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We absolutely don't want formal definitions for law. While it may seem like a good idea on first sight it would create more problems than it would solve. Lawmakers often forget some specific situations (or there is technical progress that wasn't taken into account) when writing the text of the law (or in this case the formal definition) but it's clear how their intent would be. Judges can decide those specific cases when they are on the table. Nobody can foresee everything.

There are many examples where case law differs from the exact wording of a law for a very good reason.
FileMaker comes to mind. It actually is a nice development platform for beginners, but has major shortcomings in other areas. Wouldn't recommend it these days.
I find that having ideas and inspiration requires time where you are not actively doing anything, time that I used to call "being bored" when I was a kid, but now have come to realise that it is much more than that.

Having kids takes that time away by default, so you have to take it back yourself and of course it's always a trade-off.

For me the trade-off is: be active with the kids and house and life and push through all the time. In this case I'm pretty much wasted by the time they go to bed and can only sustain imgur or netflix for a bit before I go to sleep. The other option is to realise that it's better for everyone if I get some time for myself as well, so I take it. Some evenings I don't spend time with the kids for example and don't do anything much else either. In this case the next day I'm full of ideas and excited to try new stuff and I see that everyone around me is also better off due to this.

So, for me the lesson has been - learn to take time for yourself. Simply because in the long run it's better for everyone, both you and the people around you.
I've been holding out for a while on moving to 3. I have tried every 3 release and always found issues or performance regressions. Like others have said here it's a concern about the performance issues, Python is already slow. It's an even harder sell when

- all major (and equally important, the long tail of minor) libraries support 2

- CPython2 has the performance advantage in most (if not all) applications

- virtually every 3rd party implementation supports it very well (PyPy in particular)

- Python2 already supported unicode, so that gets old to hear about

- Most of the new features are available as backports

- Some new features are absurd, like the new 4th string formatting method in 3.6

People shouldn't openly wonder why someone uses 2 instead of 3 if you really look at it.

I just started a new 3.5 project because while I gave 3.0-3.4 a shot, 3.5 hasn't had its runthrough yet. Most people in my shoes have more than likely moved on from Python to Go. I'd like to have this be the one and stop going back to 2.7. Admittedly patience is running on fumes after ~8 years of testing CPython3 releases.

It wasn't just a bad break, it seems like it was a sloppy break. Instead of feature bloat, I'd like to see Python3 focus on performance.
The iraq war, where we gave the bottom 10% of your high school class the ability to cause the US to harass this woman for a decade on a hunch. Sans evidence. As you obliquely mentioned, it also explains half or more of the people in Guantanamo.

The whole thing should be viewed as a horrific embarrassment, but I think it reveals quite a bit about our actual (as opposed to our rah rah freedom) principles.
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Cython works with 2.7 and 3.x, and supports both chained exceptions and asyncio.
Exactly. Escrow charges you 1.5%. Many credit cards pay you 1.5%. And they protect you for upwards of 90 days post-purchase, for free.

It's free because it's built around agreements with a central authority that can delegate the power to police and reverse transactions. The whole point of Bitcoin is there's no central authority. So you have to layer on top of that much more expensive protection services, as you would with cash transactions.
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>She notes her computer glitching and “going pink” during her interviews with NSA whistleblower William Binney, and that it tells her its hard drive is full despite seeming to have 16 gigabytes free.

Peculiar. There's a decent chance that it wasn't related to espionage. There's also a smaller chance that it was espionage gone awry, but I highly doubt state level actors are that clumsy.

If it was espionage it was probably intentional. To what end I'm not sure. Attempts to interfere with the interview seem pointless at best, at least for the sake of interference itself. Probably some sort of psychological game or intimidation. A unit like TAO likely has encyclopedic manuals dedicated to the art of using their capability to mess with people's heads.

On the bright side, it's at least comforting that we aren't seeing privacy activists being locked away due to planted evidence that appears forensically legit. State actors have the capability to do this if they want.
This throwaway bit of arson (or at minimum, criminal negligence) set off a ridiculous religious flamewar. That means you did serious damage to this site. Please never do that again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032716 and marked it off-topic.
I have one invite left (for some reason I never got more than ten invites). Drop me an e-mail. First come, first served ;).
The structure of the US government has an unusually high number of veto points. Presidents have, as opposed to similar positions in other countries, much less power to push their agenda. People who don't understand that change comes slowly in the US, and requires serious organization to push through the house and senate, are being silly and simultaneously sabotaging their ostensible goals. viz Obama supporters not voting in off-presidential year elections and hence crippling his ability to push legislation.
Edit, I had to delete most of the original post. The original testing methodology for the test is actually fairly well documented[1] and the font was designed by Donald Meeker, Terminal Deisgn agency[2][3] and some people from Pensylvania and Texas transportation/highway admin roles[3]. There is more on this topic in the citylab article[5] but it turns out Meeker developed and tested the font. Meeker, for his part says:

“Helen Keller can tell you from the grave that Clearview looks better,”

and thinks it could be a matter of cost according to the article[5]. TerminalFonts posted a hilarious tweet about it as well[4]. They seemed to have done a decent job researching it, and it was not as cut and dry as simply an a/b test with old signs, but it was rigorously documented. Although, I find reading font testing methodology absurdly boring so I skimmed it. Not really sure what the cost to the government was, but they are certainly killing the font according to every source.

According to the citylab article:

The FHWA has not yet provided any research on Clearview that disproves the early claims about the font’s benefits.

So, I have to apologize, I briefly insinuated that maybe these guys forged the test to get the contract. Instead, they seem like pretty passionate design nerds who meticulously researched this topic and then developed a font around their findings.

Apparently, they did a poor job though, according to some unreleased report.

[1]http://clearviewhwy.com/ResearchAndDesign/_articles/TRB_Pape...
[2]http://www.terminaldesign.com/web-fonts/
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_(typeface)
[4]https://twitter.com/TerminalDesign/status/693173610538799105

[5]http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/01/official-united-state...

PRICING from www.citylab.com

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Jurisdictions that adopt Clearview must purchase a standard license for type, a one-time charge of between $175 (for one font) and $795 (for the full 13-font typeface family) and up, depending on the number of workstations. (Meeker and Associates disclaimed exclusive rights to the “Clearview” copyright.)
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I would say thats a Unix specific thing more than CLI. It will work on Linux web browsers. Unfortunately three button trackpads seem to be disappearing.
I kept trying them in the Apple Store every week, and at first I thought it was amazing - it feels like an actual click! - but it feels like a mushy, unsatisfying click. The more I played with it, I noticed I was triggering lots of accidental clicks, accidentally moving files around on the desktop etc. I tried tweaking the settings (for sensitivity and click feel) but couldn't find any that gave me what I wanted. Disabling Force Touch and making the main Force Touch click standard for all clicks would be very close to what I want, but there's no way to do that.

I ended up purchasing a non-Retina MacBook Pro, in large part because of the trackpad. The click on the old 2012-era trackpad is sharp, solid, satisfying & deliberate, no accidental clicks.
That's exactly the point. I would be very surprised if the court would see a difference between your description and an a-tag. But your description might still aid copyright infringement and it's the question whether the speaker should be liable for that or not.

If I'm standing on the market square and reading today's newspaper out loud that is just speech. But it's also copyright infringement.

This case has nothing to do with the specific form of a link. The question is whether one can infringe copyright by giving a very specific (and automatically executable) description on how to do so.
It's well known that cancer cells die under oxidative metabolic pressures, and also that antioxidants can help prevent free radical caused DNA damage (which might lead to cancer). So antioxidants can both help and cause damage, depending on the context, the problem is finding the balance.
Yes, but that could still generate in a positive result for the new font that wouldn't be seen in the real world over a long period of time. The simple fact that the new font is new could result in an improvement that wouldn't necessary last in the real world. Hence why the font is being retired after a decade of experience and data in a proper situation.

A/B testing is notoriously hard to do well, especially if you're comparing something the user already knows well with something different. Controlling for familiarity is pretty much impossible.
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Items of particular interest to monitoring and diagnostics:

1. docker stats --all

Built-in alternative over 'docker ps -q | xargs docker stats' which takes care of dynamic additions to the list.

For consistency, it would be nice to have a similar option in the API stats call to fetch statistics for all running containers.

2. 'docker update' command, although I would have preferred 'docker limit'.

Ability to change container limits at runtime:

- CPUQuota
- CpusetCpus
- CpusetMems
- Memory
- MemorySwap
- MemoryReservation
- KernelMemory

With this feature in place, there is no reason to run containers without limits, at least memory limits.

3. Logging driver for Splunk

Better approach is to enhance generic drivers to be flexible enough to send logs to any logging consumer.
When you say the world doesn't care you might be nearly right from a consumer perspective but that's not really their target market. Outside of cool IT and design companies almost everyone's business machine is running Windows, a lot of servers are running windows too and sql server and visual studio are at an all time prominence for business software development.
You cannot do this for private repos? Anyways besides that, just having to know these hacks means there is absolutely no sense in committing to using a GUI tool when all of this is adequately implemented in command-line. Why a company with estimated worth at billion dollars+ can't add something as simple as commit message search though -- I don't know.
> rightfully deserve to be killed

You can't comment like this here, regardless of how strongly you feel about the wrong others have done. We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Well go ahead. All of you mod me down. But you cannot explain the executive Branch's response to Snowden. Did the Republicans in legislature do that? No. That was purely the administration's choice.
> Lots of hispanic women with 2 or 3 little kids in tow, another on the way. Guess who gets to pay for them?

Inchoate political anger is a toxin on this site. If you want to make an argument, please do so substantively and neutrally.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11028726 and marked it off-topic.
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The $400k F-35 helmet
Nobody claimed that.
Current research indicates that people who don't eat breakfast are more likely to have health problems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast#Effect_on_health

I'm also reasonably sure that the hearty English breakfast is older than Kellog's cornflakes. As is the Japanese breakfast with grilled fish and rice and the traditional breakfasts of countless other cultures.
Have I ever used the Pirate Bay? Why, it's illegal! Have you ever used the Pirate Bay?

Anyway, I crafted my link for comedic value rather than "realism", and then my point was that someone could put, on a web page in their own full control, a link that points to pirated copyrighted material beyond reasonable doubt. You talk about the difficulty of a site with user-submitted content to place limits on what that content can be, which is relevant if someone proposes draconian copyright enforcement measures, but it does not refute my point. As to PB having non-pirated content - sure, and the red light district probably has businesses that sell food, but PB is like my link example in that nobody would buy a claim that its main use isn't pirating copyrighted content.

Again - perhaps it's reasonable to have laws letting people get away with it because any alternative laws are worse (or we could have no copyright law, etc.) All I'm saying is, you don't have to be completely ignorant to say, hey, there are guys who don't only piss into the swimming pool but they do so standing on the springboard, and how about we discuss ways to stop them.

Also, and somewhat independently from the above, you mention in a sister comment that you're a filmmaker. That's interesting - I didn't know you were - and I guess I'm an aspiring filmmaker myself. But that is different from being dependent on the income from filmmaking. Someone trying to live off their own films is in a pretty tight spot right now because basically they compete against a near-infinite amount of de-facto free-as-in-beer content. You mention that Hollywood is alive and well but many in Hollywood disagree, it hurts them a lot - as to someone with a smaller budget, making a profit is unlikely. I don't know how matters could be better, though perhaps if it were illegal to sell/give up the authors' rights, and if we'd be forced to pay per view or some such, and the enforcement of it all was practical, things would be better. Or they might have been worse, I dunno...
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Email in my profile.
Thank you John, or whoever has any invites left!
> Well go ahead. All of you mod me down

The HN guidelines ask you not to comment like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
PGP FTW!
Sorry, I meant "unicode", not ASCII, my bad. :)

I can't edit it unfortunately so it has to stay there, in perpetuity reminding me of my failings in life.
The initial delay when opening the site, before the text appears below is very confusing, at least to me. I didn't know if I was supposed to click on something and tried scrolling up and down to trigger something. The delay lasted more than five seconds on first load and about 3-4 seconds on reloads (could be a problem on my end too).
Admob too serves similar Ads: "Your phone is infected, click here to install Clean Master..."
Somebody who is actively seeking to get every nickel and dime they can from credit card purchases seems more like a marginal customer to me - warranting a lower score rather than higher.
Europe’s leading on­-demand chef service La Belle Assiette raises €1.3M
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"Many years later, when NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M,.."

Hah - ain't that the truth.
> ... it's at least comforting that we aren't seeing privacy activists being locked away due to planted evidence that appears forensically legit.

Yet.

As far as we know, anyways.
This seems like the wrong lesson is being taught though somewhere - the delete button is right there. It should be much more obvious that is very easy to make a server go away.
Ditto. Being responsible wth money by avoiding credit means I have a low credit score? Please. I do better with my personal finance than someone who thinks iPhones are free.
I pre-ordered her book on Amazon a few days ago and am anxiously looking forward to the day it arrives.
The burden of proof is on you, who is claiming an additional statement. I'm not going to do any research on anything to prove your point.
Not to mention if they try to use it internally, then might end up with package name conflicts..
Steven Penny had the opportunity to explain his doings:

https://github.com/svnpenn/sage/issues/2
https://github.com/svnpenn/sage/issues/3
https://github.com/svnpenn/sage/issues/4

but choose not to say more than claiming to be the sole developer of apt-cyg.

This apt-cyg project has a history back to 2005, released under GPL by Stephen Jungels (according to the original code) and Stephen is also the owner of the now DCMA:ed GitHub repo.

https://github.com/transcode-open?tab=repositories

When apt-cyg moved from Google Code to GitHub it seems that the license changed from GPL to MIT, most likely a move by Stephen Jungels.

So how can Steven Penny claim rights over apt-cyg? Maybe he did a complete rewrite of the code? One can only guess at this stage.

If he did, feel free to do so, the code was MIT, improve, rewrite, re-label and try to market your version. Thats all in the interest of open source movement. No harm done.

But, it does not seem right, to claim something that has been open source code for more than 10 years. Not even a complete rewrite gives you the power to file a DCMA on open source project.

That does not feel right and such an action can never be a positiv movement for the open source community.

Something is fishy, maybe there is more than meets the eye?

Still, no matter the claim, filing a DCMA on open source code where the project has thousands of active users, well, thats not good for open source.
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I'm pretty sure they mean that they are using Merkle DAGs. A blockchain is a Merkle DAG. The proof-of-work algorithm in Bitcoin is an algorithm for deciding how a node gets added to the blockchain. Depending on how you look at it, that algorithm is not part of what makes it a "blockchain".

Admittedly people are sloppy about how they use the term "blockchain". I would prefer that people use the term Merkle DAG and forget the term "blockchain" altogether, but I think we are stuck with "blockchain" ;-)
How was this made? Looks great!
The national security state has a lot of inertia. There's a long discussion to be had about what Obama's choices realistically were (and never forget I'd say there's at least a 50% chance the cia assisted in assassinating a sitting US president), but you seem more interested in the green lantern theory of the presidency.

fyi I didn't mod you down
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If anyone has still an invitation for me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
I don't think Keybase is glossing over security at all.

First of all, you don't have to use the browser app at all. I personally don't trust Javascript crypto and hence don't do anything in the web app.

They're also acutely aware of the dangers of centralization and all the Keybase crypto is based on minimal trust. Check the documentation: https://keybase.io/docs/server_security
I love the ideas behind IPFS, but it isn't even trying to solve the same problems as KeyBase, so comparing them like this is very silly. Users may be able to benefit from both in different ways, or even use parts of the two together in the future.
Hi Chris, the very first versions of Boxcryptor for Windows some years ago also used Dokan. Our experiences have been really bad and as the user base grew so did the number BSOD reports caused by Dokan (v0.6 back then). We are now using the commercial driver CBFS since 3+ years and are really happy with it. Hint: As development at Dokan has picked up again with Dokany, I don't know anything about its current stability.
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I'm always bemused by the occasional article that shows a fluctuating graph of the dollar price of gold over time, and then argues "see, gold's value is unstable!"

But never was considered that maybe it was the value of the dollar that was fluctuating!
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The negativity in the background video is NOT good (ironic that I use a negative sentence to say that).

Other than that, it looks nice. What about if multiple customers write in at the same time though? Do they all speak into the Slack channel that you create? That seems like it would be confusing, having all customer discussion mixed together in one huge channel.
This is a big danger of "move fast and break things". I imagine the process they put in place seemed reasonable internally before catching this edge case, but what a crappy result.
We have an aircraft carrier again?
Singapore Island Country Club offers ‘poverty simulation’ programme for members
"But I’d speculate that part of the problem Apple is having is that if it took 1,000 engineers to write software for Mac when that was the only product, it doesn’t necessarily take 4,000 people to write software for four product lines. In fact, 10,000 of the same grade of engineers might not even do it, especially without proper management and unified goals."

Nope. See Brooks' Law.
GCHQ's Christmas card puzzle: 600K entries, no winners
Is software engineering really engineering and how can we improve it?
Are Airlines Overcharging for Fuel?
It's largely thermal limits. I use a docking station connected to two monitors for my laptop at work. It's mobile when I need it to be mobile. It's stationary when I need it to be stationary. But it's not powerful (CPU performance) when I need it to be powerful unless I sacrifice mobility entirely like a desktop.
I was going to send you one, but... I can't find your email in your profile.
The study itself: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Interesting stuff. Not read it properly yet, but I'm a bit sceptical. That said, the abstract makes it sound very thorough.
TL;DR

> That is what I remember most about Steve, that he simply loved designing and shipping products

Nothing new. The rest of the article is ego-boosting reminiscence.

Edit: typo
The video discusses what engineering really is and what the differences are between software engineering and other kinds of engineering.

Gives some food for thought and is kind of a well researched reply to http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/progra...
I think it's safe to say they were both fluctuating. Assuming all the variation comes from the dollar is exactly the same mistake the chart-making people make when they attribute all of it to gold.

Also, if you do your accounting in dollars, it should be perfectly legitimate to use just such a graph as you describe to conclude that the value of gold is unstable in that it exposes you to foreign exchange risk. I suspect, though, that that's not the point the articles you read were trying to make.