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Let's be careful with terminology here. I'm (also) not an IP lawyer, but as I understand it your use of the term 'public domain' here is inappropriate.

If you're arguing that JavaScript has become genericized - on the basis, presumably, that there are multiple institutions making available various implementations of JavaScript without acknowledging or licensing Oracle's trademark - I'm not sure that's correct, and typically that would only be settled in a legal case. Certainly, Google, for example, publishes V8 and describes it as a "JavaScript Engine" - and makes no trademark acknowledgement toward Oracle that I can see; if Oracle wanted to they could probably attempt to enforce their trademark rights there. Mozilla, who distribute SpiderMonkey as a "JavaScript Engine", acknowledge the trademark (though they still attribute it to Sun). Oracle's failure to continually distribute any product which makes use of their trademark might count against them, but if they wished to argue that Mozilla has continually exercised Netscape's exclusive right to use the trademark, they might be able to get a sympathetic judge to rule Google out of order for claiming V8 is 'JavaScript'. Without a legal ruling, the situation's not clearcut.
I think it's actually because they're measuring nutrients per calorie instead of measuring nutrients per serving or nutrients per weight. The linked chart above[1], on page 15, gives sweet potatoes a rating of 485 for 100 calories, and tomatoes (way farther down the list) a rating of 134 for 20 calories. Normalize to 100 calorie "servings" and tomatoes go up to 670! But that's something like 1/2 kg of tomatoes right there, and you'd be sick of it.

[1]: https://www.cspinet.org/nah/01_09/ratings.pdf
You're ignoring the other charges he had, the prosecution offered him an AMAZING deal. You can't just not prosecute people because they're depressed.
Are you assuming that it's going to get downvoted so much that it becomes illegible?
I think #2 should be #1, it is insane on how many people can not articulate what their website is about in a sentence or two. It becomes so frustrating for a brand new user to visit a website and reads a bunch of marketing gibberish.

Sometimes I think that a good test would be to have a 7 year old come to home page of the website. Let him look around and then report back to you what the website is about. :)
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Unity is actually pretty inconsistent about their naming. In some parts of their docs they call it UnityScript:

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CreatingAndUsingScripts.html

In other places they call it JavaScript:

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/

And in the Unity Editor when you use the Add Component / New Script, they call it "Java Script"!

Everyone would be better served if Unity would call it UnityScript consistently, since as you mentioned, their language isn't JavaScript but is a fairly loose adaptation of it. It's more of a JavaScript-like language than real JavaScript.
To me, Iain M. Banks The Culture universe has always stood out in this regard (and as exploring the possibilities of a post-scarcity society).
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Your home page is a "coming soon" page...
Re: the edibility of plants. For this, you can substitute experience and knowledge for a simple algorithm, the universal edibility test. You can read about it here: http://www.wilderness-survival.net/forums/showthread.php?166...
To take this away from political/ethical concerns for a moment, I just listened to an episode of the Writing Excuses podcast where the hosts (which include full-time writers) advocated having non-writers in their critique groups. They make the point that people who don't create a given work and still -- by virtue of their extensive engagement of the media -- can have suggest objective improvements to the writing (e.g. tweaking a scene to better relate the author's intended message).

In short, you don't have to create a given media in order to be "worthy" of critiquing it, any more than any of us here on Hacker News have to create a country before we can be critical of politics.
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You can.

> aria2c magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1e99d95f....
We haven't launched yet, and won't be for a while. I'll probably write a post or two about the development soon.
Could you explain more about obtaining it under someone else's name? There are many checks in place to prevent this.
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We haven't launched yet, sorry if it was misleading but I can no longer edit it.
This also exists with COMODO, Symantec and IIRC GeoTrust and Thawte.
> Considering the original JS already contained the syntax Crockford would eventually define as JSON, you could say they managed to create not one but two languages at once.

No, the original version of JavaScript did not include object literals and array literals - the two foundations of JSON.

Object and array literals were introduced in JavaScript 1.2:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_...

This is why old-school JavaScript programming had so much code like this:

var obj = new Object;
obj.prop = 'value';

and:

var ary = new Array;
ary[0] = 'first';
ary[1] = 'second';
Didn't know about this. Thanks :-)
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I'd like to be able to use something as a universal scripting language. I'd much prefer javascript to something like bash or batch files.

Recall the “Joel test”.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

In particular, item two:

2. Can you make a build in one step?

I take that one pretty seriously. If I have piece of software I'd like people to be able to use, I'd like to be able to tell them to do the following:

* git clone <url>
* ./local_clone/bootstrap_script.js

Ok, that's two steps but the point stands. Hopefully they already have git and a javascript runtime included with a fresh install of their operating system (assume they just brought the computer home from the store), and the script included in the project takes care of everything else from there.

What I definitely don't want to have to say is “Set up this whole massive toolchain for language X [and Y [and Z]] before you can run the project.”

Can this be done today on the latest releases of, say, Windows, OSX, and the most popular two or three Linux distributions? If not, are we close?
Like I said, they should not be allowed to make choices about my packeges this includeds looking at where Im sending them and slowing it down or speeding it up based on destination. Maybe I defined it to narrowly when I said deep packege inspection, I really meant any choices about my packeges speed should be based on what terms I sent it out.

I think a good buissness model would sell me a standard flat rate and some low latancy GBs.

If a ISP does not improve there network, then I can switch to another one.
About the Flash thing though. While there's a lot of sucky .swf files out there, Flash itself is probably the best web design tool out there.

Super intuitive and minimalist UI. Whether you need smooth lines and shapes or grid-snapped pixel graphics -- everything is always in vector until you export it to PNG. By combining its layers with its timeline, you get a sort of 3-dimensional layering system which boosts your productivity by a long shot. Then there's the whole animations / ActionScript universe if you're feeling frisky. The perfect design tool. I'm so glad Adobe bought it from Macromedia.

Like they say: "Flash for graphics, Photoshop for photos, Illustrator for fine arts, and Fireworks for kids."
hmm, hmmm i would add somewhere in the list:

not caring about webperformance.

i would put it before nr. 3.

if the contrast of a site is shit, well that sucks. if your site does not show up in time, it's broken. and with "in time" i mean 700ms start render on desktop. a site with a start render > 1.4s is completely and utterly broken, you can have great webdesign, but people won't see it, because they will not use your site anyway.
A wise old graybeard who wrote the book on evolutionary and genetic algorithms.
It's reached a point where I can no longer beat the bot!
Agreed :-)

One of the big questions to me now is whether we can prove the Diagonal Lemma, not just assume it. Do you know if it's possible in Agda? I heard somewhere that it might be hard to find an intuitionistic proof.
Complexity, the Destroyer of Simplicity. (Joe's talk is broad, perhaps intentionally so, and hopefully will promote some big-picture thinking.)
I understand where you're coming from, but you can see how that's a non-falsifiable argument, right?
what kind of environmental consequences would preventing evaporation bring?
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Netflix users wouldn't be subsidizing him, they'd be paying more for the higher data they use.
Wow, I am extremely surprised to see such attitude from a friend of Aaron.

Amazing deal? Really? Do you think that serving 6 months or more for his "crimes" is justice?
There's an element of post hoc ergo propter hoc to this. It's also very plausible that whatever force introduces a competitive high-speed carrier to a rural area also works to reduce prices: for instance, maybe competitive carriers enter the market because something happens to suddenly make that market cheaper to serve.
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If you're trolling, I think you can do better.

If not... Advertisement snippets on the google SRP are called out with a different background color and are not "organic" search results.

The ads that get shown are "organic" in a certain way: they're the ones that won the auction for that particular search.
I see the French version. The English versión is in http://goteo.org/project/cle-facil/?lang=en
a) Even if we want to bicker about the exact time, can we agree that he was facing a possible 5 years? That's ten times longer than what the prosecutors thought an appropriate punishment (the 6 month offered plea).

b) Not for a college-class first time offender into an unlocked network closet, especially given the institution. That would have been handled at the local level, and would have most likely ended up in probation.

c) Yes, this case was business as usual for the US "justice" system. That doesn't make it right.

If Aaron was a good friend of yours, then you probably do have some different insight. Please share it here instead of repeating the same tired he-got-what-he-deserved FUD.
One thing that the author points out is that the impact by humans is relatively small (compared to natural sourcing), and that natural variation is both vast and frequent.
It may help you if you explained what your definition of usable means in terms of feature design or comment display.
Also, things like road surfaces and parking lots stop rain from percolating down in the soil and it becomes runoff instead and drains to the ocean quickly.
They don't have a majority on any site I run, but even if they did, that wouldn't be the point. Decisions about technical matters -- and particularly about security policies -- should be made on the basis of evidence, not appeals to authority.

For example, instead of saying "it's a good idea to do this because Google will show scary messages", it would be more helpful to link to a site with a test tool and explanatory information about the underlying issue, such as this one:

https://shaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/
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You probably mean 6 months or less, because that was the prosecution offer. And yeah, I think that was actually a pretty good deal. Although I would agree that in a perfect world the material he took would already have been public.
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There is plenty reason to be glum. The first human-like AI developed will probably be by military and it is strong indication it would be used to kill humans.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though.
Not to be feared. Let it pass. Please let it pass. This is all that is needed for a company like google or someone else to disrupt the system. This is the final chess piece for Verizon and similar scum to finally get run over.
"Based off history"
Haven't read/heard much on this... Curious of examples?

"private ownership of common property"
Bit of an oxymoron you got going there. If something is privately owned, it can't be common(public) property by definition. Even so, we have yet to establish that internet infrastructure is somehow "common/public property". I'm curious how you think that's the case (that internet infrastructure is public property)?
But that small minority uses that water to produce food, which is used by everyone.
Check out my startup, SSLMate: https://sslmate.com. What sets SSLMate apart is that we're working on making SSL certificate management extremely easy on Linux servers. You buy certs from the command line in a single step that takes a minute or less and automates important details like bundling the chain certificate. You can set up a cron job for automatic renewals. Even well-run sites have been known to forget or botch cert renewals, and we want to put an end to that by automating everything. Many features are in the pipeline and will be announced in the coming weeks.

Regarding EV certs, they're not worth the extra money and inconvenience. They provide no additional security, and the assurance they provide visitors is highly questionable (e.g. see shiftpgdn's comment about how switching to a non-EV cert resulted in absolutely no change in order metrics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344666).
A few items on my list cover your 'recent'.

Decision to move Windows to C++ was announced by Herb Sutter in one of his Microsoft talks and the Windows 8 DDK was the first to support C++ in kernel code.

JPL going C++ was covered at their CppCon 2014 talk.

GCC switched to C++ as implementation language in 2012.

In any case, I would say, all languages with native code compilers can be used in relation to energy efficient computation.

It is just that C and C++ are the only ones on the radar of developers (and managers) looking for mainstream languages with native compilers.
For the past four billion years or so the only force designing this planet was the blind hand of Natural selection. And now the Natural world is being replaced by an artificial one designed by the hand of our own Intelligence (I'm looking outside & see nothing but metal and concrete). The trend toward a more intelligent world will presumably continue to race forward, even more so with the advent of smarter and smarter machines. The question now is how smoothly can humanity transition from the old world to the new one.
Wouldn't that AI be used to stop killing civilians? Since we already kill plenty of people in war that's a step up.
Maybe American farmers should trade in their acres of farmland for hectares. There could be a government program to exchange one for the other.

But really -- read the comments and check out the number of times these units are mentioned and converted:

- "200 million acre-feet of precipitation to California in average years"

- "No doubt when water hits $100/barrel..."

- "1 Barrel = 42 Gallons. It costs $0.75/cubic meter (264 Gallons)"

- "There are 326,000 gallons in an acre-foot. So, Most Farms can't pay much more than 2000/326000, = $0.006/Gallon."

- "$0.75/cubic meter = .75 / 264 = $0.002/Gallon."

- "In 2011, the average californian used about 326 gallons/day of water"

If you are going to have a conversation about how urban residents compete with farmers for water, it helps to have a common unit. People don't drink water in acre-feet and farmers don't consume gallons or cubic feet or whatever of water. But if the conversation were in liters or cubic meters, at least you'd have a fighting chance of talking the same units.

Take this from the comments: "For example, Crystal Springs, a 70k cubic meter reservoir in San Mateo, is entirely for urban use. There is no agriculture competition for it. Every gallon we conserve there, is another gallon conserved for city use."

First, it is not 70 000 cubic meters. It's 70 000 000 cubic meters or 70 000 000 000 liters. [1]

What would that look like? Well, we have 7e7 cubic meters to divide up into three dimensions. It would be a lake like 700 meters across by 10 meters deep by 10 000 meters long (10 km).

Those Californians who consume 326 gallons (1200 liters) per day? One of them could use that reservoir in about 60 000 000 days. Or if you had a million of them, they'd take two months.

Four acre-inches would be like [2] one hectare by 10 cm deep -- 10 000 square meters by 0.1 meters, so 1000 cubic meters or 1 000 000 liters. So you can irrigate 70 000 hectares with that much water at that depth per area of land.

I am saying the math is way simpler and you can pretty much do it in your head. And you can visualize it. So: common unit across multiple uses, easily scaled up, easily visualized.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Springs_Reservoir

[2] Not because an acre is the same size as a hectare but because you'd have proportionately fewer hectares than acres.
Hard to beat http://gogetssl.com price wise. I'd get a Comodo Positive SSL Wildcard so you can use it for the main site and the static sub-domain. That way one cheap cert covers everything and it's SHA-2.
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Would it not be irresponsible to poison the political landscape for the next candidate?
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A dark article about AI and no mention of Eliezer Yudkowsky? That guy considers AI the biggest threat of mankind and is running an institute to prevent our extinction: http://intelligence.org/

He writes a lot, but this seems a good start: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/intro/
Just in time for Sunday's People Climate March.
Don't worry, this is just because you are reading from rayiner. Lawyers have this tendency to fall into a rabbit hole of explaining things in some legal category, where everyone else naturally operates on morality and expects the law to reflect that.

(Not a personal attack, it's just different.)
I think Humanity has more to fear from Humanity than from AI.
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it boggles my mind that people don't see this for what it so obviously is...a law of the plutocrats, by the plutocrats, for the plutocrats.

large corporation want to throw huge sums of money around to each other to control what their "customers" get access for...its that's simple.

do you think that when amazon loads in .4 sec and disruptiveStartUp.com loads in 2, that consumers won't highly prefer just going to the faster one?? esp. on mobile?
I think you're ignoring the natural monopoly position of last mile internet providers. If there were practical ways of providing choice & competition to this portion of the link, the market for last mile would be competitive, and letting private networks play with tradeoffs in net neutral arrangements vs fast lanes would be self correcting.

However, because of the monopoly position, then I feel that net neutrality provisions are the only way to prevent unfair (and economically unproductive) rent seeking behavior on last-mile links. Last-mile may end up between being something of a misnomer - network wise it would be end-customer to wherever a fanout of network links allows choice/competitiveness to come in.
a) Sure, he was facing a possible "5 years" (most likely much less) and was well aware of that.

b) Debatable, a prison sentence of a few years definitely wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary

c) You make it sound like there's something wrong with deals by prosecution, I don't think so. The deals don't hurt anybody and offer an easy way out.

Aaron knew what he was doing, he made a conscious decision to do it. I believe Aaron also knew that he'd get in trouble for doing this, what he was doing was civil disobedience. Orin Kerr describes this fairly well in his article http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...
So is there any inside info on whats going on ? I despair that corporate funded computer science and engineering research is on the decline.
Counter Examples: Jane in Speaker for the Dead/Xenocide/Children of the Mind. Mike in "The moon is a harsh mistress" is quite helpful to the inhabitants of the moon.

Also, I had a lot of sympathy for Samantha in the movie Her. She was such a wonderful companion to him and he was a dick to her. That movie makes me wonder if a strong AI might decide after meeting us that maybe they would be better off without us.
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That's non-metric thinking. In the metric system, you could simply use the cubic meter.

A hectare is 10000 square meters. A centimeter is 0.01 meters. Thus, if 1 centimeter of rain falls on a 1 hectare field, then that's simply 100 cubic meters of water.

The nice thing about this is that you can easily compare quantities from different contexts. A cubic meter is a cubic meter, whether the water came from a pipe or from the sky.

But what does it mean to have an acre-foot of piped water? Nobody specifies pipe cross-sections in acres. Or a barrel of rain falling on a 1-acre field. How many inches is that equivalent to?

It's not just water. Look at HVAC. In the US, natural gas is billed in therms, and electricity is billed in kilowatt-hours. In metric countries, both electricity and natural gas are specified in kilowatt-hours.

And why not? Energy is energy. If you have a heat pump with gas backup, then you could use gas and electricity interchangeably to heat your house. If you've got a residential cogen system, like they have in Japan, then you could buy either gas or electricity to run your television.
It's 28 SLoC. That's pretty small.
Wait, you mean to tell me it's an entire NY Times article about pessimism on AI... and there's absolutely no mention of paperclip maximizers?

Oy gevalt.
You actually only need a single one to make it cheaper to go elsewhere, they charged $25/revocation, which brings the price up to $85 which no longer makes them the most cost effective.

Heck for $99 you can buy a Comodo "EssentialSSL" wildcard, which grants you unlimited re-issue (plus you don't have to deal with StartSSL's terrible UI):

https://comodosslstore.com/essentialssl-wildcard.aspx
In no part I talked about being "worthy" or not, or any remotely similar; it is about how practical is to create the videogames she envisions, games about utopias are no fun. And their demands are blurry as well, do they want the main role in the most sold videogame? So they want to be the mass murder in the center of GTA? No, they also want to be related to positive traits.
I think it was highlighting the gaps in legislation and prosecution brought about by technological illiteracy.

This has been a crucial ongoing debate.
I think fixed menus and the like popping up all over the place deserves to be in there. I often resort to 'inspect element' and the delete key to be rid of them.
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