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by luisivan 2y ago
Hey Hacker News! I owe so much to this community, it was a great source of learning when I was a teenage hacker myself. Winning HackNow, a 5k EUR prize for teenage hackers, changed my life at age 15. Just having someone believe in you chang
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HopeHack: $50k prize for teenage hackers(hopehack.com)
1 points by luisivan 2y ago|1 comments
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by luisivan 2y ago
Hey Hacker News! I owe so much to this community, it was a great source of learning when I was a teenage hacker myself. Winning HackNow, a 5k EUR prize for teenage hackers, changed my life at age 15. Just having someone believe in you chang
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HopeHack Fellowship: $50k prize for teenage hackers(hopehack.com)
1 points by luisivan 2y ago|1 comments
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We are not expats. We are in exile(luis.com)
4 points by luisivan 2y ago|2 comments
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From the Sovereign Individual to Idiocracy(luis.com)
3 points by luisivan 2y ago|0 comments
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by luisivan 4y ago
Completely mind blowing
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by luisivan 4y ago
I've been working on something somewhat similar for producing legal documents, called Linked Markdown ( https://linked.md ). So the section about modules/importing and dynamic references really rang a bell. Very cool stu
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The Infinite Search for Simplicity(luisc.xyz)
2 points by luisivan 4y ago|0 comments
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by luisivan 9y ago
So they can backdoor them without you even noticing. Wonderful
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by luisivan 9y ago
For a moment my brain read "Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Complete" LOL
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Show HN: Aragon – Everything you need to run your company on Ethereum(aragon.one)
191 points by luisivan 10y ago|117 comments
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by luisivan 10y ago
I love the tool! Didn't know my MongoDB server had 3 vulnerabilities. PS: I love that they implemented Material Design on command line LOL
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Ask HN: Is there any programming language to argument thought processes?
1 points by luisivan 10y ago|1 comments
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by luisivan 10y ago
Hey there! We just open sourced a set of Ethereum contracts for anyone to freely provide, consume and invest in transparent and fair insurance vehicles. Insurance can get really bureaucratic and opaque; using Ethereum, bureaucracy is nonexi
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Show HN: A decentralized insurance vehicle on an Ethereum blockchain(provident.one)
3 points by luisivan 10y ago|1 comments
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by luisivan 10y ago
Hi there, This is the exact reason why we built Unpatent ( https://unpatent.co ) so feel free to reach me at luis@(our domain name) and we'll help you out!
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by luisivan 10y ago
And days before that I was with him in a fundraising dinner and we were like besties. Sociopaths. (Edited to reflect the point more politely)
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by luisivan 10y ago
Completely agree. I think lawyers are one of the biggest lobbies ever. They really care about their profession and making sure that they stay relevant. Some lawyers try hard to make simple things look extremely hard just so you have to blin
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by luisivan 10y ago
Thanks a lot! Instead of focusing on looking amazing, we first thought about making people understand us and then we added great design. It's a very legalese, complex concept to explain people, so we spent a lot of time on this!
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by luisivan 10y ago
Absolutely! I cannot speak for other companies/defendants, but in our case our aim is to make it very cost effective to invalidate patents that may later be used to sue your company. Most fees in litigation and patent invalidation go t
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by luisivan 10y ago
Thanks a lot! We spend the crowdfunded money on the ex parte reexam PTO fees + lawyer fees (for preparing the filing) + rewarding the prior art searchers. As we're doing an ex parte, it's pretty cheap compared to an inter partes.
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by luisivan 10y ago
That's why backers are anonymous by default!
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by luisivan 10y ago
We're pretty open about that and gathering feedback to build a timeline that makes sense. We are thinking about moving between stages only if they're successful instead of just looking at some arbitrary number of days.
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by luisivan 10y ago
Not donating feels like funding the patent trolls who are extracting $29 billion dollars a year from the American economy. You can choose to complain, or you can actually do something about the businesses that are being extorted and the bil
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by luisivan 10y ago
6 years! It's a lot of time if you keep in mind that some trolls wait until patents are expired in order to ask for all the infringement fees during the whole term of the patent. They sued a lot of businesses already, more to come duri
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by luisivan 10y ago
This patent is almost surely invalid under Alice v. CLS Bank , but nevertheless, the patent office granted it so the troll is using to extort companies.
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by luisivan 10y ago
A lot of patents affect a huge, broad space different that the one they are supposed to cover. These guys filed the first application in '96, then started other broader applications linking that first application so it counts as its pr
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by luisivan 10y ago
That's it! You nailed it
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by luisivan 10y ago
What we love about the crowdfunding is that it raises awareness about the issue. You have to actively back the campaign. But we're thinking about other, more passive methods as well.

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