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by law 14y ago
Additionally, if the entities receiving the shares happen to be C corporations (which I believe can have 501(c)(3) status), they can deduct the lesser of: (i) 70% of dividends received on the stock; or (ii) 70% of the corporation's taxable
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by law 14y ago
I use Python in production for text pre-processing and other ETL-related processes, which is part of a larger reinforcement learning approach. Additionally, I use Python to prototype the core ML algorithms, which I sometimes re-implement in
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by law 14y ago
I've never tried Scala, but I suppose I should give it a chance. I'm a fan of Lisp, and the two languages seem to have a lot in common. Scala's expressive type system seems like it has the potential to be both a blessing and a curse, but ad
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by law 14y ago
I use Python for nearly all of my ETL processes that involve text processing. Even in production systems, I'd be hard-pressed to admit any significant performance issues. Python facilitates implementing algorithms in a functional style, whi
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by law 14y ago
The USPTO has been taking some amazing technological steps in the last few years. This is the most recent. Earlier this year they, for the first time ever, released a search function for the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (which is a
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The USPTO via IdeaScale: Open discussion of patent policy(uspto-mpep.ideascale.com)
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by law 14y ago
I'm an attorney. Read http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2209.html However, we can continue to speak in hypotheticals that support your particularly cynical (and uninformed) view of the patent system, if you'd like.
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by law 14y ago
> I am pretty sure they at least need to sign it, which is why the common (overreaching and abusive) employment contracts include a clause saying that the employee will facilitate the filing of such paperwork. Sadly, that's not the case
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by law 14y ago
You're wrong. The USPTO has an obligation to review any prior art that raises a substantial new question of patentability, even if the patent has already issued. Post-issuance, any person can request ex parte re-examination (even anonymousl
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by law 14y ago
The system is not "broken and completely f* cked up." Certain aspects are dysfunctional (as one would reasonably expect given the extent to which technological progress exceeds legislative progress), but you cannot impute those specific f
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by law 14y ago
I'm so relieved that this is the top comment. Design patents only protect the ornamental characteristics embodied in an article of manufacture. This NYT blogger seems to conflate design patents and utility patents, but the distinction is th
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by law 14y ago
Modern C++ Design (Andrei Alexandrescu)[1] is wonderful, but C++11 has "simplified" much of what he covers. If you want to be able to read the C++11 standard[2] with little effort, Alexandrescu's book is nevertheless a good primer. [1] htt
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by law 14y ago
How mature is string manipulation in Lua? Personally, I use python for anything involving string manipulation, and then use C or C++ (depending on context) to do significant data processing on the (now hashed) data.
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by law 14y ago
I'm not able to verify this right now, but facebook stores user identification information using EXIF in JPEGs? If so, I wonder whether image hosts delete this info before hosting your file.
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by law 14y ago
Don't take this as legal advice (it's not), but my personal belief is that money is better spent patenting novel/non-obvious subject matter. Execution is very, very hard; if you waste all of your money on a poorly-executed idea, you're basi
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by law 14y ago
That's exactly the reason. It's from the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (VPPA), which ``preserve[s] personal privacy with respect to the rental, purchase, or delivery of video tapes or similar audio visual materials.''[1] It prohibits
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by law 14y ago
> Did you agree to the rules of the party before joining? Yup. One of which is: "Use your real name". I signed up for Facebook in September 2004. I most certainly did not agree to that rule, because as far as I can recall, no such rul
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by law 14y ago
I agree that we're only getting limited information. I'd love to see his personal IMs, because I think those would shed even more light on his character. It's curiously ironic how the man who has access to the secrets of millions of people
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by law 14y ago
It's incredible that they're offering this tape--especially from a computer vision perspective. With enough data, one could conceivably write a program that predicts a team's next play based on the players' pre-snap formation and the previo
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by law 14y ago
In one of the most telling IMs of their entire correspondence (see page 62 of The Complete Timeline), Zuckerberg stated: "i kind of view you as a friend." This came up when Zuckerberg was annoyed that Greenspan made a security hole public.
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by law 14y ago
Flagged for a misleading title. Page 10 explicitly states: ``To be clear, we hold that all the steps of a claimed method must be performed in order to find induced infringement, but that it is not necessary to prove that all the steps were
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by law 14y ago
> If you've had a look through even a handful of these patents people are getting sued for millions over, they're basically the equivalent of the long-form novel. No. They're not. You say this because you, like everyone else, don't unde
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by law 14y ago
Not the federal government...
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by law 14y ago
I spoke precisely, yet you managed to contort my statement into something that it's not: an expression of my opinion on universal health care. What I said was that other approaches exist that do not require marking tax returns in a way that
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by law 14y ago
I'd even claim that the left wing has a greater propensity to engage in this conduct, albeit more subtly. For example, one side effect of the Affordable Care Act is the federal government knowing which Americans have health insurance. Whi
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by law 14y ago
Apple has a patent on this.[1] [1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
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by law 14y ago
Don't forget the obligatory leave-of-absence from NYU.
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by law 14y ago
> I think it's quite a bit more sinister than this. As a patent lawyer confided to me once: The most valuable patents are the obvious ones (as other folks will likely think of it themselves) and that his job is to mask the fact that a p
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by law 14y ago
I think that fluid dynamics serves as an appropriate analogy for understanding social networking. Companies like facebook interact with a force that's very similar to fluid flow and equally subject to the conservation laws. As with fluids,
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by law 14y ago
> That's still pretty cool – but again, I think it means that the term "social network" is losing its distinctiveness. Good. The term should lose its distinctiveness. Currently, ``social'' closely relates to friendliness or geniality, b

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