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Here is an expert who agrees with you, and has the results to prove it:

http://vimeo.com/7441291
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If a human infant took a photo, IMHO the courts would hold they took it... regardless of the fact they did not know they were taking a picture.
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Yeah, I read it the same way. Not sure if it's even relevant, but they could have easily just replaced "guys" with "team", and it would have probably sounded less slang-like (regardless of the casual sexism factor). Same with the "got to talking" part (replacing it with something more simple like "talked").

"the guys at Lyft got to talking with the guys at Rover and they decided to work together instead." (I read this like poorly-worded slang)

vs

"the team at Lyft talked with the team at Rover and they decided to work together instead." (I think this is much better worded)
Good overview, as someone who's worked with the BeagleBone Black a bit it's nice to see a single blog post that covers lower level GPIO access comprehensively like this one does.
You do if its your monkey!
Comparing transducers to stream fusion is far narrower than the scope of their applicability.
Looks similar to how I do it https://vimeo.com/62869435

Pourover is great because it lets you get intimate with the variables. Good coffee is in a state of tension, between bitter and sour flavors. If you find your coffee doesn't taste good, it's usually out of balance in one direction.

Luckily there are several ways to nudge your coffee toward one end or the other of the continuum, they are related as follows:

Sour <--> Bitter

Colder <--> Hotter
Coarser Grind <--> Finer Grind
Shorter Brew <--> Longer Brew
Lighter Roast <--> Darker Roast

The first time I applied these threories and ACTUALLY improved my coffee was an epiphany
Right or wrong, I've asked many female friends if they mind the term "guys" as a general reference to a group of people, and none of them mind it. Your milage may vary, but I think it's considered a general term.
I upvoted but want even more attention to this question to see if anyone has actually seen the feature. HN? Bueller? Has anyone seen this feature?
The bigger picture here is that the Wikimedia Foundation is apparently willing to spend donors' funds on defending the claimed right to publish this.

Is "professional photographers don't have the right to claim ownership over expensively set-up and finished work if an animal presses the shutter button" really an important principle of freedom of information worth fighting for?

Or is it more of a complicated case that may possibly be winnable through an arcane technicality in the US legal system, but even if successful would probably be less useful to the average Wikipedia-user than the equivalent amount spent on cleaning up existing copyright-free content. Nice as the image is, more useful and interesting stuff gets deleted from Wikipedia every day.
And I would argue that even if David Slater didn't fully intend for the monkey to take the photo, he had more intention or expectation for that happening than the monkey had for taking a photo. The monkey was only interested in the sound made by the camera, not in directing a photo shoot.
Old dudes like me might have a strong negative reaction to something called "EDI."
> a sensor on every water fixture

I would love that! They make things like that for electrical outlets so you can see how much power things (lamps, clocks, etc) consume. It would be awesome to see the same thing for water. California is in a major drought right now and I'm very curious what in my house uses the most water.
Regardless of where the copyright ownership falls, it is not within Wikipedia's power to make that call. David Slater claims copyright, and without a legal opinion to the contrary, they don't seem to have a leg to stand on.

This seems like Wikipedia editors overreaching.
Occasionally venues would have special perks for the mayor.
Then is sounds like wikipedia is correct, a non-human took the photo, that is not disputed, not a human author, therefore the prerequisite for copyright is not met and the image is public domain.
Who is most likely to be doing through homework: somebody who is having great success and can expect multiple competing offers or somebody who isn't having much success and has a really hard time raising money?

Now by no means is it a given that amount of success now tells anything about amount of success tomorrow, but if they aren't at least positively correlated then VC have no business being in business.
This looks more attuned for Javascript and Web development. Here's an overview of some differences too: https://github.com/lmccart/p5.js/wiki/Processing-transition
At least they appear to have a sense of humor about it - apparently there's indeed a statue of Ostap Bender there.
I almost always do a pourover at home in the morning (except the last two mornings when I was out of filters and did a french press instead). I think they're significantly better than what you can get out of an automatic coffee maker, and easier than any other coffee-making process I've seen.

It's kind of odd that there aren't any links given to buy the stuff you need to get started:

* Coffee filter holder: http://www.amazon.com/Cilio-Porcelain-Coffee-Filter-Holder/d...

* Filters: http://www.amazon.com/Melitta-Coffee-Filters-Natural-Brown/d...

There are a couple other things I do to simplify or improve the process:

* Wet the inside of the filter holder. This'll make it easier to get the filter to stay put.

* Wet the filter once it's in the holder, but before you fill it with coffee. I think this makes a difference in the final taste.

I use a rounded tablespoon of coffee grounds per 4-5oz water (i.e. two for a regular cup of coffee, and three for a travel mug). I don't worry about water temperature outside of whether or not it was recently brought to a boil.
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> Let different US states have different laws (that the Federal law cannot trump) and let's see through experimentation which set of laws is best for different sets of people.

This happened before but it ended up widely unpopular. It is called the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. Best outcome is extremely subjective as well.

What happened:

After prohibition most states elected a minimum legal drinking age of 21.

The 26th amendment comes around in 1971 which made the voting age 18. In response 29 states lowered the drinking age.

The lower drinking age states saw in increase in motor vehicle fatalities. Particularly in the 18-21 group.

The Feds decided if states want 100% of their highway construction funds they had to make the drinking age 21 to reduce highway fatalities.

You can argue that "less dead youths" is a best outcome even though pretty much everyone still wants the drinking age to be 18.
Their are automated pour over machines out there, and they seem to be getting more popular recently. However, I doubt they will ever completely replace the manual pour over devices since everyone has their own technique when it comes to pour over, and everyone's technique yields a different taste. And that's ignoring the fact that different beans may require adjusting your pour over technique. It's the same with making espresso, sure some companies have made machines that automate most of the process and many people do use them, but in the craft coffee world, it's unlikely that they will ever become the standard.
> The photo would have been unremarkable, worthless were it not taken by a monkey.

When I first saw that photo, I had no idea it was taken by a monkey, and I thought it was an excellent photo. The monkey's pose and expression are close to perfect.

If I had seen it with no context at all, my guess would have been that it was not a photo, but a still from an upcoming animated movie...that monkey looks like he's about to do something hilarious...and have admired the realistic texturing and the expressiveness of the model.
Pngout, optipng, deflopt, jpegtran, gifsicle, cwebp, zopfli, and so forth are all command line tools.

I'm not really sure why you think that this stuff is meant for designers. Recompressing images is a frontend optimization. It's something you automate. It's a task for machines, not humans.
Still cheaper to pay someone for 1 hour to clean & re-stock then to pay them for 8 hours to cook, as long as the machinery costs & maintenance is cheaper in the long run.
I save all the old beans from when I get a new batch before finishing the old bag and every few months I do a big cold brew batch. It does use way more coffee than hot brewing.

I do 1/3 cup coffee grounds per cup of water, put it all in a mixing bowl in the fridge overnight, and the next day strain it with a very fine mesh. Lasts for a week or two in the fridge
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There is a golden ratio to brewing that has been determined to be 17.42 units of water per 1 unit of coffee. I have found this to be pretty spot on and most roaster recommend brew methods are right around this number. This isn't a definitive number, but a good baseline to begin with.

One of thing of note is there is most definitely variation between roasters, regions and even within the same bag. I've had certain regions come out with different tastes from different roasters. I've also had bags go from awesome to crap back to awesome all within a week of delivery.
"Except that the monkey has no concept of creative licensing, payments, royalties, etc."

That doesn't matter. Plenty of grown adults have no concept of creative licensing, payments, royalties, etc., and might never be in a position to understand them. Similarly, the 9 year old child is the creator and owner of his work at the time of its creation, regardless of the expectation that he'll eventually learn what the legalities of that creation mean. A mentally disabled or permanently incapacitated individual who is incapable of understanding copyright, and presumably never will be capable, is still entitled to copyright protections.

What this really boils down to is the monkey's personhood. A person can legally create and own intellectual property, regardless of his cognizance of it. If we believe a macaque is in some ways a person -- not a human, but a person -- then this argument holds some merit. If we do not, then it becomes more tenuous. The question isn't whether the monkey understands the ramifications of her photo; it's whether the monkey had creative agency in taking the photo.
Precisely the opposite - these functions compose because they are representation-free.
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It's a pretty well considered tradeoff in my opinion - no existing code breaks while at the same time all the transformation functions now have the same semantic interpretation when used in different contexts. The alternative would be to replicate the notion of `map`, `filter`, etc. again and again as occurred with reducers and higher level core.async operations on channels.
I think the point the above posters were making is that people will continue to create for fun, even if machines are better at it.
Yeah... The interactive video is really cool. It looks like they're using popcorn.js for it (although I'm still watching, and haven't completely checked out the source).
How much is a pawnshops spread, anyway?

Because you could buy a suitable ring there (it will have an icky feeling to most people, so it will be cheaper than a "new" ring) and then sell it back when you now longer needed her to think you were committed.
most drip machines' major failing is the water brews too cool (should be approx 195-205f). There are a slew of newer drip machines that pay attention to brew temps and apparently brew a pretty good cup of coffee. The Moccamaster Technivorm was the first popular machine to do so.
Being creative can also be doing things like this: http://hackaday.io/project/2021-3D%28ollar%29-Scanner

Yep. It's mine.
It would be different if the photographer was using a timer, remote, or other sensor to take photographs of the monkey. In those cases the photographer would clearly be in control of the situation and the copyright.

This seems a little different in that the camera was stolen from it's owner and pictures were taken. Right now the U.S. courts don't view monkeys as people (http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/09/us/new-york-chimps-personhood/), but what would happen if the monkey was someone's pet? Who owns the copyright on a picture taken from a stolen camera?
The article fails to mention Jed McCaleb sold millions of dollars worth of XRP that he and his company premined and gave to themselves.
:( There is nothing wrong with people doing stuff for the sole purpose of fun.
Yeah, most of this finfisher stuff appears to be for surveillance states (plus assholes like nsa), not real law enforcement. Real cops / fbi can get a warrant and go straight to microsoft who appears to have very good skype capture ability. Why would you screw around with all this nonsense when all it takes is a couple hours of a DAs time to draft a warrant, a trip to see a judge (assuming you have a reasonable cause), then a fax to microsoft? Unless of course the reasonable cause thing is tripping you up...

ps -- that's not to say our governments aren't well aware of what FinFisher is doing. I bet the fastest way to seriously piss nsa/various pigs off is to sell an exploit before sharing it with the US/5 eyes. I mean, they don't "know know", but they know, the same way we know damn well what goes on in extraordinary rendition, though we all run around pretending to be shocked, shocked! that there's torture in egyptian prisons...
Yes, I believe so, but not enabled by default. Can you contact sayhi@circleci.com with your use case and we can figure it out?
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That is, we have elastic beanstalk support, but I'd love to know how we can make it better :)
>> A bigger problem I see is that you could print the fake scene on a big piece of paper, take a picture of that, and the digital signature would be totally valid.

That's why I want the date and camera SN to be authenticated as well. A photo of an actual event could be shown to have the correct date, while a photo of an altered print would have a later date.
I'm happy that he shares my exact point of view on this.

Apparently it's okay for anyone to just build up a suite of security penetrating software, call yourself a 'security company' and sell it on the open market. You will just get money thrown at you by governments and voila, there's your profit. Now just keep all the exploits you find private and rake in the millions. (100 clients in their database, times at least 1.5 million. You do the math)

The only thing we 'geeks' can do against this is tear this apart whenever it leaks, submit the relevant bugreports to the companies that are exploitable and hope for quick patches. It's an insane world we live in.

Footnote: I do not condone or promote hacking websites and then leaking data like this, but I have a strong feeling that this hacker just used SQLMap on their site (judging by the fact that there's no sql injection prevention at all in the code)
Is the CO2 thing specific to letting roasted coffee sit X days before use and blooming? While I haven't really tried to see if blooming matters when it comes to taste (it's a good indicator of bean freshness), I can say there is a difference in days since roast impacting taste. Beans release gas after roast and if you have some too close to roast date the taste can be dramatically different from a day or two later. In fact I've seen recommendations of beans best used for espresso have rested for 5-7 days post roast.
In this case, it's being compared to the normal demographics of people doing programming/CS related stuff.

The demographics here are pretty stark: the percentage of women, and the percentages of hispanic and black people in programming and other tech related jobs (and studying it at the high school/college level) are way, way below their representation in the overall population.

So "diverse" can both being used to (as another poster mentioned) refer to "non-white", as in the states it's often used as a byword for that, but I think in this case it's being used as a comparison to the expected demographics.

As a much more off topic explanation of why "diverse" gets that use in the US dialogue: the US has serious problems talking about the fact that racism and inequalities along race lines both are still incredibly prevalent; many people would prefer to think it ended after the civil rights movement in the '60s (and that is largely how it is taught in the public school system). Saying something along the lines of "I was impressed by the number of black people/African Americans who attended" or even "I was impressed by how many non-white people attended" isn't politically correct in some circles, (and can open you up to accusations of racism) despite the fact that it mainly acts to highlight underlying inequalities and race lines rather than actually actively perpetuating and enforcing them. However, "diverse" is used as a byword to mean the same thing without actively highlighting any particular racial inequalities, which is more palpable for some people. (In my opinion, more palpable mainly for the people who are uncomfortable acknowledging the problems or who would rather not address them, but that's more social commentary than an explanation of the use.)
Eh not really. It doesn't take very long to put on a suit, once you have done so a couple times - especially not with wrinkle free shirts and clip on ties.

What a suit really does is make you look more manly (broader shoulders) and there is a certain impression by wearing the same clothing powerful people wear.
He didn't just own the camera, he went out photographing them. He went to where the monkeys were.
Yes and they all are powerful goitrogenic plants. Don't eat them raw... unless you hate your thyroid! When I see people sipping on raw kale juice, I feel sorry for them! Raw is not always better! Would you eat raw potatoes, for example, or raw mushrooms (toxins), or spinach (rich in oxalates)?
Legally, how would this differ from a monkey stepping on a remote trigger, or stepping in front of a motion detector to trigger a camera to take a picture? Are all of the pictures on Snapshot Serengeti (http://www.snapshotserengeti.org/) copyrighted by the animals in them?
I misread your statement as you did a method similar to pour over.
Well, it might be that the monkey wouldn't deserve copyright even if copyright could reside in a monkey. There are broad classes of works like phone books which don't get copyright at all:

http://copyright.uslegal.com/enumerated-categories-of-copyri...
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That would be cool. But I've never had a UPS or FedEx driver actually wait for someone to answer the door. They place the package in front of the door, put a tag on the door that says they delivered it (which seems useless since the box is right there) and leave. When I am home, I usually get to the door as they are getting in their truck. They wave and drive off.
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Hi, are you talking about the Sodor cores? I wrote those and wouldn't mind answering any questions about RISC-V or Chisel.

Regarding Sodor, they're designed to be instructional (we use them on our undergrads at Berkeley) and open for anybody with a C++ compiler so they can learn about Chisel and RISC-V. I pushed them through synthesis once just for kicks, but I didn't work on making them FPGA-ready. Chisel will give you the Verilog of the core, but you'd still need to write a test-harness that's specific to your FPGA.

The RISC-V user manual lists some of our existing RISC-V silicon implementations (8 so far, listed in Section 19.2), whose RTL aren't (yet) open-source.
I can't believe the author left THESE out: https://www.google.com/search?q=geometric+brassicas&tbm=isch

You can make them at home, but it requires a lot of work and luck, since brassicas cross-breed if they are near each other at all.
Culture modifies human natural behaviour in all sorts of surprising ways. You cannot tell out of hand which behaviours are natural (whatever that means) and which are cultural. Why are women's appearances scrutinized to much greater extent than men? Is it because our culture* discourages male objectification, or because it encourages female objectification?

Even if it is natural, that doesn't mean it's desireable. That's just an appeal to nature.

While laws are an extreme method, they're routinely used to better ourselves, and even more often to better others. It's worked for (what we currently consider) undesireable behaviours like theft, smoking in public places, environmental pollution, seatbelt wearing, illegal parking, murder, and looking funny at cops. That's a pretty varied list, so why wouldn't it work for sexual objectification? I don't think we should use such a drastic approach, but it's not ridiculous, either.

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* Cowardly assuming we're all in the West.
On a slow connection, between buffering and no rewind button, this was rather hard to watch.
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>If a human infant took a photo

I'd bet that that idea has already been tested in the courts. I believe that the result is that the guardians of the child hold the rights in trust. A child is still human though, and courts do not yet assign (to my knowledge) property rights to non-human animals.
For baseline, I recommend 2g coffee : 1oz water, 195F-205F for water temp, and 3:30-4:30 for brew time
I'd like us (Rackspace) to publish a full whitepaper about what we have done, but I'll break down things into two topical areas:

1) Requiring signing of all firmwares, and putting those firmware private keys in control of Rackspace whenever possible.

2) Disabling systems of integration between the BMC and Operating system -- for example we completely disable the HECI bus, removing a major surface area for the operating system to affect the BMC.
Unfortunately, that zip file is password protected. And it appears most of the other good stuff (minus the web framework) is gpg encrypted.
That's what I came to say as well.

I would suggest using Geany, it is great editor especially for beginners and in the debian/ubuntu repos.

Not to mention, you should use Chromium rather than Chrome.
Of course only humans can hold copyright. But an issue here is, the photographer never intended to take the picture (in this way); it was an accident. So its debatable.
I actually had a discussion with someone who holds a masters of law in China and recently started attending law school in the US for their JD. The issue of intellectual property came up when we were discussing possible career paths after graduation and I was quite astounded when she told me that she didn't think the industrial espionage was that big of a deal and couldn't be costing US companies that much money. I was very surprised by the dismissive attitude toward IP.

I'm all for more sane patent laws but outright source code theft seems to be far past the line... Is this attitude common among educated Chinese or was my experience just a one-off anecdote?
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I love pourovers and ended up getting this Bodum auto:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanshapiro/2013/04/07/hands-o...

It makes a very good pourover, I recommend it if you don't have the time to do it properly.
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The camera operator situation is totally different because it's a work-for-hire, in which no copyright can be claimed. The director is under the same work-for-hire contract, in fact.