skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The real issue in this case is that a judge, applying the copyright law, simply does not care about whether finding API's to be copyrightable hinders interoperability or cloning of software. It's simply not legally relevant.

How is it not? Interoperability is functional. If you can't copyright function then you shouldn't be able to copyright anything necessary for interoperability.

> The lynchpin of copyright is originality and creativity. Are the Java API's original and creative? That's the only relevant question.

That obviously isn't the only question, otherwise you could copyright anything which is patentable and get 95 years of monopoly rather than 20.
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Can't we make an opensource description of the IEEE754 which resolves the issues? While the spec doesn't describe the same thing it should be no legal problems - right?
This article is built on a misconception held by many people.

That is - treating mobile apps as something simple. They are not. Mobile apps of Android and iOS are full stack native client apps.

Building mobile apps is far closer to building your classic Windows desktop applications than an UI for a Web Application and it shows on the astronomic costs of the mobile apps - compared to Web Apps.

I guess that is because user interfaces tend to seem simple and the devices which run these applications are small and seem simple.

TL;DR: Mobile Developers are Full Stack Developers in their own right and the person writing the article should know better.
"People actually paid significant parts of their yearly salary to build, stock and maintain nuclear bomb shelters in their backyards...in places like Ohio."

See "Doomsday Preppers"[1][2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Preppers

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=doomsday+preppe...
I agree completely that if you are a rationalist it is a waste of effort to throw someones beliefs back in their face, often they don't truly believe themselves anyway if you have a proper conversation.

What i have seen of Randi he seems to avoid this and look to educate rather than humiliate. The Penn and Teller show "Bullshit" ended up in a shaming of "fools" for certain episodes in the later series which was unfortunate.

I will say there are definitely people that deserve attacks. These are usually the career* psychics and deceivers who make money off the layman's beliefs; they certainly don't believe themselves.

*TV and large show types
That (fraud) is a problem for current ecommerce too. It can be addressed in part by reputation systems.
It is strange how in the US we really do get many of our issues out in film, both propaganda and progression. Movies are great and let people experience an issue through a story.

Movies are America's original pressure release valve to deal with issues and dream, could be one of our secrets to success over time. The internet is also one of those releases, the whole world needed it. Books weren't used or pop enough to really be the cultural tracking. Movies really do tell our history.

Enemy of the State also had lots of starting actors, yes Jack Black was a NSA agent linking your transactions, Jamie Kennedy, Seth Green also agents.
You're mistaken. There probably isn't a single 4K monitor that doesn't support 60Hz. Unfortunately some people buy 4K TVs like the infamous Seiki to use as monitors.
Heh, I watched it when it came out and thought it was mostly the typical hollywood computer sci-fi they put into computer films to make it more exciting for the average viewer. Sadly I was wrong.
I thought Guido van Rossum was with Google now.
A counter-point to the 'halting human progress is good enough' argument: If technological advance enables a person or society to be more destructive by orders of magnitude, then humanity's outcome (even if we are progressing, albeit slowly) could still be catastrophic.

Take atomic weapons: It is clear that as a society we are not ready for the responsibility that they grant us (e.g. they've edged us close to Armageddon a few more times than is comfortable).
Frequency analysis and byte dot plots are definitely on the way. Do you have a concrete example of the digraph frequency feature you can link me to? Any other feature suggestions are welcome too.
The point is that you essentially have a group of people who are 100% content using 50% of the max RAM cap today and for the next 3 years and aren't looking to dump hundreds of dollars extra to cap it out, but are perfectly happy to pay just $50-100 to upgrade their ram 4 years later when software requirements necessitate it for them.

Multiple people have posted in this thread they were fine with 1-2 GB in 2009, and are happy to upgrade to 4-8gb today, but wouldn't have had the money or even the need for 4-8gb 5 years ago.

And the Mac Mini just removed that option, one of the cool things about PCs that we'd all love to see in laptops and phones: modular hardware we can switch out, increasing the lifespan of hardware, reducing costs and giving users autonomy over their own machines.

Saying soldering RAM is fine because you can just max out your ram when you don't need it, paying a high price to do so, because you will need it a few years later, instead of simply buying some a few years later for much less, just sucks.

I mean I agree with your point completely in that it's not the end of the world. And I agree that a lot of people who want to upgrade after 5 years probably will just want a new machine. But the soldering of parts still sucks, and even if it's got a small impact, it goes against some of the principles I think we should be cautious with to throw out. Don't want to get into a big slippery slope argument here but for a manufacturer to act as if soldering parts is imperative and unavoidable to me has a high burden of proof. You need to make a case for it. In phones I see that imperative mostly. In a Mac Mini? Not so much.
The posted URL didn't work for me. I found the article here:

http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/what-our-kindle-...
Yeah i worked in a perfume factory for a summer when I was 19. I often think back to that when I feel stressed at work.
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The "anal" blacklisting has saved me from many embarrassing moments at work - as I shorthand it all the time to get to Google Analytics
I don't see much controversial here. Apple's practice has long been to underwrite capital equipment for their suppliers, so that the supplier can afford to manufacture the item that Apple needs. This makes sense because the supplier is the one with the expertise to make the product. For instance, when the machining for the iPhone 4 case was not producible with current equipment, only equipment designed for making prototypes, Apple bought 1,000 of these very expensive machines for Foxconn.

Apple is not a sapphire manufacturer, but GT is, and this afforded GT the opportunity to go into this business with minimal capital risk. GT has expertise that Apple does not.

It sounds like GT thought the new process was ready for production and all they needed was the furnaces and plant, and then they failed to bring the plant on line and produce what was needed.... and is now blaming Apple for it.

Since Apple provided the money to build the plant, an exclusivity agreement doesn't seem "onerous" in the least. The "below market" prices allegation also seems appropriate-- given that GT purported to have a new technology that changed the economics making sapphire viable for new uses. The main challenge with sapphire is that it is expensive, and hard to make large pieces-- such as you would need for the front display of an iPhone.

The idea that Apple wielded "all the leverage" is silly. GT could simply walk way. There is no leverage in the case when the other party is not beholden or forced to do business with you. If GT had such a killer new process as to make phone faces at reasonable prices, then they could have gone to Motorola, Samsung or other potential customers. How does Apple have all the leverage when there's no requirement for GT to sign the deal?

It really sounds like this company bit off more than it could chew, couldn't meet the obligations it agreed to, and is now having sour grapes.
no worries at all. we all get grumpy sometimes, myself definitely included. enjoy your weekend :)
Unfortianly Gow is very buggy.

And the maintaner does not reveal sources for the binaries, which makes it hard to help out.
In practise he is acctualy breaking the GPL license, by not giving sources.
Code can implement an API, but an API is not code. Not using any reasonable definition of code. Code is something you are theoretically able to execute, in one way or another.
Just duplicated the resume I've been passing around to people that was generated with Word (bad idea, I know)

A few issues I noticed:

* Line breaks are not kept in a few areas (contact information specifically, might effect other areas)

* Free design has a header showing where it was made; PDF has a footer. Is there some way to remove this?

Overall, I like it (excluding the two issues shown above). I keep meaning to redo my resume in LaTeX for a while, I'll probably do that still at some point.
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Was it really that crazy considering all the "we were about to press the button but didn't" stories that have surfaced about that era since? It was a very real possibility.
I wonder if most people (both sceptics and believers alike) are more eager to confirm their existing beliefs, than finding the truth?
Part of why I love the IBM 1401 is because of how mechanical it is. So much of what the computer does is done in hardware. You can see and feel the machine running.

If you are able, I highly recommend visiting the 1401 exhibit at the Computer History Museum: http://ibm-1401.info/#how-to-visit

The "ibm-1401.info" site is maintained by the IBM 1401 restoration team. It contains nearly everything you'd ever want to know about the machine. It's a pretty dense website, so I suggest visiting these links first:

http://ibm-1401.info/1401GuidePosterV9.html
http://ibm-1401.info/IBM1401_IEEE_SSCS_Mag_Jan2010-100DPI.pd...

I also really enjoyed learning how to program the 1401. I wrote instructions on how write a "Hello world" in the the "ROPE" simulator environment: https://github.com/jpf/ROPE
You can find more pictures here: http://ibm-1401.info/ and also by searching the Computer History Museum's collection catalog: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/?s=1401
He's with Dropbox, I believe.
"The lynchpin of copyright is originality and creativity. Are the Java API's original and creative? That's the only relevant question.[2]"

This is 100% false of course.
My shopping lists are creative and original, but certainly not copyrightable.

You know it's not the only question, and not even the most relevant one (which is whether the structure, sequence, and organization part of an API is the copyrightable part, or whether the literal implementation only is protected).

"[2] Having written internal API's for software products, I would say they definitely are! API design is hard work that requires a lot of careful thought. Making a beautiful API is as much a creative expression as writing a sonnet or a short story, and is no less deserving of copyright protection."

1. API's are not expressions of anything. They are literally interfaces.
An outline of a story in abstract terms is not copyrightable. The actual story is.
Such should it be with API's. API's are not copyrightable, their implementations are.

2. The fact that it is hard work and requires careful thought is 100% irrelevant in united states copyright law, since we have no sweat of the brow doctrine.
Oh -- I am the original commenter (haha), I was just trying to not assume that they were working in IC design. what you've said is absolutely true -- just wanted to see if that was the case
$! is not working with the distributed Bash version (currently 3.2) on OS X.

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ : & echo $!
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What are you proposing then? A conflict of interest requirement for amici? Nobody motivated to write one would ever be allowed to.
>they apparently funded "remote viewers" for intelligence operations.

This was done in part because it was believed that the Russians were doing this, and administrators didn't want a "remove viewing gap." But it was stopped because it was tried and didn't work. If anything the fact that the program was ended is a good sign.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I consider this a user test, of sorts. The main changes I'm considering are:

- article text readability (this bothered many people)
- header height
- colors: #FFF-on-#F60 (thanks Oliwarner)

ZEM also brings up a really interesting point about user-specific vs site-wide entries.

Aiming to do a redesign with your suggestions and do more user tests. Thanks again y'all!
"Squiller called GT’s contract with Apple “onerous and massively one-sided.” It would allow Apple to buy sapphire — a durable, scratch-resistant substance that already is used to cover the camera lens and touch ID sensor on some iPhones — at below market prices, he said."

I find these types of lawsuits to reflect poorly on the management team of the company filing the lawsuit. Their underlying argument is that we voluntarily agreed to a poor contract and now we're upset about it.
> By limits to the coverage, I meant health issues that are not covered [...]

Again, being British, this is staggering to me. I just kind of assumed that health insurance covered, you know, your health. Do you mean that with American health insurance I could get turned away from the hospital for having the wrong kind of disease or something? I would understand if it's cosmetic surgery or similar that isn't covered; but even here I have friends who have had rhinoplasty (nose jobs) on the NHS, for essentially cosmetic reasons! I sort of forget how good our system is, sometimes, with all the media complaints about it here...
Or it could simply be a sign of someone, like the author, who doesn't know the correct meaning of the term 'full-stack'.
The dataframe dev is really responsive though. We worked through a bug together a few weeks back. Nice experience overall.
Note that the document seems to be from the spring of last year.

I think it is interesting that Parasail has no explicit pointers and only uses value semantics. This means that no garbage collection is needed: the storage associated with a variable is freed when the variable goes out of scope, or when the variables value is set to null (and yes, you must have a value of type Optional T in order to set it to null). I thought that having pure value-semantics would be too costly in a language, but apparently that kind of solution has its place after all.
That doesn't make sense. If I need to configure a switch, test an http server, or whatever it is I need telnet for, I'm going to download PuTTY. No (sane) person ever went "screw that, telnet is insecure, I refuse to do it".
No, they used it to turn HiDPI mode off, so that each physical pixel is addressed as a logical pixel, instead of the normal 4 phyical to 1 logical mapping.
Still working my way through them myself. Useful examples working through docs would be useful. Most seem to presume a lot of knowledge of the libraries.
They don't host on that. It's just a how to post.
Here is the build process that worked for me

sudo apt-get install pinentry-curses

add
pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

#cd

#wget ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.1.0.tar.bz2

#wget ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.1.0.tar.bz2.sig

#gpg --verify gnupg-2.1.0.tar.bz2

#tar -xvf gnupg-2.1.0.tar.bz2

#cd gnupg-2.1.0

#make -f build-aux/speedo.mk native

#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/[user]/gnupg-2.1.0/PLAY/inst/lib"

#cd PLAY/inst/bin

#./gpg2
When I see good people getting energized over something like GMO, I just feel kind of disappointed that that energy isn't going to a cause worth supporting. The fear of eating tainted food seems to be a sort of primal fear or archetype and I think the GMO issue taps directly into this. True, the concerns around GMO mostly involve things like remote ecological ramifications, not literal poisoning; but the fact that GMO is in the food supply (or could be) seems to raise the emotional temperature 100x. At any given time, there are people suffering because they can't afford to eat any food -- that concerns me more than the risks from GMO.

GMO might lie in a kind of nexus of overlapping fears; there are definitely others in there, too.
I first went to Berlin in December 2000. I was not even one week off the plane from Australia, and it was cold. Very cold. The wind ripped through my inadequate jacket and chilled me to the core. I remember very clearly venturing into the East. Along Unter den Linden, through Mitte and into Alexanderplatz. Even then, ten years after re-unification, it was grey but it was interesting. There were still buildings that didn't appear to have been touched for 50 years. Crumbling, battle scarred buildings that were evocative of everything I'd been taught as a school child.

Over the next five or six years, I must have traveled to Berlin around a dozen times. On each occasion I stayed in the same Mitte hotel, ate breakfast at the same cafe and tried to absorb an atmosphere that was completely different to my very rural upbringing in Australia.

My last visit to Berlin was in 2012, on business. Mitte was nothing like I remembered it. I couldn't find the old hotel, or the cafe, or the bars. The Spree was still there, and the Pergamon museum. Yet, something had certainly changed and I lost feeling for the city. Maybe it was a case of being older, perhaps just being there with different people, under different circumstances.

In 1989 and the early 1990s, I wasted a lot of time. Stoned or drunk, or just being an idiot. The majority of my late teens and early twenties were spent not particularly productively.

I spent a year in South Africa in 1992, before the first free elections in 1994. I treasure the time and friends I made. Yet, I spent my time in very rarefied circumstances, protected and cossetted from a lot of reality. If I look back on that time, I'm grateful for it, as my young immature self would have probably otherwise ended up dead in a gutter somewhere.

The people in this article probably wasted just as much time, stoned and drunk (maybe). Yet, looking back they were part of something. Part of a moment that turned modern Europe, and perhaps Western society, in a different direction. There was no real comment in the article about how they felt about that. At the time, they may not have been so consciously aware of their involvement in a fulcrum, but surely in retrospect they can look at their 1990s youth and appreciate how fortunate they were to be involved in that page of history.

During the last fourteen years, I've spent quite a lot of time in Eastern Europe, mostly Latvia and Ukraine. There is a smell. It's not a bad smell, it's just the smell of clocks running a little slower than in London, or New York, or Los Angeles, or indeed now in Berlin.
The link below to the Cantor Dust presentation shows 2d and 3d examples. I wonder if there are advantages of other space-filling curves, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpi%C5%84ski_curve and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_curve
A Broke F1 Team Is Using Crowdfunding to Keep Racing
I think what frustrates me most is not the RAM, but the hard drive. I feel that the future will be kind to 4-8 GB of RAM, and I guess I'm willing to pay extra for RAM, but the hard drive options puts the price too high for me, and the options themselves are meh when I'd rather have my own SSD.

It's frustrating to know that I am probably a minority customer, and thus Apple will probably never cater to me again. All the while I know that if only I had enough money, then I could be a happier Apple customer (I think the happiest Apple customers live in the middle-to-upper price tiers). If and when I get more successful, I'll consider Apple, but until then, I can see that Apple is no longer the best fit for me.
Ah, you're right. I was thinking about the 120Hz vs. 60hz issue.
Threads is probably the most chilling nuclear holocaust movie I've ever seen. Highly recommended (if you can find a good copy).
The CIA Tweets “Real” Argo Story
If you're interested in the extraordinary characteristics that are needed to be a test pilot or an astronaut or the early history of the space program, check out Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" ( http://www.amazon.com/Right-Stuff-Tom-Wolfe-ebook/dp/B00139X... )

It also puts the Virgin and other private space travel experiments into context. This stuff is really hard and dangerous. It takes a special breed of people to sign up for it and then figure out how to survive when things go wrong or when things are less than ideal. It's not just guts but also a lot of intelligence and the ability to stay calm when you are less than a minute from oblivion. Chuck Yeager had a number of close calls.
You pointed to the answer in your question:
It's about sustainability.

You work hard at it because you're genuinely trying to build something that will last vs the kind of crap you alluded to that will come and go as long as there is money to be made.

To say it more specifically, you're not busting your hump PRIMARILY for money.

If over 95% of startups fail then the odds are stacked against you before you even begin. On top of that, if money is your primary motivation the odds of you sustaining your interest in this startup are almost guaranteed to fizzle away.
One great visualization of the principles here is this:http://sajri.astronomy.cz/asteroidgroups/hildatroj.gif

The pink/purple ones bounce between the L3, L4 and L5 points. The green ones are in orbits of the L4 or L5 points and have an orbital period that should be the same as jupiter itself.