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Individually they can't, of course, but consulting them as a group is reasonable for something you expect every country to implement. Without the backing of the elected national government, you have no democratic mandate to change national laws or update national policies to reflect your international agreement.

One reasonable process might be having each country send their appointed representatives to negotiate initially, then bringing back a first attempt at consensus for proper and open scrutiny by national authorities. Then you send your delegates back to attempt to resolve any show-stopping issues and prepare final wording. Finally you ask each country's national government to ratify the final agreement. If really necessary, the national scrutiny/delegate negotiations cycle can be repeated first, though if that is happening it suggests the attempted scope of the agreement is too broad to be practical.

This way you would have a chance for people who were actually elected to influence the outcome usefully, without resorting to ongoing line-by-line revisions by thousands of individual MP, MEPs, US senators, etc. You just have to recognise that your delegated negotiators are not sent with the authority to make major policy decisions but only to reach a consensus that all parties can accept on areas where you are already broadly in agreement.

If they aren't able to do that, such that they can come back with a proposal that each country can clearly favour overall with no deal-breaking terms, then again they probably shouldn't have been trying to form such a complicated agreement about such controversial areas between so many different parties in the first place.
But he doesn't have the source of flour -- he gets the flour (data) from unreliable/expensive sources and turns it into bread. The people with the data are the ones who are in the leverage position.
I came from an SE Asian country and people still don't buy electric scooters as much because it is still more expensive and somewhat slower than gas. But in China, I agree. All are electric now.
Good point. I don't think I've ever heard of CDDL ever being used except by Sun (and Oracle as Sun's successor), and people redistributing work (or derivatives of work) originally released by Sun/Oracle.

I would imagine that the decision to use CDDL by anyone other than Sun/Oracle is based almost completely on "its the only license under which Sun/Oracle will allow me to release this work".
True.

But if you accept that evolution of the internet in this direction in inevitable and a natural process of history, then this is like saying that "there's nothing stopping the government from issuing orders that gravity be temporarily disabled."
They do, but not quite in such a simplistic way. Basically, there's one service that manages the individual drives, and then another service (Colossus) that sits on top of it and provides the abstraction of an infinite, highly-available, perfectly robust filesystem. So services like YouTube just specify a path, data, an owner, and a replication policy and then hand it off to Colossus to find free space on one of the zillions of disks. There's a side mechanism for quota & budgeting.

It's unclear from the article whether YouTube's 1P/day is pre-replication or post-replication. I'd just assumed post-replication; it doesn't really change the conclusion in a material way. (Rather than the answer being "1 person", it becomes "2-3 people".)

And yes, you do need 2x (or more commonly, 3x) the disk space. You can use error-correcting codes to correct single-bit errors (Colossus uses Reed-Solomon), but that won't help you if there's a fiber cut and a whole datacenter goes offline.
The loss of data stored on the rootfs is more of an inconvenience (downtime) than something serious (permanent data loss). Consequently, the data stored elsewhere (e.g. /home) is far more important. If SUSE thought btrfs was stable enough, they would use btrfs for /home.
A search warrant does not license conscripting third parties into involuntary servitude to assist with the search.
If this had been reported in any other web application, everyone here would be calling the developers morons.
How does Quobyte compare to Ceph?

Edit: From the product page the main advantage seems to be end-to-end checksums and an adaptive placement engine.

Architecture and performance comparisons would be very interesting, though I understand if you can't disclose that yet.
But, when running E85 or E90 in a turbo charged engine you can run compression ratios equivalent to 100+ octane racing gas.
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It's so good, it guesses the correct continent less than 50% of the time. I bet it even gets the correct planet 100% of the time :)
It might not be the most constructive way of doing things, but people tend to downvote comments they disagree with.

As to why they disagree: HN's audience is not representative of the general citizenry. We're better informed about technical security matters (or we like to think we are, at least). I suspect that correlates with being less willing to trust security to the goodwill of third parties.
> But if you accept that evolution of the internet in this direction in inevitable

I don't accept that the evolution of the internet in the direction of consumer devices with manufacturer-unbreakable security is inevitable, particularly in the face of governments actively punishing manufacturers for failing to break into devices at the governments' demand.

In fact, I would argue that such an evolution is quite evitable.
If you're willing to pay, Dragon Naturally Speaking has more features:

http://whatsnext.nuance.com/connected-living/thursday-tip-ho...

If you simply want a better free product, you'll have to wait a few more years. In the meantime, the solution will work well for tens of millions of people and Google can learn from them.
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> Why do mathematicians not use

Please tell me why should I care. No, really - I'm a programmer, not a mathematician.

> Reading "sum" "mul" etc. takes longer than if you have visual anchors like * +.

Citation for this?

IMO it's exactly the opposite, but I may be wrong. Some kind of reference would be nice.

> And infix is an advantage for simple expressions, because they split arguments, where as with sexps you have to parse from left to right and count parens.

Ok, so 2 ("sum" vs. "+", 3 vs. 1 char) additional characters are bad, because they take longer to read, but for example 3 additional characters here:

(+ a b c d)
vs.
a + b + c + d

are good, because they take longer to read. That's interesting.
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I got quite tired of Google only showing me local (Brazilian) stores when I search for the name of a product in English. Or completely translating my search queries when I get some compiling error on libraries.

Good thing is that with DDG, I can simply use the !g command, and Google won't know I'm making the query from Brazil, and won't be able to localize it at all.
> Swift is compiled. One can expect better performance.Swift is compiled. One can expect better performance.

Since we are discussing targeting Android: Java (and Kotlin) are also compiled ahead of time by the Android Runtime (ART). This has been the case since Android 4.4 (KitKat) when ART became an optional replacement to Dalvik.
And Media Viewer was in development before Lila came around, even if she did preside over its release. I'm not really interested in blaming individuals. The point is that the Wikimedia Foundation as an organization has a history of pushing projects the community doesn't want. A different kind of executive director might move the foundation back towards more of a support role for the community. Of course, that's not going to happen unless the makeup of the board of directors changes drastically.
Yeah, I agree. I was only criticizing the analogy (which I fumbled), because privacy itself is a very complex topic without involving it with gun rights.
Tim Cook has the future of technology on his side. His opposition is tilting at windmills.
Thanks for citing. You've mis-interpreted the cite. Here's what it says. Notice domestic terrorism requires all three characteristics, not just one, and the first is "Involve acts dangerous to human life...."

So you have to start by doing something dangerous to human life. Like cut down a tree, or give someone a glass of water, or sell them a ski pass.

"Domestic terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:

Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping; and
Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.
Is there any extra state stored somewhere outside my Kubernetes cluster to manage this workflow?
The 4th uses the term "unreasonable" quite specifically in regards to the right to privacy.

It also has no specific stipulations for the deceased, who by definition almost don't have a right to privacy.
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Isn't this the idea behind evolutionary algorithms? Just executed with protein fibers instead of computers.
Nice find it goes to show you that nearly everything has some sort of vulnerability. Adding anti-forgery tokens to my login page now...
No, it's not normal.

Thst grant application was ambiguously worded. It repeatedly said it was for “the Internet”. It reads that “today, commercial search engines dominate search engine use of the Internet, and they’re employing proprietary technologies to consolidate access to the Internet’s knowledge and information. Their algorithms obscure the way the Internet’s information is collected and displayed”.

How on earth would an internal search engine help in this regard? And why is this wording so broad?

The kicker is the line in the grant that “Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia will be the Internet’s first transparent search engine, and the first one engineered by the Wikimedia Foundation.”

If I was to read that grant application, I'd be expecting an Internet search engine. Lila and the BoT, including Jimmy Wales, says that it never was.

If that's the case, as I said in a comment on a recent blog post by Lila, then the only conclusions that can be come to are:

A. The Knight Foundation were mislead as to the purpose of the grant application,

B. Someone, or multiple people, within the BoT of the WMF were not telling the truth, or

C. This grant application was put together by someone who was incompetent.
Nobody is stopping the FBI from doing whatever they want with the phone. They have it in their possession and have a warrant to search it. Nobody is questioning that.

What is being questioned is whether a software manufacturer can be forced to build a way for the FBI to compromise the phone. This is much like the question of whether a firearms manufacturer can be forced to build a way for the FBI to compromise that type of device.
I don't think it as much "money" as it is "power". "money" unfortunately seems to have no opinion on this case. If it did, we see more wealthy people chiming in. However, Apple is a very powerful player - not only in the tech community but in the global cultural context. They rarely wield this power in that larger context. I am glad they are doing so in this case.

Microsoft is a bit too late the user security game. Since they don't make their own CPUs, they can't play in the same league.
To some extent. Some of us like to keep in mind that we've simultaneously realized Huxley's Brave New World in many respects--especially with the advent of smartphones, and the work we technologists do to keep people entertainingly distracted.
Even better, one can embed the relative path to dynamic libraries by editing the RPATH or RUNPATH attributes in the binary (and using $ORIGIN in the path). Check out chrpath and patchelf.
C++ doesn't define any object format, period.

A C++ implementation could provide translated units which encapsulate not only compiled code, but also contain compiled class declarations, such that these units can just be used without any preprocessing, tokenizing or parsing. That would be outside the language.

The C++ language as it stands is defined in terms of a textual representation: everything proceeds from translation units being scanned into preprocessing tokens and so forth.

To use a compiled class declaration, you would still need to see the source code somewhere, in some form, in some documentation. Otherwise, how would you know that the frobozz class has a freakout method which accepts two int parameters.
> You failed to understand the entire concept.

I don't think so. As the article states, this is a social/community issue, if every application has it's own language and syntax that is a huge barrier for others coming to work on it.
You might not care about that but most large pieces of software are not written by one person. Beyond that you come to issues of code and skill reuse.
A lot of people dislike the expressibility of Go, but it's hard to write code that someone else can't easily come and read and understand.
> 1) There is no search warrant in the case in question, but an order under the All Writs act.

I was under the impression that there is a search warrant that the government has secured to search the phone, and an order under the All Writs Act dragooning Apple into writing custom software to support the search authorized by the warrant.
Open-mindedness is a culture trait in itself. Few people feel comfortable in an environment where nothing is off-limits.
The FBI is asking Apple to build a tool to backdoor this particular iPhone. Once the tool is built, it gets much easier for them to ask Apple to use it on other phones. "We'll only ask for it this one time, honest" isn't a believable promise - Apple winds up with a much less defensible position later, since they already have the tools necessary.
That's where Objective C bridging happens. That's irrelevant on Linux or Android, since there's no Obj-C runtime.

OSS Foundation (which is composed of pure Swift code, plus the plain C CoreFoundation which is also open) implements bridging between Swift types and Foundation types itself-- see (for example) the Array extension for bridging to NSArray at [1]. That code's what will (again, eventually) ship on Linux and presumably on Android, because it provides compatibility support for Swift libraries originally targeted to Apple platforms and fills out certain core functionality that's not part of Swift's stdlib (networking being a big one). This work is still ongoing and, if one were to try to actually use it right now, you'd run into lots of bits that aren't implemented yet.

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
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You can now pass flags to Servo for Android just like on desktop:

./mach run --android -- -w https://news.ycombinator.com/

Last time I tried it, WebRender wouldn't render anything on my Android device, but that was a few weeks ago.
Nice idea, we're planning on rethinking the commute time overlay from the old site a bit before bringing it back, maybe we can work this in.
> if you could only use python functions

I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about but there actually is a Lisp where you can call Python functions. It's called Hy[1] and I encourage you to take a look, it borrows some good solutions from Clojure, but generally is quite an acceptable Lisp :)

[1] http://hylang.org
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From burning oil, perhaps. Throwing oil into a mythical "Mr. Fusion" and extracting the mc^2 energy from it that way; yeah, let's do that! =)
David Pogue has been using Dragon for over a decade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GXX-SJuQM

John Siracusa used Dragon to write his 20,000 word Mac reviews.

Developers have even used Dragon to assist with programming:
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html

I think voice accuracy is there but we need more integration with our apps and operating systems. Consistency would help too. Google recognizes "undo" while Dragon recognizes "scratch that"
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I found math major students to grasp Lisp much faster than C.

Therefore I would say the answer is simply familiarity and concern for the audience.
I think urban housing demand is relatively inelastic, so I would worry that a sizable portion of a land tax would get pushed down to renters via higher rent and exacerbate the problem of high housing costs.
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AirBNB has needed a feature for a long time where I could send a request to multiple hosts and the first one who accepts gets the booking and the rest get simultaneously cancelled. Every time I've booked an AirBNB, there's been 3 or 4 decent places but being forced to go through them serially rather than in parallel is a major pain.
> FYI, a large part of the controversy over both the EU in general and TTIP in particular is that only Members of the European Parliament are directly elected by the public. The other powerful elements of the EU administration are effectively appointed in various ways, being only indirectly (often through several levels) accountable to the average citizen.

Its interesting that that would be controversial about the EU -- isn't that true of many national governments within the EU (most certainly including the UK) -- as well, that the only directly-elected body at the level of the national government is the Parliament, and there are all kinds of other powerful offices and bodies, and the people in those offices and bodies are all appointed in various ways, being only indirectly accountable to the citizenry?
I know about halfbakery, I'm thinking more in the abjectly "look how completely fucked all this is" sense. There have to be a lot of awesome stories that are not being told.
With all due respect, math papers don't, I think, pretend that their syntax makes any claims to optimality of any kind.

Indeed, most math syntax (in my experience) has a very explicit reason why it's used: historical circumstance, convention and common tradition.
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The tools could have hooks for this.

It doesn't take much imagination.

You know how GNU Bash is customizeable with custom completion for any command, so that when you're, say, in the middle of a git command, it will complete on a branch name or whatever?

Similarly, we can teach a syntax highlighter, completer or whatever in some IDE how to work with our custom macro.
> the (2nd) most valuable company

The most valuable, not 2nd (as of right now.) Apple's market cap is 536.49B while Google is 485.79B
I thought TFA argues releasing a binary combining code under GPL 2 and CDDL 1 violates both of those licenses.

But my point was: IF Oracle thinks their copyright is being violated, they wouldn't complain NOW. If they don't think so, they wouldn't complain either. So Oracle staying silent shouldn't be taken as a signal of their opinion on the matter.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss its applicability.

I imagine a large part of what SOF do is solve unforeseeable problems in the context of trying to accomplish some goal, and to be able to adapt quickly if the goal changes. This is pretty analogous to what a startup is faced with when trying to accomplish a goal, when you'll find that most of your team's initial ideas, as good as they seemed at the outset, were wrong, and you'll be trying to face problems and seize opportunities that you didn't even know you had. For both SOF and these teams, being able to adapt quickly to new information and circumstances, and to resolve the problems that come up which will destroy you, are critical.

I apply "startup" also in the sense of "startup-like" teams in large companies who are required to innovate rapidly.
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Do you think this would be happening if this was an IBM product and Cook was in charge of IBM instead of Apple? I think the corporation itself brings out some real politico-cultural prejudices in people.
Yes. It's a poor-man's implementation of namespaces, since Objective C doesn't have them and they didn't want to pollute the global namespace with their core classes.
> So I think your point, while valid, does not apply in any way to Xamarin!

I'm afraid GPs point is still valid - UX (the experience) is more than just native/native-looking widgets, but how the app conforms to platform conventions. For example, iOS apps typically include(d?) a back button at the top left corner; even if the button is rendered faithfully as an Android widget - that app will feel alien on Android (it was also an easy way to spot lazy iOS 'ports'). I think edge-swipes are another iOS convention for navigating back/forward, which would be foreign on Android, so I fully agree with GPs statement: Each platform requires UI work to make it really fit the platform in question
Okay I completely understand the concept of the post and get the sadness and humor all at the same time. In an era where attentiveness and long-form reading seems to be in distinct decline, distinctions within the marketplace losing meaning hurts. I'm sure customers will eventually adapt though...but this quote:

>I wrote this post because I’m tired of vanity titles and success without quality.

...just makes me laugh, because we're talking about an industry that most recently is probably the most guilty of "success without quality" by way of the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise and all the buckets and buckets of money it made. Self-help being a juggernaut of sales year after year. Obvious derivative slop like Pride and Prejudice & Zombies and the wish-fulfillment nostalgia collage of Ready Player One aren't bringing a new enlightenment to society, practically speaking.

>I hope my story illustrates that the best marketing tactic you can use for a book is to write a great book that actually sells over the long term.

Actually, it kind of illustrates the opposite, in that "a book uploaded every five minutes" isn't a signal-to-noise ratio that really makes much of any sense. The only reason to write a quality book is vanity at this point.

The day that an entity - a startup, a publisher, a legacy firm - can figure out how to intelligently and profitably cull 'good quality' new artists from the loads and loads of self-publishing writers, musicians, or cinema/visual creators out there on their own and bring viewers is the day artists and audiences probably start meeting the monetization in the middle.
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What, given the actions of the federal government over the past 15 years, would cause you to think that this speculation isn't completely spot on?
Is this a test runner like karma or a testing library like jasmine?
You forgot to add:

"and whose brand has taken a strong market stance on privacy and security."

I think people expect Microsoft and Google to cave given how cavalier they've been with user data, particularly of late, so seeing them back this is a bit two-faced.

However for Apple, this could have a significant impact on how their brand is perceived in the market depending on how high of a priority the "privacy/security" aspect is with their customer-base. They will fight this as hard as they can because those dollars aren't just wasted legal costs, they are building trust in the brand since they are putting their money where their mouth is.
We'll see. :-)