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> Labels have invested a heap of cash buying these rights

IP legislation needs to move into the 21st century where we have digital audio workstations and word processors and non-linear editors and many other modern conveniences that have brought the cost of producing and distributing content way way down. We need to send some sort of sunset signal to the labels and comparable organizations that they should stop investing so much in lawyerifying their content because the government is going to severely limit the enforcement of their claims to particular combinations of colors and sounds.

Come to think of it, maybe the enforcement period should be proportional to the development costs. E.g., how many man-hours at minimum wage + amortized equipment costs did it take to record that song? Okay, we'll enforce your copyright for three years. Oh, you spent gajillions producing a AAA-tier video game? You get 10 years.
Wow congratulations to the team! They are laser focused on core functionality. Rather than building every feature under the sun, they are consistently addressing issues and delivering features community cares about most. It's really coming along! Can't wait for 3.2 release.
Also, the EFF has an article warning that this court decision might set a dangerous precedent for Internet Censorship in the future:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/top-canadian-court-per...
What's that supposed to mean?

If one wants to learn anything in the sciences, we things like MIT Courseware, Arxiv, Libgen, SciHub, and "canihaspdf" on twitter. Yes, these are primarily pirate options - so what?

I can publicly see the course projections for any arbitrary degree, along with class titles. And many have book lists linked, so I can hunt for the books online using less legal methods. The only difficulty with some STEM learning paths is they require laboratories - those are hard/impossible to do at home and thusly necessitate academic environments. Computing, on the other hand, is easy to learn even at a Starbucks with a laptop and a phone.

What's stopping people from learning what they wish is primarily time and the will to (and the fact that school does a great job at beating the will to learn out).
Depends on how long you want to take them out. A couple towers or a substation is easy to replace, they will have a temporary tower up in a few hours. They have this ability because a tornado could take out a few towers. Likewise substations fail once in a while.

If you take out one wind turbine: they break often enough that it doesn't matter. They assume a few will break for mechanical reasons and that is accounted for, it hurts profits a little but probably less than their worst case failure budget has planned for. They will fix it sometime in the next few years. If you take out a lot of wind turbines, things get hard, replacing each one will take time: factories are generally booked months in advance and crews that can do this job is also not readily available.

Don't forget though that everything you do creates an effect. Take our wind turbines and they will beef up security. You are taking the risk that they notice your activities and put in some security system that catches you.
"An engine this big generates a LOT of drag at Mach 2.2"

If this is the case write a Medium article about how BoomSuperonic is able to make turbofans go to Mach 2.2
REST API? Wind turbine SCADA systems use interfaces like modbus or canbus, etc.

Security in these systems are dedicated network circuits and firewalls configured to only allow access on a specific port, from a specific IP address on a specific port.
I see one reason,the fact that if you put solar panel in a place where the energy will get consume directly or within a short period then you don't need to take care of storage and transport for it.
Yeah, I think my friend was thinking of trademarks vs copyrights. I'm not arguing the lawsuits weren't a scare tactic... it was a spectacular failure of a plan. But I'm not sure what else they could have done at that point, as the sky started falling.
Though I'd expect this system to be mechanical and not connected, you could also disable the limiters and let the turbine destroy itself with high rpm if the winds are sufficient. Not sure how often they are.
Not unless you have a contract that states otherwise.

A salary definitionally is a fixed periodic rate paid for tasks performed for exempt employees. Piece-work, whether that be hours worked or output produced is metered.
The nationwide roll-out of the 911 system was a difficult endeavor
I think any CI/CD system should be set up to also validate that any license used in the system has at least a month to go, and start complaining if not...
To the founder: you're equating the failure of your business/idea with the failure to raise money. They're not the same. Perhaps try to delve deeper into this thinking. That thinking is toxic.

You do still have the option of keeping your "vision" afloat and your business going (also, please, call it a business, not a 'startup'). Get a job, use the $2500/mo to keep producing content with the resources you can afford and work at 4xing that $2500/mo that you're currently making. You'll eventually be back in business, if you are flexible with how you think about this.

$1B or nothing is fool's errand.
I'd be a lot more inclined to spend time responding to you, because I certainly have a list of beefs with the software, if you didn't immediately launch into pimping your stuff and trying to sneak in how wrong I am. That's "I choose to exhibit the social acuity of a space alien" behavior.
To that end, the music industry backed Equustek in its case against Google, and widely welcomed yesterday’s Supreme Court judgement.

I'll put my tinfoil hat on and ask if maybe this could solve the mystery of some Canadian court ordering American companies around?
The only software you need is something that can speak the ACME protocol, which is what letsencrypt uses to receive your CSR (which you can generate yourself with openssl), issue challenge tokens and then (subject to you successfully passing the challenge) give you a certificate.

You don't necessarily have to do any of the above on the server for which you want the certificate. You can do it somewhere else and then transfer the resulting certificate to the intended host (either manually or with a shell script/ansible/puppet whatever).
> a DSL improves readability by sacrificing generality, so a DSL is for audience that's usually a subset of that language's users.

You'd think that'd be self-evident from the "domain specific" in the name, but I guess a lot of things are obvious once they're pointed out to you...
Well, O'Reilly seems to be focusing on the large, corporate market, with a broad array of topics, so from that perspective this move makes perfect sense as a small, simple optimization on their part.

At Pragmatic Bookshelf, however, we focus on the individual, highly skilled developer looking to improve their skills and those of their teams. We don't offer a broad array of tech topics, just the ones we feel are important.

We focus on readers who like to collect and own their books, DRM free in epub, mobi, and PDF formats (you get all three for one price, and can re-download forever, or as long as we're in business ;)

It's a different market, and a different approach.

So don't go hating on O'Reilly for this move—if it doesn't suit you, you're not their market. And that's okay. It's a big world.

/\ndy
Publisher, Pragmatic Bookshelf
And also "A Review of Criticality Accidents", a short but action packed read referenced in the article. Nuclear materials are deadly in the most unexpected ways.

https://www.orau.org/ptp/Library/accidents/la-13638.pdf
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The Kindle mobi books have issues too. For whatever reason, Amazon thinks it's acceptable to sell mobi books where the code samples are barely legible on a Kindle paperwhite.

I've had this issue with some O'Reilly and Manning titles ported purchased from Amazon in Mobi format.
Dont you have Lyme disease in MD yet? Deer look pretty until you see people end up crippled by tick borne diseases. We need a serious cull in the NE.
My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Who actually runs a single DB server, with no replication, no slaves, no nothing other than the primary?

CA is the correct way to understand a single un-replicated DB instance. And it's really really wrong :)
> It's the old debate of whether the programmer should be constrained by the language, or the language should serve the programmer. Maybe it's a matter of opinion.

I like to think of it as the language saving the programmer from herself
This is cool, reminds me of Github Commits, which I've been using similarly as a "code oss daily" sort of thing. As is usually the case, I wish this was self hosted, but cool nonetheless!
I'm absolutely in favor of something like a UBI (it's very similar to the EITC), but I don't think there's any way to get there, both politically and fiscally, without means-testing.
While my city has destroyed the environment of the majority of animals, there are some notable exceptions. Crows, ravens, pigeons, rabbits, squirrels--all of these animals seem to flourish in a city environment. They live in a much higher concentration than the animals you see outside of the city. Over time I think the story is going to change. These are just the first animals that have adapted well to a city lifestyle, and they will be selected for as time goes on.

If we could lose our obsession with monocultures, i.e. grass lawns, I think a lot of the world's biodiversity could be preserved.

Are there any notable startups devoted to making our cities more habitable for plants and animals?
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And then you develop the habit of using uber so a new local service would have to offer something that Uber doesn't. That could be lower prices or more drivers coming more quickly. I suppose a new service could offer a better deal to the drivers to get more of them using it but it seems to me once this market matures the demand for rides side will dominate. No ride requesters on the app means fewer drivers will use the new app.

On the other hand it is not nearly as difficult to create a new local ride share service as create a new Facebook
Almost all modern phones allow WiFi to be enabled while the phone remains in flight mode (keeping the cellular modem disabled), and this is allowed by FAA/FCC and, I think, every airline's rules in the US as well.

The reason that phones are banned on planes is no longer due to concerns about interference with the aircraft (which have been, by and large, debunked), but rather because the terrestrial cell network is really not suited to supporting phones at altitude.
4.9oz or .139 kg:
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Works well on sunny days if you adjust it to point directly at the sun, and it charges in 6-8 hours.
> Of course someone who gets paid to teach would highly stress learning tidbits slowly and excruciatingly. That's their economic incentive...

Well, I can see that's a factor, but not necessarily an overriding one. As someone who's taught at uni myself (not pure maths) we are not usually that cynical or fond of serving up "detritus". It's not as if we lack for valuable and interesting stuff to teach if we go through foundations too quickly, and we aren't paid just for teaching. Anyway, I think most do benefit from a quite painstakingly incrementalist approach to maths; me taking that too far and sometimes getting stuck is a personal failing.

(I recall a quote by a colleague of the group theorist Simon Norton, who famously suffered a career collapse/hiatus after a series of brilliant results, something along the lines of him having opened a doorway into a wondrous realm of new mathematics, but ending up stuck there, at the doorway, obsessed by the details of the doorframe.)

If I was teaching a linear algebra course, I'm not going to say "by the way you can skip this subject entirely because it will just fall out of your working backwards through Wiles' proof of FLT". For those of us without a once-in-a-generation mind I think the traditional approach is the right one. I was only trying to say, I personally sometimes get stuck and it will be interesting to try the opposite approach.

> Frankly, professors would be more useful to me, if I could purchase their time by the hour

If you go to a good uni, at least by postgrad level you do have that kind of access, and, if you get along, you retain it for free after you leave.
From the article "In fact, they were nearly indistinguishable from the actual photos shown to the monkeys." It doesn't really sound like they did that.
They've all done experiments with different price points. The 25 EUR rate isn't likely an accident...it's what gains them the most revenue. The installation costs are very high (certification, aircraft downtime, etc), and for satellite based solutions, the bandwidth cost is high. I don't even think they are trying to make money, just offset as much cost as they can.
Turbofans have no problem going mach 2.2 [1]. They're not super efficient at that speed but they're better than anything else we have.

What I don't understand is the engine size rule. I'm not aware of any regulation on the size of an engine air inlet....

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Sp...
I don't, as I'm a total numpty. But a lot of the security-minded folks that I trust seem to think it is.
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No, this depends entirely on your employment contract. (Though I do agree that presumably a groundskeeper would not have intellectual property clauses in their employment contract) I've worked for two companies and they had different clauses; one said something to the effect that they owned any IP in their business interest (regardless of whether it was created on company time or company equipment); the other was narrower and said that they owned IP created outside of work only if it was dependent on company confidential information.
> What's the justification of traditional providers to charge for the certificates

They could, so they did.
Italy has the same hostility toward small businesses. Legislation is way too favorable to large companies and incumbents. Until that changes, it'll take more than a visa to be a magnet for startups.
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I think this is one of the best features of e-readers. You can get the definition right there as you are reading, decently seamless.
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“You have only some kind of limited capacity in your head, so you can’t do too complicated things.”

A Peter Scholze quote from the article that captures for me one of the two common aspects of programming and mathematics, that we make progress by building better and better conceptual machines (the intellectual equivalents of levers, pulleys, inclined planes, etc.) to multiply our limited limited capacity to solve more and more difficult problems.

Edit/PS: You can see how highly mathematicians respect simplification by the story in the article about how Peter Scholze first became internationally famous in the mathematical community, by discovering a new solution for an already solved problem. His solution was much shorter (and apparently easier to follow,) and that was taken as a sign of exceptional ability, just as it is in programming.
> Just want to point out that there's no such thing as turning on a wind turbine at full speed reverse. It's not a fan.

Big AC windmills actually are started up as fans with their blades set to 'coarse' for maximum torque. What happens is that the grid is used to get them up to speed, they become sync-locked to the grid (same frequency) and then any excess power the wind imparts to the machine will be passed off to the grid.

If the machine would drop slightly below the 0 line of power produced the power company would still operate it as a fan until this situation persists for too long and the losses accumulate, then the mill is set to 'coarse' if the pitch is variable and allowed to coast to a stop or some low RPM waiting for the wind to pick up again.

All kinds of trickery (variable pitch, DC systems, maximum-power-point-tracking) and so on is used to expand the useful envelope.

So yes, they're also fans. But mechanical safety is a big thing in windmill design and most likely some FPGA or other hardware lock-out would stop you from being able to command a typical windmill from becoming an 8 MW desk fan.

Hurricane on demand, the evil part of me now wants to know what would happen. At a guess it wouldn't do much because the mechanism is rated to produce an X amount of power so it likely can handle sourcing it as well as long as enough air flows over the coils of the generator. As soon as those get too hot the failsafe will kick in again and the mill goes flat (totally neutral blade setting, the machine won't be moved by the wind like that) and stops.
.NET MVC is really bad when it comes to this. I'm not sure what problem they were trying to solve, but referring to a specific controller-action by using Url.Action("Controller", "Action", "Area") was a really bad idea imo. This means that visual studio's 'find references' functionality doesn't work, and the project I'm working on has dozens of unused controllers (I think). It also means that developers can do stupid stuff like make links dynamically loaded from the database ('Controller', 'Action' fields that never change).

I also despise the whole concept of 'validators' in .NET MVC. Not only does it prevent you from using distinct validation for particular actions using the same model, it completely hides the fact that validation is used at all (if you trace the controller code). Why not just write a class that validates the model and use it in the controller? Is that 'too much code/too much coupling' for the controller? Ugh.
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I'm not sure if it's actually intentional, but given the command-queue nature of the ga function, i[r].q's resemblance to IRQ could be a cute reference. (Assuming i and r were fixed, p=1/26 for using q... science!)

(Originally noted in some old article that I can't find right now.)
> Also, typed function parameters are painful. Declaring a parameter as a `f: () -> int` instead of `f` requires that you think about what the signature needs to be. What if you don't know? What if you want to change it?

This is actually my favorite thing about languages with strong type systems where type inference is less emphasized -- if you're looking at a function definition, even if you're not terribly familiar with the language, you know what the thing is supposed to do. Sure, it's nice to let the compiler infer your types at compile or runtime, but it's really nice to just be able to read the code and be able to see what a function is at least meant to do, based on what it returns.
I'm in Maine, so at least there'd be some ambiguity there - we have a town called Mexico!

Seriously though, the idea is that people want to do their shopping in one place. If you do produce, there's a lot of pressure to stock all of the produce anyone could want, for fear that they won't stop just to buy what you grow.
I use such a FireFox extension for reading Japanese: Rikaichan. Written by the same dude who put together the Tomato firmware for routers.
>working as a niche IT specialist I earn about 4500 USD per month after taxes.

Interesting. Is this working for a Western European or US company, or a local one (CE - assuming it means Central European)?
You...do realize that all the news articles are basically product and startup propaganda, right?

Go read some n-gate to put things in perspective.
> it's not uncommon for people to discover they suddenly don't own their land

The thing is, the same Government could generally just storm in with guns and say "this is ours now". A known-good register doesn't solve the issue unless you have a separate mechanism of enforcing the register... in which case the solution is filing your deed with the people you trust to enforce it, not using a blockchain.

Also: if you had multiple Government entities cross-signing property transfers, they could just make the lot of it public the normal way, no blockchain necessary. Irrevocability comes from people making copies of the list of transfers.
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Search engines that don't care about Canada's laws, probably.
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yes, it's I believe $5/month to unlock all of the stories, otherwise you get just the newest one.
With honey it could also be that they process locally, and call it local based on that. You really can't verify anything at all at a farmers market.
The thing with piwik is that it's

1. Has a large footprint (won't run on tiny instances)
2. Relies on blockable user side JS.

Is there something like that that just analyzes server logs?
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At the end of this contract, can you ask your current contractor for leads? Depending on the area you live in, nature of the work, perhaps you could visit a local chamber of commerce meeting and find opportunities to start conversations about how you can help.
Because they're not new. Check this XML DSL for Ruby, March 2008 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/ruby/xmlbuilder-a-ruby-dsl-ca...

What's happened here is that it's being done in a statically typed language which is harder than in a dynamically typed on. So, good job done.
SMB attacks can be used against medical facilities. I would reframe this as "both can kill".
> Google will comply because it is an intermediary and does not lose power from this decision.

Why did they oppose this ruling, then?

They will comply because Canada would fine them or block their operations in the country if they didn't.

> It comes out of this decision with more power: the ability to pick and choose which laws it wishes to follow.

They come out of this with more obligations: to globally filter some silly thing that somebody somewhere considered illegal, and possibly in the future to globally filter every silly thing that anybody considers illegal anywhere. That's a lot of mess for sure.

If they really get to pick which laws to follow, they should give the finger to Canada in accordance with the position they held in court. We will see if they have such freedom.
That's rather more top-down than I've seen. There are large corporate initiatives, but many projects happen because someone thought it was a good idea and sold it to management.
+1 to the Coursera course by Princeton that others have mentioned. Just finished it and really feel like I came away with a pretty thorough understanding of the fundamentals. Got exactly what I was looking for.
Declaring a parameter as a `f: () -> int` instead of `f` requires that you think about what the signature needs to be. What if you don't know?

(Java programmer here.) Then return a sufficiently "broad" type up to, if necessary, Object.

That said I almost never fall that far back, I'd see that as a sign that I should stop and think.

Oh, and the advantage of a typed languages like Java: you can have extremely good tool support. Netbeans (or IntelliJ or Eclipse) will happily help you to change types if it later turns out you were wrong.
The software just negociates the token and such things, and communicates with EL to say “I want to have a certificate for such and such domains”.

But you can place these tokens on your webserver by hand if you want, in a pre-determined path.
I would love a subscription service -- if they offered a books-only option with PDFs at a reasonable price.

I don't need tutorial videos or any of that other crud, I need books.

If I could get all the high quality programming books I want for $15 I wouldn't think twice.