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> Whitespace that is not significant to the machine does nothing to help me convince myself that the code is correct. Indentation could be wrong.

A sloppily written code is hard to understand correctly in every language (to different degrees, of course). You can easily mistake

if (...)
do1();
do2();

for

if (...) {
do1();
do2();
}

right? This is C - an infix language - and it's arguably its fault for providing this stupid form, but you usually don't judge how readable infix notation is based on this.

> Those delimiters do nothing but occupy interpreter cycles. Hopefully they get recognized as noops and optimized away by a Forth compiler.

I'd expect so.

> The machine will accept garbage like:
> ] 3 2 + [ 4 /

Yup. And by the way, this garbage is actually nearly correct J code. One possible fix would look like:

] 3 2 + [ 4 (+ /) [ 4

this gives `10 11` as an answer (and please don't ask me why...). ] and [ are left and right identity functions, they simply do nothing, so they may be inserted in many places, in many cases interchangeably.

> Forth should have these markers built-in so they don't have to be defined as words, and it should check their pairing and nesting.

That's unnecessary in Forth, I'm sure you can implement a "real" - with a semantic meaning - grouping in Forth yourself. Comments in Forth are enclosed in parens, and the parens are normal Forth words, defined in Forth. I mean, it's already a grouping syntax with a DROP semantics; you can probably define grouping syntax with other semantics as well.

Also, in Forth there are only words, and the syntax is that simple, but that isn't a property of all postfix languages. We're talking about postfix as a notation in general, not about it's particular brand practiced by Forth. This is why I keep mentioning J, again and again: it's an infix language. I could bash infix notation forever had I used J as an example! It's the same with postfix notation and Forth.
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Udemy must "not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity" in order for DCMA to be applicable. Since they're charging for the courses it's probably ordinary copyright infringement on their part. You should send them a Cease and Desist and then sue them.
Any suggestion are welcome!
Trotting out the token good case scenario while torture occurs in the bad case is classic propaganda, but way to defend torture, you get a hold star today.
My idea is to "self source" it. You will be able to edit the source code from within it, using a powerful editor like vim (emacs might be coming soon). The version that you are editing will be embedded inside of an iframe that is inside of an application window, and people will be able to easily share their hacked versions using the distributed filesystem that I am actively developing. In other words, I have absolutely no interest in putting up yet another lame github project that absolutely nobody cares about. For me, it's about going all the way or no way at all.

If anyone is interested in working together with me, the best place to join me is the "native client discuss" forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/native-client-discus...
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Your project is definitely more niche. To understand the significance your work, you definitely have to have a pretty high level of knowledge.

I would speculate things like repsonify.js are more popular because they have an immediate use and impact for web development, as it solves a common problem people face when designing image-heavy sites.

Your project on the other hand has no immediate impact, though it is neat. It's something I may play around with for five minutes and then promptly forgot about.

Plus, the way you conduct yourself certainly doesn't help.
I don't think you can do paid work and stipulate whether the they can later sell it to anyone. If you can learn something from this, it should be that next time you might be able to cut out the middle man.
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Scale is not relevant at all. Is it OK for Amazon to sell stolen goods?
I don't think that's necessary true. The whole thing is a pretty new mentality, previous generations of companies/ founders doesn't seem to have too much of that attitudes (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon etc.?). And those companies did actually change the world. Instagram and Whatsapp? The verdict is still out there.
where is udemy? is there a small claims court there?
File for 100% of the money.
>Registration is still required in the US for some benefits, such as awards of statutory damages. [1]

>You must register your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office before you are legally permitted to bring a lawsuit to enforce it. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_registration#Require...
[2] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/copyright-registratio...
Are you saying you dont think Amazon sells things that violate other peoples copyrights?
hip or trendy would have been better words (instead of cool) in my original post I think
I worked in diabetes where finger stick tests are the lingua franca. 3 microliter sample sizes were common about 10 years ago for home use systems using relatively fine lancets. Using something just a bit larger would pretty easily get you 5 drops of blood.
Let's play devil's advocate and say that you are right. All of these people have at some time downloaded a movie or used someone else's Netflix account. Your argument still wouldn't be valid. Udemy is making presumably 10s of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars off of stolen content. This is the difference between shoplifting a dvd and opening up blockbusters all across the world with movies you stole. The difference is night and day. Not just logically or morally, but legally.
Get rid of the ends and I'm sold. Otherwise it's elixir all over again...
Not strictly analogous. How many of those people torrented music or movies -and then sold them, or resold access to someone else's Netflix, etc.

Neither is correct. But Udemy isn't just pirating, but profiting.
smartcrop.js is interesting.

https://github.com/jwagner/smartcrop.js/
http://29a.ch/sandbox/2014/smartcrop/examples/testsuite.html
But this imagines a level of political unity and coordination that never existed among American aboriginals. Although guns, germs, and steel certainly helped European colonists conquer Native civilizations, internal disunity and politics played as large a role, and likely larger. European colonists everywhere took advantage of this fragmentation, regularly playing different states and ethnicities against each other in the Americas (and later elsewhere).

All too often it was advantageous for a government or politician to make a deal with Europeans for temporary individual benefit against older enemies, at the cost of the entirety of "Native Americans" (a category that didn't exist until 1492, and an identity that most of its members didn't consider themselves until centuries later).
I will, sooo.... bite me. Palestinians are a nation of terrorists.
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Our security apparatus is the boy who cried "wolf" (okay, actually they cried "terrorist", but close enough). They've repeatedly lied to Congress and to the people, including lying about having programs and lying about shutting down programs. Given that background context, distrust is appropriate here!

There is no short-term fix but in the long run the authorities could probably win back some trust if they henceforth were consistently truthful and transparent and actually held somebody responsible the next time lawbreaking occurs.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DE...

There seems to be plenty of options in the sub-$200 range.
> not signs of "collective intelligence", as much as they are a manifestation of good algorithm design, honed by aeons of evolution.

What is intelligence, if not that?
What would be intriguing is if Udemy is actually responsible, and just using ghost accounts...
Right, only Israel bashing and anti-Semitism are allowed on HN. How politically correct of you.
What is a good Udemy alternative?
You can probably use fake ID + fake plates & a fraudulent credit card... However in this situation in France the terrorists - who were on watch lists - did none of these things.

Not saying that data would have helped identify that an operation was in progress but it's data that exists that isn't being recorded. Meanwhile they want access to our metadata and more.
I indeed do and was. But then again, not being able to have ECC RAM on my laptop has been a pet peeve of mine for quite a long time, so after my initial disappointment I could also enjoy the surprise article :)
The natives weren't in a position of strength anyway. They were heavily impacted by plague and saw opportunity for trade.

The more organized tribes like the Iroquois did better.
You know, if the Palestinians would stop stabbing Israelis and trying to kill everyone, maybe I'd tone it down a bit, but since they don't seem to want to stop that, I'll keep my opinions where they are.
This is not Ello, this is in the whatsapp/snapchat vein.
“You see somebody in a suit, a flashy office, a flashy car—they’re trying to create an image. Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool to wear a suit. But it’s a little bit manufactured.”

Honestly in the Bay Area a startup hoodie, t-shirt and jeans is almost a little bit manufactured.
Your comment is a reply to a mod comment that is telling someone posting an anti semitic slur to stop.

How is that allowing Israel bashing and anti-semitism?

EDIT: Go to your profile and make sure showdead is turned on. That way you can see the anti-semitic comments that have been killed by user flags and which have had comments from mods.
I'd definitely pay for a game with a campaign built on the foundations of the game. I miss good strategy games with nice long campaigns.
See, it's exactly what I don't want to happen.
This is your world and what you know.
Now I'm gonna have to bite your bait about "UN declaring Israel Null and void". Here is the same UN council in 1949 declaring Israel a country and part of the UN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNVuGuX1-eo
This post would benefit from providing more context. Did the author make those videos on behalf of a company? Did he post them somewhere online? Was there ever any kind of license (creative commons for instance) attached to them?

My expectation is that at a minimum, Udemy would investigate the claim once it's reported to them. But you need to provide sufficient proof that you are the content owner. Just because your face is in the video is not enough, but it's a great start.
Great, but you can't use it in the dark! Perhaps they could fix this with infrared?
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I asked if it was OK.
I'm guessing it's this: https://github.com/jwaterfaucett/awesome-foss-apps
A democracy provides at least the minimum amount of feedback to the rulers. Even in the worst democracy the ruling group must convince a large percentage of the population that they are doing a better job than the alternative.

In a dictatorship on the other hand only a small percentage of the population must catered to (eg the officer corp).

Changing a vote from one party to another is pretty simple and anyone can do it. Starting or joining a protest/revolution is a lot harder.
sure the list is awesome-foss-apps in my original post (https://github.com/jwaterfaucett/awesome-foss-apps), would've just posted the direct link to Hedgewars but the original link gives a good summary of why hedgewars is so awesome from a devs perspective :)
And by the way, the first thing we learn in American Universities is to not quote Wikipedia as a source. You'd know it if you went to a higher education institution.
It's very playable. There is only one ruining problem, as the game progress and number of objects on the map increases, game becomes ultra slow. Like one frame in 10 seconds.
Seems PayPal also missed this memo:
https://www.paypal.me/support
https://www.paypal.me/download
https://www.paypal.me/signup
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I don't want to be that guy, but annotations at the end of the line, seriously?

All the @public at the end of the function headers really hurt the eye.

I think there's a reason 90%+ of the languages has either it above the declaration of at the beginning of the line.
You can contract just about any terms you like, including retention of copyright and limitations on the license granted. Don't just accept whatever terms someone predatory offers to you. (software consultant, not a lawyer)
The superficiality of your opinion makes me believe you take your "historical information" from the History Channel.
Or, instead of new laws, parents could decline to use a product that requires sensitive personal information about their children for no good reason.
> This represents the next generation of computer-related technology because it completely obliterates the historical division between the radically distinct paradigms that one may call native form (whatever our operating systems automatically do) and online content (whatever we manually look for in our web browsers).

I don't understand what this actually means. What problem are you solving? I'd like to know more.
First, these are equivalent cases. If someone torrented music or movies, and then sold them, it would be.

Second, let's be clear: you can strip DRM without violating copyright. You're violating the Kindle terms of use, but not copyright (that is only the case if you share your stripped books).
Usually yes, that is a limit you would mostly not want to exceed. It would slow down producers (not ack newer writes until older backup copies are flushed to disk).

The backup copies of the data is stored on a configurable amout of _other_ systems in the cluster. They receive it to memory, and then the write is acked to the client. Then the backup is written asyncronous to disk on those systems.

You could configure that backups are not written to disk at all, if you have so much memory in the cluster (and do not care for that additional level of durability). Or the size of the buffer of unflushed data which would cover some longer write spikes.

The point is more that the backup copies become "free" once they are written to disk. Otherwise the cluster could only store 25% of it's memory size if you want 3 backup copies.
Sorry miss-read I guess it depends on if they continue to sell it after being notified in a manner that cant be abused, what else can we expect them to do?
If there is more debt than credit in the world, that means that we are either a) borrowing more to pay back our debts or b) pushing others out of business to take their funds so that we may pay back our own debts. This creates a dog-eat-dog mentality. This is only one way of recognizing value. It is not the only way of recognizing value. Once you acknowledge that, you can think outside of the box of how we can generate a system that reflects values in line with our humanity instead of one that forces us to compete.

At the core of it, we follow the money system as it is because we choose to. We can choose to follow another type of money system...It just takes effort and imagination. http://www.theonion.com/article/us-economy-grinds-to-halt-as...
There was an IR physical layer defined for 802.11 last century, but it didn't go anywhere. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2289301
this z-enterprise box is infinitely more cool than any tin-cased rack mount. http://www.v3.co.uk/IMG/475/231475/ibm-zec12.JPG

Golang on this sucker. Can you imagine...
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No, wait, there is no way one can charitably interpret what I said to extract the notion of "UN declaring Israel Null and void". UN declared the occupation of those Palestinian territories under consideration as null and void. Please, that was a very cheap trick! :) Are you saying that what I said provokes one to then start on a path which leads to statements of the kind you said (that I said)? I don't think so, as long as the principle of charity is honestly implied and applied, and the better part of the people here are not complete boneheads. Have some faith!

(Notably - before, we were arguing over states of affairs and beliefs on those states; there is no reason to dismiss it as some kind of politicized regress into trash, in my opinion.)
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I would suggest adding "autodiscover" to the list of disallowed hosts.
It is used by Microsoft Outlook and Exchange ActiveSync clients (e.g. in smartphones) to automatically detect the correct server settings.
So instead of converting to lowercase, store them with case preserved but do a case insensitive uniqueness check (and probably allow any case for login).
WarCraft III had a good amount of randomness -- %-based critical strikes, evasion, damage ranges, movement speed ranges, dodgeable projectiles. Also RPG style heroes for each faction which could heavily influence the tide of a battle when used well. Combat is of course not as involved as Overgrowth seems, since it's still an RTS. That sounds like it fits your proposal, but I'm not sure?
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Wow, that's kind of shocking. I mean, I know pretty much nothing about security, and even I could tell that coding your own 'crypto' based on a formula cracked about 200 years ago is a bad idea. Let alone the whole 'no way to update the software except by manually upgrading it with an installer' thing.

But honestly, I'd say this the least of anyone's concerns with this company. The linked article also mentions some other security issues in their work when discussing a lack of security 'culture', and one of the most terrifying ones is this:

http://cybergibbons.com/security-2/terrible-website-security...

They don't seem to hash passwords, they send them across the internet in plain text, ban people with the equivalent of setting a cookie on the PC and then sell software as 'secure'. That's kind of terrifying.
But you probably know that Wikipedia is completely fine as a reference aggregator; I was just using it as a heuristic. But now you're doing the bait thing... :(
Was he talking about only a portion of the "mainstream left"? These are individual American citizens with a variety of competencies and experience; it's unclear to me why there'd be a connection between this and one's political beliefs.
^This. I cringe every time I hear someone say X is democratizing Y or that X is the "sharing economy". These are unregulated (near) monopoly markets.

Craigslist was democratizing. "Freebie" mailing lists and swap meets are the "sharing economy". Services like AirBnB are doing everything they possibly can to disconnect people (and keep them disconnected). You aren't even permitted to screen your own clients, they are so concerned you'll cut them out prior to billing. At least when posting a flyer in your community or listing on CL, there is no false pretext about screening or due diligence being performed.
Why would Nvidia stick four graphics cards in a system when each card uses 16 lanes of pcie and the processor maxes out at 40 lanes?
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Intelligence is the wrong word in this case. These are complicated emergent behaviours that arise from extremely simple rules applied locally and iteratively by each individual. There's no planning, forethought, or central driving will at play here.

If this is intelligence, then so is bone growth, which follows a similarly simple algorithm, is also honed by evolution, and is also inspiring real-world applications, e.g.:

http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArti...

https://www.fastcodesign.com/1671102/a-3-d-printed-house-tha...
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It's an interesting idea, but... as someone said in the article comments, it seems like a perfect magnet for wannabe bullies. If you're a sociopathic jerk and want to find easy targets... well, the bench that basically labels people as having few friends may as well have a 'kick me' sign attached to it.
The last time I built a system with ECC it was impossible to tell which cpu/motherboard combos supported ECC; the time before that was when AMD had super-affordable systems with ECC support, but I gave up trying to figure out if AMD even supported ECC on their workstation parts.
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On your second point: all of these examples were mobile apps, where it is hard to get around designing in "screens". I don't know what Adobe's mobile Photoshop is like, but I'd hope it's more modal and screen-based than their desktop application, considering it's used on a phone.
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The date refers to Bezos writing about this in 2001.
Can you just register your copyright after the infringement?
How much would you have made (posting it on Udemy) after all was said and done? Pretty impressive to see such numbers on your first attempt. You must have been doing something right (or perhaps the company did a hell of a job promoting it).
So if a burglar steals a TV, sells it to someone else, and they list it on eBay, does that make eBay guilty of the burglary? If someone buys it using Paypal, do you consider Paypal to be the burglar? If the currency mode used was USD, do you consider the U.S. government to be the guilty burglar?

I suppose if it was explicitly listed as 'Stolen 40" TV!' in the 'Stolen Goods' category of eBay you could say that they should have known, and if Paypal had special 'funds to buy stolen things' accounts and one of those was used to buy it, then you could put some blame to them, etc.

But how far away do you project the blame from the actual criminal? If Udemy is responsible, then do you absolve the person who pirated and uploaded it of guilt? Or do you divide and dilute it? How long does the chain need to be before each participant's share of the guilt is so small as to be negligible and irrelevant?

Why not instead blame the person who uploaded it to make money while knowing that they hadn't created it and didn't own the rights?
I imagine you are referencing this comment "One could make WeakSet implementations that are iterable, but those can lead to non-deterministic algorithms (depending on GC behaviour) if used in the wrong way, and therefore the ES committee decided not to make the contents available."

I suppose when I said "you've now created a really tricky situation where iteration essentially forces a GC pass because it needs to know whats reachable and what isn't at iteration time", I was directly responding to this behavior: if you have a GC pass before every iteration, it clearly would solve the non-determinism problem, as you would have an iteration that had well-defined behavior. I took it as a given that an iteration that sometimes returns things with no external references and sometimes doesn't would be completely absurd, and thus the GC pass would be required.

If you are telling me that this is precisely how Java's works however, then I guess I should have known better and checked that a language like Java apparently does allow this ... interesting behavior. (I certainly don't know how it works there)
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