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The site is hosted on medium. I doubt that it can be hugged to death?
Google beats Oracle in biggest programming copyright Supreme Court case ever
Or just send instructions to them and wait comfortably at home for them to come to you. Like "Contact."
Makes me wonder how much Goldstein & Russell get paid to win a case like this. Worth every cent, I assume.
No, definitely not. Computer code is not a formula.

A formula is an idea. It describes the nature of something computable. It does not explain how to compute.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm

The programmer must understand the formula in order to write computer code that implements it. The result is a creative/expressive work which is copyrightable.
Yeah, there's a reason we've been talking about inequality and not just pure wealth for a century.
This will be great for developing nations.
I mean, Android was acquired by Google as well.
> To only present 'Marxism' and 'Whiggism' as the schools of thought is very silly and a very unflattering explanation of historiography. Neither are really studied in academia anymore and you should read more if you think they are.

And yet your first comment is asserting that Marxist historiography is the definition of the study of history:

> The study of history is the study of struggle between classes.
> I am not a lawyer, but I don't see why not.

The involvement of actual human creativity is required for a work to be copyrightable.
I have some friends who got their wedding "rings" tattooed onto their ring fingers. I loved the concept, I have no tattoos to date, but this is one I would consider getting.
So does this ruling actually mean anything or can Oracle challenge this too somewhere else?
I do not have remote access enabled.
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They are in the article - don't know if they were added since you posted.
> Companies can’t deduct principal payments either.

The initial cost would be tax deductible and could rollover across multiple years, therefore in effect the principle is deductible even if the specific payments aren’t. The way the deduction actually works is actually better than simply deducting principle payments from the loan due to time value of money.

The issue with accelerated depreciation is it’s a subsidy. The government is paying interest on it’s debt so companies can defer tax payments, that’s directly costing actual taxpayers money. Further, communism has already been tried and it’s a bad idea, we really don’t want central planning as part of the tax code because it’s a bad idea. Subsides for industry X over industry Y has all the same issues.
It could make it hard to recruit new Sr people and leaders in their fields. I would never consider working at Amazon.
Thing is, the learning curve may be steep, but it's incredibly valuable, time very well spent.

I learned VI on some UNIX tools my father installed on our DOS computer in the 90's. Then I learned Emacs in 2000 and have been tweaking my setup ever since. Sure, it's not perfect, every few years when I have some down time I will spend a day fiddling with things heretofore unlearned, but the general setup has worked well (and gotten better) for two decades.

How many other editors have come and gone in that time?
I'm glad people are talking about this, and the similarity between predictive coding and the action of biological neurons is interesting. But we shouldn't fetishize predictive coding. There's a wider discussion going on, and several theories as to how back propagation might work in the brain.

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S136...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-020-0277-3
Is there an explanation what exactly does it do? It seems like this is searching audio, but based on what and what audio?
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Well, more precisely: they definitively ruled that (a) a judge can decide whether a use is fair use and (b that this is fair use. Then they remanded the case to lower courts to decide what that means in terms of what happens next in this case.
The HP Touchpad Wiki links to this lengthy article on the history of WebOS under Palm, and it's fall under Leo Apotheker.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insi...
A supreme court clerkship is very impressive, but "saved by one of these people" is strong. My understanding is the justices have a conference, stake out their positions, and then the chief assigns cases based on who can attract a majority to their opinion. So Breyer presumably had a rationale that could get at least 4 concurrences in conference. It's possible for the other justices to later change their minds based on the actual opinion the chambers produce, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. It's also possible the case was just assigned based on workload, considering the 6-2 split, almost anyone could have written it.

In other words, the clerks do the work of researching and fleshing out the finished opinion, but I don't think they have much influence on the rationale used to decide the case. I've heard stories of clerks having to write opinions they personally disagreed with.
Until never.
Sometimes I fantasize about generating methods for creating copyrights, such that you can copyright the process of creating the copyright - for the commmunity, obviously. However, they explicitly forbid that, unfortunately. If only it worked, you could file a claim for anyone that created a copyright to your disliking, given that you probably make strong stance.

While I'm at it, in a similar vein though entirely unrelated, i sometimes think of ways to create jurisprudence in your favor: You try to emulate a situation to your disliking - e.g. aggresive data hoarding - and file suit to yourself, try to argue the arguments that your target would probably file, but just crappy enough that you actually lose. Do this often and stealthy enough and voila, you might have generated enough jurisprudence to actually file your final claim based on your previous "lost" lawsuits. I do think that this actually does happen at times, though.
No, when the code allows an exploit, that's a bug. Thomas is supposed to help us understand the intent of the code - what the Requirement was. Yes, it's better for us if the code reflects the intent perfectly. But to the degree that's not possible, we need someone to Interpret the code.

Textualists are trying to ignore the fact that there's a difference between intent and implementation.

The Legislature should do a far better job making their intent clear. But to the degree they make mistakes, leaving the intent unclear in some situation, it's good to have Case Law to inform us.

I am not a lawyer. I don't know much about the law. But I do know metaphors, and when someone talks about exploiting the law, this is what comes to my mind.
This is a thinly veiled commercial for the authors start up. There’s so real advice here save to join his new social network.
Just like real estate is "location, location, location," the real inflection point of EV adoption will be "price, price, price." As long as they're priced in the luxury range, sales will be restricted. As soon as you can buy a decent new or used EV for $10-15,000, or less, you will see mass adoption. And by "decent," I don't mean golf cart style, I mean a useful, roomy, sedan or hatchback with good range that will appeal to the middle class.
My understanding is no. Copyright requires human authorship (the case of the monkey selfie found it to be public domain because a monkey did it, e.g.), and code written by a machine is likely to follow similar precedent and be uncopyrightable.
It's a big problem for one simple reason: inequality of power and freedom increases. At some point you lose democracy entirely.
> What if you hard power off your server, how do you know your data didn't get corrupted?

Atomically replacing the whole file instead of updating the data in-place, and using a checksumming filesystem like ZFS should give you such guarantee, no?

> Backups and restore will also have to be DIY.

Well, yeah. A daily cron job that `scp`s the data to an offsite location. Personally I don't really see much problem with that? It's easy to backup, and easy to restore.
Wouldn't 80 still be more than 70?
Replacable modules - gone in the next version
Self-healing body- gone after 2 version
Vein sensor - gone in next version

At that point, any feature LG introduce are gonna be labeled as gimmicky, because they never develop it further for their next phone
You don't normally win a Nobel for being an effective educator or communicator either - and nominally he didn't.
The quality of good/bad or ergonomic is insufficient to meet the threshold for copyright protection.

A table of baseball batting averages or telephone numbers is not copyrightable, no matter how good or bad it is organized.
It looks like you are saying that what Google did may be bad too, but you are happy anyways because it’s good for some group of people (which may include you). This actually stifle innovation since companies will now consider that capital spent on designing APIs May be leveraged by their competitor simply stealing the API and save on that investment.
Indeed, however the case in point is the Chernobyl disaster, and in the USSR there AFAIK were no profits/shareholders/CEOs...

My point is that such scam isn't specific to the degraded version of capitalism so common in our nations, which is in fact "crony capitalism".
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This comes across to me as a writing about nothing, and a self promotion.

"I’m honestly a bit surprised that our app has genuinely helped me create a habit that I’ve spent years trying to build."
Yes, but neither is an API signature a formula. I was assuming the logic of the person I was responding to, to show that it could not be right.
And Oracle is now copying AWS's API to try to enter the cloud market. (This was explicitly brought up in one of the amici briefs).
A more obvious example is that, if you write a program that generates music based on some algorithm, that work is presumably copyrightable.
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Indeed. I’m not even sure the post was talking about cache invalidation, more like what is the correct abstraction by which you cache something.

I only truly understood cache invalidation problems when I read Instagram’s engineering posts - then it dawned on me how hard it is for them to maintain a cached user profile database that has to spread over the entire world for a billion users (and potentially constantly be invalidated as users from around the world like their post etc).
Dupe, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26699106
It's not going to do much for a PDF :)
Lamentations here. G5, G6, V20, V30. Each buy followed a research period - primary qualifications were handset quality+specs, price and rootability.

I didn't particularly care who the manufacturer was. LG kept winning out.
Friendly reminder that people who brought this up a decade ago were called “conspiracy theorists” and generally mocked and berated
I don't know why I pictured the original Jumanji movie scene where Robin Williams is rolling the dice and drum roll is in the background! :D

Maybe instead of the monkeys and other stuff, MS logo appears from the middle of the Jumanji game board?! :D
> I hope this is the last one and they get their act together. But realistically I can't believe that'll happen.

The good thing about them being a public company is there is some accountability from outside the company. Looks like they're already being investigated for fraud for downplaying the breach and their stock price took a big hit. Hopefully this all leads to the CEO being replaced and things turning around.
Arguably API design is the most creative aspect of programming. The space of possible interfaces is infinite, whereas function implementations are heavily constrained by the interface and often there is only a handful of ways to write an implementation for a given interface.

Two equally good programmers may come up with radically different interfaces. Whereas if given an interface and instructed to implement it, they are likely to converge to a similar implementation.
these is no content here. just an advert for some crappy website. flagged
> Focusing on mathematical abstracta completely misses the problem.

That rather depends on what you think the problem is or ought to be. I'm not sure that the author or many readers agree with you. It seemed fairly clear to me that they are interested in how well they can generate outputs corresponding to novel inputs that do well on some utility function. And for that, the "mathematical abstracta" is rather important and useful. "Comprehension" might also be important and useful, but is itself neither necessary nor sufficient.

A self-driving car will hopefully try to avoid running over a two-headed person crossing a road, without needing to worry about whether a two-headed person is mythical vs a miscomprehension of a woman carrying a child.

Besides, the layer at which comprehension occurs is not fixed. Our measuring devices themselves take in ambiguous inputs and process them. Do you stop at the surface of the skin? The nerve impulses? Various layers within the brain and nervous system?

Your complaint is reasonable, yet is not really that different from saying that computers are pointless without any I/O capabilities -- it doesn't matter what they compute if it is unobservable and has no effect on the world. That is true, yet doesn't mean that the whole of computer science is "a bit of a misdirection".
You are not responsible for how other people interpret appearances.

If you consider acting or putting up a front as akin to lying then we're probably all liars.
I’d make the case that it instead saved closed source coding.

Open source code is still usually copyrighted. Nobody would trust closed languages and APIs unless they paid a fortune for them while open source with a grant would be safe to use.
By the way, there is a great call recorder in F-Droid. If your phone doesn't have built-in support, you can always get it there.
Function implementations are definitely not mathematical formulas. To see what I mean, check out any HN discussions on TLA+ syntax.

It’s when you see an actual mathematical syntax that you realize how different programming really is.

Not try to be tedious here, just pointing out that actually programming is different than math, even for a language like Haskell.
I mean, it depends on the words you use. "Array" has a specific meaning in Rust, and that's [T; N]. You cannot have a run-time value for N, and so in that sense, they are correct. If by "array" you mean "any number of values laid out next to each other in memory," then they're wrong, but that's not usually what this term means in Rust specifically. Vectors and slices are also laid out this way, but they're not called "arrays."

Box<[T]> is close, but it's a pointer + length, where the pointer is to the heap, whereas [T; N] is a series of values, and can be on the stack. That's why it's a "boxed slice" and not an "array."

And yes, any slice type is runtime sized. That's why slices exist; they have a length stored in them to keep track of how long they are. This goes for &[T], Box<[T]>, Arc<[T]>, any of them.
The lack of differentiation between two EV brands will not be the major disruption to the car industry. It will be the ownership. In 3 to 5 years we should see autonomous vehicles that are offered by robot taxi networks. The same car can offer transport services to 5 families or more and still each family will be able to use the car to similar levels they are currently used to. Customers will no longer have to worry about maintenance, charging, insurance, parking, cleaning,... They will pay less and get more. The outcome will be that the number of cars sold will be a lot less than today. Car companies will not be able to make any margin on maintenance because EVs need a lot less maintenance and can soon drive a million kilometres. Only very few companies can create/train the self-driving technology, e.g. Tesla, Google,... The outcome will be that we will see a lot less car companies.
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An API design is plenty creative. The bar for what is creative enough to get copyright protection is extremely low, basically zero. An alphabetized phone book is literally the example people have to use for something that isn't.

There's a reason the Supreme Court didn't adopt the argument you are pushing and instead ruled on fair use grounds: It's a bad argument because a large API is clearly a creative work.
Lol, my partner and I don't wear rings, but if you're interested in her she'll let you know to drop it.
> Last month was Pat’s performance review, and after receiving a low score from his manager, Pat incredulously argued:
>
> “I’m one of the best programmers in this department!

If Pat made it to the "performance review" thinking he was a great developer while his manager was thinking otherwise, then the issue is Pat's manager not providing actionable feedback in a timely manner.

From there it's easy to hypothesize that the "deadlines" are given to him rather than discussed, and that maybe he's cutting corners to try and meet them.
I'd like to clarify a few things here. I work for a domain name protection and domain name recovery service (we recover stolen domain names and protect them from getting stolen).

The "DNS" was not stolen, the DNS is something totally different than the 'domain name'. DNS can be hacked, but it cannot be 'stolen'. Domain names are stolen. So the title should have been "My Domain was stolen".

In this situation, your domain name wasn't stolen, it was most likely challenged through the URS, which is a "faster" version of the UDRP (domain name dispute). Domain names with trademarks or names that are similar to trademarks can be disputed.

In this situation, it appears that you registered a domain name that is similar to a trademark owned by Facebook. Since they've referenced a particular case in that has been filed in Arizona, then you're probably being sued because you registered that domain name.

It's not a stolen domain name, the ownership of the domain name is being disputed.

Since it appears that legal action may be (or may already have been) taken against you, the owner of the domain name, I recommend that you seek the advice of a qualified domain name attorney.
I thought that argument was strong. If a brand or at least a product line has one characteristic, it can find customers that value it and it becomes their goto choice. Without that, the product has to find new customers each time. Gets ridiculous with cult-like followings as with Apple, but in essence it does not have to be a bad mechanism.
The comments on this case always seem a bit confused to me.

APIs have been copyrightable (in the US) since 2014(or 15, not sure). This ruling only affects the fair use judgement, and makes no further statement on the question of copyright; meaning APIs are still subject to copyright.
I worked with a guy who told me, you don't need to be that good, you just need the initiative. It was wildly cynical, but when I applied it to successful people I know, who failed quickly and often to iterate, their success didn't come from being meticulous or aligned to some exogenous universal criteria, they acted first then responded and followed up until it was sufficient.

There are boobs who think they are better than they are, and I've certainly been one, but you work with the tools you have. Worthwhile people will generally forgive you for failing, they don't forgive not trying because of uncertainty.

Becoming somewhat immune and suspicious of discouragement means you will take opportunities others won't, which even if it's just survivor bias, it's the factor most highly correlated to success.
I am avoiding Blackblaze as they don't allow you to do due diligence. Any requests to get security audit reports, pentest reports under NDA are all ignored. If anyone know if they are available through their website I am looking forward hearing it.
Expanding on what others have noted:

Heat engines take advantage of the fact that expanding a hot fluid releases more energy than it takes to compress a cold fluid - the difference being that combustion energy. Indeed the pressure difference is only there to make the process more efficient - so long as there is a temperature gradient you can extract energy even with no pressure gradient.
You can't, because that specific breach has been marked as sensitive:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/FAQs#SensitiveBreach
If this wasn't fair use, nothing of any substantial value could be considered fair use.
haha brilliant!
Paul also has quite a few posts on the Crunchy Data blog as well - https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/author/paul-ramsey
Lol no the parent mentioned it first
What bad things would have happened? This ruling specifically says that it was fair use, not that APIs are copyrightable - which seems to be the buggy man. As it currently stands, APIs absolutely fall under copyright laws.
It definitely sends a message. And the stakes were so high that the message is know very loud and clear, too.
Agreed; but if I had to bet, I'd also bet that the best high-def realistic scenery would come from a very well-resourced company.

Austin may be passionate, but he doesn't own anything comparable to Azure cloud or Bing maps.

I wish it were possible to marry X-Plane with MSFS's scenery and world rendering.
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> In this way, the declaring code’s shortcut function is similar to a gas pedal in a car that tells the car to
move faster or the QWERTY keyboard on a typewriter that
calls up a certain letter when you press a particular key. As
those analogies demonstrate, one can think of the declaring
code as part of an interface between human beings and a
machine.

I love this analogy, and I'm going to use it to describe this case from now on. If I have a great idea for a new keyboard, maybe great new clicky keys or something, I have to make it QWERTY. I can't just come up with some random key ordering. And it has nothing to do with how good or bad QWERTY is as an idea. It's just that QWERTY happens to be what people have skills in.
Well that's the baseline assertion that he was replying to.
So people click it. Really. That's the answer. For impressions.
Regardless of how you feel about either of these companies, I think this is great news for software and society.

Oracle claiming copyright to various APIs is a slippery intellectual property slope.
Also not to be confused as photography by 'blackwater' the notorious company of private military contractors.
"supernatural" is undefined and it's untestable. You start with meaninglessness, and then you're suprised when rational thinkers say they don't believe in the nonsense?