skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So is opening the store based on an agency model illegal? Is illegal being willing to sell the stuff in the own store for a higher price? By which laws? What was the actual illegal step in the process of opening their new store that Apple have made? Why shouldn't they be able to offer a different deal to the publishers than what Amazon have offered?

> The agency model has something called "most favored nation"

"Most Favored Nation" clause, as stated in the court document:

http://dearauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Cote-Decisi...

"The MFN guaranteed that the e-books in Apple’s e-bookstore would be sold for the lowest retail price available in the marketplace." Why shouldn't be Apple able to propose that in its contract? It's on publishers to accept it or not.

It was obviously the opposite of "raising prices" it was a protection for the Apple book store to remain competitive.

Why should Apple be responsible for what the publishers do with their own contracts to Amazon once the Apple's store opens? Of course the existence of Apple's store changes the market conditions, and why shouldn't it?
shell implies vscode wraps electron, i'm not sure what your statement is clarifying further.
nice point.

If you want to further refine you could probably estimate a large chunk of early morning US/EU time where traffic will be very light. maybe reduce the estimate by 1/3 or 1/4th to account for this.
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Premiums going up because of drug users is not unilateral, you have the drug users and the insurance companies both taking actions.
You are actually not far off. Sybase was founded by Bob Epstein, who was Stonebraker's student at Berkeley and helped build the original INGRES system.
Gentoo ships ZFS kernel binaries via the LiveDVD. There are plenty of Gentoo derivatives that ship kernel binaries binaries too. It is not shipped on the minimal install media yet because I have not yet marked it stable in the tree because of the /dev/ZFS ABI being unstable. I am in the process of rectifying this. I have already put what should be the future stable ABI into the tree. Users found a few issues with it, so I need to resolve them. Once they are fully resolved and I am certain no more linger, I will mark it as stable and the modules should make their way onto the minimal install media like they had on the LiveDVD.
Question - does the incentive (or lack thereof) of the miners to create the blocks also need to be considered? There's an obvious incentive with bitcoin - you make money. What would be the incentive for me to create a block of (using one of this article's examples) entries on a shared calendar? It seems like part of the reason that this works for bitcoin is precisely because the "thing" being recorded (money) is something I also want as a miner. Why would I want to put in the computational work to create a block of calendar entries?
Maybe I am mistaken, but there's no real solution here: either you open a lossy image, edit it and save as lossless (which you easily can do), gaining in size but keeping the quality as is at this point, or (if you want to get smaller image still even after editing lossy image) you must re-encode it as lossy and make image a little more potatoey.

However, as silly as it might seem, I find having a clear distinction between media formats and unique file extension for each a huge usability improvement. A must, basically. I absolutely hate currently existing convention of distributing animated pictures as a webm or mp4 video container w/o audio track. It might seem insignificant: after all, that's what they are — audio-less video files. But because of that I can no longer mv *.gif pictures/animated/. What's even worse, I cannot make my file manager open these "moving pictures" with some other program, because there's no way it could know that it's just looped animation, and not a "real movie".

For the same reason I dislike (even though not that much) formats that can be (and are widely used as) both lossy and loseless while having the same container and file extension.
Oh puh-lease. Why do I never hear any of the people making this crappy argument demonstrating against all the real shit that taxes fund. Somehow it's fine to kill civilians on the other side of the world and torture suspected enemies of the state, but God forbid my tax dollars be used to - heavens - help people.
Thank god I can force my browser to not do what you tell it to.
There is a whole country full of beautiful affordable places to live.

Silicon Valley? Yuck. I will never live there again (thank goodness).
Batching doesn't make any difference to the pricing:

> Batched calls are accounted for as multiple operations.

https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/pricing
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I am not a lawyer, but, yes, the LGPLv3 in particular is in fact quite restrictive relative to what is believed (LGPLv2 much less so).

The driving force behind the GPL-series of licenses is to maintain the GNU/Stallman freedoms [1], including "freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" (0) and "to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish" (1)

It is widely believed that any software implementing DRM on it's runtime code is incompatible with the (L)GPLv3, in particular signed firmware distributions or software distribution systems such as the Mac/iOS App Stores or Steam. The (L)GPLv3 was actually written with this in mind, with some of the authors calling it Tivoization [2] in reference to Tivo's locked down firmware.

The relevant legal jargon is in section 6 of the GPL [3], which the LGPL is built on top of, and states:

“Installation Information” for a User Product means any methods, procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to install and execute modified versions of a covered work in that User Product from a modified version of its Corresponding Source.

Again I am not a lawyer, but in other words, you must cough up your signing keys (which for Mac/iOS devs is incidentally a breach of your Apple Developer contract) in order to legally distribute signed software that uses LGPL libraries (-).

[-] It seems it should be OK to distribute non-DRM protected software, but for general consumer software this kind of distribution seems to be on it's way out in a hurry.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization#GPLv3

[3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
I have a lot of negative feelings about Microsoft because of the historical baggage but they have some good products and technologies. I am also fairly negative on Oracle but when they released their database on Linux it was important for me at the time as it gave a boost to Linux server work (now with added DBA).

There is a lot of software that targets a limited subset of databases due to SQL incompatibilities/features and sometimes that is a subset of one. Getting some of those backends on Linux would be nice for people who have concentrated on unix/linux skills to the detriment of their Windows knowledge.

This eats Windows OS sales to some extent but I am sure they can make it up with database licenses and market share if they take the product seriously.
There is a notion of an uninformative prior [0].

What would you do if you were studying a process that had not been previously studied, so you had no previous experience/data on which to base your a prior? If you wait, and choose a prior based on the data you observe then you are using an empirical Bayes method [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability#Uninformativ...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_Bayes_method
Actually the extension code is really simple, so one of my next tasks is to make a Firefox port.

The API is simple and open (albeit undocumented), so there is nothing to stop someone making a third party port now.
Thanks. I remember reading that. Pretty plainly stated.
Devil's counter-advocate: treatment is many times cheaper than criminalization and leads to fewer addicts as well.
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Haven't we already done that to some extent? The members of the public who wish to buy regardless have placed themselves in the Gulch when they download Uber or book through Airbnb, etc.
Wow, this is like a whole experience. BBC does it again. The presentation is beautiful.
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It'll be interesting to see what other numbers Spotify release in subsequent blog posts for the other services they're using. Hopefully some cost calculations can be run for those, too.
This is because US fines are laughable. Try Microsoft paying over Billion dollars for IE bundling in EU. The way things are going they are due for another round or billion dollar fines soon.
This is covered in the article.

>He’s working on a new community site called Canv.as, which actually integrates with Facebook Connect, although users can still post anonymously. Poole said the fact that “you know that we know” the user’s real identity, even if other users can’t see it, discourages people from indulging in the most obnoxious behavior.

This is perfectly in-line with the banning of VPNs and Tor.
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Google's Project Fi mobile network is now open to everyone in the US
Logical positivism died about 100 years ago, you're late to the party.
It's not illegal to have a monopoly. It's illegal to exploit it in certain ways.
It might be nice if browsers automatically kept a running estimate of connection speed based on previous page loads, and exposed it to new pages via JavaScript or even as a CSS media query. That way sites could serve their fancy webfonts (and other large assets) to users on fast connections who won't notice the difference, and omit them for slower users without making them wait for the load to time out.

Of course, the speed estimate could be wrong if the bandwidth bottleneck (on either previous sites or the current one) is further than the last mile, especially for e.g. Chinese users whose Internet speeds are drastically slower with international peers than domestic ones. Or alternately if the user is on a mobile connection and is moving quickly between areas with good and poor reception, going on and off Wi-Fi, etc., although in that case the browser could incorporate signal strength data from the OS. Still, on an Internet whose users have wildly varying connection speeds, I think it makes sense to allow leveraging the difference somehow.
as for immigration, yeah it's 3 years of experience equaling 1 year of college / university, but you might need a lawyer. speaking of your unrelated degree. one of the best developers i know has a degree in orthodox christian theology. oh, yeah, US market is so much better than CA/UK/EU/AU/NZ
They don't, but that's not because they lack frustrations with Linux.

https://lwn.net/Articles/591723/
> Using this guy's insane logic, we could get rid of all craftsmen, because nobody notices the details anyway.

Hyperbolic much?

> Why exactly is Rubygems giving idiots access to it's source code?

It's open source https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems all idiots have access to the source code, even you.

I think the words you're looking for are "Thanks for taking the time to make Rubygems faster, and for doing a write up on it to show the costs and benefits of using a webfont. Now I see that style can come at the cost of performance. I'm curious what the speed differences would have been if they had gotten rid of the 10 unused font variations and kept the current webfonts."

Even better would have been "I ran the benchmarks for my suggested change and found it to be nearly as fast, I don't think we should sacrifice all visuals for the sake of performance, here's a link to my PR to Rubygems to re-instate the webfonts with a script on how to reproduce my findings. Thanks everyone for all your free open source work, and for sharing what you've learned."

I get what you're trying to say, blowing it out of proportion and being highly critical of people doing free work for you in their free time while doing nothing to remedy the situation isn't going to help anyone.
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It's totally a risk calculation - the risk of being found guilty in a trial and doing the longer sentence vs definitely being convicted now and getting a shorter sentence. If you know you're innocent and are being offered a year in jail now for pleading guilty vs 20 years in jail at a trial and the police are telling you they have seven people planning to swear they saw you did it - which do you pick?
Well, Amazon were forced to adapt to compete. Which is bad. Or something.
UPSERT (or similar logic, not merge).
Along the same lines, I think this quote from the economist Ludwig von Mises is quite on point:

"Science does not give us absolute and final certainty.
It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental
abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought."
> She could not remember Marvin.

Jesus christ, that sentence hit hard. A child having been left alone with a parent that cares so little that the mother has literally no recollection of what kind of person her child was.

Where i come from the government will go so far as to send armed police to separate children from family just for not sending them to school, and i'm glad my country is like that.
Amazon also has a "most favored nation" clause in its contracts with publishers.
This is a good point, but it could be somewhat mitigated by their expected growth of up to 2M per second. To quote the full line from their blog post:

> Currently our production load peaks at around 700K events per second. To account for the future growth and possible disaster recovery scenarios, we settled on a test load of 2M events per second.

In the absence of any other numbers, using the 700k number seems reasonable otherwise you would start to get into modelling without any real data to back up your assumptions. This at least gives you a maximum they would be paying under current production conditions.
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Point isn't to ban it, just to be honest about what we're dealing with so as to better understand the dangers and / or benefits of other drugs and approaches.
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Thanks, I'd missed this.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_develo...
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They did just embarrass and piss off the federal government - $449M of this along with "no appeals sorry" probably sits under the heading "revenge".
Do you have a legal statement from Redhat's lawyers? So far, all I heard about their opinions has been hearsay from third parties.
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But if they are having children until they have one of each, the probability of the different observations does depend on the prior events!
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Actually, you did pay more, at least at the time of the court filing.

“The increases at Amazon within roughly two weeks of moving to agency amounted to an average per unit e-book retail price increase of 14.2% for their New Releases, 42.7% for their NYT Bestsellers, and 18.6% across all of the Publisher Defendants’ e-books,”

https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/486691/downlo...

I'm not sure how prices have adjusted since then though.
They released many applications for Android, ever their own launcher.
I will not be surprised at all if something like this will be soon used to circumvent adblockers replacing classic javascript based analytics on the "bright" side of the web.
I am specifically talking about working as a salaried employee of a game studio. You are talking about starting a business. These are different issues.
> Well, it would have to be a better alternative than what we have now.

That's one issue. Another is having a feasible way to transition from what we have now. The latter is probably the trickier one.

> I'm not sure what you mean by modern takes on democratic socialism. Sanders is most certainly not a socialist, if that's what you mean, despite being for a progressive welfare state.

I mean democratic socialism roughly as Sanders describes it, although there's obviously a big range even within the modern definition. So yes, just western democracy with the government doing lots of social programs. Not real socialism.
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What about them? Laws are not made in the abstract for an idealized country. US laws reflect US history and current gestalt, as they should.

Tobacco, sugar, and alcohol are legal in part because of their long history of use within the US and the practical difficulties of prohibiting them. If tobacco had been discovered five years ago instead of five hundred, and its addictive and carcinogenic qualities were known, it would not be legal to sell.

> When an addict is buying drugs while sober, they are giving consent.

It's the consent that a mugger elicits when he convinces his victims to hand over their money to avoid being stabbed.
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It's quite common to choose a conjugate prior, which aids computation, and which is readily comprehensible within the discipline ("...and a Wishart prior for the covariance, of course..."). But which is, in effect, not at all informed by the data.

It's also common to have a complex, multi-level model setup which has a few hyperparameters (say, gamma distribution shapes) which are set basically arbitrarily. The idea being that the posteriors for the lowest levels (closest to data) will be learned/fitted, but the hyper parameters at the top-level of the model are fixed. This is very common in spatial statistics.

It's also common to make lots of (conditional) independence assumptions, just because they are convenient. Such as diagonal covariances, or conditional independence between "separate" elements of a model. But these independence assumptions are often just convenient or based on intuition, but not re-checked. Or, if they are checked and found wanting, it's "left for future work".

These practices are defensible, and attackable. But choosing convenient priors out of a bag of standard priors, without reference to the problem at hand, is very common.
Saving 50% of the income is definitely not easy
"As developers, our job isn't to tell the designers "Hey, you're dumb for including over 500KB of WebFonts in your design!"

... As performance-minded web developers, our job is to deliver the designer's vision in the most performant way possible."

Design is all about trade-offs. Performance is part of the experience and that's something all designers should care about.

Developers should definitely raise this type of issue when it arises (albeit without the name-calling and in a collaborative manner).
Yeah, I use Alexandria by default in every project now. I remember when I first started coding in Lisp, I wrote a ton of obvious functions/macros like the missing hash table traversals that are in Alexandria but are rather bizarrely missing from the Common Lisp spec. Then I found Alexandria and realised I'd written a good fraction of those functions myself! This was pre-quicklisp, so library discoverability wasn't great.

Now I'm trying to make a concerted effort to follow the recommendations here:

http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015/

Hopefully this will lead to a modern set of consolidated libraries. Effectively a new Common Lisp standard: CL-20xx
I was on the "it's difficult" camp too, and this is well argued. Thanks for posting it!
Seems like a weird arbitrary rule. Why isn't public intoxication considered free speech or something. I don't know how public intoxication laws can be justified.
Of course not. Being coerced is not a crime.
Beautiful! So the dot pattern here is "face centered cubic," right? Would you get a better density with a "hexagonal close-packed" pattern? It may make a difference visually. I would love to see a comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres (We memorized this stuff in chemistry class and I never saw it again so I may be completely wrong.)
>Your last advice seems even less effective than the standard to me, in that it's totally ineffective against someone who says "yeah but I want to work on Halo" whereas there's at least a snowball's chance in hell that if you say "MS will pay and treat you like shit if you work on Halo" they might reconsider...

It feels like this is always the crux of the problem. Young people full of life just don't understand how soul-crushing certain jobs can be. I was one of those people.

In a past position, I was told that the hours would be long, and the competitive nature drives people to insanity. On the bright side, you'll make some great friends (the ones that you don't hate) and the benefits are outrageously good. All of that was true to the letter. I didn't understand the subtext of work coming before literally everything else (including health), the pay is trash, and life will always be massively in favor of your superiors.

What my teenage self didn't understand was how much of an impact the subtext would have on my life in the future. And if I did (though I'm sure I didn't), it didn't matter. It was what I wanted. It was my calling.

On the other hand, you run the risk of sounding like an someone who, "just doesn't understand the passion" that someone can have for the job - even if you're recounting stories from your past. Too much negativity just keeps the young crowd from believing you.
$1.3M is less than their lawyer fees.
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No, when the format is implicitly lossless then editing and saving is lossless. Discarding more information to make the file compress better is done separately, with a different tool even.
Is that some aggregate estimated "total compensation" figure or are they making $300K in real money? That sounds very, very high for what I have seen.
This is interesting. If this is true, then a lot of code based on the assumption p == q would be broken.
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An init script or the installer script could compile the module. Awkward but not hard.

We can bootstrap much more difficult things. For example booting from kernel source: http://www.bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
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And there is an appreciable performance difference between using ZFS and BtrFS ?
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True. In practice, power in Zappos and holacracy is probably much more centralized, more arbitrary and less transparent than that of a hierarchical organization because there is no explicit structure. There is nothing protecting the lower rung people from the whims of those in the top.
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What's with this "it has to look identical everywhere" mentality? Do your margins really need to be precisely 10px on every single display? I've always thought one of those most beautiful things about a well-designed layout was how adapts to a variety of viewing scenarios, yet it seems the majority of conversation on the matter is about making sure things are absolutely identical.

Your fonts and even colors could change. Webfonts are great and all til the idiot designer picks some "nice" ultra-thin that, while probably looked real sweet on his/her fancy Retina Cinema Display, looks like ass on mine.