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I wonder whether, for example, Java's "double sinh(double x)" from java.lang.Math could be found to be infringing on the pre-existing "double sinh(double x)" from math.h. The API is literally textually equivalent, right down to the variable names, despite the language being different.

(I'm genuinely curious what case law now considers the line to be; this isn't a rhetorical question.)
Nuclear power plants have a safety mode. Airplanes can be landed and turned off. ATC can be turned off after the planes have landed. Hospitals would be tricky because some electronic devices do not a manual labor replacement and I think there would be deaths related to a forced blackout.

The only thing that I could think of off the top of my mind would be satellites and ships at sea.

I will admit, it would be a rough couple of days afterwards as we figured out what survived and what did not. But I don't think it would be catastrophic.
> but there is no indication that a system is misconfigured merely because it does not have password protection

And there is no indication it's not a misconfiguration. Look, I completely agree with what you're saying, but judges won't (and don't).
window capture sounds like a pretty good suggestion for the time being. It'll at least mitigate what can be revealed. It wouldn't work for everything but there's definitely a balance to be found I bet. The delay is essentially how traditional broadcasters manage it (with a shorter delay since there's someone monitoring it separately) so it might still work out for this.
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As with anything: the majority has bad taste, but this guy just has no understanding of modern art...

- Art != prettiness and genie:
Art is more than craftsmanship, with creations as pleasant as possible. Rainbows, Mona Lisas, naked bodies, all pretty and good in their fields, but it can really bore you when you get to know art better. It's like growing a decent taste in music and looking back at pop (though of course, there are some really good pop songs too, but the majority is plain booring). It becomes unbearable kitschy. The worst of it might be hyperealism. Either go to a talent show or make a photograph, but don't expect me to think of it as good art.

- The old paintings may be good, but you can dwell on them in the museum. Todays artists want to create something new too, so they move on. Sorry if this is not always eye candy. And a good concept is art too. Maybe you could even draw it the same way, but you didn't! And if you want to see a mona lisa yet again, just go and watch the mona lisa again.

- if anything, I would claim that modern art still tries too much to be liked. Media installations to entertain the crowds (nice in a science museum, but not interesting as art), ever sharper photographs (yes photos can be art too), "new music" that tries to avoid harmony so badly it's completely cliché again, etc...
Oxygen by itself doesn't burn. If it was just the LOX tank that burst, there wouldn't have been anything to burn. Clearly some sort of FTS destroyed the vehicle (I don't think atmospheric forces could have taken it apart that cleanly and instantaneously), but the FTS system is probably just detcord running down the length of the propellant tanks. If the tanks were 'unzipped' quickly enough, the fuel and oxygen might not have had time to mix to a stoichiometric ratio that supported combustion.

Looking back at a gif of the incident, there was a pretty impressive amount of fire. Initially when the oxygen hit the first stage exhaust, causing the unburnt RP1 to burn (all the 'extra' flame that appears in the exhaust plume), and then there is a fair amount of fire at the front of the vehicle a second or two later (I assume the second stage RP1 tank failed at that point). Finally there is a large cloud and the rocket vanishes. That's the part that I assume is some sort of FTS, and likely blew the rocket apart with enough force that the prop didn't get a chance to mix.
Rather than batteries, i think pumping water up a hill will be a lot cheaper. use the water to drive a generator. massive daily over production to fill the nightly (or much longer) reserve.
Wouldn't trust a Silicon Valley startup to care about our properly execute for "safety." This is a pump and dump, making a quick buck.
this would be an awesome challenge for a game of code golf.
I'm not saying you can't have any of those things and pursue your dreams, but life is not known for putting your dreams comfortably within reach. Banking is pretty universal (in every city); malaria research isn't.

Odds are at some point you will be forced to make choices; how many people are so lucky that their dream job is walking distance from their dream house in their dream city?
Yeah, I would argue that these are kata rather than koan.

edit: changed to plural.
I see; I don't know enough about concurrency to recognise the tongue-in-cheek-ness (or whatever). Thanks for explaining!
Run an explain on that three page query, with analyze after some changes so you don't have to wait 12 hours. Put it into http://explain.depesz.com/ to see it in a prettier format, especially with analyze.

Set up pgBadger https://github.com/dalibo/pgbadger and see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Index_Maintenance for more information about your indexes.
Way to take the bait.

five seconds to write a throwaway troll line versus fifteen minutes of outraged huffing and puffing and demands of bans over someone saying something stupid on the internet.

Good work.
Well, it's only 9800 lines because it's incomplete. It's barely a tech demo.
The similar thing I have heard Elon Musk saying in some interview that it's just a myth that people have to think we will never able to generate enough energy out of solar-panels compared to the nuclear reactors. He said that the amount of land one needs to build a massive nuclear plant and then other things to maintain it and considering the 10-50 miles area enveloped to plant where it is dangerous to live. If you use the same amount of land to place solar-panels then the energy produced by solar will overtake that of from nuclear plants.
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with the new technology, will the wearer's eyes be sore easily since it'll be constantly looking at something really close and strain the eyes?
I've been working on p2p sync since 2008 or so. Now we have a real deployed base. I feel lucky because I chose the tech for it's political possibilities. This keeps me on track on the days when it'd be hard to focus otherwise.
Putting a label of a certain monetary value on things doesn't deny that there's other value judgements to be made.

How do you decide which tree to cut down? Or whether to cut down a tree or break a stone?
Now you submit all twenty six guesses via proxy accounts, allowing for random delays between each guess to appear less suspicious.
relevant discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799997
After surfing around https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Countries for a minute or two:

- Category:Russia - 57 pages total
- Cyprus - 54 pages
- Latvia - 50 pages
- Lithuania - 47 pages
- Estonia - 46 pages
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- Japan: 90 pages
- Italy: 99 pages
- France: 128 pages
- Canada: 153 pages
- Germany: 278 pages
- United Kingdom: 384 pages
- United States: 9729 pages

Interesting set of priorities they have there... I'm curious as to why a G8 country has as much information posted as a country with 1/140 its population.
Patch against OpenSSH 6.8p1 – What does that mean?
There's no evidence whatsoever that the NSA has given any industrial intelligence to private US companies.

Thank you, yes, I believe that's true: there's no direct evidence, or direct admission, that intellectual property gets given to US corporations. But it's only a small step from pirating that intellectual property to giving it away to a great US company, a company that has had no problem in the past with "acquiring" documentation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-weissman/the-boeing-sca...

It also appears the in the 1950s, a time when honesty was prized, someone made money in the stock market based on advance knowledge of a CIA coup: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...

I'm just saying that it appears that industrial intelligence does make its way to various corporations. Given the mendacity of the Intelligence Community with Congress lately, one has to wonder about the fierce denials of giving industrial intelligence to private companies.
I agree, if the one language idea really starts to be followed everywhere it is probably javascript that will win. There is almost nothing in this article explaining why clojurescript is or could be a better choice.
If there were profit in solving real problems, there wouldn't be any real problems.
As far as what you care about most games go, a chat room with the ability to send private messages to each other and a (human) game master is all you need to play almost any game online, if you don't care about automated rule verification.
Neat project.

Any particular reason you chose to roll your crypto rather than build on top of existing implementations?

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/curve25519-java

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/RIPEMD-160#Java
You mean that one needs competent developers? That is nothing new. At least a few of the developers should now both languages and sides.
I like this idea a lot the only downside is it expands the land area and possibly increases complexity - but I think for major power planets it's a great option just not for the home installations.
There's one other thing that goes against the idea of "dark dust". if it was "dark dust" that was just a sparse cloud of standard elements, we would be able to detect the makeup of the cloud by pointing a Spectrometer at some of the darker (but seemingly "denser") parts of the cloud to detect what it's made of.
I love the thought process behind this.

For those who aren't familiar with C++ or cryptocurrencies in general, Bitcoin and similar codebases are daunting to get into. This reminds me of BasicCoin [1], also featured on HN [2].

1. https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/basiccoin

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7713795
Stripping that quote of all historical respect we have for Adam Smith, and answering head on: a guaranteed basic income seems like a much better way to reach these goals than to outlaw employment below a certain threshold of income.
Penicillin was discovered by complete accident, actually.

Also, the jury is still rather out on the long-term impact of medications...it sure made a bunch of rich folks richer, though!

EDIT:

Also, most of those solutions came through private industry working on .gov contracts. A better example you might want to use is the innovations out of Bell Labs, all done basically to further solidify the telephone monopoly. That in turn could be argued to be a monopoly granted by a state to solve the communications problem, but still.
Well Verizon (DSL, fiber-optic) bought AOL out recently.
I don't like this argument b/c it assumes your money can go further than your time and personal engagement with an issue.
Infringement requires copying, not just text equivalence. If the C programmer was "writing C" and the Java programmer was "writing Java" there is probably no infringement because there is no copying.
Something I didn't realize before checking after reading this article: the Doomsday Clock[0] is currently set to 3 minutes before midnight. It was only set closer to midnight from 1953-1960, and this is tied with 1949-1953 and 1984-1988.

While the clock isnt't an accurate or objective measure (just the opinion of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists), that's pretty disheartening.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
Awesome! I was searching hacker news for this yesterday.
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Thanks, that's helpful.

(java.lang.Math is awfully similar to math.h; I actually wonder if, historically, there was copying.)
I remember seeing a chrome extension a while ago that I hoped would be like this, but instead was a plaintext list of guidines and reminders that didn't react to your site at all.
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This is an ineffective comment for a few reasons:
1) The person you are responding to is advocating a course of action (funding work to end malaria) which helps poor people. They are responding to advocacy of a course of inaction (not developing taxi apps). The comment thus has some value, even if you disagree with it's conclusion.
2) You are advocating banning people for saying things. This puts a burden on you to make the case for why they should be banned. You don't explain anything about what was so bad about the comment, but simply insist that it must be obvious by inspection.
3) You assert that anyone who isn't offended by the comment is "fucking blind" and not "an essentially decent human being". This means that anyone who does not immediately agree with your comment is going to be defending their decency rather than giving your post a second thought.
Wasn't copyright protection only applicable to creative expressions of a human? Computer generated expressions are not protected by it, if I understand it correctly.
I've done a few streams on this site now (my channel is at http://livecoding.tv/ell) and my biggest issue so far is the bitrate enforcement. My bitrate fluctuates randomly sometimes and the website straight up boots me off my stream and shuts it down until I can reconnect. Really annoying. I've stopped using it as much mainly because of that.
Sun did not allow anyone to use GPL Java (SE) on mobile devices ('field of use' restrictions). For that, you had to license J2ME from Sun under different conditions. If you ever had the misfortune of targeting J2ME, you'd know why it was a no-brainer for Google. I shudder to imagine writing Android apps using J2ME.

It is prudent to note that Google didn't write its own implementation from scratch: they took advantage of Apache Harmony (by erstwhile Sun frenemy: IBM). This is the same Apache Harmony that Sun repeatedly refused to provide the TCK for
The flip side of "you can't expect much" is that a little help from tech folks would go a long way. Organize a hack event where non-tech people describe the stuff they need help with and tech people try to form solutions. The important thing is the relationships, not the solutions.
Not much research, not many conclusions, so hard to say. There could be accommodation issues but more likely only if you're using VR >10 hours/day. And as I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, lightfield displays will eventually fix the accommodation issues.
There has been some controversy over the years regarding Congress and insider trading:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/07/congress-argue...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/stock-act-change-in...
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My first reaction was: Horizontal and vertical alliances (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_States_period#Horizont...)
> What is "bets that way"?

I dunno, maybe anyone who is clearly automated (ie, betting every second for hours) and probably cheating (ie, implausibly lucky)?

> It seems like initially all they knew was that some accounts were unusually active (betting every second, for hours) and implausibly lucky.

Exactly.

> They saw the flags, they just didn't know any useful way to react

The useful way to react would be to not let them continue betting.
Best project management software for non-tech project?
Hello,

I have been recently appointed to run a new program at a post-grad school as faculty. I will have to work with other faculty and staff and I need to properly organize tasks, goals, etc.

I have been working for few startups in the past and I am familiar with some project management tools, such as Basecamp, Pivotal Tracker, etc. but I have been away from that field for three years now.

What do you think would be a good tool to use at school to organize the new program? I need something easy to use (other faculties and staff do not have any previous experience with these tools) and the least invasive possible.

I will need to create goals, setup tasks for these goals, assign them to different people, monitor their status, share documents, keep discussions on track, etc.

The school does not have a Dropbox account. They are sharing docs and spreadsheet on the school's Google Apps accounts.

Thanks!
I suspect they will continue to trounce fission and fusion for a long time, at least until there is some some technical innovation in transmission and distribution.

Transmission and distributed generation accounts for half the cost of electricity. The question for our electricity future is distributed versus centralized generation, and distributed will probably win.
An (probably) easy way is to connect a switch to a GPIO pin, then watch for special patterns of on/off sequences as cheat codes :), and you end up programming a computer in binary code.
I agree that there things work differently on the server and on the client but the lines are getting blurred. For example, you might not need api versioning if you only write a SPA application, there is usually some caching on the client also and it seems to increase, the concurrency problems are starting to show up in the clients (promises and callback hell) and sometimes you want to duplicate a lot of the security things to the client to give faster feedback and a more dynamic gui. Database queries are probably mostly done on the backend but there might be queries in some rest format in the client that are sent to the server and there might be IndexedDb queries instead.
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I think Oracle has a "thin" copyright here--the literal Java declarations. Expressing the APIs in Scala (or Clojure) and compiling down to whatever they compile down to these days shouldn't infringe.
Since a ____ will ____. Do you not understand what is wrong with that? This whole SJW concept was made up by people who were being accused of being socially inept. Ie, sexist. Inept!
a class without significant invariants is little more than a tuple of values, which is why the presence of getters and setters is a sure sign of poor design

Yikes. I know what the author is getting at, but dang that certainly sounds like it would tweak certain programmers I know.
Flaws and inconsistencies are usually introduced with negation. A very neat theory for negation in first-order rule-based systems called "Well-Founded Semantics" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-founded_semantics) has the "side-effect" of assigning the "undefined" logical value to propositions that can't be proven true or false in a well-founded manner (think Russel and his barber). People have experimented with Prolog, the Well-Founded Semantics and rules used to infer information about mental disorders (http://www.psychiatry.org/practice/dsm) in exactly the context mentioned here. Maybe unsurprisingly, some of those rules were found to be...unfounded (pun intended) :)
It might take a crash for London to become livable again. There is also probably a threshold where London stops being attractive to money compared to the competition from other locations, because it has priced out the service economy.
You're right. You should also work for your mother for free. I also fix my wife's computer for free, bu
You're right. I also fix my wife's computer for free, but not anyone else's.
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>I don't think so, quit the opposite actually. He can't give the Greeks what they want, it's not within his means, not without breaking promise he made earlier on. Arguably he may have made promises that where perhaps never realistic.

If you put it that way he's not a leader at all. He's just an opportunistic liar taking advantage of a bad situation.
Raskar's group at MIT (and others) have made light field displays. They're expensive. Abstract:

> For about a century, researchers and experimentalists have strived to bring glasses-free 3D experiences to the big screen. Much progress has been made and light field projection systems are now commercially available. Unfortunately, available display systems usually employ dozens of devices making such setups costly, energy inefficient, and bulky. We present a compressive approach to light field synthesis with projection devices. For this purpose, we propose a novel, passive screen design that is inspired by angle-expanding Keplerian telescopes. Combined with high-speed light field projection and nonnegative light field factorization, we demonstrate that compressive light field projection is possible with a single device. We build a prototype light field projector and angle-expanding screen from scratch, evaluate the system in simulation, present a variety of results, and demonstrate that the projector can alternatively achieve super-resolved and high dynamic range 2D image display when used with a conventional screen.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~gordonw/CompressiveLightFieldProje...
Wikipedia has a great section on this including lots of photos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower
Hey there! So I imagine based on your "you guys" comment you're actually thinking of NullspaceVR [0]. They are a team out of Rochester University that is developing a slew of haptic devices. I got to talk to them some and they are a very good group of people that hopefully we can do some work together in the near future.

I was there with DCVR [1]. We're a social meetup group for entrepreneurs and hobbyists in the Washington DC area centered around virtual reality. We decided to organize and put a booth together to help promote our individual projects, while also trying to grow our local community for our meetups. But otherwise, in regards to my projects, I was there myself.

Since you sound like you're in the area, please come to our next DCVR meetup. They are a lot of fun and it's probably one of the best ways to get involved with VR from scratch right now.

[0] https://twitter.com/nullspacevr

[1] http://www.meetup.com/Virtual-Reality-DCVR/
In my few years of using this, and I'm by no means an expert on email servers, I have rarely had issues beyond ending up in Hotmail's and Gmail's spambox. Never outright rejections I think. Google's spamfilter is the most annoying one, followed by Hotmail; everyone else usually works pretty much fine.
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Because AC generators run on rainbows and unicorns? In other words, in a power outage that is not relatively localized you're not going to be able to buy the fuel to run it on.

The biggest problem with a relatively short (less than a day or two) outages is in northern locations in the winter because of pipes freezing. I have thought about buying a generator for those scenarios but it's not really worthwhile unless it's hooked into your house electrical system. Plus you have to be around to operate it. Starts to look expensive to guard against a relatively rare scenario.
Waste of space on the internet.

The authors constructs questions out of thin air.

"The question is—what the Hell are you supposed to do with them? They’re certainly not going anywhere."

What could be done with them... well, exactly what they are currently doing? Music [1], living space [2], social space & clubs [3]/[4], office spaces...

The author cites the concept of the "pyramid garden" on top of the Hamburg Bunker which was not rejected because the people were unwilling to change something - it was simply rejected because a corporation tried to get its hands on the real estate under the cover of a urban gardening project [5].

But gladly the author clarifies that the bunkers are hard to crack - i was clearly suprised that war tech designed to withstand multi-ton bombs is tough.

[1] http://www.musikbunker-hamburg.de/
[2] http://bunker-hamburg.de/
[3] http://www.uebelundgefaehrlich.com/
[4] http://www.terracehill.de/
[5] http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/dachgarten-in-st-pauli-d...
Well no, it could be argued that it is a free market of sorts.