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There’s a difference between a right which you can choose not to exercise at a given moment, and a right which you can waive in perpetuity.

Your example is the former. You can choose not to remain silent. However, you do not waive the right! At any time, you can stop talking.

Binding arbitration clauses are the latter. It’s not just a matter of choosing to use arbitration. You also permanently give up your right to use the courts for that matter.
an informed choice about what? the news is full of things you can't have an impact on. focus on things you can impact, like your own life and the people around you.
Thanks I’ll look into them.
> software interfaces are no more and no less "immutable facts" than software implementations

The crucial litmus test is whether there is creative expression involved or not.

So you have to ask yourself this question: are there multiple choices about how to make the interface or not? And the clear answer is, the very definition of an interface is to fix a single way to transmit some information. No other way works to interface to all the existing systems out there. Given there is no other way that works, there is no creative choice involved and copyright has no application.

Now where the argument sets in is that making a binary compatible interface actually doesn't require (in Java) all the variable names to be the same, nor the order of the methods to some extent. Hence all the argument in court about the "sequence and structure" being Oracle's creative expression. And the fact is, Google did copy many of the argument names etc. So you come down to things like, was it creative expression to call the x and y of a Point class 'x' and 'y' or is that part of the interface?

Which is all to say, yes you can argue about this. The OP however said there is no argument. I disagree: there's an argument here with valid perspectives from both sides. If you think there's no argument, you don't understand the nature of copyright law (after all, there's a reason this has made it to the supreme court).
I'm a bit confused about why Congress made appellate jurisdiction with CAFC work they way it does with patent cases.

The usual justification for giving courts supplemental or pendant jurisdiction over subjects for which they normally lack subject matter jurisdiction when a case involves both something they do have subject matter jurisdiction over and something they do not is that there they will usually be arising out of the same facts and involve the same witnesses.

If they were heard in separate courts, many witnesses would have to appear to both and that could be a hardship on them.

For appellate cases there aren't witnesses. It's just the lawyers arguing from the record from the trial court.

If the original case involved both patent infringement and something else, the patent aspects of the appeal are going to be handled by patent specialists, and the other aspects are likely to be handled by different lawyers.

Thus, I don't see why the appeals should be bundled together and all sent to CAFC. Why not send the patent appeals to CAFC, and the appeals for other aspects to the ordinary appellate court they would have went to if there weren't also patent appeals?

Furthermore, in the Google vs. Oracle case the second trial was just on the issue of copyright fair use, wasn't it? Apparently even though the trial court there was just dealing with copyright, because the original action why back at the beginning had a patent claim, it goes to CAFC even though there is now nothing involved that they normally handle.

If we are going to have this screwy appeals path, how about allowing CAFC decisions on matters that are normally out of their jurisdiction, such as copyright, to be appealed to the regular Circuit Court of Appeals they would have normally gone to? CAFC is supposed to follow the regular Circuit Court of Appeals for precedent on such matters, so it seems crazy that the appeals path does not go through that court. As a general principle, if court X is supposed to follow court Y's precedent for something, court Y should be in the appeals path of court X.
Meanwhile, a Salt Lake City TV and Radio company, KSL, grudgingly decided to get into online classifieds in 2000, and now dominates their local market, with 100 people working on the product:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/ksl-c...

We saw the same thing at RIM/Blackberry. BBM was a flagship IM product, but kept restricted to their devices. The strategy worked, until it didn't, and the company is still worth less than half of what it could have been: Whatsapp.
> Would I ever get a newspaper subscription? Nah, but I think there's a lot missing from the good ole days of it.

I (someone under 40) thought this but then the Seattle Times did a Groupon for something absurd, like $20 for a year of Sunday in print plus online access and the digital "print replica" for the other six days. I figured it'd be worth trying and, if nothing else, I could put the paper delivery on hold and just use online access until it ran out.

Now, over two years later, I've kept the subscription. Part of it is because the Times never went to charging me full price--it's more than the $20 Groupon I bought but it's less than the posted price for Sunday+digital so I dunno how they come up with what they bill me--but another part is that I actually like reading the Sunday paper. I'll plop down with the dog and a huge mug of tea and just lay on the couch and read the mini-magazine, the outdoor section, life/arts, that sort of thing. It's an hour or so where I've nowhere to be, and nothing pressing to do except read the fiddly bits that get passed by during the busy week.

The rest of the week, I'll flip through the print replica iPad app on the bus to work or read articles through the web site, but the Sunday paper is "pulp, ink, and chill" time.
Certainly subjective. One could in many instances easily find it clearer making the special cases explicit instead of messing with the data beforehand in order to force it to fit into a more general algorithm, these instances included.
Only in markets where it matters, which means they will stop making those edits after they replace OSM with their own maps.
Hmmm...did you read the article? There is credit which reads "This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license." as TC permits republishing.
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We thought they could be trusted. Back when it was almost impossible to fact check them or seek alternative sources.

Any given source have always been inaccurate or biased to one degree or another.
Oh, I didn't know that! Here's some resources about it if you haven't heard of it either:

documentation; https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/audit/

original feature issue: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/5808

release comment in that issue: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/5808#issuecomment-441...
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> I still think the question is relevant, because it may be that the political objectives were never realistic, and thus the effort is Doomed with a capital D, and dogged persistence can only result in perpetual war.

I think that your equation of my argument about the need for care in extrication with something dependent on the viability of the original war aims is misguided; the concerns are almost entirely unrelated.
"It wouldn't suprise me if modern CPUs actually added an additional step, where they first translate (compile?) the input stream into some internal instruction set, and then have microcode that acts as an interperator for that."

Among Java processors, there was quite a mix of methods ranging from CISC to RISC to in-hardware to interpret-to-regular-CPU's:

https://www.electronicdesign.com/embedded/java-processors

IBM's System/38 also did something with portable microcode that got converted to internal microcode:

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/index.html
The structure of common sense knowledge is "A unless B unless C unless D..."

Thus the ultimate way to organize a program is to have a clear separation between the specific and the general.
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It's different when it's a bootstrapped startup though.
Non-paywalled: https://outline.com/8bJzga
I think most news is over exaggerated, not so much fake.
What sort of careers can be considered "compounding" in the way Altman describes it?

Economist? Engineer? Lawyer? Doctor? Dentist?

I'm an economist, and i've always wondered if people with 2 years of experience can be better than those with 20+ years - if they're smart enough.
I'm reminded of Linus Torvald's interview at Ted [1] where he talks about programming "taste", and compares the following two code snippets:

remove_list_entry(entry)
{
prev = NULL;
walk = head;

while (walk != entry) {
prev = walk;
walk = walk->next;
}

if (!prev)
head = entry->next;
else
prev->next = entry->next;
}

remove_list_entry(entry)
{
indirect = &head;

while ((*indirect) != entry)
indirect = &(*indirect)->next;

*indirect = entry->next;
}

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8NPllzkFhE
One option is to have an ExactlyEquals function or macro that wraps the == in pragmas to supress the warning for the scope. At work some of our types don't even define == just to force the issue.
"(the) firm Proskauer Rose LLP who specializes in defending finance companies" — I wonder what would happen if _their_own_ employees sue them, it would be hilarious.

Also:

Apparently, I can't select the text to copy/paste—and I've tried disabling JavaScript. I wonder what's the reason for this?
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Yes I subscribe to my local newspaper. Most days I don't even read it, but there are a few reporters there that report on the local city politicians. If these reporters don't write, I don't think anyone will be keeping an eye on these yokel city politicians.
This effectively makes it impossible for a small plaintiff (or defendant!) to justify the risk of fighting anyone with a multi million dollar legal team at their disposal.
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An informed choice about, oh, I don't know... voting? Whether they support the actions of their local politician? What they should protest? What causes they should support? These are foundational elements of how democracy functions, it would be nice for them to work well.
I can select fine even with javascript enabled -- the issue seems to be that the highlight is nearly invisible.
> there exist some deobfuscators that bring the code back

Care to elaborate? The author of Movfuscator is very experienced and capable at reverse engineering. In one of his video talks he hits some Movfuscated code with some tools and says he doesn't know of anything that can deobfuscate it. That may have changed since then -- I'd be curious to know.
How does outcome prediction work?

It sounded like that was based partly on Supply (Army size). But the AI only knows it's own Army Size, and not the human's army size.

So how can the AI's outcome prediction be so accurate? At game 3 against Mana, the AI's outcome prediction changed from 60% win to 99% win, before the AI decide to go up the ramp. It had no way to know if the human had more army up that ramp
You're generally not going to be able to appeal either of those things in court, either, is my point.
I might be wrong (too lazy to check; on mobile), but I don’t think he is talking about compounding careers per se, but rather advices to look for opportunities that compound.
Technically that's true, but practically it is not.

I can go to a local library and view newspaper articles on microfilm.

But where can I go to find forum discussions and cat videos that were produced before the internet?

Nowhere, because they didn't exist. The internet (and applications built on top of it) encourage and facilitate creation. It's not just about distributing content that would have been created anyway.
This comment is way better than the article it comments.
Are you absolutely sure that making an informed choice is a useful thing? Speaking politically, the correlation between spending more and achieving political office is very high.

Getting your information from friends and family is not going to be worse than sourcing it from talking heads in a studio or newspaper editors. Anyone who, eg, gets their political information from me is going to get information sourced largely from reading parliamentary documents. How is that going to be worse than what they get from the media? There are politically interested people in every community to pick up the slack.

A radical view, but politics would be better off without mass, coordinated outrage. Compromise and thought should be the order of the day.
not forgetting an infamous HN comment: "lawyers are profit centers at Oracle"
Being friendless and rich is better than being friendless and broke.
Why type systems are interesting?
There is nothing in this article that I could recommend. I have a day job and try to do things on the weekend but ultimately it's very unsatisfying. As someone turning 50 I think his advice about keeping your day job while doing your dream work in dribs and drabs is uninspiring. You should take some risks. Even if you fail. Every person asked on their deathbed say this. Sure keep a day job but not before you give your dream a chance
Whoa. Don Fussell was my thesis advisor at UT Comp Sci a lot of years ago. That was back before the Gates building, when Michael Dell was still selling PC clones from his dorm room.

Good times.
Just add more digits to the number. Make it a uuid and put a qr code on the inside of the back cover for easy data entry.
Research groups at FAANG are pretty competitive too.
> exercising a fleet of expensive lawyers?

They are maintaining/improving the barrier to entry.
No, you will get the same results on all systems - ieee754 defines exact semantics and behavior.

The problems stem from running under different rounding modes on different systems, I believe at this point literally all platforms default to RTE, and if you’re working with a different rounding mode your errors are going to be much more significant than “compare to epsilon”.

The historic problems people have had with C compilers and floating point is that compiler vendors seem hell bent on “improving” performance by effectively changing clearly intended semantics (eg the compiler is an adversary). These include performing calculations at an incorrect precision (eg host precision, “convenient” precision) rather than the specified precision, or bizarrely treating floating point arithmetic as commutative and associative. That bit of behavior isn’t specific to floating point - c compilers routinely optimize out security checks because they taken “undefined” to mean “free to change clear intent”.
I think you may be a bit confused here. PCID is a feature that lets the kernel avoid a TLB when CR3 is written. With or without PCID, CR3 gets written. The segment registers have nothing whatsoever to do with this on a 64-bit system.
As you indirectly allude to, peak oil is an economic issue, not a geological one.

Due to a combination of technological ingenuity and externalities in the form of current and future environmental degradation, we've been able to so far avoid the point where oil cannot be profitably produced for a price that consumers can afford to pay.
Why can’t judicial systems just get more funding? Surely they aren’t that expensive? You just have to rent the space, and pay the employees (all of which probably don’t make that much money).

Surely some money from the military could pay for that?
You must be joking. Of course there are multiple ways one could design an application programming interface. People make subjective and aesthetic judgements about API design all the time.

As far as I know a single judge has ruled in favor of Google. Appeals courts have ruled in favor of Oracle on matters of the law and applicability of fair use. (It doesn’t apply.)
Report claims around 50% of Facebook users are fake
$0.05 and 10 seconds per bottle is $18/hour, which is decent. (Although that doesn't account for actually getting the bottle, or travel, or redeeming the bottle which isn't very fast.)

> not millions

No, not individually, but if tons of people are doing it all day, it adds up.

And bumping the fee to $0.10 makes it $36/hour which is very attractive to someone who doesn't have a job.

Again, the actual earnings are lower, but I think it's a realistic type of fraud.
Microsoft is the poster-child of abusing market power, and Amazon isn't exactly innocent on that front, either.
If the optimization level changes the behaviour the compiler is broken. “Optimizing” by assuming commutivity or associativity of floating point is no less incorrect than optimizing by assuming string addition was commutativeand associative.
A bunch of trigger happy folks with guns are not "first responders". Big difference between paramedics and folks who just want an excuse to shoot people.
I don't think that VFX teams have a significantly better time than game devs. They compete for contracts with razor thin margins.
As a matter of principle, I would rather just do the chargeback (and get it really fixed somewhere else) than use it as leverage to negotiate for what I want on the spot.

If a company is prepared to stiff me like that, the convenience of having it fixed right away is not worth the concession of letting them have my money when all is said and done. Is that just me?
Rise of TikTok an inflection point?
Is the global popularity of Chinese video sharing app TikTok an inflection point that is going to threaten the global dominance of US tech companies? Your thoughts.
> - we now have Amazon DocumentDB that is a closed source MongoDB-like scripting interface with Postgres under the hood

To clarify, Amazon DocumentDB uses the Aurora storage engine, which is the same proprietary storage engine that is used by Aurora MySQL and Aurora PostgreSQL, and gives you multi-facility durability by writing 6 copies of your data across 3 facilities, with a 4 of 6 quorum before writes are acknowledged back to the client.

So, it's a bit inaccurate to say that DocumentDB has anything to do with Postgres.
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> But anything observable in the world of reasonable energies (up to whatever modern colliders achieve) can be predicted with existing theories.

This is classic "world is flat" / geocentric argument. Breakthroughs are impossible to predict but can't happen if we give up.

Edit:

> If we discover something that only happens at astronomically high energies, would it really be that useful?

We don't know. World being round turned out to be pretty useful.
For sure, it's definitely harder - though many still succeed despite the cards stacked against them.

Do you have any alternatives or are you just venting your frustration?
> pay the employees (all of which probably don’t make that much money).

Court are packed with lawyers. The only thing buttressing against the sky-high compensation a good lawyer can make in the private sector is the political opportunity clerking and working in a court can open up. These aren't people one goes cheap on.
Competitive Pokemon with teambuilding would be something fresh I don't think existing techniques have figured out yet.

Not super prestigious, but IMO still a good intermediate goal.
> If we had such an instrument, Linux would not have been possible, because it's compatible with the Unix APIs. OSX would not have been possible, for the same reasons.

Technically, OS X would be possible, because it is not merely Unix compatible. It is a Unix [1].

[1] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3648.htm
Was Starcraft the only/main game that you played?
And the lowest are all in Russia and Canada. (first question I had after reading this headline). Wonder if similar records are being broken there?
> One thing that could fix this would be making the decision for arbitration binding on companies

This is how arbitration works. Non-binding arbitration is called mediation, and is basically glorified group therapy.
In 2012 neither a column store or spinning up a cluster was magic or state of the art.

Redshift delivered on sales and marketing.

Amazon made their fortune on the backs of open source contributors many times, and this is just another one of those times.
I'm under 30 and have been a newspaper subscriber for about 6 years. I plan to be a subscriber as long as they will keep delivering it. My parents subscribe to two papers: the San Francisco Chronicle, and what is now called the East Bay Times. Like you, I've long viewed the paper as an important family experience, where you sit around and trade sections over breakfast.

When I moved out, I didn't expect to become a subscriber, but I got a free trial at some point and decided that I enjoyed the paper and wished to support the establishment.
I've read all the Oracle v. Google decisions, with a strong command of software and IP, and I side 100% with Oracle. It is not a question of whether the world would be better if API's were open-sourced (in re: EFF amicus brief), or whether Mr. Ellison needs a new yacht (in re: comments on HN), or whether copyrights are a good thing (also re: HN). The question is whether the copyright of the Java API is enforceable.

Here's the bottom line: Google didn't have to call it's resizable array java.util.ArrayList<E> -- it could have made android.data.ResizableArray<E>. But they didn't. Google copied the method signatures, and more importantly their organization into packages, to avoid the "drudgery" of defining their own original API. While a function that finds the minimum of two numbers -- int min(int a, int b) -- can arguably only be written one way and may not be enforcable, the issue isn't any one method's signature. The issue is that the Java API is an original, curated taxonomy of classes, methods, and interfaces, organized by authors. And taxonomies are protected under copyright. In the case of the Java API, the whole API taxonomy is greater than the sum of its method signature parts. Oracle owns that taxonomy.
> Getting your information from friends and family is not going to be worse than sourcing it from talking heads in a studio or newspaper editors

Of course it is. Especially these days, your friend is just as likely to have gotten the news they're giving you from a Facebook meme page than from anything with on the record quotes from officials involved.

> There are politically interested people in every community to pick up the Slack

Yes there are. Journalists! That's what a journalist is. They're interested, they research, they present their findings. If you are reading parliamentary papers and reporting the contents to your friends, you are a journalist.

Just deferring to individuals in the community you know is a nice idea but it doesn't cover it. For instance, who was looking into Theranos other than journalists at WSJ? Best I can tell, no one was. Their reporting on the company was invaluable.
To be fair the southern hemisphere only accounts for 31% of the world's landmass and of that Australia is 20% of the total landmass in the southern hemisphere experiencing summer right now.