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> it did not become the world wide network until commercial interests ( and free market capitalism ) took over

It was literally world-wide before that, but if you mean that it boomed: Yes, commercial businesses helped a lot, and so did others:

Free, open source software such as the World Wide Web, the entire protocol stack (IP, TCP/UDP, DNS, etc.), SMTP, POP, IRC, *nix/BSD, Mosaic ... let's give credit where it's due!

The personal computer revolution and all that went into it. Normal people were just getting their first computers in the 1990s. No point in Internet access without a client machine.

Telecommunications innovations such as PPP, modems, etc, which allowed data connections over phone lines.

Also, not all the commercial business was 'free market capitalism'; one big one that helped the Internet starting in 1995 was a predatory monopoly.
Dunno. German manufacturing success predates the Euro. The Swiss with a similar culture but an appreciating currency still run surpluses exporting stuff they make. https://www.tradingeconomics.com/articles/02212017075915.htm
I don't know. A lot of people in this thread apparently never learned to tell right from wrong.
What information in his comment do you disagree with?
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Damn people are tearing this guy apart, the reddit threads are particularly brutal. It's a video game.

The finder has no obligation to risk legal trouble so that a game can be modified, played, or even preserved. I'm all for archiving these sorts of things, and agree there's probably no great reason to keep the source private.

But if I have the (likely) stolen property of a large company and they ask for its return, I'm sure as hell not going to go all cowboy to make some enthusiasts happy.
So, Levandowski was trying to use the 5th Amendment to prevent Uber from disclosing, during discovery, the author of a report (in Uber's possession, not Levandowski) that Uber was claiming was privileged.

There are a few issues here:
1.) 5A protections don't generally cover the production of existing documents, only testimony (statements, answering questions).
2.) 5A doesn't protect corporations, only individuals.
3.) It's (apparently, per the discussions in the various court filings on this issue) incredibly rare to try to prevent the disclosure of the metadata on a privilege log. (Basically, during discovery, if you find a document that's responsive to the discovery, but think it's privilege from being turned over, you have to provide a report of what the document is, who has it, who has ever seen it, etc. to prove that it remains privileged.).
4.) For someone who isn't a party to the lawsuit to try to assert this is incredibly unusual.

The judge basically called the whole argument bullshit. But it was all related to the document stuff, not Levandowski's testimony/deposition.
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Hah, yeah, although they're in court so it's not _that_ brilliant
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Bitcoin has never done a forcible hard fork, reversing legitimate transactions, to protect the financial interests of the developers.
If you don't think Kotaku is a site worth reading, don't read it. But reading cached copies just so you can avoid giving the page view to Kotaku is stupid. If they're producing content you want to read, then just read it!
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You _might_ be over-qualified, and people would be turning you away because they think they can't afford you right off the bat.

I always tell people (that ask): The hardest part is getting the first interview. Stand out (seriously, just be yourself) but don't be loud in doing so.
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An inheritance can include a company, if privately held. That company has a value, and that's taxed through inheritance tax.

The problem is that a company of value $x rarely has liquid assets of $x*$taxrate, so inheriting a company can mean personal ruin.

On the _other_ hand, not accounting for companies in inheritance tax means that every family ever will shift all its possessions into a company.

Roughly speaking, Germany solved this by creating a set of exceptions for value "in a company", as long as it continues to be held for a given number of years (otherwise, since it was sold, it's considered a liquid asset and thus fully taxable).
I think that more and more people are learning about cryptocurrencies and it hit a critical mass.
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Did you do software (in the sense you wrote it) and hardware?

No, I didn't write any of this software.

Many years ago I trained as an industrial electrician but programming was my first love, eventually moved into software development but I still miss some of the more fun bits of been a sparky.

I tried to become an electronic engineer but ended up in computer systems. I'm hoping to pick up the arduino together with my children soon though.
That's actually probably completely wrong. Just because the guy got it off of eBay doesn't mean it's not actually property of Blizzard. That's like saying that just because you bought a stolen phone from some guy in an alley, the rightful owner can't demand it back.
Whenever there is any AI/ML stuff on HN I immediately CTRL+F for your handle. Good reads + insights every time. Cheers.
Naw, keep it, it's a cool handle. Maybe just add your name to your profile (I know who "BitKeeper Guy" is, but there are almost certainly some users on HN who are literally younger than Git).
The responses attacking your point here seem to be operating under the assumption that the manager, and the OP's peers, don't recognize when someone is obfuscating their effort and/or results. People notice.

"Bullshitting" is defined as "be misleading or deceptive" and the cost of this is borne not only by "management" (who presumably is in this constant mode of misleading or deceiving you), but by your peers who are dependent on you, or who are waiting for you to deliver.

As someone who gets burned out from time to time, I totally get it. It's tempting. I don't know the best general solution, especially if you're in an environment of distrust (rather than what superplussed assumes). But maybe explore some other paths? If you're in a job where in order to function, you have to deceive your management AND your peers, maybe you'd be happier in a different situation or company or role. To the OP: are you trapped in your situation? (It may very well be that you are, for instance, due to market conditions or visa situation, which sheds some light on why you're opting for deception.)
Are you sure? Because everyone is still waiting on the Mac mini and Mac Pro that is overdue. I really doubt apple's doing anything in the VR space.
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It's not normal source code.

It's not like you found the source to the latest Halo game or something.

This is like finding the source to the original Halo game, of little to no commercial value but of immense cultural value.

Where possible these artefacts are archived so they will be around long after the companies have folded.

Unfortunately it's just not possible most of the time as companies end up taking their software to the grave.

Which makes this all the more depressing. This was an incredibly rare opportunity to archive something of cultural significance to millions of people, completely wasted because it fell into the hands of someone not equipped to deal with the situation properly or contact someone that does.
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Right now, if you would try to enter Reddit, it says "all of our servers are busy right now" and most of the times "this page is temporarily in read-only mode due to heavy traffic".

Why is it still happening in 2017 after many successful examples like Facebook, Twitter etc.?
It's silly. Don't waste your time watching this.
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> Turn off the update service.

That seems risky security-wise.

I'll just stick to my Linux machines, which update without bringing me down for half an hour.
Even if it was, I wonder how one could be caught doing that?
They can buy BTC, then exchange them for LTC in a non US based exchange and do the reverse for cashing out the profits. Eventually tumble them in the process for more obfuscation.
Did you? :)

Starcraft influenced the culture and politics of an entire nation and became a national sport. It pioneered "e-sports". It's a piece of history, and this disc is standalone a piece of history as well.

I think I know right from wrong, but I would still have absolutely no idea what to do if that disc landed on my doorstep.

Edit: I cannot believe this is such a controversial thing to say. Shame on the people who think this is an easy decision to make, put yourself in someone else's shoes for a while.
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It wasn't a bug with the protocol though. It was a bug with the coding of the contract.

However there has been a few forks to mitigate DDoS attacks.
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> Bitcoin has by far the greatest amount of research and intellectual effort driving it

It's not like the research is exclusive. Note that any research done on bitcoin can also be shared and used on other projects. Litecoin for example, which is a fork of bitcoin, is now benefiting from bitcoin's R&D by using Segwit first.

Likewise, other blockchains can teach a lesson for bitcoin. For example sha256 proved not to be a good hashing algo because the reliance on ASICs, which centralizes mining. Another important area in research is the development of other greener forms of blockchain security such as Proof of Stake, which will most likely replace Proof Of Work once perfected.

In a way, when I think of bitcoin, I think of it as this whole massive umbrella project that includes all the alternative blockchain projects too, that can all share their research / experiences / ideas with each-other. This is the beauty of open source software.
Presumably people want to read it without supporting them financially. It's not that complicated. If you don't care about blizzard's IP rights, you probably also don't care about giving otaku money for reading their content.
If that's the case then sure, but it probably isn't. People who still use cash for small purchases probably use their bank card two or three times a week at most. That "short amount of time" is likely to be days. And that's just for people who use one card; anyone with more than one card could go for weeks between transactions on a particular card.

Even then, if I telephone a business on the other side of the country and order something over the phone then the transaction will originate hundreds of miles from where I am. You don't need to be physically present when your card is used. There are many scenarios where a card could appear to move around the country (or world) while still actually being legitimate transactions.
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But in this case, that's Blizzard's right. They own it whether you like it or not. Just because something is important doesn't mean they should lose property rights to it.

Abandonware is a thing and I remember there being some legal headway made recently in that respect, but Starcraft isn't abandoned. They just released a compatibility patch and made it free to download.
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You seem convinced that your interpretation of a "simple" contract is the only obvious one and that any other interpretation is unecessarily convoluted. But I don't think that is the case at all. Simplicity almost always comes at the expense of clarity, which is why simple documents like the MIT license or the US constitution produce so many conflicting interpretations. Not because there are bad actors; just because it is unclear.

If you ask a lawyer what is best, they will likely recommend a professionally drafted license like the Apache License v2. Just as you may not understand every aspect of a doctor's diagnosis or prescription, it may not be feasible to understand all the relevant statutes and case law. But I think it makes more sense to defer to expertise advice than to bury one's head in the sand.
I would say that your asking for a $1M USD mortgage with a $20k income would be reckless at best, and dishonest at worst. Yes, they're also at fault, but you're not blameless in that case. You have a personal and societal responsibility to spend within your means. To do otherwise causes damage to the rest of us.
Not too sure about "no commercial value" considering the impending release of StarCraft: Remastered
Before this, we were using a little bit less of VS Code. Before that, we had a much more minimal but custom frontend.
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There was something like ¥30bn (£200m+) of Bitcoin traded in the past 24h, seems very very high but I guess it happened. Anyone have details?
Second the suggestion of OpenHatch.
It's actually pretty simple. If you find yourself in the same situation:

1. Rip disk
2. Send to archive.org
3. Mail disk to Blizzard.

Blizzard will destroy this copy or at least make sure it never circulates again, by sending it to archive.org you have relieved yourself of the burden of releasing it.
They may or may not choose to release it but they will at least keep it archived so that if Blizzard is to be lost then history will not be lost with it.
Its being done in Zoho corp. A product based company in India.

They pay students from economically weaker segments who don't/can't attend college and teach them software development basics some time.

And these students are put in production teams to learn from apprenticeship.

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I think he's trying to solve a different problem.. universal access to networks.

I don't think his measures will actually solve it, but I don't think he's protecting incumbents for the sake of protecting them.
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They have what 100 employees. That is not enough to run a 8 billion monthly pageviews site.

The heavy traffic right now is probably due to #BuckinghamPalace
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I can't make you a legal guarantee of that, but Blizzard will not destroy the copy. It seems unlikely they'll release it any time soon given SC Remastered, but they're not idiots.
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Who cares? /s

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But it's still owned by Blizzard. It doesn't matter how important it was, they still own it. I am 100% sure the guy did the right thing in returning it, not only legally but morally as well. If Blizzard were to MIT license it that'd be amazing but they're the only ones with the power to do so, no matter who finds a copy in a box.
Technical details aside, it could be because a high-impact news story is running on Reddit (and isn't available elsewhere, neither on FB/Twitter or mainstream news)
No, with orbit altitudes of 1,110km to 1,325km we're talking about many hundreds of years: https://www.nasa.gov/news/debris_faq.html - "Debris left in orbits below 370 miles (600 km) normally fall back to Earth within several years. At altitudes of 500 miles (800 km), the time for orbital decay is often measured in decades. Above 620 miles (1,000 km), orbital debris normally will continue circling Earth for a century or more. "
I am of the opposite opinion these days.

I know Python well. I know Django well. Those cover 90% of my needs as a programmer and the libraries are usually of a decent quality (compared to my experiences in JavaScript for example) so why would I introduce a new language? I will write better quality Python/ Django code because I know the idioms, and best practices, I know how to write clean code. If I switch to another language, sure I will be able to write the same, but the quality of my code will not be as high and it will take me longer.

I don't think knowing more languages is a bad thing, but adding new languages to a project for the sake of it can be.
> I'd look to lower the inheritance to children to say 10% and abolish trusts that fund generations of lazy, spoiled brats living from their great-great-grandfather's money.

Exactly, these leeches have to be stopped.

And the money could be instead put to some good common like free college, health care leveling the playing field for everyone.
I'm not talking about distribution, merely archiving.

I don't think it's reasonable to argue against archiving when it clearly has cultural significance.
It's unclear whether it's a legal obligation given that the disc was found, it's even less clear whether it's a moral obligation.

If you didn't know anything about Blizzard, what would you speculate? Someone elsewhere in the thread for example is speculating Blizzard would destroy the copy -- if I thought that'd be a possibility, I would personally never send it their way and you could in no world convince me it's moral to send a piece of history to its demise.
I always tell myself that I should skip unit tests because it's just "a side project". Then I lose sleep over it. And I end up spending an additional week and a half working on it instead of actually shipping. In my opinion it really depends on the nature of the side project. If you're going to charge users or if it's an open source project like a python package or npm module that other developers are going to rely on, it's absolutely necessary that you do. Else, meh.
>You can choose to eat healthy and exercise and reduce your chance of early death from obesity/health issues. You can also drive extra carefully, or take a plane, or not travel at all if you're that concerned about a car crash.

Since "Terrorism" is a political problem, how about a political solution? Stop going into Muslim countries and murdering women/children and tearing down governments with no plan for rebuilding? Be more cautious about what you do on the world stage. Stop bombing brown people just because they don't support 'American interests' and such.
It's a holdover from the gamegate crap. It's one of those things you should downvote or ignore.
Gotcha, thanks for the feedback. :)
Removing from circulation permanently is basically the same as destruction for the purposes of archival.
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Indeed, that doesn't seem to be a very plausible contribution to the success of the Mittelstand. In the US, inheritances large enough to capitalize a mid-sized company are usually protected from inheritance taxes through a number of "tax-efficient structures".
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We could of had enthusiastic fans see the inner workings of such a beloved game and tons of articles around the technical details, but instead we protected the intellectual property rights of a billion dollar corporation. Strictly by law, it was "the right thing to do", but it was a real missed historic opportunity.
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No, this is not true. You must not live in Vancouver. It is really sad that this myth continues to have a life of its own

I am from Vancouver and I don't know what you're talking about - every for-sale sign I see here in Burnaby for a detached house is primarily or exclusively in Chinese. Do you live in Vancouver?

Latest reports peg foreign ownership at 5%.

These are reports that are published almost exclusively by the BCREA, an organization that is known to misrepresent data (the so-called 'Benchmark Home' price, cross-market mixing, etc) and is the only organization other than the government that has this data.

Do you know why the provincial government imposed the foreign buyers tax? It was because after about 6 months of collecting this data, they realized that they had been so thoroughly and completely lied to by the BCREA, especially for sales figures in Burnaby and Coquitlam, that they felt compelled to act.

The 5% sales figure comes from aggregating all sales of all 'homes', condo+detached houses+apartments+pre-sales across the entire Fraser Valley, including places like Chilliwack. It also groups together the absurd stock of 1 bedroom condos that families can't live in with detached houses which 10 years ago families depended on. Please stop quoting this ridiculous 5% figure - you're doing so much more damage than you realize. I can't be everywhere to correct you.

Nobody cares about house prices in Chilliwack because they're still quite reasonable and they're too far away from where all of the jobs are. 75% of the GVRD is inflexibly zoned for detached houses and all of this property has now been bid out of the hands of Canadians who earn their living in this city. What good is 95% of housing not being purchased by foreign investors when it's all in Chilliwack or Squamish or is one of the ubiquitous lofts or 1 bedroom apartments that are completely unsuitable for families?

Ideally we would de-zone Vancouver and allow the city to organically densify - a city that can build as many homes as it needs can frustrate investors and still provide everyone with an affordable home. But in the meantime, the foreign buyer tax halted rocketing detached house prices and put a lid on what anyone can charge for similar market housing like 3 and 4 bedroom condos. Let's not pretend that this was going to get any better without that tax.
I wouldn't have returned the source code for 10000$, let alone a measly 250$.
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I am a bit lost. How is cryptography about secrecy of the text through some operation, like a function, while at the same time being a system that defines itself?

Cryptography has nothing to do with secrecy at all. It has to do with maintaining the integrity of the communication (or specifically, the message) given highly active and adversarial entities.

Anyone who thinks they can have security through secrecy (i.e. 'cryptography') is a fool, imo.
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You do realize that hundreds of people have had access to that source code over the years? The disc being "found" doesn't make it less illegal.
> It's not normal source code.

...its not?