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> If you wish to do business in the USA, you cannot ignore US patent law.

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's stopping anyone from accepting money from customers in the US if their servers are outside of the US?
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And this doesn't apply to Holocaust deniers because...
I suppose I should have said 'full scale' invasion a la Shock and Awe.
I still don't understand the value add of MapReduce (in it's various implementations, including Hadoop) versus Clustered SQL. I see articles like this one that seem to imply that there is a niche for MapReduce for tasks like simple string search on super large data sets: http://gigaom.com/2009/04/14/mapreduce-vs-sql-its-not-one-or.... It just seems odd that people are so quick to throw away 40+ years of research on how to structure relational data and how to optimize queries against large data sets.
the later stretched points undermine your argument

A little maybe. But also consider that I wanted to show how people from other countries think of the situation too. I mean, people tend to think of country B in country's A terms and framing of the discussion, so I tried to do something like the opposite.

I was not aware that the mainstream view was that Japan was surrendering before the atomic bombings.

That view is widely held all around the world. Try to find some Europeans thinking the bombs were "needed". There is also evidence that us leaders knew about it, it was just a showcase, mainly to scare off USSR. Besides, it's of little consequence if Japan was surrendering or not: the war was going on with conventional weapons even in more dire times, including the Normandy invasion, so nothing called at that time to drop atomic bombs on civilians (if anything ever does). Especially considering that Japan was at the time under attack by conventional bombs, tons of them, that had burned most of its cities and killed hundreds of thousands.

Easier said for Iraq than Afghanistan. It already had chaos, civil war, etc. at the onset of the invasion. Expected returns from mineral wealth hardly justify the cost.

It had the Taliban rule, but not much civil war anymore. And certainly no mass chaos and deaths, like it does post invasion. And it's not just "mineral wealth", it's also setting foot in a strategic area.

I'm guessing you mean King for one. Not sure who'd other would be? (Malcom X? He advocated racial seperation).

Was thinking of X, yeah. Well, even if he advocated racial separation, just means he was killed just as a pro-black activist, instead of a anti-segregation activist. Both reasons seem bad to me.

Either way, it's a tall argument that the country (government?) assassinated them.

Who said the government? I said "the country". To show it in the same vain as people that blame other countries for things done not only by the government but also by local religious nuts, teams etc.

Iran executes people at not only a far higher rate but even in absolute numbers. It also applies death penalty to a far wider range of crimes.

Not much consolation. One's too many for my tastes. YMMV.

Sure, but they aren't running the government

No, they only run the previous government. And no one can talk openly against them, or they will lose office pronto.

As opposed to being charged with blasphemy in country B.

You mean like in the Salem trials? What, that was long ago?

Then tell me, why Country A, that stopped practicing slavery later than other countries, introduced women's voting later than other countries, stopped racial segregation later than other countries, has not yet stopped practicing the death penalty unlike other countries, etc etc, thinks other countries should all be on the same timeline as it does, as to what laws they have?
I'm getting a bit sick of the 'piracy is theft' nonsense. It isn't. Nobody is deprived of their possession. Me copying your song doesn't result in you no longer having a song.

Piracy is far closer to plagiarism, but even then only to a point. In plagiarism, one attempts to pass off the work of another as one's own. In piracy, one simply copies another's work for one's own use. They are fundamentally different.

This is why piracy is as prevalent as it is: it simply is not as bad as plagiarism, let alone theft. Most people have an intuitive understanding of this, and those who pirate do so without the cognitive dissonance that comes with acting against their moral code. It might be "wrong" in an abstract sense, sort of like lying on your resume is "wrong", but it's not wrong in the absolute sense of harming another person's body or property.
The issue is that those companies agreed to licence those patents non-discriminatory and at reasonable terms to anybody that wants to implement those standards (that rely on those patented technologies).

I don't think it would be possible to have industry standards (H.264, Wifi, 3G etc) without such
obligations.

Apple (and others) need to pay the patent holders licence fees, but those fees should be non-discriminatory (i.e. similar to the terms offered to other companies). It's not OK to try to use those patents to shut a competitor out.

As far as I know Apple hasn't sued anybody over FRAND patents - they're perfectly in their right to try use their patents the way they do. Samsung, Motorola etc are free to do the same with non-FRAND patents, but what they're doing at the moment is definitely not OK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRAND
I think he's claiming that plays are more popular in Europe.
HP, screwit, I'm done
So how does the Libyan intervention play into your narrative?
I think it's a great idea, and a nifty hack.

It might be an to release a diff against this once a week, and write a quick script to grab it, keeping the list up-to-date.
>I read your words, but all I hear you saying is "I want free media".

All the media I consume nowdays is free, news, learning resources, youtube vids etc. Apart from going to cinema (but even that started to suck), and music from local bands that I pay for to support the artist. So nope, I don't want any media.

>Do you fundamentally disbelieve in the concept of paying someone for the use/enjoyment of IP they produced?

Do you pay for broadcast TV program or radio ? They are funded by advertising. Same thing with software, I don't mind paying for it, but if you expect people not to copy it - keep it on a private server and expose it as a service, or find some other model.
The lawyer's explanation for this is usually that law is the kind of subject that requires one person to centrally have access to all the facts. A distributed system won't work, unless it has shared memory which, given the fact that we're dealing with people instead of computers, isn't possible.

Think of it like surgery: would you want the brain surgeon to tap out after an 8-hour marathon session for the next guy coming in? No, because the guy who just worked 8 hours has intimate knowledge of everything relevant to the surgery in progress. The same is the case with law suits.

At least... if my friends who are layers are to be believed :)
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Possibly, but you'd have to be making some real money for the trolls to bother targeting you.
It's barbaric too.
I really hope this works. It'd be fantastic to see this become a reliable way to fund new adventure games, especially if they're from Tim Schafer.
Can a mod change the url to the unframed version?
Is your template open source?
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Lets do it for Notepad and TextEdit, too!
With math, the one thing that works best is practice. Get some high-school math books and start solving problems. Solve all of them, then get yourself another textbook and solve the problems there.
Thing is with all such suggestions, they inevitability are of the type: Fix complex system X by removing system X.

Its do-able, but I am certain that the law of unintended consequences was written to describe situations like these.

For example, in your suggestion, the part where we move the onus onto the courts, will gum up the courts. I live in India, where courts are constantly arbiting cases, and people know that if your case gets into court, it could be there for ever. Thats not a side effect we want to induce.

Now you could build in redundancy for that eventuality by expanding the number of people in court, justices and areas, but then in essence, you are moving the burden from department X to department N, with the added problem that those new people will be from law, and not a technical background.

I really do think that this is a case where people should just get someone whos a technocrat in charge, give him authority and funds, and then forget about it while the patent office is built back up into an institution that people respect.
Someone could suggest a system, whereby spelling mistakes are used to encode partial information about a magnet link.

One switched pair could give you the position in the magnet-link key, the other switched pair could give you the value. That way, you could never pin down exactly who gave you what information.

Or maybe I shouldn't suggest it?
Has anyone actually used wolfram alpha regularly? What did you use it for? Not that I think its dumb (well... maybe I'm a little skeptical), but I just haven't thought of any way to use it.
Eolas sued Microsoft in 1999 and the suit took almost a decade to go through all the appeals and such. After they finished taking down MS, Eolas started working on suing everyone else. This information is out there if you bother to look...
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I'd take less cash to work for a really awesome startup (or a really awesome group within a larger company), with great coworkers, solving an important problem, etc.

That's the reason for taking a pay cut to work for a startup; the equity from the startup is just a bonus on top of that.
he asks whether or not Ruby and Rails are good for beginners.

The answer is quite unconvincing,

so PHP or Python are better for beginners ?
Once the enemy's shields are down it only takes one or two photon torpedos, much more efficient. In addition, I don't know of any species in star trek with the technological capability to transport hundreds of people from a ton of different locations simultaneously. The federation transports only a dozen or so people max at a time, and they're usually all standing together.
It's important to keep in mind that where Path went wrong is they did not ask permission to upload the address book. Many, Many applications have a valid reason to move your contact list into the cloud - and as long as they ask my permission first, that's fine.

Agreed with your outrage on a company taking files off of my system (address book or otherwise) and uploading them. And, from reading the dcurt.is entry - it sounds like 85%+ of social apps do this as common practice.
The photo of Dave Morin and the words "sincerely" felt like a bit of a mismatch.
> would you hire a Code Academy grad?

This depends entirely on the rest of grad's resume.
If only there was an established way, maybe a pattern, perhaps a device service, for getting notifications without constantly doing an HTTP poll request.
just out of curiosity...who would pay for this? i am not trying to be cynical or anything. I am just genuinely wondering who the prospects are.
There are very few hardfp benchmarks that really compare just this feature and leave the rest of the system identical. E.g. comparing Debian armv5 with floating point emulation vs Ubuntu armv7hf of course yields a huge gain, but that mainly is not due to the fact that floating point values are now passed in fp registers.

If SW relies heavily on passing a handful of floating point values in function calls, it should be rewritten to use NEON/SIMD on ARM - and then all you pass is a pointer to the data, regardless of the calling convention. And once you move to writing the mission critical stuff in assembly, you can chose your own calling convention for subroutines as you see fit anyway.
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You seem to be justifying their actions.
There is no moral justification.

You can't simply assert that you are right and I am wrong. I gave you clear examples under which normal people can be influenced to do bad things. If you don't think that's possible, then cite errors in the evidence. But if you're going to simply ignore the evidence, I can't take your responses seriously. There's no point in continuing.

because of this incident we can now clearly
tell which companies are noble and which were
pretending to be so.
...
You admonish people for __bad__ behaviour because
you care about preventing it in the future.

Humanity has been admonishing the immoral behavior companies/politicians/etc for millennia, and yet it still continues to this day. Appealing to morality does not work, has never worked, and never will work. Unless you fix the system, you are accomplishing nothing in the long run. What you're doing is the equivalent of blowing on a pot of boiling water to try and cool it off. Sure, it may get a degree or two colder for a few seconds. But unless you take the pot off the fire, the water will keep boiling.
I don't use it as much as Google or anything, but I find myself there once or twice a week. Usually it's things like geographic info (population, size), currency or timezone conversion, or various other sort of small things like that.

I enjoy it quite a bit, and I should probably use it for many more things.
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It takes "ages", but that is mainly due to the very slow mass storage speed that current ARM SoCs feature. Mobile phones and development boards like the Pandaboard use SD cards as mass storage and SD cards can be very slow when not used for typically linear read/write operations in your digital camera
The tone of this article is downright chilling. Sure, this guy is a complete nuisance but he should have every right to spread his hate speech wherever property owners condone. The current anti-bullying meme that is being propagated by mass-media and politicians is just another in a long line of ruses designed to limit the human rights of the electorate.
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Particularly because 85% of "average" people in north america keep their email in one of 5 mail domains (hotmail.com, aol.com, yahoo.com, gmail.com, Facebook.com) - that, plus the low entropy of names - means the rainbow tables would probably have a 95% hit rate at relatively small sizes.
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You underestimate the value of ML for monetizing cat pictures.
Busy going through the older tutorial at the moment. At Chapter 5. It's awesome, thanks for the great tutorial.
I believe that you can't really learn Java through reading. You'd better served if you try to port some of your old code to Java so you have a purpose. Java's spec can span to thousand of pages, so an overview book can be either too thick or too shallow. I would recommend you reading a Data Structure+Algorithm book in java, which will cover all the basic use and unique characteristic of the language: http://www.amazon.com/Data-Structures-Algorithms-Java-2nd/dp...
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Good story, but the only sense in which the heroes are sure to win is that whoever wins will be deemed the heroes.
Why are hackers allowed to use Python but not R? R is a quite powerful Scheme-like language with an incredible math library. Python is a "teaching language", officially.
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Well, no. ml-class was a series of demos. Plugging in a formula is 1-line developing an algorithm. The original cs229 is more like what you describe.
With all due respect, most of the arguments that you're proposing here are the result of historians rife with accusations of revisionist history - Alperovitz especially.

The Japanese did express a desire for peace before the bombs were dropped, yes, but a desire for peace is not nearly the same as an unconditional surrender. At this point, the context of this war should be noted - it occurred, in part, because of the manner in which World War I ended, an armistice (however imbalanced in its terms), which was certainly a factor in the outbreak of World War II. It's understandable that the United States wished to avoid a similar situation with Japan.

Is this justification for dropping two atomic bombs on a hostile nation? I don't know; I wasn't there and I definitely don't know all the details. However, it certainly isn't as one-sided as you present it.
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Also see the HN submission on this Kickstarter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3569676 (tl;dr: Tim Schafer!)
Well, no. ml-class was a series of demos. The data was all curated in advance and the models pre-selected appropriately.
Yea, that date is under "Original Document Information".
I'm from Poland. It's pure BS propaganda. All lawyers say this putting on hold means nothing legally, and the famous "debate" we had on monday was ridiculous and made for publicity, they are just trying to save their butts and put the public to sleep.

So, until we all hear that ACTA is no more, don't get too excited please and act like everything is still on.
I think Wikipedia is in the wrong here. In fact, if you read the article linked from the disambiguation page, it strongly supports the definition shown in all dictionaries, and makes no mention of rocks or chairs being 'amoral'. Regardless, none of this bears out the idea of 'amoral' meaning morally agnostic, ie actions having no moral component, and your initial semantic nitpick was itself incorrect.
This seems perfect for a project I'm planning to start soon. Any chance of supporting epub/mobi formats in the near future? The licensing is also a concern. If the creator wanted a copyleft license, why not just go with the GPL with additional clauses? People already have certain expectations the moment they see a BSD or MIT license. Slightly misleading, if you ask me.
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Who cares, when was Javascript last updated?

I learned something new.
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Welcome to tons of JS Unicode String libraries to work around this problem :-(
Just saw this. Interesting. You were working as an ally though, unlike the situation here :P
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I don't understand how they could think it's not a terrible thing and feel dirty for doing it just because they can. It's less about making mistakes and more about developer greed. They could have md5'd the email addresses before sending them or used any number of simple to implement techniques that would still have retained the original feature. Stop telling us it was a mistake! This was a premeditated privacy breach, 1st degree. They decided to hedge their bets and profit from their users by blatant disregard for their own users privacy -- the user's why they have a job and VC in the first place. In the end all this is just going to reduce the user experience with unnecessary confirmation dialogs and prompts because a few lousy startups couldn't keep it in their pants. These companies do not deserve forgiveness; they deserve a class action lawsuit.
Was the Flash game called "Disgruntled Ducks" and featured blue boars as the enemies? If yes, then it would be comparable to the OP.

As far as I can see this is not about protecting gameplay concepts, rather than brands.
I've had this same problem myself, you can indeed get around some of it by using javascript but I'd rather not use JS for something unless I really have to. This is because you often end up with a slower site to the end user as you end up serving extra JS files (sometimes including jquery) not to mention noscript users etc.

I think the problem is that stuff that starts being pretty static can often end up getting slowly more dynamic and at some point you have to re-engineer it which becomes a pain so it's easier to plan around this from the start.

I took over a project which used static content to serve everything which included a lot of fwrite() PHP calls. As this got more complicated we ended up cache invalidation type issues where there was a hierachy of content that needed to be re-written back to various files every time something was changed on the site.
This meant that saving changes to the site became incredibly slow as we often erred on the safe side which meant we ended up re-writing some things multiple times, also the code that checked files to see which parts needed to regenerate became exponentially more complex.

In the end I just generated everything from the DB and used memcache in a few select places, performance for serving content was about the same as serving the static files, the code was much cleaner (which helped make performance better in the long run) and usability from the content administrators POV was much improved.

You should always aim to be serving your most common content directly from RAM anyway, so whether this is from the kernel's pagecache or memcache doesn't matter so much, you can probably solve this problem using clever proxying too.
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Planes have been able to land in poor visibility automatically since 1968 using the ILS (instrument landing system) radio waves. There are various categories with category 3 being supported in 1968 (low decision height and visibility).

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ILS Categories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system#ILS_c...
Yep, also it's easier in firefox but you have to install Firebug :/
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