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Is it long past time for congress to act to clarify privacy rights that are being abused by the third party doctrine argument?

It seems silly that this legal theory is so broad and convenient a tool that there is virtually no limitation on its powers to access information.
I thought nobody will ever open the license file :))
In both cases, "who will benefit if the law goes away" would be people who wanted to do business with Google and Netflix, but can't because those companies were told they "cannot conduct business". If Google and Netflix also benefit from that, it's because they offered something people wanted to pay for.

The scenario you envision is "law blocks doing business in the country, so the business changes their practices". The more common scenario, for the majority of countries in the world, is "law blocks doing business in the country, so the people in that country don't get the service until enough people complain and the law goes away, or people find a way around the block if they want the service enough".

How about this one: "Whatsapp cannot conduct business in Brazil unless they make their customers' data available to the government on demand". ("End-to-end encrypted? That doesn't sound like 'yes sir how would you like that delivered sir' to me.")
Minimum parking mandates are the law most forceful in mandating suburbs. National finance regulations contribute. Concentration on freeway funding is part of it. Setback requirements and floor area ratios require suburbia also. Single use zoning adds up, too.
This video is a colossal waste of money by UNICEF.

Reasons?

1. Most people in India who defecate in the open don't understand English. A lot of them probably don't have a television, or a permanent home for that matter. Homelessness in India is a real problem that receives zero attention from, well, everybody. Tens of thousands of people have migrated from the rural areas to cities in search of homes, and end up living in shacks with no running water or proper plumbing.

2. The open defecation is a direct holdover from cultural aspects several hundred years old (defecate far away from your home, who wants that shit in here?) that have an uneasy coexistence with modern western-style toilets that are located inside one's home. This subject has to be broached with careful scientific explanations and benefit analyses, not a ham-fisted cartoon that treats people like idiots saying "Hey there is poo everywhere! Take it to the loo!"
Sad but true :(

But not, at least, on no-fly lists.
Indeed. Here is a list I made a while back of things they do for their cut.

* Maintains a user database including authentication, plus all the support costs (password support is very high)

* Payment handling (no one does it for free) including keeping up with tax authorities and legal systems in much of the world

* Almost unlimited (re)downloads for users to a reasonable number of devices. Bandwidth is cheap but not free.

* Backup and restore for application data. (That functionality is available to apps without extra fees.)

* A curated walled garden including a review process. Apple keeping the dregs out and avoiding the place turning into a cesspool means users can be more confident about the apps and that halo effect helps all apps in the store.

* Mechanisms to extend your app such as IAP, and an advertising solution etc

* Access to a large user base, with reasonably fair rules that everyone has play by

* They make all the above work together

It is certainly worth more than zero percent!
> Unfortunately there are a lot of people who wouldn't drive to a seedy neighborhood and risk arrest to secure drugs, but who would take drugs if buying them were cheap and safe.

The evidence is, based on heroin use among white people, that nobody needs to drive to a "seedy" <cough>black</cough> neighborhood to get heroin.

And never mind driving! These people are using a needle drug which entails risk of hepatitis C, AIDS, etc. Is a lw goinf to deter them?

Yes the Drug War was created with malice. Just not "groundless." The grounds were to continue Jim Crow by other means. The Drug Warrors are an expensive evil.
You could always stop using the phone company. Maybe setup two tin cans and a string.
Lots of people use iPhones with Windows computers. What actual benefit does this completely arbitrary restriction give to anyone other than Apple?
The same type of benefit that Apple gets from making iTunes available on Windows: a broader userbase.

A broader base of developers can mean more and higher-quality apps. A better selection of apps can lead to greater sales of iPhones and iPads.

(It also might not. But there is certainly a potential benefit for Apple here.)
Never. Overall quality is way too low and even the high quality news isn't worth paying for. I'll just read the free shit instead.
Each has its bad models to stay away from. I find no problem with Ford. My 2000 v6 mustang is still fine at 200k miles. I have a relative that has 1989 Ford Ranger that has 450K miles on it. Same engine, never rebuilt. Though he did have to replace the transmission in 1996 and again just last year.

I think the thing that lead to Asian cars getting a good name was their switch to using all synthetic fluids in the late 1990's. You could buy a Nissan or Toyota and drive it for 8 year straight with no other maintenance other than oil changes and be just fine.

Do the same thing with an American car of that era and you will go through several stages. If you did nothing but change the oil, at the 5 year mark the car would be mostly destroyed. The conventional anti-freeze would have completely broken down at the 3 year mark and now your entire cooling system would be solid rust.

Your brakes will also be on the way out, as the normal DOT3 brake fluid absorbs water and after 5 years it will have become corrosive and it will be eating holes in your brake lines and brake pistons. The non synthetic power steering fluid will also be at the end of life and it will be destroying the seals in your steering rack.

And if its an automatic transmission, there is about 2 gallons of non synthetic transmission fluid in it that went bad 2 years ago and now the accelerated seal and metal wear is going to start clogging up the tiny fluid circuits so now one day your car will stay stuck in neutral... Oh and the engine will be running very rough more than likely too by now as the non-platinum sparks plugs are definitely wore out beyond use.

But if you change those fluids every 3 years or so, you are good for a few decades :)
One of the things I wonder, as we stare at pulling a release at my work, is can elements of the Toyota Way be brought over to software?

We practice SCRUM, which supposedly learned from the Toyota Product System, but our quality assurance has a long way to go.
So, developers who use other systems and want to publish iOS apps are "hostile" to Apple's platform? That makes no sense.

A polished iOS app with lots of users is worth much more for the whole Apple ecosystem than a few developers using OSX computers.
Thank you for bringing this up since it's been massively painful for years. As an example, when I first started developing for iOS back in 2009, I had to buy a $500 used macbook before I could even get started coding. That hardware was obsolete within about 3 years (couldn't update to the latest OSX or XCode), so then I had to pony up another $800 for a refurbished mac mini just to still be able to develop. Meanwhile, Android Studio runs on... actually I don't know what it doesn't run on.

And yes, I know that leasing time on a mac for dev work is an option, but that gets rather pricey over time ($1 per hour or $20/month is not cheap if you need to work on and maintain apps for multiple years). And an RDC experience will never be as good as having the actual computer in front of you, even on a fast connection.
To which trolls will never vote yes on, and since you need a supermajority it doesn't happen as early as it should a lot of the time.
> there's a certain smugness (and sense of power?)

Yes! I have had this idea floating in my head for a while now. At some point opening a can of soda I experienced this wave of humility. Sitting there mindlessly drinking sugar water for the zillionth time and finally realizing the achievement of engineering necessary for that mundane experience. The aluminum is recycled. It's a continuous cycle that obviates the need to clean glassware. Later I learned about the design of the pull tab mechanism. It's pretty sophisticated. It's specifically designed to have two operating states. You usually experience them when opening a can of soda if you're paying attention. It replaced the removable tab that caused littering and slightly sub-optimal recycling efficiency. It's a very subtle design change that likely required massive overhauls in manufacturing equipment.
Those are the current versions of each. The comparison is between the kernel versions, not the distro version numbers.
I have one. its about $1 mile in maintenance!
Edison spent much of his career in the courtroom - suing people who violated his patents, being sued by others for violating their patents, and being an expert witness in patent lawsuits.

He also spent much of his career inventing workarounds for other peoples' patents.
Scary, I did not know this

I'm sure Intel has a real good reason for it being there but I would feel much more comfortable with it either not being there or being able to disable it in hardware.
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So which used models are the cheapest to maintain in your experience? What about total ownership cost?
They didn't threaten the Congressman, they straight up leaked it. So, not quite extortion. But definitely feels crime-y.
I've never heard of leasing but $20 month is a steal. At $20/month, it would take 7.5 years to pay off a $1800 laptop. If you are leasing in that time you would have upgraded a few times.
I have to wonder if this takes into account self maintenance. It is my experience that labor makes up a significant portion of vehicle maintenance costs. That, coupled with the high availability of used parts for popular domestic models, seems like it would bring down costs for those vehicles significantly.
I interpreted it as additional cash for the same fund.
yep, as a consultant who has done work in the automotive industry you need to show up in one of their vehicles
"still at version 7" strongly implies a comparison of the distro version numbers.
Here's a video on soda can design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw
It seems fairly common for judges to end up having to reduce the amount that juries award. If you look at responses to news articles about fines against companies, many people immediately compare them against the company's revenues or net worth as a measure of how fair the amounts were. I presume that's how juries see these things as well.
> 2) For a long time, there was no frame-breaking script on m.facebook.com. You could clickjack essentially anything on Facebook this way. Years ago I did a proof-of-concept on this where I clickjacked a platform app authorization, which let me receive the name, email, and other profile info of any user that did nothing more than click the X button on an annoying overlay I put on the screen.

Do you still have a copy of this? I'd like to see it
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They may charge for that service, if they wish.

But they can’t get a cut of in-app payments, especially for Kindle stuff.

Also, what if I say for every user who buys an autogram card they get premium of the app for free?

Is that enough to get around them getting a cut?

This is a big legal issue.
I've literally been the sole, or almost sole, "inventor" of several patents.[1] But because I had left the company (to go to law school) by the time the lawyer got around to writing them up, they just threw some other names on the application.

It irked me mostly because, sadly, many people still think that an issued patent actually reflects something substantive about the "inventor". So now I don't get to say that I'm the author of several patents on my resume, whereas the next guy might.

I took a patent law course and _hated_ it. My professor was once an interim director of the USPTO, and was rabidly pro-patent. That was annoying. There were also several patent examiners in my class, including two who examined software patents. One of those examiners agreed with me that software patents are generally bogus[2], but his job was to follow the law, and specifically the law as interpreted by the USPTO.

[1] I use scare quotes around inventor because like many software engineers most things seem obvious to me. Necessity is the mother of invention, not genius. And necessity will find you if you're in a competitive market, so you rarely need the prospect of a government monopoly to incentive you to "invent". Losing market share is usually all the incentive you need. (And there's nearly USD $100 trillion dollars in liquid or readily liquid assets in the world today. And while only a small fraction of that amount is likely to seek risky investments, it's still more than any entrepreneur would have imagined in their wildest dreams a few short decades ago. So guaranteeing returns on risky capital investments is a poor justification for government-enforced monopolies.) But FWIW in the relevant cases I both independently formulated the original ideas and wrote the implementations.

[2] Bogus for various reasons. But the whole "software patents are patents on math" argument widely shared in the FOSS community is pretty non-sensical in the patent realm. Patents are intrinsically about drawing difficult and arbitrary lines between the abstract and functional, and there are many dimensions where such lines are drawn. So expect examiners and lawyers to pretty much roll their eyes if you try to bring that up. The arguments against software patents that find the most purchase in the legal community are difficult to decipher without reference to concepts internal to the patent realm. The patent regime, like Catholicism, is based on a logic all its own. Internally consistent and analytically rigorous, yes, but ultimately divorced from reality.
I came to mention PubStorm which I started using recently and have been pleased so far. I got the impression that some reasonable service would remain free?

Hoe does Surge compare?
I agree. But good luck on that. There's too much money in illegal drugs for that to ever happen.
This sounds quite interesting. In chess, most grandmaster-level games are resolved by a resignation or draw agreement; rarely does it reach checkmate, stalemate, threefold repetition, or a 50-move-rule draw. I'd expect a similar solution for any other game that has a long "slowly and surely crush your opponent" ending period.

You say players aren't allowed to leave? No one can prevent someone from quitting the application or shutting down their computer. But I'm guessing that the service won't let you join a different game until the current one finishes...

Is there a way for a team to resign? Surely if a team unanimously thinks they've lost, they can surrender immediately...?
Well, as a for-example, safari's support for indexeddb, service workers, push notifications, and just about everything that makes progressive web apps interesting is pretty lacking.

As another for-example, I was able to hard-crash safari on ios by setting some CSS attributes on the scroll track about eight months ago - like literally a web page with css that altered how wide the scroll bar track was could CTD safari on ios.

As another for-example, KeyboardEvent.key isn't supported in safari.

As another for-example, http://caniuse.com/#compare=chrome+51,safari+9.1,ios_saf+9.3 and scroll down. Battery Status API, Fetch API, Proxy Objects, Shared Web Workers, on and on. The "modern" web as a good platform for interesting progressive apps is passing safari, in particular iOS users, by.

One assumes a motivator here is the app store: apple's walled garden approach is fundamentally incompatible with web apps gaining all these APIs, whereas android's (relative) openness means Google is less uptight about people deploying apps without going through the app store approval process.
Seconded. My satisfaction with the Docker book has had me on the edge of my seat for this book since I first saw the "coming soon" message.
Copyright only covers expression. It doesn't cover the content of a scientific paper. One effort of paraphrasing a paper and we're good to go.
I'm not sure what that “good reason” could possibly be.
Undergrad, 10 years, one class at a time. I swore off night academics afterwards, but... now I'm feeling the itch again to do a math graduate degree. My wife isn't pleased. ;-)
50 years? No.
"Thiel's support of Hogan is perfectly legal as long as there is no agreement to pay him back or split the "winnings" if wins."

Why would that be illegal? (Real question, Lawyers do it all the time don't they so I dont see how it breaks any law)
Seems relatively likely that there's some selection bias going on here.

It could stand to reason that less reliable brands get discontinued. But there's an alternate explanation. If the only population of Saturns you're looking at is 5-10 years old, and the selection of Hondas your're looking at are 0-10 years old, the "average" Saturn requires more maintenance than the average Honda because on average, it's an older car.
It's the expansion of the compressed air that cools it. IANAME (I'm not a mechanical engineer) but thinking through the physics of it, you need a fairly strong airflow since the compression has to be adiabatic (air must be compressed quickly enough so it doesn't heat up), then once it expands, it cools.

Of course all of this still takes energy and I'm not motivated to do the math, but cooling a room by 5 deg C still takes the same amount of energy whether it's powered by wind or electricity.
Yes but: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/09/paypal-co-fou...
I've been watching the building go up from 20th and Tenth, nice job.

Is the portion of the High Line that runs through the building going to be a public space (or a POPS)?
"Find the height of a building with a barometer."

"Lower it on a string"
Not to mention, some of the numbers just don't add up. The most expensive brand is BMW. But their most expensive car is less than their brand average...?
Nothing except the very large margins on the hardware.
It's just not always possible to do that. I know it can be frustrating to not have ready access to academic journals, but you can usually find the article one way or another. Many journals are allowing pre-print publications to reside on open-access archives ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals_by_p... ), some will allow 'limited' distribution of either pre-print or published papers (generally means you have to ask the author for a PDF directly), and, with apologies to John Gilmore, the internet interprets copyright as damage and routes around it.
I can see your point, and is definitely a multi-dimensional problem.

Just for the record and for not getting misunderstood, my opinion and what I support is to break any artificial borders on the Internet, which means that on one hand a corps may choose to store the data wherever they think is better, but also prevent the corps from altering their service based on a persons location.
Am I to understand that "engaging with mathematics" is to mean that the only useful contribution anyone can make is furthering the state of the art? If that's the case then yes I can see why it's so rare.

However if we broaden the scope of contribution we can see people finding applications for theory in industry as useful. It is useful to revisit pedagogy in order to bring more people into mathematics. Even people who take the role of Martin Gardner and bringing mathematics to laypersons is a good contribution -- it gets people excited about the developments of mathematics!

What I have learned has improved my life and made my work better. I think that's useful.

update

I have an inkling as to how vast mathematics is. I realize I'm not going to be publishing any papers and most people who are self-taught will not either. It's not a goal of mine besides.

However I'll still take a stab at the Erdos-Sekeres conjecture of the convex n-gon from time to time. I realize someone else will solve it but what's the worst that can happen? It's fun and enjoyable and sometimes I wish there were more people who found mathematics as enjoyable as I do. And that it was more accessible.
The NSA can know where drugs are and who is using them. That doesn't mean the NSA knows how to stop them. Drug users and dealers and importers have an army and are willing to fund it with whatever level of resources necessary to keep free commerce flowing.

And if the national government took the measures necessary to significantly reduce drug use, their resources would be cut off because voters wouldn't stand for the much heavier and pettier and more expensive police state tactics.

So the best bet for the government is burn vast amounts of money to randomly hurt random people without ever seeking any kind of improvement in the situation. More information doesn't affect that calculation.
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Kudos -- really interesting, thoughtful and useful summary. However (yes, there's always a however), I'm always surprised and baffled why these kinds of lists rarely attribute startup failures to non/mis-management of the development process. I worked for a couple of successful startups and have consulted for the last six years (performance stuff) and am dumbfounded by the amount of time developers waste on "crap" -- trivial bugs, insignificant performance issues, "enterprise" build/QA automation, etc. At one startup, THE key developer went off for six months rewriting the comm stack for a performance problem that didn't exist -- all the while destabilizing and slowing down the product. At my last "real" job, every time I went to the coffee room, I would ask a developer what they were working on and 90% of the time it was "bugs." That's fine if you're working at IBM on DB2 but NOT if your funding dries up in 12 months. IMHO, it is RARE to find a manager/VP who will pull a developer back out of the weeds. I often see an endless series of stand-ups where the status is "fixed a bug" or "recoded an inefficient loop" or "wrote a Java wrapper for the Jenkins garbage collector." It SOUNDS like progress but six months later POCs are crashing and burning because 2/3 of the core features are still missing. Maybe I've had a totally weird career but how come no one talks about this?