skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the kind of headline (and analysis) that drives me a little crazy. It brings, in my opinion, completely corrupted versions of the two key words: "Owns" and "Face."

Despite the article's scary posturing about the matters of intellectual property that arise from all humans having a face, it fails to remember this basic concrete fact:

My face is a physical object - bone structure, musculature, skin, and the like - that is attached to me. And I unambiguously own it. Anybody who literally tries to steal it will be met with the wrath of actual facial self-defense.

On the other hand, once photons have bounced off this physical structure and made their way into a CMOS sensor it turns out that I don't own the content of the storage media contained by the devices doing the capturing.

Then, when someone take this same media and publishes it online, its ownership, in an organic sense, becomes wholly unclear. The only reason anybody can "own" a piece of media on the internet is because the state, via (often capricious) enforcement of intellectual property laws, says so.

In a more concrete sense, it seems quite clear that anybody can own and use any piece of media on the internet for any purpose; they just need to be informed that, for the moment, the state may exact violence upon - you guessed it - their face and other body parts - for doing so.

In fact, a much better case to use for analysis of the literal question of "Who Owns Your Face?" are laws banning gas masks, such as the emergency order at the WTO protests in Seattle in 2000. The implication of such an order, obviously, is that the state owns your face, and may use your mucus membranes as an attack surface for irritant chemicals to control you, and that you don't own your face in sufficient measure to take preventative action.

What I'm saying is: a crucial piece of thinking critically about civic virtue and property in the information age is to distinguish a thing from a representation of that thing. The former can clearly be owned and its owner is usually obvious. The latter probably cannot, and states who fail to recognize this will increasingly fall behind.
How is print media any different? People get into heated arguments over the entries in encyclopedias, how they can agree on a common landscape, printed or not? Media is just a projection of people's views, so as long as there are different views, there will be different coverage of events inevitably. Actually, the only cases of "common landscapes" I can think of are these in the oppressed societies where media is a propaganda tool in the hands of government.
The same thing exists in .NET IL where you can overload methods based only on return values (among other interesting things like modopt/modreq [0] etc.).

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5294456
Make use sell or import are all patent infringement. Costco is at least selling, likely importing.
So whatever value can be extracted by holding lives of patients hostage?
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everyone has a different idea of freely.

Does requiring a prescription make something not freely available?

What about stores that limit sales (cough syrup or whatever)?

Cigarettes/alcohol have age restrictions and I would call them freely available.
I took the comment to mean something more along those lines.
Aging is not really the cause of joint pains - the simple act of living is what causes a lot of these pains. The repeated use and abuse of joints which have non-regenerating components is what causes joint pain. There are also several diseases which accumulate damage over time.

These would need to be addressed independently of prolonging life. That there is no real mention of them when talking about prolonging life makes me shake my head - living at 200 with destroyed joints and a mind which is failing due to Dementia or alzheimers doesn't sound like much fun to me.
> The left has its fair share of science-denying morons as well.

Sure. Stupid knows no political affiliation, other than strong and unsubstantiated belief.

Meanwhile, the right (in America) also has its fair share of unscientific beliefs about vaccination: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

FWIW the only two anti-vaxxers I know in person are a retired west-coast life long democrat, and a super neo-conservative soccer mom. It seems to be more of an "anti-establishment" thing than a "left/right" thing.
Indeed. But it was also ridiculous. So I went with the equally ridiculous, overly wan, and dry response.
The difference here is with Uber, you see the route and the fare before you accept it. So, if we're trying to pull your example away from hypothetical and more towards practical, it's like getting fucked out of ATM fees every time they wish to withdraw money.

To put it simply, as we've seen, many people are happy to be screwed out of amounts well in excess of 2 cents per withdrawal.
Well what if the balls performance is due to patented innovations that the company wants to protect? We don't know the facts here, just some blogs opinion.
get me jake gyllenhaal and one of the quaid brothers... scratch that, the good quaid brother.
>composable, hierarchical generative models and probabilistic inference. Deep neural networks are basically just huge continuous circuit approximators.

These two things are not mutually exclusive.
In the future, people can put on copyrighted temporary tattoo arts on their faces so that when their face gets captured by one of these face recognition video cams they have no choice but to smudge your face down. This might be a good start-up.. but after further searching: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/makeu... lol.
It's not the contact tearing that causes issues, it's infection.

eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthamoeba_keratitis
Helping people become better is good but just insulting them needlessly is silly. The rest of the article is good and helpful because it goes into what they actually did wrong but calling them bad programmers is insulting and doesn't actually add any value to the article (I actually think that it takes away from the article somewhat because of the tone it creates).
Mobile payment like apple pay and android?

No, it's a growing sector. It also mostly comes for free once you have contactless in place.

Their offering seems to be more than just a card reader, they bundle a PoS app too.

Not saying it's the best thing since sliced bread, but it does seem like a fairly complete package.

edit - can I ask why I got a downvote? Not sure I said anything contentious there.
I agree about journaling. I'm not a huge fan of the word, but it's the best one I managed to come up with. I tried emphasising it on the main page, hoping it would clarify the meaning, but it's still a problem.

Export contacts/calendars: I feel the same. Currently there's only import from file (and a faq entry on how to export to vcf/ical). I even almost haven't published it to HN today, thinking I should wait until I finish import from other accounts, but decided against it in the end. I hope to have it ready in the coming days.

As for your final question: EteSync is a sync adapter, which means it seamlessly works in the background with your existing contacts and calendars app. Everything is automatic and seamless.
Unfortunately I still haven't found an easy way to convey this to users.
I would like to add a "first run guide", but I don't want to hit people with a wall of text, and regardless, I want people to know about it before they even consider downloading.
Please let me know if you have some suggestions on how to explain this to users without making it a burden. There's also a user guide in the app/website, but I don't think that's good enough.

Thanks for your feedback!
Flawed logic everyone uses to support buying a home
A few interesting things about this.

1) Amex the same price as other cards. Amex has low penetration among small retailers in the UK because they traditionally cost a lot more to accept.

2) Square are very up-front with costs. All the major banks hide their costs - requiring you to call their sales weasels to get a quote.

3) The card reader cost is the same as PayPal - but Squares costs are fixed @ 1.75%. Paypal's are 1.5%-2.75%. The same applies with iZettle - there's a variable cost which is quite opaque for small businesses.

Essentially, if you don't want to jump through hoops and worry about getting screwed over by small print, it looks like Square is compelling.
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Better than a car? Mechanized individual transportation that isn't bounded in the 2d plane.

I think Elon also asked the question of what could be better than a train and threw out one possible answer: Hyperloop

Sewer? It doesn't take a lot of creativity to see how a sewer could be better. How about micro waste treatment directly inline with the sewer so now it is not carrying waste, but clean water, and just pipe it directly back in.
Where would we be if Vlad the Impaler or Nero or Genghis Khan were still alive?

It's not like we'll run out of brilliant people. There are always new ones being born. I think it's much better to have the opportunity for new brilliant people to rise with a different point of view from having been raised in a different environment in a different time.
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Except air, water, food and protection from space radiation?
1. the experience is exactly what the parent poster complained about, the smell of other people, but I'd add rude people (talking, standing, walking during the movie), the wait before the movie, trying to get out of the parking like at the same time as everybody else etc...

2. no big TV: true, although chances are that the electrical consumption delta between your old and a newer TV would pay for the newer TV in a year. Also, I don't care about cool/artistic images, I only care about the story told by the movie, but for people who are into that, this is a valid point, and probably the only one really.

3. idk, on the other hand, I ended liking movies I would have never watched myself, but did because my spouse/kids wanted to watch it.

4. you might want to read about focus, meditation, etc...

5. I keep a list of movies, every time somebody tells me about a good movie I haven't seen, I write it down. It's way better than endlessly wonder "what should we watch tonight?" or watch what advertiser tells us we should watch.
No. My point was that you shouldn't judge a website with that name based on its journalist integrity and expect it cater to both sexes equally. I'm sure most women wouldn't be offended by this article or things on the website but they are clearly not the target audience.
I think part of the excitement is justified: computers can translate between speech and text, and text of different languages.

On the other hand neural networks are most likely just one tool in a larger toolset that will be needed for general AI.
I'm in the camp that abstains from social media, but people are almost always going to find distractions, be it social media, movies, shows, games, novels, or consumables. In moderation, that's perfectly fine. Not everyone wants to work a crazy amount of hours or considers what they are doing from 9-5 fulfilling.
There's Algolia https://www.algolia.com/

This is what HN uses for search.
Local journalism should be able to do better than they are in the changing publication landscape. It's niche by definition: while I can get national news from a wide number of sources, and global news from an almost uncountable number, there are only a handful of providers of local news. It tends to require "boots on the ground". It can also be practically relevant in day-to-day life, more so than the more abstract issues of wider relevance.

What I don't need from my local and regional news provider is coverage of national and global issues; yet they keep reporting on them, probably because newspapers of yore were often the only provider of news for many people. That hasn't been true for a while.
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I find the AI hypers way more annoying.
Propecia and Rogaine don't work if you're already bald.

Just like cures for death.
Square supports NFC, which is compatible with RFID hardware (the physical layer). The protocol is different, so being able to read an RFID tag doesn't guarantee you'll be able to process a credit card transaction.
Already wealth is a big factor in longevity.
the whole concept of "intellectual property" is ridiculous to me.
SpaceX is about to make history by relaunching a used Falcon 9 rocket
A cashier can process tens of thousands of items per hour, at a wage of under $15 per hour. This means that the cost of a cashier can be around 0.1¢ per item sold for a busy store
That's basically like saying that horses and buggies will just be tools in a larger toolset needed for space travel. What generalized AI will look like bears little or no resemblance to what we're doing today.
Computers don't really translate languages. They take language sample from A into something close to B, and people translate something close to B into language B.

I don't mean this in some abstract philosophical argument, rather as an outgrowth of how they operate. Modern methods are much better than this, but even the most simple mechanical translation of each word in language A into one and only one word in language B allows people to get some value. But, improving without understanding has some inherent limitations. Humans run into similar problems when they try and translate complex source material they don't understand.

Generally this is not a major problem, but it can be.
I'll admit you have no clue? It seems like there are some competing groups in climate science, but so far the trend of the warming, regional precipitation, jet stream changes, ocean ph changes, methane in warming tundra, the pattern of polar ice melt all seem to have been pretty well predicted years or decades ago by the most mainstream groups (that financially motivated groups have worked hard to undercut and delegitimize).
Very likely. I used R as an example since it conceptually is very similar to R in the way it treats arrays, and also since it's not something you'd use to build full applications.
"We won't discover second Europe, let's just stay there".
Human curiosity brought us where we are now, it would be kind of sad to ditch that with the excuse that it's "not practical".
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If you're considering this, you might want to read the comments on [0][1][2], wikipedia[3] maybe also a bit about how this surgery is marketed [4]

Personally, I wouldn't get any surgery with a marketing department on principle.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13024352

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941566

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5218268

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy#Co...

[4] http://www.healio.com/ophthalmology/news/print/ocular-surger...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637420
Local news is the most relevant news there is, in anyone's life, anywhere!

Our focus on national and international news takes up too much of an unnecessary time and energy. On top of that, we spend ridiculously more time reading about what far away politicians have to say, or do.

Glad to see people from technology sector investing time and money in strengthening the local communities.
The quote wasn't really about null - that's just the talk he was giving. It was about checked array indexing.

I would also say there really is no comparison between null, which escapes typechecking, and unwrap, which does not. But that's not my point, nor is it Hoare's. It's that we blame people for problems that are better solved by languages.
Why is it not as simple as mapping the method call instructions to returntype_methodname format? Am I missing something?
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They didn't have robots in 1969, at least nothing that could do almost anything useful. They did send a bunch of automated probes to orbit and the Moon back in those days, and most of them failed because the tech was so poor, and the few that didn't fail didn't do much useful science anyway.
> The good news is that I joined Cloudflare two weeks ago, who is a big Cap'n Proto user, and it looks like I'll have more time and justification to do releases there

That's great news, thanks for the disclaimer/ info.
"Red" is an objective attribute; "bad" is a subjective one.

I agree that self-evaluation and recognition of inferior practices will help one progress, but the article would be more effective if the author was less condemning.
Once you cut down all the trees you've got yourself a big ass problem, doesn't matter if a world without trees is more "natural" or not.

Case in point, all the CEOs and big-money managers who benefit from the mining and extracting businesses buy their (big) residences in pretty "natural" places, surrounded by water and lots of greenery. I'm pretty sure they and their kids don't live in the areas affected by their companies' non-natural dealings.
OP here. Pure corporativism. I am a mutant too. Didn't get any superpower though.
What the fuck? I'm going down a rabbit hole. See y'all later.
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Until you find out "this" isn't really this in the handler. Scoping and who "this" is are the biggest pitfalls in JS
Come now. We've wasted a lot more tax payer money on endeavors with much less reward.

http://thevietnamwar.info/how-much-vietnam-war-cost/ Vietnam War cost more than putting a man on the moon

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSB...

Imagine how $2 trillion of R&D would have changed the world.
To this day, LASIK has been by dollar value, far and away the best thing I've ever done. I've been the tipping point to convince a few of my friends to get it done as well. I have no side effects, a few years after.
It's interesting that Amazon continues to move up the stack. This can't be great for folks like Five9, inContact, Genesys, etc. And it's probably incrementally negative for Zendesk, RingCentral, and Twilio - where some percentage of customer use cases is tied to contact centers.
"...but after twenty years, your eyes fall out!"
A look at the upcoming Relay2 release
But you can copyright the markings you add to yourself (makeup, tattoo, etc.) Consider the paint and makeup markings used by cyberpunk to "hide" from cameras.
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Uber's end game, if they cannot get autonomous cars to market before they run out of runway, is to license their technology to taxi's and other transportation firms. There is still a lot of money on the table for them, but probably not in their current vision for the company.
You can take a look at Germany[1].
And see the results of “Energiewende”[2]

[1] http://euracoal2.org/download/Public-Archive/Library/Charts-...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/germany-j...

Your point being?
Finland got some updates to taxi law, too, and Uber stays illegal (drivers will be prosecuted for providing an unlicensed taxi service). Sounds like a fair outcome.
Compulsory licensing.
Who cares? Why is this the sort of thing that needs to be regulated in the first place?

When I go to a restaurant and order a 16oz steak it doesn't get weighed on a government approved scale. That's because if a restaurant rips off its customers then people will stop eating there. If Uber overcharged for rides then people would stop using them for rides.

This is textbook government overregulation.
Another oddity to think about in java source code: In regular Java, all objects extend java.lang.Object, including java.lang.Class. So how do you bootstrap building java.lang.Object from source?
This seems easy to estimate. At my local large suburban supermarket doing weekly shopping for a hungry family I have a receipt with the last line listing "53 items". So at 5 cents per tag, that's $2.65 of tags ending up in the landfill per week. The cashier takes less than 5 minutes for the entire transaction including scanning and payment and small talk, so (5/60)*7.25 = about 60 cents. Now cashiers are not 100% busy and get breaks so I would round the ratio down to RFID is currently about 3 times more expensive than human.

Of course a cashier can supervise up to 16 self checkouts in a low crime demographic area, so add in a new factor of 16.

For people who don't care about cost and scoff at $2.65 per visit, for a mere $9.95 they deliver...
I assure you that you could ask 100 people in Berlin and no one would have any idea what you are talking about.
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I think local newspapers are better placed to survive than national ones. Round here they send photographers to every community event and people love seeing themselves/relatives/friends/enemies in print.
Also district court proceedings esp involving drunks can make for great unintended comedy.

Presumably this paper is aiming to be mostly funded by advertising because their subscription target is only €72K p.a. and they have a staff of 7.
Grass is generally treated as a permeable surface.
Hi, i have a similar app, which is free. I see that your app needs access to the Android contacts and calendar. I didn't want that for mine. I wanted something totally independent, secure and encrypted - but also sync across platforms including desktop.

I like to be able to make notes and calendar entries whilst I'm at my desk, then take them with me. I don't want to access my private notes from within a browse.

https://lexiy.com
Some people buy businesses that passively generate income for them, so that's a thought.

Wait...
https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/124/kennedy.png

I think going to the moon was a good choice.
Its a courtesy thing, not a right vs wrong thing. If its a common complaint that my Cheetos smell bad, I'm going to avoid eating them in confined spaces or only around other people eating Cheetos. I'm also not going to go around telling everyone their Cheetos smell bad, but if someone constructively tells me that everyone hates the smell of my Cheetos, I'm going to acknowledge their complaint and be mindful of it when eating Cheetos moving forward.
> Any compiler of sound mind and memory will issue an error

GHC would beg to differ.
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> See deposits in your bank account as soon as the next business day

That's a bit slow for the UK, most payments settle in 5 minutes with an upper limit of 2 hours for bank-to-bank transfers…