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The following quoted paragraph may illustrate the degree to which the court sided with Klinger and against the Conan Doyle Estate:
http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Disp...

"The Doyle estate’s business strategy is plain: charge a modest license fee for which there is no legal basis, in the hope that the “rational” writer or publisher asked for the fee will pay it rather than incur a greater cost, in legal expenses, in challenging the legality of the demand. The strategy had worked with Random House; Pegasus was ready to knuckle under; only Klinger (so far as we know) resisted. In effect he was a private attorney general, combating a disreputable business practice—a form of extortion—and he is seeking by the present motion not to obtain a reward but merely to avoid a loss. He has performed a public service—and with substantial risk to himself, for had he lost he would have been out of pocket for the $69,803.37 in fees and costs incurred at the trial and appellate levels ($30,679.93 + $39,123.44). The willingness of someone in Klinger’s position to sue rather than pay Doyle’s estate a modest license fee is important because it injects risk into the estate’s business model. As a result of losing the suit, the estate has lost its claim to own copyrights in characters in the Sherlock Holmes stories published by Arthur Conan Doyle before 1923. For exposing the estate’s unlawful business strategy, Klinger deserves a reward but asks only to break even."

Note that the above is the official opinion of the court, and not just that of Klinger and his attorney. And although only citing it as a quoted example, Posner makes it clear that he feels Warner Brothers is using the same strategy with "Happy Birthday":

"Depoorter and Walker (id. at 345 n. 172) give the example of the Summy-Brichard Company, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which “receives approximately $2 million per year in royalty payments for licenses to the song ‘Happy Birthday to You,’ despite the fact that the song is most likely in the public domain,” as argued in Robert Brauneis, “Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song,” 56 J. Copyright Society U.S.A. 335, 338–40 (2009.)
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@SoloX5 - big fan here (from /r/fitness)!

I'm wondering why you didnt setup examine.com as a wiki (I read somewhere that it is a Wordpress site right now).

Each of your landing pages are heavy and (I assume) are constantly being edited. How do you manage that process ?

It'll be nice to know the plugins,etc. you use for the site - its brilliant for a quick encyclopedia-ish wordpress setup !

Quick comment - it might be a good idea to go SSL by default on the site. Your register/login pages are also non-ssl.
PaaS: Poop as a service
Artist uses DMCA to remove criticism of his impossibly-shaped female characters
Where can I bet that Google will buy Uber and make self-driving Uber cars? (I am not joking, do people know where I can place a bet on this?)
Online learning existed before the internet, dammit.
How much do you think Ethereum will be worth in 2015?
What effect does salt have (in general) that causes microorganisms problems? Is it just sodium chloride, or do other salts have the same effect?
I assume this post is here to show us that the stupid argumentation about FP vs OOP vs DWIM have been going in circles forever and we should just stop and get back to work.
Sure, but you're obviously working at the point you commit. For example, if my first commit of a day is at 9:15 AM and the last one is at 7 PM, odds are pretty high I've exceeded the 'allowed' 9-to-5 hours.
No definitely don't start in your 20s. There's no evidence that the benefits outweigh the risks at your age.
Wait, are you claiming to believe that the change in aggregate economic outcomes driven by a change in copyright assignment is enough to measurably affect aggregate life expectancy?

Besides which, the average member of the population will spend far more money on creative works than they will receive in revenue on them; it would be to their benefit to have the price of creative works drop.
That's a good question, one example I can think of is the TV channel on some aircraft that displays positional and airspeed information to passengers.

I assume this data comes somewhere from the flight computers.
Exactly my feelings.
Agreed. I used to drive for Lyft when UberX started up. They did get a good pull of the college and young 20's market with their service in SF.

I just think of brand differentiation with these companies now, not really the price point.
> Give me a credit card that makes me feel safe entering the number into any website, and i'll gladly pay a premium for it.

You mean like a virtual credit card?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_payment_number
Google ventures invested $258M in Uber about a year ago, I'd say it's highly likely that if self-driving cars pan out, there'll be an Uber fleet of them.
You're thinking of Zipcar.

With Car2Go, you leave the car in any legal on-street parking space (sometimes limited to 15 min+/1 hr+/2 hr+ depending on city) in the "home area" (borders depend on the city but are typically pretty expansive). The company contracts with each city to basically pay a flat rate for street and metered parking for all the cars yearly.
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While knowledgable sounding... I kind of feel like he was missing out on what pure FP can and does achieve. There were many statements to the effect of "don't pretend X is Y because while Y is obviously great, it's also true that any lang which does Y could not operate (here's an example in Perl)".

I reject that last bit, that these things Y lead to a useless language though I do think the proof was far from the pudding 9 years ago.
Indian PM Pushes Use of Hindi Ahead of English
Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within 1 mile of you
Hi guys,
Bark is an app for android, iPhone and iPad. You can choose from 9 dogs with different faces and sounds. You can then bark with your dog to all the other dogs within 1 mile of where you are. You can see roughly how far away other dogs, but there's no actual location or identity information.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bark.barkapp
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bark./id902026569?ls=1&mt=8

You can watch bark as it spreads across the world at http://www.barkstats.com

Hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed building it.

Cheers
Good suggestions, drbawb.
Why is it off-topic to mention last century practices which are still used by MS? It's pretty much within the broader scope of what this article touches on. No matter what variety it is, MS has to adjust to the new reality, that competition will happen on merit, and not on crooked market capture methodology.

I guess downvoters are just upset about MS criticism, rather than consider this being off-topic, since it isn't.
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/type-level-numbers-0.1.1...

But it's not clear to me what happens when you try to compile and typecheck program that attempts to subtract numbers provided as input at runtime.
Is there a reason you don't want to just bike? Seems like the perfect distance for it, and it's free after the initial investment of a couple hundred dollars.
That particular legend is way beyond the lab now:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1750612/dangerously-clean-water-u...
> so if the author conks right after her first book her family doesn't starve.

If I died one month after starting a new programming job, my employer wouldn't pay a salary to my family for 15 years.

I'm not sure why society has to take care of the family of an author but not a programmer.
Predict the acquisition on mergerize.com: http://mergerize.com. Just include the target price and date.
Take a look at Car2Go, which has nominal rates a little higher than Zipcar, but pricing that scales down to minutes and is based around a "leave the car wherever" model.
"This accidental car thief has shown a great deal of integrity by fully cooperating with investigators and stepping up to the plate without hesitation to help make the car owner whole ... We are particularly pleased that the car thief also has committed to take positive and practical steps towards securing future compliance." -- nobody, ever.

Let's be honest here: the prosecutors are praising them because corporate regulatory capture is so deeply embedded within our regulatory institutions. NOT because it was unintentional.

I can't really bring myself to believe that it wasn't intentional either.

You get the same kind of "let's let 'em down easy" speak from the SEC & from the Federal Reserve toward the banks. Hell, you even get it from the courts when it's a rich white guy indicted for a DUI or snorting cocaine.
OP here.

First of all, thank you [and everyone here] for adding your thoughts.

The goal of using hyperbole in the title was twofold: 1. hope to get out of the slush pile of "new" 2. someone might have specific knowledge of a similar situation wrt apple. Even with the click-bait title, it just BARELY got out of slush with 3 votes.

Neither Apple nor Google are complicit, but they might have gone down this road before and have suggestions. My son releases his music through them so targeting them would make even less sense. [he's currently making car-payment/mo. on the music]

re: cloned it in a month. We were there and wondering why some people were taking copious photos. Also, they stripped out all of the artistry, and music [all made by son], and just boiled it down to basics. So yes, a month is feasible.

Again, thank you.
We chose SaltStack. Have not looked back once.
I didn't say it determined the law, and of course it affects only the single case. The point is they're allowed to make their decision based on whether they feel the law itself is just, not just on the facts of the case.
I'm guessing most authors don't write a book for life insurance purposes, just that the fact that a standard 15 year term is probably more beneficial to most people than a term based on when you die.
[author here]

You know, I should have written about that a bit more. It makes sense in retrospect, I didn't even think about it at the time, even after leading off with the problems of the VS2010 cycle.

But, yes. If one looks at how VS and TFS have evolved, it's been very clear that there must have been some internal customer who really wanted to use them for scrum (no external customer would ever be that influential). The last few releases, not to mention the VS2012/2013 quarterly(ish) updates have all had an emphasis on improving this aspect of the products.

Accordingly, they seem to have become pretty decent, and this has no doubt helped teams change how they work.
>I think they understand they are just pushing an alternate view of reality (and interpretation of surveillance, search and so on terms). The idea they run with is unless a human looks at the data, it is not a search or seizure so Constitutional protections don't take effect.

I think there's also the fact that realising something is a phone number of an email account might not be considered a search, in the "expectation of privacy" sense.

If you send postal mail, you expect the contents not to be looked at by the mailman, but do you expect the fact that you sent a letter to be private?

Now, "common sense" might dictate otherwise, but Smith Vs. Maryland is the precedent, and the Courts don't think the fact that you're calling someone (and even who you're calling) to be private. So looking at whether its a phone number or email might also not be expected to be "private" information, even if the contents are.

>Maybe later you do something suspicious, like participate in some protest -- then you are labeled a terrorist, i.e. person of interest. They get a warrant even (to be legit and all) and do a search for everything you ever did online since, well forever.

That's not how evidence works. The gov't isn't authorised to collect everyone's info, so even if they have it on hand (a point the gov't disputes in this case), they don't necessarily have the write to use it.

One of the points of the gov't in the case is that the EFF is arguing that the filtering is a two step process : collect all data, then filter it. But the EFF doesn't know that's actually how things are happening, and it might not be. So the lawyers are actually refuting the plantiff's main line of reasoning.

This case is not about the core of the law, it's about implementation details. Ones that we do not know.
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OP here.

You weren't harsh. You had a clear point and made it.

If someone's on HN, I value his thoughts.
Shared taxis have existed for long time. This is just optimized with the iPhone app. It's really time vs money. You are paying less but it will likely be longer trip since the other rider is not likely going to your exact location.
40% off at $319? Wow.
I typically bike to work, but I'll take an Uber every once in a while for about $7-$9. Sometimes I use MUNI, which is $2. If Uber can drop the price range to $3-$5, I'd consider using them almost every day -- the difference in price between taking the train and carpooling at that point seems negligible. I think there are a lot of people in a similar position.
This is sad nostalgia. It was 2006-2007 when I was in the process if moving from Miami to San Francisco. I remember finding out about Justin on a cnet interview (I think). He had a setup of some cameras in his hat. I remember quite fondly just watching him walk around the streets of SF and getting a real life view of what my future city looked like.
If you built a house one month after you died, would you expect it to be given to the state?

IP is more about property than a job, I think.
Oh, BBC. Did anyone else notice their persistent use of "Indians"? Kind of hilarious.
OP here.

First of all, thank you [and everyone here] for adding your thoughts.

The goal of using hyperbole in the title was twofold: 1. hope to get out of the slush pile of "new" 2. someone might have specific knowledge of a similar situation wrt apple. Even with the click-bait title, it just BARELY got out of slush with 3 votes.

My son and I had a good talk. He teared up a bit, but I could see determination to not get ripped off again. I think he will internalize that motivation to his benefit. He will not likely, though, submit his best ideas to contests. He does all the design, code, graphics and music.
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With all the data, carpooling/sharing a ride is great.

But please, the phrase "game changer" is horribly overused today & diluted.
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Got it, I see what you are saying now :)
No, you can leave it nearly anywhere in the service area. The particular rules are up to the city you're in; in Seattle they amount to "you can park anywhere, provided it allows a normal car to park for at least two hours, and doesn't become illegal to park during certain times (e.g. bus lanes)".
Is there any particular reason why more work isn't being done on developing new protocols?

It seems like given the past 20 years of the web there is clearly a need of a presentation protocol, a stateful application protocol, and a stateless application protocol.

Seems like it makes more sense to separate them.
The score calculation is incorrect, due to rounding in the calculations. For example (assuming 53-bit precision as usual), Floor(0.29 / 0.01) is not 29 as one would hope. This is because those values (0.29, 0.01) are not exactly representable. Instead, the corresponding representable values are 0.289999999999999980015985556747182272374629974365234375 and 0.01000000000000000020816681711721685132943093776702880859375. The result of the division is thus less than 29, and is floored to 28.

When run, the script currently produces these values:

2 coins is: [0.13,0.01] with a score of 886 -- should be 934

3 coins is: [0.25,0.06,0.01] with a score of 526 -- should be 542

4 coins is: [0.4,0.13,0.03,0.01] with a score of 400 -- should be 422

5 coins is: [0.45,0.2,0.08,0.03,0.01] with a score of 329 -- should be 345

6 coins is: [0.7,0.45,0.2,0.08,0.03,0.01] with a score of 305 -- should be 320

To avoid this issue, use integers instead (which you can think of as working in cents) -- adjust each value in candidates and amounts to be the corresponding integer (and the 0.01 in the denom function to be 1) and correct scores will be calculated.

Incidentally, the optimal scores for the first few sets are:

2 coins is 910 from [1, 10] or [1, 11]

3 coins is 521 from [1, 12, 19]

4 coins is 393 from [1, 5, 18, 25]

5 coins is 333 from [1, 5, 16, 23, 33]

6 coins is 296 from [1, 4, 6, 21, 30, 37] or [1, 4, 9, 24, 31, 45] or [1, 5, 8, 20, 31, 33]

7 coins is 269 from [1, 4, 9, 11, 26, 38, 44]

(Computed with a quick-and-dirty C backtracking search.)
Too bad the article does not really go in the insights as to why the IPads are being replaced by something else. It's just being hinted, but that's the main point they should have focused on the article.
Read my final paragraph. You don't have to care about MITM to benefit from opportunistic encryption.
If only it were that simple. As it stands now, the problem with HTTP/HTTPS is that encryption is an all-or-nothing proposition. There should be three modes supported:

1. Unencrypted (for casual/ad-hoc web servers serving cache-able static assets)

2. Encrypted-untrusted (for casual/ad-hoc web servers that just want to thwart basic Wi-Fi cookie sniffing)

3. Encrypted-trusted (for most established websites)

Right now, #2 isn't a viable option, because HTTPS servers with self-signed certificates are correctly treated as dangerous. A URL that designates the HTTPS protocol must always require a trusted connection.

The solution is (relatively) simple: HTTP 2.0 should allow encrypted-untrusted connections for URLs designated with the HTTP protocol.
Ridiculous article..

Here's the actual blog post, and the 25-page whitepaper.

http://blog.ioactive.com/2014/04/a-wake-up-call-for-satcom-s...

http://www.ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_SATCOM_Security_WhiteP...

On a side note, what's with all the similar press photos of this guy in front of graffiti?

https://imgur.com/a/nOuff
You linked to a book that's over 50 pages and contains hundreds of laws. Provide specific quotes and page numbers, please.

The one quote you seem to be basing your argument on basically said that already-produced beverage-grade alcohol could be sold if it was mixed with something else to make it undrinkable. That doesn't imply (as you seem to think it does) that newly-made alcohol was being mixed with methanol, only that previously-distilled alcohol could be reused instead of destroyed.

And that definitely doesn't imply that the government was intentionally poisoning bootleg alcohol.
Which is why the pinning bit comes in. If I connect to server X at home, get their self-signed cert and then connect later at starbucks on a MITM'd connection, I will know something is wrong.

Best solution? Not by a long shot, but it is a reasonably simple one to implement and does improve things.
Probably, although if you were paranoid enough (or required by regulation), you could airgap the TVs and give them information through a normal GPS system (minus the artificial altitude restriction), or have a hardware unidirectional data path. More reasonably, you could consider the TVs part of the flight system network (with many of the same protections to prevent someone from physically opening one and hacking), and still have an airgapped wifi network.
> since the new Common Core online testing will require a keyboard.

Is common core testing available on paper, or is it only computerized?
The problem is a fundamental incongruence between the costs to ISP's, and the corresponding costs to customers. It's not just consumer ISP's that are guilty of this racket, either. Most "cloud" hosts, Amazon included, are making huge margins by charging their customers for total data transferred, but only paying upstream for rate of transfer, i.e. bandwidth capacity at any given time.

To simplify, let's ignore last mile costs and at ISP's who own their own infrastructure. Let's also ignore peering. ISP's, and hosts like Amazon, pay for IP transit on a capacity basis, i.e. data per second, e.g. "$1 per month per mbps." They buy this IP transit from providers like Level3, Cogent, Hurricane Electric, etc. What this actually means is that they pay a monthly fee for some amount of fiber optic cables to plug into their servers/switches. These cables have a set bandwidth capacity, like 1gbps.

They could charge their customers in the same way, E.g. "$2 per month per mbps," and make up to 2x on each customer, but this would quickly become unsustainable because there simply is not enough cable in the world to do that, and make customers will not be using their full capacity 99% of the time anyway. Instead, the companies "oversell" their capacity by advertising a certain capacity to customers, but then capping the total transfer so that the customers cannot operate at peak capacity 100% of the time, since there is not space for that many electrons on the fiber optic cables.

Amazon charges $0.1 per gb transferred. In bulk, IP transit from hurricane electric can cost as little as $0.50 per mbps.

If you operate a low bandwidth site on Amazon, and you transfer 1 mbps for an entire month, that totals to 155.52 gigabits, or 19 gigabytes. You pay $1.90, but Amazon only pays $0.50. If you transfer at a consistent rate of 1 gbps, you total 324 terabytes of transfer, which costs you $3,240 @ 0.01/gb (I think that's their bulk price?). Amazon, meanwhile, only pays $500.

Lots of people don't know this is how the hosting industry works, and Amazon is gouging the shit out of them on price.
Lots of companies paying for the convenience of "the cloud" are getting ripped off. For high bandwidth sites, it's far more cost effective to colocate at a datacenter and buy the IP transit yourself.

I'm sure Amazon offers custom transit pricing to big customers, but you need to transfer a ton of bandwidth to get that, and by then you're already getting ripped off anyway.
Hey Sol, Mike from PricePlow here!

Always a pleasure watching your success - congratulations for taking the long, hard road and grinding away.

I know we can't work together much due to your wise philosophy of non-affiliation, but I'll always look forward to working with you in any venture, whether it's this one or the next!

Congrats once again!
And I didn't say the jury can't make such a ruling, only that it isn't their role. Which it isn't. Technically I suppose they are "allowed to" in that they aren't explicitly barred from doing so, but really that's just taking advantage of a privileged position.
During an international Air Canada flight, they had USB ports right beside the touch screen seat back monitors. I thought I'd try plugging my remote mouse into it. Worked perfectly fine, a mouse pointer showed up and I could use it fine.

I was wondering what I could do with a keyboard, or a nicely crafted USB stick. The interface seems to be an HTML/JS interface, so I'm not sure what OS it was running on. The mouse pointer was not a Windows default so it was probably Linux.

I wonder if I could have switched terminals if I had my keyboard. Also, if I had my keyboard I'd be too scared to try.
The article mentioned several reasons - price, ease of pushing apps, ease of using new one if current one breaks, keyboards, being perceived as more work device than the iPad (less distracting and general perception of the iPad as a gaming/entertainment device).