samch

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by samch 12y ago
I hear what you're saying, but I'm not seeing a proposed alternative. Say the government allocated $500k to early-stage research for a particular drug. Would we then want the taxpayers to fund a startup company to see if that dr
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by samch 12y ago
There's a big difference between the types of research that big pharma and academia undertake. To be very general about it, corporate R&D is a lower-risk endeavor. They focus on getting reasonably-well-proven ideas to market. Fo
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by samch 12y ago
So, let's say you worked hard for decades to invent something like a new drug. You're telling me you wouldn't want anything from that? Fine, publish your paper without disclosing your invention to us. Your choice. In all
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by samch 12y ago
^ This
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by samch 12y ago
By your same logic, why would a researcher devote decades to making an impact in their field? Is it purely altruistic? Is it because they love to see their articles cited in journals? Is it because their technologies can be licensed and
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by samch 12y ago
It's difficult to divorce the ideas of revenue and benefit. We're not talking about open-source software here. We're talking about pharmaceutical products and getting those to market so that those in need can start benefiti
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by samch 12y ago
I work in tech transfer office of a major research university. We are responsible for protecting the IP of our inventors and licensing it. We work hard to get research from the lab out into industry where it can have the broadest applicat
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by samch 12y ago
Except that the attack you mention has no bearing on the standard 14-round AES-256 that everybody uses.
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by samch 12y ago
Just out of curiosity, why are you proposing that AES 128 is the one to go with? According to SSL Labs AES 256 is preferable and has broad support among browsers.
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I'm not really sure what you're asking about or commenting on here. I will, however, take the opportunity to say that I am a big fan of the SLL Labs Server Test that Ivan Ristic made. With the number of SSL/TLS vulnerabilit
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by samch 12y ago
I kind of wish they wouldn't just hand out an A+ that easily. There are clear areas of improvement that the sub-scores call out (90 in both Key Exchange and Cipher Suite). They see the HSTS and grant the A+ when there is clearly impr
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AT&T lowers gigabit pricing to match competition (Google Fiber)(wraltechwire.com)
2 points by samch 12y ago|0 comments
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by samch 12y ago
It's interesting that you ask about nanovaccines in relation to this article. The lead inventor and CEO on this project also founded another company that works in that exact area [1]. As to the precision of Carbon3D, the best I can fig
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by samch 12y ago
Just a point here that since two of the primary founders / inventors are on the faculty of UNC Chapel Hill, this technology likely arose from work in their labs on campus. That means it could fall under the UNC Patent Policy [1]. It w
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by samch 12y ago
Yes, it does still slice into layers. Those layers were demonstrated in their paper as small as 1µm in thickness. From the paper: "Because CLIP is continuous, the refresh rate of projected images can be increased without altering prin
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Joe DeSimone is something of a legend around this area (RTP). The guy is a prolific inventor at UNC Chapel Hill [1] and is a genius when it comes to chemical engineering. He has also won the MIT Lemelson prize [2]. His partner in this, E
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by samch 12y ago
The multiple backup solution is the one we're going with for now. I just met with her this week, and she is using an external RAID-1 solution while she is in the process of recording the videos to leave for her children. I'm als
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by samch 12y ago
We work at Duke University, and I've reached our to the people who work at the University Archives. They basically mentioned the same thing you did about 20 years being a long time. As a software developer, I have thought about what i
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Ask HN: Need advice for long-term data archival
7 points by samch 12y ago|5 comments