skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why so many people here seem to be surprised by this, I got the exact same impression from the hearing.

The problem for Google on the copyrightability front is that "compilations" of non-copyrightable items can be copyrightable even if the underlying items themselves are not, if the "selection, coordination, or arrangement" of those items involves sufficient creativity to be considered an "original work of authorship".

For example, individual recipes are generally not copyrightable, but if you compile a set of recipes and publish them in a cookbook, the cookbook itself becomes copyrightable.

As applied to Java, individual method signatures like min and max might not be copyrightable, but someone had to go in and organize those individual methods into classes, and organize those classes into packages. That act of organization likely implies that the Java API (taken as a whole) constitutes a copyrightable work, even if the individual method signatures are not.

What's worse for Google is that code has always been considered copyrightable so arguing that APIs are non-copyrightable is essentially carving out an exception for a specific type of code.

As is common when HN discusses legal matters I see a lot of people blaming the judges for not understanding tech, but the problem here isn't really the judges so much as the law itself. We should not be surprised if Oracle ends up winning here, at least on the question of copyrightability. Google may have an out related to fair use, but that seems like a long shot as well.
Few other cases like that escaped the social networks and became a direct danger to real people. Few got politicians to display signs they agree with the conspiracy ideas on public TV.

I guess FB tries not to land in the headlines about someone going postal after organising the attack in semi-public on their site.
All it took to launch this mess was one anonymous poster and three people who saw a way to make a profit? Wow.

(And, I suppose, it took enough susceptible people who believed this drivel...)
> I’m not even leftist; but even in the capitalist/libertarian theory, the state shouldn’t help guard private companies’ rights in software. If you publish it, the recipient has it, period. The state lending its judges to enforce exclusive rights for a few years is already a big extraction of collective resources for private interests.

How is software, something of which there is an infinite supply that doesn’t exist until someone creates it, more of a “collective resource” than my back yard, which was here before I was born and will remain here after I die?
That is a good strategy. Unfortunately, ppl with survival rate above 99.99% might live with more vulnerable population. It'll be difficult to figure out how to effectively quarantine the more vulnerable population away from the less-vulnerable.
Never heard of the word doctoress...
Will you cease to be a skeptic once Waymo One is open to anyone?
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>Coinbase probably shouldn't be involved in politics around police reform, fracking, climate change or the Second Amendment because they are orthogonal to its mission.

It's impossible to not involve yourself in politics that effect your employee's everyday lives.
I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be the first crack in opening this modem further and finding the transmit functions.

After all, a modem has to be able to send as well as receive, and a transmit-arbitrary-IQ-samples function would be useful for calibration at manufacture time.
Maybe just in the USA. But also Microsoft is on Google's side here. Also doesn't Microsoft's WSL also have this problem as a "reverse WINE" ?
Standing for dismantling racism might always be correct, but burning down predominately black neighborhoods doesn't seem to relate to that in a positive way. You can't dismantle racism by causing devastation in the name of black people.
From your answers so far, it doesn't seem at-all obvious that were considering disadvantages of "virtual image based systems" rather than particular disadvantages of the ST80 implementation.

Would a Smalltalk image without gui classes not be feasible?
It would be interesting to see links to the highly meritorious politically-charged discussions that were flagged.
I think you have to have demonstrated that you have taken steps to protect your copyright. I’d imagine submitting to a standard would relinquish that. Patents on the other hand ...
IBM went from a great tech company into some sort of overly financially engineered Franken-firm that has tons of employees and yet nobody on the outside seems to know what they really do.

Throw in there various expensive hand-wavy marketing campaigns about AI, blockchain and quantum computing to add to that “but what do you actually do?” confusion. Case in point if I go to IBM.com I’m presented with a giant fluff PR piece about quantum computing.
It's such a basic thing too for a recruiting process. As soon as you get a no, send an automated email at least!
I just couldn't remember the meaning since I've only read maybe a couple of articles on the topic. So I had to Google it, and it was the 4th result.

I tried to CTRL-F "SDR" on the article page, but there was no mention of what the abbreviation stands for. I realize it's meant for technically inclined readers, and it is a great article and project. I should've checked the linked websites first, but it was easier to just Google it :)

I'd include a short mention of what SDR stands for (maybe with a link to Wikipedia) at the top so people unfamiliar with it can get an idea of what they're about to read. Just imo.
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I'm currently based in SF and am looking at launching a B2B SaaS product next year (mid 2021). I don't want to stay in SF long term and have been debating starting in NYC or London with a slight preference for London. My plan is to be remote till covid settles and then decide on a base location.I've lived in both cities for >2 years and have no immigration restrictions.

Would being in London vs SF/NY be detrimental to the success of a B2B SaaS company?

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These blog posts claim that they enjoy working at Stripe. The comments claim that the application/hiring process at Stripe is not great.

It's entirely possible both are true, since they're mostly unrelated, so I don't understand the accusation of astroturfing.
Not at all. Please read page 14 of the amicus curiae brief in support of Google by Microsoft (https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-956/128381/2020...). Here is the relevant paragraph:

"""
In another example from the 1990s, an open-source developer created a program called WINE, which al- lowed developers to enable Windows applications to run on computers that used the Linux open-source system, without explicit authorization from Microsoft. Gratz & Lemley, supra, at 611. To create WINE, the developer “use[d] the same hierarchy of function names” of various Windows APIs. Id. at 612. Years later, Microsoft created “the inverse of WINE,” reimplementing the structure of certain Linux APIs to create the Windows Subsystem for Linux, a program that allowed Linux programs to run on Windows. Ibid. The Windows-Linux experience shows that reuse of functional code is a “two- way street” that benefits both the original creator and the follow-on developer—and ultimately the consumer.
"""

Not to mention there's no monetary chest at the end of that fight (and the creation of WSL wouldn't bode well for them if they were to make a case at all).
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An interesting read as usual from Patrick.

I picked up on a few points others here have mentioned already, but the most striking thing for me, particularly from the first half of the piece, is the huge emphasis on growth, recruitment and looking to do new things in the internal culture at Stripe.

Of course, this is reasonable and understandable for a business in Stripe’s position. However, the corollary seems to be a lack of focus on the core service that got many of our businesses using Stripe in the first place. In a nutshell, we use a payment processor like Stripe because we want to easily and reliably collect payments from our customers, so we can get on with what our business actually does.

It would be interesting to know how much is going on at Stripe, presumably involving people other than patio11, in that area. I have a business that was an early adopter back when Stripe launched in the UK, but our perception is that the challenges we face with online payments today aren’t necessarily the areas that recent developments at Stripe are addressing.
The reason that you can't require people to vote in the US is because the act of not voting is considered protected political speech. Why is not participating in politics any different?

Hell, refusing to engage with certain types of politics isn't just political, it's an act of protest!
krapp gave a decent summary, but I think if you look closer, you find that Qanon is a variety of factions lumped under a single label. The one unifying thread of belief is near religious devotion to Trump. Trump's minions might do wrong (Jeff Sessions is an early example of a Q-favorite that later was found wanting), but Trump himself is beyond any flaw.
That's a fair point, we'd have to compare projected growth vs. expected salary of new job. Certainly the benefit of working at large tech companies or rocketships.

My experience with smaller startups, was that it's impossible to determine if the options would be worth $0 or $$$.
And what about Xamarin?
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That's an interesting piece of data and I'm glad you posted it. I also use a 3970X and can't get it to 4.4GHz even with all but one CCD disabled (much less all-core). I am on air cooling, though, and suspect that switching to water cooling would help a lot. I hit 90C almost instantly under load. (I use the automatic overclocking and can do 4.2GHz all core; much better than the specified 3.7GHz all core.)

Since I don't run into Threadripper owners very often, I'm wondering if yours also has a pretty high idle power? Mine idles at 80-90W (reported; 200+W from the wall) which is surprising to me coming from the Intel world. So much electricity wasted simply because I am too lazy to turn off my computer.
Not the grand parent comment and I don't have anything specifically against the NYT or this piece, which I agree is pretty balanced.

It is great that they paint a positive picture of Portugal as a forward-thinking progressive nation, the point that Portuguese people often take an issue with this and other pieces, in american and british press, is that they fail to explain the motivation behind this policy.

These measures were not a hippie social experiment, they were created out of a desperate lack of alternatives in the face of a de facto public health crisis due to a heroin epidemic.

I cannot put in words that make it justice, you had entire neighbourhoods become drug slums with hundreds of heroin dealers and people inject on the sidewalks in broad daylight. It was crime problem, it was a health problem, it was a whole generation of people lost to this. It's this omission in the 'why' of decriminalization that feels somewhat dishonest.
Fair. Wrong word choice. The point just being that there could be a lot of company... encouragement... to be vocal about what you think of working at the org.

And of course, to the point you raise, we must always take that with a grain of salt. Nobody is going to come to the table with complete honesty about the problems at a company with their name right next to it.

Within reason, at least.
Stripe was founded over ten years ago, is worth tens of billions of dollars, thousands of employees, and has tons of software expertise. And the excuse for bad candidate experience is a lack of resources.
Well, it is a cheap AMG... :-P

But yeah, that's a weird segment that car is in. It's expensive, because the engine is expensive, but at the same time you're getting the exact same interior and fit-and-finish as the non-AMG versions of that class, which means an AMG S-class is very nice, while an AMG A-class is just not very nice at all. So yeah, your experience sounds exactly like what I would expect out of that specific model, and by just looking at the price tag, it's not very intuitive that that's what you're gonna get.
Would a tool to do this be illegal?
That would have been an expensive realization, but it sounds like a reasonable explanation.
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Amazon has publicly said is has 10k+ on Alexa/Echo, and you're welcome to get other examples from chatting with folks.
https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2008/09/stem...
I interviewed in March, thought I did really well in the interviews, had great conversations with the hiring manager etc. After Covid hit they told me they were postponing hiring decisions and I never heard anything since. Sort of a weird way to manage things but I suppose the lockdowns have added quite a bit of chaos.
Nope.

Assume you choose the car (1/3). He will always choose a goat. If you switch, you have a 100% chance of losing. (1/3) * (1/1) = 1/3 chance of losing if you switch.

Assume you choose a goat (2/3). There is a 50% chance that he opens a goat if he chooses randomly. If this happens, there's a 100% chance that you win if you switch. (2/3) * (1/2) * 100% = 1/3 chance that you win if you switch.

The remaining 1/3 chance is voided because we've conditioned the game on him randomly choosing a goat, and not a car. So the probability of winning if you switch is (1/3) / ((1/3) + (1/3)) = (1/2)

exactly 50/50.

In the traditional monty hall, switching gives a 2/3 chance of winning. This is still true in the random variant but only if you're allowed to choose the car door in monty opens that one by chance.
Sounds nice in theory, but with the state of modern development, this kind of thing will be implemented as a CLI frontend for an electron app.

But seriously though, the reason why this kind of standardised interface doesn't exist is because there's no one-size-fits-all solution. Everyone will "need" an extension to the spec, or start adding metasyntax to fit their specific use case.
If you define “political” in such a way that nothing can be “apolitical” then the word “political” completely loses its meaning. The whole point of any adjective is to distinguish between things. It’s a tautology.
Ah right - I'm used to public companies where stock options are cold hard cash as soon as they vest.
Sex is not very important for a doctor, for an actor is pretty much defines what roles you can play.
If it does, it's going to be incredibly interesting to see how the breakup is effected.

Since so much of this is going to be IP, how do they handle IP that used to be shared? I.e. all the internal tooling to deploy and manage applications. If YouTube gets split off from Cloud, YouTube obviously can't sell cloud hosting, but can it run the Cloud software on their own hardware so they don't have to pay Cloud prices? Or will they be forced to reinvent those systems, and how different from the old ones do they have to be?

It's also going to be weird because the newly created companies are now potential customers of each other, and yet they also have far more detailed information on each other than is normal. I.e. Cloud probably has a pretty good idea of how much they charge to get maximum profits from YouTube without it being unprofitable for YouTube. And vice versa, YouTube probably has a pretty good idea exactly what it costs Cloud to provide certain services. Makes for an interesting negotiating table.
> There are mothballed Selecteics in attics that for $2-300 can be made good as new.

Wow! I need to get one now...
Sounds perfect, but read they’re OEM only.
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Who said you didn't know us very well? I think you summed it up well.

I would also mention goals.

If your goal is absolute efficiency in running a convention then you end up with poorly treated and underpaid workers.

If your goal is making sure the convention doesn't poorly treat or underpay workers, you end up having to find someone to plug in your equipment (also I suspect there are legitimate safety and security concerns for a prototype electronics conference).

You can't blame convention workers for preferring the latter situation.
It looks like upper case E rarely has the top line, even on maximum legibility.
> If it's a problem that they're political or apolitical, then it's already a part of your hiring process.

Definitely not. Unconscious bias is a huge issue in interviewing. Blinding your interviewers to political orientation, or any other factor, is far more effective than telling them just to ignore it.
I've never worked at a place that gave me stock options.
Why stop at surveillance? Just put every male in that zipcode against the wall - problem solved!
ZDF created a video PWA with offline and dark mode
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It's possible for both (a) people to enjoy working at a company and (b) for that company's recruitment process to be abysmally bad.

The people handling the recruiting functions are usually not the people you would be working with (unless you go into HR), and generally if HR starts ghosting you during the recruiting process it's because they're putting their efforts into the candidate they are trying to hire.

EDIT: Conversely, the opposite is also true. I used to work for a firm that was an absolute nightmare to work for, but the HR process was amazing.
> Unix-like

You mean something that implements all the APIs that the Bell Labs never licensed to anybody?
the common answer is that tech is in a huge bubble that makes it very profitable .... until it pops
I don't think it's a single solution but rather a lot of little adjustments. I think Instagram's "You're all caught up" notification is helpful as is Apple's weekly usage report.

Some other ideas

- Lock screen notifies you how many times you've unlocked your phone that day / how long it's been since you've unlocked your phone

- browsers / apps notify you how much time you've spent on that site / app that day, or how long it's been since you last checked that site / app

I'm sure the combined efforts of HN could drum up some other optimizations.

Personally, I've introduced some speed bumps for myself. If I want to use Instagram, Pinterest, or Reddit I have to download them and login. When I'm done browsing I delete them from my phone.

Some days I download them multiple times, other times I reach for my phone and think "ugh, it's not worth it to me to download again. I'll just wait until I really want to check and I'm more likely to see something new."
This tool would -- sort of -- implement an API.
Cool. I wasn't aware of this use case. Thanks.
> The Supreme Court is only the last word on constitutional cases.

No more so than statutory or any other cases; just as regulation can be changed by the executive and statute can be changed by the Congress, the Constitution can be amended by the process set out in the document itself.

The Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of the current state of the law, but no law that it applies, including the Constitution, is immutable.
Companies don't bother with principled consistency, and so I wouldn't expect any from Microsoft if this goes Oracle's way. It's totally possible that Microsoft thinks APIs being non-copyrightable is good for them on net, but that if SCOTUS decides otherwise that they might as well go crush WINE anyway since they now have the means.
> Often that is way too much time--25 to 50 years in many cases, since those are the time frames for declassification of classified information

That's only part of what I mean about the goal to demand expanding oversight, maybe those timeframes are too long, but the point is that those time frames sometimes serve a useful purpose to slow things down for safety of parties involved or other reasons. A goal should be to find a healthy "medium" where "Surveillance FOIA 2.0" still allows for transparency/oversight/review without hobbling the process, and FOIA was just one example of an existing transparency tool to model from, it's not the only tool/model it was the first example to mind, but you would hopefully expand to a larger suite of transparency/sousveillance ("watch the watchers") tools.

I'm also not claiming that we shouldn't fight surveillance attempts, simply that where surveillance seems inevitable/a foregone conclusion/rough to fight that we also need to devote resources to fighting for increased sousveillance/transparency, because power will always abuse surveillance.
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If you can take a ride with or without a random person travelling with you, what would you choose? Some people will prefer the latter, because of introversion, social anxiety, etc.

In the long-term, the obvious benefit is the price. In the next 5 to 10 years I don't expect it to be cheaper than Uber, even if their cost is half of Uber's.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Oracle wins on copyright (I think it is almost impossible for Google to count to 5 on their merger doctrine argument) but I disagree that fair use is a long shot.

The justices that brought up the case’s procedural history were all unanimously skeptical that the Federal Circuit correctly set aside the fair use verdict in favor of Google. I think the most likely outcome of this case (especially with the absence of Justice Ginsburg) is a remand to the Federal Circuit with instructions to pay more attention to the trial court’s findings.
There are a few gui apps that leverage tags for browsing dpkg/apt?
that's confusing, I've only ever heard SSR/server side rendering to mean actually rendering html and serving that, as opposed to SPAs
Sure, but likely, more of those $100k options will be worth $0 than $200k. If you spread it around, you're more likely to hit big.
>Justice Clarence Thomas compared Google's copying of the Java APIs to a football team taking a rival's playbook.

Maybe it should be compared to English dictionary, where American English cannot use words from pre-existing British English.
The important part is that the Federal Circuit overturned the decision of a jury which is not generally allowed. If it was just a lower court judge, they could make that kind of ruling without much controversy. The reasonable person argument just seems like an excuse to overturn the decision of a jury. If there were problems with the process, that can be used to overturn the jury decision.
on the flip side, if you can find enough riders that are willing to sign one, why not?
> I was thinking about a single array, from the orbit it’s pretty close to a point source.

It is, but I'm way less impressed when someone says their 4x6 block of floodlights is visible from space, compared to their single light.