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I'm aware of all those things. But you're assuming that people are desperate to adopt something other than existing condoms, eg in Africa. They won't, on past form. Education efforts yield a better return than any putative new condom technology.

I'm not saying they're perfect, by any means. But when you get down to it, they're not hard to use and have a high success rate when used properly. Governments and aid agencies already substantially subsidize the distribution of condoms, which subsidies should easily be enough to offset the non-capture of positive externalities by manufacturers (as if the positive externality of repeat demand due to people living longer healthier lives were not sufficient incentive).

The biggest failure in managing the spread of AIDS in Africa has not been the ongoing deficiency of condoms but the apparently completely wasted expenditure of $1.3 billion in aid monies spent on promoting sexual abstinence instead of harm reduction over the last 15 years: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/health/american-hiv-battle...

We spent over a dollar on every person in Africa to tell them we don't think they should be having sex, in defiance of all the evidence about the inefficacy of such programs, so as to satisfy a small political faction of religious extremists who also support things like instituting the death penalty for homosexuality (https://www.academia.edu/1053858/Locating_Neocolonialism_Tra... ); meanwhile suspending other kinds of educational programs. And then we look at the low rates for condom use and we conclude that the deficiency is with the condoms? Please.

Could we and should we be working to improve condoms? Of course. Are such improvements subject to the law of diminishing returns? Also, of course. You're just not going to get paradigm shifting results through busywork, any more than you're going to get order-of-magnitude improvements in wheel design. A condom is always going to be basically an elastic tube that's closed on one end, just as a wheel is always going to be a circular structure that rotates around a central axle.

I feel for the guy in the article who got unlucky and contracted HIV, but when he's talking about people iterating on things like salt, pepper, and olive oil every year - no they're not. They market it slightly differently, the basic product has seen very little change in thousands of years - much like condoms. Unless we discover drugs that are cheap and have a broad-spectrum prophylactic effect against STDs and pregnancy, we have to be realistic about the prospect of small incremental improvements rather than great leaps forward in this area.
You're right, decades of experience are also very important (though there are youngsters starting on platforms like the NES or TI graphing calculators doing cool stuff as well).

I'm not sure I agree about toolchains, though. The 6502 is not a very good target for C compilation, pretty much any assembly programmer can code circles around what cc65 produces. So, no offense to you or anyone else that writes C for 8-bit machines, but I don't think any of the new games and programs that really "push the limits" of these machines are written in C. So that leaves modern cross assemblers, which are indeed much more capable than common target/native assemblers of the olden days, but don't exactly afford a quantum leap of productivity either.

Then again, modern emulators are a godsend for debugging.
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That is so not even close to a good way to build applications. I mean, I really can't think of anything more painful right now. Other than, maybe being asked to make a modern web application on classic ASP.
The entitlement of your post is out of control, and you're making a lot of assumptions in what is really just a knee-jerk reaction to someone, somewhere making money.

> If anyone wants to get into GNU Make deeply, one would think that the obvious thing to do would be to read the official manual for GNU Make.

There is a lot of room for both "user guide" type publications in addition to the official manual. In particular the former may be useful to individuals who have had difficulty learning how to use make from other resources. Are you saying that all of the "Learning Basic Linux" books should be pulled since people can just read the Linux manuals?

> and will pay the author [of the manual] (not the writers of the software, mind you) for a nice manual

You act as if writing a manual is somehow a less valuable act than writing the software, when in fact high-quality documentation is sorely lacking in almost all parts of the free software world.

I doubt you have ever written, edited, and had published a book before, because even for something as "simple" as a guide to a software tool, it is an intense, laborious process that involves lots of research and fact-checking in addition to the actual writing and editing. Its incredibly entitled to suggest that all of this effort should not be compensated at the author's discretion.

> Those readers who can afford the new manual will not be incentivised to improve the official manual, since they have the new, better, one.

They were never incentivized to improve the official manual in the first place.

> reduced funding and reduced help to the original software authors

There was no expectation of funding to the original software authors in the first place, and to imply that they deserve the money for what would be spent on this book, a separate creative work, is disingenuous.
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SecureDrop is now kind of famous for being a secure way to exchange information between sources and journalists; we can all applaud its efforts for lowering the bar of high-risk investigation journalism.

Does anyone know whethe SecureDrop has ever been successfully used by journalists, and if there are any feedback about it ?
You posted the same link for both the iOS and Android versions of the application.

Here are fixed links:

iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chineseskill-learn-mandarin/...

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chineseski...

Homepage - http://chinese-skill.com/cs.html
Yes, it is like that if you only charge for your model of business expansion is to charge for your product in your own town and give it away for free everywhere else.
That's true of his relationship with Quora, because it's not their fault, but if he had some way to know who the account belonged to, he could also go after them independently.

If it were just like you described, then nobody would ever be liable for copyright damages, because they'd just say "oh, my brother owns the site, I just posted, so you can't sue either of us."
> You're talking about people that are having intercourse, the least you could do is treat them as the adults they think they are.

My intention definitely wasn't to imply that you're not an adult, so apologies if what I said offended you. My statement was simply based on hundreds of conversations I've had with individuals who immediately jump to asking "Isn't that the rhythm method?" when I explain our concept using direct, accurate, and scientific terminology.

We are, however, incredibly direct with our users.

Point taken, though.
Generally, the DMCA could limit a copyright holder's claims against a website for user generated content to the takedown notice. But the person who posted it can still be fully liable under copyright law. The DMCA does not provide protection for them.
Ooh, that's more elegant than the direction I was going with (which I'm not sure would have worked). Note that the "sort, put in vector, order lexicographically" can be rephrased as "keep a vector of how many grains are at each distance, compare lexicographically". I think that makes it a little clearer.
Does this remind anyone of the "Hard Card", from Plus Development? They were 3.5" hard drives mounted on an ISA card way back in the day. It's funny how technology is sometimes cyclical.
You think the Law should be used to determine how to properly incentivize the commerce of photographs, at the cost of its peoples' freedom of expression?

Probably you do, and that's a fine perspective. I was just offering a different point of view for the sake of discussion.

Personally I think we'd be fine without that law, and anyone who wants high-quality amazing photos can pay to have them captured. Many of us would do so. But when the photo is distributed, without copyright law, people would be free to share it. That doesn't prevent someone from wanting (and paying for) the photo to exist in the first place. My appreciation for a photo is not detracted by another's simultaneous appreciation of it.
We are planning on making the warzone material available after the end of the semester, but we didn't want people who aren't in the class publishing writeups before things are due.

We have an irc that people in the class use for help (and office hours, but I'm assuming you probably don't want to come to rpi in person), but no, we don't have any other formal materials besides the slides and recommended textbooks.
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Not quite sure how Facebook is in fact full of old people. If all your friends are "old people", then your facebook is full of "old people." If your friends are "young people", how do the "old people" bother you?

Facebook is what you make of it. If every person you've ever met is your "Friend" then it'll be noisy. If someone posts stuff too much, block them or even unfriend. It's hard to understand complaints when they literally allow you to manage who you're friends with.
Nobody ever said China couldn't run DDOS tools. This is a deterrent signal sent to businesses outside of China. It publicly demonstrates that China has the will to punish businesses for serving certain kinds of content. Although it's obvious who benefits, it's just deniable enough that they have avoided international censure; today nobody can reasonably think "China wouldn't do that because they fear reprisals," since they just did it; which helps China maintain a credible threat to businesses. They aren't trying to destroy GitHub, just to exert control over businesses which are out of their regulatory reach.
Couldn't reproduce it at all, tried about 10 emails.
Is Heroku moving away from their free tier, downgrading to half uptime a day service?
Yea, the IDE/ATA interface was originally based on the ISA bus.
You got downvoted to oblivion, but it's worth noting that "valuable for the commons" is actually a very strong reason for good copyright protection with a reasonable term. We want as many people as possible producing IP, and it's worth the short term cost of paying them to do it because the long term payoff is much richer.

This has, sadly, been subverted in many cases ... but it's still strong reasoning.
So you paid his license fee for releasing them to the public domain? How much did that cost and how many pictures did you fund? And thanks!
Serious, not-glib question: how do you propose that he make a living creating the pictures? Or do you propose that he not make a living creating the pictures, and they should instead by a hobby?
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150402_TV_f0fe942e49dc1191... shows you take 8 seconds to load in Australia. Using

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150402_22_0fa16aec7ebc410a... also shows 8 seconds from tokyo

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150402_AN_22f88770d4bab89c... shows 8 seconds from India

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150402_CT_49277f5267e82b6b... shows 36 seconds from Amsetrdam

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150402_9G_0810eaa940dc2941... shows 12 seconds from Buenos Aires

Not so sure that you dont need a CDN based on this
Another major publisher is going to war with Amazon
http://strngbxhwyuu37a3.onion/ seems to be offline (only checked with Tor Browser)
I rented a post office box, then a former coworker would periodically collect my mail and send it all at once in a small parcel.

She was sending physical mail, and so taking some modest risk were someone to mail me contraband.

Canada will forward mail internationally. When I asked a USPS clerk if they did so, she was shocked, as if I planned some great crime.
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Then come up with a system to incentivize that. 'Your work is so awesome that you can't be allowed to exploit it commercially' is a ridiculous argument.
Please stop polluting public space with proprietary images. If you don't want to share keep them in your drawer. It's immoral to use the reputation boost internet provides without accepting that people will share your work.

To downvoters: If copyright lawyers can manufacture morality and play on lowest instincts ("mine! go away!") so can everybody else ("stop limiting my freedom!").

On more serious note every resource that is copyrighted should carry plainly visible note about like warrnings on cigarette packs so mildly creative people can stay away from it.
Yes I mean low friction.

I think we're largely talking about different markets, see my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9313044
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Though there's wiggle room in the statute, the USG has two bars to clear in order to criminally prosecute the misuse of a copyrighted photo as a promotional device for a business:

* The infringement must be not only intentional but willful, which implies not only that the infringer deliberately used the photograph, but did so with full awareness of their duties under copyright law; that's a higher bar than simple intent.

* To be a felony, the infringement must not only have a goal of commercial advantage or private gain, but that advantage itself must be with respect to the reproduction and/or distribution rights of the original author.

If you deliberately harvested this guy's bug pictures and resold them, you'd be easy to charge criminally. But slapping one of his pictures on your website is probably too fuzzy to charge criminally.
Sure :)

They are.
Yes? That being the whole intention of copyright law, which exists in every modern country in the world?
I'm afraid you are mistaken here. PEP 8 reads "Arguments on first line forbidden when not using vertical alignment." flake8 does report this, but if it did not, that would simply be a bug in flake8.

edit: if there are bugs in PEP 8, work to get them fixed rather than promoting alternative styles like the Google style, please!
It seems that he is (or, used to be) making a living from a specific business model that only exists because it is upheld by copyright law. I am of the opinion that copyright law should be (slowly, responsibly) abolished. As long as people have a need for photographs, we will fund their development.
I knew three insufferable card-carrying members of the communist party in college. Ten years later, all three of them wound up becoming highly paid lawyers. The world needs assholes.
Why would any software program be limited to one book which tries to serve all possible audiences? This is never the case with commercial software. Why would free software be limited to one book? Different audiences have different needs and they are free to vote for the authors who meet their unique needs.
The overwhelming majority of HN users make their living in another business model that only exists because of copyright law.
I've got a python project where I've been pretty naughty with long lines containing sql queries.

I found that running this tool over it resulted in some strange new lines.

For example, this was my old hideously long line:

query_qual = "INSERT OR REPLACE INTO Qualifying (poleid, seasonid, race_week_num, carclassid, pole) values (%s%s, %s, %s, %s, %s)" % (race[u'seasonid'], race[u'race_week_num'], race[u'seasonid'], race[u'race_week_num'], race[u'carclassid'], pole)

Changed to this:

query_qual = "INSERT OR REPLACE INTO Qualifying (poleid, seasonid, race_week_num, carclassid, pole) values (%s%s, %s, %s, %s, %s)" % (
race[u'seasonid'], race[u'race_week_num'], race[
u'seasonid'
], race[u'race_week_num'], race[u'carclassid'], pole)
But a large number of other countries in Europe have similar gun control, and they don't have the assault rates that Britain does.
It's already in the Firefox version. (At least, I have HTTPS Everywhere 5.0.1 and there is a "Block all HTTP requests" menu option.)
Searching for Blast Theory it looks like it may be already available but called Chat To Me?
As more Google APIs support gRPC, their API definitions will be published.
I agree, that's some high idle power consumption. If I had to hazard a guess, it's the controller aggressively maintaining the charge of the flash cells [1]. Samsung released a fix, not too long ago, for a bug with flash cells losing charge for their 840 and 840 Evo SSD line [2], so I imagine it's a delicate process to get right. Are the other NAND controllers less aggressive and/or more efficient with this process? I don't know. I assume it's the same flash cells as the SATA drives but with a PCIe-oriented controller, so I hardly expect them to lose charge any faster than the SATA counterparts.

[1] http://www.purestorage.com/resources/introduction-to-flash-m...

[2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8617/samsung-releases-firmware...
Thought experiment: wouldn't it be just awesome if Google decided to promote an alternative to the format used by go fmt, so that newbies could learn that instead and then have a constant conflict with the core Go community?

edit: this is directly relevant to the thread, which is about Python formatting and Google promoting its weird style
In the US they take money out of your paycheck too. The only difference is once a year we "settle up" for the previous calendar year. You pay more if you're short and get some back if you overpaid.

There must be a similar process in Germany for people who aren't 9-5 types.
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This article does not tell the whole, sad truth about the landmines for Western men in relationships with Japanese women: 1) lack of full parental rights for men,[0] 2) potential for false allegations compounded with a very high conviction rate[1].

[0] http://www.blacktokyo.com/2013/11/24/divorce-child-kidnappin...
[1] http://www.economist.com/node/17259159
You could try set the line length penalty so something really high. That would probably sort things out.
Having 27 years experience in the industry, I have become quite skeptical of the expression "change the world". I've been hearing that since Apple's radio ad back in the day.

Yeah some people change the world, but most don't. The few that sort of succeed, really only make already-wealthy people into filthy-rich ones.
That's unfortunate. Oh well...
How about a 'Block all downgrade Redirects' feature. Many sites supports HTTPS but forces a downgrade redirect, 301 or 302, to http.
I think is this the right thing to do? is a valid question - obviously it's independent of any legal damages.
It sounds like he was describing more of a commission system - i.e. "hey, I'll give you $1000 to take this super-duper-awesome photo of this grasshopper that's sitting on my windowsill right now" or "hey, I'll give you $1000000 and cover transportation/lodging expenses if you agree to tag along with our entomological team and take photographs of this new species of dung beetle we discovered in Sudan".
Thanks for the explanation and wallet pointer.
The degree probably means nothing (if you put it on your resume, no one will care), but the knowledge is a good thing to have.
I also chuckle at the writer who has no imagination. This guy is starting his own tribe. Is it so difficult to see how a tribe can lead to fulfilled Stalinist dreams and even riots.
Same experiences here. Had to process large number of texts to extract chains, said why not and used java streams.

Total failure, could not even get one core feed consistently because they where all fighting for resources.

Maybe could work for Non local or in memory data, but I rebuilt it with queues and a thread pool and it was easy way faster.
You would be surprised. I was yelled at on the regular by folks using gaim because I didn't want to add whatever random feature they were asking for.

I also had some dude, some how, figure out my cell phone number. He started calling me at 3am. He would always say that he "wanted to talk to me about his ideas."

I had to change my number to get away from that one.
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Err, so people have been writing shitty horoscopes for centuries. How do we evaluate whether this thing actually has useful insights?
My advice would be to try both before you decide. Spend a day going through a RoR tutorial and another on a Py/Django tutorial. Pick the one that will accomplish your goals in the shortest time possible (your words).
You've got that backwards, nearly the entire Internet is private space, with specific terms & conditions for being allowed to use said private space.
>I, as a citizen, feel like our government's priorities have been absolutely abysmal since the 1980's.

Which government? What does the federal government have to do with California's subsidy of the UC system?
From the author:

Of all the varieties of infringement-related comments, the “stay off the Internet” refrains are the most toxic. In one go they both acknowledge that infringement is bad for artists while also showing no concern for the Internet, which would be poorer for their absence. “Don’t post it” is the ultimate nihilistic diss.
You know what would put the authors point across really well? Data. I wish the author had written some benchmarks to show the performance degradation.
I don't find it smug at all. I work in film, and whether I'm on set or writing a screenplay I make my business to know my responsibilities in regards to other people's copyrights and trademarks. And this is at the low-budget end, I don't collect a fat salary for rubber-stamping clearance forms or anything like that. I do the research, I write and ask for permission or information about authorship, and if I don't the reply I hoped for then I shelve the idea or rethink it. As a creator, I have a responsibility to treat the creative work of others with the same respect that I would like them to treat mine.

Yes, it's often tedious and frustrating, and involves hours of work that I'd rather spend writing or photographing new material. On the other hand, I don't live in fear of demand letters.
Just the kind of analysis I was looking for. Thanks.
This is a fine point of view if the commons are willing to give him comfortable living accommodations, good food, relaxing holidays, camera equipment and trips around the world to take these photographs.

They could definitely do that. The government could choose to hire him as a nature photographer, give him a very nice salary and release the photographs into the public domain. Or we could pay him per work to do it.

But we don't do that. We don't want to pay taxes to let him fly around the world and photograph things for the good of the commons. If society is not willing to accommodate him, why would he be willing to sacrifice himself to accommodate society?
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I've seen this happen on multiple projects. A few years ago on HN, I think, someone posted some research showing that getting rid of the free tier members from a service improves the service since customer service can focus on customers who are bringing value.
It's almost as if the commons has fallen victim to some kind of... what's the word? Grave misfortune?
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