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> ”Small set of very narrow purposes” or even “data” are too difficult to define legally. There’ll be loopholes to exploit.

Eh, not really. I don't see how you can maintain this position without concluding that laws aren't possible at all. And laws aren't code. Judges can and do smack people down for being too "clever" in how they interpret them. The 5-year-old's "I'm not touching you!" defense generally doesn't work.

Frankly I can't tell if you're actually advocating such a ban on "numbers" or trying to reductio any notions of regulation of data collection and use to death. If the latter, I think you'll need to try harder. I find it fairly easy to imagine laws that'd make collecting people's data something most businesses try to avoid unless they absolutely must have it to operate, and in the latter case severely restricts the kinds of commerce they can engage in while holding said data.

If skirting regulations that happens to involve words that are intended to mean things (so, all regulations) were so trivial companies wouldn't be so concerned about them, I think. Fact is lots of regulations are inconvenient to them, and involve terms no less inherently ambiguous than the ones you called out, which are nevertheless refined and defined to sufficient precision to be effective.
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I AM NOT A LAWYER.

THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE.

It is not certified by either FSF or OSI. The process of getting it evaluated by the OSI and certified involves a lot of money, unless it is such a popular license that the OSI is politically backed into a corner about it. The FSF's politics around such things get downright strange; I'm not even sure what it would take for the FSF to consider a non-GNU license.

AL2 contains restrictions such as a requirement to perform bookkeeping when making changes (notes for every modified file about who changed it) and restrictions against changing another file. The bookkeeping restriction is violated with stunning regularity; so far, nobody has been sued over it, as far as I know, but that's true of the majority of license violations anyway.

AL2 also, as I mentioned, has some serious license incompatibility problems. Some patent and indemnification material in AL2 is considered incompatible with GNU licenses prior to v3, for instance. In fact, any license that includes a restriction against any connected work being "more restrictive" in some way (which includes GNU licenses, among others) is likely to suffer some significant compatibility issues with any license that has weird quirks like the previously mentioned issues of AL2 (bookkeeping, invariant file), too. The patent termination part of AL2 is unlikely to cause incompatibility with most licenses (GNU licenses are weird, in that regard) unless they come with a restriction on "restrictions" and have a less restrictive patent clause than AL2 (no patent termination, for instance), but the edge cases in AL2 can cause issues with other licenses.

I'm not a lawyer (and this is not legal advice), but I think a case could be made in court that AL2 and GPLv3 are actually not compatible at all, because of those clauses, despite what ASF and FSF say.

Beyond that, there's just the simple fact of complexity. You've probably heard that software tends toward X bugs per Y lines of code, and that's true for the most straightforward, linear software designs. As the complexity of the design of the software increases, though, the possible unexpected interactions between parts of it increases as well. The result is that, in practical terms, the likelihood of bugs actually increases faster than the number of lines of code. The same effect occurs with legal licensing terms, to some degree; the more complex a software license, the more likely you are to run afoul of unexpected legal effects of the license. AL2 is a rather complex license, much simpler than GPLv3, but significantly more complicated than something like the COIL, especially given the inclusion of the terms I mentioned earlier, which are radical departures from the most widely-used, best-understood "state of the art" of license design.
Because subsidized housing is located in, and funded by, the city (at least where I live). There is no option to move somewhere cheaper and keep the subsidies.
Hijack? He's as establishment as they come.

He's essentially the french version of Rubio, not in the "minority candidate" sense, but in the "fallback establishment candidate" sense.

The only difference was that French elites learned from the US Republican elites, avoided internal discord and obliterated the opposition with "timely" scandals.
Video replay of crashes directly in the Sentry.io dashboard via SessionStack
Some of the Best Parts of Autonomous Vehicles Are Already Here
Uhhhhh, making our lives less political is now considered entirely unrealistic? Fun times...
S&P? the one which repeatedly offered triple-A ratings to those junk securities before the GFC? It was sued by both US federal and state governments, eventually had to pay $1.5 billion fine for its wrongdoings.

Maybe S&P should fix its own credibility debt first?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-03/s-p-ends-...

China has over $20 trillion saved, S&P calls it a debt problem and downgraded their credit rating.

US has about $20 trillion debt, S&P is totally happy about it and gives it a triple-A rating.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-25/with-21-t...

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current

S&P is still the same old S&P, it didn't change in the last decade.
Well no, because under jedbrown's scheme the insurance is there to pay the claim.

Simple analogy: a homeowner still has to make a claim if their locked, alarmed house is ransacked while they're away. Insurance may subsequently deny the claim if it's shown that the homeowner failed to follow best practices, such as locking doors and windows. In other words, adherence to best practices is a condition of insurance.
CouchDB 2.1 on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Stretch)
EDGAR does not only contain public company filings.
Fairly poor quality pictures with different lighting.

If you want to track changes track measurements, weight and body fat (even if it's with calipers, the absolute value is irrelevant the change is what is important).
Dear Apple – Ukrainian Cyborgs
Are you saying you disagree with the notion that it SHOULD be normalized, or are you disagreeing with the fact that he is doing it?
I really hope Stephenson writes a sequel. He left it open for one but he tends to do that.
I know this isn't the opinion of many kernel developers, but I think a lot of the problems encountered are better solved by removing proprietary GNU C extensions from the kernel code. I would love to start sending patches but I expect they'd just be NACKed.
Oh spare me. Apple is waaay in bed with rightsholders when it comes to DRM. It's all wine and roses as long as you're 100% bought in to their ecosystem. Try playing your iTunes purchase on a non-Apple product and you're SOL. I fail to see how this solves "the problems of the end users."
The moon breaks up in the opening sentences of the book. But the realization that it'll destroy the planet doesn't come for some time later. That part is a bit of a spoiler. But the moon blowing up just can't be good for the planet long term, so maybe it's not too big of a spoiler.

Earth is the Ned Stark of Seveneves.
If you liked this, you should read the Broken Earth series:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/112296-the-broken-earth
The NSA is dual purpose. Both as a signals spy agency and a signals counterintelligence agency.

And ultimately, what's the difference between a publicly vetted algorithm proposed by the NSA and a publicly vetted algorithm proposed by someone else?

Everyone points at the Dual EC fiasco, but if vulnerabilities are possible either way it seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
On mobile Apple removed IDFA (can be reset), UUID and mac address tracking. They are pushing hard to remove a way to tell if your mobile ads convert. On web apps, yes, removing third party tracking is also helps to remove any kind of accountability within your ad spends. This basically promotes dumb ad spends: you spend money without knowing if you get anyone to convert. This doesn't hurt google,facebook, et al, it actually helps them. Dumb money advertising is their bread and butter. (Pay per click / impression)
So did Equifax, and Target, and Home Depot, and...

I don't see the point you're trying to make. If we're going by "who has made the news for hacks lately", the private sector is by far the worse choice.
And then the ISP comes along and adds a super cookie to your traffic.

It's ISPs that worry me the most. They see all the places you connect to. Even if you use https, they still know the endpoints.
Artificial intelligence pioneer calls for the breakup of Big Tech
It's not only that. There is also that other US company that is the biggest competitor of this one, that will add every feature people want to their cheapest CPUs, will undercut its rivals profit rate, will negotiate customizations with larger clients, and yet refuses to compete on living those undesired features out of some CPU model.

No Simple Answer at all.
I've never owned one, but the physics are pretty straightforward. The greater concern is longevity.

I seem to recall a refrigerated air unit will use about 15% of its energy to cool its hot side and about 85% to pump the heat from cold side to hot side. So even if this eliminates that entire 15%, you're still going to be putting a lot of juice into that heat pump.
If the company name triggers you, just pretend it's a bus or a train voucher.
The world needs more non profit organisations that seek to build affordable housing for it's members. Besides the organisations should also build environments that provides social and economic possibilities - aka new cities instead of just urban sprawl or unfriendly suburban housing.
GitLab has an explore section https://gitlab.com/explore but it isn't as good as GitHub's one. Both to having less projects and us spending less time on it.
Tomorrow from Gamesutra: "Developers are dead. Good developers don't have to be your audience!"
Not that it necessarily relates to SQLlite, but I've seen this _many many_ times in real world databases in the banking industry.

Personally I don't like it and I am luckily not in IT, but as an analyst I have seen many weird database structures. One can only imagine the business requirements that gave birth to some of them.

To quote a solutions architect to the head of marketing in a previous job: "You asked for a monster, you got a monster."
H1 Twitter suspended a total of 935,897 accounts for the promotion of #terrorism
The "unconnected with any major publisher." part is the major one. I would say this likely doesn't affect Google and Facebook much (it might affect Facebook greatly for me, since I use the site once every couple weeks). Who it does affect is shadier third party ad networks which have less well defined privacy policies. It also affects any fully legitimate and non-shady advertiser that doesn't have a web presence you want to visit regularly. So in that respect it punishes all the non-Google and non-Facebooks equally, which may or may not be a good thing.

Google and Facebook may know too much about you, but I'm not really worried about them selling that data, which is some small relief. They are the ferryman at the river, and they charge to take advertisers to their audiences. They aren't in the business of selling boats.
Artificial muscle lifts 1,000 times its own weight
I'm wondering whether we ought to have special controls on Monsanto since they don't seem able to control themselves.
What equality in tech looks like in 2017
Far from an appropriate analogy. More like, spilling coffee on my keyboard makes it work like shit. Better fix it by pouring more coffee on it!
I just flew on a new Boeing 787 which claimed during the taxiing video to have light and air pressure systems that minimize jet lag. I've never felt better after both 10+ hour flights.
So adding onto this, if you do a quick google for an exmaple of a government RFP. OMFG! no agile in sight. You'll be greeted with about a thousand pages of spec.

This is where the big shops earn their money. They know how to grind through the paperwork.
We often require jobless people to be able to prove that they are looking for work, harder to do this if they are living somewhere cheap but far away from potential employers.

For me, UBI would need to have an expectation that people may have to move around a bit as it is introduced, they would have a choice on where to go though.
Rich man's phpMyAdmin?
We do train to do that but I never assumed that we'd ever not lose anyone in that kind of combat. I'm certain that casualties would be high while assaulting a machine gun nest. The interesting thing is that we haven't done that kind of fighting in many years, probably since Viet Nam. Now we patrol the streets of the third world and get hit by snipers.
I need to be licensed to drive because my incompetence could ruin people's lives.

Why is that commonly accepted, but it's horrible to contemplate regulation of Equifax for the same essential reasons?
That would make it even worse, a race to the bottom.
That documentation would already be available because they would have prepared it during the insurance underwriting process.

And suddenly there would be a much more litigious and powerful entity on the side of protecting consumer data, the insurance company that underwrote the policy. They deny the claim and Equifax suddenly has a lot more problems.
Comparing the level of care between Medicaid and the basic Sécurité Sociale benefits leads me to question this assertion.

Same for public transit, the lack thereof in most of America severly handicaps the poor who do not have a car.

Education too: the poor have the opportunity to put their kids through college or even med school. Yes there are higher failure rates among the poor, but 75% of the poor still graduate HS and if they make it past that, they've cleared the hardest hurdle (fewer dropouts among poor in college than MS/HS). http://www.education.gouv.fr/cid5008/les-trajectoires-scolai...
I'm not sure that is the case in Germany.
I think you're grossly underestimating the cost of doing that to a fleet of vehicles sold with the promise of being self driving capable with the hardware package on board.
AFAIK there's no such thing as a completely open source cell phone.
Why get very close when I can just spin up a single micro RDS instance of MySQL or Postgres and not have to worry about it?
True, if you ignore most of the relevant details it makes no sense. That's basically the case with anything in life.
It may not be simple, but it's been done before. Many, many times. That's the mind-boggling part IMHO. They're not trying to find a way to travel near light speed. They're building a payroll system.
That is not a pragmatic solution. An American adult pretty invariably has to interact with the credit system as part of life.
The other way around. A homomorphism is a structure-preserving map between two arbitrary objects, whereas an endomorphism is a homomorphism where the source and target objects coincide.
Could it be that some people who do know the identity of the victims are running searches with some type of pattern like "John Doe nightclub abuse ontario" and then clicking on the link to the reports about the case which Google then translates to relevant articles to "John Doe" in the future?
I'd have to agree their hardware and software is lacking tremendously for tech users looking to use their phone exactly as they wish. This really isn't true for 99% of their userbase however. That being the case their ecosystem is very secure and their app store is slightly less of a dumpster fire than google play.

Ultimately if you have the money for a premium phone and just need it to make phone calls, browse the web etc (the basics) then the iPhone really is the best option as it's more secure at the moment.

The place where the iPhone doesn't sell to someone like me is the hand holding babysitting it does preventing you from manipulating the device as I wish. Again this is a non-issue to them.

It can be frustrating to see someone overpaying for what you consider an inferior product but they're not using it like you are.
Ask HN: How do I go about creating a mining client for mining pools?
Hello, I am trying to learn how mining clients for crypto currencies work (specifically monero like the one found here https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-cpu). What I would like do is what kind of exchange and interface is implemented between the mining client and pool. How does the client gather "work", what does this work/job look like and what the mining client does with it and how does it send it back? All references and tips welcomed.

I am planning to create the client with Node.
You can probably opt out if you really miss the ads.
Really quite a contentious issue. Nobody seems to be ethically or morally bothered by murder, instead it looks like a purely pragmatic approach. Oh, what folly, millions of years of evolution bring majesty into our surroundings, and we as humans feel that we have the final say in who stays and who gets eaten. I pray our human family grows more compassionate and kind toward fellow humans and toward all life on the planet. We should be conserving the majesty, and we should not be funding it via means that undermine that basic tenet. Perhaps I speak nothing new, but it is important for people to know that if we truly looked at the situation, killing is unnecessary. If you really want to go big game hunting, why not use a tranquilizer gun? To say you are helping conserve nature while actively destroying it is nothing short of hypocrisy and deceptive wording. To me it's not really a gray area. It's the difference between evolving nobly and devolving.
Isn't the whole process pseudo-2D even in a 3D simulation? The moon initially moves on a plane around the and I guess most of it's broken pieces would stay in that plane?
In other words, you want an office drone with minimal intellectual curiosity who is docile, does what they are told, and works well with others.
You have too much faith in government--voting has not reined in the rogue elements of the US government. Far from it. $2Trillion budget, black programs, black sites, renditions, and then plenty of run of the mill bullcrap going on, too like IRS targeting groups for political purposes, ATF "gun walking" schemes that backfired, PATRIOT Act, mass surveillance programs, do I need to even go on?
Eclipse also had one (strangely called "Display"), though as with most things I found IntelliJ's a bit more user-friendly.
> No, I consent to allow creditors to do their due diligence to see if I'm a viable candidate for their product.

you do much more than that though , from my card agreement

"We may obtain and review your credit history from credit reporting agencies and others. We may, from time to time, obtain employment and income data from third parties to
assist us in the ongoing administration of your account. We may also provide information about you and your account to credit reporting agencies and others. We may provide
information to credit reporting agencies about this account in the name of an authorized user. If you think we provided incorrect information, write to us and we will investigate."

> Equifax is not required in this transaction

Thats upto the business to decide, not you. You choose to not get credit from them if you have objections to how they run their business.
Evaporative cooling is more useful in dry arid climates. If you live in Pheonix, AZ, you may get by with nothing but a swamp cooler [1]. If you live in Phenix City, AL, you'll just get mold because the relative humidity is high. So if spraying water on your coils will cool them, then a swamp cooler may be a better option.

At large scale, evaporative cooling works even in humid climates but by large scale I mean upwards of 20 tons [2] square feet plus a place to put industrial level noise.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

[2]: The 20 tons is based on the current Trane US product line. It equates to upwards of 12,000 square feet of conditioned space.
All cool techniques — also see this paper about procedural terrain generation with GANs

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01583706v2
Fossil-SCM.

I've always wondered why the creator of SQLite (who's also the creator of Fossil SCM) will state that SQLite is not meant for client/server scenarios ... yet his Fossil SCM (which is client/server) uses SQLite.

https://www.fossil-scm.org
The 2nd part is terrible. Should have been cut by an editor. Or the editor should have made him rewrite that whole 2nd part, perhaps make it into Book 2.
You're gonna have to explain why one would feel negatively about public disclosure.
Coinbase implements safeguards against phone porting
I love the first half but the second half is predictable and formulaic with stock characters that annoy you more than inform you. And then the sea people come back? Jesus.

<Former Spoiler regarding my frustration with some DNA stuff here>

Still, i'll probably read it a third time one of these days.
Payroll is incredibly complex. You have different work rules, union bargaining units, vacation and pension accumulation difference, etc.

Local and state governments also need to track time for Federal and State reimbursement and reporting with multiple, conflicting standards.

It’s compounded by the fact that the people who truly understood how things worked (because they were there when the programs were implemented) are mostly retired now.

When you hire contractors to do this, the scope gets defined up front, and the contractor dumps anything not captured on the customer, which generally means a change order and more $.
Those are good points about stability and memory usage, but I'm not sure what they have to do with performance. I'd be surprised (well, not that surprised, but a little surprised and disappointed) if terminal programs were actively storing all of data they read out of pipes into memory before displaying it, rather than a read-some/print-some informally buffered approach. Similarly, I don't think holding the data in the "displayed output" state is going to OOM your terminal out of the box: I get the impression that most terminal programs have a fairly conservative history-line-buffer size in order to avoid this family of problem.

This isn't the same as crashing/hanging your terminal's command-output parser (depressingly easy in Upterm) due to volume; when that happens, the process writing tons of data (cat my_huge_file.dat) will fill up its STDOUT pipe and usually block until the situation is resolved. I think that stability-in-the-face-of-large-output behavior is what you're referring to, rather than OOM killing, in which case I agree wholeheartedly that the behavior of terminal systems (and remote shell systems, etc.) is distressingly bad in the face of large-data influx situations.
I don't think the point was necessarily that you can always do better with lisp (with or without macros). A best case solution, regardless of language, can't be improved by definition.

The point is that you can adapt lisp to an equivalent best case solution. And if you like to program with lisp, that's a win. If you don't like lisp, then it doesn't matter.