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I'm a little confused by how precedent works here.

Normally, in a copyright case, the appeals court for a case heard in the 9th Circuit would be the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The ruling of that court would then be binding precedent for future 9th Circuit cases.

However, in this case the case in the district court was both a copyright case AND a patent case, and for patent cases the appeals court is the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (they have exclusive subject matter jurisdiction over patent appeals). The CAFC only got the copyright case because it came along for the ride with the patent case.

How does precedent work when the CAFC gets something that would normally not go through them? Do they still set national precedent for that, or do they just set precedent for subsequent cases that are appealed to CAFC (e.g., subsequent copyright cases that hitch a ride on something the CAFC has exclusive subject matter jurisdiction over)?
You are suffering heavily from imposter syndrome.

Because there are so few 150 person companies, most CTO jobs are for small companies.

This doesn't make them any less of a CTO job. In fact, the hard decisions for a CTO are often going to be at the start. Choosing the stack, building the initial team and engineering culture...

So stop questioning yourself.
> there is a very real concern

Also e.g. anti-vaccine people have very real concerns. They just are not scientifically founded.

Here is a summary report on 10 years, 200 million euros of research in Europe:

"The main conclusion to be drawn from the efforts of more than 130 research projects, covering a period of more than 25 years of research, and involving more than 500 independent research groups, is that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se more risky than e.g. conventional plant breeding technologies."

ref.: A decade of EU-funded GMO research (2001 - 2010)
http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-f...

Can you give any scientific references to support your "very real" concern?
The solution is anti-drone drones!
Is this referring to autosuggest or where the search results are shown below as you type?
Yes, this particular choice of hardware sounds strange to me too, this CPU is intended for low power servers, isn't it? There are tons of ARM system on chips in 1..5W power envelope and have built-in video, audio and USB.

Also sentences like "Hardware choices will opt for longer battery life rather than 3D graphics performance" confuse me. The chips that have high 3D performance also usually have very low power consumption. Albeit in this case it will be problematic to find any kind external graphics chip, I assume the CPU has a PCI-e bus and they will have to pick a discrete PC laptop GPU.

There's a further problem with ARM chips. Unlike x86, where there's some kind of a standard for peripherals and software (ie. the PC "standard"), all ARM SoCs have very diverse configurations. There's no standard pin layouts, no standard "chipsets", no standard BIOS or bootloaders. All IRQs are different, memory maps vary, and standards like ACPI for power management, etc do not really exist.

I really wish that there were ARM-based low power laptops with as much open source firmware/drivers/kernel as possible, but unfortunately, this project does not seem very realistic to me. I hope that future ARM-based devices will have a better ecosystem and standards for building a complete computer around the CPU without being married to the software and hardware of the particular SoC vendor.

disclosure: I work for an ARM SoC manufacturer
I never optimized for revenue. Given the high retention rate and overall user numbers I could have gotten way more out of it, but I was frankly not interested in it. I felt like I was making good enough money given the effort that I put into it. I used standard AdMob, without any mediation and replied with "No, thank you" at least twice per week to random people asking me to buy an ad slot in the app.

The numbers fluctuated quite a bit in the beginning but were relatively stable during the last couple of months. From AdMob I'd get between 25€ and 30€ per day and IAP made up for an additional 15€ to 20€ per day.

Obviously before taxes, but given that my running costs for the app were exactly 0 and I sometimes put equally many support hours into the app, I was more than happy with it.

EDIT: Just to clarify, those are pretty much peak numbers. I didn't add revenue stats to the article because I'd have to properly crunch the numbers them first. If you just multiply those by 365 you end up with way more than I generated over the entire 2 1/2 years.
He had a scooter accident. My feeling is that he probably had the accident because he was really pushing himself too much: he was barely sleeping 3h per night and in the end his life was totally unbalanced with lots of prescription pills to support it (sleeping pills, caffeine for day time, weight loss pills, etc).
It is somewhat unclear why they have failed to follow them with helicopters, did they just lose them? It is unclear if these are day or night flights though.
Was my experience with Cygwion itself 9 years ago or so -- broken beyond usable for anything except look-ma tests :)
Boring code is tbe best code
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I would imagine that chasing one of these "drones" (which is essentially a toy helicopter) using a real helicopter would be difficult, since the toy helicopter is smaller, more maneuverable, and more difficult to see. Sort of like trying to chase a bird using an airplane.

In addition, the toy helicopter would not be easy to see on radar, especially if it were to fly close to the ground.
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I haven't read all of Unqualified Reservations, but what I have read so far (Dawkins, Open Letter, Gentle Introduction) has not been difficult to read at all. Perhaps long and winding, but not opaque. In fact, I find Moldbug to be much more accessible than his sources of inspiration (which are standard fare if you even want to even begin with political theory).
Too bad you can't unlearn functional programming. Or generic programming. Or algebraic datatypes. Or having actual useful datatypes. Or ...

Just the basic thing of sorting a list containing a struct. And the suggested solution by the Go team is a 50 line program. WTF.

They actually claim the err = function(); if err != nil {}. This is the reason I originally left C. And those criticisms really apply to Go as well. Firstly nobody sanely checks those errors, often outright ignoring them. Second when they do, they always just pass the error up (in other words: manually implementing exceptions), or worse, they panic on the error (meaning you cannot trust external libraries won't panic on you, negating the single advantage that leaving out exceptions had). Even if you do check those errors they interrupt the train of thought you have. Imagine someone telling you how to open a door in Go : first, put your hand on the handle. If you don't have a hand then go to the hospital. If there is no hospital near you then go to the car. If there is no car then check for a bike. If the door is locked ... wait what was I doing ?

Thirdly functions that might return a variable or might not ... the official Go team's advice is use a pointer. Sigh. The amount of times I've seen people commit Go code into my program that doesn't check for nil-ness ... Grrrr.

If you don't mind living in the dark ages, then yes, Go is great.
> I guess the Hoon interpreter is a C program that uses readline

"or even readline - this is not readline, it's internal to Arvo"
Looks like there might be videos of some of the team presenting at this weekend's mini DebConf put online in the coming days: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2014#Saturday_sess...

Of note:
"[Vero Apparatus] is a small group of people who are working on what they think is an under-provisioned niche in the computer market: full-power ARM-powered laptops. Daniel will be presenting their plans."
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About your sources:

1. GeneWatch is an NGO. They don't have any scientific credibility.

2. Taleb is an economist of sorts, he has no scientific publications or credentials in biosciences. Also, twitter is not a very scientific reference.

3. and 4. Blogs and arXiv publications are not peer-reviewed, and they are not generally considered scientific publications. (Of course when an arXiv manuscript is submitted and accepted to a scientific journal, then it will be.)

Also about Taleb, he actually says "I, for my part, resist eating fruits not found in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean" [1], so his level of conservativeness seems to be to avoid any crop & food innovations younger than 1000 years.

[1] Quoted in: http://livepaola.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/nassim-nicholas-ta...

This is my point: In these matters people don't listen to the opinions of the actual scientists, but all kind of activists and preachers. Just like Randi said. You just demonstrated this.
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No, you're probably thinking of sales tax.
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The following was just posted and your question came to mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8579028
>It sounds like they are claiming their ToS can dictate how you can use the data they are putting in your computer's clipboard.

They key word here is "they". They "are putting" that data. If you put the data yourself, with your own API and your own service, you can do whatever you want.
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Or they get it just fine, since top lawyers of the kind hired by SoundCloud are as smart or even smarter than most programmers, and some even have technical training, but they have their reasons.

Like, they know that the fact that you can "get around" something doesn't matter as much as there being a slight inconvenience.

If, for example, at some point the official SoundCloud app allows direct download, people will use that, and not the "get around" method -- whereas if they allowed third party clients to have that feature it wouldn't be so clear what the users would choose.
I think css is the most boring code. can't stand it. GET Me back on PHP AND SQL!!!
This is fun stuff. Reading around a bit I found this:

"While nowhere near the simplest such automaton known, and certainly not of any theoretical interest, Nock is so stupid that if you gzip the spec, it's only 374 bytes. Nock's only arithmetic operation is increment. So decrement is an O(n), operation; add is O(m * n)... "

Don't they mean 'subtraction' rather than 'add'?

edit: This is so fascinating, it has me totally enthralled. Think smalltalk meets lisp meets some wild eyed programmer who knows just how to appeal to the general frustration most programmers should have (do they?) about the state of our art.

Best post on HN in a long time, very curious how this one will turn out in the long term. May all your ships come in ;)

edit2:

Digging around a bit more: Peter Thiel and a bunch of others have apparently invested in this through a vehicle called 'Tion', https://angel.co/tlon (the Thiel reference is that Thiel backed John Burnham, who is co-founder in Tion).
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this was such a great app. i remember in the morning before work i would download some songs and listen to it on the bus on my phone.
What would you want to do with an anonymous image sharing site?
Left me with a far better understanding of business, a lifetime of stories, some great friends, and a better engineering job.

Finishing a prototype this month and going to try it again, this time with a long time friend on the business side, and a developer who knows more than me on the tech side. As a leader you never want to be the smartest guy in the room.

Biggest take away was that leadership is far more about inspiring people than giving orders, you have to inspire people personally, and then inspire them on the shared vision.
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Might be too soon to answer, my startup ( http://microco.sm/ ) just failed. As someone else put it: insufficient growth, ran out of runway. But at times I wonder whether it's because myself and my co-founder were of like skills and we didn't have a strong enough sales function. Whatever, we failed.

I've had ~10 opportunities presented to me since announcing we'd failed. They ranged from dev position through to CTO position, but ultimately I sent an email to CloudFlare and have joined their team.

A startup failing is traumatic. Aside from the emotional trauma it may lead you to doubt your own competency. I shine at product dev, and coding for that, so sought a place to do that. To regain confidence in myself.

I also wanted regular(ish) hours and salary, to build able to rebuild some stability. I'm getting married in a month's time and most of the cost of that will be on credit card (founding a startup empties your coffers). So it was important for me to be earning and giving our marriage a good start.

I may, in a few years, find that I want to return to the fray. But for the foreseeable future I feel deeply happy that I've joined a great team working on some hard problems, and that for myself I get stability out of it.

A startup is a ship at sea in a storm, I wanted to experience a boat in harbour for a while.
This is scary! What if the drone carried an explosive, landed on the nuclear plants and detonated? I shudder at the thought. There should be a camera with 360 vision that constantly monitors the surrounding area for incoming projectiles and drones and shoot laser or bullets at it.
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Just a few days after they annonced a deal with Warner Music Group...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/soundcloud-confirms-licensi...
I guess they are so small that they lost them from view.
My thoughts exactly. Have you seen their previous video ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6439329

if no, you're gonna experience even weirder things
I would've guessed that most nuclear plants would be able to withstand a drone-load of explosive, especially after 9/11.

Am I mistaken?
As a blind person my self this is really exciting! I never thought that i wood want a windows phone having all ways used android since gingerbread.
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Why was the first compiler written before the first interpreter?
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They all do (maybe not Diners, I didn't realize they were still a thing). I use them from time to time to get around the geofencing of purchases, or when I really don't trust the site.
But we do mind - unless we develop a cure for aging, there's no point in sending anyone anywhere if they're going to travel 50 years or more. By then, we'll lose interest in any data or resources we wanted.
I've looked the meaning of word "interface" out. I used slovnik.cz (translator). Interface is translated as point of contact, connection, relationship, coordination, correspondence. In some czech phrases it's translated as bus (in USB) or as interface (GUI) or as interface if we speak about point used to connect peripherals to computer. In one of meanings it is close to the meaning of word "edge". I wouldn't be surprised if translation created disorder in law...
Programming is awesome. I noticed your domain says porgrammingisterrible.

Aren't you tired of being wrong all the time? Why are you bothering people who enjoy programming?

Classic troll.
And possibly Oracle as well.
Total unadulterated bullshit.

My first post (perhaps this was a grave mistake), I gave a concise rundown of all of the problems that I had during the process of provisioning the thing and explained my dissatisfaction. I was not rude or condescending. In fact I asked for suggestions and offered improvement advice. Perhaps advice (from someone who's being working in the embedded systems sector for 20 years isn't real advice?). If I'd bought a MacBook Pro and it had the same functional problems, I'd say the same things about it. If I bought a vacuum cleaner that didn't work, I'd say the same things about it.

One of the problems was that the thing wouldn't output on composite at all (we didn't have a device handy that took HDMI in) and that I complained about the fact you have to poke keys in the dark to configure video (no video output) when you don't know if the hub or keyboard is working properly. Then that started the whole process of hoop jumping to get Linux running on it. Perhaps you remember me now?

I had about 4 replies to my comment, two of which were backing up my claims and one which was actually helpful.

Then the next thing I know, I went to reply to the post by someone trying to be helpful to say thanks and bang, no account. That's poor moderation and trying to hide dissatisfaction and criticism which is not acceptable. That's entirey your problem as a moderator.

Well lack of use in their case is that they don't have the time to do the hoop jumping when it's pretty easy to fire up a python interpreter from an MSI package on a windows machine to get the same results. I thoroughly approve of this; the first experience of proper computer science education shouldn't be hoop jumping and trying to work out how to get the thing working. Much like the BBC Micro, it should be plug it in, turn it on and open the User Guide.

90% of people fall at the first hurdle and you made it a very high one.

In absolutely no way would I recommend it to them.

Now I'm going to take a stab: The Picademy thing sounds much like the old school "big vendor" sales approach. Come see our products and you'll buy and market them for us. Sorry but no banana. I can't recommend the Raspberry Pi in any way and would not enable any promotion of them.
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If that picture is NSFW you should probably get a new job
The parrot jit will need some time.
First the runloop changes for method calls and argument autoboxing needs to be reverted, then the jit will be revived.

But on the other side I just fixed the GC bug, so it looks good now even on parrot.
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Not exactly a Replicator. You need to prepare the ingredients yourself or buy prepped "ingredient capsules" -- for specific meals.

So, if you have the ingredients, why would you drop $1300 to print the meal rather than make it yourself?

If you could buy a generic all-purpose capsule that was basically a raw food supplement, which could then be used to print many different meals, then it might make more sense.
The infographics are really nice, but what's with the looming globe? This has to be the most invasive and annoying piece of useless UX I've ever seen... (note that two links in the fixed menu on the left send you to the same target you'd reach by clicking the globe!).

Other than that, this is really cool...
Julia also supports this:

with_rounding(Float64, RoundUp) do
println(bits(1.0 / 3.0))
with_rounding(Float64, RoundToZero) do
println(bits(1.0 / 3.0))
end
end

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0011111111010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101
I really do hope we can't copyright a single function signature. But then, you expand it into an entire framework, or the perfectly designed kernel... What is software if not a collection of API calls? There's clearly something worth copyrighting at some point.

I think what it comes down to is it's copyright, but there's an exception for compatibility. Like a 3rd party part in your car. You can't claim it's the other brand's product, but you can claim it's compatible with that brand. It happens all the time, in all industries. So why can't it be the same with software APIs? A copyright exception for "interfaces" sounds like a pretty safe approach.

Unless their's a patent involved preventing someone from recreating a certain process or method, or a trademark preventing confusion, the act of creativity itself cannot be bounded. Copyright gives rights to the creator for their own creation. It can't prevent someone else from trying to create the same thing with their own hands.
Boring code is the best code, because it pays the bills.

On the other hand, boring code reminds you that most programming is soulless paint-by-numbers scutwork.

But it's probably still better to be a cowboy on your own time. Certainly more fun.
Quickly scanning the code, it looks like ConEmu is using hooking to implement the Win32 console API and forward calls to the terminal emulator. That's a good approach, but it needs to be integrated into the Cygwin pty system to really work well in that environment.
I think they're referring to the collateral human damage. For the most part most will agree "using police forces to stop terrorists" is okay.
Have you at all looked at selling microcosm as a upscale managed forum service? "Build a community" sounds like a far larger and less doable task than "host your forum with us".
The drones are likely small and fly comparatively fast - I don't think following them in a chopper would be easy, certainly not if the person piloting the drone is skilled enough.
> three transitions to kernel mode,

It's not the number of "transitions to kernel mode" (which is actually really fast), but the cost of performing the UID mapping, especially considering that this effort is frequently wasted when programs don't bother inspecting st_uid and friends. That's why I wish the Linux xstat syscall, the one that let programs ask for just what they need, had gone through: it'd have made other systems more efficient too.
...and there's Peter Watkins' The War Game (BBC again), still an incredibly powerful and disturbing piece of filmmaking.

Wiki: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game
Clip here (first airburst over Kent): http://youtu.be/WcmZ1vhoqkY
> once you go there, you can never go back. If you mix native Windows binaries with ones from Cygwin, all kinds of weird things can happen.

I used that setup all the time and it worked fine for me. Mixing win32 and Cygwin binaries is the point of Cygwin, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't understand the comments in this thread at all. This is an ARM64 chip. All comparisons with ARM chips are pointless and all suggestions that they should have used the X or Y ARM chip instead are missing the point.
Are you actually allowed to fly drones over the nuclear power stations? They are also not marked in this map.
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Are you aware that the person who posts a link is very rarely the person who wrote the original post?

If you want the writer of the original article to read your comment you should contact them directly.
Coreboot can't boot any ARM64 chip. i7-2640M (one chip in the original x220) has a TDP of 35W.
Indeed. People need to stop thinking in terms of building win32 "terminal emulators" (most of which involve god-awful hacks, like scraping hidden conhost windows) and instead emulate the Win32 console API in userspace (just like Windows itself did before Windows 7) and implement the Cygwin pty interface in terms of this library. This way, Cygwin programs think they have a pty and Win32 programs think they have a console, and everything Just Works.

But people would rather just hack up a "terminal emulator" instead of doing things the properly and the hard way.
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> There are tons of ARM system on chips in 1..5W power envelope and have built-in video, audio and USB.

This is ARM64, not ARM!

There are no ARM64 SoCs in 1..5W power envelope that have built-in video, audio and USB.