skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Everything open source" would take away the incentive for people to create essentially all media professionally: software, music, TVs/movies, podcasts, journalism, and more. Many industries would be destroyed if they didn't have the right to sell their creations (if anyone could copy them and give them away). I personally enjoy the media created by many organizations such as NPR, which made the article we're reading now. I enjoy many audio and written books and podcasts and video games. The professional software industry would vanish, as would the entire video games industry, and NPR. Programs for creating art and video would stop being made for sale.

If there was no IP protection, anyone could redistribute NPR's podcasts and news articles while stripping the advertising from them. Advertisers would stop sponsoring NPR, and its budget would diminish substantially. It would stop producing quality content like this article. The ability to lawfully distribute free copies of all video games and video content would diminish their sales to a fraction of today, and shut those industries down. The only media industries left would be ones based on live performance / live display.

I'd like to retain the incentives for these creators to continue thriving by publishing good work, which means retaining these intellectual property protections. I think we can fix the problem that appears to exist in this situation in other ways, such as by strictly curtailing the rights of equipment manufacturers to restrict what purchasers can do via licenses, and by buffing the first sale doctrine to include right of repair, and perhaps creating or strengthening legal requirements that when you purchase a physical good, must not hinder the ability to repair it, and the software needed to operate the good must be included in the price and must operate (must not be intentionally time-limited) for a reasonable period of time. The duration of copyright should also be significantly reduced, to something like 20 years maximum.
Is he really playing that music live as shown in the video, the knobs he twirls doesn't seem to match up with the music change.

This section: https://youtu.be/NsxMRz477jM?t=179
> I'd argue the opposite, that GPL style licenses make it easier to hide things in black boxes these days. LLVM and Clang are under BSD style licenses,

Where can I download the source code for the specific version of clang used in OSX?

(AFAIK, it is unavailable, which has been a bummer in chasing bugs which show up only in it)
Also if you can find it - Steve Tibbets.
I think people should have the right to the information anyway. I mean we all dies one day and banning information on the likely ways doesn't seem to achieve much.
Yes, people seriously underestimate the damage done by carrying over the near-absolute monopolies granted by copyright, which were originally intended for superfluous creative works.

A good compromise may be that software is only eligible for legal protections like copyright if it's source is registered with the Copyright Office, and then the scope of that copyright would limit the commercial resell for 10 years, but would not limit individual or hobbyist use or distribution.

Whatever we do, with core components of basically everything falling under copyright protection due to software, we badly need to revise the law.

There is a large body of law where we have just sloppily slapped a physical metaphor on top of the relevant technology and pretended like that was OK. We need to acknowledge that there are differences and that we need a first-class body of law to address these issues, not just loosely applied law that never could have anticipated the world as it is today.

One example: copies of content kept in RAM qualify as infringing copies under the Copyright Act. Judges have been lamenting that in their decisions since the first one, but they feel the law must be interpreted that way. This has a lot of complicated consequences, and it's just a single example of how our technology law is badly damaged and needs repair.

The biggest reason we don't get this sorely-needed legal renovation is that big companies don't want to even the playing field. They like using the law to bully small innovators.
> It will be nice when I can get the RX460 downstairs to drive the 4K monitor at 60Hz instead of 30Hz, but it's only going to be a minor improvement.

You can't now? I have no issues with my RX480.
Buy a piece of software? Since ancient times there's no such thing for mere mortals. Read the EULA. You do not own that software. You've bought a temporary, rather one-sided, and revocable license. You absolutely do not have any right to take it apart or modify it. That's the entire point of free and open source software (note not merely open source).
How slow do these oscillators run? It seems like that would be masked by persistence of vision prettymuch anywhere above 90Hz.
The world needs more Banksy's: graffiti that makes people reflect on inequality and tyranny.
> What about when you know what the concept of big O is, know why it's often touted as important, and disagree that it's as important as it's touted?

Let's say you created your own company and you're interviewing engineers.

Would you be comfortable hiring someone who doesn't know the difference between O(n^2) and O(2^n)?

Or someone who doesn't even know what these concepts represent?
It's not "negative connotations" -- there are in fact enormous opportunity costs for such low-skilled, seasonal work. Nobody in their right mind would spend 10 hours a day kneeling in the fields picking tomatoes given (1) you are employed on literally a daily basis meaning on any given day you might show up and be told there's "no more work" which means (2) you literally have to go from farm to farm, moving around constantly, to find work, since no job generally lasts more than 3 months and which really means (3) there are literally zero benefits available at each job. To put a pretty penny on it farms tend to be in rural areas that offer very little in the way of infrastructure and amenities. Price simply isn't the issue here, when you look at what's actually involved agriculture does not offer anything like a "job" it just offers dumb work, in the purest sense of the word. That means it will always get done by poor, transitory, essentially enslaved populations that have zero other avenues for work. (This has been the essential logic of human history since literally the dawn of time so I'm a bit at a loss when I see people discussing farm labor salaries...)

There's a remarkable consistency at work here. Between Trump advocating to bring back coal jobs and others calling for better paid farmhands to the silly article suggesting that wind turbines can support anything like the number of jobs supported by coal plants... it seems like just a remarkable failure of imagination across the board.
Indexing - why don't u use bleve?
Those overland tours are surprisingly affordable.
In the 2004-2007 timeframe, the company I worked for hired software engineers via a staffing company for three-month contracts. We interviewed the candidates with the intention of making a full-time hire. As the contract term approached, the management team did a 360 review, the decided to offer a full-time position or just not-renew the contract. This had some downsides, but overall I found it to be better that alternate approaches I've tried before or since. It stopped being viable once software engineering became a sellers market.
> In the 20th century we were big on static typing too.

I don't think we were. I don't even think we truly understood the practical difference between statically and dynamically typed languages. But even so, back then, it was reasonable to claim that while statically typed languages have the advantage of performance and correctness, they are much more verbose than dynamically typed languages.

Today, this is no longer true. We know how to design languages that have the strengths of both statically and dynamically typed languages (see Kotlin and Swift for the best incarnations of these concepts).

There is really no good argument in favor of picking a dynamically typed language.
Someone being a professor doesn't correspond with them necessarily being a good engineer or expert on an engineering subject. Indeed, as people have limited time to spend on things they are interested in, satisfying the criterion for becoming a professor seems to often mean that you would not satisfy the criterion for being a good engineer -- time that you could have spent getting your hands dirty or gaining experience was spent doing other things, like writing papers on very specific subjects.

This is just my observation after dealing with people in academia and industry, however, so my words should be taken with a huge amount of salt. I think it's unfortunate that it's in PL where this divide tends to be most harmful.
This looks great. I'm impressed at the attention to detail in _functionality_ and _experience_ in addition to design.
Without subsidies, utility solar and wind are already cheaper than coal. Rooftop solar is still behind, will catch up in 24-36 months.

https://cleantechnica.com/2016/12/25/cost-of-solar-power-vs-...

"The first point is the very basic fact that new wind power and/or solar power plants are typically cheaper than new coal, natural gas, or nuclear power plants — even without any governmental support for solar or wind.

Not only are they typically cheaper — they’re much cheaper in many cases.

Yes, these are levelized cost of energy (LCOE) estimates from Lazard based on various assumptions, and they are averages for the US as a whole rather than prices for specific locations within the US, but the lower estimated costs for these renewables are reflected in the real world as well, where solar & wind accounted for 69% of new capacity additions in 2015, 99% of new capacity additions in Q1 2016, a large portion of new capacity additions in Q2 2016, and probably ~⅔ of new capacity additions for 2016 as a whole."

https://www.lazard.com/media/438038/levelized-cost-of-energy... (warning: pdf)

Even with a reduced capacity factor, if you can shift non-essential loads to when renewables are producing (my pool pump needs to run X hours a day, but I'm happy to wait until the cost of power is low to run it), that's essentially "storage" without needing to pay for storage.
because good music, games, journalism, and useful algorithms didn't arrive in humanity until the invention of (EDIT) intellectual property law
Are liberals on the wrong side of history
Thanks Ryan, these are good clarifications to the parent's post.

For full transparency, I [OP, author of the PDF] am currently contracting with (but am not employed by) Chaincode and am currently #39 by commits (#26 by additions though! ;)). I also think that SegWit is the best way forward; no one pays me to say that.

If Blockstream sent money to developers to endorse SegWit, they must have skipped me!
ReactJS, Redux, Routes, Webpack2, ES6, Node, Mongo – Starter App
Nuance: most casual graffiti is shit (ruining property), a fraction though is a beautiful addition through art and/or political metaphor.
It's fiction, but Stephenson's Baroque Cycle features many coffee house intrigues in this exact setting (Restoration England)
Patent law and copyright are two different things.
> Only if one is working with poor developers

It's not about the developers, it's about the workload.

Objectively, you can't write high performance multi-threaded python. No one can; it's not possible; it's just slow.

If you're rewriting your code in C++ so its not slow and pretending its python, you should just rewrite your code in C++. That's not writing fast python, it's writing C++.

/shrug

So python can easily be a bottle neck, regardless of how good your developers are, if you've picked it for a poor purpose:

That's my point: Don't pick the wrong language for your task in the first place. ...and specifically python is the wrong choice for certain types of heavy lifting.
I will always associate his name with 'Oxygene' and the soundtrack to the movie 'Gallipoli'.

His work really made me want a Sequential Prophet 5 synth back in the 80's. Never got one, but I see now that Dave Smith Instruments has released the Prophet 6, based on the same concepts, but improved... [0]

[0] - https://www.davesmithinstruments.com/product/prophet-6/
Wow, that's really terrible to hear. And of course, conveniently, it lets the employer off the hook for any notion of team or project fit with the employee. If they weren't performing well, then obviously they never will in any capacity in any context. Awesome.
I'd have less of a problem with this if it were a free and open source license, and therefore there's competition available for the service, including do it yourself service should you choose.

But most farms are now corporate so it sorta makes sense those types will drive this kind of closed loop proprietary fixed cost maintenance model.
Aaaand... it's been corrected :) I wonder now if the author meant to do that? Are they iterating even on blog posts?
They are referring to releasing the load when it's connected to the ground through the tower. Meaning some bolts are in place, therefore is probably unlikely to tip over.
> Around me, I see a lot of Kubota, New Holland, etc. Not too many John Deeres actually.

Around Iowa I see these brands as well, but I don't see Kubota and New Holland as being as massive and innovative as Deere and Cat are/can be. John Deere has been notorious in the legal system in its pursuit of these locks on software. They have very good autonomy software which gets better every season, and distinguishes them from Kubota and New Holland. Their autonomy seems to be up-and-coming, but isn't in primetime just yet.

What area of the country are you in? I wonder if it is more of a geographic difference in brand choice, or if John Deere doesn't handle the local crops in your area as well.
If DRM became illegal to even attempt, they'd have a brief period of panic followed by a nice jump in profit when they finally realize they've been wasting bunghole loads of dollars applying DRM to stuff for no reason.
Only Connect
So, we have:
1) Blackbox on-board computers, probably dozens of subtle configuration variations
2) Blackbox binary-only, possibly obfuscated firmware
3) Possibly TiVo-ized runtime.
4) Farmers as the ones who'd possibly be interested.
5) Then, manufacturers could sue for various DMCA violations

I'd say the odds of this happening would be some 1e-3 a year.

This is a policy issue that shouldn't be attacked technically. Better get the farmer write their Congress members.
Easier than doing it the first couple times: whoever came up with the improvement first, before this knowledge was institutionalized within the organization/field.
Doctors are professionals, miners are tradesmen, artists are craftsmen. They're just legacy words. If there is any cultural respect or stigma, it's mostly tied to income not the work itself.
How long until Apple buys a panel maker so that they can vertically integrate every part ? This investment by google seems poised to if it goes well for google to work closer so that they might acquire a piece .
Tech’s High-Stakes Arms Race: Costly Data Centers
I use me. or if its a jquery object its $me. Probably because of my VB6 background. :-)
So her husband also made $11k?
Going back to "...limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" would do wonders to making the situation w/ copyright better.
WordPress equivalent in Haskell
Video with sound: https://twitter.com/deadlyblonde/status/850576467234869248
Will VR be popular in porn industry? This app has good experience than current
Ask HN: How do you share knowledge/documentation?
I'm currently evaluating different tools/apps to help store all of our company's documentation/knowledge in a single, centralized location. This might be done through tools like Dropbox Paper, Notion, Quip, Confluence, Gitbook, etc. We want to prioritize ease of editing and adding content to remove the friction of adding or updating content.

I'm curious to hear what solutions are used elsewhere and what has worked well (or not) in the past. The end goal is to have all our internal documentation (engineering, operations, sales, recruiting, on-boarding, etc.) in a single location that is easily accessible and searchable for all employees.
The biggest concern I see with eliminating IP is that it effectively eliminates an incentive for innovation. That doesn't mean innovation halts completely, but if the system of compensation does not change, it can be reasonably expected that rates of innovation adjust according to the incentives available for innovators.

What I would prefer is a discounted lump sum paid out to IP owners, at the time of patent filing/copyright. For instance, instead of having to legally defend a medical patent for 20 years and overcharge hospitals/distributors during that time, receive a discounted cash flow equal to the approximate amount of value that would be forgone by pricing the innovation at competitive prices.

Of course this system isn't foolproof, and would be subject to tremendous "gaming" from patent holders and regulators, but innovators could reap the rewards of their innovative research without having to deal with pricing their products out of reach for some individuals who can't afford the price.

Again, it isn't foolproof. But there exists a "most efficient" means of balancing the risk/reward of innovation that lies somewhere between "IP rights should be forever" and "No IP at all."
No, it is a space increase! Witness data is counted with a discount. Blocks can be larger than 1MB under SegWit.
This is exactly what wikis are for.

I work for the mouse, and for each line of business we have a special wiki for everything about that product (hotel/resorts).
Touranb offers a single point Travel hub and search engine that enables Travelers to search, choose and book Africa tours
I recommend "The no Bullshit guide to Math and Physics". It is about 300 pages, but goes along with what this article is about. This book is such a different approach (combines math with engineering and physics principals) so as to give validity to the maths you're reading. Also, it is written in a casual tone. Highly recommend it.
The "web" link isn't working for me anymore, even in an incognito browser. Is it working for anyone else, or is there some other solution to read WSJ articles?
Please reach out to gopalmuni2000gmailcom for advise.
When I helped run a college radio station as a student, one if the things I had to check on was the Emergency Alert System (EAS). It's the system that cuts into your broadcast and allows emergency personnel to transmit information over TV and radio.

Maybe it was specific to our setup, but our station was assigned two other stations to listen to for EAS alert tones. If the box heard the tones it would flip a relay and broadcast the audio from the station it heard the tones on. If you drove by the station with and FM transmitter and replayed the EAS tones, you could transmit whatever you want. I imagine the stronger FM stations have a bit more security than we did, but it always striked me as a rather vulnerable system.
Hello, Better Bookmark author here. This extension is not meant to open anything - it's only purpose is simplifying the process of adding new bookmarks. It basically displays a list of your bookmark folders (flattened), and lets you select which folder the bookmark should go to. If you click on a folder (or navigate using arrows and confirm with enter), it should close the menu, but the page should be bookmarked into this folder. If it doesn't do it, it's a bug :)
Why can't it be the case that a law is immoral and breaking it is also immoral?
When I was preparing for interviews I found that the skill that overlapped between interview puzzles and everyday work was the "head interpreter" as I call it. Typically you end up relying on the IDE and the compiler telling you if what you're writing makes sense or not. Static analysis by the IDE would only tell you if you've made a syntax error, you would need to run a test to tell if what you've written makes logical sense too.

So there's a couple of advantages if you can execute code in your head line by line while storing state as well. You can be slightly faster and more correct while coding yourself and while reviewing the code that others have written. Typically in the latter case you don't have the benefit of the compiler or running tests.

In my anecdotal experience I found an improvement in my "head interpreter" after practising interview questions for a while because typically you're not allowed to execute your code. I can't say if any of the algorithms I learnt and practised helped, but this, in my opinion, made me slightly better at my day job.
I've heard that the tornado siren system in my locality is protected by a short DTMF code transmitted over a licensed radio frequency.
The fact that psychology (and other social sciences and even medicine) have a replication crisis in spades is well known. Just Google it, if you haven't been following the general science news for the last few years.

Even the "hard" sciences have trouble, because journals prefer publishing new and positive results, rather than replications or negatives.
A bit of self-promotion: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-bookmark/pn... (I essentially had the same issue as you)
"Companies like Microsoft would vanish"

Heaven forbid! :-D

I go around telling people what I think of copyright all the time, and this argument is one that I hear a lot.

But I don't buy it. The body of open source content available today is proof that your argument is at the very least incomplete. Plenty of people do give their time away for free to make better things available to people without monetary benefit.

A key to my argument is as follows: people who give away their work tend to be on the wealthier end of the spectrum with some ability to give their time away - a single mother of four who works 60 hours a week probably isn't submitting pull requests in her spare time.

So then you say I have a flaw - only wealthy people can contribute to a world without IP laws. But again I disagree. In the world without IP laws, I believe deeply that the wealth we already have would be more evenly distributed, and the floor of minimum wealth would be much higher. I think in a world without IP laws, so many people would be so much wealthier that they could afford to voluntarily support those who still cannot support themselves.

I should also point out that there's absolutely still an incentive to create things even without IP protection, so I disagree with your argument on its face. Certainly there is a greater incentive to create when creators can legally bar others from selling their works, but that does not mean the incentive without IP laws is zero. To the contrary, innovators maintain first mover advantage and are free to build brand awareness. I'd rather buy something from a creator than a copycat, since the copycat is more likely to cut corners that materially impact the quality of the offering.

On balance I believe we would see MORE wealth and more innovation without IP laws, and while I may be wrong I think it's important to question the conventional wisdom that IP laws help innovation. I think in many ways they harm it.
Special recommendation for Dance of the Firebird.
I can understand why they chose OLED to invest in. But I think longer term, due to the low power characteristic electrophoretic or interferometric would be much more exciting for mobile displays. I'm still waiting on the roll-able E-Ink display we were promised in 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Ifhuc2bbQ
Looks good. How do you decide which products end up in the trending + hot lists?
Like, a solution that doesn't involve paying for journalism that you enjoy and find useful?