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I see a lot of "two wrongs make a right" stuff here in rebuttals. The problem OP is pointing out is the cult like reverence for PG in this responders comments. Coming to his defense by pointing out that there are other authors on Medium and Twitter who also have a cult like reverence amongst their followers is a mis-direction at best. I think the point is non one deserves cult-like reverence. Maybe Ghandi but certainly no one sitting at the top of a money optimizing fountain.

I too was very uncomfortable when reading that paragraph. When I read comments like that I can see why it's possible that PG is starting to run into this recurring theme with the outside world. First it was a misunderstanding around founders with accents. Now it's a misunderstanding of women in technology. If he's becoming inadvertently surrounded with such adoring followers he's likely to find few of his assumptions challenged by such a receptive audience. He speaks, no one challenges him, he becomes emboldened. Then he speaks to a third party not under his spell and all heck breaks loose.
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It's really only a solution if the calculator usage is on a small number of computers, but you can just import * an override of the map function that behaves however you want.

The override is easy:

pymap=map
def map(...)...

(and maybe for calculator style usage you would name your list returning map and range m and r, which would also help with not confusing them with the usual behavior)
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> What would the point be of intercepting shipments if the job is already done? Are you saying they are doing this work redundantly?

Have you ever seen a government job that wasn't redundant?

But seriously - if you want to make sure that what you are doing works, you have to use redundancies. Many of them, in fact.

> If this is the primary means of attack it seems a bit shy of "you can rest assured" that your hardware in particular is affected. (Or at this rate perhaps we can wait for the next revelation to show us.

I'm sure it is not the primary means of attack. Here's a hypothetical scenario: You work at Cisco or Intel, designing firmware / microcode. The NSA appears at your door with an NSL saying you can't disclose anything, not even to your boss - and a carrot: Get $200K to insert this backdoor into the new x86 / megarouter. And also a stick - if you don't comply, showing your wife all of the correspondence you have with your mistress (which they gleaned from earlier interception) or giving the DEA a recording of you asking your friend to bring some pot over.

You think that's crazy? Ladar Levison, Joseph Nacchio and Edward Snowden indicate that's business as usual. I have no knowledge of anything other than what I read in the guardian/hn etc -- but given all that is public, I'd be surprised if this scenario hasn't played out a few times. Or a few hundred times.
They would not be relinquishing their trademarks or the rights to make more Mickey Mouse movies. Nor would this necessarily mean that the character of Mickey Mouse would go into the public domain. Simply that the discrete works would now be public domain.

There are Donald Duck works in the public domain (Spirit of '43) and that doesn't seem to impact their bottom line terribly.
I love that story--the contrast between the US and Australia illustrates the fact that it really is a political choice how to spend fantastic wealth that automation gives us. (It's not only a political choice, there are moral components as well.)
My suggestion is that you ask this question at security.stackexchange.com , also browse the website for similar questions already answered.

My answer: A laptop usually can trivially be taken apart completely and then put back together without any signs of the operation remaining, internally or externally. Same thing with smartphones. Checking BIOS integrity usually isn't possible without specialised physical tools.
Isightful. And the follow-up question is: since the military industrial complex has probably already reached this conclussion, will they force war? I mean, in a more direct way than what we are used to ...

In this light, trusting the USA to responsably handle the nuclear arsenal may prove to be the biggest mistake that the international community has done since WWII.
Stack overflow is awesome. I asked a question about message pack and the author of the software responded.

Ignoring the gamification of S.O. the community that surrounds it and the sheer amount of knowledge it holds makes it an incredible resource never seen before in the history of programming.

Sometimes it seems like human beings could live in a golden palace and be upset that the gold is the wrong color.
Their actions may be similar. What is drastically different than 100 years ago is what we know about global warming and pollution in general.
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I have seen both ways (in computer science/systems). I buy the reasons SPJ says in the talk, but if the problem you are working on is too crowded that the first thing that comes to a reader's mind is -- "How is this different from the N other proposals I've read in the past?" -- the related work helps set the context.
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Is it just me or does it make less sense to blame a group of people for having jobs well-paying enough for them to afford living in San Francisco than to blame city zoning laws which have rather unreasonably constrained the supply of rented units and driven prices to what they are now?
The people in charge of where the site "goes" via moderator tools are the people who play the game to accumulate points to get mod powers.

What you reward, you get more of. Therefore the site will move in the direction of point collecting game players.

Doesn't particularly matter what they "should" do, what the site is designed to do, intentionally or otherwise, rightly or wrongly, is what the site will do.

Telling everyone including the people in charge not to do what they are designed to enjoy doing is basically abstinence based sex ed. "Here's something you haven't seen, it's a lot of fun, now don't do it" Good luck with that.

Lets say HN karma points were rewarded on the basis of using the F word in posts. I don't think advising people the moral high ground would be to abstain would clean the place up, if the whole purpose of the design is to encourage it. This might actually be a funny April fools joke to think about...
Disney was never threatened with losing their trademarks only the copyrights on very old cartoons.
He did say no smartphone, which presumably implies a non-smartphone with a phone number.
Not since you had to install a third-party TCP stack in Windows in order to get on the Internet have I seen so many people be so motivated to overcome so much complexity to get something they want.

Not that I personally remember the 19th century, but I still see artifacts of people being very motivated to overcome the complexity of mining for gold in the Yukon.
Why does a data scientist need to know how to program?
> and also how many points he gets off of a simple LMGTFY answer (your quote), vs how few he gets off a well thought out and explained one (the kernel answer, I believe).

I don't contribute much to SO, though I do a fair bit to some other SE sites (SF, SU, DBA) and it is the same on those but there is a fairly logical explanation most of the time.

A question that requires a more detailed answer is often more specific than one that doesn't, and that more general question is going to get a wider audience (both at the time and afterwards with people finding it in searches) so will attract more votes both for itself and the responses.

The points awarded to an answer are only really relevant within the context of question it is in response to (i.e. compared to the points awarded to other responses to that question). So if you care about your total score just answer simple general questions (this is perfectly acceptable behaviour, any useful answer is helpful to the site as a whole), if on the other hand you want a little mental stimulation answer some of the more involved questions instead.
StackOverflow is a machine designed to do one thing: make it so that, for any given programming question, you will get a search engine hit on their site and find a good answer quickly.

Yes, and that is an incredibly valuable service.

I haven't participated in StackOverflow actively, neither asking nor answering questions, for various reasons, some perhaps related to some of the OP's complaints, but it has saved me many hours of searching through documentation and mailing lists just by being there.

I suspect the contribution to global programmer productivity is enormous. It's true that it may tend to reduce the amount of very detailed knowledge about very narrow topics that people need to memorize but I think that externalizing this type of knowledge is the way to go. As long as your mental models about the basic workings of the software you're using are essentially correct I don't think there's much harm in depending on external resources for specific details.
China's heavy metal pollution is staggering. The tap water in many areas tastes like heavy metals, or how you might imagine heavy metals tasting. Stick some aluminium in your mouth. Then put a 9-volt battery, with some zinc, in there and gurgle it all with Listerine. It's difficult to describe unless you've tasted it.

And if there is a country that could tackle an issue as immense and demanding as this, it's China.
Nothing you wrote tries to justify indefinite copyright protections.
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I made the same face, but presumably he means a CVS, such as a DCVS, such as Git.
That is a way to protect one's language, culture and identity. Nothing wrong there. It is strange to see it coming from an African nation though. So far, I've only seen (serious enough) content translation only in big and powerful countries.
I think you're confused. Disney is free to make new Mickey Mouse movies, and those will be protected by copyright. Likewise, they can register Mickey Mouse as a trademark for certain business situations so no one is ever tricked into thinking a 3rd party product is endorsed by Disney. Buy what they absolutely shouldn't have is the ability to prevent other people from writing new Mickey stories, from watching 70 year old Mickey cartoons on YouTube, or from selling black plastic hats with Mickey Mouse ears. How could you dispute this? If you do, why shouldn't Shakespeare's estate keep exclusive rights to all his works?
Walkie-talkie-browsie-typie

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you on that name. "Phablet" is bad, but you've gone from bad to worse.
Sure, you missed all the real stuff that is going on:

- II-VI channel materials on silicon

- Finfet, Nanowire FETS (the top down variant, not the academic bottom up version.)

- RRAM (Memristors are a sub-class of these devices. Memristors mainly exist in the PR department of HP)

- TSV integration

- 3D Flash

- Memory integrated processers (see Microns Automata)
For the whole machine, but a quick check of the configuration on the processor (and only the processor):

Base system options:

3.7GHz quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache
3.5GHz 6-core with 12MB of L3 cache [Add $500.00]
3.0GHz 8-core with 25MB of L3 cache [Add $2,000.00]
2.7GHz 12-core with 30MB of L3 cache [Add $3,500.00]

[1] seems to be equivalent to the 12-core option at Newegg. So purchased there it's $2750, a savings of some $750 (less tax and shipping) versus the upgrade option through Apple. The overall price is better than a DIY equivalent, but for the components this path can still make a difference.

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116...
keep in mind that youtube was around for 2+ years before content id was first introduced
Actually there are almost no "real" numbers.

The odd thing about the numbers that Cantor discovered is that they exist only in bulk, not as individuals.

Any method that can specify a specfic number requires that you be able to write a finite length description of how to compute that number, so the number of numbers that can actually be specified is countable.
> it has an incredibly sophisticated and powerful content-matching engine that does monitor what's being uploaded, and automatically checks new videos against a giant corpus of known copyrighted works

This is above and beyond the requirements of the DMCA though. Doing this isn't what makes Youtube legal, it just attempts to appease copyright holders.
WordPress might integrate a JSON rest API, you can follow it here: https://github.com/WP-API the developer is great but I wish they would throw more resources at it, it's not production ready.
Shift-9 is more fiddly to type than space though :P
No, new and anonymous users do have another option, they can post their own answer.

Which is less wrong than an edit but it`s still wrong when the appropriate response is a comment.

A community can be judged by it`s responses to newbies. By this measure it fails miserably since the most common feedback many newbies get from SO are bare downvotes and rejections. What should happen is a polite response explaining the problem and the what should be done to correct it.
DON'T TRUST ME BLINDLY: I work for Stack Exchange, so I'm totally biased. On the other hand, I left a lucrative career in finance for a lot less money here because I believe in what we're doing, so there's that.

MOST IMPORTANTLY:
I appreciate Michael's feedback, and he worries about a lot of the same things I do. Moreover, we are incredibly grateful for all he's done over the years - my honest belief is that his contributions (even when they were just fish) helped a ton of people finish a project that may have been what made them LOVE programming. And those people did take the time to learn the fishing techniques underlying those fish, so they could do it better next time.

ON REWARDS:
Points aren't the point. Let's be honest. We reward people for helping others with points that essentially convey nothing other than the ability to help in new ways (as you unlock new privileges). No one in their right mind is spending time on the site with the empirical goal of getting points.

The real reason people answer questions is that they like helping people. The points are important, but only insofar as they give you actual feedback on how many people appreciate your effort. The points aren't the reward; they're just a way to measure the real reward people care about: knowing how much of a difference you've made.

So when Michael worries about his points going up even after he's stopped posting, that's the system working. It's not about ensuring the right person is "winning" it's about showing how many people got help.

And he's still helping others today. I respect his decision to leave, but truly think he should be proud of what he's done for the programming community to date. In any case, we're grateful.
This is the only valid response! Classical scaling (aka Moore's law) ended with the 130nm node more than 10 years ago. The business model has been slowly changing since then.
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No one (rational) is arguing for no legal protections. However, there's a difference between "the creator gets a period of time in which they're not competing with themselves" and "nothing created post-1978 (or affected by the 1978 copyright extensions) will ever realistically enter the public domain because of continuing copyright extensions". What makes these works so much more valuable that their creators should never have to give up the rights to the public, the way that creators in the USA for nearly 200 years did?
Only reason I still use 2 over 3 is that 2 gets the job done, is well supported and I don't see a big enough reason to move to 3. If 3 had a big performance increase, then maybe I would switch. Anyhow, I'll probably move to 3 at some point just because at some point more people use it (more code on the Internet in 3, more StackOverflow answers in 3 etc.)
There is a lot of focus on Ellis Act evictions, but the fact is that there just aren't very many of them. This article claims only 116 in the last year, which is significantly less than the numbers 5 or 10 years ago:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-eviction...

The solution to the rising price to rent is to increase supply. Anybody in SF should be able to drive up Market and see evidence of the massive number of units just opening up.
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When describing the radical views of others, it should seem obvious that a link to their 'manifesto' or something would be necessary. Suggesting that 'the info is out there' is a piss poor excuse for a weak argument.
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I have a few moans about SO, but I also find it very useful. I bear no flair.

The one thing that niggles me most on the web in general, is continuous reinvention. If you must paraphrase someone else's work then do. However most of the time a simple link would suffice. The same for repeat/similar questions. And it's always good to reference your sources.
These days kids barely know who Donald Duck or Mickey are. I wonder how much of that is because Disney intentionally invests in other IP that isn't under this threat.
While you call out the author, note that the primary motivator StackOverflow offers to users are those very internet points you decry: You can't blame someone for playing to the very mechanics of the site.

Would StackOverflow be popular if it didn't have leader boards and reputation points and arrays of expertise-claiming badges? Would people spend their time working on other people's problems if it didn't earn them something they hoped to spin into professional credibility?

I suspect no.

And of course StackOverflow uses gamification to encourage people to do work for other people, for free. It is no big secret that many users are essentially free labor that do the dirty work of digging through a lot of terrible links on Google to try to find something that answers the question. For those who take advantage of this it is a wonderful resource.

There are some supremely excellent questions that through the crowd and wiki-like editing the answer ends up being exemplary. But in the general case it does seem that it allows people to skip the boring work and get groups of people fighting for badges and imaginary credibility to do it for you.
Stephanie from https://www.refficient.com/ did just that.
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I imagine they are more retrievable than a memory stick in a frozen camera would be after that period, although who knows.
This article is horribly flat, once again bundling a blanket term "CMS" to apply to multiple needs and applications, and then using a great title like "Trends"....In essence this post is blogspam.
That's true, but just take a look at this BART map:

http://ctchouston.org/blogs/christof/wp-content/bart_row.jpg

The purple lines are the tunnels. The yellow lines are the stations built along freeways. Only the tiny non-purple, non-yellow fragments were built where the actual demand is.

(Source: http://www.ctchouston.org/intermodality/2006/05/06/tale-of-t...)
Seeing a polarized culture, hating it and joining an equally polarized culture seems to be a bit counter-intuitive. I think it's pretty clear that his TRP views are coloring his description of his enemies.
His point is that it's a EULA violation, not a criminal one.
Thanks for the feedback. I included it because I've seen similar HN posts mention age (and my birthday was recent, so it was on my mind). I've removed that information so this post stands on its own.
I'm not sure. This was only meant to be a quick little hack - wanted to see if I could get it done in a few hours overnight and launch it. This is just a bit of fun - nothing is planned for after New Years.
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There's a newly-created Mickey Mouse series on Disney Channel; from what little I've seen of it, Mickey's look is much more of a throwback to the Steamboat Willie age.

Also, when I saw Frozen at the theater a couple of weeks ago, there was an old-style Mickey cartoon before the picture (albeit one that broke the fourth wall in ways I don't believe the old cartoons did).
I think it's misleading to say "more secure". It wasn't secure and I can't think of any realistic attack scenario that it would have been secure against (but now isn't); for the NSA to intercept everyone's messages while it was more distributed would have required releasing a version update and waiting for the supernodes to pick it up, but that's not a high bar.
Just to clarify this point. Disney does not need to start a separate company to Trademark Mickey Mouse. In fact you better believe Disney is the registered owner multiple dozens, because the way Trademark works there are dozens of Trademark categories which need to be registered separately, of Mickey Mouse Trademarks.

See: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4802... (and search "Mickey Mouse", USPTO does not permit linking to result pages)

Moreover, "Mickey Mouse" can be Trademarked in name and then the actual "logo" (drawing of a mouse) can be Trademarked.
I can create and distribute any creation for free thanks to the internet. Your argument assumes that a publisher/studio is required, when this is simply not the case, and not the direction the world is headed. Copyright and all IP law stifles creation at the cost of creativity.

I create because I'm a creator, not because there is a fiscal reward. I create because I want to make a great product, not because I want to make a lot of money. I don't create so I can make some corporate fat ass rich.
But why should he have to fix it? Who was there first?
Not exactly. NetBSD is still using the deprecated ATF tools in its test suite while in FreeBSD I went straight to their replacement, Kyua.

Also, because FreeBSD uses Kyua, its test infrastructure can be composed of test programs of various kinds (including legacy test programs and TAP-compliant test programs) and not only ATF-based test programs. This is something that NetBSD cannot do yet.

Note that NetBSD does have Kyua in the base system (optionally), but moving the continuous testing systems over from the ATF tools is a stuck project. The reason is that Kyua needs some more work to make that a reasonable migration for the people that run such machines. In particular, the generation of reports needs much improvement as well as the collection of results from various hosts. See http://wiki.netbsd.org/kyua/import/ for some details.

However, because FreeBSD needn't be tied to the deprecated tools, and because I am the one setting things up from scratch, I am using this project as a playground for the new framework. Doing this deployment in a major project quickly surfaces all kind of big issues that need addressing -- and is certainly a boost in willpower to fix them :-)

(Yes: an eventual goal is to also move NetBSD over to Kyua but that will have to wait until Kyua proves itself "good enough" on FreeBSD's land. Homogenizing the two systems will have the nice result of simplifying the sharing of tests!)