skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apparently this isn't in a district court, it's in the Federal Circuit, which handles patent cases.

This is a very important nuance. As I understand it, for the issues in this case that are outside the Federal Circuit's usual jurisdiction (patents), the Federal Circuit was supposed to rule however the local circuit (Ninth) would have ruled. The Ninth Circuit probably wouldn't declare APIs copyrightable, but the Federal Circuit did.

However, the Federal Circuit doesn't establish binding precedent for the Ninth Circuit on non-patent issues. That's part of why the Supreme Court didn't take up this case, and why many of the amicus briefs recommended against the Supreme Court taking up the case. Google gets screwed, but that ruling didn't have cause an immediate upheaval of copyright law in the jurisdiction that includes Silicon Valley and Redmond. All that their decision really established was an incentive to include bullshit patent claims in any copyright suit that pertains to APIs, so that you can get your appeals heard by the Federal Circuit instead of your local circuit.
With relatively cheap transport to Mars (due to reusable launch), I don't see why building rockets there would make more sense than bringing them from Earth, i.e. returning them to Earth.

Furthermore, to develop rockets on Mars you'd also need a substantial supporting industry (metallurgy, testing, etc.).
> the assertion that employees partaking in a gig economy can reasonably choose their own hours is provably false

Having talked with a number of Uber drivers, I know that many of them like Uber specifically because they can choose their own hours. Of all the things they have told me they DON'T like, choosing their own hours is the one thing they all DO say that they like.

Some take off when their kid has a baseball game. Others like working new years eve because it pays well. Others don't like dealing with drunks on new years eve so they don't think it is worth it to them to work it and take the evening off even though they have to work more hours on other days to make the same amount of money.
With respect, this and pieces like it are not propaganda purely because they point out unflattering details of FB's behavior and that of their affiliates.

Im a techie working in finance and the reaction from most of the non-tech folks here is along the lines of "jesus, the amount of data they have on people is scary! Why do they have all of it? And what's this about android phones being used to send my call history to FB??".

Most folks outside tech use FB for the convenience and have absolutely zero idea of the scale of telemetry being gathered on them. Articles like this are written for the non technical people in our midst and the volume of them reflects the scale of education required for the general public on this issue.

On a personal note I'd say that on the whole people developing a healthy skepticism of just arbitrarily sharing personal details on social media or the internet in general is a positive thing for every society and journalists shedding light on that fact are not doing anyone a disservice.
Not sure if you're in the US, but here in the UK, and indeed across Europe, Jaguar is very much a premium brand.
For those of you with kids:

1. Do your kids prefer using an iPad over a computer with a keyboard?

2. Do you prefer them to use an iPad over a laptop?
"Records from the Arizona Department of Corrections show Vasquez served three years and 10 months in a state prison for convictions on attempted armed robbery and unsworn falsification. She was released from prison in 2005."

Women can be felons too ;)
I don't think it's reasonable to require each library owner to do regular updates, whether or not they have any changes to make themselves. This is unnecessary busywork. Library maintainers should only be responsible for fixing their own bugs, not responding to everyone else's bugs.
Mark Zuckerberg to appear before Congress to address Cambridge Analytica scandal
If Google gives up Java for Android now, Java will drop out of top-5 languages in 5 years.
Box office decides - right?
True. That said, if a school is spending 300 per student on an iPad, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to spend another 40 on a keyboard.
"Do you genuinely think that the GIMP developers don't want or don't try to make it usable or to improve it as much as they can?"

Their actions and statements really lead us to conclude as much, yes.
Agreed. I'm surprised not to have seen this. It reminds me of the "skeleton" wordpress themes from ~10 years ago. You get a view layer that's marked up and connected/connectable, but that has no styles.
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If I recall correctly, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the API copyright question until Google had lost on fair use. Well, Google has now lost on fair use. The Supreme Court may be willing to take the case now (that is, before going back to the lower court to determine damages).
Perhaps it could be designed so that, if the first telescope reaches orbit and works, the extras could be partially dismantled and large subsystems repurposed in a new satellite. Take out the optics package and replace it with something else. Keep the power distribution, solar panels, and other things.

If nothing else the intelligence agencies could probably come up with a use for it.
Claims of free speech crisis on campuses ‘exaggerated’, say MPs
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will reportedly testify before Congress
I don’t mean to be overly negative, but I hope you recognize the irony in describing your image of a hacker as someone with long, grey hair, and proceeding to say that superficial traits like appearance don’t matter, only ideas.
Wouldn't that have a risk of permanent infertility at some point or indefinite reliance on TRT? There's also the issue of aromatization
This reminds me a bit about a story retold from the book Stangers in their Own Land, a former oil worker who ratted out the oil industry dumping poison in the water supply. And the coal industry in WV. There are people who will put up with cancer causing chemicals for jobs, but dammnit any government control is beyond the pale.

I don't know how you reason with these people. It's not limited to the southern region of the US - it happens when people in PA and Upstate NY fight over permissions for fracking on private land. However it does seem like wherever there are knowledge economy opportunities people will prioritze health and welfare, while in areas that are not as advanced will fight tooth and nail to let these companies do what they want, even if it means it will kill them. I can only shake my head.
Or "How I have additional data to Facebook about my erasures on top of the copy of data I planned to erase".
This was the case indeed. A full scan weeded out the existing trojans.
Federal circuit decides to not properly apply ninth circuit law again, news at 11.
Huh? I have never seen that behavior, and I can’t reproduce it as described. Did it ever work that way? Do you have any reference for this?
Thank you for writing/posting this!

Specifically the custom bindings using Diesel. I was unaware that generic sql could be bound so easily. That’s closer to how I end up when needing to create higher performance queries. I need to take another look at Diesel now.

Very nice article.
Why would it have to be "donations welcome at <bitcoin address>!"? There's plenty of ways to ask for donations and it doesn't always require to have a single address shown. You can have a "Donate" button that when clicked, ask for a generated wallet (all from the same private key but that would be a different wallet still) and show it with a QR code in bonus.
Being at the forefront of science and technology is what helps to maintain our position as a/the global financial leader. This is what Republicans understand and care about and why science is funded. Of course that's also viewed through the lens of wanting to make sure some of that funding happens in their own districts.

FWIW, the crazy "omnibus" spending bill that just passed by a Republican Congress included a $2 Billion increase to NIH and $1.3 Billion increase to NASA.
They mostly used Apache Harmony's implementations.
Ask HN: Breaking into Tech
Disclaimer, I am asking this question for research purposes for a class paper. While HN does have anonymity, if you do respond, I will ensure any responses that I include will be anonymized to protect user identity.

An interesting thing about the tech industry is the reputation as a meritocracy; that with enough time and effort, anyone can learn the necessary skills to get into tech. I am curious of the opinions of tech workers of different backgrounds (race, gender, ethnicity, etc.) on this belief In your experience, have you found this to be true? Or have you faced barriers contrary to the industries meritocratic reputation?
It's the world's number 1 langauge by many standards.
* It lies 20km west of the town of Rameswaram *

That confused me for a bit. On Google Maps it is East or ESE of Rameswaram.
I'm guessing the Mozilla Foundation just lost all it's funding from Facebook.
There are a lot of unknown.

First of all, what is a lot? 1% of the US would be around 3 million people, which is a lot of people and yet 1% is not very significant. Of course we know some people don't own a car, you can make your numbers look bigger or smaller depending on if you count them. (there are books on how to lie with statistics if you want to continue this line)

There are people who are already close to giving up their car who will.

I believe that most people will not give up their own car. Rush hour is a thing for a reason: most cars are driving during those hours, so your costs for a self driving car ride rental needs to account for that. Once your costs are not much different the utility of your own car is a price worth paying. I know that I can go shopping over lunch and leave my new toys in the trunk. I keep a spare diaper in my car just in case my kid needs one. When I go on vacation I often start packing the car a few days before.

If you are frugal rides in a self driving car is probably more expensive than rides in your own car. Your payment has to cover oil changes (I change my own oil - I've concluded that it actually saves me time over driving to a mechanic). Your payment covers inspection/cleaning after every ride - nobody cleans their personal car that often. People who ride in a self driving car will demand newer cars even though a 12 year old car (if well maintained) works perfectly fine for the same task.
You missed threatening to sue the newspapers and reporters before the first stories dropped with Wylie on the record blowing the whistle the previous Sunday.
That sounds like a trademark complaint, not a copyright issue.
There are a few based on Red Hat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#Curr...
Will this have any reprocussions for AWS drop-in replacements?
Maybe it's just me, but I find the first version easier to parse visually. When the coding convention forces me to put the brace on the same line, I end up doing:

if (user.exists()) {

destroyHuman(user);
hideRemains(user);
}
Google stole Java and it's time for them to Pay up BIG MONEY!
See "adding a field to a struct" on this page:

https://blog.merovius.de/2015/07/29/backwards-compatibility-...
"The only way to keep them from monetizing you for commercial, social or political reasons is to firewall them off."

I have though of spamming face book with a ton of likes and shares of things I am not actually interested in.

What are peoples opinions of that? It has the obvious problem that my friends might associate me with things I actually dislike.
Because it's safer on the ground. If you put everything you have up in the sky, and they all fail for various reasons (solar storm, collision, wear & tear) then you're screwed.

Regardless, per another comment it sounds more like a budget problem, so my speculation was crap anyway.
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I don't know if this is the survey you meant to cite but the 2007 survey [1] has similar results. I disagree with your inference that "this is done very specifically by propaganda just like you mention to make Americans think that science, space, research is stupid and expensive and we shouldn't do it". I think this has more to do with people being very bad at estimating any large figures than people thinking NASA has no benefit. The survey itself notes that "public opinion is less focused the cost side of the equation and more oriented toward the benefits". NASA had a 68% approval rating in 2015 [2].

For better or worst, public approval and funding are not always strongly linked. In this particular case, I personally find it sad that funding is split on party lines. Like you, I wish I could reallocate some of billions of dollars going to the military to projects like this which somehow embody the human spirit.

[1] http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1000/1
[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/03/nasa-popular...
From 2004. 3rd part is of particular relevance.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/
JWT is suppose to be at Earth-Solar L2 Lagrange point. Anything that's not a failure in the initial earth orbit would require a repair mission that involves sending astronauts further than we've ever sent them (Earth-Solar L2 is significantly beyond lunar orbit).
Funny. I just did the same thing last week.
I sometimes hear about “atop”, wonder “Why don’t I have this installed?”, install it, discover that it starts (and requires) two additional daemon processes, at which point I remember, and promptly uninstall it again.
Ok, Mobileye would have seen the pedestrian 1 second before impact. That's not important though...

The important thing is would it have saved her life? Would it have taken action and if so when and how?

It's not clear that Uber's platform didn't see the pedestrian. In fact, I find it unlikely that it didn't see her, between radar and the bike, lidar, and optical (and sonar).

I think the situation here is that there were many failures and decisions that led to this death. Some of it is Uber being too cowboy, but there are a lot of other factors too.
Does anyone know other offline or online tools that allow you to visualise data better from the FB export?
People of any party tend to be anti-scientific when the science in question contradicts their party line. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans.
>IBM was so sure that the BIOS API could not be copyrighted they basically made their source public

That is not how copyright works. You almost got it right with your comment "anyone reading the manuals to understand the BIOS was tainted and couldn't write a competitor."

Copyright protects against copying. It does not protect against independent development. Hence the clean room set up.
V8 is not a JVM. It's a JS VM / ECMAScript VM. Java and JavaScript are not the same language. They are not even directly related languages.
They don't get any funding from Facebook, as far as I know. In the US, it's almost entirely from Google (source: I'm an ex employee)
Isn't it surreal that the people who yell and scream about the government regulation and interference are the same ones with their hands out looking for government money to subsidize the animal feed they use? Is it cognitive dissonance? Or are they that delusional they cannot see the connection? These people will occasionally feign righteousness over government regulation and spending unless its spending in their district for their stuff.
> That said, this really doesn't address either the Cambridge situation, or the fact that Facebook themselves allowed the Obama campagin to pull demographic information in violation of their own polices, which was arguably impacted far more people (https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-.... && http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5520303/Obama-campai...).

But Facebook is a private company, so they're allowed to do what they want regardless of whatever "policies" they set, so long as they remain within the law. If you don't like it, start your own Facebook!

(Due to Poe's law, I should note that I'm being sarcastic. Funny that this sentiment gets brought up all the time in discussions about YouTube, but not here...)

Just deactivated Facebook, and it's a wonderfully freeing sensation. I can always reactivate it if I really need to reach somebody who's only available on there, but that's unlikely at best.
Devil’s advocate here... the method signatures, the layout of the classes, what inherits from what, what bits are private vs public, are all pretty non-trivial. Moreover it’s where a lot of the subjective decision making happens, whereas the actual implementations are straightforward once you know what the method signatures should be.

I don’t necessarily agree with the decision but I can see where they’re coming from.
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I've been a Git Tower user for a few years now. The company I work for has been moving from Assembla to GitLab, so I'm happy to see the GitLab pull requests feature and am excited to try it. Interactive rebasing looks great as well. Nice work, Tower team!
I think that despite the constraints imposed by the lack of GC, Rust is seen as more approachable than more functional langauges to those coming from a C/Java/JavaScript etc background. And the only similar language with an ML type system is Swift which isn't quite there with libraries for backend stuff.

Also, have you seen the sample code for Rocket based webapps? I haven't seen much nicer in any language. The async ecosystem isn't nearly as nice yet, but it should get much nicer once async-await lands.
> Oracle saw the primary income from Sun as a lawsuit against google. And licensing on every Android phone period.

I think they see the Sun acquisition more as controlling the Cobol of the 21st century. Putting a stick in Google's eye is just icing on the cake.
ScreenTime. Makes movies from macOS screen captures
We're talking about kids here. Chromebooks have a short lifespan in the hands of kids. If they fall apart and slow down after a year, then what's the point?

The iPad is a more decent product for the price, lasts longer, and has the backing of the Apple ecosystem. It's a more durable product. Not to mention, Apple has AppleCare which should expedite repairs and replacements.

Apple provides a better overall ecosystem.
I second Mikrotik. I think my little home AP for my small house was $50 and it's absolutely great.
My favorite one is Ellen Ripley in Alien. One thing that kind of disappointed me was that initially the role was written for a man and only later Ridley Scott switched it. In other words, one way they could create a strong a female lead is by pretending she is a man. It worked in the end but wish it would have been just as good and written for a woman.

Another thing I'd like to see more is women supervillains. Supervillains always have the coolest lairs, toys, minions that listen to them etc. They might lose in the end but often have a great run. I started to think about it when my daughter one day wanted to be Darth Vader but the problem is "he is a boy" so she would have to settle to a princess for example.
At what current?
> The language of choice to build interactive applications on the web before JS was really viable was Java.

Actually, Java was already mostly dead for the public web when Chrome and V8 were being developed, it was more Flash that was the competition.
That's a much more manual and difficult B2B contractual process. A completely different level than automated data sharing via tightly integrated plugins.
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Except that wasn't the only approach available.

There are OEMs selling commercial JDKs for embedded use, with their own VM, JIT and AOT compiler variations, and library extensions.

Contrary to Google, they always played by the rules.
I think the bigger problem was cellphones, especially the iPhone, gaining the ability to record decent video.

Flip filled a convenient niche for a few years until the 3GS came along with video support, after which it was useless for many consumers. This was the only reason I bought a Flip, and the only reason anyone else I know with one did.

Similarly, I think the first mainstream smartphones to record HD video wasn't until 2010. Again flip had a small window with their HD models before cellphones killed them again.

At least GoPro have (had?) a good story around their mounts and waterproofing, there was nothing in my opinion a Flip did that cellphones didn't very quickly do better.
She absolutely should, in my opinion.
Can IBM enforce API copyright against BIOS vendors under this doctrine?

Does this revive the SCO linux case? Who owns the copyright for POSIX/UNIX system APIs?

What about cloud provider compatibility shims, e.g.: S3 reimplementations or Localstack?

I am left with nothing but more questions about the broadness of this decision.
True but it’s still highly advanced - an improvement on the A9 which was a major improvement on the A8, which performed quite well already.
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Which all works great as long as you're on an iPad inside the school network ecosystem.

What happens when you want to do homework at home?

My kids are all on gApps and they can work anywhere on practically anything that runs a browser. They'd never go back to an iOS ecosystem.
Probably the cutest tech prototype I've ever seen.
Except Google did not do a clean room clone. They simply copied, thus violating the whole point of copyright. If they had developed their own API that simply used different names but was functionally identical, they would not have violated copyright. Copyright protects against copying. They didn't do that because they wanted to take advantage of the huge existing JAVA developer base who would easily be able to use the copied APIs to develop for Android. I.e., Google chose to copy and thus are liable for that choice.
Triviality isn't the determining factor of what's copyrightable.

Edit: And particularly there's tons of case law that this stuff isn't copyrightable, see Sony v. Bleem, where a company literally wrote an emulator of a PS1, and courts said that was fine. Even to straight up sell as a competing product, and for running on competitors machines.

Edit2: And the otherwise shitty DMCA even has explicit exemptions for software interoperability purposes.
> People of any party tend to be anti-scientific when the science in question contradicts their party line.

[citation needed]. That's just not true.

> Democrats are as guilty as Republicans.

More false words have never been spoken. You are incorrect. The current political situation should show that clearly. No Democrat has ever lied about so many things as the current Republicans in power: even simple, verifiable facts like crowd size are made into lies and distributed as propaganda by the current group of Republicans in power in the US House/Senate/Executive/etc.
It is effectively impossible to take something as complex as the Java API, do black box testing, and come up with an exact copy. Google's API being slightly different is ultimately the point. The process yields a new original work even if it ends up being 99% the same as Oracle's API.
Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (2010)
You do know about “iotop”, right?
China has been developing its manufacturing expertise at the highest levels (they built the Bay Bridge) and their control of industrial resources (they have bought a big percentage of Africa). China is to the rest of the world as Apple is to the rest of the electronics industry.
Do you know something nobody else does? Because the news seems to indicate that its growth has been slowing for a year now, which is not good news in a rapidly growing market. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-apos-cloud-growth-disa...
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