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Ask HN: Question of Fair Use of a work for personal use
Does it fall under fair use for me to print a poster of a work that someone else made, as long as I do not sell or give it away to anyone else?

I actually asked the original author if I could create high quality renders of their work and share it online, but they explicitly said "no". I've respected their wishes, but I would like to get a poster printed for my wall of one of their works. I'm allowed to do that, right?
Mercurial has the most clear-headed read on the situation. His comment should be upvoted to the top.

As for Microsoft, they have demonstrated time and time again they are not aligned with the user but with Big Brother. They are lawful evil, to use D&D parlance.
Downvoted, here is why:

I find your statements to be over general to an almost crazy degree -- "the actual experience"? Everywhere? "In general we don't have an honest effective government" -- really? Got data? Etc, etc.

Also, I would be interested in specific metrics of worse and better -- you make the claim it is worse because of regulation, which you imply is basically the same as socialized funding (which it isn't). So where is the data?

No offense, but this sounds like canned right wing bullshit rhetoric straight off Fox News. Granted, there is plenty of canned rhetoric on all "sides" to go around, but that doesn't make this any better.
With so many other things to learn and ideas to implement, something like assembly programming sits way back on the backburner. It's only recreational for me, not something critical for my work.

An easy tutorial like this injects just the right amount of motivation to atleast dip my feet back in. Having to wade through Intel's 1000 page system manuals to check if my past knowledge is useful or not, would require a lot more motivation than I can muster.
UserVoice is a good option, a lot of SaaS use them.
I remember the day in US when the consumer was king, and its interests were second to all others (govt, big business, etc). Sadly that day has passed. Without getting too political, the root cause is unrestrained campaign giving.
Because if you believe they did it on principles, then you will have misplaced your trust and be worse off in the future. Microsoft has also turned over user information to the government. That doesn't sound like principles - at least not the same principles that I care about.
At the same time, if they find that people are indifferent to actions like this, maybe they'll feel that it isn't worth their while.
The overall pattern of map-reduce is possible in most languages, certainly any language that has closures. And the idea of composing multiple reducing functions together is something that comes up in many languages. If a language does not have closures, you could do something similar in any language by walking an accumulating object through multiple loops, but that is awkward and ugly. But you could certainly do something like this in Javascript, through the clever use of multiple closures, composing the closures together. But transducers formalize this as an idiomatic part of Clojure.
Some schools here advocate this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/morning-exercise-to-spark-kids...
I think it's all about 1945-1950. That's when Truman (accidentally?) ensconced employer-based healthcare into law in the US and the NHS began in Britain. Of course France's solution is quite compelling, as is Germany's, Canada's, Japan's...

The "socialism" thing is just spall from decades of identity politics. Pick apart the propaganda aspects of John Wayne's movies, especially "The Alamo". I'm not snarkin' on Wayne, I love his stuff, partly because it's propaganda.

Our cognitive dissonance is best cognitive dissonance :)

I also have to wonder - if the US actually embraces a public health service would that take the pressure off the public health services of the world to keep cost down?

As economics, it's actually pretty difficult to analyze this issue. The assumptions are formidable.
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I think many and perhaps most poor estimates are caused by initial estimates being viewed as too high for the project, and instead of deciding the project isn't worth doing at its estimated cost, instead deciding the estimates must be wrong in order to align expected project value with expected project cost.

Perhaps in a twisted future where we estimate project cost before deciding which projects to take on, we might discover our estimates are much better.

A related pathology is trading technical debt for speed, every time, on every project. The debt will be paid.
In what material way, in the context of a beginners guide, are they different?

Calling convention, word size and the r- prefixes. If you compete the PGU book (you could just write 32 bit code if you want), these are trivialities.
Socialized some of the costs.

Some systems in the US, especially Kaiser, are basically a socialized system supported by premiums, and seem to work pretty well.
I wouldn't say they are the first....

And that is assuming this is more than a choreographed piece of theater attempting to restore trust in US cloud services. Which maybe it is. And.... maybe it isn't.
Games and other high performance users generally used to stay away from the STL. Sony had their own version of STL which addressed some of these issues.
Theorem of the Day, August 30th: Cook's Theorem [pdf]
I think the best answer to your question is this video :

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Title : THE BIRTH & DEATH OF JAVASCRIPT
By : Gary Bernhardt
From : PyCon 2014
Thanks for your feedback. I'll leave it up to my colleague to answer your two main points. Just wanted to answer the last couple of questions you had.

The reason it redirects to the homepage is that for now, you need to be logged in to see any content. We intend for anonymous uses who haven't logged in to be able open direct links to posts, we just haven't gotten around to implementing it yet :-)

If you tried to register using why-el as a username, I see no reason why you shouldn't have been able to do that. We'll have a look at the rules we've set for username and see if we're a bit too strict with what we will or will not allow.
And, yes, none of us are native English speakers :-)
A little strange to be comparing American GP average income to the average income of all Canadian MDs given that GPs are paid much less than average.

"Geoff Ballinger, manager of Health Human Resources for CIHI, said the figures represent averages and vary significantly depending on a doctor’s specialty. For instance, the average family practitioner would earn less than a neurosurgeon or cardiologist."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/healt...
> its interests were second to all others

I think that you mean:

> all other interests were second to it

If 'it' was second to something else, that would mean that said something else was first.
Good question. I'd say they're barely distinguishable. If MS relents, they're allowing a breach of trust that will make current and potential customers shop for non-US-based competitors.
Yet another place where intuitions derived from the normal distribution about the behavior of distributions screws people.

An explanation I like, from michaelochurch:

Let's say that you have 20 tasks. Each involves rolling a 10-sided die.
If it's a 1 through 8, wait that number of minutes. If it's a 9, wait 15
minutes. If it's a 10, wait an hour.
How long is this string of tasks going to take? Summing the median time
expectancy, we get a sum 110 minutes, because the median time for a task is
5.5 minutes. The actual expected time to completion is 222 minutes, with 5+
hours not being unreasonable if one rolls a lot of 9's and 10's.
This is an obvious example where summing the median expected time for the
tasks is ridiculous, but it's exactly what people do when they compute time
estimates, even though the reality on the field is that the time-cost
distribution has a lot more weight on the right. (That is, it's more common
for a "6-month" project to take 8 months than 4. In statistics-wonk terms,
the distribution is "log-normal".)
As someone trying to raise funding for a semiconductor startup in "silicon" valley, the biggest problem I see is lack of information. Most investors think that the minimum amount needed for a potentially (still very low chance) successful Semi startup is $100 million, which is nonsense carried over from the last century. I recently talked with a name partner at a very large (universally known) VC in the valley, and they thought that for a 5-10% chance at success, a fabless semi startup needed $100 million minimum, and to increase that to 30% you needed $250 million and hundreds of engineers. The only reason these ideas are prevalent throughout the venture world is because the market incumbents (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, etc) want the rest of the world to think that they are the only viable companies so that new competitors do not form. Over the past 10 years the semiconductor IP (and standard cell) ecosystem has made huge progress, saving significant time and money on the design and implementation of parts of a chip that are not the startup's "secret sauce"... FPGAs and their tools have only gotten better, allowing anyone to test a new chip/component design with little more than a laptop and a relatively inexpensive FPGA. The fact that the foundries of the world have been able to lower the cost of multiproject wafer fabrication runs, making test of 50-100 chips of real silicon cost as little as $500,000 using a ~4 year old process to $2,500,000 for the latest (20nm) process. The fact that these fabs want to be producing at capacity means that the cost for getting to a full fabrication run (tens to hundreds of thousands of chips) can cost as little as $5,000,000 and goes up to about $15,000,000 depending on the fab and the process.

Realistically, a small startup of ~3 people should be able to prove something on an FPGA (and show good simulations for a produced chip) for ~$100,000-$250,000. ~5-10 people and $2 to $5 million should be able to produce actual chips, and depending on the process node, be able to produce a couple thousand chips and have revenue. No modern fabless semi startup that should exist that has the right team should need more than $15 million to be able to get to revenue and hopefully profitability. I've always believed and thought that it was a silicon valley idea that innovation happens with small teams with what are thought of as crazy ideas... and if they aren't able to do it with 1/10th of the capital and 1/10th of the number of people, and the potential to make something 10x better, then it is not a worthy startup.
Yeah, I'm positive that he's in TDC.
I was instantly put off by having to create an account without being able to see what it does and how it works. Sorry but I am too impatient for this and I'm afraid a lot of other people will feel the same.
Adverts opening the App Store without permission.
A Tablet never attracted me enough to actually buy one. I would much rather buy a new laptop.
Build a multimillion dollar neural network cluster for 20k [pdf]
Please cheer up.
You've worked on one of those projects too, eh? I call them pony projects, as in I want a fucking pony...

People have a recurring delusion that the world is shaped by their wants.
Just a quick thought but Henry Ford may have found a solution to this. It's also (possibly) been shown that Ford simply had data which showed that transaction costs from turnover made the $5 wage worth his while.

Ford exhibited other bizarre managerial tics, but the world was new-and-all...

Ford's hubris was total vertical integration, but that came later. Detroit is not exactly a worker's paradise today, and few people talk about it...

Marx assumed Malthus, and Malthus could not have anticipated the more modern aspects of mass production and mass agriculture.
Also have a look at http://www.localmind.com/ (acquired by AirBnb) and Circle (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discoverci...)
Did you get a notification of the 2-hour scheduled maintenance window?
It's actually not very scaleable. The yield is incredibly low. Processing plants is also difficult because you have to deal with a bunch of stupid stuff like tough cell walls, etc. I'm not even sure that the glycosylation patterns that tobacco puts on the antibodies are human-compatible (i.e. problems could occur if you try to use tobacco-derived antibody therapeutics in a patient more than once).

The choice to use tobacco was very likely a symptom of "if you have a hammer," common in biology and chemistry, where some tobacco researcher (tobacco is a well-studied model organism) wrote a convincing grant with a handful of accurate but marginal improvements over contemporary systems (in this case glycosylated vs. unglycosylated) that would enable commercialization, and downplayed some of the setbacks (low yield). Meanwhile other technical approaches have matured that are really good at tackling those problems but without the other setbacks... but just weren't awarded seed money.
Practicing medicine for decades gives me some "perspective" on the subject. No one in medicine is a "miracle worker", though many of us work hard to the job responsibly.

You are wrong. We do "save lives", and not just in the ED. Every day, if not as dramatically, immediately or even noticeably, our incremental toil helps patients progress bit-by-bit toward better health. Managing chronic, debilitating conditions really does enable patients to live longer and more fully.

You are also wrong regarding income. Doctors in the US are getting paid less and less, while expenses of practice go ever higher. My own income is probably less than most of the people I know in other professions.

The "mess" of the health care system (to the extent it is even systematic) is the result of the constant assault of corporations and governments at all cost to "reduce costs", but the result has been the degradation you and others notice.

The most conspicuous evil has been perpetrated by the insurance industry. For example, amazingly short-sighted insistence on paying for a "generic" medication $3/mo cheaper than the drug already working is an every day challenge. If patients don't get what is really needed, they wind up getting sicker, need more care, the result is more money spent, not saved.

The problem is that the industrialization of medicine makes it increasingly difficult to be helpful. People are not neat little uniform units produced in factories. People are enormously complex organisms that defy all rules we invent to "explain" illness and treatment. People are unique entities that require individual attention and customized approaches if true "health care" is going to be provided.

If doctors are given the resources, time and respect to do their work, I believe almost all will strive to do it right.
I have relatives that are nurse practitioners. Even at that level, there are a lot of doctors that view nurses in the way that you would expect a character on Mad Men to view a female secretary (below them, just there to do their bidding, don't know anything, etc).
In which unit did you work as a CO? Luckily, though my friend is in TDC, he's in one of the state jail facilities near Houston and not a prison. Does that make a difference as to the availability of educational programs?

It's just inhumane that they don't have air conditioning in Texas prisons, especially in the areas where the humidity is so high, like the gulf coast. The heat and humidity were enough to push me away from Houston even though I grew up there.
What happens to Mac fanatics when the brand bums them out? (2013)
Not only that, but the idea that a US person or company can dodge a court order just by transferring the data in question (or a physical object such as a server, or an item of disputed ownership) to another country seems totally unsupportable. I don't see how the judge has erred by issuing this order and expecting it to be followed.

As I see it, the judge had no choice but to issue the order, and Microsoft has no rational alternative but to defy it if they want to conduct business as an international provider of cloud services. The real problem is with Congress, not the courts. When they permitted intelligence agencies to run amok with absolutely no Constitutional boundaries, they thought very little about the long term consequences and cared even less.
Assuming for a second we mean friend the way you're thinking why does it matter how frequently or recently he spoke with anyone he considers a friend? Are you telling me you have people you no longer consider a friend because you haven't chatted with them in X days?

More importantly though is that when people refer to Facebook "friends" they're using Facebook's noun for a connection. I'm sure it wouldn't bother you if he said he had 500 followers on Twitter, or was connected to 500 people on LinkedIn.
Reminds me of that old Cree Indian prophesy:

Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
>Behind every pair of entangled particles you find a single original causal event .... the actual reality is a joint distribution over particle states that already obeys the appropriate physics

that is exactly my views too. QM people call it "hidden variable" theory.

>two separate distributions whose results are "forced" by "magic" to conform to the appropriate correlation after the "sampling"

and that is Copenhagen interpretation superposition wave function collapse based theory of entanglement.

>you're just sampling a joint distribution in the first place.

if somebody shows that Bell violations can happen here too the Nobel prize will be his/her. I though think that Bell violations can't happen at all. That would be another Nobel prize i guess :)
systemd works exclusively with the Linux kernel, and thus it's infeasible for the GNU system to settle on it. Here's current dmd maintainer's (Courtès) take on the matter: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/25abkh/what_is_wrong_...
Tl;DR: containers aren't (yet?) suitable for protecting host from privilege escalation.

In our case this is just fine... we are using Docker for app distribution (so we don't have to rely on libraries installed on host systems but rather carry our libraries within the container). So we are not replacing VMs with containers, we are replacing applications with containers.
11 Reasons Email Is the Worst
Yeah, at 240 hours (6 weeks) I start losing it.

There is a cash out option typically in the summer (for every vacation day used I can cash out another day). I did that once; then more money taken out of my paycheck because the govt. assumed I was now making way more, so I didn’t really see the money until the following April.
I used to vape for pain from nerve compression after I went through a couple of unsatisfying treatment options - and no otc painkillers even touch it so that's that. There's some studies and anecdata showing that pot is potentially helpful for neuropathic pain, which is a different and very hairy beast.

From my experience, it only tones down the sensation of pain at best, maybe just a placebo. More often I would just get high as a kite to stop caring about pain and/or to be able to sleep easily. Not that that's a bad thing but... in the end I tried another prescription option and get most of the same toning down/drowsiness effect without bad side effects for far cheaper, so that was the end of that.

No doubt many users just want to use it recreationally, but enough people are motivated to study medicinal uses, so that's good. I think there is some potential here for that.

Here's some links:

http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/08/26/marijuana-va...
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/news/20080625/pot-may-e...
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/news/20100830/marijuana...
It doesn't matter. When you put yourself into such a situation, bad things can happen to you. Quit blaming others when you elbow a cop in the nose. Elbowing anyone in the nose will not bring you any good for that matter.

In this case, the cop felt the need to grab her to keep her from moving. No cop is going to do that without reason. Again, she put herself into that situation, too. That her breast was grabbed is inconsequential. Her article brings it up as if it was intentional or that she had every right to elbow someone in the nose over it. (The video linked to make the action itself questionable but I won't get into that.)

A jury of her peers has found her guilty. Why does this article need to be written as if she were innocent? She wasn't. Why is anyone trying to justify it?

I'd also bet there are far more facts not told in the article that the jury heard but we never will.
Scheme was plenty standardized by the mid-80s when RMS forked (James) Gosling Emacs and replaced its Mocklisp with a real LISP. Very few if any pay attention to the 1990 IEEE standard; for one thing, you've got to pay money to get it (currently $138 for a PDF, $110 if you're a member), vs. the free RnRS series.

RMS could in theory have adopted a Scheme, or even a lexicaly scoped version of mainline LISP, but by then he was so experienced with normal, pre-Common Lisp mainline LISP (Maclisp and Lisp Machine Lisp) I'd wonder if it even occurred to him.
You should probably take a look at HN's guidelines[1], particularly the In Comments section.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> positions somewhere between a nurse and a doctor

They call that a physician's assistant or nurse practitioner. The latter has the nurse's more user-centric approach but can do pretty much everything a general practitioner does, including writing prescriptions (though not in Texas, yeehaw).
Oh, certainly. And you'll never get a lack of my preaching the gospel that is org-mode. The inline latex/ditaa/graphviz/whatever manipulation is truly first rate and borderline mind blowing.

The problem, I think, is when people refuse to think of the textual representation as a reflection of the graphical one. Worse, we constantly dream of many textual representations of the same visual thing. Consider the constant wishing there was an AST based code editor, and then all of us that point out how paredit is that editor.

More to the point, the more complicated your AST or other language, the more difficult it can be to have meaningful semantics that are intuitive. What does it mean to type into a graphics image? Go down? Etc?
2 questions:

1. Why aren't cities everywhere doing this?

2. Who do I have to bother in my city to get this to happen?
> The U.S. Gov has gone mad with power.

Agreed. Hopefully this encourages more people to stand up to unreasonable violations of privacy from our government.

> And for perhaps the first time ever: bravo Microsoft! I don't even care if you did if for the PR, it's still a brave stand.

The question of whether a company is following principles or motivated by profit/PR is so strange to me. The question is nonsense and the answer irrelevant.

Microsoft is not a person with principles. It's 90,000ish people with different principles. I'm sure some people really believe in the right to privacy, some want to avoid angering customers, some don't care, etc. The reasons and motivations behind a company's actions are as diverse as the actors involved.

We could argue about motivations all day, like the responses to your comment are doing, but it's pointless and irrelevant. Unless you want to hone in and talk about individual people there's no answer to the question, and we're just trading vague meaningless opinions. It's like arguing whether a mountain is rocky or sandy. Chances are that I can find both, so we should either get more specific or talk about averaging via a survey. It happened, and the results are the same.