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Can't they still bill whatever they want? If 10 hours of proofreading, form filling, photocopying, and filing would be billed for $1500 (10 hours x $150 an hour), couldn't they still charge $1500 if the software took 80 milliseconds to do the same job?

Oh, the clients expect an itemized bill? Simple, the above charges would be "10 legal intern equivalent hours @ $150/hour". If a client questions it, the lawyer can explain that they are now using a very expensive piece of software instead of interns and attorneys for certain tasks, but felt it was an ethical obligation to quote the cost in a human understandable way. Turn the arbitrary pricing into a positive!

And of course your software should be able to quote all its tasks in these legal intern equivalent hours. This also leaves the lawyers hands clean since they can say that the software came up with hourly figure, not them.
That is an option. It is one I don't want to deal with. Escape is escape on every machine, in every terminal. I prefer it to not suck.
They have, it's called Fuchsia. I think most the arguments for monokernels have weakened with age. You have L4 microkernels in every iPhone A7 processor now. The demands of security, crash resistance, and portability I think outweigh any small advantages in performance. We've got performance to waste these days, what we're lacking is more secure, crash resilient software.
Thanks for taking your time as well. :)

To be honest, I do understand what you mean. It was a different time (and a time that's difficult for younger people like me to fathom) back then. The US was in a turning point of the century and fear, uncertainty, and doubt affected the decision that led to the internment of Japanese Americans.

I apologize if my criticism is coming off as smug or graceless. I certainly don't intend to, but I do dislike how we in the US tend to gloss over those we've wronged in the past because "times were different." It's fair to say they had their reasons for making those decisions in the past, but also fair to criticize the practice.

As for smearing the legacy of FDR, that is not my goal either. He was clearly an effective president and is consistently ranked as being one of the best US presidents of all time. But all too often we try and frame someone as being categorically good or bad, rather than being somewhere in the middle, which is what most people are.

Trust me, I dislike those who snidely point out MLK's infidelity, Jefferson and Sally Hemings, etc. But we should openly point out these facts and let them be judged as a whole, as a positive influence in US history DESPITE their misgivings, not because they technically didn't have any.
Redfin isn't disrupting the industry. They set out to, and ended up pretty much recreating the existing model and competing on price.

"We’re full-service, local agents who get to know you over coffee and on home tours, and we use online tools to make you smarter and faster. More than 10,000 customers buy or sell a home with us each year."

That's pretty much what any brokerage is. The only difference is they pay their people salaries. Any agent that can actually substantially sell and earn would strike out on their own and get their brokers license.
We should be thankful to AMD for keeping thousands of poor people warm this winter.
Except that people spend more time on Facebook than anything.
I think the standard contract should say something like "I assign copyright of and grant a licence to any patents I own pertinent to every single line of code that I create and give the company".
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A friend just did his diploma thesis on this. He built a system where you use a tablet device in your hand to push through 3D space visualizing the layers. I couldn't possibly describe it well enough, but I'll forward him a link to this thread and see if he answers.
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Thank you for writing this.

I think the biggest contributor to JS fatigue is almost every tutorial pointing its readers to tool up in a number of ways just to get started.

It becomes very difficult for anyone new to the language to imagine being useful or taken seriously if they can't use these tools.
if I could give more upvotes, I would. I'm also prepared to take the pain of infinite downvotes for this "non-ideal" comment of mine. thank you for this.
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Preferential voting and (and I realise this is pretty much impossible to get implemented if not already so these days....) compulsory voting.
This analogy falls apart pretty quickly. You can't compile legal work product and no one is accountable if it doesn't run, unless you're at the point where malpractice comes into play. Malpractice is really, really hard to prove, though.
I don't think it's practical to expect to be forgotten. Archives will save webpages, and mistakes are interesting to science.

As tech continues to improve, we will increasingly face a world where there are no secrets. I don't see this as preventable. Everyone has a camera in their pocket, and soon it might be on their face a la Google Glass or Microsoft Holo Lens.

Instead we have to learn to live with it. I think that every single person in this thread can think of a dozen things they wouldn't want made public. For each they fear something between judgement and prosecution. The ability to hide those things is disappearing though.

My thought is that a cultural shift towards leniency and forgiveness is going to be by far an easier path than enforced privacy. Not that shifting culture is an easy path. But I don't see fighting technology as a battle that can be won.

Cameras will be everywhere, streams will be accessible to everyone, and it's all going to be archived and remembered. And not just physical life, but digital life as well.
Fair enough. I removed "frantic" from my post. The trigger warning was implicit because this is real life.
Great, more reasons to procrastinate on our side projects :(
> I haven't ever tested this method in an actual legal dispute.

I have seen this method tested, and it works (modulo bad phrasing in the actual amendment).
AMD could likely allocate the resources, but what will they cut to do so? At this point they are a token competitor to Intel and are losing money and have been losing money for years, so how much of their financial runway are they willing to burn up on a platform that doesn't use them for servers and minimally uses them for gaming (where the platform has no marketshare).

I as a full time debian user for the past few years get it. AMD's Linux devs heavily dislike direct rendering manager and want to provide all the cool crap their proprietary driver does to Mesa, cause DRM is legacy tech and they have over 1000 SKUs of cards to support, 2 competitors breathing down their neck on both the GPU, CPU and SOC sides, and they wanna get this shipped.

I hope I've illuminated the state of the situation for you, I do think the right decision was made to not merge this code, but be realistic about AMD's position, they are so far in the hle financially that customers are having chips made to order after paying, meaning its at least 3 months from the time f order until you get your chip. They spend nearly all that time making the silicon, then packaging it so it can go onto your motherboard.
Are you referring to Peter Thiel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
> you would need to ask your employer if he agrees with any tiny contribution you do to any open source project out there. Which doesn't scale.

This is why contributor agreements exist. They aren't per-contribution, but per-project (which scales much better).
Google seems to be happily applying DMCA to the whole world.
I don't agree, lines of code has nothing to do with experience level. Hitting your head against the wall trying to solve new kinds of problems is where the gold is. And that takes time, and courage.
i stopped using pinterest the minute i discovered they were doing this, despite already having created an account. likewise, i tend to avoid quora links. facebook i don't mind so much because it feels more like social networking than part of (what should be) the open internet.
I don't think there is much difference between blob and such code from the kernel maintainers' point of view. From users' point of view the difference is huge (freedom to tinker / fix bugs), but maintainers need to keep the whole kernel maintainable. Merging such code would be irresponsible.

And no, I don't want just "good" code in kernel I am using. This is not business. Make it maintainable so it can get better (perfect) in the long run.
(yes, I know there are places in kernel where code is not even good, let alone perfect, but that's another issue altogether)
@athollywood, I work in Energy research, is there an email I could reach you on?
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These two are the same in Germany; German doesn't have a word for moral rights.
> I think part of the frustration with the new MBP is the realization that the alternatives are kinda shoddy.

After the MBP unveiling I spent a good few hours researching alternatives, for the first time since I moved to Apple about 10 years ago. Despite the fact that I found a number of options multiple hundreds of euros cheaper than the new MBP for similar or better 'specs', I still ended up with some kind of MacBook as the best option.

For the first time I feel 'held hostage' by Apple, except that I can't really blame them for the lack of quality elsewhere. I can't help but feel a bit silly about being angry at Apple for selling their products at a price point that is acceptable to me (barely), even though that strikes me as exactly the thing a company should be doing...
> some value

I think you have answered your own question here :)
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> I always thought of Joel as one of important Excel authors. I was very much surprised to see he is CEO of Stack Overflow now.

Huh. You've missed a lot in the intervening years. eg. https://www.amazon.com/Joel-Spolsky/e/B001K8FTIE/
It would depend on the local laws and the wording of the contract. It would be highly unusual for an employer to claim ownership over pre-existing IP (unless that was the reason they were hiring you).

Of course even if pre-existing IP is owned you don't want to be in a position where contributions to the same project after date of new employment are owned by the company, creating a divide in ownership.
FWIW, if possible and if you haven't already, I'd suggest trying an external trackball mouse.

Particularly the Microsoft ergonomic ones, or the equivalent Logitech ones.

Microsoft discontinued the one I use now (coming up to about 10 years and still going strong) but this mouse from Logitech seems similar:

Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball:

http://www.logitech.com/en-in/product/wireless-trackball-m57...

It made a big difference in how (less) stiff my right hand wrist (trackpad / x230) felt in just a few days of use.

Definitely better than the trackpad or a regular mouse, IMO
UrhG § 69b is the regulation specifically for software developers that work contracts typically refer to. Usually there is also a clause referring to UrhG § 31a to license usage rights of unknown kinds of usage as well.

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btw. seems that I was wrong about copyright attribution. Got a mail, apparently some contracts include a clause that the employer can in fact attribute any work to herself, so "Copyright (c) 1871 Foobar GmbH" can happen and can be correct.
Agreed, many of my neighbors spoke out against a proposed condo development (less than half a mile from a Caltrain station, and 1/4 mile from 2 ramps to 101) because they were worried about traffic in the neighborhood.

Fortunately, the developments went on as planned and 3 years and 400 housing units later, traffic isn't noticeably worse than it was before the developments, and I see a lot more people walking to Caltrain.

Cities love to welcome office space, but they are loathe to welcome residential space, yet at the same time, people complain that people are being forced out of the community due to the price of housing.

The cure to high housing prices is more housing, not rent control.
Yes, either we are in US territory and US has authority to apply it's laws under the restrictions of its constitution or we aren't and they have no particular authority to search at all with some exceptions from military/coast guard.
I just read How To Become A Hacker the other day and I highly recommend it. Not only is it a good read but the resources for continued reading mentioned in the text is very good content.
I will make a second comment, highlighting what I understand the core argument of the article to be. Each country should be allowed to decide on their own what tradeoffs they make when it comes to censoring information. (Right to be forgotten is censorship).

France should be free to enforce that right, and America should be free to reject such censorship. France should not have the power to force America to censor their citizens because France has decided that data infringes upon a person's rights. Substitute for any two or more countries you desire.
"As tech continues to improve, we will increasingly face a world where there are no secrets. I don't see this as preventable"

It's absolutely preventable, we just have to make the choice to do that.

Of course - there are 'some bits of data' that will get persisted here and there, but by enlarge, there's ways to do this:

1) Policy
2) Common ethics
3) Regulation
4) Architecture
5) Law

If it became 'policy' at most companies to address this issue, there are a number of things they could do.

If it there was awareness about this - and it was framed as a moral issue, large swaths of organizations might simply make do.

Identity/Software/Systems architecture may be able to enable this - i.e. being able to make online transactions without actually identifying oneself.

Responsible regulations and responsible law could urge companies to do this.

Obvious, it will never be fully thus - but there are a lot of things that we could do.

Starting with: any account you open, you should be able to close and have all relevant information erased, unless there is some special requirement otherwise.

This is law in some places and it's not entirely unreasonable.

If we collectively made the choice we could make the internet 'mostly' a private experience for people.
I love using Scala on the server and Typescript in the browser. And adjusting ts type definitions by hand gets tiresome very quickly. So I look forward to trying this out.
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"Most drugs are traded between so many people and stored in so many homes around the world that it makes no sense trying to tie them back to a single locality".

That's true, but that never stopped governments from regulating and controlling them and shutting down big drug operations. I don't see why they wouldn't attempt to do the same with "illegal" data (even if data is orders of magnitude less traceable).

I'm afraid that the mere fact that all data has a physical starting point is enough for governments to try and claim jurisdiction.

Most people seem to be fine with schedule I drug prohibition. Then again, data is the one drug that we're all addicted to.
> ... a lot the tools that artificially help everyone to find information they never knew in the first place.

If the information is already legally public, there is no case. If its illegally obtained then there already exist laws that covers it.

> ... statistically speaking it seems some of us are more subject to them than others.

But google IS displaying info indiscriminately what RTBF doing is distort that perfection.
Many people use the exact same argument to dismiss the entire functional programming field.
The problem in the Peninsula is the traffic. It will just get worse with higher density. Nobody is going to walk or bike to work. Complete wonderland. Public transit is a joke and has been for the last 30 years. Higher density may lower housing costs some, but it will just make traffic worse and that's why existing residents are not in favor of it. The most practical thing would be to extend BART and have it run next to the freeway to minimize the NIMBY factor. That will never ever happen though because it costs a billion dollars a mile to build anything that carries multiple people on a track in the U.S. See the recent muni train expansion in San Francisco.
Resilvering time. You are faster getting a broken drive fixed from a mirror. This gets more important with increased drive capacity.

There is an article somewhere calculating the probability of two drives failing during resilvering and how this gets worse with the ever increasing capacities, which increases the resilvering times.

But I guess you already account for this by using a Raid 6 with +2.
"The enforcement of the "right to be forgotten" is a form of censorship"

This is a false representation of the issue.

Your 'address' may very well be 'true' information - but people don't have the right to publish it.

Your 'private notes stored at Google Docs' are 'true information' - does Google or anyone else have the right to make it public?

No - we live in a new world, we need new rules, new laws - 'the right to be forgotten' in 99% of cases is completely benign and reasonable.

99% of the time entities may not want to 'forget' it's simply for economic reasons: they want the data to mine - that's it.

This is 99% a 'consumer vs. massive company' issue - and far less an issue of 'right to access information'.
> Correction: we have the resources. We just don't want to allocate them and would prefer that you did the work instead.

Perhaps it's just internal politics: the company did in fact allocated the resources, the people put in charge failed to do their job, and once their screwup goes public they opt to shift the blame elsewhere.
Certainly anything is possible if you're a large enough (or strategic enough) customer, but I tend to doubt that Dropbox had a year or two head start on these models. For one thing, I wouldn't build out my entire storage system with one model from one vendor that hasn't been field proven yet.

With 4T drives, you can easily achieve raw storage of 2.9PB in a rack. The previous top of the line (10T drives) yield 7.4PB in a rack. 14T pushes that up to 10.4PB.

Higher densities are possible as well. The most I'm aware of is 90x 3.5" in 4U; available from Supermicro, Dell and others. The depth of the chassis can be problematic, and the way Supermicro designed it isn't super great in my opinion.

Sacrificing hot swap capability could potentially yield higher density (~100-ish drives), which I think is a reasonable tradeoff if you're deploying a ton of these hosts and you can let dead drives hang out for a while. I'm not aware of anyone who makes a chassis like that that can be bought off the shelf though.

At these drive sizes though, I would be leery of having that much storage attached to a single host from a fault domain perspective. I think the next step is either a highly dense 2U chassis (HP has something like this, but only 28 bays) or a two server 4U chassis (Dell has something like this).
You most likely program in vim or another vi successor. Possibly with a ton of configuration settings and plugins that weren't around in vi. Big difference.
The border search exception considers the "border" to stretch 100 miles inland, corralling two-thirds of the American population within this zone of "virtually no rights."[1]

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
The enforcement of copyright is a form of censorship.
"If I want to control the distribution of my own speech I can do that now by asserting copyright."

No, you can't.

If you say something in public, and someone records with an iPhone and puts in on YouTube - you have no legal recourse on that matter.
Of course, Somerville has little parkland, and few commercial buildings, not even much retail, and little office space.

I'd much rather see balanced communities with parks, retail/entertainment and office space so many residents don't have to travel outside of their community for every day needs.
" and forcibly suppressing it is still censorship."

No, not by any reasonable definition of the term.

Whether it's 'censorship' or not, absolutely depends on what kind of information is in question.
Code as activism and decentralised consensus
That comes with being a grumpy old man.

My money is on both being replaced by something quite completely different. (much like with old Newtonian physics)
> You missed the bit where AMD

I don't believe he is speaking on behalf of AMD. He is speaking for himself and trying very desperately to shift his blame onto anything he could think of at that time.

He clearly tried to blame the problems caused by his technical decisions on subjective and social reasons.

I don't believe that a AMD PR employee would be so stupid to ever think of saying such nonsense, particularly in such an eggregious manner.

The developer claims he has been working for AMD for 10 years, and yet he still is unable to write a driver, let alone get one accepted. Facts speak for themselves.
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>Are you saying US citizens have zero constitutional rights the second they step out of the US?

This gets kind of close to word-play territory (no pun intended).

IMHO you still have your rights, but when you're outside the country, you can't expect the government to automagically recognize you as a citizen among the foreigners who don't have the same rights as you, and hence may not be able to exercise them. So that means you first have to convince them that you have the rights you claim before you can expect your rights to be recognized.

This would work just fine in a world where authorities were keen to recognize your identity before inspecting your belongings, so I'm saying the fact that they refuse to do that is the real abuse/violation here. So that's what you really have to argue against. Otherwise, if you assume that is OK, the rest of the logic doesn't really seem faulty to me.
If you're picking up Breaking Bad right now, you'd watch it on Netflix. The only reason you'd watch it on TV is if you're catching it the first time it's airing. I only joined on the last season so I don't have much context, but everyone I knew in college would wait for it to air and immediately torrent the commercial-free episode. For something huge like the ending I know some people that hosted small viewing parties to watch it live, but many were fine with waiting.

Also, Breaking Bad ended in 2013, and Mad Men in 2015. That list only has two entries. Maybe not literally everything on live cable TV is trash, but I think it highlights that there's a clear decline.
> ... any account you open, you should be able to close and have all relevant information erased, unless there is some special requirement otherwise.

> This is law in some places and it's not entirely unreasonable.

Its absolutely unreasonable (eg) for HN. And this is just one form of information processing.