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The difference here is that Google was not trying to ensure interoperability with anything, they just wanted to mimic Java to attract developers.

Is that true? Can't you use several Java packages (at least in source form), IDEs, etc. with Android?
Yeah, typically mixtapes are kinda lawless re: copyright, serve purely as promo, and then might breakeven at the end of the day. A lot of the time people looked the other way because there wasn't a label to sue, the artist sure as hell didn't have any money, and most mixtapes never got big enough to garner that kind of attention. The Frank Ocean example got large enough and not sure exactly how things were setup back then but Sony is the parent of his label so...

Definitely of the mind that if you are releasing shit commercially that you either clear things or run the risk of getting sued though. This is bringing up all sorts of memories of promo singles with samples that got completely remade because the label didn't want to pay clearance. Even worse, having to interpolate tracks and not nailing the original.
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I'd be curious to know how many of these programs/scripts/etc. have easter eggs hidden in them. It seems like you're the only one to mention it so far.
>the real tech

Tell me more about this distinction between real tech and not real tech!
> So, the other possibility is that authors deliberately reject the legal system per se. The reasoning can go as follows: I do care about my peers using my software. I don't give a damn about whether the lawyers and mega-corporations they work for use it. So, if you are like me and you don't care about all the intellectual property antics, here's my project, feel free to use it. If you are the kind of moron who wants to have their legal ass covered, go screw yourself.

I totally buy the idea that at least some users who upload source to GitHub without a license feel that way. I have slightly different priorities (creating software that is used is more important to me than avoiding the copyright antics) but I'm pretty sympathetic to that sentiment.

The problem with expressing that sentiment by not licensing your software is that it doesn't express that sentiment at all, especially on GitHub. GitHub's terms of use require that public repositories contain only open source code, so there's an argument to be made that uploading your code to a public repo on GitHub implies an open source license.

If you really want to make a civilly-disobedient statement rejecting the idea of licenses, I'd do so with something like the Forget Users License[1].

[1] https://www.kerkeslager.com/forget-users-license.txt

EDIT: I'm not a lawyer and would love to make this more lawyer-y. Suggested improvements to the license are welcome.
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Exactly why no engineers will be allowed on the jury.
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Careful, they might sue you.
Actually, no, I can't imagine that moment, and that's why I'm asking for someone to come up with a sensical narrative that takes us from here to there.

Humans dictate what the "loop" is. They define what gets manufactured, and who it gets delivered to. How do they get out of the loop?

I believe the whole idea of humans becoming "useless" or "obsolete" is the biggest piece of nonsense I've come across in the last few years.
Not just lawyers, but entire companies want to be paid for stuff like this. See Microsoft, for instance:

> Microsoft focuses on Oracle's argument that copyright supports "non-literal" elements of software. In other words, Google can be found a copyist—even if there's no actual copying of code. The "structure, sequence, and organization" (or SSO) of software "can, in some instances, be protected by the copyright in the work." Copyright violations can be found in a software case "even when the defendant did not copy the underlying developers' code," Microsoft insists, because the defendant has copied "some other, non-literal element of the software."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/microsoft-foresee...

So it's not just literal "copying" (accidental or not) that must be punished/paid for, but companies or developers should be forced to pay for making "similar" APIs as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXQBHLIPcw
The worst part is that the programmer only "stole" these lines as he was contributing an improvement back to the OpenJDK and wanted his stuff to be compatible. Which adds one more level of absurdity.
I'd use whatever Java's printf equivalent is for the IllegalArgumentException too. Sting concatenation like that is an eyesore.
Yes, go take a look at Dubset and their Mixbank approach - it's advertised as a way for DJs / remix producers / mixtape creators to get their versions approved and out into the wild and both parties (original and derivative version) are compensated according to some deals hammered out. It looks like progress is coming in this arena - SoundCloud probably has a lot of those deals in place now (they're claiming the days of pulling DJ mixes are over, I think) so that avenue might be, well, back.
Not at all. People can opt-in and send their own photos, holding that data would be kosher. Holding photos of those who did not opt in, or those who explicitly opted out, would be where the liability comes in.

If we can penalize people for possessing some kinds of data (pirated software, movies, etc) in the name of defending someone else's copyright, or for not decrypting things, it can also be done in defence of personal privacy.
In the world we live in there is one surefire way to get rid of the TSA: Stop flying.

Sad to say but money is a big motivator, and until the airlines get the message that we don't want to deal with this shit, they aren't going to really push for actual change.
> So for someone who's not paying attention, does anyone have an explanation of how they're allowed to do this?

Many of these mixtapes are in a legal grey area, technically copyright infringement but tolerated by the rights holders because of the promotional value. My feeling is that either archive.org are not aware of this content, or they are but will simply comply with any take down requests they receive.
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Is it really common that you'd have a judge in a case end up with that kind of "subject matter expertise"? I guess I can't completely fault Boies for arguing the case in the manner you see in that exchange, but I was pretty floored that the judge could just see right through it.
This line also stood out to me:

> [Oracle]: even Java programmers don't learn about Java bytecode.

Uh, what? I'd hardly call myself a dedicated Java programmer and I've learned about Java bytecode. I had to, and wanted to. I'd guess most professional Java programmers would consider it a point of pride to do the same!
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I like to think about what how people in some hypothetical future might view us, in broad strokes at least. What will they look at us, aghast, the way we look at rampant lice, or heating a curling iron (that was actually IRON!) over a fire? Along with the fact that most of us take our lives and health into our hands daily in cards, I suspect that the lack of Open Access, the role of money in our science and medicine, will be up there too.
Considering this case is probably not influencing the US dollar inflation rate, nothing is being set on fire -- it's just being moved from Google's + Oracle's pockets to Google's + Oracle's _lawyers'_ pockets :)
You might be interested in the article by Larry Trask linked to here: http://languagehat.com/trask-on-mama-and-papa/
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I’ve only seen German and French HSR, but the one in the US can’t be that bad.

Worst case, you just let some Germans build it for you.
The current state of the lawsuit isn't over the novelty of function, it's about the copyright of it. Also, very important to their argument is that this wasn't some random developer at Google who added it into Android, it was the guy who had added that function to OpenJDK.

While I also disagree with the lawsuit, if you are coming at it from the mindset that code you have a copyright to was used elsewhere, Oracle has a compelling case. Certainly not a $9 billion case, and not one that takes up 6 years of time to decide, but that's not for me to decide.
How do we get rid of it, though? I get that it's terrible, and I've heard all these arguments countless times. How do you actually take action, though?
For those more familiar in this scape - would something like this be possible for NLP? Specifically sentence classification (ie, to produce an intent with metadata)?
Although this case relates to copyright, I feel it worthwhile to note that in patent-lawyer-land, what you say does not work so much.

I had the pleasure to spend some time working with some very (very!) smart patent lawyers on a couple of cases.

Apart from feeling like I was in an episode of Boston Legal merged with The Good Wife, I was able to gain some understanding of the rules of the game. In that game things like "but it's patently obvious" gets you zero points. Any argument you advance that's based on obviousness will lead to eye rolling and deep sighs. Such arguments are extremely hard to win, it turns out. In our legal system, proving invalidity is difficult.

By contrast, things like : a comma in the wrong place in claim drafting; case moved to a different jurisdiction; tricks with filing dates; prior art (the thing I was helping with) and other noninfringement theories are greeted with enthusiasm.
Maybe this is why fashion is so absurd and over the top in sci-fi! Crazy fashion hides your face and body characteristics from being identified.
That doesn't even matter. I have both an iPhone and Mac and the Music experience is awful. Match is a danger to your music library and Apple Music is slow, unreliable, buggy, and the UX is a confusing mess.

The fact that both the Spotify and Google Play iOS apps perform better and are easier to understand from a UX perspective is embarrassing for Apple.
So really, this is like a current flow, with dollar bills. lol
Microsoft originally bought Nokia's phone business for $7.9 billion. The Foxconn subsidiary will move the business to Android and license the Nokia name. Microsoft refused to pay royalties for the name and never used it.
Or have someone post a Watts tape... Houston has had it's own self-sustaining rap system that never really crossed over into the mainstream. DJ Screw, Watts, Swishahouse, Chopped-and-Screwed tapes... All crazy influential on the rap scene, but most people have never heard of this shit.

Does anyone have this tape?

http://www.djayres.com/houstonfordummies.htm

Aryes (DJ from the RUB DJ's in NYC) put out this "cliff notes" of Houston Rap. Got me into the scene.

edit: http://www.datpiff.com/DJ-Ayers-Houston-for-dummies-mixtape....
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A Microsoft Access 97 database (written in 1997) is still the "system of record" for all instrument wiring diagrams within the biotech plant. I was recently asked to review it (19 years after I wrote it) and to develop a step-by-step for how to add reports to it. To put this in perspective, this biotech is the largest in the SF Bay Area, and the plant represents roughly 1/2 of the world manufacturing capacity of this type. And its single source of truth for how things are put together is a Microsoft Access 97 database.
He's making the most of his 15 minutes. Viz: https://twitter.com/settern/status/728344954171437059
70% is pretty bad.
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> "You Suck And Everything About You Is Wrong And We're Going To Mention It At Every Opportunity"

This is one of the core hooks of many forms of advertising. The ads don't come out and say that, of course. But a lot of commercially supported (directly or indirectly) media content will say it (bluntly and/or obliquely). If you aren't paying for the media content, then chances are you are the product and are being sold to.

The food, pharma and medical industries in the US (and in many parts of the world) are commingled to the point that for long-term health management, I "trust but verify" all the information I obtain from them. There's some weird cousin of regulatory capture going on between the food-pharma-medical tripod, and an overwhelming desire to model biological systems as one-size-fits-all when for those who can afford the frequent out-of-pocket testing and N=1 experimentation, some of those models break down badly. Metabolic syndrome is a big area where the standard model from the official channels is completely at odds with what a significant fraction of the patient population experiences, and there is only now grudging acknowledgement that some patients might not fit the standard model.

I hope the Theranos debacle doesn't set back the general trend towards individualized, frequent, high-fidelity biomarkers monitoring. I want a microscopic implant solution that samples hundreds of biomarkers every 5 minutes from dozens of monitoring sites in my body, so I can build my own individualized, evolving (using machine learning) predictive model of my body over time based upon historical data.
> Yes, Strong corporations and public rights, are necessary to ensure, that government does not becomes too powerful. And there is at least some balance of power.

Are you suggesting here that corporations are a meaningful brake on state power?

Given that corporations are a legal fiction only made possible by the state institutions of law, currency, markets, international treaties, trade, and war, I don't see how this assertion can be supported; the origin, future, incentives, and fortunes of states and corporations have always been inextricably linked.

'Anarcho-capitalist' and libertarians solutions for non-state corporations have always appeared to me to be shallow hand-waving (speaking as a former anarcho-capitalist and hand-waver myself).
It seems unlikely that the author, who is on the faculty of Eindhoven University of Technology, would be unaware of how the funding of a major project in his field works.

Why do you think that is the case?
That was so fun and a great prank whether true or not. Like you, I've seen enough oddities to think it's possible. I'm going to challenge two hardware guys I know... one an expert on esoteric stuff. to come up with a way to make that happen. Maybe I'll do it to a RaspPI at a maker space near MIT to screw with them. ;)
I made the same switch and this is coming from someone who uses an iPhone and Mac. Agreed on Spotify -- the helper app is always freaking out and using 100% CPU.

I wish there was an official Play app on the desktop, but the third party ones work pretty well (I really only need the keyboard shortcuts). The Play iOS app is fantastic and quick.
I have no idea how he came up with his rant either. The article says little to nothing along the lines of what he claims.

Only at the end of the article, someone else other than the author is quoted as saying that negative health outcomes can't be blamed on just your gut biome, but poor lifestyle choices as well.

Somehow this guy took this one statement, which is wholly correct and only points out the obvious, and turned it around to interpret the entire article as fat-shaming, and somehow misses the article's main purpose which is the lack of diversity in current data comparisons in this area of research.
Proselytizing need not be linked to religion, you are promoting a thought system (one that I agree with, for what its worth).

Forgive me if I came off as dismissive, that was not the intention. I only meant to suggest that there may be a better way to accomplish your goal, one which is more subtle and gentle.
Yeah, you could say I used the comment as a soap box to rant about something that I experience all the time :) In some cases chargebacks work great and should be used. I've honestly never had to use one, since merely mentioning it to any merchant or service has been enough to get my problem resolved promptly. Sorry for the derailment :)
> Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority

That implies great men have influence and/or authority to exercise. You may read it as 'great men of history', but if to you that set of people includes those who accomplished a lot without authority of influence (at the time, otherwise it would not be possible to be exercised), then the set of what you and Lord Acton consider 'great men of history' likely have different conditions for inclusion. A simple example of this is probably Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose genius was largely unrecognized until very late in his life, and his notebooks were later studied for his many results. A man of great influence after his death.

That's not to say your interpretation isn't useful, or possibly even correct, just that I think this isn't a piece of supporting evidence for it.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
Probably, but we don't spend enough time thinking about what kind of person it is who seeks that power in the first place. Maybe there was nothing to corrupt in the first place.
It's easy to say that TSA sucks (it does), but it's hard to propose a workable alternative. Well alternative 1, stop making us take off our shoes and taking out our laptops, its clear from pre-check that it's not really necessary.

You need some security. That was clear before 9-11. Airports had security and it was pretty similar to how TSA does it right now. You put your bags on an Xray machine, show your ID, and walk through a metal detector.

I'd suggest keeping the government in charge of what procedures to use, but then using private contracts to actually manage the airport security.

The real problem with TSA isn't that it is intrusive. It's that is terrible mismanaged and has no incentive to improve the experience.

Although apparently airports can opt out of the TSA.
Eliminating the remaining samples is an irreversible decision. It's impossible to predict what value those samples might have if kept, because we don't yet know what use they would be put to.

There's not too much danger in it getting loose again, after all we eliminated it once already.
> Strong corporations and public rights, are necessary to ensure, that government does not becomes too powerful

Corporations are an exercise of government power; their strength isn't a safeguard against government power, it is government power.

So the real message here seems to be that exercises of government power that disproportionately favor a certain narrow elite are seen as necessary to prevent government exercising power in ways that benefit other groups.
There's nothing even slightly strange about it. The terms are self-recapitulating because parents mistake children's babbling for first words. If anything, it'd be strange if they weren't the same. Take a read of this: http://languagehat.com/trask-on-mama-and-papa/
Oracle has long looked like idiots to people with technical knowledge.

Their entire business has been selling software to C level executives who will never come into contact with the product, let alone use it.

This isn't about merit, or technology. This is about a company's legal team doing whatever they can to utilize acquired patents to create a revenue stream.

Companies the size of Oracle simply aren't structured for innovation, and have a culture which actively undermines it. They're getting their ass handed to them by Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud for this very reason. When a company starts making money off of professional services to help customers implement and utilize their software, they simply aren't going to be incentivized to make that software good. Shitty software and vendor lock-in combine to produce guaranteed revenue streams, which sustain the company just enough for them to be comfortable while they cruise towards irrelevance.
Considering the variety of French accents - Paris, regional France, Africa, Caribbean, Canadian, South East Asian, and guys like me in Texas and more - I'm rather skeptical this unit will work as seamlessly as the marketing video advertises. Just a thought. C'est mignonne, vraiment.
That quantum computers can't break symmetric cyphers efficiently is well-known, I just don't see why this makes quantum cryptography obsolete, as it is mostly about secure key exchange. Also, why are quantum algorithms less secure? There are some possible exploits (e.g. due to problems in the detector), but theoretically the encryption is unbreakable with our current understanding of Physics.
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Some things in this world just DON'T need to be "connected". This is one of them.
We need to upgrade to *PRO if we want to redirect to a thank you page after submitting the form.
Hopefully they might soon build in LetsEncrypt support, or something similar.
> Having different CCs is harder than just multiple emails.

Don't many banks issue virtual debit cards at negligible or even at no cost?
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Does anyone else think the title/url is misleading ?

Looking at 'Open AI', I expected a generic AI related open source project.

This project seems to be specifically related to "developing and comparing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms" .... which looks like a more specific subset.
Previously on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11582345
The article misses the forest for the trees. This lawsuit isn't about rangeCheck, it's about the structure/sequence/organization of the Java APIs. Whether you think SSO should be copyrightable or not, you can't argue it's trivial. Copying the SSO allowed Google to greatly reduce the barrier to entry for Android by leveraging the enormous Java ecosystem.[1]

The relevance of rangeCheck isn't that it's some crucial functionality that Google couldn't have written themselves. The relevance of rangeCheck--and Google's admission that it literally copied the code instead of developing it "organically"--is proving that Google was looking at JDK code while developing the Android JVM.

Oracle would never sue on rangeCheck by itself because the damages would be trivial. They're hammering on the literal copying of rangeCheck because of what it says about Google's state of mind.

[1] The fundamental legal question is actually pretty interesting and has implications beyond this case. Remember Microsoft's policy of "embrace, extend, extinguish" in the 1990s? If SSO is protectable, then "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics may cross the line from simply distasteful to actionable unfair competition.
Finally, charging $20 for SSL was just highway robbery. Pure and unadulterated money grab.
Google Play has these features (upload and stream your entire library on any device) and it works great.