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Note, Warner doesn't even seem to know how to respond viably to this.
Their response was:

"Warner/Chappell says there's there no indication the Hill family was aware of the book nor authorized it. They write the "evidence instead shows that Summy sought and obtained a license to publish the Happy Birthday to You! lyrics" in 1935 — and "Summy would not have had to secure a license from Jessica Hill if it already had the rights to Happy Birthday to You! or if the work had fallen into the public domain.""

As a lawyer, i can tell you "this isn't going to fly". Their argument is essentially "someone felt they needed to pay for it 13 years later than the evidence found, so it can't have fallen into the public domain".
This isn't a good legal argument in the slightest, since people pay for stuff they don't need to all the time. The fact that someone was willing to give money will, in fact, have no bearing on the legal validity of the claim :)

To give an idea how bad this argument is, and how common it is to try to pay after expiration of rights:

This happens all the time in patent cases, where people used to agree to pay for patents after they expired. For a while it has been simply unlawful per-se. Supreme court might take it up again this term: http://www.goodwinprocter.com/Publications/Newsletters/Clien...
Yeah relevant ads are not as bad. Are you willing to pay to remove ads or get more relevant results?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dn894631.aspx

"Universal Windows Platform". Lets you target every Windows 10 device with a single app, from Raspberry Pi 2 to phone to PC's to Xbox One.

Apps are written in C++/C#/VB with XAML markup or JavaScript/HTML/CSS. Also FYI, it takes a minimal amount of work to repackage an existing web app as a UWP.
>North Korean and South Korean are completely different dialects

>I can't see a dictionary like that being of any use to his family.

I assume you don't speak any Korean and are talking out of your ass.

The standard Korean used in South Korea and North Korea are both based on the same dialect - Seoul dialect. There's vocabulary differences, but nothing that would prevent a (South) Korean-English dictionary from being useful to a North Korean person.
The code that is committed isn't directly synthesizable, it needs to be transformed to HDL by a tool that is itself being updated.

I tried what looked to be a supported flow, generate Verilog for FPGAs then synthesize it for Xilinx Zynq devices. The Verilog errors looked correct to me.
Of course semantics can hurt, obviously. But the choice of synonyms does not, and anyone claiming otherwise must try really hart to prove such an outrageous claim.
Except gamers will upgrade because of the performance implications of the DirectX 12 API. With an incentive like that, no one will care about the few holdouts that refuse to upgrade because they're uncomfortable with a few UI changes that don't affect what you can actually get done.
Again personally i never had issues finding classical music on Spotify if that particular performance is available. I might not be a classical music connoisseur but merely a peasant that enjoy's common recordings and yo yo ma but i never had issues.

I've also never had issues searching Spotify using an Opus catalog number, e.g. your example of Bach which seems to work just fine for me... http://i.imgur.com/VGHCcH3.png
"Universal Windows Platform"[0]

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dn894631.aspx
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And the frequent charitable donations Samsung makes to causes in Marshall, TX, home of many of the the court's jurors.

https://ipcloseup.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/for-samsung-chari...
The factor you mentioned is indeed seldom counted, but it implies that such decisions about having closed rooms/ cubicles or open spaces are strongly related to the company evolution stage. This factor is much more substantial for small seeds or young start-up companies. This show-off sometimes tells a nice story, just like a nice demo, but for the long run you might need more than a good story. In that sense the "long run" sometimes forces you to treat your work environment to be more solid, or to support more consistent operations, and from my experience productive operations do sometimes require at least a cubicle.
Because laws are broken and allow brazen protection racket to be declared "legal". In any normal society such racketeers should be in jail. And the reason laws are broken is basically corruption. See how patent reform constantly stalls because those who profit from this sabotage it all the time.
Because it's a great way to show that there is a market for the product?
Zeitgeist stores your information on it's datahub, where 3rd party applications can retrieve it from. Nothing prevents such applications from sending this information elsewhere, once accessed.

As this comes out-of-the-box by default, and is in fact a pain to switch off, I compare it to this new windows behavior.
oh i thought it was versus the c implementation

thanks
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A fork on the blockchain will only ever occur if one or more nodes are operating on different rules; the danger of a fork is proportional to the number of nodes that differ on those rules, because it would waste miner resources.

Suppose Node A thinks that a block should be no larger than 1MB, but Node B thinks that a block can be as large as 2MB. When a client presents a 1.5MB block to both nodes, Node A rejects it for being too big but Node B accepts it for being small enough. Since clients and miners ask for new blocks from nodes, anyone that asks for blocks from Node A would not get the 1.5MB block, but would get it if they had asked Node B. If 10% of node agree with Node A, then the 1.5MB block could be gotten by a lot of clients and miners, but not all. If 50% agree with Node A, then you have a serious problem in which a lot of people are not going to get the 1.5MB block and a lot of miners will spend their time on it for probably no ultimate benefit.

Thus, the problem does not really begin until any miners start accepting blocks from the chain of blocks that will eventually be rejected by the network generally. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell ahead of time which is the right side of the fork, but this could last for hours. So, fork detection is critical to avoidance of wasting precious mining resources.
What's the deal with translating Seinfeld
Linguist here: you haven't seen much, this "obsession" is inherent to language itself and has a name of its own: connotation. Connotation is everything associated with a word, denotation is what the word actually means. But denotation doesn't override connotation, they coexist. If anything, connotation can change denotation, while connotation changes independently from denotation.

So what's the difference between saying nigger and meaning nigger? When you're saying nigger, you give away the option of not meaning nigger, because you cannot use the word free of its connotation: it's there, no matter how you use it. Dogwhistle terms used instead of nigger do not have that universal connotation to them, which is precisely why they are used: they can slip under the radar.

So what to do? Honestly, this is extremely simple: don't say nigger if you don't want people to equate what you're saying with the connotation your words carry. And the same goes for retard: if you don't want people to equate your words with the hate directed at people with mental health issues, don't use words whose connotation is limited to that hate. The denotation of "Sieg Heil" is completely harmless, but you have no problem with understanding its connotation and you don't go around saying it when the denotation fits because you know that only Nazis say "Sieg Heil".

Well, only assholes say retarded or retard. That's the connotation you're associating yourself with and no matter how much you complain about being misunderstood and people being too PC, you just messed up by not paying attention to the connotation of the word.
I'm confused, are you asking if you should be fighting patent trolls or patents? If trolls, then fighting them is better than not. Patents are tools, valid and legal, you don't fight tools, you use them, improve them, complain about them, etc.
Despite all the "new security features" in Windows 10, or perhaps in spite of them as a work-around, Windows 10 seems to be the most "law enforcement friendly" OS yet (not just out of Windows all versions, but out of all operating systems).
When I see someone who doesn't care about language I think the following: "I'm too stupid and lazy to use language creatively so I'll fall back on my stupid and lazy language. I can say what I like, and I'm going to try to deny you the same right. Some bollocks about SJWs and Leftists goes here".
Note: The title is from the title tag in the header. I wasn't sure if I should go with that, the "Translating Seinfeld" image, or the words in the URL.
They do. Its called EODAS [0] and fitted to F-35 fighters (and not F-16s) It provides near 360 degree spherical coverage. The 6 imaging sensors are relatively cheap, but the system integration is expensive. It would still cost at least $250k-1m to install a similar system in GA and business jets.

The imaging sensors are available for limited civilian use.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/AAQ-37
With such a large capital expense, it makes a lot more sense to rent dedicated mac hardware from a data center. You get simple monthly bills, guaranteed uptime, and the infrastructure is looked after for you.
There are useful patents though they may hinder more then they help depending on your PoV. Various codecs and some crypto algorithms come to mind.

You run into a lot more useful ones at the intersection with the physical world where some protection lets a company get a chance to be the first one to market and reap some benefit.

In some industries (Pharma) it's really the only practical approach due to the extreme development costs (easily over 1B$) and often cheap production costs.
See [1] for an overview of corporate personhood. They don't get all of the protections and rights of a human being, but they do get a surprising number of them (like free speech) even though they never die, have children, or serve in the military. They also can't be jailed, and not all laws that apply to a natural person apply to a corporation. I'm sure that GP has some other examples of "none of the duty of a normal person" in mind, but that's what I know of off the top of my head.

Regarding their power, I think that corresponds to corporations' ability to amass wealth and influence (often) faster than an individual. Of course there is a spectrum -- national defense contractors with billions of dollars in the bank can have a surprising amount of say in the way things are run, but an incorporated small business might have a hard time getting a local zoning issue addressed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
Some network providers don't write the phone number to the SIM, plenty of others do.
Why is the word "censorship" the problem here? Of course it is. Github is censoring what it is willing to host. This is roughly akin to you or I selecting which papers we'll read tonight, or which speakers we'd like to hear in a conference, or which links we'd like to include as related work on a blog post. Or which book we'd give to a friend.

The western world has a lot of implicit censorship going on that we think is unfairly applied en masse, and that's where we start to see a problem. Women, for example, are consistently and provably discriminated against in a variety of ways in these subtle decisions. This creates a general vacuum of their input in our field (and many others!).

Actions like this help to remove said implicit bias and apply the censorship principles we use in our daily lives more fairly, giving us a more accurate picture of the world without having to listen to every single voice.
While we're not using Redux in production yet, it's been an amazing library to work with so far.
I like the concept of simple editor for the formula.

Maybe an editor that would extract all formulas from the sheet and give you different view after double click would be a good solution. On one hand you would still have your normal spreadsheet but you can go to a different level if you want to do refactoring etc.
"idiot" is not a synonym for the word in question here. This is similar to saying that "t*ny" and "transsexual" are synonyms. They're not.

Let me give you an example of how referring to you in an insulting way can change your attitudes and discourage conversation.

1. Words have a lesser impact on you because you've [a lucky person] who doesn't live a life were they have been used to deny you opportunity and basic humanity constantly.

2. Words have a lesser impact on you because you're [a white male] who doesn't live a life where they have been used to deny you opportunity and basic humanity constantly.

Looking around the internet, #2 certainly seems more contentious. But let's be honest here, the overlap of case 1 and case 2 is much more likely in most of the western world than other ethnicity and gender and sexual orientation we could put in there.
You have to understand that those were just slogans, with almost no practical equivalent. Corruption was rife, and taxes were almost unheard of. You get a salary (cash) and pay for goods with cash. No taxes on either end or annual tax return. Unemployment was officially inexistent, (you could go to jail if you had no job), therefore no welfare programs existed. Socialist parties in Western Europe had no clue about what they were wishing for.
> saying "but the first doesn't apply" is both willfully obtuse and missing the point.

It's almost always a response to a person who seems to think that freedom of speech means they shouldn't have to face any consequences for the horrible things they say.
Considering Windows 10's new development methodology, you guys can continue to update the Start Menu. So I have two questions/concerns:

- Do you have a strategy to allow users to modify the Start Menu directly (e.g. akin to a bookmark manager tool). As far as I can tell right click no longer works, so renaming a folder, creating a folder, moving icons, or similar is impossible. The only way to accomplish this now is you just need to know where the Start Menu's content is located on disk and go do it using File Explorer. Also the Startup folder is hidden.

- Why when I hit "All Apps" does it only use up 1/3 of the space for the app list? Why not have it expand out to a multi-column widget? Being able to see my pinned apps after I hit "All Apps" isn't useful.
As a bonus, it's also a really good source of PR with their core Geek demographics. That goodwill offsets a lot of their legal costs. That and an in-house legal team so they pay salary, not outrageous hourly fees.
Isn't "never alter the history of a shared codebase" the first rule of Git?
I've got a Nokia 106 for voice/SMS floating around already and intend to use just my laptop with a tether or 4G card.

i.e. no smartphone at all.
What I find most disappointing is that Microsoft could have stopped all of this in the beginning if they had simply put adblockers on IE way back when they were giving the finger to all of the anti-trust legislation anyway. Google would have had to have a different model, and the currency of the Internet would be money.

If you charge me $25/year to use facebook, I know what that means. If you charge me $25/year to use google, I know what that means.

Now, however, the currency of the Internet is privacy, and not very many of us know what that means. It's still too abstract- and abstract thinking is hard for many of us.
Ask HN: Can I release my iOS app with a name that was just used on Google Play?
I've been gearing up to launch an iOS app (let's call it "Useful Tool"), and am just a couple of days away from submitting. I own the domain usefultoolapp.com, and I control the name "Useful Tool" on the iOS app store. I've had both of these under my control for months.

Yesterday, I got an email from an independent developer in Europe. He apparently released an Android app called Useful Tool on the Google Play store last week. It's the same genre of app and has the same general functionality (although, honestly, it's a relatively shoddy piece of work, but I'm biased). He emailed me after seeing my pre-launch website, which has some screenshots and a description.

While he didn't make any overt threats, but said he was going to make an iOS version, and ended with the vague statement, "I just wanted to let you know that an app called Useful Tool exists already to avoid issues of confusion between two apps of the same name."

I would be very skeptical of something shady going on, but since I only put actual images of the app on my site a couple of weeks ago, I'm inclined to chalk this up to an astonishing coincidence. There's just no way he could have deliberately created a similar app in less than a week.

My question: Am I in a position - legally, ethically, business-wise - to keep going with my original name? We'll technically be in different stores, and I don't feel I owe him the name on iOS just because he intends to eventually write an iOS version.

I also love the name, and in the spirit of competition, I think I should be able to own the Google search results soon after I release. (He didn't do any promotion, has no website for himself or the app, etc. I already have a pretty good web presence.)

Thanks for reading, and I'm looking forward to your feedback.
Sooo, what you're saying is that it's OK for any company to ignore any rights of yours that they don't agree with? Interesting. Of course, it isn't illegal, but does that still mean they should do it?
There is some amount of boilerplate with rolling your own, but I think people might benefit from rolling their own flux implementation when they first try to play with react. The best solution I think for this is to have multiple dispatches in your actions.

Create action -> action[dispatch 'action pending' -> async action -> dispatch 'action complete with data'] -> stores.

Keep your stores completely sync, and the data in a single object, and maybe have them all be pure functions, and suddenly there is no web of anything and theres a single source of truth, and bam. nice.
not as long as you boot on the ubuntu partition ;)
Most rich people are rich because their parents gave them money.
There is an Excel dialect (DSL) for Rebol - http://www.robertmuench.ch/development/projects/excel/dialec...

Here is a cleaner example I posted on HN before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668323
It'd be nice if it wasn't for all the bundled spyware.
For many people that need to develop, test, and deploy on Mac hardware they're doing iOS app or OS X development.

For example, you may have a macbook pro, but it's not powerful enough to run tests in a few minutes while you do other work on it at the same time. In this case, you'd want another Mac like a Mini, Pro or Xserve to send jobs to.

Anyone using X Code has to run it on a Mac and often, you're wasting precious development time when your jobs are taking up your Macbook's processing power for an hour while it tests your latest build.

Travis-CI, the continuous integration platform, will send your jobs to a cloud of Mac servers when they require OS X to build against.
Yeah, I know. I was hedging with "probably" because I don't have the hard data.
I think Apple could have come up with a solution without compromising on this. What about a neat folding Ethernet port that flips out and is flush when not in use? I remember some old ThinkPads had something like that but it might have been a modem port (RJ11/RJ14 not RJ45).

The rare use is what makes it a problem. It's not worth the investment to buy and always carry an adaptor for that one time you really need it.
The point of a patent is to protect your idea from being sabotaged by others so the money goes into your account hopefully and feeds your family and pays for your kids education, etc. Patents are not a block, they are a building block. If you find a patent that makes you think you are stuck and have to abandon your idea; think again. Look for ways to improve on the already patented idea and file a new patent referencing that patent and any others that apply. Patents are not a block; they are a building block. I'm not a lawyer though so my views are not to be taken as legal advice.

Google "build on a patent", here's on example of what I'm talking about:

"Your brilliant idea needn't fall by the wayside simply because you don't want to deal with the patent process."
rights? you have a right to save your content onto their servers?
That's pretty much why I do Freeletics: https://www.freeletics.com/r/fabianb-5PnTE6

It's fun - high intensity and I'm way fitter than I was just a few months ago.
disappointing. Yes a discussion would be helpful. Maybe people feel that this title is too offensive against Android. But it's from the author itself :(

https://twitter.com/lorenzoFB/status/626362680253771776
When I see someone who doesn't care about language I think the following: "I'm too stupid..."

The ironing.
How do they avoid disincentivizing small parties from suing larger ones in this system? Let's say I have a strong case (say 90% chance of winning) to sue an insurance company for, say, $50k. But the cost of their legal team/experts/discovery to defend it is, ~$500k, then things look a bit more bleak.

Are there caps? Is one side prohibited from charging substantially more than the other?
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This must be true for all comedy. It relies on the language itself, and the tone/intonation, much more than drama or romance which are far more plot driven.

If you think about what are the popular foreign movies in the US, almost none of them are comedy. Those that are comedy are much more slapstick than subtle.
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You are correct, of course, except that I highly doubt North Korea has access to Chinese telephone records. As another commenter pointed out, the North Koreans are probably relying on radio triangulation. With the right resources, I'm sure they could detect that a call is occurring almost immediately, and perhaps even pinpoint where it is coming from, but they still have to go out and catch them. I don't know what resources the North Koreans actually have, but I suspect they are fairly limited.
I think that's not giving Github enough credit. They are clearly thinking very deeply about professionalism in a social coding frame, and I really doubt they will begin addressing every single complaint they receive.

If they do, again, there are existing alternatives or the people are free to build their own.

The alarmism over this "incident" is mind boggling. That people don't simple let Github conduct their business is incomprehensible to me. If I owned a Chipotle and someone came in yelling "retard" or any term I found offensive I would feel fine kicking them out. If the Chipotle down the street thought that was fine, they might get my business, but there is always choice.
Some explanation for the downvotes would be appreciated.