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Oh right, feeling like you are being treated humanely and respectfully is "weaksauce."

>No, you don't. That's just more paperwork. You don't need to sever relationships any more than the adoptee needs to look up to the adopter as a father rather than lover.

Legal family relationship.

From TFA:

> First, his biological mother had to legally disown him.

Meaning the mother isn't a legal next-of-kin anymore and also the reverse. So then you'd apparently have to have more legal paperwork to "fix" that I guess.... Mother would have to make sure her will/paperwork was perfect to not leave out child and child would make sure their will/paperwork was perfect so as to not leave out mother.

One example

If my mom died tomorrow my siblings and I would inherit her estate. If my mom had to disown me so I could be adopted by my spouse then the estate would go to my siblings only and not me. So my mom would have to first create a will and "add" me back in. Then I'd hope the siblings wouldn't try to challenge that in court or anything. After all that I still can't add my spouse (who is now legally my parent) to my health insurance! Sounds like a bum deal.
My question is what's actionable? Are you going to stop commuting or working? Does it really matter if BU is less stressful than Harvard? For me seeing that I'm stressed would only trigger a feedback loop.

At a meta level people I think do understand if they're stressed or not. The question is larger if that matters or if you thrive on it. I don't think it's always a bad thing.
Probably not: https://www.23andme.com/transparency-report/
And some places pass that on too. A lot of places choose not to, but that is their choice.

Plus there's a huge gap between a 2-5% fee and a 30% fee. I imagine if Apple took a smaller cut, Google wouldn't be doing this.
Ha for a second I thought Google/YouTube were getting into the porn business!
Because the other big platforms don't have as good APIs, and don't monetize them? FB or Tumblr don't t make money selling data streams like Twitter. Twitter's API is incredibly complete and attractive.
Oh, I meant the duck thing.
How big is this market?
Also the experimenters' page on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10428397.
Yes, of course, you should. If your boss takes it properly, you will have a good outcome. If your boss takes it lightly or improperly, you know what you should then do.
Fool me once: shame on you. Fool me twice: shame on me.
The sad thing is that, for a brief period in 2010-2012, the Twitter API was 'hello world' for new developers. Iterating over friends, getting statuses, etc. They had a great REST API and if you made a good thing you could sell it (and Twitter's ecosystem would benefit). Now nobody trusts them.
Yeah that came off very poorly and incredibly insincere. He can't promise immediate change but feels they will, in time? Fuck that. He could immediately undo the limitations if he wanted.

"Thank you for holding. You call is very important to us."
OK, armchair CEOs: how would you turn Yahoo! around?
But it isn't clear because "YouTube Red" is meaningless.
Searching for the word "gay", then ordering the results by time, then going to the earliest entries, shows many results for articles about homosexual experiences. These articles were being posted to HN seven years ago.
I guarantee this is going to force some of the top content creators off of YouTube. Many have been close to leaving for a while anyway, since other sites offer better rev share terms.

Many of those guys also syndicate out to a larger number of sites already, so losing YT revenue may hurt in the short term, but they'll probably end up taking their audiences with them.

But yeah, this is a huge deal and it's going to reshape the business of online video into more of a subscription model. I just don't know if that's a good thing for YouTube.
Community Season 6 was actually pretty good. Especially compared to "The Gas Leak Year." It was designed to close the series gracefully, after actors were already exiting.
Why do you think that these quotes imply FTL? They talk about a network allowing communication over a large distance, but they don't specify a communication speed. Why would you assume that means that it would be instantaneous/faster than light?

A more parsimonious reading of the article would assume that the author knows, and assumes you know, that FTL communication is impossible, and that the interesting aspect of the communication possible through an entangled quantum network is, as stated, its security and resilience to eavesdropping.
Become a distribution maintainer and you will change your mind.
Perhaps you are failing to appreciate all the human suffering that occurred for these Enlightenment ideas to come into being and shape the thoughts of the first American legislators.

To think that governments can't become oppressive at the blink of an eye is not only short-sighted but ahistorical.

If you disagree with America's cultural DNA, your best option is to leave the country (honestly).
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Are you totally unaware of how blatantly racist this is?
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I don't know if this is current, but as of 2011, they changed course on In-App Purchases to:

> Content providers may offer In-App subscriptions at whatever price they wish and they are not required to offer an in-app subscription simply because they sell a subscription outside the App Store as well.

At the time, there was a big hullaballoo over providers like Amazon and Comixology who have presumably placed their "best price" on an item, and simply could not afford to take a 30% loss to Apple's IAP. Apple, preferring to have services like Kindle and Comixology vs. not, capitulated.

2011 is (in internet time) a LONG time ago, so it's very possible that this has reversed course again, or even multiple times since then.
How are these awful machines helping to advance the wellbeing of humanity?

Hypothetically, by freeing humanity from hard manual labor and making goods less costly.

Machines have a long history of advancing the wellbeing of humanity. The fire bow, wheel, pottery wheel, bicycle, ox cart, lever, ramp, plow... I could go on and on, from ancient to modern.

The modern textile industry is a much closer advancement, that made clothing manyfold more affordable and freed countless people from unforgiving constant manual labor.
This is great news, I'm saved!
If the gov't really want a DNA sample from you is it that hard to obtain? I understand this allows them to do it en masse though.
I agree, the "one database at a time" approach is the way vendors ignore the harder problem of connecting data across platforms.

I used to work for a company that built the "automagic ETL" kind of solution. You could write a single straight SQL statement across virtual "tables" (if you had non-tabular data, say NoSQL, you could query it through a table-like projection). It could literally join data across heterogeneous systems by shuffling data between them or to a dedicated "analytical processing platform" for join processing. Or you could do things like, create a table on one system, as the result of a select from a join of tables on three other systems. At the time, this was way ahead of what anyone else was doing.

However, it is a hard problem to solve, the company is/was small and funding was a problem because it took a long time to find ways to invent the tech. Also, it was an enterprise solution and closed source - when it really probably needed to be open source to be able to support the diversity of data sources.

These days, between Apache Drill, Spark, Ignite, etc., and any number of other commercial solutions, we're starting to see the solutions to solve the problem you're talking about.

I bet this Metabase UI on top of Apache Spark, and your databases, would be a killer. That's a common pattern (BI tool on top of Spark), see Apache Zeppelin for how it uses Spark, for example.

That said, as long as your data isn't truly ridiculously huge - if it can be centralized, centralization still works just fine.
So is it useful in countries with good banking systems? In the UK transactions are pretty much instantaneous and only require account number/sort code.

I had never heard of it until I saw that post
Is there any good reason for content creators to refuse to sign? It sounds like they earn just as much money, so what's the issue?

Sure, being forced to sign a contract is lame, but the new contract doesn't seem to harm them in any way.
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Can someone convince me that there aren't hidden variables? Because my puny monkey brain hears "a variable can be one of two states, but in the beginning, it's in a super-position of them. When measured, the state is determined." and it's a relative easy thing to get. But....

"There are two particles entangled together such that when one becomes up or down, the other becomes the opposite, and measuring either will determine both, instantaneously, regardless of distance" is a much harder thing to swallow.

Occam's Razor says that there are hidden variables that are pre-selecting state, and we just don't know about them until we measure. ESPECIALLY when one of the requirements for the system is that we can only measure, not influence the outcome of the measurement.

So please, someone who knows more than I do - why can't there be hidden variables being set at entanglement that pre-determine the measurement outcome?
I don't understand how having safeguards against anti-competitive behavior is in any way anti-capitalist. To say the engineers are the winners is very short sighted. The best scenario for all engineers on the market is to have multiple competitors competing for the best engineers with good salaries. It's not to have one of the vendors take a temporary loss in profitability in order to put everyone else out of business.
At this point all the content on youtube is corporate sponsored or belongs to a handful of super-creators that make all the ad revenue. Why they even call it "you" tube at this point is beyond me, should just go full sponsored content and be done with it.

It's hilarious, open YouTube in a private window of your browser of choice, and look at what they serve up, try and find something that isn't from a media company, music label, or PewDiePie.
I'm in my 30s. Today is the first day I've ever heard of Venmo.

I think the reason why I never heard of it is cause of the way my friends and I handle money. One person will grab drinks one day and the next time the next person picks up lunch. If someone buys a pizza everyone just gives them whatever bill from their pocket. None of us really "keep track" in specific dollar figures. Nobody says "this is only $5, you owe me $6."

Of course this kind of thing doesn't work out for every group.
I don't think I've seen them ever come down within the past 10 years, all that happens is that storage space goes up and smaller drives stop being produced.
The suffering this thing would cause is a failure of our economic and political systems... not the fault of technology.
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No, it's understanding that different customers have different risk profiles and using that information to deploy your security resources efficiently. Verified accounts on Twitter use the same concept... not everybody needs that.

It would be nice to be able to purchase this kind of thing directly though.
Eh they need to prevent spammy apps like FB had to. Meerkat knew it was acting improperly but hey, "growth hacking".
The cost of switching is very low for both viewers and content producers.

Producers: Upload content to new service -> Change comments on youtube videos and post an explanation of the change soon to occur -> hope your audience likes your brand enough to trust/use another website

Consumers: Search google or yahoo or duckduckgo for your favorite producer when you don't find them on youtube -> find them on other site -> watch

This adds a lot of value to Youtube for me and has solidified my move to Google's services - being able to easily stream a playlist of youtube videos ad free during parties and support creators without viewing ads is a benefit.

It does not go directly with Google's mission to catalog all the world's information - or at least in the way of making that information more accessible to everyone (since some content producers will be put off by this).
Agreed, entirely. I adored my original Zune, as far as a piece of hardware, it was amazing. Cool look, big color screen, heck even an FM tuner. It was ahead of its time. The software on the other hand still gives me nightmares. It crashed all the time, would constantly lose large chunks of metadata I had meticulously entered, would randomly freeze while loading music... it was the weak link in the Zune chain.
Where I live the choice is renting for 1600/month or 'buying' a similar play for 300k + Appliances with a 800$/mo amenity fee AND property taxes AND Maintenance.

The only way buying works out is if there is some greater fool out there willing to play the sucker in a few years.

PS: Looks like 150$ of that amenity fee is a special assessment for the next 8 years. But, new condo's are notorious for artificially lowering condo fees for a few years and then bumping things when they need to fix something major.
You replied to the wrong person. Otherwise explain.
Awesome things are good for you
Thanks to the feds, competitors dethroned 23andMe as king of consumer genetics
In the long run, humanity is better off if we're not paying people below minimum wage under the table to pick pears.
If a portion of the surplus value generated by these awful machines can be captured and paid to the people they displace, those people can then do something they actually enjoy.
Nice rant. The last two paragraphs threw me off, though... how exactly is the CIA Director involved in shaping the future landscape of massive data collection?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

There are gay people in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, and there are gay people in these forums. I would guess that there might be a higher percentage of gay people on HN than in the general U.S. population. Issues like this one are deeply important to them, and people who know them (which is a growing demographic).

In any case, HN is filled with submissions and comments on languages, platforms, and businesses that I really don't care much about, but their presence does not bother me.
"By Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller"

At the risk of getting piled-on here, I'll say this: the last thing the world needs is another dude speaking for women.
It isn't just the title, the whole article is poorly written. It gives the impression that faster-than-light communication is possible.

From the first sentence:

"[Scientists] conducted an experiment they say proves one of the most fundamental claims of quantum theory — that objects separated by great distance can instantaneously affect each other’s behavior."

Emphasis mine. This is totally wrong.

The second sentence:

"The finding is another blow to one of the bedrock principles of standard physics known as “locality,” which states that an object is directly influenced only by its immediate surroundings."

Again, this is wrong. Quantum physics is entirely consistent with locality. It contradicts "local hidden variable models." Despite the similar name, this is different from locality. (Local hidden variable models are local, classical models.)
>Unless you're very loud, incompetent or a big enough target

The very description of this kid. At least the loud part. His age may make him other things.
I haven't figured out a reason to use Venmo. My Bank (Ally) has a really great app that has supported emailing/texting payments. They do require access to a web browser to complete the payment the first time, but subsequently it seems to auto-magically go through ACH if you opt into the bank saving your settings. None of my friends have complained about the process so it seems to be pretty painless.

On the other hand, my intern at work keeps getting Venmo spam. "So and so asked for $1: Hey, don't pay me $1. Instead of to 'http://foo.bar' and sign up for a job where you'll make $2000 per month from home!" and the like. That sort of stuff is a full stop turn off for me.

My guess is for people who don't bank traditionally, these services make sense even though they come with some weird (to me) tradeoffs. Apparently the spam, reliance on yet another third party, broadcasting of what they're doing with their money, etc is ok for their user base. We're just not their target customer.
This New Human-Reviewing App Is Worse Than 'Peeple' in a Terrifying Way
My first thought was - "What? Are they starting a subscription for porn?"
I never really looked at RoboVM, would anyone whose used it care to weigh in on the positives and negatives of RoboVM?
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This is a temporary consequence of the 2008-2009 housing crash.

Housing construction is a lagging indicator because of the regulatory and capital requirements to build a whole bunch of homes. So what we see right now is that demand is growing because the economy is growing again, but supply has not yet caught up. Result: fewer affordable houses.

In my neighborhood a new row house development was just breaking ground when the shit hit the fan in 2008, and of course they stopped. Well, they're building fast today, and selling every unit, but they're still not done. It just takes a while to build houses.

The only connection is Millenials is that they are the youngest generation currently looking to buy a home, so they are more price-sensitive than Gen Xers or Boomers.
Unless the price changed in the last month since I talked to a sales rep, it's $999 for a desktop license, and $500/yr for "Tableau Online".
Hi dudul, if you wouldn't mind shooting an email about the error to info@nostarch.com, we should be able to help you out!

Thanks.
Articles like this utterly piss me the fuck off.

A few weeks ago, I was doing hard time with people who, due to fairly outrageous "re-offender" statues, were serving 15 years for stealing $50 items, or 5 for walking out of Home Depot with a couple hundred dollars in a cart.

These assholes steal millions, often from the elderly who trusted "the system", and just walk away scot free because the jury doesn't understand it? It is beyond outrageous and really shows, to me at least, how our entire CJS in the US has become an sick disgusting joke.

I got 15 months for having a small amount of heroin and an oz of weed...I almost lost almost everything I owned and left my clients in a big mess, and these guys don't get any time or even a felony conviction to mess up their lives like mine does?

Fuck them and fuck the douchebag prosecutors who are afraid of losing one damn case and messing up their all important conviction ratio.

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That sorting fruit is "hard labour" is actually coincidental. The real skill is pattern recognition and dextrosity. Skills widely deployed by humans today. We're now on the cusp of destroying this, another whole class of human employability. I am not as confident as you that we can simply extrapolate the past ad infinitum (ie: the "we will adapt and flourish" dogma). It seems to me we're reaching some inflection points in the trend where real, painful adjustment will occur. Recall that the 19th century's "innovations" created vast misery then, and war for 50 years 50 years later, before we adjusted. For those of us (un)lucky enough to be alive today, the immediate future seems very bleak indeed. Thanks to thinking machines.
I'm guessing that when large corporations sign agreements with each other, they don't include the clause "we can change this agreement at any time". Only powerless end-users are expected to agree to that one.
I have both a Dell Inspiron 10 tablet and a SP1. You can wave your hand around holding the Dell cupped in the seat of the palm and lightly squeezed by the fingers. The SP1 is more like working with small weights by comparison and puts a lot more stress on fingers and palm.
Who's gonna be the one to bring that up in the branding meeting?

"And we're thinking we'll call it Youtube Red"

"Uh........... yknow that's... it's... i heard once that... nevermind".
I wonder if companies like door dash/ instacart are operating at negative margins?

Uber tinkering with price too much has not gone down well with uber drivers in bay area either.
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I'm not debating Eric Holder going back to his old gig isn't fishy, it certainly is. And the revolving door bt Wall Street and Washington is ridiculous.

But RollingStone has the most slanted, sensational coverage on anything Wall Street. Their accounts aren't journalism.
I think what Alupis was trying to say is that when Twitter screws over developers, they aren't actually successful at reaping the rewards. Twitter has basically been saying to developers, "if we can't make money off of the platform, no one can!"
I had a similar conversation with a manager a few years back, and it went much better than I expected. It's tough, because on one hand you're literally saying to the boss, "I'm currently unhappy and unable to work at the level I expect of myself.", but hopefully they are able to empathize enough to want to work through it. It could easily go the other way, though. My advice is to be prepared for it to be a conversation that leads to you not working there anymore, but at the same time be open to being pleasantly proved wrong.

Also, burnout feels terrible. Really sorry to hear that. Good luck!
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Okay - I don't work for Twitter, I only care about twitter inasmuch as they're a big data source for my company. So I don't speak for Twitter.

That being said, this event is a whole event focused around Twitter developers, and this was seriously just a 9 minute talk by the CEO about a general vision of Twitter, with a 60 second part of it about the "we screwed up" piece. I don't think it's an appropriate situation for a self-flagellation and introspection.

Since then they've gone through and talked about new APIs, new toolkits, new data sources, all for developers.

I get that they still want to control their platform and that is objectionable to some folks, but it's hard to argue that they're not doing anything with developers.
No. I would have at least a secure subnet that uses a slice of IPv6 address space to geolocate - encode lat/long/alt. As one example. So now if you know where a packet came from, you can walk your ass over there and knock on the door. I say a slice of the space because things mobile wouldn't work. There are issue of course, you need to be able to support multiple carriers among other things. But nobody is even trying to solve the problems around this, and they won't because nobody from corporations to government agencies wants it to exist.
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Uber is [edit: almost] certainly not operating at negative gross margin.
ZeroPush has joined Twitter
I believe Music Key at this point is dead (Youtube Red replaces it). Music Key was only ever in beta and not ever fully launched (as it was invite only). So as far as I'm aware there are only 2 music/video subscriptions now: Youtube Red and Google Play Music.

* The opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of my company.
I have some pretty good ideas how to profit from Twitter, the problem is that I can't trust them to let me do it. Who knows when they'll cut me off entirely? So I don't bother.