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The iLok is just a repository of keys and can’t hurt anything by itself. It’s communicated with by code either built into a license protected application or in a “wrapper” added to an otherwise unprotected app. Pace AP (maker of the software and reseller of the iLok) is essentially in a never ending arms race with the warez crowd, and in the past has resorted to some gray-hat, rootkit-like techniques to prevent cracking. It wouldn’t surprise me if this was either some old Pace code going rotten or some sort of crack gone viral/rogue. I used to develop an iLok protected app and am still on their developer mailing list, but note that I haven’t seen any recent alerts from them so it’s entirety possible it’s something else.
Perhaps the strongest judgement against the government that could have been delivered - and unanimous too. Great to see.
One of the things I learned when I took Intnl econ in college was that keeping a currency's value artificially low can boost exports, but will also put downward pressure on real wages domestically.

Maybe that's playing a role here.
This is like saying "SERP meets Google".
The Government has recently slashed Corporate tax.[1] We will have to see how much it helps in addressing the economy.

1. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/govt-proposes-to-slash-c...
Can it be emulated?
> In the intervening years somebody else would have done substantially what RMS did

There's no reason to believe this.
More importantly, does she know that there is a spider on her shoulder?
You forget the part where there are now calls to implement it across other states also.

This has become predictable.
You use historical context to set a precedent and then extend it to everybody.
I can't gather any information from that chart alone. It lacks all context, which is important.
Thanks for the suggestion but I don't think it's appropriate right now.
The latter often results in the former, and sometimes the former illicits expectations of the latter in the sheltered, so there is significant coincidence of the two, but no they are certainly not the same nor do they necessarily imply each other.
I see too many people rolling PHP-FPM only to show the IP address of the client. So, I wanted to share an alternative method which, I hope, can save you some time.
I am not American, but if I was, much of the above would also upset me. But you are invoking a straw man, my point was that Apple should pay more tax (especially to Europe), not solve all the worlds problems. I get that you don't care.
I don’t quite get it, why is “Buddhist” more objectionable than “grinner”? Surely there must be more egregious examples than that if they decided to pull 600,000 images? And if they find the tag “Negro” offensive can’t they just replace it with “black”, “of African origin” or whatever the currently allowed term is? Tagging a black person as black does not seem very objectionable in a country that provides racial breakdowns for official statistics.
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The fact that it was unanimous really drives home how obviously illegal it was. I would love to see a direct criminal or civil consequence for this, as it negatively affected the rights of all UK citizens.
What a fucking joke
This is great. There is also Flexbox Froggy if anyone is interested: https://codepip.com/games/flexbox-froggy/
You could argue that Elixir isn't a 'new' programming language. While it obviously technically is, in practice you could see it as a nice coat of paint over Erlang and the BEAM. This is absolutely one of its strengths - it brings tooling, a more familiar syntax and macros, but really just allows us to build using a great programming paradigm and 30 years of solid engineering.
This is indeed astounding and unprecidented - the court ruling, that is, not proroging Parliament to avoid its scrutiny. (There was a much more clear-cut example of that at the end of the Major administration where he suddenly prorogued Parliament for the entire three-week period between his announcement and the general election, most likely to avoid scrutiny of a corruption scandal involving his party. He was one of the folks who submitted briefs in support of the claim that this prorogration was unprecidented and unlawful.)
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If you're interested in seeing more of these brooches, Lady Hale apparently has quite a collection https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/11/lady-hales-best-brooches/
That's not a sign of greatness, so much as a sign of a cult of personality.

If people believe that Free Software could never have existed without Richard Stallman, and cannot continue without him, that calls into question whether it has any lasting societal or cultural value of its own. Other software licensing paradigms don't have this problem, real or percieved. No one believes that open source will die if ESR gets hit by a bus, after all.
Second version would be trying to bacterially attack said trees after burial to speed up the process, making buried bogs.

Trees are slow, maybe there's something a bit more efficient.
Well this is going to be fun, especially as it's the middle of party conference season as well. At what point do the remaining unsacked Conservatives admit they've lost? They're already a long way short of a majority. Are we going to have a no confidence vote soon, or are we going to continue with the weird governance by Parliament from the opposition benches?
I really like the generate-on-save workflow integrated into vs
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Good post. Thanks for sharing. Keep to continuing..
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Was plainly obvious why Boris went for the long shutdown, whatever he chose to say, because of the also-suspect behaviour of the multi-party opposition him wanting to see one law (Brexit Clause 10) implemented without conflicting laws being made up on the fly.

Stupid though, as much of that shutdown wouldn't have made any difference during the party conference season, which they strangely don't hold during their summer recess.
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It would make things worse. There's not much absurd about considering killing yourself.
> Also the increased exposure to sovereign debt denominated in foreign currency will be a greater risk.

Borrowing from outside could be good if the interest rates are lower.
Ok so this means...that there should be an election? This is exactly what should have been called weeks ago, yet there is resistance from Labour. Why?
It's not enough. There are not enough olivine rock deposits. It also attacks CO2 only, skipping methane and freon.

Simple back of the envelope math ruins this alleged plan. It can be a part of the big effort, but alone it won't do nearly anywhere enough.

Plus the problem is, the deposits are not in the places that emit GHG. You need to put them where they can be most effective. That's not free.

And then you have to get the world to not pump yet more GHG into atmosphere.
I would say metaprogramming (and maybe the excellent FFI) is the huge stand-out feature for Nim.

However whilst you can compare all these languages and find a particular niche or set of features that sell them, Nim is just good at pretty much everything.

I know that sounds pretty bombastic, but you can practically pick any task and know that Nim will let you get there rapidly and performantly. That's it's ultimate strength. It's just so productive! It puts the fun back into a day job.

It's as easy to develop in as Python (great type inferrence and strong, static typing), but fast as well written C, yet (AST based) metaprogramming allows it to be higher level than even Python.

On top of low developer friction, it outputs stand-alone executables for effortless distribution. It's my first choice for scripting, for CRUD work, web stuff, game development, and embedded coding.

Doesn't hurt that it can compile to c, c++ and javascript so you can write your backend and frontend in the same language.

Also since the FFI is so great, you can effortlessly use the entire library ecosystem of C and C++.

Of course, it's not perfect, but for me it's getting pretty close.
Major certainly took the pee with his parliament shutdown, making him a hyopcrite when complaining about Boris (stupidly) taking the same approach
It doesn’t turn people away since your characterization of priests and church is inaccurate. I agree there are anomalies and outliers but your description suggests these might be norms. Also, I believe people don’t conflate what their belief is at the core with what a particular priest does.
Wow, some common sense. Let's hope Boris Johnson gets run out of London tarred and feathered and we can get back to normality (as soon as we know what normality is anyway).
He wanted progress to happen in the field of freedom. Jupyter, dask, holoviews are free as in beer, and that's why there's little progress if not degradation in freedom.
This. The biggest contributors to open source, and the most popular open source project maintainers, are now the mega corporations, who’ve figured out how to weaponise it (either to commoditise other competing software/services, or as PR for hiring developers).
Why this verdict is so important:

It would open the door ... to a form of judicial review that is widely accepted in the United States, which has a codified Constitution and a Supreme Court that actively interprets it.

Britain, by contrast, relies on an unwritten set of traditions and conventions that have treated a sovereign Parliament as the supreme law of the land. Once the courts venture into the political sphere and begin passing judgment on Parliament’s actions, legal analysts say, there is no going back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/world/europe/uk-supreme-c...
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So 'obviously illegal' that a high court previously dismissed the case as out of scope of the law?
> Are we going to have a no confidence vote soon

Can't be soon enough.
Not automatically, no. There should be an election, but holding one while the Brexit deadline is still ticking is obviously insane, so that needs to be cancelled or extended first.
When that happens, acquiring a Mac Pro will become ever more so difficult for many of us. As it is right now I can't afford it. I can only assume pricing will go up when production starts in the US.
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Thank you for posting that Zero Suicide Alliance link. I was not aware of their training but will be checking it out.

I had a friend phone me late at night a few weeks back and it took me a minute to realize what she was saying when she just said "I don't want to be here anymore". Fuck the thought of it is still haunting now.

Thankfully she didn't follow through. Still really really scary.
Ummm...no. He is telling information gained while hanging with his friends. Breach of etiquette and norms to say the least.
.. but not before disarming the Oct 31 timebomb. Which is why it's not happened yet.
"emergency" rather definitionally indicates that "not normal" or "out of the ordinary" situations are occurring. For most callers, this may be the worst day of their lives - emotion/stress/danger/death/etc.

They're not required to interpret a caller's phone voice as 'hostile' either. Unless the caller actually says something like "I'm going to come find you and kill you or your family" or something along those lines, I don't think there's any reason anything a caller says should be interpreted as 'hostile' to the dispatcher. If they're agitated/upset - well... they're having an emergency.

Should medical staff not expect "sick people" in their office/hospital?

Someone who can't handle someone yelling or swearing on the phone should't be in a dispatcher role, and... yeah, I think it's gotta be stressful for them too, and they probably shouldn't do it a whole lot, as they'll burn out quickly.
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if you inevitably tried to build an RSS directory or search engine, there would be spam. IM is already full of spam, like IRC and email

> And spam is a solved problem with email.

you mean, with centralized online mail services
Quit as fast as you can. If your company is fostering bad engineering practices and historically keeps failing doing so, then look for another job. ASAP.
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Find it weird that more people don't just consider Twitter a forum, if you break it down to what you're actually doing it's pretty much the same as reading reddit threads.

Yet many people have convinced themselves that no, twitter is the real world.
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Is there any punishment, or is the law's spirit that punishment is the potential non-reelection of a PM in such cases?
I don't think you are. Trade secrets aren't covered by GPL except in the case of v3 on software accessed through a terminal. Even in this essay, he makes clear than open patents aren't the same as Free Software.

That being said, the Free Software movement was obviosly seminal in all of the open data talk, and for that matter open patent talk; it's not the same thing, but a strong and heavily influential idea in one context inspires analogues in other contexts. I think your overall point is wrong, although I think your supporting point is completely correct.
The High Court in the UK does not generally rule on matters of Parliament.

A matter undertaken by the Parliament may still have been illegal, but not under their purview, because of that.
We already have judicial review applying to governmental actions and ministerial decisions. This is not an application of judicial review to acts of Parliament. The prorogation was an act of the government, not Parliament.
I think you're missing the point of why monasteries exist. The goal of a monastery is to provide a place where those who want to retreat from the world to spend their life praying; it's not for everyone. From my view point as a Catholic, the decline of monasteries is more linked to the decline of religion/religious practice than a matter of adaptation to the modern time: there's just less people who could be interested in such a life.
They haven't passed judgement on Parliament's actions, just the executive's.
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And another high court unanimously ruled it as inside the scope of the law. I think it’s obvious at this point that the English High Court got it wrong this time.
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They're doing fine. Keeping up with launching the projects in their pipelines (the event space and mobile apps in DTSJ, various partnerships to incubate business leaders).

The people here on Hacker News live in a bubble, super self-absorbed in the monday quarterbacking of things that don't pertain to them, and drumming up every which one to be intellectually superior on any position.
They didn’t rule that the PM committed a crime. Just that the prorogation was unlawful and effectively never happened.
Relying on JavaScript would lead to security issues.
Plan A is stop pumping GHG immediately by force (including warfare and economical pressure) or fiat and try to adapt to living on a somewhat hotter Earth.

It's extremely hard to pull off.
I would draw parallels here (though it's nowhere near in scale) with:

* firemen often risking their lives approaching (and sometimes entering) buildings in fire. It's a hostile environment, but it's their duty, whether they are paid or not (volunteer firefighters).

* policemen answering a call in a dangerous/hostile neighbourhoods (or just roaming). It's hostile environment, but it's their duty to be of service there.

Compared to the above, expecting dispatchers to emotionally detach and not take anything said personally is a smaller ask, in my opinion.
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Central banking is a technology. Capitalism is a technology. Democracy is a technology.

At least that's what the tech tree in Civilization says :).

Seriously, in the modern world, almost everything is a technic[1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Society-Jacques-Ellul/d...
Their ruling is that it wasn’t a parliamentary decision so they haven’t overruled parliament.
A pity.

- The previous parliamentary session was the longest since the civil war (the English one if you're American).

- This prorogue was for an extra four days - which seems quite reasonable considering:

1. there are politicians, who previously campaigned on the losing side of the referendum, bent on hampering negotiations by making the UK accept any deal the EU offers, which is likely to result in a one-sided deal for the UK

2. the last few days of the negotiations are likely to be critical.
It's a civil case, not criminal. Prorogation nullified. Johnson stupefied.
One did, one didn't, then the mother of those two courts came and sorted it out. Now the court that was wrong understands why it was wrong. It doesn't resent the decision.
Plenty of average schmucks managed in the early days, though.

Granted, it was through services like Geocities and Tripod, no one was building their own server by intstalling and configuring Linux through a VM or anything, but "having your own website" has never been that complicated.
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It just means parliament will be back in session. Only parliament itself can call an early election.
Do you not find it ironic that you're comment says the court acted to ensure the government respects the sovereignty of parliament? Your own or quoted words say sovereign Parliament as the supreme law of the land which btw has always been subject to the courts and latterly the ECJ.

Government is not parliament. The UK supreme Court upheld the sovereignty of parliament over government within narrow limits: prorogation must be consensual and justified.
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> It's the idea that was important, and less so the person IMHO. RMS had a lot of ideas, some good, and some bad. But like evolution, people take the good and run with them, and leave the bad. And we rarely remember who started the whole thing, since having the idea is generally such a small part of actually making it a reality.

While true, there's a difference between forgetting a person, and making that person forgotten. The latter seem to be happening now.

> While RMS may have started with a great idea, I'm not sure he's super influential in actually making progress and writing software. If anything, the idea that companies will sponsor open source software has (and I'm not sure many saw that one coming).

So a garden finally bloomed (though RMS would probably think some of these companies are weeds). It would however be unfair to say that the people that built and maintained this garden (which is an artificial hydroponic garden in the middle of a volcano) for decades weren't "influencial". The Free Software movement benefited from having someone with clear and unyielding vision. Actually, scratch that. The Free Software movement benefited from RMS the way you benefited from having a biological mother - it wouldn't be born otherwise.

That some companies will sponsor Open Source wasn't that unexpected. That some of the players that now do would (Microsoft?!), that was more surprising.
The level of effort bei applied to essentially delegitimize the government and democratic self-governance is utterly stunning. It really rips the mask off the facade off democratic process and self-governance that this Brexit situation has clearly exposed as being a farce, at best. What do you call a system where you have Democratic self-governance unless it contradicts the desires of the failing ruling class? We used to call it dictatorship. Is there a term for dictatorship by the ruling class as a whole?

All the anti-democratic “remainders” who are trying to hack their nose off to spite their face while decrying “something something, democracy” as they try to utterly invalidate and crush Democratic will, have no idea what they are unleashing here.

I don’t think everyone realized that “by all means necessary” means shattering democracy into irreparable pieces; but that is precisely the era we are living in, the final stages of the democracy cycle ... initiated by the fools claiming they want democracy.

The difference in definition being that they want total authoritarian and tyrannical control over everyone and everything just like all other dictatorships where the “vote” results in 90% level voting for the dictatorial regime, just like happened in Washington DC during the last US Presidential election where 93% of the electorate voted for Hillary Clinton.
I think your camera example is a false equivalence that makes this seem as if it's not a computation. The camera is not running the same algorithm as the renderer and so you're comparing different things.

The experiment used a classical computer to randomly generate a circuit C, told the quantum computer to execute it, and recorded the result. Then they repeated this but executed each circuit in the most optimal way a classical computer can. Finally they compared the distributions to verify that the quantum computer's results matched the correct classically computed results.

This proves that the quantum computer is able to generate that distribution faster than a classical computer and isn't just doing some other spurious process that happens to be faster.

Yes, this random distribution isn't very useful and so this result is only really interesting as an experimental verification of theory. However, it is a computation that benefits from quantum speedup in real life!

Hopefully soon, algorithms will be found to generate more useful distributions (as it seems for the time being sampling is the only application of this type of QC that is practically doable). For example, Aaronson mentions that generating verifiably random bits is not much more difficult than the noise generated in this experiment and could have an impact in a variety of cryptographic applications.
Good point. WUWT NYT? Investigating...

OK, best I can figure is NYT is trying to make the point that if the UK Supreme Court is becoming willing to get involved with such highly political matters, there's no reason they wouldn't seek to extend that to Parliamentary matters. Does that comport with the facts and opinions here?
Oh no. Please. Can the UK please already exit the EU? By all means, rejoin us the day after Brexit, but this time with mandatory entering of the Schengen zone and the Euro...
> This is exactly what should have been called weeks ago, yet there is resistance from Labour.

Well Labour and other party members abstained from a proposal from the prime minster to hold an election and it required 2/3 of MPs, but that never happened.
> It's unfortunate that internet people have been falsely conditioned to believe the people who create the media we consume shouldn't be paid.

I don't think this is true at all. Nobody thinks musicians shouldn't be paid, but until Spotify everyone was downloading music.

> Oh, but you will gladly pay for quality, ad-free content, you say?

I would definitely pay. I just don't want to pay for every single article I read by having going through a signup flow. Usually I can't even pay for a single article because you need to get a subscription.

I would easily pay €10+ a month for a place where I can read all the articles I want from all the publishers I'm interested in. However, like in the video business, this doesn't seem feasible. So you end up with multiple subscriptions just to get the 1 piece of content a month that you want to consume from either of them.