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Great words.

But I think it's already too late. The genie is out of the bottle and it's already doing it's darker things in many parts of the world.

One of the great things about technology, is that it knows no boundaries.
But that is also it's biggest danger.
Because powerful technology in the hands of weak people can lead to disaster.

Intelligence is the ability to create something from nothing, while Wisdom is the ability to choose (wisely) how to apply intelligence to reality - what to create and what not to create.
If intelligence is the engine, then wisdom is the driver.

We have trained lots of engines but very few drivers. And that is what worries me most..
North Korea has a very long history of breaking it's treaty commitments and violating diplomatic agreements.

That said, all-out massive attack isn't viable. there would be no way to disguise the political and military preparations for such an attack, and China wouldn't allow it anyway. Bear in mind the the South Korean capital Seoul is within medium artillery range of the border, and there are a lot of North Korean artillery pieces aimed at it. Even without a nuclear attack capability, North Korea could do them an awful lot of damage in ways that would be difficult to prevent.
Which is just one of the total lies written in that article (Swing is not and will not be part of Android API which you can easily check in commits). Sadly Andreas doesn't really understand what he was writing about :/
"Magic, here is a list of social security numbers for people I do not like. Can you share them with scam artists?"

"Magic, can you get me HIV test results for my wife?"

"Magic, what is my boss's salary?"

Yeah, no issues coming up with this...
How does Cogmed compare to Lumosity?
My comment is about React. I am not defending AngularJS.
I laughed a little bit imagining a user yelling out "it's my computer!" and actually believing they should have full, absolute control over anything it does... while running a Microsoft operating system.
Unfortunately Andreas' post was very misinformed and full of statements that simply weren't true (like the quip about Swing for example) which kinda supports the scepticism. I'm not sure if Andreas really knew what he was writing about in detail.
It looks off somehow, but that may be because of the lack of @font-face. I have no Helvetica on my computer, so some fall-back font is chosen instead.
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Thanks for the reassurance. I've read too many of these "part 1" articles promising follow-ups that never transpired.
Obligatory comment about Safari being the new IE.
I don't see why. WINE is done for interoperability and is non-profit: two fair use defenses. SQL is a language and therefore not copyrightable (its spec isn't "fixed", which is a prerequisite for copyright). And as for SCO, AFAIK, it was ruled that they don't own the copyright to begin with.
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I kind of keep a (mostly mental) tally of the week's hours and when I've done a full week +/- N hours, I've done enough. But because of N it's a bit hazy sometimes.

If I can finish something in a day what could've easily taken three days, I'll probably end the week a bit earlier. And if I get fixated on doing some "simple thing" that ends up taking a lot longer, then I allow myself to work extra to get that squashed. It's important keep your conscience fair so that you know you can mentally match the hours with results produced.

Programming isn't strictly about wallclock hours but wallclock hours are a good starting point for measuring a fair effort because your pay is likely to be based on the wallclock too. (Such as 22 days * 8 hours or so.) But some hours are indeed "thick" and some hours are "lean" and you need to balance those somehow. Otherwise you'll be working way too much or way too little in relation to what you are paid. If you only look at the chronographic units you will realize that you can't do so. If I'm walking in the woods and figure out how to architect some component, is that work or not? And how is it work if I sit at my desk for half a day and get nothing done? That's what you have to live with as a programmer and striking the balance is delicate business, but luckily it's enough that you only need to find the balance in the average.

Then again, it's all about shit. As long as you get shit done the hours don't matter. And as long as you don't work too many hours to feel shitty yourself, the scheme is sustainable. That's the ultimate balance.
Meh, Dwarf Fortress is just a clone of Dungeon Keeper with worse play-balancing. :p
Chrome works good.
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seriously? :)
The problem is people who have never been on the wrong side of an encounter with law enforcement have no clue about why all these "super tools and powers" given to police, TSA, FBI etc. are so incredibly dangerous.

They just watch the news and get fear-mongered into thinking, oh we better arm the hell out our "protectors".

Usually the first experience with abuse by police is enough to wake people up but if they are white and middle-class, such an encounter may take years to happen.
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> P.S. The law of the land is now that when you create an API it is copyrighted.

Oracle has stolen an "r" from the API specification of my full name. How/where can I sue them?
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I'm wondering why this is downvoted. I would love to have an official Android language that is better suited to mobile than Java. Instead of hacking away at the JVM (or cloning it) to make it work properly on CPU/memory/power-limited devices.
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> with the caveat of the ruling serving as a precedent, as other commenters say

No, this is incorrect. Because it was a copyright case decided by the Federal Circuit, it is precedent nowhere. Literally no court will need to treat it as precedent. Please educate yourself further before making these lengthy posts in threads like this; you're spreading misinformation.

> Also, copyrighted APIs are only "language-level" APIs... not web APIs (or protocols, as we used to call them)

From this and your post below, this appears to be a distinction you have made up (to appeal to the audience here? I have no clue). "Structure, sequence and organization" are certainly aspects of web APIs that could be copyrightable under the Federal Circuit's ruling.

Also, no one called web APIs "protocols" anymore than they called system calls "protocols". Unless you're talking about actual protocols, in which case I'd just stick to calling them "protocols" because that's what we still call them.

> There are several fair use defenses, but two apply to the industry in cases like this: 1/ non-profit use, 2/ use for the sake of compatibility (to prevent vendor lock-in).

Non-profit use is neither necessary or sufficient for fair use (see Google's recent book scanning ruling, for instance), and the compatibility argument is not with existing JVMs but with existing Java source code.

As for the rest of you post on fair use, I would suggest other readers to take a look at the actual four factors of fair use in the US, as your summary is a poor one. One good source:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
Lets see - depending on your rich-ness status there are 3 people that know everything about you:

1. Your sysadmin
2. Your secretary
3. Your head of security

These are people you have to have to trust. And they must be loyal and you must be loyal to them.
It is possible to get info about specific object just by typing its name and pressing "Object Info" shortcut.
To list the schema's objects you need to type "schema_name." (with dot in the end) and press "Object Info" shortcut.
A service that upvotes average to below average white people and downvotes average to above average people of color. Is someone anticipating a decline in the international value of Whiteness?
As somebody who has written some "part 1" articles that promised follow-ups, sometimes the negative comments on the first article discouraged me from writing part 2. Useful, constructive feedback can help fix the article and feed into part 2, but kneejerk negativity about something you've done for free is hard to hear. Even more useful would be someone offering to help write part 2.
Out of couriosity: As BHOs were the closest IE had to browser extensions, does that mean Edge doesn't support extensions at all - or is there a different system in place?
I think it's crazy that they have made more of an effort to support iOS/Android notifications
While looking through the documentation for reasons to use this, I stumbled upon some points regarding modularity in the "Why Nodal?" section of the readme. I think that this should be emphasised.
Google's actions with Java's APIs were quite different from any other API implementation that I know of

How were Google actions different from what the Apache Foundation did with the Harmony project (which Google used for their Java implementation), or from any other API implementation? Is it just that the copyright holder eventually released a GPL version of the code while Google chose to stick with their own implementation? I don't see how that is relevant.

API copyright being enforcable is huge for the industry, it means it was illegal for the Harmonly project to implement Java without a license, or for GNUStep to implement Cocoa, or for Mono to implement .NET Windows.Forms. Also 1991 Linux was probably illegal and Wine definitely is. These are just off the top of my head, just search for "open source implementation of" on Bing, chances are most of the results are about illegal projects, including open source implementation of various standards: standards don't necessarily come with a universal license grant, at least for patents (see e.g. the H.264 situation). I would be interested to know if things are different regarding copyright licenses.
"gift of the gab" can be positive, meaning a confident successful communicator (and sometimes socialiser) though tone of voice can turn it negative, meaning someone who successfully communicates bullshit (got instance in a marketing context).

Gobby is pretty much always negative, meaning loud, never shutting up, often also implying overly opinionated and/or obnoxious.
This is a bit different though: it's a construction culture magazine, intended for people interested in construction fashion and such.

Which isn't quite as weird as it sounds, as in Japan there's always been a heavy overlap between yankii/chinpira/bosozoku culture and the construction industry, this being one of the few industries in Japan where wannabe-yakuza punks with dyed hair etc could still get jobs.
Why shouldn't that be allowed? I downvote and reply to comments I've downvoted if the comment is worth responding to, ie, I say why I downvoted. I don't downvote to disagree, I downvote because the content of the comment is not constructive or useful to the thread.

In short, I just downvoted you and then replied to you.
If you're of average IQ, an improvement of 0.2 standard deviations is about 8 percentiles of the population - the difference between being 15th in the class and being 12th or 13th. May not sound like much, but if we assume that translates directly into income (i.e. people of 10th percentile intelligence earn 10th percentile salaries) then that's the difference between a salary of $52k and $63k.

At the high end it's even more pronounced as the tail thins. Going from +2SD to +2.2SD is the difference between 98th percentile and 99th.
Thanks for doing that. It's much more productive than just moaning on HN like I did.
Sorry, you're right, too late to edit :-(
That's definitely the direction we appear to be heading, though. Different 'app stores' are varying degrees of the way there, but auto-updates coupled with an inability to download past versions makes this almost a thing.

I don't want to be overly negative, though. I foresee a future in which there is a split between completely walled gardens and completely open systems, so those who really want the latter will still be catered for.
The $100/hr price point would make if and only if they are able to accomplish tasks that cannot be accomplished by a single hired assistant.

"Personally email all my 1,200 new customers today, get me feedback in 2 hours."

"Make sure this story hits top page on Reddit/HN."

These are probably weird examples. But the expectation here would be to get a superhuman, who does task a random human simply cannot do. Group work is what I expect I'm paying for. Otherwise, I can hire a freelancer online for $1000 a month.
As another commenter pointed out, HN has a lot of young people making $150k+ and this is just a way for them to "optimize" their time and be more "productive".

In reality, this is just a way for them to pretend that they have the same luxuries as the actual rich who came from money.

Services like this will last only as long as the bubble in the valley.
> As a result, perhaps, my Japanese neighbors seem unusually good at adapting themselves to circumstance -- fire or nuclear meltdown, sudden earthquake or infidelity (to which the local response is nearly always "It can't be helped") -- and unusually good at following orders (hence, perhaps, their celebrated brutality in war).

But orders come from somewhere, no? From some self, no?
Second this. The Dell customer base "hack" we heard about yesterday is an example of this. It was not as if some extraordinary unethical programmers hacked their database, but inside technicians who were supposed to guard that data turned out to be unethical. Its high time we give the same importance to ethics of tech personnel that we extend to doctors, lawyers, etc.
How so? (genuine question, the site shows no examples so without installing the thing I can't see how it works)
> It's not that they're not APIs (you can call anything you want an API -- copyright law doesn't care what it's called), but because they don't have a fixed form. In order to copyright something you need it to be a particular fixed text (or image, or recording). There is no such text for web APIs. You can come up with multiple texts (or images) all describing the exact same API. That is not the case for "plain" APIs. Plain APIs -- like all code -- do have a fixed form. But no fixed form means no copyright.

You're joking, isn't?

> The bits of text comprising the names of JSON fields, while fixed, are too short (and lack the necessary structure) to be considered "a work" for copyright purposes.

What are you talking about?
Do you really know what an API is and how web services are defined? You're confusing argument names with the API definition.
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Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi. (2011)
AI will be the new UI. before you downvote ask me for an explanation.
Like GPL3 or AGPL?
That's true, but not really practical for everyone. I'd love to cycle to work, but I have an 80 mile commute, which according to Google would take me 7 hours on way.

Thankfully that's only applicable two days a week. The other three balance it out with a 30 second commute upstairs to my study.
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This is what SenseLabs (https://senselabs.com) are doing with a product called Versus (https://getversus.com). It's an EEG sensor connected to an iPad where you play games.

Disclosure: I used to work for them.
I have lots of footage from my grandfather (and my mother) shot on 9.5mm; I still have the cameras and projector.

The problem with 9.5mm is that when the projector jams, which happens rather frequently, it tears the film apart right through the middle or, in milder cases, enlarges each hole between frames. It's horrible and nerve-wracking.

8mm projectors don't jam as frequently, and when they do, each frame is usually somewhat salvageable because only the track of holes on the side gets damaged.

Anyway, as most comments already said, there is no point in shooting analog in 2015 if you're not Tarantino (and even if you are).
>Because one problem at a time.

Pretty much. I don't use Facebook at all, and give in to Google only on technical searches (Which DDG still isn't good at), mapping and when forced to by work (GCE etc.), so you're preaching to the choir, but lets not try for an overnight coup here.
That is one blatant ripoff of the Nordic semiconductor logo... http://www.nordicsemi.com/extension/nordic/design/bootnordic...
Well accept them into NATO and you can give out nukes like candy under the strategic arms sharing clause.
Is it weird that I do business with none of those companies BECAUSE of their annoying advertising? I do not want to be advertised by those companies nor be advertised at invasively as they do, and any business I do with them will be rewarding that unwanted behavior.

I munch on bacon, send mail using normal stamps, have my lawyer do my complex legal work for me, do my websites myself in vim, read books the physical paper way, and sleep on a mattress that is of a major brand (and will be probably replaced with either a memory foam or natural latex from one of the smaller manufacturers that aren't Casper), and I wear underwear like Fruit of the Loom or Hanes.

I also know no one that does business with ANY of those companies. I'm pretty sure I'm also not in some sort of minority bubble.

Who exactly is the market for these businesses? Is this some sort of gigantic Dot-Bomb 2.0 and within the next 5 years none of these companies will still or can exist?
Welcome to Hacker News, where people's conflict of interests are not disclosed.

I agree with OP- this is an absurd tool. If you can pay $100/hr for an anonymous 'personal assistant' you can pay for a real personal assistant. This is another example where rich SV-elite are making out of touch predictions on the market.
You can sue anyone for anything. That doesn't mean you will be successful.
Twitter should add the option to put the long-form articles behind a paywall, pay the author and withhold a fee. Solves their monetization problem in one go.
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Haha! Wow! A friend I've known since 5th grade made a bunch of different logo variations and I chose that one. Swear neither of us have ever seen / heard of this company. Hilarious (?). I liked it because it reminded me loosely of the N64 logo.
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That's amazing. I have one that works absolutely flawlessly; I still need to transfer what I have on those disks before I try to sell it, but then...

Why would people pay that kind of money for this?? Do they need it to play their old disks? Wouldn't it be cheaper to have them transferred to another media by a lab?
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Can do! Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah. Microsoft may no longer support them but we'll be stuck supporting them until june 2018 at least, when the tls apocalypse may cause holdouts to upgrade - or just complain loudly at Web developers for "breaking my Internet".
WINE is designed to be compatible with Win32. It is built to be interoperable with that existing product. They strive to be complete, and when issues are found with compatibility, they fix those issues. None of this is true of Android, which explicitly went out of its way to build an incompatible ecosystem of software and libraries using the core work of defining the Java API somewhere in the middle. When the case was first being talked about here, I did a writeup on some of this, extracting quotes from the court's decision that I think make the idea clear. I recommend reading that post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723853
I don't disagree with your rebuttal of GP's post, that said,

Google with Android Java have no else but themselves to blame.

That argument is equivalent to "well, you should just have not left your door unlocked". Just because Google could have used OpenJDK and thus avoid the lawsuit doesn't mean they should have to do so.

And Microsoft's case is completely different, as they did get a license from Sun, and preceded to deliberately violate it, with the intention (as we know from the internal emails and documents) of killing Java.
Probably not malice.
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Definitely not. But I should probably pick a new logo! :)
Amazon and iTunes are after the big crowd and cater to a an audience where lossless audio probably isn't the key feature.

I buy everything in lossless format and rarely have to look very hard - the few times I had to it turned out to be a vinyl or CD-only release, which wasn't available lossy either.
I'm into rather obscure stuff, which may actually help here - I'm not sure but could imagine that it's harder to get lossless audio for the top 40.

Well, here are the stores I use:
- Bleep
- Boomkat
- Qobuz (most iTunes-like with a big selection across all genres, including classic and jazz)
- Bandcamp
- HDTracks (beware, snake oil! There's no need to go above CD quality in my opinion)
- Label / artists stores (yes, many labels or artists sell their music directly without middlemen and in a wider range of formats)
- last resort: what.cd or buy the CD and rip it yourself
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Right, that's what "uniformly" means. Discrete uniform distribution = all shuffles are equally likely.
The docs do seem to be a little lacking - it's mostly technical stuff about methods and might not be what the developer is looking for. Looking at documentations from Laravel, SailsJS, even Django, it's easier to get the point of what you're expected to do to get X done.

Other notes on the documentation:

* Very little info on how the templates (views) work. Can I use a different engine for them? No info about that.

* (just as an example of many) I've noticed that a scheduler is implemented and that it's mentioned in the site. It is also noted on github that there's no info on the scheduler yet. So, why would you include the features that no one will be able to use unless they're willing to get into the source code of Nodal itself?

I see that the project has been going for almost a year now and it looks like it's going a great direction. Just needs a more user friendly documentation to be fully usable, I'd say.
There hasn't been one of these for a long time.

I gave up and switched to OS X and BSD for my Unix needs.
uh... read his bio?