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The question of whom EFF's legal work is against is a little bit complicated because EFF undertakes direct representation as well as writing amicus briefs (and also sometimes counsels people in situations that don't lead to a court case).

If we look at

https://www.eff.org/cases

there seem to be 296 matters mentioned (which isn't exactly all of EFF's casework for various reasons; for example, some cases may predate the existence of that page, some matters mentioned there may encompass multiple court cases, and some cases may be under seal).

It would take a while to classify all of them, and it's not a good idea to just take a sample of the first n cases in alphabetical order (for example, because criminal cases are captioned U.S. v. Somebody).

I did a random sort of the cases there and went through the first 50 of them, and I classified them as 18 government, 30 private, and 2 other (not clearly referring to an individual court case). It's also interesting to note that in two of the cases in my sample, EFF was defending (or not opposing) the government's position.

To summarize, I think EFF's legal work more often involves private parties than the government, at least by number of court cases (not necessarily by number of attorney hours or pages of briefing!). The same might not be true of ACLU's work.
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The problem is that the reputation system is hard to do right. Players will game it or unfairly "down-vote" people to troll them.
Does that count as an SDK? - simple code generation out of a spec? - Most SDKs exist because the provider is hiding some ugly code or making a number of primitive API calls to assemble the response. Aren't we falling back into the old "software" practices and now have to maintain code for anyone that users our service? - wasn't it supposed to be a service?
Python 3 lacks explicit Unicode strings using the u'' notation

This at least is factually wrong; Python 3.3 made the 'u' prefix legal syntax again. On Python 3 it's effectively a no-op, since an un-prefixed string literal would be a Unicode string anyway on Python 3.
If all it takes is google street view to penetrate your security infrastructure then its not the fault of a bunch of images.

Google Street View would provide tremendous value to the average person in India - just like it has in so many other countries - the govt again rather be lazy then invest. Shame.
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Really? I thought there were only two versions in the US: Sprint and Everything Else
I've also had no trouble when saying I'm attending an academic conference. However I have on occasion been asked follow-up questions about it, including once whether I was being paid to speak. I truthfully answered "no", but I imagine things could've gone less smoothly if I'd have answered "yes".
grumble: they mention git hooks (and if you click on the description they are RCS agnostic) but they use the octocat logo.

Just yesterday I mentioned that I was using git and my gf assumed I meant github. She (not a developer) thought that git was a product sold by github.
Jin Yiang isn't Chinese-American. He's Chinese. Chinese people who were born in China have accents when speaking English. It would be ridiculous if he was Chinese and didn't have an accent. I haven't noticed Dinesh as having any accent, but if he does have one, it's the actor's actual accent. He's from Pakistan, so maybe he has a trace. Which is completely realistic and completely fair.
There are bots on both sides, but there is no proof that either Trump or Hillary's teams have bought likes. As anyone can buy likes for a retweet. For instance fans of Hillary (or Trump), or the opposite, enemies, such as followers of Trump or Trump campaign could buy likes/reweets for Hillary in hopes that someone would create a conspiracy that she's buying likes. Or vice versa, Hillary's team or followers could buy likes/followers for Trump to create a conspiracy for him.

So the fact is bots rewtweet tweets, but there according to this article at least 0 facts that anyone on Hillary's official team bought likes for the retweet.
The reason you've heard little news about unrest in Malaysia is because it's literally illegal to publish. Its media censorship is near the top, if not at the top, of the world's list of worst countries in terms of media censorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Malaysia
The courts have said that in this case the company's wrongdoing is literally larger than the value of their existence ($150mm vs $100mm IIRC?), so the company should justly be destroyed.

I see a problem with a potential result where justice would not have been served simply because one party run out of funds to pay the lawyers. That is a problem with a legal system.

The problem is that Thiel's intervention is just a one-off "workaround" that fixed one case but doesn't help other similar cases.

"people with a lot of money have a big advantage in that regard" and as far as I understand, it's the exact reason why Gawker had gotten away with similar offenses multiple times already. A solution that aims to improve justice needs to ensure that a low-funded claimant can reasonably win against a multi-million company like Gawker - forbidding maintenance isn't a fix for that; it still leaves open the much, much more popular scenario where injustice is served simply because you can't afford to someone who is rich enough on their own.

This is a case that had an even playing field - before that it was a case of the rich (namely, Gawker) buying immunity through the courts.
No, not completely unaware. I'm glad I've reminded you of something you find entertaining. I hope you discourage more people from learning something awesome.
That's what is surprising to me, the chips are new in the US so the terminals that support them are also all brand new. I'd say it's a good 7 seconds on average, but sometimes even longer. Apple Pay is 1 second or less most of the time (though sometimes you have to sign so that slows things down).
Children naturally absorb an understanding of what things are important in life, and yours will undoubtedly feel that achievement is near the top. From that point, you just want to help them succeed at the things that are important to them. Most of the "push" will come from themselves, but once in a while you will need to encourage them when they're down, give them a reality check when they're complacent, or rev them up when they need to put in a special effort.
For me it has a countdown timer, makes you wait for five seconds.

Of course, uBlockOrigin's "block element" makes short work of this.
> the media company would still be forced to pay the legal fees associated with defending themselves

That's obviously a big problem. I have never understood why America insists on a dogmatic principle that inherently and unavoidably gives a vast advantage to well-off parties over poor parties. You can get away with a lot of vexatious litigation before the courts (a) notice it and (b) actually act upon it.
I'm Indian and know very well that open defecation is still common in the major cities. Stop putting a spin on it and admit it that we have a problem.
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The fact that in private Hulk Hogan is a racist piece of garbage, as is VERY clear if you see a transcript of the tape, seems to me like something which is news, and something that should be reported. During his wrestling career he was marketed as the good guy, a hero, and true American. Publishing the sex tape was going too far, but publishing what was on the tape, that's legitimate journalism.
Depends how low.

In the very high skill bracket (3.8k+), I've found players on US East and US West are extremely toxic, and the playstyle is relatively boring. So these days, I queue on EU West or EU East.
>Thiel destroyed a news company out of spite

... Did he? Cause it seems like the court did that. Everyone's talking as if judges are some passive entity that have no option but to allow money to dictate outcomes.
The stored data format isn't compatible between major versions.

Because of that, upgrades are either stressfull and cumbersome (ie. slony + switchover to a promoted and upgraded slave), or imply a large downtime (ie. pg_upgrade).

Also, because of that (WAL format), you can't use native replication between different major versions of PostgreSQL.
They're talking about The Truth About Cars, which is actually a very good autoblog (and much better in his forced absence - 2011), but Ed definitely has an anti-tesla agenda and so does much of the site.

The site's authorship and commentariat are dominated by car dealers and financing people.

(source: TTAC reader for 6 years or so now)
And Debian stable, see JWZs ranting on that regarding xscreensaver...
Pretty sure folks attempting trans-atlantic or pacific voyages in the Age of Sail weren't always promised land, or food or water. Many died, even more lived in horrible circumstances. Shackleton's Expedition comes to mind as one of the more awful experiences in human exploration.

Yet we persist in exploring, not because these things are easy, but because they are hard. Humans living on another planet? That's probably worth more lives than were lost colonizing North America.
On your final point: Totally reasonable question. It's one of the first ones we asked ourselves (no one wants to work on a random-number-generator-as-a-service). We've seen simple reinforcement schedules increase average engagement by 3-8%. Our optimized schedules get about 10x that and up to a 60% increase.
A little back-of-the-envelope math:

Wal-Mart: $482B in revenue (2016, projected), if they're paying ~3% on average for interchange/credit card fees, that's $14.5B they could have saved last year.

Target: $74B, $2.2B they could saved.

CVS: $153B revenue (2016, projected), $4.6B in savings.

That's a pretty easy sell. Those are tremendous amounts of money they're "spending" that they'd love to ditch. Granted they get a lot for that (credit card companies take on a lot of risk), but if they could shave those numbers down, that's a lot of pure profit they could get.
I see and understand where the author is coming from.

I just don't fully agree. I see a powerful person doing what nobody else was willing to do - hold a powerful and abusive media organization to account for their actions. It's far from ideal. However, no ideal answer was on offer. In an ideal world, this whole thing wouldn't have happened.

To me, it is a stepwise improvement over the previous state of affairs. This reminds powerful people and organizations of something important - they are not the only ones with power.
Never mind that the chairman of the RH board is a retired general...
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I think you've raised an excellent point here.

Loans (interest, and also contracts in general) are not required to be presented at a level that /most/ of the population can understand. There is a giant, thick, legal language contract that even if you are a lawyer you probably don't really understand (it hasn't been adjudicated, so you don't know what a judge feels it says).

Disclosure: I do use credit cards, but only as a convenient and insurance providing mechanism for accessing my bank account and recouping some of the fees built in to prices by the predatory banking industry.
> innocent civilians.

Not by the definition we use overseas. Family and business associates of terrorists are legitimate targets.

And most importantly, not innocent by the definition Timothy McVeigh was trained to use in the army. "He said he later was shocked to be ordered to execute surrendering prisoners [...]"

We don't stop to consider if workers in an Iraqi military HQ are conscripts, or have taken their children to work.

We'd have bombed the BATF office, and considered it a righteous kill, if we felt they had hurt us the way McVeigh felt they hurt his people.

> The difference is radicalization.

No, the difference is in their goals. They aren't one-issue simpletons.

Assuming they had the same goals, (which they didn't) the difference is opportunity. Different skills, background, and situations give people different tools.

> Timothy McVeigh straight up wanted to kill people because of his beliefs.

You tell him. That'll keep us safe.

But no, you're wrong. McVeigh could have killed thousands by targeting a sporting event or something. He specifically chose the office of his enemy.

I'm not defending him, I'm saying that the things you're saying are feel-good mantras that would lead us to being totally ineffective if we universally acted on them.

Your virtue signaling is getting in the way of you analyzing people and their motivations.
You need to capitalize "old" as well if you're looking for proper emphasis. Only new patents have decades left to do anything, while "old, disused, and forgotten" patents definitely don't, and may have only a few years left. Many of these creaky old patents you see people being brought to court for are so viciously pursued because the holder is about to lose the patent and needs to eke out as much money as possible right now. But thankfully, they can't do that with the same patent for decades.
I just don't get why Gawker was an American company. If you want to do something sue-worthy, just base your legal self in some uncooperative country e.g. Russia?
if I had only two words for anybody desperate to reduce their monthly data download while browsing: uBlock Origin

I'm loving the big improvement so far. Plus many sites seem to be loading faster now.
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> I don't think Blizzard has ever been a part of that scene

I'd argue that Blizzard was largely responsible for defining modern eSports. Blizzard games helped drive the creation of many of the gaming leagues, ESL/IEM started with Warcraft III and the original Counter-Strike. Starcraft and Starcraft 2 had huge competitive communities in their prime and really drove the growth of eSports.

Starcraft 2 is tapering off today but Hearthstone is huge and Heroes of the Storm, while not nearly as popular as LoL/Dota2 is still built as a competitive game.
Is there another side to the payday lending debate?
Powershell is an interesting environment.

On one hand, it's almost a C#/CLR REPL with amazing power to program and script almost anything you could think of, but on the other it's not a shell and anyone coming from *nix that tries to think like a shell will be sorely disappointed in how verbose and unintuitive it behaves.
Then you and I have a different view about what all major cities are! There's no shying away from the problem if there's one and as i said, it's common in the country side.
You don't necessarily have to be actively kind to people.

You do, however, have to not be actively hostile.
They should have given rewards for cat tails.
Hi, Brock here from surge.

We are having growing pains no question. We have learned lots about our system recently due to some of these incidences. Changes are underway to make the system more fault tolerant and resilient to attacks.

Give us time to make things better and please keep us on your radar.
stay on target - that's not the web you want, that's a bugfix in one of the dozens of browsers that try to present you with the data you're telling it to pull down from the web.
I'm ok with not having a government left. It's a murderous government. "Drone bombs on hospitals" murderous.

You can't vote warmongers out of office. There are no such candidates.
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I feel like if you told them you don't have an account or have a level 1 account, they would be far less likely to hire you.
Massive Structure Found 'Hiding in Plain Sight' at Ancient Site of Petra
And as we all know, those don't count because gang members' lives aren't worth anything. It's only a real mass shooting if it was nice white children who died.
Unfortunate choice of green (="Freedom"?) as the color for dots that simply mean "someone just responded."
Not even a good shill. On the amplemarket front page "John from Monitorbook" says he has a team of 15 sales reps. On the marketing post he says he has a team of 6.
At least in Germany they got the reason right.
this is just market segmentation, which is almost always sensible from the company's standpoint, and shady from an intuitive pov because our intuition works in terms of repaying the company's cost to provide us with value, whereas segmentation works by extracting the maximum amount of money from the overall market.
Please keep snark and personal swipes off HN.
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Or MINIX. You could rewrite MINIX's microkernel servers one by one. You have a working kernel and userspace on day one and the end result is a robust microkernel design written in a safe language.
It's not as common as some people think but I have seen it occur in Victoria Park in Bangalore.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11866868
True story circa late 1990s:

As a high school student in a religious affiliated private college prep environment, the Senior/Junior class members could be a part of a nearly "free study" computer course, contingent on acting as the school's basic IT resource. I was among a team of about 6 total, and we were very close knit. There was a 'brother' who ran the computer lab, about 30 networked PCs, and along a back wall, we had our array of about 7 machines on a separate network.

So what did we do with our unchecked, unmonitored machines?

Installed Duke Nukem 3D, natch!

When the Brother eventually noticed we were playing against each other instead of, you know, doing work related stuff, he came over and the discussion went as follows:

"Hey I don't think you guys are supposed to be playing games."

"It's okay Brother J, we wrote this one."

"Oh! Wow, that's pretty good. Okay then."

Not sure who it was who threw that Hail Mary but it landed and we couldn't believe it.

...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is but a sliver of my life that would eventually be dominated by Half-Life until finally putting down the mouse for a guitar pick once and for all.
Why just six choices? Why these? Why not "Beautiful"? or "Ad-free"? You know, what I'd really like is a web full of intelligent and polite discussion. Where's that option? What does Mozilla mean by "Web" here? What exactly is on offer?
Maybe there's an opportunity for some hipsters to offer boutique fueling services with a carefully curated selection of artisanal homebrew gasolines. The customer would use an app ("Pumpr") to summon a dude dressed as a lumberjack on a Workcycle to deliver the fuel to the car, for which the customer would be charged $12 a gallon.
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"Cet animal est très méchant..."
If you do that be aware that e.g. US citizens only get maximum of 90 days instead of six months. Sometimes bites passengers transiting through Ireland.
During my time working for Yahoo Europe, I refused to patent the ideas I presented in Yahoo's internal hack days. It was retro-actively declared as the way to encourage us to participate in internal HackDays. So I also stopped participating. Today, I'm satisfied I made the right call.
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Please don't be rude.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11875100 and marked it off-topic.
Because certifications is cover your behind thing for management in case something blows up.

It allows their lawyers to go "we are compliant with X, Y and Z so the fault is not with our product/service".
This is a video game, not real life.

One that though I don't play it, I take it that it simulates hostility (violence, fighting, etc). If I'm mistaken there, I welcome correction.

So the hostility doesn't have any of the harm that we associate with real-world hostility, but occurs within a video game that is modeled on hostility... and I'm not supposed to be hostile?

What, do avatars just wander around basket-weaving and finger-painting in League of Legends? It's bizarre. God, I worry that I need to rush off and delete my Facebook account, lest my own employers get any strange ideas.
There is such a system in place actually [0]. It is believed that the playerbase is separated into pools [1] somewhat based of this number. How it is calculated is anyone's guess.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/46y4v8/dota_2_behavi...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/351mdk/discussion_do...
The problem what that page is that it doesn't include answers that are antithetical to Mozilla's values. Add "I want a safe space on the internet" as a response, and I imagine you'll get far more people clicking that than anyone who wants freedom, privacy, learning, etc.
> Immigration officers are trained to pick up on people violating the law and she certainly was.

I question your statement that she "certainly" was violating the law. She and the conference organizers had researched the situation beforehand and attempted to obtain the correct visa. The publicly available information about the visa programs did not specify that the nationality of the company sponsoring the conference made a difference. You state "the reason that she had for entering the UK did require a visa that she had to obtain before traveling" but according to her research after the fact the truth is that the reason that she had for entering the UK was not supported by any sort of visa.
That hasn't been true for a while. IIRC The Sprint model of the 6S is a better world phone because it has more bands (including Chinese bands); the current ATT model swaps some of those for the ATT 700mhz bands.
How would you cap it? Could someone just spend ridiculous amounts of money to win a simple lawsuit and bankrupt the other party like that?
This is the exact reason why I switched from CVS to Walgreens. The chip readers CVS uses are cumbersome and slow, taking 30-45s to complete the transaction. Walgreens, on the other hand, takes less than 10s when I use Apple Pay.
Thanks for the article hkissinger! I'm going through some of the same growing pains on cold e-mailing. For amplemarket, did you have any concerns of leads acting on behalf of your company in a negative way?
Eventually we come to a point where I agree with you, almost.

One exception is Redis/Node.js - I don't like them because they indeed work in certain cases, but that set is much less than what authors of Redis/Node.js advertise.

I very fondly, for example, remember antirez being adamant that Redis is awesome as cache, yet it took me 10minutes to prove that single Redis performs worse than single Memcached. And no, I don't consider answer: run more Redis instances valid. You design software to have features that solve problems, not replace old with new.

And yes, Erlang uses message passing and has locks and immutable memory.

I prefer the Go approach of mutating through channels/queues. Both Go and GCD in C/ObjC are good examples of this approach.