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> And when they discharge their weapon they must shot for "centre mass" - shoot to wound is a myth.

This is true, for the US. It is also one of the symptoms of what is wrong with "enforcement" in that country.

Police officers in many other countries (such as Germany for instance) are explicitly instructed to shoot to wound if at all possible - and with good results both in terms of getting their suspects arrested but not killed, and in terms of not getting killed themselves. Indeed, this is not just the case for police worldwide, but even for the US armed forces when working under "nation building" rules of engagements rather than "total war" rules of engagements.

A shoot-to-kill doctrine is an obvious sign that rather than having an attitude of serving and protecting their community, the enforcers are serving/protecting themselves first.
Relevant HN discussion, so we go full circle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803775
Is this really Google's best move to protect itself from Oracle? How safe is OpenJDK from Oracle?
Do you seriously think my question was about english?
What does this mean for OpenJDK? Will Google now be working on it and improving it?

From what I gathered in the previous discussion, it's not a drop-in replacement - they made several changes to OpenJDK already.
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> ...you want better science writers to contribute who may or may not be practicing scientists.

The practicing scientists don't necessarily need to be controlling the whole process, but if they aren't playing an integral roll then the encyclopedia will be bad. Even in the mainstream news, reporters know that they can't just read a few journal articles and then start writing up a popular piece. They have to interview scientists.

In practice, I think the only way to do this for a reasonable price is to use non-monetary incentives (e.g., fame) to get the scientists to do at least some of the writing themselves. But maybe someone can figure out how to start a foundation that hires professional writers to interview scientists.

(As an aside, this does make me wonder why, when there is a collaboration between skilled writers and skilled scientists, the writers are always in charge and use the scientists as a resource. You'd think there'd be room for a model where the scientist outlines all the bullet points and uses the writer as a resource.)

> ...the goal probably shouldn't be to replicate physics journal depth in Wikipedia...

The question of whether to purge all physics topics from Wikipedia that have no hope of being useful to laymen (of which there are many thousands) is more-or-less the inclusionist/deletionist debate. Personally, I don't see why you'd want to get rid of them.
They've hired some really heavy hitters in biology, but that's about all this article reveals. Would be nice to know what they're doing, given the extremely strong academic pedigree for some of these guys I wonder if they'll start publishing some of their research.

It would be great if Google/Alphabet's resources could be used to ask biological questions that a hyper conservative organization like the NIH is reluctant to fund, but that's a little less useful if most of that knowledge stays locked up at Google.

Another note, it's not trivial to apply computational tools to biology and come back with meaningful results. The fact that they're hiring people who really know their biology to act as a sanity check and a guide to what we can only assume is a strong computational effort is a very welcome indication that Calico is trying to avoid those pitfalls.
i am wondering what kind of evidence other than this information they had against them. Because if it is that easy just to link a username to a person and convict based on that it seems way too easy to just make an account linking to someone you hate, throw in a few random references to their family members and/or the city they live in and in a couple months they will be arrested
Crazy... here we have a Hacker News comment on a Venture Beat article about a Hacker News post about a Google code commit.
> surprisingly tiny number of active editors

Nothing surprising about it, given the arcane rules and the likelihood of being told to "f--- off" if you try to edit an article someone has camped out on. Gave up trying to contribute years ago.
Floorplanning a car is still ownership, the only thing is that you're doing short term financing at very low interest rates. But once that financing is up, you still have to account for the $$ of the car. IF you don't sell it, you'll likely take it back to auction and sell it there (usually for a loss), so inventory risk is still present. Franchise dealers have floorplanning for sure, independents not so much. Plus, for USED cars, you usually don't floorplan those (from what I remember). There used to be a saying, if you want to find a Franchsie Dealer that was on it's death bed, look for the one that is floorplanning it's used inventory.
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That works for the pip command. Since people who analyze data may not necessarily be experts at the command line, I recommend relooking at this workflow.

matplotlib, however, fails to install completely with this method on Windows for subtle reasons. Filed: https://github.com/yhat/rodeo/issues/204

The documentation just points to a blog article on how to install matplotlib on Windows.
> the fear that phone vendors would balk at a runtime that doesn't let them make proprietary changes

In retrospect, the ability for phone vendors to make proprietary changes to the system has been a huge problem for Google, Android as a platform, and the community in general.
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My post does not answer that question and it wasn't trying to. The answer to that question is "We don't know". But suggesting that we do an audit of the code to find out doesn't seem productive, which is what I was responding to.

That's a terrible analogy. It would be more accurate to compare this to aspirin and ibuprofen both sharing an unknown compound known to be capable of easily killing someone when the manufacturer wants it to, then suggesting we audit both aspirin and ibuprofen of their known compounds to make sure they don't have anything capable of killing someone. It doesn't really matter if it does, because you don't want to use aspirin or ibuprofen if you want to guarantee you won't die through someone's arbitrary decision, in the same way you wouldn't use Android on a phone if you want to guarantee security of your data.
I've been where the author is, but the truth is - even with that loneliness, Online friendships have improved the quality of my life tremendously. I've never really had more than 1-2 friends outside of family, and often have had zero. I'm pretty weird. Even when I can relate to people, they can't always relate to me. People aren't there any more or less with the distance, and I don't require meeting people to seal a bond. Some 8 years ago, I met my husband online, playing a silly little browser game, and 5 years later moved across an ocean after marrying him. I have people I talk to daily that I've never met, who are weirdly more there for me than most 'real' friends. I'm gladly not having to rely on telephone calls or paper letters to stay in touch with family in the States. For me to get the same sort of social freedom, I would have a life goal of living in a large city in a liberal area, but that is not so needed.
I've known people to have some of the worst stuff happen to them. But just the same, people get into abusive and dishonest relationships without them being online. Some people just come and go, and to be fair, the author was only out there a month or so. That is hardly time to develop a 'real life' friendship, let alone the online sort.
The sort of friendship doesn't fill many people's needs, especially if they truly have other sorts of options, and that is all ok, but to me, it is all worth it.
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Tons of software is not web software and does not use JavaScript. You can be happily employed as a programmer and never touch JS.
What was it about?
That only covers patents held by members of the working group.
Yes, Google's statement in the article suggests Google will be working on OpenJDK, at least more than they already have been.
Like was brought up, part of it has to do with the averaging. If I remember correctly, base for a sales person was 30k-45k annually, and the rest was commission. The average sales person sells 10 cars a month, average commission was... I can't remember. But, you had 1 or 2 ppl in the dealership that had been there forever and/or were responsible for all the internet leads and sold 20+ cars a month. They were clearing 120k easily to bring up those averages. Maybe median would be a better # to look at here.
> "I am here because I worked hard and everyone one else who is complaining is kind of lazy and should have worked hard as

Nobody here does but it is a common attitude, I have heard it many times from conservative acquaintances and family. This phenomenon was epitomized by the "welfare queen" PR term in US in the 90s and early 2000s, and to some extend I believe "unwed single mother" in UK. It as a figure put up a prototype of how poor people are just waiting for handouts, are lazy and if they just work harder would be successful business owners.

> to "check their privilege"

I didn't say that. Is that a strawman I see ;-) ?

> If you don't take the time to get to know someone and learn about what they've been through

I didn't direct my comments at anyone in particular. I responded to a comment because they brought an interesting point my mind but I didn't accuse or insult them.

What I said in general is that there is a tendency for people who have made it to ascribe their results to their hard work and willpower even if in reality it was a complicated mix of country they were born, parents, good networking (friends), etc.

> If you'll pardon my French, "you don't fucking know me".

Alrighty then...
>every field invents their own idiotic and idiosyncratic collection of slightly incompatible units

Well at least chip tech is still measured in nanometers and not beard-seconds.
I am so sorry, i was going to upvote you.but because of my small touch screen i down voted you.i am really sorry.

BTW i have exact same question.
It only applies to digital streaming and satellite radio, and then only if no direct license is agreed to.
Title is confusing, OpenJDK does belong to Oracle and Google is going to use it. It's just that the OpenJDK is GPL.
Marketing and outreach are essential, but I would say the studios really do there thing during the creative process.

I remember an interview with Christina Aquilera about doing her first music video. The studio had people on set with reports on exactly what highschool girls in the target market were wearing, how they did their make-up. She was meant to look like the pretty girl at school, every school, not a model or red-carpet celeb with professionals doing their hair. That video was the result of hundreds of hours of market research. She was under no illusions about who defined her image. Net result: massive sales and filled stadiums.
This is the problem with so many services tied to one account.

On a side note, I was led to believe your shutdown threat revolved around using Amazon's Cloud Drive in an unintended way.
>> I now base what apartment I live in by the thickness and sound isolation of the walls and ceilings/floors.

>> I have to take the people above me a bottle of wine and ask them kindly to try and not make as much noise ...

I just live on the top floor.
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Google not buying sun was huge mistake.at least they could sell it after keeping java.something like what they did with Motorola. They kept all patent's. They could have done the same with java.
It doesn't seem to be able to work Python 3.5. It doesn't find the path and now the interface is stuck.
I have upvoted to counteract your downvote. Order is now restored in the universe.
> 9 new issues since I last checked. 2 new pull requests. Hopefully most of the issues can be closed, and the pull requests are trivial. Ugh, nope, these are some significant changes. I’m going to have to think about this and engage (politely) in a long discussion. They also didn’t update the docs, and this is a breaking change, so we’ll have to figure out how to tell everyone to upgrade.

>/.../ who am I kidding, that would just stress me out more. It’s not like I always have time to respond. At least now I can pretend like this doesn’t exist when other things are stressing me out."

So much this. This is why most of my opensource projects come in the form of "Here's the code, if you don't like it, fork it and maintain your own damn fork". In 5 years of putting code on GitHub I've probably merged less than 10 pull requests on projects that don't directly put food on the table.
Lately I've been thinking about what it would take to implement fork/merge functionality on top of Wikipedia database, to allow people host their own versions of pages with specific changes, still updated with most of other edits from the original. Do you think that this would be a good idea to start several forks of Wikipedia with different rules of conduct and approaches to community to see how they compare?
If you have private police, don't you effectively have your own private state?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism

(Needless to say, I don't think these levels of dependency imply true intellectual depth...)
> What's the advantage of making it separate from Wikipedia?

You don't get sucked into half a million words on what type of dash to use in page titles.
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Second.

I travel frequently and I pretty much have my Etymotics with me at all times.
So does this mean that Android will be licensed under the GPL going forward?
You could easily argue the labels create all the value. They can pretty much turn any type of talent into bankable star.
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So full circle would actually be referencing this discussion in an android commit. :)
I'm inclined to agree with you, but instead I agree with the author's sentiment as represented here -- not specifically on Ka/s however. I spend a considerable portion of my time reading Wikipedia articles and very much enjoy it, however:

despite a strong background in science and engineering I can't make much of the considerable majority of mathematics-heavy articles. Many articles as the author no doubt notes define concepts in mathematical symbols which are left undefined, whose meaning is utterly lost on someone without the relevant academic background. For the rest, I find myself lost in a nigh recursive maze of definition upon definition.

Imagine, for example trying to understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_matrix with little mathematical background
I might be biases (OP) but I would argue that this is a thin article; I tried to be balanced in providing the benefits and the drawbacks of buying at a dealer. I also made sure to provide sources where I could to keep the data accurate.

In my experience, NEW will never (or almost never) come out cheaper than used, there is too much depreciation in the first 2 years. CPOs are generally good values if you negotiate for it. Best value is a 2-4 year car with moderate miles in a model that has high reliability scores, private party of course.

How'd you do your calculations + assumptions?
I'd like to know this too... Comparison between PyCharm, Canopy, Spyder, Yhat, etc.

After using it for 10 minutes, it feels identical to RStudio. That's a good thing.
>As an aside, this does make me wonder why, when there is a collaboration between skilled writers and skilled scientists, the writers are always in charge and use the scientists as a resource.

Probably because it's the writer who is publishing the book whereas most scientists are far more focused on journal articles. That said, I'm sure that many of the well-known working scientists who also publish books had plenty of editorial help--as, indeed, do most published writers.

>is more-or-less the inclusionist/deletionist debate

I'm actually mostly in the inclusionist camp myself. I think notability is pretty hard to define because it's so dependent on context. Pretty much everything/everyone is notable if you get local enough.
That workflow is neither the most user-friendly nor the most web-friendly.

SVGs don't have the same flexibility and compatibility as PNGs yet, unfortunately.
what kind of paid work? http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
As someone who had a neutral opinion of the importance of parent comment, I instead upvoted, thereby proxying and honoring your original intent in combination with tedivm.
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Agreed. We've got a moderately complex stack and on Linode the noisy neighbors problem caused us to require bigger boxes for certain layers than should really have been necessary.

Honestly OpsWorks on AWS has been a fucking dream from an ops perspective - we've been able to fully automate basically everything.

My only complaint about AWS is RDS: in order to squeeze maximum performance out of a database, you need to pay for IOPS, and boy do you pay. Fortunately, we only need a massive database instance a few weeks out of the year (our industry has some massive seasonal spikes), so it's not so bad.
Don't forget creating a wikipedia article referencing both this discussion and the commit as sources.
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IIRC labels also carry out talent discovery and growth nurturing, so that probably shouldn't be discounted.
Well, this is the direct result of rampant music piracy over the last decade. It brought the perceived value of a song close to 0 and made ot so the only people that can survive are big name artists.
Why not just use Chrome's built-in feature to save all your open tabs as bookmarks?
And the GPL will make it really hard for Oracle to prevent Google from using it in Android.
> It seems to me that any information - in an encyclopedia or anywhere else - on a subtopic must assume knowledge of the parent topic.

I would argue that any subtopic that requires more than basic understanding of the parent topic is too specialized for a general knowledge encyclopedia.
What is the purpose of copyright? From the constitution "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts".

To maximize the creation of intellectual goods, we should pay artists enough money to have them enthusiastically create them, but no more. Of course, this money should only get paid to people who are creating works that people want to consume.

Our music copyright system has many problems, but I think it's fairly remarkable that we've stumbled on what I believe is fair prices for it: $10/mo/user or $15/mo/family for access to a full catalog, or ad-supported free for access to radio-like streaming. Ad-supported free is pretty meagre, but it was the government that set those rates, so we'll assume that's fair for the sake of this argument.

While dividing that $10/mo up by play seems fair, it doesn't seem maximal. A few artists get millions, most are lucky to get enough to get enough to buy a cup of coffee. They might be making a meagre living touring, but once they decide to have a family they give it up and get a real job.

I'd love to see log scaled payouts to address the problem. So if you A had 10x as many plays as B and 100x as many plays as C, A would get paid 2x as much as B and 3x as much as C. (using log10 for illustration -- the natural logarithm or some other lower base would probably be better).

Such a change would be relatively easy to make for compulsory-licensed music such as Pandora and other "Internet Radio". It would be harder to make for the voluntarily-licensed music such as Spotify, though.
OpenJDK is the reference implementation of Java. The whole point of its GPL license is to ensure that the project forever remains with the community.
Microsoft isn't trying to hide the behavior of Windows in this respect, independent of whether Windows could contain a backdoor in some part of the code. That's why The Intercept was able to report on what Windows does, by testing it, seeing what the UI says, asking Microsoft for comment, or whatever. The same methods could be used to report about Android's behavior in this respect, in exactly the same way.

After all, the article isn't claiming that Windows has a backdoor or that the Pro version secretly also escrows user keys with Microsoft while claiming not to. Backdoors in devices and operating systems are an important risk and an appropriate and interesting topic for researchers and journalists to dig into, but this article is about, essentially, documented or disclosed OS behavior!
Not a Java dev but what are these proprietary Java APIs? doesn't oracle jdk and openjdk share the same APIs?
This makes me wish that HN merely collapsed flagged comments rather than making them unavailable to read.
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As a male, I do not fear being date-raped, I do not fear being accosted walking alone at night, I do not worry that I am paid less because of my gender, I do not fear that my career path will be harmed because an employer is afraid to hire or promote me because I may choose to have children. And a white person in the United States, I am likely to get more callbacks on a resume for a job. I can walk down the street, and not have a very tangible fear fill the pit of my stomach that I may hassled by a passing cop. If a cop does wish to speak to me, I do not have to adopt a subservient posture out of fear of being harmed by an official of the state because of the color of my skin.

They don't need to know you to point out that the hand you are dealt becomes the hand you play--and that, statistically and sociologically speaking, the hand of a white man is overwhelmingly superior, almost without exception, to that of a black woman in the United States. It is not, to borrow a phrase, about you. It's about systems, and it is largely accepted that the rush to personalize situations is done by people in a position of relative privilege. Because you want it to be about you, so you diminish that privilege. It's a natural reaction; I've done it too. But it's wrong, and you are punching downward at people who have it worse than you, and you should stop.
It's a good example. It also makes me think of "users" tables instead of "accounts".
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"How to be a good technical leader" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10395046

The points in this thread helped me better understand team interaction. Especially: A leader is never too busy to listen to a teammate.
I had the exact same thing happen to me. I definitely don't subvocalize, and didn't realize it was a thing until I read about it on here. The next week was excruciating trying to read anything because I kept doing it.
> The entire system of copyright and recorded art needs to be abolished, and any music that is recorded instantly becomes the public domain.

I think that is a little extreme but I agree the system is way out of hand, specially in duration of copyright terms.

Copyright was supposed to allow artists to earn a living off their craft instead of relaying on being sponsored by the local nobility. It is not supposed to make you rich.
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(the author is a friend of mine), posting this here because I always forget that this project exists but I think it's super useful :) thought others might not have seen it yet
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OK. This idea that we're actually discussing... is it testable? Is it even testable in principle?