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Google as far as I based android on the Apache VM which was implemented using the published OpCode spec for Java. So for ripping off the OpCode/VM, actually they did something quite legitimate. From memory the Oracle claim centers on a few specific classes that they claim Google reverse engineered from the original Java source.

As for the incompatibility it was Oracle that chose to deny Apache a license for the Harmony VM, this was because they knew it was a threat to J2ME.
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Funny that you mention that, because I am working on my own unique "blend" of dwarf fortress in HTML5 and javascript.

Let just say the game takes place in a dyson sphere in the far future.
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This may seem like a stupid little thing, but I particularly love what they have done with GNU Screen, which is now called Byobu on Ubuntu.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Byobu
An implementation where the ad is shown only after buffering a certain amount of contents would have been interesting.

You'd wait longer before anything happens, there would be less ad impressions, every metrics I can imagine would be lower than the current behavior, but it sounds so much more sensible. I'd love a service doing that.
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Weiner is king of the hill right now, but it also must be said that serious, crazy fuck-you money happens if your show gets sold into mass syndication. Larry David has made north of $800 million off of Seinfeld. David E. Kelley is worth somewhere in the range of $250 to $300 million, and Steven Bochco is close to $200 million. The late Aaron Spelling was worth about $300 million, as well.

Of course, the days of such lucrative syndication and residual deals are probably numbered. My prediction is that, as content distribution opens up, TV writers will find it easier to become a millionaire, but harder to become a quasi-billionaire. We're entering a world in which there will be fewer Larry Davids, but more Matthew Weiners. Either way, TV writing will continue to be very lucrative at the top of the field.

And the path to the top may get shorter. The days of paying dues for 10 years at the staff/producer level before having enough juice to sell an original series are relics of the network TV business as it currently exists and has existed; the democratization of distribution, and the hunger of new distributors for original content, will open up the field to younger writers. More and more young writers will get their start shooting spec pilots or series, too, and not just trying to get staffed on existing shows. It's not unheard of, this day and age, to make a name for oneself on the internet and then get drafted by Hollywood. Look at Andy Samberg and his Lonely Island cohort, for instance.
if you make them long enough they will tell you to stop turning them in.
Further, the phone call itself does not have to physically terminate in the locality the rate center represents. For instance, a free conference calling service's VoIP servers may be hosted anywhere (e.g. AWS), not necessarily in Iowa. Thus, the reason the Telecommunications Act of 1996 provided for this type of compensation is non-existant in this type of VoIP scenario.
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On 32-bit systems, it's feasible to brute force, as there are only about 12 bits of entropy. There are a lot more random bits on 64-bit systems, so I don't consider it brute force to be that practical there.
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Let’s say you have inherited millions of dollars worth of liquid and illiquid assets, which you want to put to good use. But you are faced with the problem on how to do it and whom you can trust since this is not the typical world you live in. Wouldn’t you be glad to know that there are people out there that are more than qualified to take your business into their own hands and carry much responsibility for you?
Right, but my question was more like: Clearly this was a major investigation. The FBI was involved, they followed this guy around for a month, they used expensive technology, they appealed all the way to the Supreme Court .. if they're going through all that trouble, would it have been that much more work to just get a warrant first? Is there a long waiting list for warrant hearings? Would the warrant have been unlikely to have been granted? Or did they just screw up?
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It actually looks like Microsoft flagged the amazonaws.com domain which Dropbox uses for file storage. This impacted my companies services as well where we got flagged at aroud 2:00 am MT this morning. We were able to swap our DNS over to point to the cloudfront.net DNS easily to get around the issue. It only happens if you directly send the browsers to a amazonaws.com CDN url.
I use a mangled pseudonym on FB, and entered a misleading DOB... how are they supposed to know?

Probably they have some common heuristics to spot a fake, but those cannot be too clever.

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Re: Scale of monitoring

Does this not just make the haystack bigger for the same number of needles?
Not necessarily. Last week, I opted out of backscatter, and the pat-down triggered an "explosives detected" alert. I was in a hurry, but otherwise would have wanted to be much more resistive of the private search I underwent after that.

Because it's absurd. Because I do not carry or interact with explosives.
It is becoming hard to keep up. Sites like this shows that the pace of HTML5 is incredible. And since with every new feature introduced there are hundred ways to use it, we can just guess what the web will look like after a year.
Completely agree. I value rights and freedom more than the industry that produces TV shows and movies. If Hollywood were to disappear, TV shows and movies would still be produced. A form of art only disappears when people cease to practice it of their own volition.

YC's RFS really was more about creating competition that debases the power that MPAA and RIAA supporting companies wield via dilution.

More forms of entertainment => less power any form of entertainment has to impact legislation and government.

The Internet produces a myriad of entertainment filters from which one is free to choose. The Hollywood system produces a small number of filters curated by a handful of people in one one city in one state in one country of the World. Diversity is more valuable and Hollywood threatens that.

Do I lament the loss of a species? Certainly. But if it is necessary to preserve the ecosystem, so be it.
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Or if you know the distro, it is trivial to get the package containing the su executable and locate the address.
This might strike you as crazy, but please hear me out. Humans are adept at creating systems to describe natural phenomenon. We're also adept at adopting aspects of those systems as tools to further our development. We do this on a conscious and sub-conscious level.

It wouldn't be, at all, surprising to find something like Hamming codes inside the geometry describing physics. Physics is not alone; DNA also contains some type of error correction.

Then you have to take a step further back and realize that mathematics is just a system of description for our world. That's probably the sloppiest use of the word "just" you'll use today, but there's an important underlying point.

It's a "chicken or the egg" question. Did our tendencies as humans to understand and describe systems give rise to our own mathematical models, or are the mathematical models some greater basis of our reality?

The conversation very quickly becomes metaphysical, moving more in to philosophy and theology than mathematics and physics.
That's the thing I miss in all these guides. For me it might be possible to switch for weekdays, but the next weekend would desynchronize everything. Starting over by getting up on next Monday at 5 AM after few hours of sleep would make me give up. Knowing that I won't even give it a try.
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I remember reading a similar thread here in the last couple of weeks or so. Perhaps, someone (more proficient than me) could dig it out and post it here as a reference?
Definitely install F.lux: http://stereopsis.com/flux/

It adjusts the color temperature of your monitor as the sun goes down. As the sun sets, your monitor becomes more red/pink. It takes a little while to get used to it, but I absolutely cannot stand normal monitors at night time now. When I occasionally disable F.lux to watch a movie at night, I'm blinded by the bright blue glow.
This argument reminds me of the way logging companies defend clear-cutting old-growth forests by simply saying that loggers need jobs. If your main concern is simply to preserve jobs, then it's never a good time to start a boycott.

If your main concern is defense of liberty, if I may be so bold, then now is most definitely an appropriate time to start a boycott.
"you have the right to trial by your peers, corect?"

I believe the answer to that is "not exactly, it's complicated."
> I've never seen a real example of this

Are you sure?
This is good advice. Taking melatonin when you go to bed will help you sleep, but taking it a few hours before you want to go to bed helps retrain your circadian cycle (which is the goal, not just going to sleep easily)
I tried the input tag among others. On a second inspection, I just missed most of the results because they are below the fold.
I believe I could have perhaps, hacked the sources list, but the 'correct' debian sources for a given package are often a version or two behind the Ubuntu sources.
This is an issue I'm very passionate about, and I'm sure many others are too. I'd love to hear other's thoughts on how we educate the next generation and the best way to teach coding in 2012.
Seems like there would be no difference between the white-hat and the black-hat version except possibly in the mission statement on the "about us" page.
> Can't we at least pretend that what happens in court is a matter of Justice and Right or Wrong?

It is. Oracle gets a chance to present its case, so does Google. The better the lawyers, the more compelling case they can make, but, in the end, all has to be based on facts, not empty rhetoric, and based on those, the jury will decide what the most appropriate measure to take.
Maybe this could be related to the fact that Prof Sebastian Thrun left his tenure job to start his own set of courses . Surely sounds an administrative issue
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About five and a half years ago, I accepted a position with the US Marine Band. It has been wonderful in many ways, but one way I thought it would change my life never came to fruition: I thought it would make me a morning person.

I'm still at my desk at 0730 every morning and I'm able to be effective during my working hours, but that happens in spite of the hour of day, not of because of it. Instead, I've become a coffee drinker and have learned to value the nights when I can really focus on something into the early morning hours because the alarm clock won't ring the next morning.

I think transitioning from a night person into a morning person or vice versa is possible, but I've learned that change can't be brought along by external factors. I think it's important that we remain aware of the social norms that influence when we choose to sleep when we embark on trying to make such a transition. For example, starting a job requiring a 0600 alarm was difficult when I was 24 because my social circle regularly stayed out past midnight. Changing my routine required changing my social circle. Now that I'm 30, that part of going to bed early is easier. The wanting to stay up late because I'm being productive - that part I still haven't figured out.
Coincidentally enough I just started reading The Way We're Working Isn't Working and this one of the arguments he makes (i.e. that we tend to run ourselves ragged by trying to work longer and longer hours to 'be more productive', when it usually results in just the opposite).

I can definitely attest to the fact that my periods of greatest productivity tend to come in spurts as the book talks about (sprints of say 90 or so minutes of highly concentrated work) as opposed to being the result of long slogs of say 10 hours of coding, which tends to produce volumes of code, but not necessarily my best code.

Good book so far (http://www.amazon.com/Way-Were-Working-Isnt-Performance/dp/1...).
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I can see EA getting up in arms over a game like this since they are still selling Command & Conquer Games (Tiberian Dawn was part of Command & Conquer: The First Decade which came out a few years ago), but what about for other games that aren't being sold? The author here is giving proper attribution and isn't making any money off of it, as far as I understand. What about remaking games from companies that don't exist anymore?

/not an expert on copyright and honestly curious
Sourcefire does almost exactly that. Their software is open source and you can download and install it for free.

They sell licenses and services, and you can pay for quicker updates to firewall rules and the like. As commercial customers, you can have their software engineers onsite tuning things to your environment, etc.

Covalent is a company that sells Apache. Obviously, they didn't manufacture Apache webservers, but, like Xamp or Wamp, they sell value added bundles that include Apache configurations pre-compiled with PHP or Perl or what have you.

Again, they also have a services division, but I don't personally know much about it.

For the record, no, my company does not sell GPL software. It was proffered as an example that non-GPL-based companies rely on both software sales and services, and it doesn't really matter whether or not the software is GPLd. I don't know why you'd hold it against RedHat that their software is freely downloadable when they're still selling more than a few copies of RHEL.
Great, thanks very much for that.

It seems mind-boggling for me that the mere fact that the device was installed by the then-owner would be enough to make this OK without a warrant. It seems no different than leaving a sticky tracking device on a public street where you know the suspect is going walk, so that he unknowingly picks it up on his shoe and can be monitored...pretty much forever.

EDIT: Wait, on second thought, are you sure? The main opinion says

> The first case, Knotts, upheld against Fourth Amendment challenge the use of a “beeper” that had been placed in a container of chloroform, allowing law enforcement to monitor the location of the container. 460 U. S., at 278. We said that there had been no infringement of Knotts’ reasonable expectation of privacy since the information obtained—the location of the automobile carrying the container on public roads, and the location of the off-loaded container in open fields near Knotts’ cabin—had been voluntarily conveyed to the public.6 Id., at 281–282. But as we have discussed, the Katz reasonable-expectation-of-privacy test has been added to, not substituted for, the common-law trespassory test. The holding in Knotts addressed only the former, since the
latter was not at issue. The beeper had been placed in
the container before it came into Knotts’ possession, with
the consent of the then-owner. 460 U. S., at 278. Knotts
did not challenge that installation, and we specifically de-
clined to consider its effect on the Fourth Amendment
analysis. Id., at 279, n. Knotts would be relevant, perhaps, if the Government were making the argument that
what would otherwise be an unconstitutional search is
not such where it produces only public information. The
Government does not make that argument, and we know
of no case that would support it.

To me, that says that Knotts is distinguised because all the data that the police used was available publicly, i.e. that Knotts did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy (which, presumably, Jones did in the recent case).
It would surprise me if the police hadn't gone to OnStar to get exactly that kind of tracking information. Even if they haven't, just reframing the case the way you have reduces the applicability of the ruling significantly. It wouldn't be hard to argue "the Internet is a public place" and as such, there is no expectation of privacy (perhaps with the exception of SSL, but AFAIK, PCIPA doesn't require keeping the actual data, just the logs of where you went, which, even with SSL, the IP address you are visiting is clear text).

I think we will need new legislation or some serious divine intervention for this decision to protect our online privacy from the government.
Is it worth the risk to them? Their employer can grep through logs for hotkeys trivially, and it's not like typing in "help I am in a basement in Beijing" is going to send a rescue squad in 20 minutes.
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I compiled it myself, so that is not an option.
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The plan to remove H.264 support is probably why trailers.apple.com served up an <object> rather than <video>.

When Chrome does lose H.264 support, I'll be using the QuickTime plugin even more to play H.264 videos. Then, the only way for me to watch H.264 in Chrome is by a plugin that is purposefully given an inferior user experience for a BS reason. If security were the real reason, the Flash plugin should also get the same treatment as QuickTime given its history of security flaws and crappy performance (at least on OS X).
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The Java API is in the public domain, Oracle even admitted as such:

> they added to their sins by now assessing damages in copyrights based on APIs in the Java language, of all desperate moves, which Oracle has already admitted to the court is in the public domain.

You can say that Dalvik stepped on some patents to maintain the API's compatibility, but anyone can implement the Java language for free if they want. It's only if you use the Java VM that you have to pay license fees, which Google obviously doesn't do.
"You wouldn't download a car..."

Yes. Yes I would.
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The funny thing in this case which the Govt LOST in a big way is that the Govt actually HAD a warrant. They failed to comply with it (Attaching the GPS after the date granted by the court and for longer than granted.)

Basically the Govt. tried to convince the court that their bungling did not matter because a "warrant" not needed to begin with as it was not a "search" as defined in the 4th amendment. The Supremes slapped the hell out of that argument and thus created a major ruling that now impacts all govt. actions on GPS. The irony is awesome.
Does this mean that Facebook, Google and Apple need a warrant to track people? Or just the police?
If you want to use an analogy, it seems more akin to a lawyer publishing his very first PHP program, full of bad structure and MySQL exploits. But everyone has to start somewhere. We all made those mistakes at one point or another and by publishing more and more software, we eventually saw the error of our ways, developed better habits, and eventually could be considered "experts."

This is no different. The article may very well be full of errors, but as he continues to work on his law skills, he will get better. The flaw is our thinking that everyone should be perfect on day one. It takes a lot of time to become good at what you do. We should be nurturing his early efforts, not scolding him for trying.
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Pintrest has to do with things, such as this cream lace pencil skirt: http://pinterest.com/pin/154248355957226784/

Where on the contrary, ZenBucket (As its now known - https://github.com/ZenBucket/ZenBucket-web) has to with goals: such as quitting smoking or learning how to clean a carburetor.
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You can plan earlier social activities. A 2pm bbq for instance. A 12pm hike.
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I did some Googling but was unable to find a lot of technical detail on the type of attack executed by LOIC. A quick glance at the source code on Github shows the capability for HTTP flooding, but the Wikipedia page mentions a TCP flood. I'm not sure whether it's capable of both, or which is used more in practice.

In any event, the traffic from a web browser is going to look different from traffic generated by LOIC. A web browser is a very high-level tool with lots of constraints to keep web pages from doing "bad things". These constraints would make it pretty easy to profile traffic from web browsers vs LOIC. Granted, LOIC could mimic these constraints, but that would significantly diminish its operating capabilities.

The whole conversation surrounding LOIC and this new web based tool is full of bad information and misunderstandings.
this is possibly the first truly interesting and amazing article I saw on HN today.
There could certainly be some interesting possibilities for fundraising with/for your group (those sharing a goal or goals) as well.
How did this happen - did he want to push online education in different directions? Did he want to pursue more overtly commercial interests than his counterparts, which seem to be approaching it from a nonprofit sense? Was there a personal falling out between Andrew Ng and Sebastian Thrun?

The non-profit focused alternative seems to currently have both a better platform and more participation. Can a lesser amount of potential revenue allow this to scale up? Or will professor's be drawn by the larger salaries commercial teaching organizations could command, coupled with more extensive and rapid feature deployment?
Bear with me here, but it seems to me like this is a good argument for socialism.

Consider: why do termination fees exist? Clearly, as America was being wired with telephone service, the cost to run lines to rural areas was prohibitively expensive. So what's the capitalist/Randian thing to do? Well, charge more for phone service out there. If people can't afford it, then they'll move to where it is cheaper to have a phone line, right?

Except you have to consider why people would live in these rural areas to begin with. For a large number of individuals, they are probably farmers (or involved in food production). If they have to pay higher rates for phone lines, then they would have to raise the price of food to make living in rural areas viable. But there's obviously a really big incentive to the government and everyone that's not living in rural areas to not have the cost of food increase. So what does America do?

To remain somewhat loyal to pristine capitalist ideas, America decides that it's going to let competition and corporate interests resolve the issue, but to make things "fair", the government will put its finger on the scales, just a bit. Unfortunately, when you forget to take your finger off the scales, then you end up with AT&T spending $250mil unnecessarily!

Efficiency of the market, eh?

Of course, a more socialist-leaning country would've just had the government pay to install rural phone lines.
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After meaning almost a week later, not later Tuesday evening.
I know of at least one Stanford student who feels swindled by this transition to online classes. 1. For some stanford costs a lot of money while online it's free and 2. The time taken developing this class may take away from the in person experience, further reducing the value of attending classes at Stanford.

Any idea if these feelings are wide spread? I only have the one sample.
Agreed.

awk, in particular, is a great not-too-hot, not-too-cold ad hoc database engine for shell scripts where firing up MySQL would just be overkill.
Not relevant to your course, but do you know if it is planned to put other courses, like Compilers, Programming Languages Theory, Symbolic AI and maybe also Operating Systems, in the near future?