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I admit, my attention was divided earlier between Hacker News and my day job as a California IP litigator.

Here you go:

Yes, the UTSA statute is "the law". But it's not the ONLY law. Where there are gaps, courts look to case law, just like in any other area of law. And the UTSA was drafted with the old common law in mind, continuing much of it, but codifying it. That's why courts DO look at the older common law to inform their interpretations of the UTSA.

This is from page 1 of the Prefatory Note in the 1985 final draft of the UTSA:

"The Uniform Act codifies the basic principles of common law trade secret protection, preserving its essential distinctions from patent law."

With that, I'm done with this thread. We are way off-topic since the lawsuit in the original post doesn't even have a trade secret claim. I'm also done dispensing free legal advice for the night.
There are several key issues that are undecided by the court. The most notable is who owned the common-law copyright (or the first right to publish) the lyrics. It's unclear in this instance, but the presumption is that it's the Hill sisters.

Whoever owned that copyright continued to do so until first (authorized) publication or January 1, 1978, where it follows the rules (most likely from first creation, since it's an expires-first rule). The expiration is the death of the last author + 70 years (2016, if the Hill sisters created it) or 120 years from at most 1911 (if it's anonymous, since we know it had to be created before 1911 by a (presumably unauthorized if this is to apply) publication).

If there was an authorized publication, then it's public domain if there's no copyright notice. If there's a copyright notice, then it's still copyrighted today only if all the rules were followed, which is pretty unlikely at this point. The existence of the 1922 Everyday Song Book may or may not constitute this publication, and the notice may or may not constitute a legal copyright notice (it was never decided by the judgement, only that the question requires a trial to determine the answer).

From the record, it seems likely that the Hill sisters owned the copyright, but considered it abandoned and so never actually published it. However, they probably didn't actually legally lose their copyright, so it follows the 1976 copyright act rules, which means that the copyright is now held by their heirs and will expire next year. Of course, if said heirs wish to try to enforce the copyright, they will have to actually prove all of the findings of fact to make it the case, which is probably not worth the burden given the time left.
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While I think what you are saying is true it would depend on whether the wording of the contract said they owned the copyright. I guess that's what you meant by "does not necessarily mean".
Remember kids, Oakland is actually closer to Market St/Mission than most of SF.
I really really really want to see Aphyr attack the patched version to see if he thinks the fix actually worked.
Judging by the comments here, I would be one of the few people to answer this question honestly. Although I haven't been desperate for a job in a long time, I think an honest discussion around this question would be best for both sides.
Someone needs to call Jason Scott and the Archive Team to save all of the ersatz Happy Birthday songs sung at restaurants. "Oh, you're at the Olive Garden and you're having lots of fun! It's your birthday birthday, and you're number one!"
The alternative is that online advertisement has to compete on the same level that offline advertisement does. If a company finds it is not worth investing time and money to find out what the local laws is, then there are local companies that already know how to operate and can take that market share from them.

There are however many global companies that has learned to follow local laws in each country they decide to operative in. McDonald's for example can't just ignore local food and health regulations and have a single system across all nations.
Cloud66 is a pretty close match to Heroku.
> 15-30min block at the end of each day over the span of about a month

Admire your speed ! It's a fun app with lots of nifty features.
IIRC, MD5 (and probably the other hashs) are implemented in exactly this form in OpenSSL.

I can't really think of a more straightforward way to implement CRC32, frankly, especially assuming that maybe you don't want to force the entire buffer to be present. If you did, you could `uint32_t crc32(unsigned char * buffer, size_t len);` — but you can implement that function in terms of the interface in the article, and if you pick up a bit of inlining from an optimizer, I think it would end up being just as efficient, too. (If you don't, you'll end up with some extra pointer dereferences, but again, the streaming interface supports streaming.)

And perhaps to stress what some other commenters are missing: it's not "you should always OO in C"; it's that if you want an interface to compute, while streaming, the CRC32 of a stream — you need to store that state somewhere, and you need to act on that state somehow. That state is an object: it has a setup, and potentially a teardown, and two relevant methods: feed it data, and get the computed hash.
Right, I should add that it was two years ago. My point is that the age of a project has nothing to do with the correctness of its Paxos implementation.
Yea exactly they did everything and left out the inventor, what that does is create a one tracked mind team behind them all and not only that it didn't attract real inventors to get great product ideas. If they gave the inventor more you would have better products. Products take a variety of people and different options, a product can't be streamlined by the same people each time.
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Ugh please stop. So much fake going on. Oakland is just like any city in the last 20 years. Just fine but still remembered for their past.
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The low expected production run for a custom handware development kit would be what drives the price up.
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This is the exact narrative from HBO's Silicon Valley.
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> On stealing "ideas," do you have some advice here? Smule has never specified what ideas they think we stole.

In their initial complaint filing [1] they mention "Synch Technology" (automated video/audio synchronization) several times.

"[...] specifically including the development of Smule's proprietary artificial intelligence technology that analyzes audio and video files and through the use of algorithms, automatically synchronizes video footage to audio files in a manner that results in a pleasing and and appropriate matching of the action and the music"

"[Shred] which purports to have developed a product that detects and segments key points of unstructured video and algorithmically synchronizes these videos to music in the same or similar manner as Smule's Synch Technology."

Some of the quotes and actions by your former boss leave a bad taste in my mouth, but if the AV synchronization is indeed similar to their own or developed using their resources, they will have a strong case that you've breached your contract.

[1] Found here, thanks to codingdave: http://webaccess.sftc.org/Scripts/Magic94/mgrqispi94.dll?APP...
The textbook comment is pretty funny, as the french from 1945 have a quite different opinion about who actually won the war.

http://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sondage-...
That's what I thought. I think deploying something like this would be easier than the parent comment suggests.
How does one bypass the kernel for network and disk IO? I've never heard of doing this before (e.g. IO is always a system call)
Are there any recent comparative benchmarks of hypertable? I looked around but couldn't find any.
They need refurbishing
I agree, what's up with the repeated mentions of slack. It's like comparing Dropbox with Skype - they are 2 totally different utilities.
For 100 years though?
This might be a nice way to comfort yourself about living not only in CA but in either SF or Oakland, but it's not real life. I've worked in the downtowns of multiple major metropolitan areas, and have never seen anyone defecate in public, nor have I witnessed a robbery.

I was once pressed to buy crack in the Crossroads District of KCMO, but that's pretty much it. I used to walk from Crossroads to Crown Center for lunch and back again every day. Second most eventful walk: a couple of birds swooped down and tried to take some of my hair.
It's justified. People draw comparisons between SF and NYC, but it only serves to underscore the fact that they know absolutely nothing about what they're comparing.

One is a world-class city on par with London, Paris or Tokyo. The other is a mid-sized American city with nice weather and small-town infrastructure, and a notoriety that accidentally exceeded its potential in the 1960s. The main reason it's the epicenter of the tech world today is because it's the closest thing to culture that silicon valley gets. And I say that as someone who loves (or used to love) this city. It's simply not worth paying New York prices to live in Nerdistan sur Mer.
> don't have silicon support for indirect function call (i.e. by function pointer), so they work around this problem by saving function address to the stack and execution 'return' instruction.

While no doubt this is true, if you have an indirect function call in C++ OO code, how do you not have it in C? That you had it in C++ implies — I hope — that you needed it. The C code can't simply whisk that need away. (Or, if it can, so can the C++…)
It's planned. However, I don't believe we'll pass it today.
We're targeting GA for Jan and we'll give it our best shot.
I know HN is pedantic about original titles, but shitty ones like this are better to be edited.
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Try another point of view. If this review was done outside the case, then it would very likely have to be re-done later IN the case with expert witnesses who are disclosed to the other side through the formal discovery process. It's not crazy to want to avoid duplicating that cost. Also, they can challenge Shred's expert in court if they don't like who you pick.

And...I saw the court filings...you have a lawyer...stop talking to randos on HN for advice. :)
This a more important point than anything I've said in here. Thank you.
Liberty is to be under no restraint apart from standing rules to live by that are common to everyone in the society. Persons have a right to follow their own will in all things that the law has not prohibited and not be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others.

Is that a acceptable definition for you?
A couple years ago I visited a Mexican barber in Chicago who surprised me by doing a straight blade shave.
Basically mapping the device registers into user space and doing exactly what the kernel would do, but without the syscall overhead.

Some researchers made a big splash at OSDI by doing this securely:

http://people.inf.ethz.ch/troscoe/pubs/peter-arrakis-osdi14....
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> Meanwhile construction has started on California's high speed rail system. Unfortunately, it only runs from Bakersfield to Palmdale, which is useless.

Correction 1: Bakersfield to Fresno

Correction 2: This is the opposite of useless because:

1. Bakersfield is ~340,000 people ; Fresno is ~509,924 people + the other cities between call it about a million now have much better rail service.

2. CAHSR needs a flat straight section to do acceptance testing for train set delivery.

3. The federal stimulus money required a fast spending this section was furthest along in planning and the least controversial
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One branch of the government authorizes another to force corporations to hand over all the private communications and information of a large number of citizens, and all foreigners; the majority of the public of that country agrees. Are the companies which are continually compelled to cooperate at fault for seeking to minimize the financial repercussions of this situation? How have these companies betrayed anyone?

The politicians, voters, bureaucrats, and judges involved in these actions have committed a horrible abuse of their fellow citizens, and (depending on your views on moral obligations to foreigners) an even larger number of other people. The companies they are forcing to cooperate have not betrayed the people any more than a taxpayer does when they (are coerced to) pay taxes that fund these programs.
The flipside of that is that patients might bias doctor's decision away from what was a good decision in the first place. I've had many American doctors be somewhat apologetic when they recommended no treatment, or a less invasive treatment. My response was that if they didn't recommend a treatment then I didn't want it either. There are real risks from any treatment.

The only time I ignored advice was when I went to a doctor for a cough, and because I mentioned chest pain (from coughing), they decided to get an EKG, which showed some abnormality. Apparently this abnormality is not uncommon in healthy people. They recommended more tests with a specialist, but I figured that a not uncommon result on a test, when doing that test wasn't justified by my original symptoms, didn't amount to enough evidence to go any further.
I know how ISO standards are implemented in two unrelated fields, that was really the basis for my comment. Besides, I am now certain that it does not require formal verification, as several companies sell products that support formal verification as a mean to pass the verification part of the ISO.

I'm not going to pay for access to the standard just for a comment on HN.

When you say European manufactures are required to follow this, what about non European manufactures?
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I had wondered, if companies are ordered by the Government to hand over the data and have little to no recourse to prevent it, are they then liable?

No doubt a number of people tried to challenge the companies liability in these matters after the Snowden leaks and I'm wondering if anything interesting eventuate from it.
What do they mean by "....with the government and with each other" (emphasis on the 'with each other' part)?

The one I can understand - companies being compelled to share with the government. However is this act also giving these companies to share with each other?
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> I have never found any of them remotely useful

The only Quirky product I own is the Pivot Power [1][2] and that has been useful.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E62X9WO

[2] https://www.quirky.com/invent/243418
I bring it up now and then, and no explanation is ever forthcoming.
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I don't know if I buy a lot of this. People with strong OSS history + StackOverflow answers are probably good coders but I don't know if they're better than people with kids + spouses. I work really hard on my job and write good code. I just spend my free time far away from my keyboard, so I'd rather you did judge me on my resume (which I worked hard on!) and OK whiteboard coding skills.
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That never happens in San Francisco.
This is incredibly bad. The amount of personal information large companies like these have on everyone is scary enough on its own, but now they're getting blanket governmental immunity to share it with not only other private companies, but also several government agencies? I think of myself as relatively pessimistic, but I did not expect something this insane for some reason. If this is as straightforward as that site portrays it, or worse, than I'm kind of speechless.

Edit: It looks like the NSA/Law Enforcement wouldn't even need due process since the companies are just giving away the private data. https://www.faxbigbrother.com/#whatiscisa
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yours might be the most interesting comment of the discussion.

The counterexample here is Obama. Aside from his skin color, he's about as moderate and unexciting as you can get. My takeaway from the "change" bit was "Hey, I'm not associated in any way with GWB; hell, I don't look anything like him. and I sound reasonable and educated" Which, of course, after 8 years of GWB, sounded absolutely amazing. Nearly every vote for Obama in 2008 was actually a vote against GWB. My take is that the democrats could have run a literal empty suit and it would have won by a landslide.

You remember when they gave Obama the peace prize for not being GWB? The whole world was in love with him, not for what he was or what he did, but for who he wasn't.

Now, if I'm right, I think that if the republicans, say, ran Romney instead of McCain in 2008? they would have had a much better chance; not because McCain is fundamentally incompetent or unreasonable or anything like that, but because he smells a lot more like GWB than Romney does. I mean, from what I read, McCain is an actual war hero, and was heroic in ways that even a pacifist would admire, at great personal cost, and it's not right to compare him to a chicken hawk like GWB, but the truth of the matter is that, in the minds of most voters, the two are related.

Sure, I think Romney probably still would have lost, just because he was a republican and so was GWB, but he would have had a better shot at it than McCain did.

There was a lot of talk about disappointment with Obama, with big expectations that he never delivered on... but I think that was mostly made-up by his enemies. I mean, he wasn't amazing or anything, except compared to his predecessor, but he did a fine job of sounding reasonable and educated. He wasn't perfect, but he didn't massively screw anything up.

I think the fact that Obama won in 2012 supports my argument that most people see him as basically competent. Not bad. A reasonable moderate who did a moderately reasonable job.

Of course, you could also make a different argument about 2012 (and about the counterfactual run in 2008) Romney is not the sort that the republican base would get excited about. He's as centrist as Obama is. I can see myself voting for someone like Romney. (I'd take Obama over Romney, sure, but we could do worse than Romney as President. A lot worse.) And he's a Mormon... a religion that many Christians don't consider to be christian at all. You can make a very good argument, using your theory, that Romney lost because the GOP base wasn't excited and just stayed home.
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> are they then liable?

Of course they are.
Ask HN: Incorporating company in California, through lawyer or DIY?
Did you register your company in California yourself or went through lawyer? Also any comments on Delaware vs California?

Any suggestions will be very helpful. Thanks
I do not agree to lift blame off of companies. They have social responsibilities like everyone else. They are also high on the power hierarchy.
Agree with everything above. Especially the complexity.

Runabove, OVH, VPS all those. The worst part is they keep posting about their streamlining and deep thought into reorganization. And yet no body understand "their" why.

To many it seems more like a reorganization for the sake of reorganization.

Then there is their Network. Which could range from Very good to VERY VERY bad.

And the final final thing? Is their lack of support or communication. You fire a email or ticket at least other host gives you a reply. OVH? None.

And when you add their non active support, unable to talk to sales or people for inquiry, and their overall complexity it is not hard to see why they dont pick up as much customer as they should have.
I'm aware of tipping based on the full amount, and I agree with the practice. But there are other nuances to it that people can quibble about. For example, it's not expected to tip on drinks according to some people.

The bottom line is that tipping is a custom and an etiquette. These things vary quite a lot from location to location. It's surprising to me that someone would assert that there's really only one proper way to do it in a country as big as this.

Emily Post, for example, says to tip only on the pre-tax amount of the meal plus 1-2$ per drink and nothing at all about coupons.

Edit:

Still doesn't change the fact that Groupon has a rather nasty habit of taking advantage of small businesses and generally screwing them over. But that's a mixed bag also. I use Groupon a lot and find them to be a great source of places with generally well-meaning owners who are a good alternative to large corporate chains and work hard to keep me coming back.

My ex-girlfriend used Groupon to find ways to go cheap and took advantage of it with absolutely no intention of ever going back to see anyone a second time. Her repeat business could not be bought with any exceptional level of service.

Ultimately, it's a business decision the owners have to make for themselves. The problem for Groupon as a company is that their largest appeal is for people who are going to be a bad business decision for the owners using their service. It's a bad model, and it's clearly failing, so that means things are working exactly as they should.
Baseball legend Yogi Berra dies at 90
Slightly off-topic but I am dumbstruck by the size of US farms. Where I live it's common for farmers to manage 10 hectares fields and these are considered big fields.
Out of interest, EFF wrote about CISA when the bill was introduced last year:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/zombie-bill-comes-back...
Predominately wheat. The rest is lupins and a small amount of canola (~750ha this year).
When websites become regulated web developers will be like the general contractors of today. Only licensed web developers will be able to legally build websites, keeping everything up to the regulatory code. There will be inspectors and red tape.

I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Time to start surfing on the dark net.

PS: TOR will be so happy.
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A router. But I don't think the community has quite solidified around a single router yet.

Iron-Router was the lead for a while.

I don't think these should necessarily be in core, but here is my list of pretty much always-installed modules:

stevezhu:lodash
iron:router
meteorhacks:npm
meteorhacks:async
aldeed:collection2
aldeed:autoform
aldeed:tabular
xolvio:cucumber
yogiben:admin
It just updated tonight, it seems

Edit:

ListIdentifier = "DisallowedCert_AutoUpdate_1"

SequenceNumber = 01d0f584a9ad12f7

ThisUpdate = "23.09.2015 00:18"

NextUpdate = LEER

SubjectAlgorithm = 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.10.11.15, "disallowedHash"

SignerExpiration = "14.08.2016 19:13", "326,3 Days"

CTLEntries = 57

Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FI
LE_NOT_FOUND) -- http://ctldl.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/t...
tedr/en/disallowedcertstl.sst

MissingCerts = 57

yesterday it told me that it wasn't updated since 180 days.
Currently #2 in US. Hardly the past.

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Any way to share content between devices? Or have a central repository of content on a LAN that you can download to your device? An Android app with content sharing could enable a great offline Khan Academy experience in places without high-speed internet.
They stance is basically "Hey government, how about we fuck our users over? We hand you their private data and you make sure they cannot sue us for that."

They betrayed anyone trusting them with their private data and anyone who believed their pro-privacy declarations.