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For the purpose of establishing prior art, it is not advantageous at all in comparison. The article talks about how patent examiners have limited resources and tend to rely on searching the patent database to find prior art. Putting something on the internet with a CC0 dedication is not going to make it any more visible to them.

I'm confident that there are no patentable ideas in my code and my purpose is just to minimize the burden on downstream users of copyright licensing.

If there were patented ideas in my code that I wished to license to downstream users, CC0 would actually be a poor choice, because it explicitly excludes a patent grant. That's why CC0 is not endorsed by OSI, and there's been a lot of hand-wringing over that clause.

Note that if you do copy/paste public domain code into a non-trivial project, you still should record its origins in version control at least -- even if the license doesn't require attribution.
Reading this through the lens of a current era where hierarchies are being subsumed by networks, and then reasserting themselves, this was written in a similar context, can't help but recommend "The Square and the Tower," a recent book that talks about the historical tension between networks and hierarchies.

Obligatory Niall Ferguson link for modern take on history, and a pleasant sunday afternoon listen: https://youtu.be/f3rhUZPNqX0?t=576
Because it's "reason," an online libertarian "thinkpiece." This is the ideal story for them: it involves regulation (a priori bad), and it's regulation concerning speech directed at minors (perfect for painting anybody left of them as illiberal).

Note that it's already illegal to harass people, and NY already has anti-bullying laws for minors[1]. This new law is the legal extension of existing protections into a domain that minors already inhabit. In other words, this law brings existing protections into the 21st century.

Note, also, that the standard for prosecution under this new law is precise: the minor's status as a minor must be known by the harasser, and the harassment must be part of a repeated course of action.

Volokh's examples (except for maybe the first) conveniently gloss over these conditions. His third, fourth, and fifth examples also conveniently muddle the legal process: nobody is a criminal until convicted, and the fact that any group of people "can be prosecuted" is not any sort of evidence of either guilt or innocence.

[1]: https://www.stopbullying.gov/laws/new-york/index.html
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While one of Bosch’s units was involved in dieselgate, on the whole their business has been for the betterment of humanity.

The point is that a company doesn’t have to always “maximize profits”. Tim Cook famously told a shareholder to “get out of the stock” if that was how he assessed his portfolio. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
Thats the plan, up until last week ive been without a personal computer though.
The "discipline of economics" has no predictive power whatsoever. All it offers are "explanations" that can't be translated into actionable policies.
Sure. But the original statement was that it does not work. eg 0% success

Whereas clearly it can, as there are the occasional success stories. So, it's more than 0%. Maybe not a high percentage yet though. ;)
Good questions! I had two starting points:

a) I won the VIC20 as a prize in a science competition age 13. I started with BASIC, discovered PEEK and POKE, and then saved up my pocketmoney for the Assembly Language cartridge. I was intrigued by the ROM and copied the entire disassembly into exercise books to figure out how it worked (printers were too expensive back then!). I reverse engineered the arithmetic routines, from which I discovered floating point representation's mantissas and exponents.

b) I expect the graphics transformations came from Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics, by David Rogers and James Adams (McGraw-Hill, 1976), which I would have found in the library at my mum's work. Her work was opposite my school and I often killed an hour or two in the computer section reading back issues of Byte magazine waiting for her to drive me home. I think that was the book because prompted by your question, I just found Rogers' 1988 update Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics in my bookshelf. The price sticker inside the cover says '1/89 $41.99'. That shows I bought it with the money earned from my first university holiday job in Dec 1988/Jan 1989. That was at the research labs of BHP Billiton, the Australian mining company, where I designed and built the electronics for a 32-channel channel data logger for a steel rolling mill, and taught myself C and wrote the data acquisition and display software.
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And the quote war goes on :)

Mr Siegel asserts that dark matter hypothesis is better than any kind of MOND (and, may I add, his opinion is expressed in over-confident and even dogmatic way) because it can "explain" structure of the Universe. However, people in comments doubt that LCDM is particularly good in this area:

"The problem is that dark matter can’t predict the structure of the universe all that well either. Making those dark matter simulations work requires introducing all sorts of epicycles, kludgy mechanisms to make the calculations work out properly. I’m not a big MOND fan, but MOND seems to solve certain problems fairly well, and the galaxy rotation problem is one of them."

https://medium.com/@kaleberg7/the-problem-is-that-dark-matte...
And one in St. Louis, first I’ve noticed here. Haven’t seen a Google van in a couple years.
I didn’t say they are bug-for-bug compatible and 100% interchangeable. Seccomp was not mentioned anywhere in the thread. People who are interested can look up the specific details.
In my experience, places that filter you out based on that, are places I would not want to work in the first place. There are tons of companies that would kill for candidates with math background.

Aside from that, you may well be getting filtered by the HR department’s recruiter who is just going down a checklist. Smaller companies/start ups are more likely to have actual developers looking at candidates and more likely to be more flexible in requirements.
Ah that should be some alternative trend for Show HN - showing some tech to IRL transformation success stories!
um... I'm unaware of the 4 movies about Private Ryan's adventures after WWII...
> "knowingly engage[] in a repeated course of cyberbullying of a minor."

How does it work for normal bullying? Why do we need a special law for "when things happen online"?

It seems that the online world needs separate laws from the non-digital one. This is nonsense.

Cyberbullying is just bullying on the internet. Do we have laws for phone-bullying, letter-bullying...?

Discriminations, bullying and other forms of abuse are a social problem. We need to solve the problem, not just try to hide it out of the public view that is the Internet.
That's weird. The reverse would make more sense. Math is an actual study. CS is definitely not a science--unless opinions and bad statistics count as science these days?
Those might certainly be factors, but they aren't really relevant for my argument that someone with a recognizable degree has a higher probability of capturing more of their earning potential. Someone without a degree even with the same ambition and focus will face the burden of other things.

Say you join a large tech company, gets a fair amount of stock, enjoy the stock increase and as a result make an additional $100k. That is not an unlikely scenario even in the early stages of a career for someone with a recognizable degree.

If you don't have a degree it is certainly possible to do the same thing, it just isn't probable. For every step where you have to be aware of something, understand it and make a decision the probability of getting it right decreases. And the same is true for housing, career, startups and even relationships.

It doesn't make sense to say that you can succeed if certain things happen. Because it is the if that is the challenge.
> Software doesn't need to be manufactured like physical goods do: the software construction step is fully automated by compilers and build systems.

Source code surely is manufactured. I write it with my hands, using years of knowledge and experience, spending a lot of time on it.
I dunno, either the data will be too noisy to make any inferences OR they will focus on people who have no connections. But the big risk will be the false positive rate and those who get put on lists and denied travel, entry or jobs.
Plato's procedural/dialogical approach to learning is also vastly superior to the Kantian/illuminist 'one and done' understanding of proof and discovery. Kant was a funny sort of progressive, who also believed that his work in metaphysics and epistemology laid the absolute foundation for the field.

It's odd but only enlightenment and post-enlightenment thinkers seem to approach their work this way, as if it were an absolute step forward which will never need to be revisited. You don't generally find it in ancient or medieval philosophers, who are much more interested in eking out nuance and exposing difficulties than in laying absolute groundworks and so on. In the enlightenment (at least in philosophy), progressivism and delusional absolutism always go hand in hand.
I was talking about single-chip switches. The thing about Clos is that it has non-linear scaling, so if you use a chip with lower capacity you end up needing far more chips.

All of these chips have smaller sizes available.
> Dirt on politicians is evidence of actual crimes and wrongdoings - not supposition and heresay.

$politician went with some supporters to a strip club. News at 11.

You think that won't affect the electoral outcome, even if it is perfectly legal? And if it does, that it could not be used in collusion with security forces to preserve an entrenched power?
This is a very large strawman you've constructed.
A more plausible solution is putting all that NSA deep packet inspection infrastructure to use tracing uploads of the banned videos, and even that isn't very plausible.

As long as there is a fairly safe market for the videos, people will keep being violated on a large scale.
Isn't porn banned in south korea? If you ban legal ways of getting porn that you identify with culturally, people will make it illegally, not surprised this happens without consent.

It's like marijuana in the U.S. all over again, if you ban it, people with less morals will make it available in a worse way.

Just allow porn and regulate it, like every other country does.
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I guess consequentialist v deonotological would be another way of framing it. That all said, my suspicion is that most people that go hard deontological essentially do so because they care more about their own moral purity than the state of the world.

And, if you want to look at what happens when deonotological ethics are the norm, just look at medieval europe.
I live in an apartment that came pre-wired. I’ve done this in 3 apartment buildings, up to 30m or so. I tested one with a Fluke 10GBase-T tester and it passed.
If we are going to massively simplify taxes, then it needs to be done on the richest rather than the poor like a consumption tax does. By rich, I don't necessarily mean rich individuals. The richest entities in society are businesses and they benefit the most when you or I have money in our pockets.

If you think about it, the most common federal tax on individuals or families, income wage taxes, is in fact a revenue tax on businesses just like the payroll tax. A business has to pay an employee more to cover that employee's income and payroll taxes.

If we are going to replace all taxes with one tax, I would like to see a simple, flat business revenue tax. This has a few benefits. First, businesses already pay revenue taxes and individuals don't have to worry about taxes. Companies like Amazon cannot behave like a non-profit to avoid taxes. Individuals will have more money in their pockets to spend which helps business make more money. We could probably excempt small businesses and/or startups and still generate enough tax revenue. A revenue tax would also double as a consumption tax except it is only the richest that have to pay it.
I'm not sure how to interpret this comment.

If you're making a reference to SQLite being in the Public Domain, there's a page on SQLite's website for organizations to purchase a Warranty of Title, which shows organizations can be skittish about anything.[1]

Are you referring to a program that is being dropped because it's not in the Public Domain? If so, I am for an example. As a potential counterexample, I am not aware of a drop of usage on, say, cURL, which is widely distributed by countless organizations and which uses the MIT license.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
No, the mass dimension is a modern phenomenon. "Mobs" in the past were 20 villagers doing things like burning a witch at the stakes. Everyone knew everyone else, and nobody would speak out for the witch precisely because their identity and reputation would have suffered from it.

Removing anonymity will just reduce the possibility to express a dissenting opinion. This is why authoritarian systems the world over have always loved ID cards and the likes.
A 'donate' button isn't a business model. Some open source projects have a business model built around paid support.

By all means please donate to projects you want to support. But 'donation' implies you aren't getting something in return. Otherwise it would be a 'purchase'.
Awesome!

Given the Chrome example starting on page 6, here's my guess as to how pledge and unveil will contain Chrome to e.g. protect SSH keys. First, 3 of the 5 Chrome processes are already pledged to disallow filesystem reads. The two remaining ones (RenderProcess and UtilityProcess) can be unveiled to allow directories like

* ~/.config/chromium
* ~/.cache/chromium
* ~/Downloads
* /tmp
* and anything important I don't know of

Additionally, if unveil works like pledge and can be further restricted after e.g. reading files into memory, unveils can then be undone. Anyone know if the following would work to first allow access to /tmp and then revoke that access?

unveil("/tmp", "rw");
/* do some work */
unveil("/tmp", "");
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OK, maybe you still have a point. What then, would be the threshold for saying: now, at this point, the costs of X are not marginal anymore but substantial enough to be taken into account?
You can't patent ideas only specific implementation of ideas.
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In theory yes¹, but in practice I would expect it to be a tricky time-consuming process. How would you differentiate between a legitimate electronic device on the other of the wall, and an illegitimate electronic device embedded inside the wall? The difference between those may only be a few inches.

I don't think this is one of those problems looking for a technical solution. What's needed is a legal/social solution: an aggressive campaign for publicly identifying and shaming perpetrators, with very harsh punishments handed out.

¹ From what I know traditional "bug detectors" work by trying to induce the bug to broadcast and then detecting that broadcast signal. But "metal detector" style bug detectors that instead simply look for circuits seem like they should be possible.
Please explain what the problem with what I wrote is.
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> therefore (afaik) is not covered by privacy law and other legal protections.

if it goes beyond legal mandate and the framework for that agencies legitimacy, collection method is somewhat irrelevant.
So - prior art is no longer good enough?

I was at Xerox when they were fighting a patent on their ideas. At that point in time all you had to do was prove prior art on the idea. Xerox used their notes during software development plus the code to prove prior art.

Similarly I was at Apple when they fought a basic patent on color matching. Apple succeeded in fighting the patent then proactively started patenting everything.
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The tremendous personal arrogance of Elon Musk, and the blissful disregard of those who would rather agree than question him, will probably ruin the industry for many others to come. Eventually enough people will have died in frankly ridiculous circumstances that trust will be lost.
Which is why the original argument is pointless.
Yup. And once it was finished, I never used it, but moved on to my next challenge. That was robotics, using car windscreen wiper motors, which had incredible amounts of torque :)
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Yeah, I'm sure the causal arrow goes both ways. You learn about it on HN, try it out, ask a question on SO. Somebody else hears of the tech, visits SO, sees that there's activity, tries it out, and mentions it on HN.

But I'm puzzled by the framing. If I were looking at the relationship, I'd be asking questions like: Is HN a good place to post if I want to make something popular? If I learn about something on HN, is it likely to become popular? If I want to know what the next big thing is, is HN an indicator of that?

If I'm thinking of SO as the cause of something, it'd be mainly in the category of docs: a supporting factor. So I'd be inclined to measure documentation and developer resources more generally.
How do you measure the decline?
You're talking past the point. The original comment was:

> I've never been asked about any education in developer interviews, only experience.

> ... employers simply stop caring about education level.

The reason he was not asked about education is not necessarily because 'employers by and large don't care', but rather that 'employers that do care about education would've already filtered him out after seeing the resume'. The interviews from employers that do care about education would never materialize in the first place.

This is not a judgment about the role of education and pedigree, but rather pointing out that any effect would have likely played out in the resume stage.
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I did a Show HN when my product was in private beta, so I don’t see why you couldn’t. People post landing pages all the time, attempting to validate an idea.
As someone who has around 16 years of dev experience, whose background is originally illustration and graphic design, and then picked up PHP and JavaScript and who has been working at a Java shop for the last 12 years, I can say that much of getting the job is a mix of two things.

One is like the other comment pointed out, having personal endeavors that you can show off is huge for showing that you can build something and that language and degree are less relevant than creatively being able to solve problems.
I had built a commercial CMS tailored for artists all in PHP, built my own theming framework, ORM as well as the payment process and all of the visual design for the system, themes and website. Mind you this was from 2004-2006, and had a lot to learn as I went. I say that not to brag, though I am proud of it, but it's a big part of how I got noticed at the company I'm with. It showed that I could handle multiple areas and solve a domain specific problem (this product formulated when Movable Type was the way to get a blog going, and visual artists, including me, didn't understand all the weird unixy stuff like the command line and the PATH, etc).
So I'd recommend finding an itch you'd like to scratch and see if others have that itch as well and build something. Another upside is you are actually making your life easier in some way.

The second factor that led me to joining this company (I still hate Java and .Net, though I understand their strengths), was because of the company culture itself.

Not only had I technically shown that I had value, but they actually saw my background as a good way of avoiding a monoculture where innovation can't happen. The company was young and it was a risk (we were about 20 people then, now over 800), but it was one that I took mainly because the company's cultural and work values mirrored mine.

If you're getting rejected because of your background and the type of degree, you may just not even wish to work there.
I've had interns and hires come in with degrees ranging from math, electrical engineering, and biology to music and even intercultural outreach, and they became amazing software developers. Heck the original creator of normalize.css and svg4everybody was one of those with a very non traditional background.

So also think of the place you'd like to work for.

I'm not saying those companies are wrong per se, they gotta do what they need to, but personally, I value pragmatism, creativity, transparency and flexibility more than boxes that are just checked on a piece of paper.
They were not compliant with the cookies law either. They did not show warnings that other websites show and they used Google Analytics years after cookies law went into effect.

Also, look at europa.eu now. See the cookie law popup? I don't.
1. Bottom colored dots are connected to shape colors, nothing else. Those shapes are often (in guitar literature) referenced by number, 1 to 5 (e.g. pentatonic shape 1), I decided to use colors
2. Pentanizer is adding interval colors. It splits "scaler" shapes into 5 micro interval shapes. It is explained in https://grunfy.com/updates.html section and this video might help to understand the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3DCpJlGQFA&feature=youtu.be...
3. I use some own JS on top of http://svgjs.com/ library...I'll need to cleanup things and make it somewhat "stable" before opensourcing it.
These conversations have started decades ago and are still in progress, but there has been no alternative solution yet. The current hype cycle is around blockchains for microtransactions and direct patronage but it remains to be seen.

On a personal side note, I find "start a conversation" to be one of the most cliched and overused ways to really say "someone somewhere should do something".
I wonder if the official MapKit one uses vector rendering? It looks like all leaflet can do is display pretendered tiles.

EDIT: Oooh, https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-leaflet