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> Even if fair use is established in this case, the door has been left wide open to hordes of API copyright trolls

FYI, this is not actually the case; this case established no precedent for copyrightable APIs.

Because of the history of this case (it originally involved patents as well), it was appealed to the Federal Circuit, which doesn't normally handle copyright cases.

This was a gift for Oracle since the Federal Circuit loves expanding IP rights, but also helpful to the rest of us because the Federal Circuit has no jurisdiction over copyright cases. Future copyright cases will go up through whatever circuit you're in, which will not have to treat the Federal Circuit's ruling as precedent.
Our current understanding of physics puts a hard limit on matter traveling at or above the speed of light as your mass increases as you approach the speed of light requiring an ever greater (infinite amount of energy) to get you there. With that being said, we still don't have a perfect understanding of physics, so there is wiggle room. However, our models are really good both on the drawing board and in observation, so it looks unlikely at this stage (I'm not a physicist, but read the dumbed down books they publish for the masses).
Do University Incubators Harm Innovation?
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> how people push Ada Lovelace, someone who wrote a paper almost 200 years ago, as the symbol of women-working-with-computers

I've rarely seen anyone champion Ada as a symbol of "Women working with computers".
Three sites where NASA might retrieve its first Mars rock
The developers moved to MariaDB, which is what everyone uses nowadays anyway rather than MySQL.
You can probably read his credentials as "likely not qualified". There is actually a whole panel of scientists from SETI like Paul Davies that will report to the president in case of first contact. Davies' book is really good btw.
Greetings. I am the fellow who instigated all of this when Randy and Chip gave me the source code 4 years ago. A few FAQ answers because everyone always asks the same super nerdy questions:

* The current effort is to replace the server, not the client. The client runs in an emulator, or on original hardware. We already have both online in a test server.

* The project is rolling along very quickly, but we cannot open up to the public because the server can be crashed by the actions of a client. Devs only for now.

* The overall goal is not to revive this game to make money or sell it. The goal is to revive the game for preservation purposes. Without Habitat in working form, we're without a major piece of software history. We;re bringing it back to make it completely, freely playable online by all using an emulator.

* Most of the work is porting PL/1 objects to modern platforms, and rebuilding the game's geography. Come help us preserve the world's first graphical MMO!

* The rewrite is taking place because the original hardware was Stratus running VOS. We have a Stratus machine, but we are missing some libraries from AOL's QLink, and could not replace them. Qlink was kinda a black box. Those libraries are coming, but they are taking a bit of time, so Randy just said, "Screw it, we'll do it live!" Ala Bill O'Reilly. Not really. But you get the idea.

* This is the culmination of three years of work to get the original owners of the rights to allow us to do this, to get AOL to give us the missing bits, and to get Stratus to give us the original hardware.

Everyone involved worked for free, and did so out of their love of digital history. It's been a great effort so far, and now we're really nearing the end of the line, frankly. It will take a lot of work, but being able to open this as a project to outside developers is an amazing feat.

So, please, before nay-saying or thinking of some technical thing we've obviously missed, come join our effort. We need all the help we can get to preserve this piece of our digital heritage for future generations.
sorry HANA. SAP seem to be pushing it hard for Business One, over and above MS SQL.
I've done all my business cards in TeX, just Plain TeX, not LaTeX, for years.

It's just a simple TeX exercise.

I have the spacing so that the printing goes to some standard card stock for business cards with the positioning just right. Then bending the printed card stock results in a stack of business cards. Works great. Simple.
In my experience there's a lot of layout that's been done in Illustrator. I suspect it's because of how long Illustrator's been around and had pretty good layout support, especially when compared with the early years of Aldus PageMaker and QuarkXPress and other tools. Illustrator was needed to do a lot of graphics work that these other tools didn't support, so it can make sense to do as much as you can in a single tool. If you can get good results doing everything you need in terms of text handling in Illustrator, why take the time to use a DTP application when you're likely going to need to use Illustrator anyway for graphics work.
Which side? I have friends from west and central. My only concerns about that region are seismic.
Chromium

edit: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents
Changing a piece of information online is very different than directly notifying everyone you know of the change.
The issue was the trademarks, which exist to prevent consumer confusion. J++ would have been allowed to exist, but it had no right to use the trademarked "Java" name, because if it only runs on MS it's not "Java".
The much bigger difference is that Wikipedia conversations/disputes are long-running and relate to the state of permanent artifacts.

The technology of Hacker News makes it literally impossible to carry on a long-running conversation or collaborate on serious permanent artifacts. There’s no point in going back to last week’s discussion and vandalizing it with troll comments, because nobody is ever going to read it. There’s no need to invent complicated rules for productive collaboration, because there’s no work to collaborate on in the first place.
It's not as obvious as I'd remembered. I think these instructions work:

http://help.washingtonpost.com/link/portal/15067/15080/Artic...
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You life in the Middle Ages definitely would have been way much better. /s
I really like maven, so if there's an even more maven-ey thing around then sign me up.
Maybe you should start your foundation today rather than complaining that others don't do enough on an internet forum. One of those is more productive than the other.
> aws step functions...

By the way, AWS step functions allow the creation of state machines just like @rashkov mentioned in the adjacent comment. If you don't mind being locked in to AWS, using step machines with lambda functions would be a great way to do this.
As I understand it, to allow certain types of lobbying or something companies lobbied for, there's a ruling in the US that companies are people in some contexts.
> but what each part does and how they interact

That's not copyrightable, though. Maybe patentable, but that's a whole other can of worms.
There is a major high-end hotel chain that has a $495-fee card with similar benefits to those stated for the AMEX card above. And if there are two ways to get something like that, there's probably a third.
Surprised it has not been mentioned yet, but mbasic.facebook.com would solve the issue in both articles. I don't even have a facebook account and I'm constantly referring people to the slimmer version. I guess they must not advertise it.
...who got his money from his parents and uncles. Moe Brown was also a quaker && robustly antislavery, but that did not stop him from bailing out his brothers during the war. Trying to extricate the triangle-trade money from the Brown family is like trying to wring the pink from a sunrise.
"Your search returns no results" using foc.us/eeg

Are you just spamming for a search engine?
it's not, but facebook wants it to be
You might be interested in mbasic.facebook.com.
And hope the "competent developer" doing the evaluation isn't going to reject superb code because he isn't good enough to know why it's so different.
>> If somebody somewhere has FTL travel, they'd probably be here already.

You don't need FTL travel to get here. All you need is interstellar travel at sub-luminal speeds, and a life span that makes it reasonable to undertake the journey from your home-world to the Earth.

Say, a species with a lifespan of ten thousand years living in a planet 10 light years away, that can travel at half the speed of light- it would take them 20 years to travel here and 20 to go back. For us, half a life-time. For them, just a short hop. And probably totally worth it if there was a habitable planet at the end of it.

Can we really say what is the expected life span of intelligent species with technological civilisations on planets in a 10 light years radius from us? Like hell we can.

Note also that with that kind of speed they'd be here within the lifetime of most people currently alive (even taking into account the 10 years it would take for SETI's message to reach them). Even with a quarter of the speed of light, many of us would be still around. We're not even talking geological time scales here. We'd have plenty of time to reflect on our foolishness. That's no way to go extinct, cursing at your species' stupidity.

If you won't listen to prof. Hawking at least listen to Hawkwind: Space is deep. Don't go fucking with it.
Somewhat true but at some point, some people look around and realize even though something is at that point part of their psyche, they come to the realization that they've been had. I am aware that some people won't believe their eyes despite seeing evidence right in front of them, but a few aren't that foolish.

As that old Lincoln saying goes, you can fool some people all the time, all people some of the time, but you can't fool all people all the time.
And I should add: if any of you work at The Met or the Rijksmuseum and want to be in touch about us hosting a CC0 copy of the images, please get in touch! (We've tried to reach out via the emails we could find, but I don't think we've received a response yet).
I know it's not that important but can we stop calling front-ends for the HN api clones?
As a sysadmin I use it, though to be fair most often in the form of emacs org-mode export to latex because I like the way it makes stuff look (so I'm not editing in latex unless I need to for some reason, which you can do in snippets inside org mode). Resumes, and anything I want to be formal such as latters and invitations I also use it for.
This caught me by surprise the last time I was in Vegas for an event although, as it turned out, my rate included parking. I don't know enough about Las Vegas dynamics to know all the rationale behind this. I do know that gaming has dropped percentage-wise as a revenue source.

I imagine the impact on visitors isn't that great. I know I won't rent a car unless I'm going outside of the city and it's just cheaper/easier to keep it while I'm staying on the strip. For locals, I imagine it will make some pay more and some switch to off-strip casinos but the higher gaming tiers still get comped anyway.

ADDED: I've been told that one of the issues was increased freeloading by people going away on trips and parking at strip hotels, especially Mandalay Bay but I'm not sure how much to credit that given other solutions that don't involve charging everyone for parking.
It's rare to have your marketer leave and then, three years later, have your company collapse into bankruptcy because they did something a bit unusual way back when. That's different.
Show HN: SpaceId – macOS space indicator
I'm putting my money in "Shoving tons of carbs down our throats and wondering why we suddenly are obese and have type 2 diabetes".
North Korea 'test fires ballistic missile'
First, thank you so much for putting together this list (you say "we", so I assume you are part of it); a great first step. What was your role? Do you endorse this list now and going forward?

Second, whoever made this list should include names that endorse it. They must be names of people trusted by various communities: IT security community, journalists (e.g., NY Times), activists (e.g., EFF), etc. Otherwise, it's just another list of very many on the Internet; who knows how reliable it is?

> It's been jarring to realize how many compromises are required to make things workable for groups of non-experts to use.

Third, I am very familiar with this problem, and that assumes you can persuade them that there's sufficient risk to justify the effort. The only solution is for someone to create secure, foolproof, user-friendly and appealing software that is effortless to install and maintain. I know it's easy for me to say "someone", but I don't have the expertise and this project absolutely requires expertise; it can't be yet another hack claiming to be secure.

Fourth, that will create another problem: If that software becomes widely used it will become a very appealing target for extremely well-resourced attackers. I'm not sure of the solution to this problem; can software really be secured effectively against those attackers? Really, we need more than one secure option; or, what if most communication software was fundamentally secure? One step at a time.
Async stacktrace debugging in IntelliJ
If you have carpeted floors, you can use those little teflon disks that you insert under your furniture legs. Once you have all the legs on the teflon disks, its quite easy to push them around.

No need of lifting heavy furniture. You only have to push. Of course the traction of your robot wheels should be greater than that of the furniture laden disks.

I am not sure if you will have the same performance on wooden or other flooring though.

https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Furniture-Movers-including-s...

https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Furniture-Movers-Carpeted-Su...
In a hundred years, there will be campaigns to rename any buildings named after non-vegetarians.

There won't be a lot of names left if you take only the purest of the pure as names. Naming a building means celebrating the good things that a person did, not condoning the bad. People are complicated and it's a disservice to college students to suggest otherwise.
Erlang OTP

https://github.com/erlang/otp
What year was habitat released? I'm under the impression that WWIIOL (cornered rat software) might have been out earlier, but perhaps as public beta. They did extend that beta a couple times.
Make the robots like the Kiva bots and have a liftable platform. That way, they only need to support the weight of the furniture, not the people.
ANd how much does that cost?
Yeap, exactly. He doesnt understand that insurance is subsidized and that different companies pay different subsidies. It is not unusual for people at even big companies to be responsible for half their insurance costs i.e. 4k a month of typically around 8k unsubsidized.
Once again, assumptions. "A more primitive, shamanic point of view". "faith, personal belief". This is quite the opposite. No one is asking you to believe anything. There is no presumption of human-like deities without a shred I'd evidence. There is just direct, personal observation of phenomena. Choosing the most obvious explanation for it doesn't make it pseudoscientific crankery. It is just a first pass of a hypothesis without much evidence for anything else. And it is no more or less valid than other hypothesis.
Statistically, this seems like a better bet for using the agents.
Copy my SPA JS code?

Oh please. You have no idea the hell you have brought upon yourself.
Caliper – Units of Measure Library for Java
Any Java plugin for Minecraft written by teenagers looks like a heresy for Enterprise Java developers...
What I remember from my neuromorphic engineering course (or analog VLSI course) is that we designed the silicon layout (with n and p doping regions) in a way that the transistors are operating in the subthreshold regime in the IV characteristics. If I remember correctly the IV characteristic is linear in the subthreshold region? In contast in normal digital chips only the super-threshold region is used (voltage above a certain saturation threshold switches the transistor completely on). Using the subthreshold region it is possible to implement spiking neuons with only very few transistors. It works completely different than digital circuits. The connections between the transistors don't transmit just 0's and 1's. Instead all wires transmit analogue signals where the exact voltage matters. This makes these chips extremely energy and space efficient. These chips can also work much faster even in comparison to biological neurons (obviously using some assumptions and simplifications, such as neglecting certain special kinds of ion channels found in real neurons).
Nielsen and Chuang
For longer documents in TeX, I wrote a collection of TeX macros for to make cross referencing easy. The collection was a little tricky to write but is fairly easy to use and works great. The package is based on some logical names that serve as, say, pointers; then in one place define such a name and in other places refer to it and get the page number, etc. inserted where the reference is made. Given some simple examples, it's really easy to use. I have a simple macro for my favorite text editor that will create a new, the next according to one scheme, such logical name. Having an easy way to have cross references is nice.

I also have something similar but simpler for bibliographic references.

TeX, some TeX macros, a good text editor with a good macro language (e.g., KEdit), and a good spell checker (e.g., ASpell with the last TeX distribution I got) are super good writing tools to have.
But the impossibility of getting such straight, logical answers from most civilians/customers is the best part of why Agile exists; only when they see something can most customers be clear, at least about what won't work. It's not even a question of their being vague - they will often give you flatly false statements because they've never been trained to be precise, think about edge cases, or even what intellectual honesty is.
Probably developed by the Sybase team after they bought Sybase years ago.
https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=notifications&section=...
Not really that knowledgeable about maintaining servers, but is it really enough, but is it really enough to just straight away 'apt-get openvpn'.

Surely for it to be a 'secure VPN server' there has got to be some stuff set up first, like setting up key only login, disabling root ssh login, disabling everything ssh, setting up firewall, disabling ipv6 entirely in the case of openvpn?

I run a vpn on digital ocean and its amazing looking at the logs and seeing how quickly, and how many attempts there are to break into the server straight after setting it up. As a person who isnt completely sure of what i am doing when it comes to firewalls and setting up 'jails' or whatever, this kinda makes me uneasy. I wouldnt even be sure how to tell if anyone had broken in to my server...

https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/vpn/set-up-a-hardened...

This has been the most useful guide that I have found on setting up an openvpn server. It has a bunch of steps to go through before you get to actually installing openvpn. But as I said, I am not that knowledgeable myself when it comes to running a server, so this may all just be unnecessary.
and a life span that makes it reasonable to undertake the journey from your home-world to the Earth.

You can even relax this requirement if you're willing to consider generation ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship
Until you get locked out of your account of course, for a number of reasons such as heavy use that triggers an arbitrary lockout and there's nobody to contact. Somebody might also wish to purposely DoS your account with incorrect logins for a number of reasons too, like hiding a money transfer notification or just to screw with you.
Computer Modern is now one of the most overused typefaces on the planet. It looks great for that “Victorian-era American-style math paper” look.

People should mostly avoid it otherwise, IMO. There are plenty of better alternatives for typesetting pretty mathematics.

* * *

More generally about the thread here, TeX is not a productive or effective tool for making business cards or other heavily graphical documents. The point of TeX is to handle standard typesetting of structured prose and mathematical notation. Any time you need flexible layout control, TeX turns into more trouble than it’s worth.

Someone using a dedicated graphical page layout or vector graphics tool is going to make a better business card (or poster, or flyer, or diagram, or ...) in less time, in a way which is much easier to modify later.
I'm only familiar with varnish 2.1, but as to that version I think it's a bit of a stretch to say varnish is well written. VCL is very complicated - just check the request flow diagram [1]. Some of the documentation is very poor - try to find out the properties available on beresp for example (you have to grep the source code [2]), or try to understand the precise function and implications of grace mode, saint mode, or hit_for_pass. The best redeeming quality is varnishtest and some of the other tools that are provided.

[1] http://book.varnish-software.com/3.0/_images/request.png

[2] https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/blob/2.1/lib/l...
Redis, the most cleanly written and easily extensible code in C you can find.
> global warming is a thing

So is the heat death of the universe, yet we don't feel existential angst about that. Global warming is a serious problem and it'll have a tremendous impact on human life. However, this will happen in a timeframe of several generations.

While the consequences are certainly dire global warming won't mean the extinction of mankind, or most non-human life for that matter. Life will adapt. Mankind will adapt. We can't prevent global warming anymore but we can do something to slow it down and temper its effects.

There's no reason to be defeatist about this. In the 80s sometimes the notion was floated that by now pretty much all of Northern Europe should be below sea-level due to global warming. This shows both that things don't always have to work out as badly as predicted and that a change for the better is possible.
Newos
Is the resolution of commercial imaging products limited right now by law or tech?
The Russians erased everything remotely German in Kaliningrad.

So ironically, the Jewish graveyard in Kaliningrad is one of the last monuments of the old city Königsberg, since the names are all German.

I think they still failed. You cannot erase Kant.
> Either what Google is doing is horrible or what Microsoft did shouldn't have been a problem

Maybe go reread about the case? It was basically breach of contract and thus quite different.

The basis of Sun's lawsuit was that Microsoft had a license to implement Java™ and part of that license was the requirement that their version would be compatible as defined by the compatibility test suite.

In their attempt to "kill cross-platform Java" they failed to be compatible and so Sun sued and won.
Reading data from an IonicDB Database
Medium Is Broken
... start your own business is either negative dollars or $300k or somewhere in the middle with a LOT of grinding (certainly a lot more than 70 hours/week). So if the goal is to make $300k guaranteed, starting your own business is not what you want to do
https://github.com/vandys/vsta

Especially the kernel in src/os
A society cannot be a dystopia. A dystopia is a fictional example, a literary scenario, used by an author to illustrate how political and social structures might work in a hypothetical reality.

Linguistically, it makes as much sense as saying a state is a satire, or that a person is a comedy.
Those weren't engineers. Mathematicians and physicists, really.
Yeah I honestly don't see oracle going away anytime soon