at school. The only Commodore machine I ever got my hands on was my paternal grandfather's Commodore 64, which seemed quite limited compared to the Apple IIGS we had at home. From what I've read, it seems that the Amiga had better graphics than the GS. And of course, the Amiga's processor was faster, unless one added an accelerator card to the GS, which we never did. The GS's sound chip (an Ensoniq) was more advanced in some ways; it had 32 oscillators. But samples had to be stored in that chip's own RAM, and there was only 64K of that. Still, there were a few good trackers for the GS; the best one was NoiseTracker from the FTA.
I am sorry, we cannot really argue about how something feels, can we? :)

For me, Tesla is a luxury brand, I might just have a bad taste. :))
Which is even more incorrect given the current cost of gas ($2.09 in SC at the moment for regular). Which is not to say it won't go back up, but I just find it quite the sleazy sales tactic.

It'd be like selling someone a gun and saying, "it's free after you go kill your own deer, you'll never have to buy meat from a grocery store ever again! (but you have to pay $700 up front)."

This type of sales tactic makes me want to buy the product even less, not more, because it makes me wonder what else they're lying to me about.
I had problems with the OH Press just because the minimum increase when you're starting out is so much relative to the total weight. I think I started out at 25kg so with the smallest plates at 1.25kg, the first few increases were around 10% each — tough to pull off every week.
Will this be available on Elastic Beanstalk?
Ask HN: To those trying to pursue their passion but failing, do you regret it?
For the millionth time, I've heard the "pursue your passion" speech. I can't help but wonder what happens to people who tried to pursue their passion but failed, and are now looking around to see their peers achieving "success".
This discussion about what contributors got/didn't get is completely off - Angular was conceived at a time when a lot of what we have today in standards and better practices weren't here. To a large degree, Angular popularized many of them in frontend development, or at the least highlighted a need for a more standardized solution.

Angular has a lot of strong & smart contributors. Angular also grew more organically, and broke a lot of new ground. That says nothing about what contributors got/did not get. To equate the two requires a false assumption.
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> they should have split their market into two, one focusing on high-end workstations and the other game and home computing.

That's exactly what they did (and very successfully), with the 500 and 2000 models.

The main problem for mainstream adoption at the time was that the machine, being so successful as a multimedia and games machine, was regarded as a toy.

But the stake through the heart of the Amiga, and all the other proprietary platforms of the time, was that the IBM PC architecture became a standard that was open for all manufacturers to produce for. You can't compete with that.

(Unless you are Steve Jobs. In fact the accepted wisdom at the time, with Apple and the Mac teetering on the brink of annihilation, was that they should open up their hardware platform and become a software company.)
It's not about whether someone is using the language, but about whether the language designers decide to listen to a user above themselves.

It's hard to design a language. Everybody is always trying to give their conflicting opinions. Many language designers react by turning inwards and ignoring everybody else.
What the author (and I) meant by "low-latency" is a gc were the work is very fairly distributed among the mutators allocation requests. The gc with highest throughput just allocates memory and never frees it. But then you sacrifice other properties such as extremely high memory usage..
well ICANN isn't referred to as ICANT for no reason - A lot of people have serious issues with ICANN and its poor governance.
ReAngular was an April Fools' joke just 10 days ago: http://moduscreate.com/reangular-angular-react-merger/
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Generating specialized code from a generic AST is in no way analogous to the exponential-time explosion that is the C++ header system, which is what Go is referencing when it says that it has been designed to read each source file only once. All languages with proper module systems have this property (which is to say, basically all languages that aren't C or C++).
Yeah like others point out this is small data. My rules are:

1) Does it fit in a desktop computer memory? If it does it is "small data".

2) Does it fit on a hard drive in a desktop? Then it is just "data". Or medium data.

3) If you need a cluster or some centralized network storage to fit and manage it, you might have big data.

4) Next level up is streaming data. Your data doesn't even sit anywhere because it is accumulated faster than you could ever processes it.
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