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> They are conspiring to replace an existing employee. That says enough. If the organization were "healthy" they would be upfront with the existing manager and allow him/her to gracefully exit.

You seem to start from this very distrustful premise and never look back.

Would you say the same of someone who gives significant notice of their departure (say, a retirement or medical situation) to the relevant supervisors but doesn't inform subordinates until a replacement is on board? What if that person were a fairly high ranking one in the organizational structure, as it sounds this one is?

Confidential replacement is pretty typical when the outgoing leader has no apparent (temporary) replacement and transitioning duties twice would be difficult/disruptive. It's not broken culture to ensure the wheels keep turning despite a pending high-profile departure.

Not to mention, if a manager and two tech leads are involved, it's pretty likely the outgoing manager is at least peripherally aware of the situation. You could very well be right about this employer, but the presumption that the nature of the search is somehow underhanded or deceitful is pretty one-sided.
Regardless of what the density numbers show (which I suspect depends much more on what we choose to define as "the city" than on any reality), anecdotally it's impossible to get around comfortably in SF without a car.

Being able to live without a car is the defining characteristic of a real city as opposed to a sprawled-out suburb, in my mind.
Except while I'm getting that education, I still have bills to pay. I still have a mortgage, and I still have a family to feed.
Well said. Income disparity is a perfect example that doesn't manifest itself in averages. If GDP is increasing, but only 1 in 10 is actually seeing any benefit, I wouldn't say things are fine.
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Imagine how awkward it would be if Google owned the copyright on all the documentation except that byte. I don't blame them at all.
good call, will do!
> spent most of his time down there booty bumping bath salts

source?

Having lived in Cambodia (nowhere near as dangerous as Belize, but probably just as corrupt), being implicated with a crime you didn't commit isn't the most far fetched thing.
I always liked words more than photos, myself.
its 100x easier if you are local.

sublet a place in sf for 3 months, odds are you'll find a gig.

in order for companies to call an out of state fresh grad staying at home, you really need to stand out (great gpa, "hard programming" personal projects)
In most jurisdictions you can't really patent the use of an abstract mathematical formula on a computer with no gain, but that's something the law has only caught up to in the last decade. The patent is most likely invalid in the EU and US but was approved way back when those standards for invalidity didn't exist in their current forms. Of course, a court wouldn't need to be bound by the original decision of the examiner and would determine validity based on current case law and practice.
Is each new neighborhood of NYC really self-sustaining? It seems NYC's ability to grow is based on massive amounts of people being able to easily and cheaply commute to Manhattan daily.
Why would you write it three times?

You write it once, have it expose an API.
Have your Web, IOS and Adroid client use the said API.
Easy pease. Optional: allow your customers to use the API, too.
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This is just one scenario, but you can imagine a system where the person who profits over any IP would pay IP tax, which would then get distributed upstream to previous registered contributors. IP producers would need to be tracked, but this is something that systems such as github already do extremely well, and credit card companies already run systems that process fees for every single transaction.

Producers will announce themselves anyway, in hopes that their content will generate as much value as possible. Contributors would announce themselves in exchange for the right to use any IP.

So say DJ Foo remixes a Michael Jackson song and uploads it to YouTube. YouTube will withhold the IP tax from the ad revenue paid out, and hand it over to the IP revenue service with the copyright profile. Michael Jackson will get paid for DJ Foo's remix automatically.

Say DJ Foo does an original song and uploads it to YouTube. The same thing will happen, but DJ Foo will get paid from the IP revenue service since the IP is tied to DJ Foo as the originator.

And imagine if all this information was open and public. We could lookup any product or work and see all of its activity and history as if it were open source code on github.

In exchange for everyone paying an IP tax, anyone creating anything or adding something will be guaranteed to get paid for their contributions based on the maximum value society can generate from it. Violators will be shamed just by manipulating the system because they'd be doing it in public, and it would be in the IP creators best interest to police their work and report violations. Violations don't even need to be criminal. They just need to be fines that disincentivise those actions enough, much like parking tickets. An example violation would be uploading someone else's song without changing it or false claims regarding ownership.
Sorry for the vagueness. SF/NYC is indeed the extreme, from what i've seen, a mid-experienced programmer (Backend , embedded C), 3-4 years in industry, might get something like 150K yuan on average, and up to 250K yuan if you are a jedi, per year.. Which is around 20-40k USD. So quite low in general.
It has. You don't have to go into SF for anything if you live in Mountain View, or Oakland, or Sunnyvale, or any of the other towns in the bay area. But as you noted, those aren't cheap either.
All of that stuff put together matters less than basic quality-of-life stuff like "not having to own a car".

I go to the museum a few times a year; I take the train twice a day. I'll stay in the city with good trains over good museums.
Nice submarine ad.
The whole thing is laughable. And even then, even if they replace all "American" pieces of software and hardware, the remaining will probably be 80% European anyway! Great Victory, Comrades!
A screenshot on my iPhone 6S of Pokemon Go (just the map) is 3.7MB, if we extrapolate we are talking about 722.66 GB of images so far (using his 200K images estimate) we are talking about < $20/month for the storage and ~$80/mo for the bandwidth (Sharing them back out, ingress is free). Now this is early days for GoSnaps so it's hard to predict if those users will stay but to the author's own point he has to keep all of the pictures so that number will only grow. It is disingenuous to completely leave out a cost of the service which looks like it has already probably doubled his cost per month from his "Only $100 for a server" claim. Also I'll point out they may be compressing/downsizing the hell out of those photos but I can't tell how much each one will weigh without MitM-ing the app and I don't care that much.
Fair 'nuff. Sorry.
Which libc? You don't necessarily get as much bloat with embedded compilers and libraries.
It's a ponzi scheme when Government subsidized debt and high risk mortgages (NB: free money) removes price pressures, allowing prices to inflate to unreasonable highs. It's a feedback loop where more money > higher prices = good investment > more money.
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No it doesn't. Americans failed to save even when the economy was doing extremely well.
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That is obviously a ridiculous statement. Just think about it. What is "American tech"? How did they replace all of it? Do they run Linux? NetBSD? Windows? Guess what, that is as much "American" tech as it is "European" or "Canadian" or "Chinese". Do they use sockets and TCP/IP? Or HTTP? Yes? Well guess what, that isn't Chinese tech either! What programming language do they use? Do they use C? Or an OS that was built on C (hint: all of them) Oops. American! Do they use Email? American. Do they run Apache Web Server anywhere? Better not! How about SSL or TLS on that Web Server? OOPS!

I mean it's nothing but a ridiculous circle-jerk that can impress maybe my aunt? How did it impress you?
I don't know that it's an "epidemic", but houses are certainly getting bigger in the US[1]. I can see why a block filled with yards/gardens and small buildings is preferable to a block filled with large buildings and not much else. This just seems like a newsletter for people who care about things like that enough to participate in their local government. I doubt I'd personally agree with many of their stances, but I really can't see how it's "legitimately disgusting".

[1]: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-06-02/business/chi-a...
One can visualize a future in which disposable robots are very small and remotely controlled, capable of liquefying specific organic substances or dispensing drug doses.
Agree. That is far too strong a conclusion from the information provided, though a good potential scenario to be on watch for.
No, but the freedom to have "no privacy" is not a problem anyone has. There is no privacy online and no alternatives to Skype that we can get anyone to use.
If you can copyright a single byte, I'm going to copyright the null byte. Literally every C program in the world will need licensing from me.
And of course, even if you delete the byte you still have a derived work.
Read the code, then. The docs are for people who want to get stuff up and running. The code itself is what you should read when you want to understand how anything really works.
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It's ridiculous on the face of it, but at what point do you need to have a CLA signed? 10 bytes? Having an arbitrary cutoff for what needs a CLA or doesn't, I think, is probably even worse than having a CLA.
Not really moot. I do C++ on embedded processors with as little as 32kB of program space. Using a single exception means your code will not fit. My general rule of thumb to use full-fledged C++ is a processor with at least 256kB of program space.

Here's a comment of mine from a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11706840
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Certainly. Didn't mean it would be easy but that's the trick with all social and cultural change. You just keep at it until everyone thinks you were right all along.
:( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12125756
This is how rule of law looks like. No exceptions for friend of friends, or the second cousin to the mayor.

It does occasionally lead to seemingly absurd situations, but there it is.
First of all that is an interesting point. Given that it isn't as potentially dangerous I'll agree that it is less bad than I initially thought.

I'll respond to your question by asking you a question. Which of the following expressions evaluate to "truthy"?

'truthy' if (a, b = []) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = nil) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = [nil]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = [nil, nil]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = [false]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = [false, false]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = [true, false]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = [false, true]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = *[]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = *nil) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = *[nil]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = *[nil, nil]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = *[false]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = *[false, false]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = *[true, false]) # =>
'truthy' if (a, b = *[false, true]) # =>

The answer is in this gist: https://gist.github.com/backus/c9b70dee67470698fd7d4a66ddf03.... Don't peek!
Fingerprints should not be considered to be a password. They are a username. You can't rotate your fingerprints like you can rotate a password, and what is more you leave your fingerprints on everything you touch.
You don't think this was circumventing a technical measure?
Vim and mathematical notation are efficient for a power user, but I'm not convinced that "easy to use" and "efficient to use" are the same thing.
Not a fair comparison.

The Model 3 (Tesla's cheapest option) starts at $35,000, which means average price point is well above your link's cited $35,000 (remember, those prices in the link are after upgrades, very few people buy a completely stock vehicle).
Random aside: I think it is amazing that first you found this commit + posted about it, then that I saw your post about it on HN.. was kinda ridiculous process to have to agree to the CLA, but I was pleasantly surprised by the automation + instantaneous approval...

- the person who made said commit :-)
This is really interesting. Have you looked at Apache Beam? What I think is interesting about Beam -in this specific context- is that it has a standalone runner (java), that similarly as riko let you write pipelines without worrying about a complex setup. But then, if you need to scale your computation, Beam is runner-independent and you can take the same code and run it at scale on a cluster, wether it's spark, flink, or google cloud. You can read more here [1].

As for riko more specifically, Beam will have soon a python sdk, but I'm unsure if there will be a python standalone runner. Maybe this is something to look into...

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/future-proof-and-scale-proof-y...
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I don't think I'd even sign a medical hippocratic oath if I were a doctor. I consider oaths of that sort to be cheap talk nonsense.

I would not, however, be willing to work on anything that I thought was directly harmful, e.g. I would never work for the NSA.
I use KeePassX and Keepass2Android, with the database file stored on Dropbox. It's free and runs natively on Linux.
How does the submitter propose the automated system should be tweaked? What is the problem that they have identified?
GNU Emacs says this[1]:

We can accept small changes (roughly, fewer than 15 lines) without
an assignment. This is a cumulative limit (e.g. three separate 5 line
patches) over all your contributions.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/CONTRIBUTE (in the Copyright Assignment section)
> There's one question I saw on Stack Overflow a while back that irritated me. If you copied and pasted the literal question directly into Google, the top hit was directly to the canonical documentation ...

I see this on SO a lot. Some developers just have different experience levels, and are better/worse at searching through docs.
Yes... We should promise them free food and shelter, in exchange for votes.
Consider also how this applies to AI. It's very possible that in our lifetimes (I'm assuming you'll live for the next 40 years) we'll see strong AI, possibly capable of inventing novel things by itself or with human collaboration. Who owns the patents which will inevitably result from this? What if the AI has an opinion on the matter? Should the AI own the patents? Is someone allowed to own the AI?
Theoretically it might be possible.
There are some studies on the effects of electric fields onto single neurons. If an external field can influence the firing of neurons in some way, probably one can train to read these signals.

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncel.2014.00...

I have no idea on what field intensities are sufficient to influence the neurons.
Not in the bare-metal environment. You may not have the memory to use one. In such a case, the increase to use two is irrelevant.
This same sort of approach has been used by terrorists in the past.
I'm combating the "aggressive expansion" meme that people don't understand.

Tesla could stop ALL R&D they're doing and they will still be an unprofitable company.
in response to b, I knew full well how those libraries were built. When I said built in, I meant part of core. And before you claim they aren't in core, I mean what the rest of the scheme world means when they say core: stdlib.
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You need to copyright a specific null byte. It only counts as infringement if someone copies it from you.
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Current European politicians are trying to reverse this trend with the injection of fresh migrants, following the American model.
And who's gonna take over? China? Laughable.

Let me know when Xu Jinping's daughter transfers from a US college to the Shanghai Polytechnical Institute. Let me know when the millions of rich Chinese stop parking their cash in San Francisco and Vancouver and instead "invest" in a smoggy Beijing suburb, please! Let me know when China stops destroying its environment and handles its "we-killed-so-many-female-fetuses-we-dont-know-what-to-do-with-these-young-men" problem, which usually means wide-scale unrest and violence.

I'll believe you when the rich and successful Chinese start believing in China. And if the US and EU are so awful, how come everyone still wants to come over here and nobody is clamoring for the cushy, comfortable life-style of a Chinese factory worker ???
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There a case to be made that innovations which require a lot of research won't be made, but I don't agree that nobody would have incentive to innovate. When there's no intellectual property you can't afford not to innovate. The fashion and food business, which aren't covered by copyright, are fast to follow trends. If someone can put out something very similar to yourself you have to have and keep your edge.

The other things is that why we can have such long copyright terms, but not the same for patents, is because it didn't use to matter. There were real limits to making anything useful out of it. Patents on the other hand outright suppresses innovation in the short term to reveal the knowledge to everyone in the long term.

The third things is of course that something can't be secret and morally defended by intellectual property at the same time. At least not from a functional perspective.
The same way we used to crack old games. That is how Mech Warrior on the PC fell.
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A large amount of low-level scutwork at major law firms involved manual discovery -- going through boxes and boxes of documents looking for something incriminating.

Electronic discovery -- both scanning docs to electronic versions, and then processing them through search, and more recently, AI, to find evidence for plaintiff/prosecution or defense -- has replace a tremendous amount of that.

Lack of funds to support legal work is another element in reducing lawyers' wages and hiring.
Things like this, or the advantages of Arabic numerals instead of Roman, make me wonder what sort of mathematical insights we're missing out on today due to our current notation.
This is actually -- and I'm sure the artist will agree, albeit with a heavy heart -- a really great representation of investment opportunities.
Reddit, from a business perspective, baffles me. During the Yishan Wong/Ellen Pao era, we had Reddit-Made and Reddit TV, both of which bombed especially. Under Alexis Ohanian, we had Upvoted and Formative which as the article notes were killed silently.

Reddit released a native app and an image host years too late. (I just checked the data and it is not killing Imgur: Reddit image usage was 18% in the top image subreddits at beginning of June, today it is 25%).

The biggest fundamental change Reddit has made in the time since is...making self-posts count for karma. And tracking outbound links.

It really shouldn't be that impossible to have a successful business with hundreds of millions of users. Especially with the wealth of data available to Reddit.
permanently modifying the hardware is the more portable solution. it will always work with unmodified software i.e. at a colleague's location. i presume your wife works with others that use the same platform.
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I think much of Reddit's problems with its userbase boil down to an early failure to manage expectations.

It's pretty clear that the Reddit corporation doesn't want Reddit to be an anything-goes, absolute free speech zone with no moderation or anti-harassment policies -- but that's what the site actually was for many years. Now, when the company cracks down, users think their freedoms are being curtailed. The mistake was ever allowing that kind of freedom in the first place, because people developed an expectation that it would persist.

Compounding that problem, the fact that the site was unregulated for so long caused it to attract the kind of people who need to be regulated the most. In other words, it's no surprise that the most tolerant communities attract people who are difficult to tolerate.

I suspect Twitter is having similar issues dealing with harassment, after letting it happen for so long. If there is a lesson in this, it is that online communities which plan to implement anti-harassment policies ought to do so from the beginning, and develop the expectation among the users that such policies exist, and will continue to exist. Don't just tack them on after several years, and don't enforce them inconsistently and arbitrarily as Reddit has done.

It will be difficult for Condé Nast to get its money's worth out of Reddit now. I doubt it will ever shake its negative reputation.
By the same logic: the more losers, the more winners (for pairwise matches).

You can't have winning teams without losers.
I'm a product lead not a technical lead, but in that domain I prefer roles where the situation is dysfunctional.
If everything is working well enough then management don't want a troubleshooter. If things are broken then there's a challenge in figuring out what's wrong, who needs to talk to who, who is making the situation worse ...
This was exactly what I was thinking. All of them have been very nice and with this blog are likely to get into trouble. He could have told the same tale but anonymized things and definitely not post a photo of Irlan when he requested not to.
That byte is not copyrightable, it's as simple as that.

It follows the rules on what is copyrightable.

So mechanical changes (for example reformatting text), that involve no creativity are not copyrightable and IMO would not need a CLA even if they were very extensive.

On the other hand a single line with complicated and creative code would.

Like all things human it's subjective, there is no bright line but courts have definitely dealt with this issue (often in the context of plagiarism of musical passages).
Should be possible with DLL injection or function hooking since I would guess they just check the USB id and then use the normal mic access functions so you would only have to intercept 1 or 2 calls.

On linux LD_PRELOAD should be enough.
I think the advice is that if you link a url you should include the meat of the link in your post to ward against link rot.