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I think there are some answers to be found in technological histories, both creative tools and otherwise. The main point to consider is that new technologies augment the possibilities - outright replacement is actually the unusual case, because there's always some odd reason to have the old stuff around.

Artistic workflows definitely rank among those reasons; they do tend towards Taylorist efficiency when the artist doesn't want a restriction, but desire to be a maximally efficient artist in every aspect can lead to a deep probing of your motivations for doing any art to begin with, instead of just jotting down what the piece is supposed to be. So most artists will take on at least one technical restriction of some kind, consciously or no. That restriction subsequently guides and shapes everything else they're doing.

So for people who want their focus to actually be built on the limitations of analog, they need analog. Period. And that isn't most people, since there are many other ways to go about setting limitations, and what is usually needed when it's called for is an indication of analog, not its every nuance and imperfection. But like a car enthusiast who can enjoy old and inefficient designs, someone who really cares about analog audio will want to have the experience of the real stuff, despite the painstaking elements of doing so.

edit: And I welcome digital imitations. The newest VA synths really capture the imperfections of old stuff in a way I haven't heard from previous attempts, and I want to use them for that. But I don't want to have an analog box to tote around and maintain.
I've lost memories of most or even entire gigs I've been to before because I drank too much.

The next morning I'll wake up and remember getting to the gig, buying a drink and watching the band's opening track or two then everything is just a blur of images.

At that point you realise you're wasting your money if you can't even remember seeing the thing you paid for.
Google's implementation is a clean-room one, based on the former Apache Harmony and isn't a derivate of OpenJDK. If it would have been a derivate work of OpenJDK, then the GPLv2 license would have protected them.

And no, they didn't violate the GPL. When a copyright owner releases code under an open-source license, that doesn't mean that they are waiving their copyrights. Open-source is not the public domain.
I think you could argue that the Joe 4 design was an attempt to design a H-bomb using a different approach that turned out to be a dead end - the US was aware of this design but never tested it.

Whereas the UK just plain lied and continues to be evasive about the matter to this day - probably because the exercise was mostly aimed at the US.
Unlikely..

- 1% of traffic is still significant for most businesses.

- Consistency/Training/Hiring. Everyone that has ever written JavaScript has learnt jQuery. Some people don't even "know" JavaScript, they "know" jQuery (I say this as a testament to jQuery, not as a detriment to these developers. jQuery is all they have needed, why know anything else?)

- jQuery has so many plugins/frameworks that depend on it. Bootstrap alone gives it a ton of utility. Backbone/Ember are extremely tied to jQuery (or "clones").

- While ofcourse plugins/frameworks can be rewritten to exclude the jQuery dependency. jQuery is provenly stable. You would need significant counter inertia to rock the boat. At that point, why rock the boat? No one ever got fired for using jQuery: huge utility.

- Ergonomics. AJAX, Animations, Custom Events would all need custom wrappers / util libraries

- Forward compatibility. If you use jQuery today, all you'll have to do is upgrade the version of jQuery and you're using the latest and greatest browser internals (when appropriate) but no change to your API (mostly)

And I'm sure I'm missing a couple.

P.S. Before anyone starts, there are tons of good reasons to not use jQuery. Are the reasons to drop jQuery greater than the reasons to keep it? I don't really care. That is for individuals/teams to decide. I am just answering the parent's implicit question: "Is there utility to jQuery beyond legacy browser support?"
Pakistan's nuclear and missile program wouldn't be possible if not for China.
To make a few more things clear: that APIs are not copyrighted has never been settled law either, so the chances of getting sued over copyright violation has always existed. The only difference is that before (as Google did) you could make two arguments: 1) that APIs aren't copyrightable to begin with, and 2) if they are, then you're making fair use of them. Now only option 2 exists (with the caveat of the ruling serving as a precedent, as other commenters say).

Also, copyrighted APIs are only "language-level" APIs (or just APIs as we've always called them) -- not web APIs (or protocols, as we used to call them), simply because web APIs lack other prerequisites to be copyrightable.

To the question of fair use. 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). AFAIK, all third-party implementations of APIs happen to be one or the other (or both). Android is neither -- it is for profit and it is not compatible with Java programs. More than that: it wasn't even done to prevent vendor lock-in. So even if Google loses on the fair-use case, chances are that the defense still holds for all other cases of third-party implementation. Unlike the claims made by Google's PR, this ruling's effect on the industry are at worst tiny, and most likely nil.
Well for one thing I did point out that I'd be fine dropping an xbox on a friend if I felt like it, just not a moderately expensive meal with a $100+ dollar markup on it. Especially considering there are countless delivery services easily accessible that do that sort of thing already; 30 seconds of googling isn't worth dropping an extra $100-200 because I couldn't be bothered to find the name of a cheaper service.

>If you don't think twice about buying things under three digits, depending on frequency, just not doing that for frivolous things for a few weeks could afford you the ability to do something that might ultimately be a much more valuable memory. There's plenty of crap I've bought and barely used that would have been much better used taking a good friend out to an extravagant meal or event.

I mean, that's what I'm talking about. I've never felt like my ability to splurge massively (e.g. buying a ticket at an airport to go on a suddenly planned trip) was impaired by my frivolous $50 purchases whenever I felt like it. I may not buy moderately expensive stuff without even considering whether I actually will use it (so maybe I'm not as rich as I think) but I don't have to even consider stuff like expensive taxi rides or bullshit novelty experiences when I'm bored.
You completely hit the hammer on the head with both this comment and the parent. I just assume that a big amount of 20-25-ish developers here that make $180.000 are excited at the prospect of having a personal assistant to match their other unreasonable status enhancing purchases.

As if any 'rich person' would spend any amount of time texting some random employee and give them access to his e-mails. If I were rich and would deem myself in need of a PA I would want to know them very well before allowing them access to my personal information and I would expect them to take care of certain things without me having to tell them what to do all the time, let alone text them.
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The use case is synchronous editing. I've used gobby e.g. for writing minutes during a meeting. Everyone was logged in and could see/edit the current state. Very useful when dealing with dense/complex topics because this way misunderstandings etc. get corrected instantaneously.
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Because one problem at a time. Instead of throwing up ones hands because some other thing is bad, too.
I really like the phrase "I have nothing to hide, so I don't care about privacy" is equivalent to "I have nothing to say, so I don't care about freedom of speech" .
It's oddly suspicious how closely this tracks to this Medium article on HN today with a January 2015 dateline:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845264

Both even have a Colman's Mustard reference (a product I had never even heard of before). That's quite the coincidence.
Ask to read through someone's bank statement, look at their photo library, access their medical history or read all their messages. I doubt anyone would be comfortable with someone doing that.

Another good example is the use of shredders at home, perhaps you should suggest people leave their sensitive data in a box on the pavement outside rather than shredding it.
The article author is speculating about the motive. Let's see... 3 copies "published", one burnt, two saved, of which one in a library, the other in unknown hands...

The forger might have been selling the "lost copy" of a "rare" book to a private collector...
I don't see why not; as long as it's derived from GPL licensed code, and they respect the license, they have the right to change it to whatever they want.
OVH is hard to beat when it comes to raw performance/$. Hardware and network has been quite reliable for me (using SoYouStart and OVH), and their DDoS filter is excellent. I'm not really familiar with their cloud/VPS offering.

That being said, they only have one data center in NA at the moment, and they recently suffered a rather nasty network outage in that data center. Would definitely look into them if your target market is primarily EU, but if you're mostly NA-based, YMMV.
Yes, pretty apt summary of what each license does.
I'm having a negative feeling about HackerNews now.
The misaligned computer typeface is immediately obvious by the thin perfect lines - quite different to the ideosyncracies of lead cast, press printed type from 1665.

Otherwise a very convincing attempt to establish provenance and an unresolved mystery.

Medieval alchemy's intertwining of chemical process with self-enlightenment makes for a uniquely weird mix of apparatus, chimera and concealed meaning.
Define "a lot" and "fully".

But more importantly, sure, there are people who think they deserve to be mistreated, there are people who are drug addicts to the point of barely being anything else and still would fight anyone who gets between them and their dealer, and of course and there are plenty of people who have no problem with all sorts of messed up things up to murder as long as they themselves are not on the receiving end of it. Yet even if 99% of all people regressed to that station, that wouldn't do one bit to diminish my own human rights. That some or even a lot of people are fine with certain things, whether they understand them "fully" or, which I find more likely, "not in the least", is the problem, not the solution.

Drive to the extreme: he right of people to do what the White Rose did will always outweigh the right of people to not be part of the White Rose. It's dissidents and persecuted minorities who define the boundaries of these things, not the people who are living in comfort in exchange for not standing up for anything or against anyone. They exist, and their opinion matters as a problem to be solved or worked around, but that's the extent of it. Some things can not be justified by anyone agreeing to them, people do not have that power even when numbering billions.
It's oddly suspicious how closely this article, with a January 2015 dateline, tracks to this WP article of today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845466

Both even have a Colman's Mustard reference (a product I had never even heard of before). That's quite a coincidence.
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Although it's possible that the explicit permission to change the code in the GPL would be interpreted as a license the the API as well.

I don't see how it can be any other way; since the infringement was based on the copyright of the API, by having a legal license to the copyright of the code that implements the API, I don't see how can one lack a license to the API. It'd be different if the API was somehow patented, but copyright explicitly covers the actual implementation.
> can a digital filter provide a close enough approximation of that colouring that going through the analogue path is no longer necessary?

In principle yes, but it's surprisingly tricky, to the extent that even some very simple analog audio things, like '70s-era voltage-controlled-oscillator synths, are only recently able to be emulated reasonably well. The research field is called "virtual analog synthesis". I'm not sure if there's a canonical overview, but some googling turns up this 2014 PhD thesis: http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2014/isbn9789526055862/isbn9789526055...
I generally tell such people that I'll come round to their house next week to install the webcams in their bedroom. No need to wait for me; I'll just let myself in.
Oh poor, deluded TNW. Software only dies in the way developers care about when users stop using it.

Well beside its actual expiry (which seems to be 2020), people STILL use XP with an ancient versions of IE6 and IE7. Many Vista users stick on IE7.

So calm yourself and put flexbox back down. You've got a few years before that's supported enough.
Just going to plug a product I was working on for a while.

Active Memory (From ABC), was working really closely with a team of neuroscientists out of Australia. Lots of their data goes directly into research programs. Here's the blurb from their site:

"Active Memory has been developed in partnership with the University of Melbourne and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. The program is built on a breakthrough statistical model that examines your game results and serves up a customised training schedule that challenges your brain at just the right level of difficulty. Most importantly, the program aims to measure the changes that are happening to your cognition, based on your training. Critically, your participation in Active Memory will contribute to one of the largest studies of its kind into brain training and its potential health benefits."

Was a really great team to work with. Had a very different angle from Luminosity and was held to very strict advertising controls through being a part of ABCs commercial arm.

https://www.activememory.com
That won't happen because IBM also uses a lot of Java stuff including the great eclipse infrastructure. They will end up suing each other for a lot of components if that happens. If rumors are to be believed, Oracle and IBM have some sort of "agreement" that they won't sue each other on these matters.
The problem with rent-seeking is that I don't really know what to do about it.

Rent seeking seems to happen wherever there is some scarcity or monopoly (natural or artificial). E.g. patents (artificial), real estate, infrastructure (both natural).

In the case of infrastructure, the answer is relatively simple - nationalize it (or strictly regulate it), and offer it to multiple operators at fair (and equal) prices. This is what is happening already in e.g. Europe (for electricity and mobile networks). It can even work for other scenarios - for example, when the Greeks were forced to "privatize" their airports, they didn't actually privatize them, they just rented them out for a number of years - that way, whenever the lease is up for renewal, there is still a market happening, so it's more competitive than ownership/monopoly.

For patents/copyright, it's considerably more complex; I think we can all agree that current regimes in e.g. copyright law and software patents feature way too long monopolies, but it's not so clear if that's the case in other fields, especially farmacy.

For real estate, it's hard to come up with any solutions. As long as there's a benefit to living close to other successful people, rents/prices in high-prodoctivity areas will keep on rising. Taxes could help (e.g. by making buy-to-let less profitable), but they won't solve the underlying issue. I'm hoping that eventually technology will improve to such an extent that there will be no advantage in living in the cities (i.e. remote working/communications technology or much faster transport).

Are there any other worrying examples of rent-seeking that you had in mind?
Yeah, they could do that now, but that doesn't help the IE 6, 7, 8 problems, does that?
The ABC is the Australian Broadcasting Corp, in the same category as the BBC and the CBC
This is more like that crazy neighbor getting a grenade and immediately removing the pin while walking near a crowd.

It's Brick in the first Anchorman fight.
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This hasn't been covered in tv compared to Clock boy which made it to the front page of HN a couple of times.

The gender imbalance with more males with exciting cultural baggage will make for interesting times in Europe.
I don't find the linked document at all convincing. To qualify as 'City Attacks' we would expect that those bombs would have been dropped on the largest population centres available as targets. In fact they were dropped not on the most populous cities, or on the most populous parts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but actually they were dropped on the port and navy facilities at Hroshima and the arms manufacturing facilities in Nagasaki. In fact the second bomb was originally intended to be dropped on the arsenal at Kokura and was switched to Nagasaki due to bad weather. yes they are cities, but they were prioritised on military grounds.

For civilians, we generally think and worry about bombs targeting cities, but most nuclear weapons are actually aimed at military targets. The primary targets are the enemy's own nuclear weapons, military assets and infrastructure come second and population centres last of all. The point of nuclear deference isn't that if we have a war mum and dad will be killed, it's that everyone will be killed.

The fact is we have vast amounts of direct testimony from US and Russian military personnel and leaders, both at the time and in subsequent interviews books and testimony, that deterrence was the primary consideration in their defensive and offensive planning.
This is traditionally what inetd does --- it received incoming connections via sockets and the proxies them to stdin/stdout.

Here's a basic HTTP server in shell:

https://gist.github.com/robspassky/1959319

Of course, it's not as cool as doing the actual low level socket stuff in shell...
Very informative reply, thanks! How do we regulate data-collecting institutions internationally? Look at the EU's Data Protection Directive[0]. As extensive as it is, it's struggling in the wake of the failure of the Safe Harbour Decision[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priv...
Do remember Intel builds the CPUs, prices them, and basically has no competition.

I have no education/insight at all into this matter, but I would keep that in mind and reconsider your assessment of Moore's law's direct influence on AWS' bottom line.
Yes it does. They could ship a statically-linked copy of Edge to Windows Vista (and even XP) users via Windows Update. The old IE DLLs would have to stay there to be used by the system, but the actual web browser could be a newer one.
> How would we convince every country on the planet to enforce this tax?

A simpler solution would be to prevent wealth being "exported" to countries that don't have the same tax regime (or alternatively, tax the wealth when it's being exported). What's happening right now with various tax havens/bank secrecy havens (Cayman Islands, various British isles, Switzerland) is ridiculous (from the point of view of the public; if makes perfect sense for the ruling elite, of course).
Google did a clean-room implementation of copied APIs. Those APIs are licensed under two licenses, and Google chose neither. All you need to do is choose one and comply with it.

All the ruling means is that if you copy an API you should either comply with the license (Google didn't comply with either possible licenses) or don't, but have a good fair-use defense, such as non-profit use and/or interoperability (neither applies to Android, but that hasn't been ruled yet).

Now let me say this again: It has been in Google's best interest to keep people's confused about the ramifications of this court case, because Oracle's legal's department is fierce, and if you believe that they might come after you, too, you'll support Google's position. The reality is that whichever side you're on and regardless of the outcome, the ruling in this court case will not apply to the rest of the industry (because Google's use of Java's API was very unusual).
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I wonder if this would have happened if the US hadn't been meddling so much? For example Bush's "Axis of Evil".
If I'm doing heavy coding work my cap is 6 continuous hours after which I'm brain dead.

My daily average is around 6 hours & I accomplish a lot in this time.
"Lets not allow" sounds nice, but how do you actually expect us to accomplish this? After all, Oracle does own most of the code in OpenJDK, and even the contributions must be accompanied by a signed agreement giving them joint ownership of the copyright.
How often do we list static data in lists anymore? Honest question. It feels like most websites you view anymore are displaying data fed from somewhere that isn't known when you write the markup. As you write markup some is meant to repeat data (lists of posts, reports, etc.). Since this seems to be (to me) happening more than not, markup needs at least some kind of update to accommodate the fact that when writing it, we don't typically write out static markup anymore, though the end result obviously is.

Therefore, Angular, to me, acts like that "dynamic markup" when writing it. It feel more natural to me at this point.
Socialism and communism are not the same thing.
the stock market stopping trading after a drop is a property of pretty much all stock markets right?

As to the other points, that seems much more like social/corruption control than anything else.
> The law of the land is now that when you create an API it is copyrighted.

The US is the only strange land where such a law could be even comprehended. Asserting API copyright to someone on the basis of accusation of copying nine lines of code[1] indicates that a jury isn't in its right mind.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3940683
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Here is another example:

One time last year I had to stay overnight in Japan to reach a connecting flight. The airport allowed people to sleep on the benches (very comfortable with no arm rests), and a police man stands there all night and watches over everyone to keep them and their belongings safe.

To top it all off, there is a sign addressed to people sleeping there that at 3 AM the airport personnel need to polish the floors and they apologize for the noise!

(This was at the old Haneda airport near Tokyo)
Not even counting all the things like COM integration and embedded browser components in WinForms and the like...

I do some work with various embedded extension APIs in different office and collaboration tools, and it's quite a mess trying to figure out what those web browsers actually are
It sounds like terrible product management in general.
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