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> GPLv2 ... AGPLv3 ... BSD 3-clause

None of those licenses are for the user of the software. Some are long(-ish) because they address copyright law and are intended to be read by software authors and distributors, who presumably have the luxury of time to read and research which license they would like to use for their software or 3rd party software they want to redistribute.

> Licenses are long and complex not only because they have "bullshit" and "shady stuff" in them.

That's fine. Now find a way to explain it plainly to the user so they can make an informed decision.

> But how short and simple does a license need to be to make the average user actually read it before clicking OK?

Well, that varies, but you can be sure that anybody that clicked OK after only a few seconds did not read anything. Choosing to continue when you know the contract wasn't read is prima facie evidence that no contract was established.

However, the larger problem is you think simply presenting legalease and waiting for someone to click OK can ever meet the standard of informed consent[1], which is a much stronger requirement than the click that's required for some contracts. Contract law is sufficient for most of what's in an TOS, but data is very important and most people have a poor understanding of what is being collected and what is possible when their data is aggregated with other sources. To protect people, the higher standard of informed consent should be used before collecting any data. This would only apply to the data you want to collect, not the entire TOS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent#Valid_element...
You are right in that Lincoln was no great moral hero. However, your statements are misleading.

Regarding the Corwin Amendment: looking back through the lens of history, this seems like a huge deal. At the time, it didn't really matter. No one thought in 1861 that there was a chance of the federal government abolishing slavery by a constitutional amendment, and many politicians (including Lincoln) did not at that time believe that the federal government had the authority to do so.

Here is what Lincoln had to say about it [1]:

> My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

[1]: http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley...
Oy. It also includes paying the janitors, the property taxes, and the myriad of other costs that come with running a company.

> The fact is R&D isn't making drug prices high.

Neither are their SGA expenses. The two combined are just under half GSK's revenue.

Anyway, that's irrelevant to trying to score cheap points with a false equivalence.
Amazon could be working on in-home package deliveries
What makes going to court on patent cases so expensive?
Aphrodite:Khan Academy's library for generating stylesheet on the fly with React
Livestream: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species
I hope what will eventually happen is that a semester of CS in high school because normalized. Then we can just dispense with pretenses and admit that CS 1 is most properly an introduction to Computer Science, not an introduction to computer programming; that some programming experience is required in order to learn the basic data structures and algorithms typically covered in a top department's CS 1 course.

Then there can be a pre-100 level course which assumes zero background/experience. Like a CS equivalent of pre-calculus "college algebra" courses offered by many American Mathematics departments. The idea would be that most majors should've already learned basic programming skills in high school, but there's still an option for people who fell through the cracks for whatever reason.

But importantly, this issue is independent of the "geek gene" hypothesis the article is about.
If there are separate tutorials for how to "Crack the Coding Interview", maybe coding interviews do not accurately select for coding skill.
A credit freeze is another tool; it prevents potential creditors from extending credit since they won't be able to pull your file to verify your creditworthiness. Temporary unlocks can be done when you need to apply for a loan, etc.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/how-i-learned-to-stop-wor...
My city's average temperature is the same as in a refrigerator. It must have been pretty unpleasant somewhere else for people to come here, but they did.

And what about the Inuits or Tibetans...
Didn't even know about that model, thanks for pointing it out. Clearly we're trying out different business models in different markets.
The height limit isn't because engines need oxygen. It's because in order to fly in less dense air, you need to have higher air speed to generate the same amount of lift, and above typical jet cruising altitudes you hit the speed of sound and run into issues.

Supersonic aircraft fly at higher altitudes in general - the Concorde cruised at 56000 feet.
How one Amazon Kindle scam made millions of dollars
I didn't make the rpg60 engine and at the time I didn't really have much skills, the code i wrote was scripting code to program the game but I think it was made in C.

Digging around leads to very few results, even archive.org struggles. I found a couple links tho but nothing you can download. https://web.archive.org/web/20071004112659/http://rpgrpg8.fr...

At the time I spent some time working with other italian guys on maintaining a small community around the tool but not much is left.

EDIT: now that I think about it I might actually still have it in some old HDD but it's in another country so you are unlikely to see it. What i did find is some screenshots from a Japanese web page! http://s60gamers.seesaa.net/article/17133227.html
Chrome and Firefox has a much larger userbase than Edge has. (As of now). As Edge matures and its userbase grows we will have a chance to see how it measures up :)
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Unfortunately, there is a bit too much unstated assumption of "just be lucky (fortunate) as hell in multiple metrics from an incredibly young age." This seriously undermines the value of this advice for at least 99% of people.
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Why One Scientist Went Public with Her Sexual Harassment Story
iCloud's implementation is awful. It doesn't help you understand or resolve the conflicts at all and just assumes last write wins.
My blog is the best resource online for “60*60”
Alice/Mayo are more complicated than that. Those cases lay out a two-step process:

(1) Is the patent directed at an abstract idea or law of nature? If not, it is subject-matter eligible.

(2) If the patent is directed at an abstract idea, does the patent add any "inventive concept" so that the patent isn't just an attempt to monopolize the abstract idea itself? For purposes of this second step, simply performing the abstract idea on a computer is insufficient. If the patent adds something extra, it's subject-matter eligible.

"Abstract idea" almost certainly means something narrower to the courts than it does to many programmers. The Supreme Court declined the opportunity in Alice to rule that all algorithms are abstract ideas that are patent ineligible.

Say I come up with a circuit that controls engine timing to minimize emissions. If I use an electronic circuit, that's definitely patentable. Under broad definitions of "abstract idea," if I replace the circuit with a general purpose processor, then suddenly that's not patentable. The Supreme Court has tried very hard to avoid that result. Something isn't patent eligible just because you run it on a computer, but something also isn't patent-ineligible just because it runs on a computer.
Racket 6.6 doesn't even start on my Mac... crashes immediately.
Why does it need access to contacts? You say that like its fait accompli, like its literally impossible to have a messaging app that doesn't access your contacts.
I still have lots of pre-Youtube (and even ripped Youtube) videos hanging around my backups, and I still want to keep them.
I'm finding some humor in your accusation of dismissal considering that you are the only one expressing dismissal in this conversation. It's a very human sort of foible.
Why is this an enterprise-only feature? Do regular user not deserve the same level of security for their browsers? Will this tech even be available to non-Microsoft apps in the future?
It would be neat if you could enter a tire size (e.g. 165-65R13) and estimate the overall diameter from that.

Extra credit: figure out a plausible count of gear teeth for each ratio.
I'm fairly confident that you don't need to worry about anyone being confused and thinking that SpaceX has already launched a mission to Mars.

Ideas always come before execution.
I would love the ability to leave a video playing on my phone when I turn the screen off. I often will listen to a song but as soon as the app minimizes or the phone goes to sleep mode, it stops.
The phallic imagery is so overpowering.

I also like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY

In case it's not clear, I hate this "multiplanetary species" garbage.
Perhaps companies like Google should really consider to move up reforming the patent system to encourage innovation on their dont-be-evil list.
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> I recently spent a couple of months writing and reading as badly as possible, a practice I now recommend.

Reminds me of author Jim Butcher's claim that he wrote the first volume of the _Dresden Files_, "as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to (his writing teacher) how awful it would be".

source: A Conversation With Jim Butcher: http://www.sfsite.com/08b/jb182.htm
The garage door opener isn't a bad idea.

"There are clear limits to the potential reach of this tech, of course – smart locks and garage doors are far from ubiquitous."

But a lot of garage door openers support wireless keypads that can be bought and connected post-market. No need to change the drive unit. Switching the keypad out for a net-connected keypad? That's incredibly simple to do for most homeowners.
Thanks for your detailed explanation.

Just out of curiosity and to follow-up, presumably this is a example of the list of detected CNVs in a TCGA Breast Cancer data-set you're referring to: http://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic/gene/analysis?ln=BRCA1#cnv...

According to Sanger (or maybe TCGA?), a gain is when a genomic region (for a diploid) has more than five absolute copies of this region and a loss is when the genomic region has no reads ((http://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic/help/cnv/overview), where the copy number is perhaps determined by that normalized distribution of read coverage across the reference genome?

(http://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...). This is for CNVs that are longer than the 150-200bp Illumina fragments (Fig1c. Read Depth method, e.g., exome#3 looks like it has two absolute copies vs exome #1 and #2)

Then for small CNVs that perhaps span that 150-200bp fragment, we use the split read method to filter for incompletely mapped reads that are only aligned on the edges to the reference. This implies that there was a duplication event that expanded that sequence? (Fig 1b. Split Read method).

Presumably, the pipeline would determine the CNV sites in a specific patient sample, then cross-reference with the TCGA CNV data-set and come up with correlation score of how much those CNVs sites match with consensus CNVs in the cancer data-set? Thanks again for your detailed breakdown.
That depends a very great deal on what goal you're trying to advance with a useful answer. The former works towards encouraging the student to keep trying. The latter might help guide the student towards a different area where they might excel with lower time costs. Different people may have different opinions on what constitutes "useful" in such a scenario.
I'd forgotten about his role in that case. It makes me admire him even more for standing by his principles that racial origin should not be a factor in determining college admissions. Does his argument that Asian Americans should not be discriminated against by state universities also bother you?

Here's more background on the case: https://www.propublica.org/article/a-colorblind-constitution...

And here are the two amici that Cheng co-authored:

http://www.asianamericanlegal.com/images/AALFAmicusBriefs/AA...

http://asianamericanforeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015...
If you click on Papers, there is a link to "Going Deeper with Embedded FPGA for Convolutional Neural Network", which compares against the TK1: https://nicsefc.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn/media/publications/2016/F...

While not the TX1 vs FPGA result you want, this is very close. For example they aren't using the latest FPGA or GPU, and are not using TensorRT on the GPU and on the FPGA side they are using fatty 16-bit weights on an older FPGA rather than newer stuff you can do with lower precision (which improves the efficiency of the FPGA having more high speed RAM collocated with computation vs GPU which is primarily off-chip).

If you want to learn more about this stuff, I suggest a presentation by one of Bill Dally's students (chief scientist at NVIDIA): http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2016/presentation/s6561...
Grr... Is google seeking praise for slightly loosening the shackles?

This "YouTube Go" MIGHT be a media player. It MIGHT operate on files. It MIGHT be possible to share a video via some mechanism other than bluetooth.

The other day I was trying to convince to a user that she should want to own her content, rather than rent it... when I suddenly realized that he doesn't know what a file is. Moreover, he doesn't realize what it is good for...

Once you have a (DRM free) file, it's yours. You physically possess it. That means you can copy it, share it, back it up, print it, pipe the raw ones and zeros to your PC speaker, whatever. The next generation might not get that...

The fact of the matter is that until I was college-aged, nobody taught me more about computers than Microsoft did. I read every .txt file and .hlp file that existed on my C:\ drive. Not to mention the physical manuals... Then I went on to Linux, etc.

So I KNOW what a file is. You and I can have a conversation about mtimes. We can rattle off a list of traits that each file must possess to BE a file.

What the heck is Google teaching this next generation?
You provided neither evidence nor argumentation for your claims, though...?
I've used Leaflet on not-insignificant-sized projects and had nothing but a great experience. Great docs and really stable!
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Corwin Amendment:

1) Not proposed by Lincoln.

2) An amendment, meaning it didn't even involve him directly (the President doesn't sign or otherwise approve proposed or effected amendments, it's a Federal legislative and State act, not involving the Federal Executive Branch).

3) He, prior to the Civil War, hadn't made movements to eliminate slavery, but rather to prevent its expansion.

4) The amendment and the letters he sent to the state governors were an attempt to keep the nation together, preventing secession or getting states to reverse their decision to secede. Keeping the country together was his priority over slavery, that doesn't seem (to me) to be a controversial position to hold. One immediate problem (states leaving) needed to be addressed before anything with slavery could be resolved.
The whole point of the Feinstein-Lee Amendment was to prevent the government from detaining citizens indefinitely.

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-relea...
Potentially good enough, though? A proper pitch rate of whatever you actually want in there is going to help with outcompeting any undesirables.

My understanding is that most infections in commercial brewing are usually on the bottling/canning line - Since you've got a smaller volume, the "bad" bacteria or yeast make up a larger total percentage of organisms. Especially if sodium metabisulfite has been used prior to the packaging, since now anything that gets in there is running free by itself.
Just like state sponsored designs have guaranteed access to health care and education.
Cleaning with water is the first defense, solvents could easily dissolve some of the materials. However, with a permanently installed head it's not something we expect our customers to do.
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One more to add. Current commercial aircraft can jettison fuel to reduce the landing weight and minimize risk if the structure is compromised. Hard to see how this design would.
"Livestream starting soon". Does anyone know what time they're starting? (And please use a numeric timezone, I'm not a walking timezone database.)
The app doesn't allow that, but if your browse youtube trough Firefox, you can do it.
IMO, that's because YouTube Go is an app with experimental features. They're not sure whether these features make complete sense for adding all of them blindly to YouTube app itself.
"The video appears to show SpaceX's new rocket — the BFR, or "Big Fucking Rocket" — as well as the company's interplanetary spaceship — the BFS, or "Big Fucking Spaceship.""
London Googlers get paid significantly less than their CA counterparts for the same roles.
That's a great point, I never thought of searching for accessories on Newegg... even if I end up buying elsewhere, their accessory/peripheral search has always been one of the best on the internet for a long time.
> I don't see how your resignation can possibly exist in a quantum state where you were both forced to resign and weren't. It can only be one or the other.

There's a whole lot of middle ground between absolutely forced and absolutely not forced. He could have not been absolutely forced (in that the board might not have said "Quit or be fired"), but could have lost sufficient support from the board, other executives, and/or staff that there was no realistic way to meet expectations that the board had set (implicitly or explicitly) so that it seemed likely that the situation was as if an quit-or-be-dumped threat had been made, even if it wasn't. For just one example.
This is so pleasant to see after being bombarded with US presidential politics. Science, hope and progress!
And other legislation that castrated domestic propaganda protections including NSPD-1 and NSPD-16 and NDAA 2015.
And polygamy is stil illegal. I can father a child with my two girlfriends but cannot marry them both. Bah!
Yeah, Love's fun. But it can be a bit of a pain at times, especially if you're not used to more algorithmic/low-level games programming. Although it's by no means truly low-level...
Fred Jelinek famously quipped: "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the system goes up." Here are two hypotheses that could explain this observation:

1) Linguistic knowledge and theory is not useful for NLP work; instead, people should rely entirely on machine learning techniques.

2) Linguistic knowledge is useful in principle, but the field of linguistics has not yet obtained a sufficiently high-quality theory, and it is better to rely on ML than on low-quality theory.

Almost everyone in NLP adopted hypothesis #1; I believe hypothesis #2 is true.
Yep, and having that wide exposure to industry-wide technologies is a big factor in programmers being so marketable to other companies, I'm sure.
It's not very useful for regular users outside of private browsing - the WDAG windows are unable to persist any state at all since their container is discarded at the end of the browsing session to thwart malware persistence.

It does sound like an interesting capability for private browsing, but existing mechanisms mostly cover that. Even if WDAG applied to private Windows, ordinary users aren't so likely to open private browser windows just to check a link from an email.

I expect that if you had a copy of Win10 Enterprise you could configure the feature yourself for added security in paranoid cases (e.g. journalist covering abusive regimes who might be targeted by state-level malware).
It was supposed to start at 1:30PM CST [0], but it sounds like it is delayed [1] a few minutes [2].

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=1%3A30+cst

[1] https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/780835809696092161

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/780838839644483586
On the ArsTechnica liveblog, they said the talks a few minutes late but should be starting soon.
Should be any moment now. Earlier, a countdown was being held on the page. We're about 5 minutes late.
Love it and want to buy one, can I buy direct from you? (I have a thing against Amazon).

Edit: For auth on a phone / small device, could you make a version with a miniusb plug?
Hopefully from HP or Samsung... Kidding aside, laser is better for a lot of applications but low-cost color and photo is our sweet spot. That's why we don't like smartphones - nobody feels like they need to print any more.
How do you convert manual tests to automated tests?
Nothing lasts forever. Our planet will eventually be destroyed, and if we want our species to continue to live on indefinitely, we need to begin pursuing the seemingly impossible task of relocating within the universe.
Exactly. What kind of hiring "bar" is it if all it measures is the motivation (or more specifically: degree of desperation) necessary to pony up for a 30-day cram school... led, not coincidentally, by the very company that's administering your weeder tests?
It's better than previous machine translation systems, I mean. Sure humans can translate better, but they can't describe how in a useful way. Linguists have spent decades trying to come up with hand designed language models, input knowledge about the world in computer readable formats, etc. But this simple AI model can learn to do a better job in a week from raw data.
> And other legislation that castrated domestic propaganda protections including NSPD-1 and NSPD-16

NSPD-1 and NSPD-16 are presidential directives, not legislation, and have no legal force to the extent that they conflict with actual legislation, including the statutory ban on domestically-directed propaganda.
Extortion is a common practice in the DoJ and law enforcement agencies. It is corrupt when the agents participate in a manner where they look to gain for some personal benefit.

The FBI could say, "rat on so and so and we will decrease your sentence by X, otherwise we will push for full sentence" and happens all the time.

But, if FBI said, "give us the password to Bitcoin wallet or you get decades in jail under retarded computer law" and the agent transfers Bitcoin to his offshore account, that is illegal.
> CST

sigh

Central standard time I'm guessing, so mid-US I guess "central" and "standard" mean here, so I'm guesstimating GMT-7. That would put it around 8:30 GMT.
You dodged a bullet there, trust me.
Sometimes a rocket is just a rocket.