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> Judges absolutely can force work and do it all the time. See the discovery process Uber is going through now. For an example more relevant to the Apple case, look at the Lavabit court orders.

Discovery is different. Laws already require you to retain various records for later discovery. That's just general "shuffle stuff around" work that doesn't really require much effort.

What the FBI was asking for was custom software development to be done to circumvent existing software and hardware functions.

> The idea that writing software not intended for public release is compelled speech under the standard of Wooley v. Maynard is laughable.

Not sure I follow. The distinction wasn't public versus private release; it was writing the custom software itself. The whole "you can keep it and destroy it afterwards" didn't really matter. The FBI can't simply insert itself into your business, have engineers reprioritized from what they're currently working on and expect you to produce something for them.
I don't think that's really true... it was true for things like TCP, http, and email, which had massive network effects and little competition at their start. But Bitcoin is already only 60% of the total market cap of all cryptos. While bitcoin was already a monopoly, Ethereum came from nowhere to become 1/3 its size (and growing). "Good enough" is not good enough here. Competition is alive and well. Without active development, it will stagnate. We've already seen that start.
At that point that would be really stupid of him, since now they know who he is.

Instead creating posts and teasing other people (for karma?) he should just leak it. People are saying that it would be wrong etc. For goodness sake this thing is older than half of people on HN. Everything there is outdated and piracy-wise is not much worth.

Instead, preserving it to study and learn things about game development at that time would be far more valuable for the common good.
I find it funny just how much public mindshare the Estate Tax gets in the US: "only the largest 0.2% of estates in the US will have to pay any estate tax"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...

The estate tax is there to stop (or at least slow) the systemic rise of a new monied aristocracy. In any case, if you want to leave loads of money to your kids, the answer is "don't wait until you die", because you can give them a huge chunk each year before seeing that tax.

> 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.

How would giving them the money directly instead of via a trust fund stop that behaviour?
Rift is still cheaper, and wims on a number of other fronts, especially quality of applications. Optics are better, less screen door, sharper to edge of view vs Vive which gets blurry. Oculus controllers are clearly better.

The fact that you bring up Facebook shows that you are a technology zealot, and such people are always adverse to facts.
That's the whole point of an energy market and a grid system...if Cali can't cover their own energy needs (which they don't do already btw), they'll purchase however many MWs are needed from AZ, OR, WA, NV, or UT
If they wrote the article why would we want to not allow them to get the revenue? First time I've seen this practice on HN.
Also, to add another wrinkle to this discussion, most pension funds won't weight themselves 100% in stocks (corresponding positions in cash/bonds average much lower real or nominal return), and most pay significant management/consulting fees on top...
The US only values lawyers.

Doctors, programmers, chefs are significantly imported from other countries... particularly India and China.

Over 50% of the doctors and specialists visited by myself and friends were Indians. Also, over 50% of the highly skilled software personnel and upper management I worked with were Indians.

* However, none of the lawyers were imported. The position coveted by the US is simply lawyer. A friend of mine had a father who was educated as a lawyer in the country he immigrated from and is one of the poorest person I know. Shame, had they been educated as a doctor or software engineer, then they and their adult-son would not have found poverty as quickly if at all.
Yeah, Google made the decision at activation I think, but the helpful authors of this app helped me un-make it

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cheekydevs...
And then nobody ever receives your mail because the big mail servers don't trust you.
I used Cloud9 IDE [1] and ShiftEdit [2] a lot in history. Both are Working very well.

[1] https://c9.io/

[2] https://shiftedit.net/
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BlizzCon tickets are practically free to Blizzard though, aren't they?
All this smart contract talk makes me somewhat sceptical. There have been a lot of talk about code replacing lawyers for years now, I still see very little of that actually happening. Can you name any cool smart contract use cases?
sounds like the price discrimination is working.
Inspired by and vaguely similar to. Widgets (usually those gray domes) would be placed on a map that may or may not look like, say, Europe, and you'd have N players whose goal was to possess (own structures by) as many of them as they could manage. Structures were usually super expensive, and resources (or, in some versions, units themselves) were acquired only by owning those control points. No allied victories.

Once the balance was dialed in (lots of maps had nation-specific special units and stuff, which made it tough), it could create some of the most interesting, dynamic UMS games I ever played. Sometimes they'd go literally hours. Early land grabs followed by huge back-and-forths, usually only limited by the sprite limit (my own maps avoided sprite-y units like Carriers, Goliaths, and Valkyries because of it; lots of Marines and Firebats, trying to make them feel like Diplomacy "armies" that could plausibly bounce off one another).

The only games I can recall that were more fun were Last Man Standing Regicide ("Shimo-style") games in Age of Empires II.
That's reasonable in this case, but I agree with CalChris that the more general case must also fallow. The conviction of a human being must be the bar.

At some point in time someone arguing for the state was able to successfully introduce property as a "defendant" of a legal action, and average people go along with that. This is, on the face of it, absurd.

All of law exists only to a single purpose, the regulation of actions between humans, not trees, not dogs, not bits of paper with numbers printed on them, human beings.

Even someone's example of confiscating counterfeit money is not an action against the wrong doing of the money. It's an action against a human being who believed they were in possession of the money. They are the ones who suffer harm.

It is only reasonable for the state to confiscate the "money" from the subject, in this case because it is not money, and as such the harm to the subject was done not by the state's action of confiscation, but by the counterfeiter's action of tricking the subject into accepting it. It follows that it is not reasonable for the state to replace the fake money with real money because that would cause harm to a third party (the state). However, the subject would have a reasonable clam of restitution against the counterfeiter should they be convicted, and the state should support that claim.

Labeling an action as forfeiture, as in the case of civil forfeiture, implies a default due to some failure to perform, but that should be proven to the same degree as any question of law. The property does not act, or fail to act, only people can do that. Therefore the state must be obligated to prove that it has reasonable clam to the property, and that the party injured by confiscation are themselves guilty to the degree that such injury is warranted. AND as is the typical structure of law the state suffers the burden of proof to offset the potential for abuse of power.
The problem here is, what if studies showed torture really did work? Would he have the same, up front moral position? I think that's what parent was trying to allude to. Not whether he is morally opposed to it right now but if he's more of a "if it works I'll use it no matter what" type of person.

But that just calls into question a person's character and it's going to be impossible to dig down and find a satisfying answer for everyone. So I'm not sure how fruitful this is.
Back in the 90s in Russia (when this sort of thing was very much in vogue among the newly minted organized criminal / mobster class), there was a joke that went like this:

- Hey man, look what a nice new tie I've got! $1500!

- Dude, you're lame. They sell the same for $5k in the shop down the street.
Yes.

Using external GPUs over USB-C gives useful speed for training NNs.
1988...

http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/journalism/newstatesman/n...
I imagine open source projects emerging out of this. Those would hopefully be well-reviewed and -tested, and give you simpler access to common features.

It could be in the form of frameworks/libraries, but also full-blown clients. Even if it wasn't your custom code, you could still chose which software fits your needs best.
If you catch Zika and return home, any mosquito that bites you will get infected as well, and will in turn infect other people[0], some of whom might be pregnant.

Granted, someone from the continental U.S. dying of Zika is about as likely as them being eaten by sharks (less than 1 death per 300 million people per year[1][2]).

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/zika/transmission/

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/08/health/utah-zika-death/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal,_unprovoked_shar...
Why Can Some Blind People Process Speech Far Faster Than Sighted Persons?
Your English is very good, I was skim-reading and actually didn't even notice any mistakes until I saw your question at the bottom so I re-read the whole thing, but I thought you may want some comments:

> and I were even able to fetch

should be "I was"

> to at least making sure

should be "to at least make sure"

Other than that a few commas would be nice to make some of those long sentences flow a bit smoother. If you were speaking, you'd need to take a breath somewhere!

You are doing ridiculously good for a third language though!!

I have a lot of respect for people who learn languages, it shows a lot of courage and curiosity.
Since tickets are "only" $199 normally anyways, the ticket is clearly not the expensive part of "going to BlizzCon all expenses paid".
Sure killing it would make you feel better, but once you come down from that emotional high, you realize that the "organization" didn't do anything, it's just an abstract legal concept. People at Uber did bad things, and they should be accountable. The vast majority at Uber are normal people.
How did the manufacturer of the LIDAR component get the same exact design for Otto that they had built for Waymo?

I think it's pretty obvious what happened but there are a lot of folks who want to whistle and look the other way.
I think in the current form that's unlikely. It's Linux only and needs to be built on the exact same CPU. This essentially means that you have to compile on the same system as you execute.
Honest about what?
This is horrible. :(
It's also squashed all the applications together in giant sandbox with a few strategically placed separators.
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I anticipate great success.
And then massive backlash from the next gen.
Haven't tried it but Coincube seems to do this already: https://beta.coincube.io/indexes
Comparing Toronto with Ottawa is simply not a fair comparison. It is like comparing New York City with Albany or Seattle with Olympia.

The City of Ottawa includes the core of Ottawa plus all of its suburbs (excluding the Quebec side) and does not even top a million people. Everything is spread out and suburban such that our capitol is more like a bunch of closely spaced towns than anything resembling an actual city.

The City of Toronto (which excludes most of the suburbs) is, on its own, triple the population of Ottawa. The Greater Toronto Area is over 5x the population of the National Capital Region.
Kotaku has a very bad reputation among some circles.
Perhaps I'm wrong. It is the first time for HN, but I've seen this practice on other websites.
Here is a critique of the essay's assertions about the Wade-Giles romanization system. The TL;DR is that it is inaccurate and misinformed.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=32434
Almost definitely because that's the number of records inspected directly by a human, not the number that are stored, or the number that are inspected by algorithms.
That's silly - it's like saying you guilty of being a citizen of the US under Trump.
Share your idea we will prototype it and test in the market for you
Yeap, and coursera etc. The 'disruption' will come from every angle.
That's a pretentious insult without any substance.

At least the Honda product has some compelling, original engineering know-how; the Rolex does not, and that's all I ever said. What you're saying is unsubstantiated troll-bait and insulting to me, and a lot of people. Good on ya' for that one.

Edit: you edited your own comment... To still another unsubstantiated yet pretentious and condescending comment.
Watch enough YouTube videos and I hear you can build a whole house.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/13/us/mother-house-youtube-build-...
I agree. Indeed, it's arguable that corporate charters ought necessarily to be public-interest.
> See eg Greece who were pressured to accept a deal worse than default to benefit foreign EU banks

how are they being pressured?
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These low orbits aren't stable though, I think they only have a lifetime of 10-20 years before their lateral velocity decays and they de-orbit on their own, it's not like will just be stuck up there.
So you're expecting criminals to self-identify?

I think you're gravely underestimating the intelligence range and tech knowledge of 'criminals'.
How much of ETH's price is propped up by speculation?

I don't know of any stores that take ETH, while plenty take BTC. BTC also completely runs the economy of the DarkNet.

I believe all cryptocurrencies are somewhat propped up by speculation, but BTC is still the preferred currency for the vast majority of people using cryptocurrencies for the actual exchange of goods and services. That's how BTC derives its value (+ speculation, but very few people are willing to speculate at $1500 USD per coin).

As for the other cryptocurrencies, I would say that a lot of their value comes from people wishing to get in on the next "BTC" for $20-$80/coin.
You can get a 1+1 for $500k downtown. You can get a 2 bedded for 300k is Saugua.

Where did you get that it has some of the highest ppsf? A quick search shows just about every other major city I could check being higher.
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It's just telling which jokes are socially acceptable here, and which aren't.
I heard my first drone the other day that I was not expecting. Just a loudish buzzing sound in the sky while walking in a park. Looked up and it was pretty high and not very large. I was hoping flying personal transport could solve some serious problems like traffic jams, but now I'm fearful. Like Elon mentioned, noise will be a problem (barring some new levitation system).
Plenty of larger units towards the edge of the city. The core is for DINKs.
This is a bad idea. When you're buying a cryptocurrency, you're purchasing trust. Leaving your cryptocurrency with a third party undermines this. Any business idea based on people leaving cryptocurrency with a third party is doomed. Instead, why not tackle the reasons why buying those cryptocurrencies are difficult?
This is what it was originally intended to be, but Kickstarter long turned into a marketing platform for companies to get pre-orders for their new products.
It's almost 1984
Right. When they fly people in (such as the press) the hotel accomodations alone ends up being worth 1.5-2k for the stay (3-4 nights, $500 ish a night at the Hilton anaheim), and I suspect he's going to be there a bit longer as they'll surely show him around the Blizzard campus in Irvine (and they did say they'll take him out for drinks etc). I would estimate they are likely spending up to 4k usd on this guy, just from what he said they're doing.
I ain't too sure, but

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5mflek/alacrit... The Terminology (another light-weight term, with memory goals, that has scrollback) developer's comments are here
I'm not aware of any video format that uses FLAC.
Which is why Norway, Denmark and Sweden are doing so well with all their socialist programs.... so what now...?

I personally feel the right answer is in the middle. Socialise whats required like health, education, emergency services, roads, pensions, etc And leave the luxuries of life as free market.

As an extra touch, I would make politicians and civil servants required to use public services rather than private alternatives. Because when they and their families have to use public schools and hospitals etc they will care a bunch more about how they run than if they are choosing private alternatives, which is common in Australia at least.
If you are buying to speculate perhaps your concern is not the features of the currency but rather the profit potential. You might be perfectly content trusting a third party.
Well, 'they' allowed door locks to be easily broken by anyone with minuscule knowledge in lockpicking because that is the type of locks 'they' like on doors.

It's going to be no different for "crypto" solutions.

*Part of the FBI's job was to harrass anyone they considered a dissident or counter to their view of what US citizen should be or how they should behave. I doubt they changed at all. It's already documented and well known one of their favorite tactics was to break into people's homes while they're sleeping, or away, move things around... mess with their belongings or persons, etc... Expect it to be the same for crypto solutions "post quantum", if not already "pre quantum".
"The city is half full of rich Chinese driving Audis, and nearly all real estate signs come in Chinese."

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 mostly blame the press and politicians for perpetuating it. I also blame everyone for lazy thinking.

Latest reports peg foreign ownership at 5%. People seem to overlook that the majority of buyers are Canadians who want to live in Vancouver, the favourable mortgage rates, and the geography of Vancouver which makes it hard to build more SD houses.
You can in Germany. It's called Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung.
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I really doubt that. For many people, having a car is also a question of money. Also, in many cities it's more practical to use bicycles or public transport rather than cars. Also, the reasons 5-year-olds don't travel alone would still apply with AI cars: What happens if something goes wrong, e.g. the car breaks down?
It looks like someone found a copy of Blizzard's copyrighted source code, returned it to Blizzard, and got a reward. Why are people upset about this? It seems like the right thing to do to my mind. If someone found a copy of my own source laying in the street I'd be very happy if they returned it instead of releasing it on the net.
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>Personally I think you can make it a crime not to produce a key if a warrant has been issued to search what ever you've encrypted.

Personally, I find that suggestion repugnant.
For example they had that bug last year where somebody was able to steal 50 million dollars equivalent ether from the network. IIRC that caused one of the hard forks and is the reason there are now both eth and etc.
That was a bug in the DAO protocol. I'm not aware of any bugs in the btc protocol to allow hackers to steal money in their entire 8 years existence
hey lucideer, I think it's usefull when you had to work with SVG sprites + React.

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Perhaps it is time to split up companies - FB + WhatsApp, Google + YouTube, Microsoft + LinkedIn and add your own little favorite here.

If the tech sector tends to move towards natural monopolies and cannot generate its own competition, the competition has to be foisted on it. It is a better alternative than the consolidation of so much power into the hands of such a small group of people.

Although, frankly speaking, it is probably a bit too late. At this rate, large tech companies generally, and the megacorps in particular, are probably going to have a "Let them eat cake" [1] moment over the coming months, and the consequences will be worse than the mere breakup into smaller entities.

[1] I have heard that it is an invented anecdote. Necessity is the mother of invention, and there has been a clear need to express how out of touch certain groups of society can become sometimes. Cue the ostrich-like response of company employees to genuinely troubling complaints against privacy issues on these forums.
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What sort of comms did these rigs use? Satellite?

It depends. Satelite was often a fallback. When they where moored and in operation they would often use microwave-link to a nearby "access point" (another more permanent rig with fiber connection to shore).

And how advanced were the electronic systems on these rigs? I suppose they had to run everything from SCADA through to heating for accommodation blocks?

I only know about the radio and radar systems. I would describe the ones I supported as reasonably simple except for the fact that signals had to pass through a number of networks belonging to our customers, our customers suppliers and even competitors before reaching their destinations.
The main point of the article appears to be that peripheral EU countries did not benefit as much from the internal open market as Germany due to weak ‘civil service’ and oligarchic structures which predated the EU and caused a misappropriation of EU funds intended to improve competitiveness. It then somehow seems to conclude that this was all Germany’s fault instead of being the fault of the people in those peripheral countries with ‘economic implosion, rising inequality and widespread corruption’.

The article does mention wage suppression in the beginning but does not give a good argument why the wage suppression as observed in Germany since the early 2000's is a bad thing -- if wages are inflated and you need to compete with China for manufacturing, then you can either scrap your manufacturing or suppress wages, there’s not that much of an alternative there.

My sibling comment arguing that the largest low-wage sector in the EU is somehow inherently bad is also misguided: if the alternative is much higher unemployment, low-wage jobs are still preferable to no jobs, especially if they come with the usual social security mechanism, as is increasingly the case again.
Network effects of people who held one that skyrocketed then diversifying into others and news around any given one skyrocketing drawing people to the space in general.

Not to mention that every single one is an experiment that feeds back into the collective knowledge of what makes a good cryptocurrency, even as any individual one can only choose a single set of all the known tradeoffs.