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The only dispute I can recall about damages was many people claiming that Oracle had lowered its damages claims, and Mueller saying they hadn't. When the full damages report was released, it turned out Mueller was right - they changed methodology, but the overall figure did not go down.

It's true that the judge has been hard on Oracle's damages report, but I don't recall Mueller ever saying otherwise. He's always said that they key issue is Oracle's ability to get a permanent injunction rather than money damages for past infringement.
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It looks a bit like the negative space of a Google + too. Troubled times ahead.
Unfortunately the performance would be poor. This is not a reflection on Julia. Even compiled C is between 4 and 12 times slower than assembly for some bignum operations.

Also, LLVM handles carries and certain loop optimisations poorly, so even using LLVM bytecode you can't do much better than compiled C. It would be a massive project to improve this in LLVM (I thought about giving it a go sone time ago but decided it was overwhelming). And that use case is probably too specialised for the improvements to help with much else. Obviously the LLVM backend is fantastic for 99% of use cases and improving all the time.

N.B. I am not implying that a good assembly programmer is generically faster than a C compiler. Bignums are a very special case.
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Protocol buffers are a reimplementation of some whizzy stuff we did at a messaging start-up circa 1994.

They were great for messaging . . . but we found ourselves using them /everywhere/. And since our stuff worked in many different environments (C++, Java, Visual Basic were the ones we directly supported), you could have your choice of language.

It's flattering to see this rediscovered, several times over :-)
Ah yes, because the internet is the .com's and the united states owns the internet.

You might want to check your assumptions before stating something with that much certainty. There are, occasionally, things outside your borders worth thinking about.
You are right about that. It was Judge Narragansett.
Thanks for the link. It certainly looks like it.
What's so special about beacon ? It's no more business as usual at facebook, with the additional twist that it caused public uproar.
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I don't think so. According to the FAQ they don't think it'll change (http://www.videolan.org/press/lgpl-libvlc.html). The LGPL requires dynamically linking the library or providing the raw object files if statically linked to allow the end user to change the LGPL library in the code. I've read that the app store's code signing + pay wall to get a signing certificate violates this exception, so it looks like a no go. It would have been nice if they added in a static linking exception.

Hopefully this will allow for other open source software to link to libVLC without having to fully upgrade to GPL however.
Does this work for C too? I notice that it mentions replacing CINT, which is C & C++.

I'm a scrub to C and it'd really bum me out if I find out about an interpreter to play with just in time for it to no longer be viable.
Right balance between technical and pragmatic: does it exist?
The dam building example illustrates exactly why the public good argument makes sense. Let's say a town of 100 farmers need a dam built and there is a net benefit even if only 50 contribute to building the dam. Now there is a huge incentive for the farmers to play chicken with each other to see who will pay up first. The "free riders" that don't pay for the dam will have extra money to buy more land or other resources to take better advantage of the new dam's benefits.

In this case it is fair for the town government to pay for the dam with taxes. Given the net benefits of the dam it is even plausible that the increased property values and job revenues near the dam would increase the tax base.
Unfortunately, in practice, it's not really the case that "it’s really easy to parse Lisp code". Yes, you can do it in some cases, but to do it correctly in general, at least in CL, is the somewhat infamous "code-walker" problem, which needs to do all sorts of strange things:

Do you handle all varieties of lambda lists? recognize and descend into all the special forms? what do you do with macros? expand them (a mess)? try to walk into special-cased standard ones like 'loop' and ignore user-defined ones?

The closest you can come to doing it sanely is to use a code-walking library like the one in arnesi: http://common-lisp.net/project/bese/docs/arnesi/html/A_0020C...
The target has been reached. Two noteworthy comments from the post, in the order I saw them.

"I'm the MD of Bytemark Hosting in the UK, and noticed that you'd asked for donations for a CyanogenMod build farm. We have a few machines that would meet your requirements (or can easily upgrade a couple) and increasing numbers of our staff think it is a very cool project. [...] Please email me - matthew(at)bytemark.co.uk - and let us know what your ideal systems would be."
-- http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help#...

"Thank you all! The goal has been reached after 8 hours!!! You guys rock! [...] For those of you who volunteered hardware/servers, should the donation drive prove to be insufficient, we ask that you post your email or other contact info in the comments."
-- http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help#...
Can my drone shoot down your drone if yours invades my airspace?

What about if I deem your drone a nuisance/pest (in my airspace) and shoot it down?
Interesting new look. I was excited about getting HTTP Live Streaming support in VLC, however, it seems to be broken for sliding playlists, which is surprising since I thought it hooks into libav* for a lot of that stuff, which does have support.
Thanks! By 'weekend projects' I really meant two or three projects drawn out over several months. I've started working on one but it's at the bottom of my priority list right now, that'll change in a few months when I'm done with my thesis.

I've also come to realize how skewed your perspective is based on who you're surrounded by. I'm one of the best in my CS department which made me think that job searching would be easy, but now I see that I'm the best of a small group that isn't that spectacular to begin with. Really wish I'd taken the harder path four years ago and gone for a better/larger school.
It is not a grid. It is just a process supervisor which can be controlled from a central point. Nothing more, but it does the work well. You can of course integrate it into a larger system, like what I have done for a PaaS:

http://notes.ceondo.com/mongrel2-zmq-paas/
Ideally, when you want to. If we could actually live "age" 20 indefinitely, we wouldn't be decrepid and weak and tired all the time. We could work to pay our way. We could collectively solve big problems like food and space in innovative ways.
After hitting the install button it worked seamlessly as well, so Java no longer being bundled was not even an issue :-)
In the new version, it also seems to actually change the volume a lot more drastically (at least above 100%), which is a good thing.
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Why Pinterest can help you quit your job.
more bullshit from the bullshit factory
Libertarians are generally the ones making assumptions--that the private sector will provide health care to everyone without government regulation, that the private sector will provide housing, food, and other necessities to the poor and elderly without government assistance, that the private sector will refrain from pumping poisonous substances into the air and water without government regulation, and so forth. There's insufficient empirical evidence that any of this would happen, but it means less taxes and less government so it must be good.

There's a darker strain of libertarians who genuinely don't care whether the congenitally frail receive health care or whether the poor can afford food and shelter, because there's no human right to food and shelter, but there is a human right not to pay taxes. Even most libertarians shy away from this by asserting that somehow private charity will take care of it all, but the empirical evidence is insufficient.
So, your argument is that the Romans built roads not because they were useful to society and under-provided by private enterprise but because the road-building bureaucracy was expanding its power.

Do tell us more.
I have no idea why they would want to block it, unless they considered it an attack vector for some reason. It was automatic - after a few of the bogus DNS requests, all DNS/port 53 traffic was dropped. Everything else worked, only DNS failed.
You stated that "The sole benefit you describe, namely the ability to borrow books, is a private benefit. I borrow a book, read it and enjoy it. What benefit does this create for anyone besides me?"

Do we have different definitions of "sole" and "private" - those words feel fairly absolute to me.

Sure it may not be a massive positive and direct benefit to you, but I find it hard to understand how you think there's no possible benefit at all. Do you feel the same way about teaching people to read, write and count?
I feel uneasy with body implanted microchips running proprietary software that can be accessed wirelessly.

Am I the only one? Sure no, ask Karen Sandler.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZGpES-St8
Well put. Like some said its not only in the US. Count Europe in also. Perhaps even or more badly. I'm chocking in Europe. Must get rid of their power. The Central Banks
We're an odd bunch, and there are certainly plenty of technical folks who are logical-minded enough to get themselves into some hardline position or another, but hardline Randians are probably a minority of any group you could think of, except for the group of hardline Randians of course.
I trust facebook for doing every wrong thing and the other that I can imagine. It's their business model and whole reason of existence.

I don't appreciate the repeated attacks against personal freedom (they like to call it privacy) and against the internet and open web. I dislike the methods and techniques of manipulation they used.

For someone who had some experience of the internet it was quite obvious what was going to happen, history repeats itself, except that when microsoft tried to bypass the internet and build a microsoft network a.k.a. msn, included in windows, they failed hard.

Now with the critical mass and sheer momentum, everyone and their friends are asking to have the closed and proprietary facebooknet preloaded in their mobile device. But I won't be part of the effort to destroy the open internet, so I quit google and its free services and block everything facebook.
Such a break would be more effective with structure. Everybody can benefit from a coach. Even those who are the best in the world (Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan) use coaching. Humans have a natural lazy instinct and a coach can make your efforts more effective than if you were left to your own devices.
I'm sure the Roman empire had its share of expanding bureaucracy--after all the eastern chunk of the empire which later broke off did coin the term "byzantine"--but your point is valid.
Is package gfortran installed?
True, true - my bad - the tax structure is pro-enterprise but you're exactly right the government there is overreaching. And not setting a good example for civil liberties either - a bag of weed can get you sent for execution!
The last REPL I wrote used linenoise ( https://github.com/antirez/linenoise ) instead of readline, and it worked great for us. You may need more of readline's features than we did, but it's worth a look.
Reason might be their announced redesign of the new bar. A drop-down menu nested under the Google logo.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/next-stage-in-our-red...
The issue is that the Privacy Policy is (or certainly can be viewed as) a legal document. Therefore I'm strongly inclined to believe you're better off with a lawyer approved document.

I'd love to have our privacy policy be "we will not do anything remotely creepy with your data" (in fact maybe we'll add that to our current document), but that is so ambiguous I think users will not be satisfied, and lawyers will have a field day.
Mega doses of alcohol will just kill you where you stand. Death from alcohol poisoning is pretty mundane.

I don't think people realize how much salvia he took. Anyone who would need this kind of warning would have no ability to get _pure salvinorin A_. That's _many_ orders of magnitude stronger than any kind of extract you could manage to get.

http://www.sagewisdom.org/caution.html
I agree with everything here except the admitting guilt part. Don't EVER confess to anything to a law enforcement agent, especially if surprise surprise, you're actually guilty, even for something as minor as a traffic ticket.

If you're caught speeding, suck it up and take the ticket.
Having an educated populace is essential to a democratic society. It's the same reason we have public education and also why the freedom of the press is enshrined in our constitution.
Ask HN: 1 Year Deferment of College to work full time?
So I know most of you on Hacker News are intelligent professionals. Looking back, would you have taken an offer right out of high school to work full time for a year doing software development?

Let me give a little background - I've been working part time for this company for a year. I like the work, I'm good at it, and they like me. This week they'll be making me an offer for one year full time.

This does make a conflict, however, as I have the tuition to UCF (University of Central Florida) completely covered with scholarships which I would lose if I took the 1 year deferment.

Also, what salary do you highly intelligent folks think would be acceptable for a software developer with one year experience right out of high school (assuming I get no benefits).

Thanks for the input.
Yep, I believe that it will continue being "rediscovered" until some well-executed, open-source embodiment of them becomes a de facto standard. My goal is to make Protocol Buffers just that.

Another way of putting it is that I'm trying to beat Greenspun's Tenth Rule by making that "half of Common Lisp" separable from Common Lisp so that C programs (and high-level programs too) don't have to keep re-inventing it. As a bonus, this will help make languages more interoperable too.
Really? Can you point out an example of what you mean? As a design student I sometimes feel that there is a major "design disconnect" because people appreciate/gravitate towards a particular style. Designers do it too, but out of my own curiosity I'm wondering if that is happening here.
Yeah, "economic integration centers" or something might help frame their utilitarian value. People who can't integrate with the system end up integrating with the criminal world, so it's worth the social investment to provide computer access, etc.
Sending emails with foreign / international accents properly
Yes, I get some 32-bit issues, gfortran and some packages (-dev) were not installed, still getting an error 139:

JULIA sys0.ji
Segmentation fault
make: [sys0.ji] Fehler 139
See, here you go again. You use vague statistics to make absolute statements that are starkly contradicted by the statistics you started with. I just read the pdf you sent. As expected, it doesn't support your absolute conclusion (that the poor don't work).

In my own social circle, I know the following:

1. Poor people who work for a living.
2. Poor people who can't work because they have a felony record.
3. Poor people who can't work because of health reasons.
4. Poor people who don't work because they're lazy.

I also know:

1. Rich people who work for a living.
2. Rich people whose family members don't work because they're "lazy".

You see, there's all sorts of people. Let's take the "worst" examples--the people who both poor and out of work. Personally I think even "lazy" people deserve to receive the basic care of civilized society. Why? Because "lazy" is often code for referring to people with mental deficiencies, emotional problems, histories of severe abuse, and other issues that lead to severe depression and failure to thrive.

A lot of modern American polical rhetoric centers around an idea that might be called the "virtuous poor". Which is that poor people only deserve to be helped if they are virtuous--good, salt-of-the-earth people who are struggling constantly to survive--who are savvily trimming coupons and saving every cent so they can better themselves and their children. On the other side are the non-virtuous poor. The people who spend their government check on alcohol, crack cocaine, or satellite TV.

In America, we obsess over separating the virtuous from non-virtuous poor, ignoring the self-sustaining and cyclic nature of poverty. The clear correlations between poverty and behavior problems, learning problems, health problems, etc. In our self righteous drive to only help those who help themselves, we often ignore the clear consequences.

For every self-satisfied working upper-middle class person I know, I also know someone who has similar intelligence, similar drive (or lack thereof), but wasn't lucky enough to be ushered into college by their well-to-do parents--who wasn't lucky enough to be offered this and that entry-level position by their well-to-do connections. And yes, such a person doesn't become the virtuous poor we all like to help, such a person becomes the dirty, yucky poor that we want to forget about--the poor people who aren't constantly fighting to better themselves.

You can throw out statistics--all of your statistics will show a predominance of this and a dearth of that, and in the end, your rounding errors will still cover millions of people. And your response to the plight of those millions of people is that we can help them with "a small, targeted program." If only we'd thought of that sooner--here we were trying big, untargeted programs, when all we needed to do is shrink and target them.
VLC 2.0 Twoflower released but not for linux
As a compromise, I think it would be helpful to be able to define structs that have a known layout in memory but no dynamic identity. They would be treated like primitive types in Java, but with the crucial difference that users could define their own. That way users could write Julia code that stores and accesses data in the same format they need for interoperating with whatever native libraries they use, instead of serializing and deserializing between Julia objects and C struct arrays (or using int or byte arrays in their Julia code and giving up most of the advantages of a modern programming language.)
It was originally SBC DSL (resold Yahoo!, resold etc...). The Chrome-induced resolution failures weren't the only issue - their primary DNS server never worked, always went to the failover.

Things didn't improve under AT&T.
Do you guys think this is the best way to do it?
>Basically, the problem is that for years CA, and America in general, spent money that it didn't have and now it's going to get painful.

I think it's more that we spend money on the wrong things and that taxes aren't structured to reflect the reality that wealth is concentrating into fewer hands.
I got an email today claiming the Coursera SaaS course is starting on Monday, and it had a link to the first several videos.
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Still doesn't have an option to remember playback position. Users have been asking for this on the forums for years.

Most of us use VLC to watch movies and not all of us finish them in one sitting. I hate having to find where I left off...
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It's the same for me, especially that song gives me goose bumps and I start thinking about a special part of my past. :)
Yes, I don't see how mainstream languages can possibly be considered aesthetically pleasant, with the possible exception of Python. I wouldn't visit a gallery that shows them off.

I find Lisp (particularly Clojure) much more aesthetically pleasant, in that it communicates better with me. With Paredit, it's even better to the touch.

(If there one day came to exist something even better on these metrics, then I'm sure I would start to prefer it aesthetically.)
Have you checked these claims in the "real world"?

Costs have been rising substantially each and every year. The number of employers willing to give even full time employees insurance has been shrinking and the cost of your employer's health insurance plan willing be quite high considering you don't have your employers tax incentives.
Assuming that your law enforcement's usage of drones will be "dealt with separately" (quite an assumption if you ask me--they're already doing it), you can bet there'll be some loophole so they can gather data from commercial drones.

If not by straight out hiring them, they will just subpoena for their data.
Yea, I don't mean to suggest that's the only choice, just that there is valid justification for society taxing someones output.

In general terms government consists of 3 choices. What do we prohibit(1), promote(2), and how much do we forfeit(3). The libertarian view is to focus on minimize 1 and 2 with the assumption that it minimizes 3. But, as soon as you pick a sacred cow like defense and say this is governments job there is no clear limits, should we build 10,000 nukes? how about 100,000?

In my view if you instead pick how many resources government has to work with and focus on maximizing benefit you naturally start to balance collage scholarships and attack subs. You also tend to avoid budget deficits because if you assume you only have a given budget to work with you don't do the I need do do all these things and taxes must be below _ so I guess we need to barrow a little bit more. Basically, stepping from what can the government do, to how well can the government afford to do X,Y and Z. Which fit's with the reality of diminishing returns while your 10th nuke is worth more than an extra math scholarship your 100,010th is not. As well as differing option on just how important various things are.

PS: As to why 1/3, well at best I might get to keep 50% more money, but government is going to take something so it's just a classic compromise. Also, while it's probably not the top of the laughter curve it's closer to the top than 20% so lowering it is not going to provide more income for the government.
Former Madison Avenue ad executive here, limiting the scope of my comment to the Febreze story.

This part accurately reflects the kind of thinking process the strategists went through:

> What's most interesting is that instead of focusing on removing bad smells, the ads set up Febreze ... satisfying the desire to make things smell nice, not just look good.

The rest of it is totally ridiculous:

> The ads taught consumers a new habit, training them to associate the rewarding positive cue—a spotless space—with the use of Febreze.

I would believe the ads were effective at setting cultural expectations that a clean space also needs a clean smell, and that Febreze helps make that possible. But the "rewarding positive cue" of cleaning? A "reward for a bout of cleaning"? That's overstating the power of advertisers and understating the common sense of consumers, and awkwardly smashing this example into a story that isn't related to it.

Madison Avenue "manipulates" you, but it's done by setting your expectation for The Way Things Should Be. It isn't with a subliminal cue and a Pavlovian reward. The carousel scene from Mad Men [1] is really what the meeting where they sold this idea was like. Trust me, I've been in many of them.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHUUyx0d7qw