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Interesting thing about the Wright case:

Many CA legislators were infamous about running for districts in which they did not live. One of these was David Roberti, a member of the Democrat leadership who built his career on firearms ban (CA's first "assault-weapon ban" was officially the Roberti-Roos act).

The CA media generally refused to report on this until he was term-limited out.

I always wondered if one of the reasons that Wright was left to twist in the wind was that he dared oppose the Democrat leadership on some issues... like gun bans.

<The State Senate actually suspended all three members.>

I don't know if any was suspended before suffering felony indictments. Calderon was not only not suspended, he officially remained in office (drawing full salary and benefits) for the rest of his term. Wright was not suspended until after his felony convictions.
Ask HN: Should each of your products register as their own business?
I'm just about to publicly launch http://paynote.io. Since this is a tool meant for small agencies and freelancers, it's currently "owned" by my agency as a DBA. Knowing full well the tax headache having a bunch of EINs is, I've always had my products legally fall underneath my consulting agency. What is normal for a serial entrepreneur who is working on multiple "startups" or products?
Aren't these "performance gains" a wash due to the overhead of ARC?
Is it installed yet? Either they got on last minute or as typical AT&T didn't mention that they are getting DSL and DirectTV. Trust me I have U-verse. Was told we were getting 1 Gig fiber. It's a 17 mb/s DSL line which routes internet and 3 cable boxes through one DSL.
Let me rephrase.

Creating signed software that Apple feels is unsafe and not something Apple should be compelled to do.

Additionally, we all know very well that eventually law enforcement will demand their own copy of the software, or find it with the help of the NSA.

By the way, I'm totally with you that Apple should improve the security of their phones. But this case and that feature are separate issues. You can advocate open hardware & software and defend Apple's stand against the government compelling companies to act at the same time. Those ideas are not mutually exclusive. Hate the game not the player.
Shouldn't wired pay the original authors of the plagiarised material? Didn't see that mentioned.
I imagine that the subset of people who are in the "save lives, stop helping the terrorists" camp are generally not in the "worry about gay people under a hypothetical future government" camp.
Yes. You are right it's dynamic and does change. Certainly as more people are in your family (single->married->children) your cost structure that makes you happy definitely changes.

Issues tied to financial stability certainly will drive you to want to get a higher salary, especially with how impossible home ownership is in places like Silicon Valley.

With that being said, if you aren't having to stare at your bank balance every morning and sweat your salary, then what makes you happiest at work is those other factors of things like Pink's framework of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. It's also the lack of those 3 areas that will make a job that pays sufficiently pretty damn miserable leading you to seek a more fulfilling job if you can find one that meets your salary needs. I bet there's a limit to what you'd put up with at work even if they paid you $1 million per year.

Having worked in a number of early stage startups I have talked to a number of older members of teams I've been on who have forgone as much as $50-60k in salary to move from a giant company to a mid-size startup. That definitely affected their quality of life to do it, but it was worth it to wake up happy, despite perhaps making some sacrifices. As they told me, they had to make some adjustments in their lifestyle but then got used to it and it was okay.

The other important factor that I would encourage you to look at Pink's research for is that it turns out if you use financial incentives to tie to creative tasks (like an engineer shipping features) it actually has been found in psychology studies to lower the quality of the work and the motivation of the person. This means bonuses are often a really bad idea. The good thing about a salary is that it is disconnected from a specific creative task.
Can someone answer how exactly sites like padmapper make money? Love the site, but still confused by the biz model.
I fell out of the funnel when the the preview wouldn't load, apparently because ScriptSafe blocked

optimizely.com, maxmind.com, stripe.com, and
googleadservices.com.

If a service won't work without serving me up a basket of trackers and advertising scripts then I'm out.

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Bloomberg changed their title, so we changed it too.
Went into an ATT store to upgrade an iPhone and they were pushing directtv pretty hard. CenturyLink Prism fiber just became available here as well.

It was amusing as I didn't know att bought directtv and I keep up on tech events. I probably filed it under "dinosaurs mating" and ignored it.

I can't imagine directtv internet access being that fast and it probably suffers from a lot of latency.
Apple's Motion to Vacate Brief and Supporting Declarations
Remember Steve Job's vision for Apple has always been a closed system end to end... He was security minded before the net. It is a shame that the government has taken the low road by trying this case in the court of public opinion after they permanently locked themselves out of the iphone! The worse part is using the grieving victim's families to make Apple look like the bad guys. I kind of wish Job's was alive for this fight! Tim Cook can't say it, but 14 people killed by some kooks vs millions of people's safety being intentionally compromised is not a bargain. 14 people die in mass shooting Damn near every month! What happened to good police work? Doesn't the NSA have everyone's communication data on a server somewhere anyway? If the government in the business of ordering businesses to work against their interest for the sake of public safety, where is the court order for tobacco companies to permanently stop selling cigarettes. Cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands of people each year. Luckily Apple is sitting on enough cash to fight this... I just hope their stock price and future aren't hurt by this deliberate attempt to assassinate their brand.
Sorry about Scribd. I know a lot of HN folks dislike that.
How much cheaper would it actually end up being if I wanted to do that, then have someone like batchpcb mfg a few? At $5/in^2 i don't think it's much better than buying from this guy.

This sounds like a confrontational question, and I tried rephrasing my question to not sound smarmy, but I am no expert (I have never actually ordered a custom pcb) and I am genuinely curious at what the options are.
> > his opinion should carry a lot of weight

> That's nice, but it's only one side. What about the opinion of the developers who wrote the module and licensed it under CDDL?

The developers' opinions don't matter. All contributors used to have to sign a CLA to give copyright to Sun. Then Sun was bought by Oracle. So you should care about what Oracle thinks about copyright infringement.

> The incompatibility between CDDL and GPL is well-known, and the authors at Sun made it that way deliberately.

No, that's bullshit. CDDL (which is just the MPL) is a file-based copyleft because that's what license fitted their requirements. It's not their fault that people have a completely fucked up interpretation of "derivative work" that includes any combination of two completely separately developed works.
> The highest ranking official who understands this issue is Ted Lieu.

You mean the highest ranking official who agrees with us. It's easy to see how, if you trust the US judicial system, you'd be okay with this. If you think warrants are only given in valid and justified situations, this wouldn't bother you, because this'd only be used for "good".

We know better, but that's probably not the position the head of one of the branches of government (and a scholar of the highest law of the judicial branch, even) finds himself in. Obama probably very much trusts the US justice system.
Sounds about right. So many undervalue tapping into the ideas and feedback from their teams and it's a massive missed opportunity. Unfortunately, I bet even at the small startup, as you grew these kinds of problems re-emerged unless the company had one on ones and good management habits.

Toyota actually even brought this to their blue collar workers with their "Total Product System" which allowed anyone to stop the assembly line if they caught a problem and engaged them in feedback to find solutions. (More here: http://hbr.org/2004/05/learning-to-lead-at-toyota/ar/1)
Which reminds me a teardown EEVblog did on 1980s 11" mainframe drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjoWMA5d84
Journalist Gets Hacked While Writing Apple-FBI Story
If they ask for the software, Apple should deny that request because that's very different from asking for assistance on a case-by-case basis with a court order for each one.

The question reasonable, non-technical people are going to ask is: how is this different than asking to search a house. There's a court order, it's not just the FBI acting on its own. They're asking Apple to do it, and not hand over a master key, which would not be reasonable at all.
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shrug Jet engines count as combustion research

But my apologies, I did miss the "small application" part.
We have laws for a reason. And the law is clear with regard to Apple's rights.

From Apple's Filing (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2722199-5-15-MJ-0045...)

Contrary to the government’s contention that CALEA is inapplicable to this dispute, Congress declared via CALEA that the government cannot dictate to providers of electronic communications services or manufacturers of telecommunications equipment any s
pecific equipment design or software configuration.

In the section of CALEA entitled “Design of features and systems configurations,” 47 U.S.C. § 1002(b)(1), the statute says that it “does not authorize any law enforcement agency or officer —

(1) to require any specific design of equipment, facilities, services, features, or system configurations to be adopted by any provider of a wire or electronic communication service, any manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, or any provider of telecommunications support services.

(2) to prohibit the adoption of any equipment, facility, service, or feature by any provider of a wire or electronic communication service, any manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, or any provider of telecommunications support services.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
ART also compiles down to native code. As for performance comparisons - last time I checked the benchmarks for Java were still faster than Swift.
AT&T kept trying to get me to sign up for years, and I would have done so, except every time they kept finding out they had not built the service into my zone.
Canonical doesn't ship binaries containing ZFS+Linux. They ship the source code with scripts that build and insert it into the running kernel.
"I paid, before hand, to have a movie created, but was never allowed to watch it (for free)" isn't actually all that great a moral justification for pirating a movie, either. But in the case of creating a movie, if I paid to make it happen, first the creators would probably invite me to the first screening, and second, even if they didn't, I could afford to buy a ticket.

Scientific research, on the other hand, is paid for, not by "me", but by "us" - by the pooled tax money of millions of people. I, as an individual, do not have the money to "buy a ticket" to all the research that we, as a group, have paid for.

What really needs to happen is that we, the taxpayers, put pressure on the government to insist that all government-supported research publish the results for free online somewhere.
> > The SFConservancy is just practicing GPL overreach here, and is rattling a saber in hopes that Oracle blinks.

> Why would Oracle care? Oracle is not involved in OpenZFS and has closed source all of their changes for a while. The new code (which is a lot) is not owned by Oracle. It is owned by the individual contributors as OpenZFS is not doing copyright assignments.

That's not how copyright works, and we've all seen how zealous Oracle loves to get with copyright arguments (the Android thing, for example).
Java, Python, and even Ruby [1] can get you under 10ms for service responses that actually hit a database, in my experience. But why improve performance by switching to a language that's well suited to the task at hand when you can do it by switching to a language that's hip?

[1] My company ran into a problem where one of our Ruby service responses was taking something about 100ms. We ruled out the database, and the ruby code, and finally discovered that the problem was jumping back and forth between Ruby and C while generating the JSON response from model classes with customized `to_json` behavior. We solved it by traversing the structure in Ruby and turning it into Arrays and Hashes. Back down under 10ms!
That isn't an issue with React Native, which runs JS on its own thread and implements an asynchronous, batched bridge between JS and native.
The amount of collective brainpower being burned on licensing issues for supposedly free (as in speech) software is astonishing.

I do symphatize with the sentiment that an author does not want his work to be a source of illicit gains for someone else, etc, neither do I, but at the same time find that the usefulness of a piece of code for other open source developers is (figuratively) inversely proportional to the length of the license, while the real abusers don't give a damn.
Hahaha I'm sure you're correct. Too back Tim Cook isn't Jewish.
Fiber isn't very profitable either. There is a reason why AT&T and Verizon have so little interest in building it out.

They could spend a bunch of money building it and then the local cable co will just offer a lower speed, but still very useable, for less money. And almost everyone takes that deal.

Verizon Fios is struggling to get 40% of the potential subscribers to actually sign up. That means 60%+ of people are willingly using comcast or time warner over Fios.

Very few people are willing to upgrade their internet connection beyond whats needed for basic internet service.
Except for maybe some Buddhist monks who have given up all material things, everyone would like another dollar. However, there's also fulfillment at work.

Go take the absolute highest paying offer the next time you interview for jobs, and if you do that a series of times, I think you'll find you won't be as happy as taking the best overall offer that takes into account things like:

- Role/responsibility

- How interesting the work is

- Whether you're excited to work with your future peers

There's a reason people leave finance despite the high pay. There's more to life than money.
arXiv? I mean, you're looking at preprints, and you might have a higher dross-to-gold ratio, but can't you do your research there, without the moral dilemma?
Point taken but I would guess that they use nice headset mics and extensively train (and maintain and carry around) their voice databases. With Siri you can get 99% accuracy if you dicate punctuation and there's no training or fancy mics.
Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Everybody tries to make the best possible argument for their desired outcome and then some ostensibly neutral decider reads all the arguments and decides who's right.
Yup. It's called FUSE and ZFS is available that way as well. The problem with running file systems in the user space is that they're generally really slow since you're chucking lots more data backwards and forwards between the user space and kernel space. So kernel drivers are much preferred in this instance.
> Arrgh. The same issue in principle, but not in practice. "All the developers" of OpenZFS are Oracle Corporation, plus a few dozen other folks we can grep from the commit log.

That's just patently not true. All of the BSD and Illumos guys all are the main source of ZFS talent.

> (Also, as another poster points out, it's possible that all OpenZFS copyright is already assigned to Oracle -- I have no particular knowledge)

No, that was how it worked before the OpenSolaris proprietarisation fiasco. Now, everyone retains the copyrights IIRC.
I've worked in startups and large ivy league universities... the latter has more focus on social capital than necessarily delivering value or customer service because there is less survival risk, so the emphasis is on social organizational capital (family-like, countryclub departments) than monetary profit (except for university profit-centers). I've also seen massive corruption, empire building, laughable leadership cognitive dissonance, waste, privacy disasters and embezzlement at one university which shall go nameless.

It's true that the fights can be so brutal because the stakes are often so small.

There are some exceptions where good leadership and teams exist and deliver worthy value without economic or social forces, but these are outliers.
> People who love when governments control things and people who hate terrorists are both probably pro-FBI.

Pretty much everybody hates terrorists regardless of whether they're pro-FBI.
That's not entirely correct. I have Gigapower and it's FTTH. I have both UVerse TV and the Gigapower internet and so far I love it. If they get rid of UVerse, I may drop them completely and switch to Google Fiber which should be online my area by then. It's a great time to be in RTP, NC! Finally have some choices besides TWC now.
XRENDER basically provides a subset of OpenGL which is insufficient to describe all of CSS and not particularly tailored to modern GPUs. The extra features it has, like trapezoids and blend modes, are easy to implement in regular old OpenGL. Additionally, it's effectively Linux-only and has spotty driver support. I don't see any reason to use it.
So, uhh... why not use a notation where nesting is expressed via indentation, then? I don't understand how the syntax can be considered superior if the way people actually cope with it is to hide another syntax inside it.

I was dumping ASTs as part of a little language project recently and my first impulse was to render them as S-expressions. Alas, it just wasn't readable; I couldn't make any sense of it. Indented YAML style lists, though? The structure pops right out and the information I wanted was immediately obvious. There were no constraints here, I was free to render text in any way that suited me; the Lisp style syntax just wasn't helpful.
This is awesome and incredibly useful.

Bravo

Let's see if I can get even more excited, Would it be possible to render SVG in the same fashion ? I guess SVG can be considered a scene graph as well, maybe even more than CSS is.
I don't think anyone in power really recognizes the day of reckoning that's on the horizon w/r/t the copper in America's soil.

The telcos are in a managed descent on all of the wiring that could easily deliver Internet. It is too fucking expensive to maintain. So the telcos are instead focusing on acquiring spectrum and hoping to deliver broadband over wireless.

But companies like Google, MSFT & others are interfering with all of the spectrum moves of the carriers because they are (reasonably) concerned about WIFI interference that affects their product strategies.

So how will this play out? Carriers will need the spectrum to deliver the Internet people want, but non-carriers are going to fight to prevent them from acquiring that spectrum.

I think we have a problem where the conflict over spectrum peaks specifically because of the rotting copper plant. It is a very slowly percolating crisis.
Depending on the category, roughly 3,000 to 9,000 sales in a week will get you near the top of one of the NYT lists.

It's basically the same deal as Amazon, but on a bigger scale. Unfortunately it's not that much harder to game if you have spare cash and/or plenty of friends and/or followers and/or a significant marketing budget.

Not many people understand that sales can peak and dwindle rapidly. Unless you're J.K Rowling or George R.R. Martin, many books typically get a week of marketing effort at most.

So it's not unusual to hit the lists for the first week with - say - 10,000 copies, but only sell another 5,000 - 10,000 copies in the next 12 months.

This may be enough of a reason for a publisher to drop an author. Even after a book gets the coveted NYT best-seller tag, total royalties may still not cover a modest initial advance.

Staying on the lists for a long time is a whole other game, and much more of an accolade than getting on the lists in the first place.
with regards to Naugty Dog, The Jak & Daxter games were written entirely in GOAL, an in-house scheme implementation that compiled down to assembly.
Apple files to vacate iPhone unlock ruling, says govt seeking 'dangerous power'
Thanks. This was very cryptic, I'm surprised you pieced it together.
I already admitted that it was a guess. But I still think I can defend it.

Starting in elementary school, everyone learns to read math notation. By high school, everyone knows what

c = sqrt(a*a + b*b)

means. The Lisp version may be easier to read for those who have spent enough time using Lisp. That's not the majority of programmers, though, and it's only a tiny minority of the general population.

Do you think that, to a non-Lisp programmer, the Lisp version is easier to read? Do you think it is easier to read to a non-programmer who has had high school math? Or is it just easier to read for you?
It's probably just cheaper to lose those customers than run two separate TV distribution networks.

Plus I bet the future of satellite TV is "satellite" over the internet. I had DirectTV's NFL sunday ticket this past season.

SlingTV is already doing it. IF I were DirectTV I'd get into that game yesterday.
> Fiber isn't very profitable either. There is a reason why AT&T and Verizon have so little interest in building it out.

It is profitable (Verizon is steadily making money on fiber network, unlike their copper one). Fiber optic network maintenance is just significantly cheaper as Verizon admitted multiple times.

The trick also is long term perspective. With common TV gradually dying out, more and more people switch to Internet video. Which means that owners of extensive networks won't lose business - they'll only get more. So investing in better networks is a good investment. But it's long term. And most these telco execs can't think long term anymore. Previous Verizon CEO was from the their landline division, and he invested in fiber all the way. But once he was replaced with wireless execs, things changed for the worse.

> Very few people are willing to upgrade their internet connection beyond whats needed for basic internet service.

If someone offered those people something comparable to Google Fiber, they would switch. Verizon can do it. They just don't want to.
And, more likely, if a small company does come up with a great AI, they're going to get bought be Google, not compete. Reason being you are still going to need the sheer hardware capacity (a LOT of it) to process so much data. I remember a good article about how YouTube would have likely hit serious trouble had Google not bought them. YouTube was starting to crumble under the exponential growth in load, and Google was perfectly matched to provide infrastructure support.
> If you liked what you just read, tell me

No, that sounds terrible, sorry. Persona did one thing: authentication. I don't want to drag in a social graph along with identity auth, but YMMV.
If the government wins this case, I will permanently destroy my personal cell phone and will never have one again. I will maintain a cell phone for work only.
Loop is idiomatic, but whether or not it is syntax is arguable, as it is implemented entirely as a macro.