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> For example, truth is an affirmative defense to defamation in the U.S., even though it's closely connected with free speech rights.

This is wrong, at least on matters of public concern, specifically because it is connected to free speech rights, both for public figures and private figures as plaintiffs, who bear the burden of showing falsity rather than the defendant having the burden of showing truth.

See Philadelphia Newspapers v. Hepps, 475 U.S. 767 (1986); New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254 (1964).
"The surgeon claimed that the destruction was precise, but the autopsy actually determined that damage was much more widespread than expected."

This is flat wrong. Based on structural neuroimaging evidence, Corkin et al. (1997) showed that HM's resection was less extensive than Scoville's notes suggested, not more extensive. The more recent post-mortem analysis of HM's brain (Annese et al., 2014) concurs, and in fact gives an even more conservative estimate of the resection.

As a researcher who studies memory and works with severely amnesic patients, I think that it's important to point out that the precision of HM's lesion was unique in our field because every other bilateral hippocampal amnesic patient has a naturally-occurring lesion. Etiologies vary (herpes simplex encephalitis, anoxia, and, historically, Korsakoff's), but common to each etiology is the potential for widespread damage beyond the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe (MTL). Given that HM's surgery predated sophisticated neuroimaging methods, his case provided researchers of the era the very best possibility of isolating the cognitive processes that depended on the MTL. There have been many methodological and theoretical improvements over the intervening decades, but the work that Brenda Milner, Sue Corkin, and many others carried out with HM was seminal for the field.

Annese, J., Schenker-Ahmed, N. M., Bartsch, H., Maechler, P., Sheh, C., Thomas, N., … Corkin, S. (2014). Postmortem examination of patient H.M.’s brain based on histological sectioning and digital 3D reconstruction. Nature Communications, 5, 3122. doi:10.1038/ncomms4122

Corkin, S., Amaral, D. G., Gonzalez, R. G., Johnson, K. A., & Hyman, B. T. (1997). H.M.’s medial temporal lobe lesion: findings from magnetic resonance imaging. J. Neurosci., 17, 3964–3979.
back in second year of my CS class, my professor showed an sample HTML program that marquees text from left to right.. Decided!!!
Huh, that Zenph Re-Performance recording sounds interesting. I hadn't heard of that before, I will definitely check it out. Thanks.
Yes, of course.

But upgrading from XP hasn't been necessary until last month. Until then, any machine that shipped with XP could be kept up to date via Download Tuesday without any change to the hardware, and upgrading remained as much a choice for Windows XP as for Linux.

It's like saying that the existence of the Linux x64 kernel requires upgrading 32 bit machines to x64 hardware.
No, not at all - but I don't think that is the same thing as "obvious" the way that word is usually used.
After I uploaded my music collection to google music I've since bought 50 or so songs on the service. Before that I'd only purchased one CD from a local band in the last decade. So a good solid product at a reasonable price converted me.
You seem to be shooting the messenger here? I'm not advocating any method, I was merely trying to help decipher the original message.
Phone Phreaking – Now and Then
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in case you run out of TP?
> But the idea that Windows requires a more frequent upgrade cycle doesn't make sense since XP support only ended recently

But nobody knew that back then; iirc Windows XP EOL has been extended several times, and by the time the support ends, you should have migrated all of the remaining machines. So planning an upgrade for 2013 or 2014 would have been downright irresponsible.

> Anyway for me, the elephant for FOSS is support. There are just lots of moving parts in Linux and many development teams all rowing in different directions at best and losing interest in maintaining a package at worse, or perhaps being acquired by Oracle is worse. The price of all the innovation is the risk that comes from no roadmap.

There are lots of paid support contracts for open source software. Also you can mitigate much of the risk by choosing projects from healthy communities with high bus numbers.

When the company from which you bought support goes out of business, at least for open source projects you have the chance to find another company that provides support; good luck with that when the source is closed.
Would you agree to a vaccine that stopped nicotine reaching your brain?
You're right—the title was linkbait. We changed it in accordance with the HN guidelines.
The court ruled that 3 of the forty-something packages are considered a part of the language, but the rest aren't.
I'm not sure if this would work in practice, but wouldn't it be a possibility to forward any rejected emails to a gmail account?
The point at which an HN thread includes a direct evocation of "Islamic Sharia law", as if that string of tokens was by itself sufficient to inform the general HN reader of the context of any issue, is the point at which we can probably include the whole thread wasn't well suited to HN.
How to do price increases
Title statement is absolutely false. This mask makes you look like an inhabitant of the uncanny valley.
The very top of the page:

Seth Ladd's Blog

Dart DevRel @ Google, web engineer, author, conference organizer.
I apologize for being picky, but the problem here doesn't seem to be the lack of schools for girls in Nigeria; the problem seems to be heavily armed religious reactionaries attacking those schools and kidnapping the students while the Nigerian government sits on its hands.

This is obviously a drastic over-simplification too, but trying to characterize the political and historical complexities of the region in a few lines seems pretty futile. My point is that while I applaud the sentiment and even the clever copywriting and fundraising pitch, this is utterly unresponsive to the problem at hand, and I'm not sure that it can be solved by well-meaning outsiders.
I'll just point out that according to the project's website, it has a capacity factor of 25%, for 71 MW.(Although it's probably much higher during the day, and obviously much lower at night.)

http://www.cleanenergyactionproject.com/CleanEnergyActionPro...
Isn't ankimobile anki for iphone? I use ankidroid, which seems to be the official anki for android. Ankiapp is mentioned nowehere on the anki page.
Once you've worked with enough programmers, you'll realise that many programmers don't actually know how to... well, program.

The great websites / open-source projects you see regularly are really just the tall poppies.
Windows 7 had lower system requirements than Windows Vista. Windows 8 and 8.1 have the same system requirements as Windows 7, and in my experience often use less resources (presumably as part of their focus on mobile/tablet scenarios). The trend for the last 8 years has been one of reduced requirements, not increased.
This is not protection. It is a creative way of giving in.
"Keep up to date"

I can't, you don't seem to have an RSS feed.
Get on a plane, go to Nigeria, and get to work. You may be killed in the process. Good luck.
> I assume that the positioning of his bio is merely unfortunate and not specifically chosen to reduce the number of people who read it, and that the article is not actually trying to deceive me about the author

Oh please. Most blog authors barely manage to fill out an About page, let alone a sidebar and a big subheading at the top of the page that says who their employer is. If you're going to claim to be "assuming good faith", how about actually doing so?
The problem is that you picked a project that doesn't reflect current (again, defining current as in the past 5 years at least) development practices. Any decent JS project these days is using a modular loader and has a bower.json that has a 'main' property telling you the entry point.

I'm sure someone could look at early Dart projects and find things unpleasant about them compared to today.
Removing LXQT installation is a PITA if you don't like it.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/164941/why-removing-gnome-cor...
A 40 billion dollar t-shirt
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.k...

I presume he means Nikola Tesla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla) rather than the electric car company (http://www.teslamotors.com), but I still don't understand the reference. Is there more to it than the general notion than Mr. Tesla had many ideas that never reached fruition?
Its security strength is less than 2^128, doesn't mean its completely broken but there are better alternatives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES#Security
The Amazon Plus-ification of Consumer Tech
According to the Berne Convention, signatory countries must recognize the copyright of a work in its country of origin. I think that means US copyright law on Oracle's works apply in all 167 signatory countries, but maybe an IP lawyer will chime in to correct me.
Visual bookmarks are extremely helpful, particularly if they're well categorized etc.
It's not false. It states in the article that the mask has passed Facebook's facial recognition to match as the artist. Of course we can't know if this will pass a government facial recognition system, but the point isn't "confuse humans" it is "confuse machines".
Does the surveillance camera see you as an inhabitant of the uncanny valley? Probably not yet.

The real question is how quickly surveillance systems will get smart enough to mark these masks as not real.
Start using your GitHub data
Does anyone have an example? I don't have any of the toolchain, and it seems like a lot to do to see a compiled example.
Static typing lends itself to static analysis and other defensive programming practices that are easy to enforce at compile-time (such as design by contract.) A lot of bugs and design errors die long before erroneous code hits source control as a result - definitely not all of them, but many of them.

The best compromise between static typing and dynamic typing, IMHO, is what C# (and later generations of C++) do: implicit typing via the VAR keyword.

You can't implicitly type the members of an object or the arguments of a function, but you can implicitly type variables in local scope. This is how C# is able to support anonymous types and functions so easily - implicit typing abstracts away the gangly looking static objects that are produced by LINQ queries and the like.

Implicit typing makes it very easy to refactor large blocks of statically typed code without compromising the benefits of static typing. So you get some of the flexibility of dynamic typing with the predictability of static typing.

Realistically - you don't utterly redefine the type of objects at runtime very often in production code even with dynamic languages, so you don't lose much with implicit typing.
Wable, the new DigitalOcean competitor?
The company that the post mentions, EFabless, has an HN instance setup for IC related news.

http://clktok.efabless.com/
and if Larry and Sergey didn't have the ability to outvote all of the other shareholders combined
You could get me to agree, in a joking situation or a moment of contented fugue. But later I can rethink it, become dissatisfied, plumb my feelings and come up with my true feelings. Not as plausible if I can't remember past 20 seconds.
How does this kind of thing jive with the law on recipes, which can't be copyrighted? Or do I have a layman's misunderstanding of what constitutes a recipe? I would have expected code to be treated much the same way recipes are. Can you generally copyright directions except for recipes? (Maybe on a related note, do/did libraries have to pay license fees for things like shelving according to the Dewey decimal system?)
> I'm surprised its not getting traction faster.

There are so many novel, cool "JS replacements" that it's easy to feel some paralysis about the whole matter. Do you go with Dart? TypeScript? Clojure? Or do you stick with regular JS and start learning a new framework (e.g. Angular)?

They're not necessarily mutually exclusive, but I think a good majority of web developers are waiting to see what unfolds before committing one way or the other.
> They let me sleep at night instead of worrying about keeping my stack up to date

I'm not sure what kind of stack you're running on Heroku, but if it happens to be Ruby, Heroku won't do anything (AFAIK) to update gems specified in your Gemfile.lock file when vulnerabilities are found. That's still up to you, and security issues in gems appear to be far more common than those in parts of the infrastructure that Heroku does keep up-to-date.
While there are definitely certain points in the article the I find myself agreeing with, the overall piece is remarkably bad. The ideas of a generalist perspective and enforcing of "common sense" are most definitely good things, but pointing to their lack of knowledge on a subject as the reason behind their utilization of common sense seems silly.

>The justices' lack of technology savvy may have been an asset in resolving the Grokster case...

That single "may" is a fairly huge assumption to be making for this article, and one which is just kinda carried along.

>The court refused to set a numerical threshold for liability, perhaps recognizing that a line that makes sense for file-sharing networks might not work for the next technology that comes along.

See, this seems (to me at least) like that decision is coming from their expertise with regards to the Law rather than any real or perceived ignorance of technology.

>So maybe we should be happy that Justice Sotomayor has no clue how a Roku box works. It probably makes her a better justice.

I'm sorry, but anyone touting the idea that ignorance somehow leads to better decision making is delusional.
Well, you'd never see the compiled example. You'd compile the example in the README, and it'd give you a binary. It's a macro, not like CoffeeScript.

That said, you could view the expanded output if you were curious. You'd pass `--pretty expanded` to `rustc`. The pretty printer isn't great yet, though. I would run it for you and give you a gist, but I'm not at a computer with the toolchain either.
Such an amazing game and the modding community was huge.

I played PB_mod from 00-04'.
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Apple’s Beats Buy Would Show Chronic Issue
Stopped reading at

Patriarchy™
XUnit – dynamically skipping tests for different test-environments
Would also be interesting: Perform some operations, compare flame charts from Chrome developer tools.
Nice, didn't know about all that happening in the Clojure universe. The scary part is that now your view code is tied to the structure of the HTML. The logic gets brought up in the code, where it belongs, but so does a lot of markup structure knowledge. Seems like an even worse outcome. Maybe it isn't, but I've never tried the approach on any real project.

...anyway, the thread died as this is never really a hot topic, people just use whatever templating language is "default" in their fav framework and don't like to overthink this, I guess :)
It's unclear to me why it's important that actions be fire-and-forget.

Is there no scenario in which you would want to show (next to the Favorite button) that favoriting failed but not care about other article-update failures?
I don't know the specifics of patent law, but can existing physical items be reproduced wholesale or is just the concept behind the creation?

Can I make an atom for atom reproduction of 1980 Porsche 911 and sell it on the open market (removing the name of course)?
I think you mean point 3
Oh, I thought we were talking about the specific case of 1/10 of $2m, as mentioned above (what a senior engineer at a successful startup might well earn). Of course you're right, most startups do not offer such financial security and never develop the ability to do so.
Has anyone here actually tried wearing a mask in public for any length of time? I've done it for a day on public transit. Oddly, people seemed more likely to ask me for help, but I'm not sure what it would be like if I tried it for a year.
Web vulnerability affecting shared links.
Good for them. I'll hack around to get the required codec. Thanks.
90°C is not really hot enough to extract efficiently. The Carnot cycle efficiency of such a process, even assuming it used a cold-sink at 0°C (not likely), is only 25%.

However, using that warmed water as a preheat for another process is perfectly valid.
> Even the switch to Linux was made for the wrong reasons, that is for trying to find something cheaper and better

That's not quite accurate. Reducing vendor lock-in was a main goal, compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux#Objectives . Cheaper was a nice side effect.
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Sun used to make a good portion of their revenue from Java licensees. Then Google copied Sun's JVM, language, and APIs with a few very minor tweaks in Android. Sun's Java revenue dried up because its licensees didn't renew because they could just use Android.

Dalvik and JVM bytecode map 1:1 with one or two exceptions for initializing arrays with data instead of a sequence of instructions. Even if you want to pretend that Dalvik isn't a JVM then you must accept that it is a derivative work, as even the names of the bytecode instructions are the same.

Google killed Sun and if they end up paying for it by APIs being copyrightable that may be a disaster for the tech industry, but it's karma for Google.
Seems pretty cut and dried. The software license went with the other part of the firm, and not them.
I think that new bookmark service should be build around context(as mentioned by @codegeek) of URL, its lifecycle and its content.

It should leverage the information on the page and not only the user input. I'm convinced that the most important information in bookmark like services are the URLs saved by users and the content of the pages they want to bookmark. It's not just about building dummy database with links, references and "static" features on top of it.

I think that really good bookmark service should be self-taught based on your usage of the system, your likes and your information from social networks.
Free for the computer and android but $24.99 for iOS? That seems like a strange price scheme.
That project doesn't clone an API. It uses one. It might be violating TOS, but not copyright.

I didn't know about the Katzer case, but I still see no danger to the FOSS community and ecosystem by the new ruling. All it would do is require developers to clearly specify the license for their APIs. Cloning of proprietary APIs is most certainly not a cornerstone of FOSS today (unless, that is, Linux is in actual danger, in which case I'll change my position).
Under the FCC proposal, Comcast would not be allowed to throttle or block the KKK.
A written description of a recipe (that you'd find in a cookbook, for example) can most certainly be copyrighted.

As I understand it, what can't be copyrighted is the proportions/ingredients/cooking methods. So if someone writes a new recipe that happens to describe the same dish that someone else's cookbook's recipe would have you make, that is not infringement. But if you copy the recipe from the cookbook, it is.
Desperate Measures – A Time To Hack
Not being happy with what you have accomplished so far is a sign of greatness. Once you feel you have achieved enough, you become complacent. Do not feel inferior. As long as you feel there is room for improvement, you will keep improving. Only when you start thinking you know it all it's time to get worried.
I believe there was some scandal on this exact topic in South America, a shop was making unbranded, identical body copies of exotic cars and had the law come crashing on them.

Regardless, it could be a good idea to offer this service to the original patent holder. It would offer them a chance to recover sunken costs.
Good thing that you just tell Ubuntu "get me Postfix and Courier", and you alredy have a functional server that you can put extra stuff as needed.
Anchors, Buttons, and Accessibility
Much appreciate the links, all NEW to me... thank you~!
Seems like the dispatcher is a more manual version of the Ember/Sproutcore run-loop. The advantage I see to the run-loop is that it batches all UI updates so they happen only once, where the dispatcher simply batches up model changes to reduce the number of redraws. Maybe I didn't fully understand what the dispatcher does though...
Hello all. I am a Nigerian citizen. Allow me to add some perspective.

Half of our country is Muslim. Our biggest national unity issues break down across sectarian as well as regional lines. The area in question is in the North. The population there is primarily Muslim, and locals are generally unsatisfied with government services, making it tough as you can imagine to get any kind of public support for the kind of prolonged campaign required to rout out terrorists living in communities of civilians. Such a thing would place much stress on the already volatile state of relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. Further, militants can cross porous borders to hide if need be. And it is a big country too, Nigeria is twice the size of California. So anyone with the idea that the solution is to send out men with guns handle this situation is not being realistic. This is not to defend the government's response or lack thereof, rather it is just to point out that a reductionist understanding of the situation is not a useful one, from the perspective of these girls.

Now as much as I hate people talking about "Africa" like it is one country, this is the right kind of pressure. Not too long ago the world would not have cared about a bunch of missing African girls. Now they do, and it is making us look bad. Nigerians are already pressuring the government to take action, and the increasing international outrage can only add to that pressure.
The decision (like some other Federal Circuit opinions) seems to reflect almost a natural-rights view of intellectual property, as opposed to Jefferson's utilitarian view.

Please indulge the following hyperbolic exaggeration to make a point: In the natural-rights view, the most important people to recognize and compensate are (supposedly) those who think up good ideas; other folks who deal with "mere" execution details are less deserving (again, supposedly) of status and financial reward.

One might call this the "think and grow rich" school of intellectual property. Or, from The Music Man, Professor Harold Hill's "Think System" of learning to play a musical instrument without actually practicing.
I must have missed that in the docs.
It's even worse than that. Cable companies have to pay a portion of that add-on fee to the channels for their content. In this case of (not) throttling bandwidth, the ISPs are keeping all of the fees since you're not paying for the content, just access to it.
There are lots of government departments still running Windows XP. These migrations are difficult.
I'm using Safari on an iPad, and for a moment I can see the page, but then it quickly disappears behind an impenetrable solid-black screen with nothing on it but the prompt:

"Tilt your screen."

It's a shame, and it doesn't befit the wondrousness of the content. Whoever came up with this brilliant UI idea should seriously re-evaluate what usability means to them.
I love how this kind of craft can still earn a decent profit and even more, make it to the #1 spot on HN. Keeps me coming back. Thanks OP.
The first wearable platform? track pants + shirt + sdk
Paintcode 2?