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Yep this was the main reason why I stopped using them.

I was using their app while I was out on a saturday night and noticed some drivers setting insanely high prices like $999-- and some prices appeared to change at the last minute, so my intoxicated finger might have requested a ridiculously expensive ride.

I couldn't tell if that was a bug or if some drivers were actually trying to screw people over; either way, that was the last time I ever used it. I emailed them about it because I figured they should fix the bug or at least implement some kind validation so that rides would have a reasonable maximum price, but obviously nothing happened.
If you are taking the scene release groups as the real pirates then they are all retired. The scene is pretty much dead lately.
Hi powturbo! Seeing as these benchmarks are for Sandy Bridge, I thought it would be interested to see how the numbers changed for Haswell and Skylake. I couldn't immediately figure out how to replicate the benchmark, though. Could you give (or point to) some explicit directions on the steps to follow? Thanks.
> I'm not sure anything has actually been figured out by a professional Cosmologist

You are 100% wrong. Several Nobel prizes have been awarded for seminal results in cosmology, like observation of the cosmic microwave background and the discovery of accelerated metric expansion.
> "Google copied the declaring source code..."

That is, Google copied the API. That's the declarations. That includes the package, class, and method names (and signatures) - that's what an API is in Java.
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4G/LTE/etc are also impossibly tethered to SIM cards and the greater centralized provider network behind it.

If we could just take the MAC layer from 4G/LTE, I'd be with you, but we can't.
IANAL. Was that a decision that APIs were copyrightable, or that the trial judge couldn't definitively rule that they weren't?

[Edit: Ah, I see that this was answered by phonon in a post parallel to the parent. The appeals court ruled that they were. Note, however, that the Supreme Court declined to listen to an appeal by Google at this time. The Supreme Court did not rule that the Appeals Court was correct. Therein lies some hope...]
A perfect example of exactly what I was talking about, even including the standard laundry list of things that the other side has done wrong while whitewashing the problems in black culture. This way will never lead to peace.

To see a little bit of the point, consider why modern Black African immigrants tend to do well for themselves. They may face some discrimination and disadvantages, and certainly aren't all wild success stories, but don't seem to have the widespread issues that American Blacks tend to have. What's going on there?

If you follow the standard pattern of a partisan, you will talk about the institutional memories and issues ingrained in American Black society due to centuries of mistreatment. And on this, I agree 100% - those issues absolutely are there for exactly those reasons. But I will mostly likely disagree on the way forward. These issues were caused by White people, but they cannot be solved by any action White people might take. Reparations and affirmative action type things lead to entitlement and self-hatred in blacks and justified resentment in whites - the exact opposite of peace and mutual respect by all of both themselves and the other side.

Whites absolutely have their own problems with racism that we must solve, but the problems in black culture can only be solved from within black culture. That's one of the problems with white culture itself - we believe that we are responsible for everything and are capable of fixing anything by our own direct actions. This one isn't our problem and we, as white people, can't fix it. We can show them the way, but they must take the steps of their own free will.
The guy who was talking about his "spouse firewall" in the facebook thread was pretty great. Basically he just doesn't have facebook and his spouse is the filter, she tells him all the important stuff. It was an excellent idea! :D

here's the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703194
For just $12.99 you can get the CD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gov%27t_Mule
I don't know...I can't imagine a small electric dirt bike being useful with 100 - 120 lbs of gear (typical infantryman payload with full pack), plus the rider. I think the technology needs to come a long way.
(Tedious disclaimer: not speaking for anybody else, my opinion only, etc. I'm an SRE at Google.)

> But doesn't Google tries to avoid GPL?

No.

> I think they're pretty anti-GPL with Android, and have some rules against inclusion of GPLed components there, besides the kernel.

OEMs don't want their hardware support to be GPL-encumbered. See https://source.android.com/source/licenses.html
It doesn't seem to be the primary meaning of the word; style is considered superficial, a coating over substance.

Of course that's a matter of interpretation, but I find the summary of the paper suffers from the ambiguity.

There is also the fact, that I alluded to, that winning entries in a programming contest should be more alike than non-winning entries, in that they all actually solve the problem; if non-winning entries were included, it could explain some of the discrepancy in identification success.
I went to a few demonstrations of the robot at an army base back in 2012. Whenever they would start the robot up, all the spectators would involuntarily gasp and cover their ears. It was shockingly loud.
Huh, I've never heard of that. At every ER I've ever worked at we just called a cab from the nurses station. We also hand out bus tickets to low income patients.
And they're probably running a Windows VM in those Macs. I see this very often with our corporate clients.
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I always want to do it and I always feel that most maintainers will not really like it.
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That's how I read this case as well. I've always been confused by the "API copyright" panic: If Google hadn't copied Oracle's source files (albeit interface-only source files) nearly verbatim, there would have been no liability. You're free to reproduce an API to provide to your clients; you're not free to take the interface files I wrote to provide the API, edit them a bit, and ship them as your product.

If I'm getting this wrong, I'd appreciate an explanation why.
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Why would a founder with a previous exit not want to capitalize as much, especially when the two major players are so heavily capitalized?
Or M.U.L.E., made of scrap parts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E.
How do you feel about people buying/selling stolen credit card numbers?
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Maybe if universities offered incentives to undergraduates who cleaned up some of the articles? It would help them get recognition too.
The original article title was changed to "Google won't implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs", which makes more sense. This isn't about some special new APIs, it's about Google switching to the OpenJDK for the core APIs from its Harmony-based reimplementation.
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Ummm...
"For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the 37 Java API packages at issue are entitled to copyright protection. We therefore reverse the district court’s copyrightability determination with instructions to reinstate the jury’s infringement verdict. Because the jury hung on fair use, we remand Google’s fair use defense for further proceedings consistent with this decision. "

https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/15772
If you argue that the motivation of the engineers is at all an issue, I invite you to present yourself on the south field at dawn. Bring your second.
I think we're far more likely to see superintelligence emerge as a result of DAOs than as a result of AI.
I think it's like this: Google copies Java's API. Oracle sues Google, claiming "You copied our API! It's copyright! You're infringing!" Google says, "Fine. We'll stop using your copyrighted API. We're going to copy the API of OpenJDK, which is GPLed so we're completely free to do so, and which just happens to have the exact same API. Good luck suing us for that one."

And the actual Android API doesn't change...
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I'm reminded of newer Apple Store in Palo Alto, before they did some work to fix it: http://fortune.com/2012/11/12/apples-new-palo-alto-store-is-...

The level of amplification that space created was really quite impressive!
Google appealed to the Supreme Court. They declined to hear the case.
AI may be dangerous. AI can easily be dangerous without getting out of control of all humans. Rather, it could be very dangerous in the hands of a malevolent human - and we've not found a thing more inclined to harm humans and humanity than certain humans.

That said, Yudkowsky's reasoning process about the situation seems fundamentally flawed - both him and Bostrom imagine AI operating simply by humans giving discreet, rational commands to AIs and having the AI twist the wording of those commands, malevolently or just incidentally, to give rise to terrible things - the myth of Genie writ large.

However, the failure of Gofia, of logical specification AI, shows us that to be intelligent, AI would have to go beyond the level of just taking explicit orders. Such an AI would "know what we mean" in the fashion that a person would. IE, "rational" AI was discredited quite a while yet somehow the "rationalists" have wormed their way into the position of interpreters of future AI. Says more about human psychology than future prospects.

This doesn't mean other disasters aren't lurking but I'd say it means that their particular disaster argument is untenable.
PyCharm is unparalleled in its understanding of code and it's great for building codebases. It is a programmer's tool first and foremost. I find PyCharm's interactive features clunky and have to do extra work to see the data.

RStudio / Rodeo provides an interactive data analysis environment where multiple "views" are presented right in front of the user. A view could be a plot, a data frame or interactions between the code editor and the terminal. As a data analysis person it really helps to put the mental strain of code far away as possible and just explore the data.

Jupyter Notebook are nice but it can get overwhelming (too much scrolling) when things get complicated. Great teaching tool, however.

I think each of these tools have different use cases and it's great that Python is getting more user-friendly with the data science workflow.
I'm a bit late by now, but I'd still consider it the primary source because reuters must have gotten the information from them. These guys did the research. I'm not sure I agree that the primary source necessarily equals to the first publication.
Yeah, thepowersgang's kernel is severely underrated.
Just wanted to update you quickly to let you know I've now added registering & logging in with email/password combo :)
$42 million and they couldn't design a quieter engine?
> the optimal solution is for the masses benefitting from the library to return some of that benefit (perhaps in monetary form) to the author. But culturally this is not what free-software is about...

There's been quite a bit of improvement in that problem space. Crowd-sourcing is now considered by users a natural way to fund new work. So much so that in more user facing apps users are constantly asking about it if you don't have a campaign already. There are also micro-transaction solutions like gratipay (previously gittip) that are more open-ended and continuous which probably works better for lower layer projects and when developers don't want to fiddle with managing crowd-sourcing campaigns. Github could very easily own that space if they implemented something like "give x$ per month to every project I've starred".
> But most importantly, the kind of activity you have to do to actively sell yourself on social media is completely psychologically repulsive to a lot of artists.

And fans, stupidly, sometimes aren't supportive either.

There was an article recently talking about some very popular YouTube celebrities who are still waiting tables. And, when they tried to monetize their channel, got sreamed at by lots of fans.

It's a no win situation for artists.
Hey just wanted to quickly update you and let you know that I've now added ability to login with email/password :)
Regulations did not require a safety valve on this well because it wasn't with 150 feet of a house (from the article).
For testing, some of the available flash or RAM cartridges are good bets. For distributing in small hand-built volumes, an NES cartridge is really just some parallel storage for the 6502 CPU(be it an EPROM, or a FLASH 29-series ROM (easier)) and another chip for the CHR graphics on the PPU bus (a similar ROM). RAM may be used in place of CHR ROM, and bankswitching "mappers" are commonplace, as the 6502 can not address much as-is.
I suspect that the main point is to drag the accounting into the light.

Both Spotify and the record companies are going to be in for a shellacking if they let this go to trial given that both of those parties are carrying on some very shady money games.
Sure. What is the fair share? Is it defined in absolute dollars? Is it a percentage of income? A percentage of wealth? Who determines what is the fair share? Are they elected? Is it a direct ballot measure? It's easy to agree to broad concepts when it comes to this sort of thing and horrifyingly difficult to enact practical measures.
I don't think this website uses SQL at all. :-)

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Hacker-News-technology-sta...
Go has started to roll out support for mobile devices.

AFAIK decent support is a ways down the road right now, though.
This “pay what you want” sale is presenting online shoppers with a moral dilemma
> AFAIK, the only "easy" and pleasant language to do concurrency in is Go and maybe Clojure if you can get past the LISP.

Have you looked into Elixir? It's a language that compiles to Erlang's VM and thus has the same concurrency model as Erlang's, which is one of the simplest ones.
I would love to hear what people think of mxnet. I haven't had time to do anything real with it but at a high level view seems super fast and flexible.
I wish they had an agreement with Apple for the next 10 years for the use of Swift so we could write our apps once and run everywhere.

But we all know the NIH syndrome, which is a shame since everybody is adopting Google's web extensions standards and they should adopt whatever is best for all in other technologies too.
> I ignore virtually all support requests, but if you are a heavy open source contributor, you will get a response. You should mention that in emails; I'll go out of my way to help you (and often even promptly!)

Seems like a very sensible policy but will people really volunteer that in emails with no notice? Or do you state that somewhere in the project documentation? I'm a reasonably active open-source contributor but it wouldn't occur to me to mention it when sending an email to a project in an unrelated space.
As dang mentioned (search the comments), they redirected the link, and the original did in fact have that title: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-we-cant-stop-the-enorm...
It's unrealistic for people to throw drive-by PRs and expect them to be merged. I can't imagine many cases where a drive-by PR should be merged, maybe:

* Legitimate bug fix with clear explanation.
* Non-breaking enhancement that maintainer agrees with (low likelihood of agreement)

Any other use of PRs (e.g. breaking change), if acceptable at all, should be coordinated with the dev team before expecting it to be merged. As the article says "engage (politely) in a long discussion." I'm not convinced that a PR should be the starting point for that long discussion, but that's how the github workflow works. imho the bar should be set very high for this kind of PR.

Another use of PRs is: here's an interim patch that I made, that I don't necessarily expect you to merge, but maybe someone else will find it useful for developing a mergable patch. I see that quite a bit, and I think it's useful.

The Github workflow doesn't really model intents of the above scenarios, or varying policies of different projects. I think it contributes to the problem.
The observation of cosmic microwave background radiation was done by Penzias and Wilson, working on practical stuff (though Wilson was an astronomer, I think by training). It was explained as cosmic background by Dicke, who was a tremendously productive optical and atomic physicist. None of these guys were considered "cosmologists" -none of them did "cosmology" and the title of "cosmologist" didn't even exist in those days. Penzias actually caught a lot of flack as director of Bell Labs for shutting down a lot of the speculative stuff there.

I'm not sure what the other thing you're referring to is, but I used to go to some of Joe Taylor's seminars: he was an astronomer, not a cosmologist. Cosmologists are people who publish papers that can't be tested by people like Penzias, Wilson and Taylor.
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I started it and got about 1/2 a chapter in. Haven't picked it back up, dunno why really, I was enjoying it a little.
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I've had both positive and negative responses. Sometimes it's easier just to fork and continue independently.
Disliked isn't evil. People should stop throwing around that word so easily though.
So many things wrong with this article I don't know where to start. There's a profound ignorance of data management and the relational model demonstrated. SQL and Python occupy different, perhaps complementary, places in application design. Loading a pile of data into memory for one process and piece of code to work with is far short of database management. ﻿
There are two main ways to access names and addresses in the UK, the electoral register, and the open register. The electoral register is the one that has more limited access and uses [0] while the open register is readily available for many other purposes such as direct marketing.

You can opt-out of the open register, so it would be interesting to know if in this case the person in question had opted out, or not.

Edit: a quick search on the open register for Wolverhampton reveals Sahil's full address from the 2009 and 2011 electoral rolls. Which means you could have used 192.com [1] or whitepages.com [2] to find him and thus very unlikely he had opted out, as those sites use open (edited) register data.

[0]: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/electoral-register/

[1]: http://www.192.com/

[2]: http://www.whitepages.co.uk/electoral-roll-search-and-electo...

DISCLAIMER: I work for one of the major credit bureaus but views are my own, and my understanding of the regulations around access to this kind of data is very shallow.
I want to be convinced, but I'm not yet. TFA would be more persuasive if it included more than a single "software has two concepts that are effectively identical" example. I'm thinking of screwed-up shit I've seen in the past, and I don't know whether it fits into this or not.

For instance, one company that employed me spent extra person-years creating new service plans because a single internal index in a vendor-supplied product had once been communicated to accounting, and thereafter they had to see it everywhere, and it had to take different values everywhere. Actually I think the accounting department would have had to lay someone off for inactivity if they couldn't spend so much time tracking this one stupid DB key through nineteen different reports. Was that "conceptual debt"? [EDIT: to be clear, "creating new service plans" was a good thing, that allowed us to acquire more customers. If the interface to G/L hadn't been fucked up in this fashion, we could have done that good thing much more quickly.]
The entire market is quite bad across the board.

I guess what I should be really saying is that if you're hosting your platform on these services and offer some kind of redundancy, make that redundancy through another host.
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There's a bit of irony in my statement as I don't assume you know or don't know. We, as a population, depend heavily on trust for day-to-day life. As an author of an article like this you might consider that speaking as trusted authority on something which provides computed trust will affect the trust the general population has in said technology and in you (and the rest of us Bitcoiners). The general assumption is the value of Bitcoin is linked to how much people trust it. When you post things that negatively impact it, perhaps intentionally or perhaps altruistically, there's going to be trust issues between people who disagree with you.

The best way I can describe this effect with cryptocurrencies is "it's a polarizing topic". :)

Blockchain technology, no matter the implementation, will always have some degree of risk associated with the trust it embodies. Nothing will be made to be perfect. The question I'd like to know the answer to is whether or not it's providing enough value for the applications it currently runs, and what other applications can be improved by adding the blockchain's natural immutability to them.

Thanks for writing something interesting!
Interesting to hear about the chip ram such, as i had heard the terms but never really looked into their meaning.

I guess that this setup was both the initial strength, and the Achilles heel of the Amiga vs the PC.

This in that they lived on the motherboard, in close synchronization with the CPU, and thus was not upgradeable without getting a whole new computer.

This unlike the PC where the video and audio stuff lived on expansion cards on the ISA bus.

Thus as time went on the PC gained richer audio and video, and later 3D accelerators/GPUs, without tossing the whole PC.
That issue is going to be in limbo even if they don't settle out of court, unless the Supreme Court eventually takes the case (or Congress steps in and modifies copyright law to clarify this).

That's because this case is both a patent case and a copyright case, and that messes up the normal appeals path. Copyright precedent in the 9th Circuit is set by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and by the Supreme Court, and that is also the normal appeals path from the district courts in the 9th Circuit.

When a case involves patents the appeals path is to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and then to the Supreme Court. CAFC rulings on patent issues set precedent for all district courts.

Not so for CAFC rulings on copyright issues. 9th Circuit district courts, for instance, considering API copyrights in the future will continue to look to what the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has said on this. What the CAFC has said is no more binding on them than what the 5th Circuit or the 7th Circuit or any other non-9th Circuit, non-Supreme Court court has said.

This is a pretty messed up situation. When CAFC gets something like a copyright issue that comes along for the ride on a patent issue, they are supposed to follow the precedent of the circuit from whence the case came on that non-patent issue.

If they botch that, there is nowhere to appeal to except the Supreme Court. But since the CAFC ruling on the non-patent issue won't be binding on anyone except the parties in that one case, it is not likely that the Supreme Court will take the appeal. Eventually, the issue will arise again in that same district, but without being attached to a patent case, and then can be appealed to the Court of Appeals for that circuit where they can clarify what the correct interpretation is in their circuit.