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> Why are GPLv3 programs able to use syscalls in Linux without infecting the kernel with GPLv3 compliance requirements

Shouldn't this be the other way around? The concern would be with non-GPL programs making syscalls and getting infected with a GPLed kernel. The kernel isn't at risk of being infected.
I don't know why big corps don't do it more, because they are so big that most of the employees are de facto doing remote work already.

Most small companies are probably just too bad to do it. I mean they do it with contractors other companies, so it IS possible.

Why?

Most <30 people companies simply don't have any management skills yet. They have to get them when they get a critical mass of employees, but before that, they simply meander around with informal processes. Something doesn't work? Let's go to Joe in the next room and ask him!
My main experience with this is every time my wife gave birth. She goes through this long ordeal and is exhausted, but as long as we were there they were in every 2 hours, day and night, waking her up and talking to her. They don't seem to have any concept of people needing to sleep more than 2 hours continuously. The only thing I could come up with is that they really wanted us to get out of there ASAP and were making things a living hell to encourage us towards that end. Except, one of my rules is to follow the money and they make more money the longer we stay, so... it really doesn't make any sense.
How to Migrate a PostgreSQL Database from Heroku to Platform.sh
I’ve worked through the print book version of this twice and it is absolutely brilliant. Highly recommend the book. Looks like some draft chapters of the second edition are freely available, but the first edition was already fantastic.
It may well be that we are subject to evolution, but the being is not -- in which case the situation would be really interesting.
How does this relate to HaveIBeenPwned.com? Is it a separate effort? Does it have more data? Is it built on top of their data?

I've seen other services (like 1Password) just rely on HaveIBeenPwned because it's pretty solid – seems like it would be nice for the industry to coalesce around it and build these kinds of alerting features on top of it.
I ran some really long compute jobs on GCP (100% CPU for weeks across many vCPUs) with credits without getting flagged. I was evaluating FFTW performance for a project. Perhaps GCP could tell I was calling into FFTW and not mining so they decided it wasn't fraud?
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I skimmed the paper. I misunderstood the results.
Mirror of video: https://streamable.com/59xli
>what's the argument for the bill?

The argument for is that another monopolistic Monsanto is potentially created with sufficient coffers to keep politicians who support this bill in a lot of money for a long time.
It doesn't border on, it definitely is performance art.

And yes, totally worth it; just wanted to point out that doing something like that is not as easy as the author of this article makes it out to be ("look, I made this in 30 minutes, so everyone else can, too!"). No appreciation for the sweat and dread you went through to get there.
Yeah, that is a thing. At my last job, we had a mix of remote and in office workers. If you did end up going remote, there were some states that weren't allowed because of, from what I guess, OP is saying.
Our team has slowly, by accident shifted to remote first during summers, when our deadlines are the furthest out. First one person moved, and we let them stay on and work remotely. Then another. Then two of three of the remaining individual contributors switched to core hours, but are otherwise gone. Now my boss has been remote for two weeks.

It’s interesting in that it happened without discussion and without proactively addressing the new cultural issues that arose.

Communication has dropped unless you’re on a call, and you never know who is on what call so it’s difficult to gauge the tempo of work any given day. Communication has become a “procedure” that must be intentionally addressed, which leads to awkward conversations about the weather in our daily standup that has morphed into a call to keep in touch for the people that are off site and don’t want to be politically left out. It wastes my time. A lot is lost in translation. Productive spontaneous conversation between more than two people is basically gone. A lot of work has disappeared into Slack DMs instof channels, visibility lost there.

I understand a lot of this could be fixed with cultural and procedural changes. But I find it weird that you have to implement procedures and controls to replace something you get for free when you are all physically in the same place. And from my experience at least, getting it wrong has absolutely been bad for our team’s work product. Based on this experience I’ll never be working on a remote team again
Move to Vermont, get $10k. Then what?
"Forge is listening to that ecosystem in real-time — the ecoystem of news, of social, of websites, of blogs, of whatever we can from around the world — and we’re capturing that information"
I wonder if one could make the argument that genes are more akin to a "Library of Babel" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel). That is, the space of genes is so complicated and vast that the line between discovery and invention gets blurred.
This is not a "council politician". This is the german equivalent of a governor.

How many governor are shot dead in the street? After being threatened for political reasons?

Or maybe you don't want to understand the issue here?
Nice. I've been doing similar drawings a lot – on whiteboard, on paper, on tablet, a few times even drawing them to use as the argument in pull-request debates, because words weren't enough to show the point.
I think this bill is more about how we decide what can be patented, i.e, do we even look at whether the subject matter is new, useful, and non-obvious, or do we just say it's in a category that we won't allow people to patent their creation, like short stories, business innovations, and screenplays. As I read the bill, under the Darwin tortoise hypo, he still wouldn't be able to patent b/c the tortoise wouldn't be novel, as it existed in the form presented in nature before. But if Darwin genetically engineered a tortoise that can fly, he possibly could patent the innovation.
Good. There is nothing of interest in declawing, when there is a perfectly good and obvious alternative available that is not permanent and is much better: Cat nail scissors. Just use it in several steps when your cat is sleeping or relaxed. One or two nails at a time. Give your cat something to scratch and you will have several weeks of peace. Repeat as necessary.

Understanding better your cat and building a relationship of trust will be even better. My last cat never, ever, used seriously his claws against me. Of course I never, ever, used my claws against him. Reciprocity.
I find most of the language discussing this misleading because nobody is actually talking about patenting human genes.

If you're curious about hearing a non-straw-man opinion about "gene" patents, I'd suggest this short article that discusses the BRCA patents and least describes what the patents were actually about. If you're really curious, there are longer more comprehensive sources than this opinion piece:

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/06/06/can-the-hum...

> Of course, the patent system only protects new things. You cannot get a patent on the raw, untouched form of a molecule as it exists in nature.

> However, you can get a patent for identifying, isolating and purifying something that already exists in the world. For example, the inventor of aspirin at the turn of the 20th century isolated and synthesized the active ingredient in willow bark, which people had chewed for thousands of years to relieve pain and fever.

> The greatest confusion in the debate about the Myriad case stems from failing to understand this distinction. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court contributed to the confusion when it took the case to answer: “Are human genes patentable?” Patent experts scratched their heads, because the answer is undisputed: No, human genes in their naturally occurring form are not patentable.

> But Myriad’s patents don’t cover genes in their naturally occurring, unisolated form, just as the aspirin patent did not cover chewable bark. Rather, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents claim the genes as isolated, purified and used in a scientific or medical context.

The gene patents are "composition of matter" patents that apply the genes to particular contexts. I'm not going to argue about the appropriateness of those patents here (which would also seem to apply to the aspirin patent), but I do think it's important to understand what the actual debate is about.

For example, it's also almost certainly false that gene patents covered the entire genome (a response here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979127/ ), and it's false that just because one component of a patent mentions a genetic sequence that all use and research of that genetic sequence is a violation of the patent (because the patents include more than just the gene sequence -- they are a specific application).
Maybe not the best choice in light of them deleting this guy’s entire app, db, and backups the other day: https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089
Still, though, what is a gene? Is it just a nucleotide sequence, as described using the letters A, C, G, & T?

For a body of text like that, isn't copyright the more appropriate IP construct?

A patent might be valid if it referred to a particular process for synthesizing that gene in the form of a DNA molecule.
You created an account to post that gem? Wow.
No, I never made Quake levels. Mine was an SX-20 and it played ok, but building a level complained about a math co-processor. I tried an emulator once, let it build all night and it still wasn't done.

Salvation came through Wal-Mart of all places and I convinced my mom that this $20(or $40, maybe I was paying half?) chip would just drop in that empty socket and double the speed of our computer. 486DX-40, that was nice...
I assumed he meant, recently deceased. I imagined this was part of trying to revive the very recently deceased person.
i don’t think visual representation of structure is actually the hard part. Logic and computation seems to me is the only difficul part. We’re still writing cooking recipes the same way , using lines of text, even if the ingredients are extremely easily represented with images or icons.
> cut grass exudes harmful substances

Intriguing “fact” if true; I can’t reconcile this with so many animals eating grass. They’re both directly cutting it in their mouths, and also inhaling the volatiles from the part they leave connected to the plant.

Is there some problem common to all grazers? Something like the way koalas are proposed to be as languorous as they are because the eucalyptus leaves they eat are acting in a drug-like manner on them?

Or, alternately, is there some adaptation all grazers have in their bodily response to chemical volatiles released by the cutting of grasses, that other animals species don’t have?
Isn't the opposite true? That in the age of Tinder, meeting people is easier than ever - and so it should be more likely for someone to also fall in love with someone. I don't see how the limited dating pools of the past provide any advantage on this front. It doesn't make sense to me that people today would "hold out for the perfect mate" when exposed to a larger dating pool - my thinking would be that when people have met someone they have a good relationship with they will settle down. I also don't buy the idea that someone has already "rejected someone when meeting them for the first time, if they weren't interested they wouldn't have gone on the date.
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Can Finland find niche leadership in Artificial Intelligence?
Yes! It is. Happily, the buyers have (more or less) maintained the quality of the original.
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After 60 years of advancements in networked computing we should see not just the performance benefits, but also the lifestyle benefits. I don't see the point of sitting in an open plan office especially when you have cliches of people that choose to speak in native languages about technical subject matter. I'm not benefitting from the distraction, nor is anyone else.
I also noticed that ctrl+f doesn't find search that text either.
>by increased biomass capabilities and some natural gas.

Some natural gas? Some? You think those pipelines from Russia are there to only provide 'SOME' natural gas?? Nord Stream has an annual capacity of 55 billion cubic meters. Nord Stream 2 will double that to 110 billion cubic meters. Those are huge, politically sensitive, projects. And those aren't the only planned natural gas pipelines.

Second, biomass really sucks as the fuel of the future. It is environmentally destructive due to the land-use requirements. It's also expensive. It may be carbon neutral (depends if you burn dedicated crops or if you burn waste). Regardless, it's crazy that people would be pushing this as a fuel of the future just so they can get nuclear power off the table.

There is only one answer to cutting C02 emissions, and that's nuclear. We've already lost 50 years because we haven't internalized that fact, and we'll continue to lose time until we do.
I've not been able to find the proposed language. Does anyone know whether there's any planning for the exhaustion of the patent? It's scary to think of the implications human gene patentability without at least carving it out from Bowman[0], which said producing crops with a patented gene, even by traditional means, was infringing.

[0]https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-796_c07d.pdf
Those are issues of culture and communication. I'm not saying it's easy to solve but it is possible given enough effort and push from management. Although generally you have to do so from day 1 since retro-fitting it after the fact is much more difficult.

>That critical FooBarAdapter becomes something that only Naimh can work on because without co-location if another developer is stuck on it, rather than grabbing her for a "Can you look at this?" over the shoulder, it gets slung over the fence in an issue or pull request.

For example, with something like USE Together it's possible to have the equivalent of over the shoulder looks complete with easy input sharing.
Can someone explain how exactly a law can overturn a Supreme Court ruling? Doesn't it tend to go the other way?
Why would they leak vulnerabilities they've spent millions of dollars to find? Seems like that would be a waste of money with zero benefit to their mission.
Your argument seems to be that optimal/ideal office working is better than remote:

"An environment where people can find meeting rooms when they need them, can find peace and quiet when they need... and don't be a cubicle farm. Yes, if you think the alternative to remote work is an anonymous grey cubicle on the 5th floor of an anonymous office block (or just as bad, the 'trendy' exposed ducts open plan office)... I'd also recommend being somewhere with good public transport and have flexible working hours so people aren't forced into long commutes..."

Of course this ideal would be great!

But this also totally misses the point that in reality, the reason that people are often attracted to remote-working is precisely because their experience and environment fail on some or many of the ideals you list.

As such, you've not constructed an argument against remote working - just a (valid) argument against most office writing environments.
> I've heard that InVision has people work east coast hours but that doesn't show in their job listings.

As an early rising, that sounds so amazing. Living in the west coast, waking up early to work, and then having the whole rest of the day/daylight to enjoy when you're free at 2-3pm PST. Sounds too perfect. ha
how is this not tantamount to a constitutional amendment to curtail the supreme court's legal authority like this
I wrote a static microblog engine in Python as well (3.7+). There is also a Perl version: https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

Demo site: http://plurrrr.com/
Adblocking is performance and much more impactful than some % shaved off in rendering benchmarks.
The bash4 from homebrew is installed to a different place to the system bash, and even when you switch to it as your login shell the system bash is still accessible. The homebrew design is never to overwrite system programs but to have same named alternatives higher in $path.
I'm pretty sure it's a partnership with HaveIBeenPwned: https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...

> We're Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password

> Over the coming weeks, Mozilla will begin trialling integration between HIBP and Firefox to make breach data searchable via a new tool called "Firefox Monitor".
I wouldn't call it a mistake. It definitely comes across as hypocritical, whether or not it "technically" is. You're essentially saying "I recognize this trait as valuable, however I reject your right to judge me on it".
A lot of it really is about what kind of personality you are. I think there are too many people who need external motivation to get in the zone to get things done.

I'm not that person. I would love to work 100% remote, where I can work in my own space without distractions. I'm actually way more productive when I get to work from home (at least with the more low-level tasks like actually coding) -- and from a more selfish perspective, I can slice up my day more efficiently and get my work done WHILE ALSO getting my own things done (exercising during lunch hour and using my own shower!)

But TBH I think the most effective option would be to provide an office and sort of let people come and go as they please, maybe with some incentive to get them into the office on average 2 days a week -- for all of the things others have mentioned here, like collaboration, small talk around the office, "hey can you look at this?", etc. etc. Those things are important, and even though I hate coming into the office, I've noticed lately that there have been a number of days when I was working from home and my team had a lot of pings going back and forth trying to figure things out, and I thought it would've been a lot easier to just pop into the office until the issues were resolved.
I do think we should move away from a static age and test the idea that retirement is calculated somewhere between the last 10%-15% of the average life span. And maybe we could do away once and for all with the charade that Social Security is a fund you pay into to receive later on in life and just figure out a better way to distribute X% of annual income taxes to retired folks.
> Is it built on top of their data?

Yes.

# How does Firefox Monitor know my information was hacked during a particular breach?

Firefox Monitor gets its data breach information from a publicly searchable source, Have I Been Pwned. If you don’t want your email address to show up in this database, visit the opt-out page.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-monitor-faq
Thank you for sharing. This is similar to what we were looking for, something that gamifies the assignments to get students more engaged. Part of the problem is that there are so many free coding resources out there that it's tricky to find a mature one that people have gone through and found rewarding.
> The bill’s sponsors in the Senate, Thom Tillis (R–NC) and Chris Coons (D–DE), have described it as a way to restore incentives for U.S. innovation by making the process for protecting new inventions more predictable. (Competition with China, where no comparable restrictions exist in the patent system, may have motivated the lawmakers, Rai says.)

It already has.
The reason you're confused is because these articles are oversimplified and these patents aren't literally gene patents or patents of the genetic sequences themselves. I believe the so-called "gene patents" are "composition of matter" patents just like the original aspirin patent. I expanded on this more in a top level comment, but nobody (including this bill and the original gene patents) is calling for simply patenting entities that exist in nature. It's uncontroversial that this cannot be done.
"This email appeared in 17 known data breaches."

How does this help at all? What can I do about it? Some of the breaches are years old...
It amazes me that Google isn't facing an antitrust lawsuit over the chrome adblocker situation. Of course chrome is going to block everything except Google ads to destroy the competition.
Perhaps, or they viewed credits as payment history? I’m not defending the algorithm as even DO has said it was a false-positive. I just wanted to point out that this wasn’t an attack by DO on paying for crypto. That it specifically was trying to look at non-payers.
Something I hope companies will consider is that a lot of people think that just by being in the office they are 'working' regardless of whether they are in fact getting anything done.
Yes, but what about Indians in particular? I don't think it would be that hard to make a FOI request for the particular stats about that, so I'd like to know what led ramraj07 to believe that Indians are specifically targeted by USCIS, and specifically during the Trump administration. Presumably you could see that as a sharp line, marking a policy change, in the number of requests for evidence (your measurement) particularly for Indian applicants.

To me it seems reasonable that they determine their own criteria for triggering requests for evidence, but I've not heard about a particular policy or pattern for targeting Indian applicants.

I'm curious because similar claims have been made here in Canada as of recent; but it's hard to tell since we have a quite strict and inquisitive immigration system to begin with.
I really like this idea.

I don't think 100% either way is good.
> The three biggest companies as far as I know are Wordpress, InVision, and GitLab.

Mozilla is another one, should be bigger than any of the above.
> The public supports maintaining or increasing immigration to this country. This administration does not.

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/580037717/what-the-latest-imm...

Americans could be forgiven for having poll whiplash this week.

"Shock poll: Americans want massive cuts to legal immigration," said a headline from the Washington Times.

"Americans broadly embrace the Democratic immigration position," declared a Washington Post headline, with the release of a new ABC/Washington Post poll.

On immigration, as on any other issue, it can seem that there's a poll result that supports just about any position. Here's a look at immigration polls to explain what findings are shaky — and to highlight what can reasonably be concluded about Americans' views on immigration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

https://fs.blog/2015/11/map-and-territory/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation

https://www.academia.edu/16741004/Modelling_Myth_Vs_Reality_...
Also throwing my name in the hat if you want an extra hand on the Android development part! It seems like such a great solution to a problem that occurs all too often
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18067049
My main complaint with iOS(12) is that there is no quick way to disable WiFi. It's frustrating having to go to Settings -> WiFi multiple times a day for such a simple task.

Some times the networks the phone picks up don't even allow internet access right away, and any apps which requires an internet connection simply stops working.

I get the reasoning for making it easier for people to not waste their data. But I don't see why that requires adding so much friction to the rest of us.