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The world is certainly moving more quickly than it used to, and maybe 20 years is too long for patent protection. The alternative to utilization of a patented technology is to keep doing what you have been doing. Many people certainly do. The the patent expires about 10 years (or less) from the time the technology is made available to the market. Is that a problem? Seriously - I don't know. It doesn't seem to be (to me), but maybe the timeline is too long?
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Huh? That is exactly what these conservatives are advocating. Make tax filing maximally painful to make a political point
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For non-German speakers, the joke's punchline is "Honecker, you are the last to leave, please turn out the lights."

It sounds much better in German of course :)
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"Honecker, du bist der letzte, mach bitte das Licht aus..."

I think there's a little typo, it should be "macht". Then it yields the sentence "Honecker, you're the last, please turn off the lights."
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I don't think it does provide any new tools? (None that I noticed).

That said, I use sphinx a lot. I think it's a totally fine tool
For some reason people like to brag about how many hours they put in. Not sure why. What quality work got put in between hour 80 and 90?
I find that it's easier to submit a PR than ask on HN. Usually omitting a license is an unintentional error.
Wow. Did he bang the base commander's wife? Adultery is vaguely against military law (Article 134), but that stinks of vindictiveness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Justi...
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The 20-years-from-file is a recent change. It used to be 17-years-from-grant. The timelines can be dealt with statutorily.

I have no doubt that large amounts of biological data will be freely available to the market. And many foundational techniques (such as PCR, and now CRISPR) have quite a long useful lifespan. It isn't as if digital cellular telephony wasn't known before Nokia, just that some vendors (Motorola) misjudged and stuck with analog too long after the cost calculus changed.

You raise an interesting question about waterfall effects. I'll have to ponder this some. In any case, say this does happen - the patent holder gets very rich (fairly or not) and the world gets a constant stream of always better innovative biotech. I don't understand how the world suffers whether the beneficiary of the dollar flow is one entity or a hundred.
> "Text" only makes a good lowest common denominator on UNIX because the designers of UNIX decided that ASCII would be the lowest common denominator of the system. The designers of modern Windows decided that MSIL objects would be their lowest common denominator.

"Text" makes a good lowest common denominator because it's low. Everything, including humans looking at it, can deal with text. Essentially all programming languages on all platforms provide basic primitives analogous to getline(), find_first_of(), substr(), etc. You can take text from Unix and easily do something useful with it on any arbitrary platform.

MSIL assumes an entire infrastructure that isn't universally available. You can't take MSIL from Windows and easily do something useful with it on any arbitrary platform. It requires you to have a solid .NET virtual machine for your operating system, an API for dealing with MSIL, bindings for that API in every language you want to use, etc.
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Sorry, maybe you're fooling yourself, but you're not fooling me.

You're not here to discuss anything. You're here to impose your opinion and do battle with anyone who doesn't agree.

I bet you keep replying to me no matter what I say.
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Yes, it's a problem because it causes artificial distortions on the market due to the technology not being available widely. You could argue the patent gets assigned it's fair market value because it is offered to license, but monopolies do not price well.

It has nothing to do with "protecting the little guy" and in fact protects no one except for non-violent gangsters. You pay them for protection, the courts pay for their protection, and technological progress slows down because engineering around patents becomes a thing.

Look: if you're pro-patents, fine, just realize how the money machine works. In practice, it's about making money and maintaining the power to do so, nothing deeper than that.
You mean to say that the original developer who chose to release via MIT, gets exactly what they agreed to? God forbid, you're right, it's a whole moral catastrophe.
More likely, it's that the queen is inconsequential in day-to-day governance, and absolutely no one wants to reopen that can of worms that's the Constitution. Especially not after Meech Lake.
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"mach" is imperative singular, "macht" is imperative plural. So "mach bitte das Licht aus" is addressing Honecker directly (which is most likely intended here), where "macht bitte das Licht aus" would also address the people with him.
There was a time when Facebook was known for that

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-i-attacked-facebook-with-...

> Way back in 2005, a kid named Chris Putnam wrote a computer virus that rapidly spread across Facebook. [...] Pretty quickly, Facebook's COO, Dustin Moscovitz, was able to figure out Putnam was behind the attack. But instead of having Putnam arrested, Facebook hired him.

> "I will be forever grateful that the company was so sympathetic toward people like myself. It's one of the things that really sets Facebook apart with its passion for scrappy, hacker-type engineers."
See Jackie srouji for a real life example.
> Very frustrating because the border guards would be very diligent about ripping everything up but they would definitely not help putting things back together again

I've heard stories about police in the US doing this while looking for drugs.
It's actually incredibly important for our sales team. They use it to ask questions of product & marketing, share information about our products with each other, track new launches, etc.. This is hard in a distributed workspace and a company with many hundreds of people.

How else would you expect it to work? Email doesn't cut it (point to point, not searchable, low signal:noise) and I haven't seen a high functioning wiki, which seems like the closest alternative.

For sales in particular, though, I think the integration with SFDC (in Chatter's case) is pretty key. They live on Salesforce, so the messages & communication is right there and can easily be linked back to specific accounts as necessary.
Facebook made a grievous PR error taking back the internship. Regardless of who he is, my peers are thinking twice about joining Facebook now due to what looks like a petty and vindictive administration.

Those who made this decision probably won't see the bad fruits of it directly, but I know of two people who are very talented who turned down offers they were about to accept due to the news.

Those of us who have worked at Google or apple or other top firms know what vindictive and short sighted administration looks like and what a bad sign it is for the environment.

And that's aside from the fact that what the kid did embodies the "hacker way" held up by Mark. Signs of a backwards company having an identity crisis.
Oh, I definitely agree. No private entity could truly compete with government funded research. That's the ideal scenario where all important medical breakthroughs are a result of government funded research.
So Lamarck was right after all?
There was a Radiolab episode that covered a similar story:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/251885-you-are-what-your-grand...
I don't know. If they priced it at $1B per use, and nobody bought it, it would still be available for 3rd party replication 10 years after it hit the market.

This isn't right topic thread for this discussion; I apologize.
"mach" is the imperative form of "machen" and perfectly fine in that sentence in the sense of "Honecker, please turn of the lights!".

With "macht" the sentence would be more of an observation and the "bitte" (please) would sound weird: "Honecker please turns of the light."

Edit: as tazjin stated "macht" can also be used to address the whole group.
Responsible disclosure of what? He didn't discover a new exploit, he designed a tool for visualizing conversations.
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It's just the current equivalent of internal newsgroups.
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Not anyone, I don't support non-democratic "foreign" institutions. Most people don't care as in they don't realize about something that's been there all the time.
> Even showing no understanding of basic math when deduction + flat rate taxes are suggested.

As a left-winger, my views and yours probably aren't that far off. I would be fine with a flat tax (that was actually collected from everyone) and a large deductible. Even more so if it was coupled with a meaningful basic income guarantee.

The problem is that I don't actually believe politicians when they say that is what they will do. With all the talk about "job creators", it really, truly sounds as though the modern GOP actually wants a regressive system where the rich pay almost nothing and there is no deductible because the poor need to pay their "fair share" (whatever that means).

So it isn't that we don't understand math. My preferred tax code probably looks surprisingly similar to your preferred tax code, I just don't trust any of your politicians to actually move us in that direction (and for the record, it's not like I trust HRC to do any better).
I'm ambivalent about the 2nd amendment (and in fact lean left on it) but flat-out blaming it for the state of personal safety in the US is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. "Guns don't kill people, people do" at least points to the important and relevant truth that murder and homicide is a human behavior with complex motives, even if that alone wouldn't be enough for me to support private gun ownership. "You're not safe in the US because of the second amendment" is just a stupid lie.
For some reason i love reading these kind of stories, especially when you get the feel the writer is venting after a deep dive of the OS guts.

A close equivalent is reading Derek Lowe's "things i won't work with" articles.
Quicken's bank feeds are processed the same way mint's are - through an Intuit service that makes the call to the financial institution. That call ostensibly adds other functional value (transaction categorization, friendly names for businesses), but Intuit's in custody of your financial data (and passwords) to perform that feature.

Fortunately, Intuit's also (currently) takes lots of care to ensure proper data-at-rest and in-flight custodial procedures, but you're still trusting someone to do things right.
Tyrell speaks Swedish, and his wife speaks Danish.

It's no surprise that you get some "hits" (even with "rudimentary Norwegian language skills"), as the Scandinavian languages are so similar that we generally understand each other – Norwegian speakers even more so, according to Wikipedia [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languages#Mutua...
As an undergraduate student majoring in software engineering in China, I'm interning for a foreign company and we have access to free internet through proxies. And in my experience, most programmers regard free network as a necessity. And for people in large cities, it is true that they don't actually care about GFW, but I think many of them are at least aware of the existence of it, and sometimes break through it out of curiosity.
Valid points.

I'd like to address the "completely new environment" issue though. That should only be considered if you're thinking of owning and modifying the component. There are many software packages that you're going to use as-is, and interact with only via an API or CLI. In those cases the depth of the API/CLI, the quality of its documentation and the strength of its community matter way more than implementation language. (For example - who cares if nginx is written in C although your entire stack is Python or Java?)

If you're thinking of continually making changes in a package however - that's a different matter.
If by painful, you mean making sure everyone knows exactly how much money they are paying in taxes, then yes, Conservatives want that.

If you mean we want to make it hard to file taxes, as in make it complicated to figure out your tax return, and so on, then I'll have to ask where you got that idea. Most of the tax reform rhetoric I've seen is based on making it simpler to pay taxes, while at the same time more obvious how much you are paying.
I'm pretty happy having a powerless figurehead, especially if the alternative is presidential elections.
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I'm surprised they missed one of the biggest ones that comes up in day-to-day life dealing with Americans: the use of verb "to table" in meetings.

In American English if you say you want to table something in a meeting it means you want to stop talking about it. Ex. Let's table this discussion for later.

In Canadian English if you say you want to table something in a meeting it means you want to raise it up and discuss it -- the exact opposite. Ex. I want to table to this report, has everyone had a chance to read it?
> Of course you don't publicly release anything that is damaging to your employer.

I think that is a really, really dangerous line of thinking. Sometimes, employers do bad things. Sometimes (perhaps often), there is not a satisfactory way to rectify those bad things within the company. Sometimes, what's good for the public outweighs what's good for your employer. It is absolutely reasonable to have a conscience and say "wait, this isn't something I can let slide."

Now, did that happen here? I'm not sure. This individual made a judgment call, as you said. I don't know if I would have made the same call. But I simply don't feel that loyalty to one's employer is as important a value as privacy or safety. If that makes me unhireable in Silicon Valley, I guess I don't want to work in Silicon Valley.
Well, that was a bad decision with regards to UX because now I have to dig through 20 look-alike sites that don't link back to SO and you're not doing shit about it. Yes, SO comes up first when I search for the exact question but I'm sure you're aware how useless that is. If I knew the exact question to ask, I probably wouldn't be searching around Google.

My time is the most valuable thing to me and with this decision, you've essentially costed me a lot of time and I already paid my way by adding content to your site. I would have much rather seen you enter a simple legal agreement where the content was placed in escrow.
Provide a price in dollars. People outside of UK don't know what the value of pound is.
Why limit that to people of your genetic heritage? Sounds like quite an elitist thing to say.
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Grew up in Northern AB and have lived the past 10 years in BC, While "flat" is sometimes used, it's far more common to call them "two fours" here.
What was predictable about it? The author didn't do anything illegal or unethical. So he violated the ToS. I violate ToS's probably daily and I think most people would agree they have become a cultural joke.

If anything I'd think the appropriate response would be sitting him down and saying "look we appreciate you are an enterprising risk-taker but we have certain expectations here at mega-corp" Once he was a sufficiently brow-beaten corporate drone then they could have pile monotonous work in him/her ad infinitum. Win Win in my mind.
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> ...oh, and Common Lisp is NOT an example of readable Lisp. It's probably the most unreadable and obsfucation-friendly of them all :)

Actually typical Common Lisp is much more readable than Scheme or Clojure. 'obsfucation' is built-in in Clojure, where it has to be programmed in Common Lisp. Scheme has great potential for unreadable code, given it is a Lisp-1 and it makes heavy use of recursion and higher-order functions.

Common Lisp OTOH favors: long descriptive names, descriptive keyword arguments, CLOS based data structures (instead of untyped lists and vectors), explicit loops, explicit calls to variable bound functions, ...
To some extent, yes, but epigenetics won't AFAIK lead to speciation.
> "And, facebook, imo, is more of "get shit done", rather than "break shit". This was more of the latter."

He didn't 'break' anything.
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If your genetic heritage has never been the target of genocide, it is easy to maintain an emotional detachment.
I don't think that's so clear cut.

The leak was publicized in 2013 by somebody else, and it wasn't fixed for two years until the events in this article. Clearly Facebook didn't think it was a bug or a security issue, or they wouldn't have taken two years to fix it.

IMO the kid dodged a bullet when the internship was rescinded. Looks like hubris and shitty company culture, and he can probably get something better.
It always amazes me when FOSS advocates try to sell people on LibreOffice as a replacement for Excel. Do people really not understand how much of the world is governed with excel macros and spreadsheets?

Literally all of finance, insurance, large parts of education and local govt. runs on VBA, written by some someone who left a long time ago, who learned to program by reading "Excel for Dummies".

Walk into an investment bank like GS/MS/JP, and then cry when you realize people use VBA to make investment decisions for billions of dollars. But then again, it works, it solves their problems, why would they need something else? And most of all: Why would you take away the best/only tool they have and replace it with an even shittier option? Also realize, that these are people who collect 100 pounds per hour worked (after factoring in bonuses, probably a lot more); you don't want them wasting 2 hours trying to google how date-count conventions work in LibreCalc vs. Excel.

Don't poke the bear!
> the modern GOP actually wants a regressive system where the rich pay almost nothing and there is no deductible because the poor need to pay their "fair share"

None of the information I've seen posted for alternate tax systems by conservatives / GOP have ever had anything like that. That is something I hear a lot from papers that lean left, but is not the reality of any of the plans. Even the sales tax-based plans take great pains to make it easy on lower income folks. I just see it as more bad math.

I don't believe politicians will change the tax system because it is a powerful tool to impose their will and gain campaign contributions. Its a basic self-interest thing which explains the majority of politics.
A more charitable reading would be that the poster is affected by the realization that people of their genetic heritage were recently treated that way, not that they are claiming it is especially bad somehow because of the people it happened to.
A book-length, epic debugging story is in Ellen Ullman's novel The Bug:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Bug-Novel-Ellen-Ullman/dp/12500024...
> American culture IS canadian.

Yeah right, buddy.

> But look to the UK, to the BBC, and you won't find any.

As other have pointed out you find a few there. However this is more easily explained by two things: (1) for Canadians working in the US is hell of a lot easier than working in the UK, (2) For acting, the US pays far more than the UK.
Willing to wager most "genetic heritages" on the planet have been targets of genocide in one form or another.
> So, during this window, if you over price it, it isn't better/faster/cheaper. If it is priced competively, people benefit. The only "losers" are those that have to wait 10 years to rip off your research and clone your product and undersell you.

I'm pretty sure this is why we're only seeing consumer VR now, despite the fact that we had most of this technology in 1995. Patent-wise, it wasn't safe to rip off until now.

This is also (again, I suspect) why the current input situation is so underwhelming: anything exciting is going to reply on technology developed in the last 10 years that the R&D firms are pricing at self-defeatingly high cost.
> the ultimate goal of programming languages is to be useful tools; otherwise, they are merely art.

Many programming languages exist to be "merely" art; eg. pretty much everything on esolangs.org. There's nothing wrong with that.

Also, you're the only one talking about "useful tools". I used the phrase "useful day-to-day" very carefully: for example, space telescopes are "useful tools", but they're not useful for the day-to-day tasks people encounter in the way that a hammer is.
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I have't heard that exact phrasing used, but the idea is that you're putting a topic 'on the table' to be looked at by everyone and discussed. I've used and heard the term used both ways without too much confusion just based on context.
While it could be entirely true there are a lot of problems here. Small sample size and lots of confounding factors for one. Also there are still things to figure out in terms of how best to study epigenetic effects, as seen here: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/22/ije.d...
One factor is publishing rights. Traditionally, English language publishers negotiated for two main sets of rights: American (sometimes North American) rights, and British and Commonwealth rights. The latter resulted in the same books (with English spelling conventions) appearing in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc.

There have been attempts to change this. To quote from a Guardian article from 2008:

"We are all struggling to free ourselves from the proprietorial attitudes of the US and UK that continue to dominate the publishing world," said Juliet Rogers, chief of one of Australia's largest independent publishers Murdoch Books, and former president of the Australian Publishers Association. "The UK fails to grasp that the Empire is dead and that Commonwealth markets are no longer theirs by right [and] the US views Canadian rights as an automatic extension of their territory, even though they frequently have no intention of responsibly exercising those rights."

"Because British or American publishers get first dibs and insist on British Commonwealth rights, Australia, New Zealand and Canada are not getting a look in," added Andrew Wilkins, director of Australian publisher Wilkins Farago. This is to the disadvantage of authors, he explained, as exported copies of books are sold at reduced royalty rates, "so in theory the author could be making three to four times more money by having a local publisher – it makes no sense."

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/17/canada-australi...
> .. Companies have these kinds of training all the time.

Two broad category of workers emerge from elite institutions.

> .. (lack of judgement) he's demonstrated ..

Well, to this reader (at least) our fellow geek here has established which of the above subset of workers he belong to. You're correct that he has demonstrated that he is unfit for say the Facebooks, GoldmanSachs, Googles, ... of the world.

But who knows? Possibly Aran Khanan will follow up with his debut [1] and become a future LEADER in this space.

[1]: http://techscience.org/a/2015081101/