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Di Modica does not have a monopoly on the meaning of his work. If he doesn't like the Fearless Girl, he can take his statue away or try to bring suit or whatever, but it's actually irrelevant to the meaning of his work. Nothing he can do can affix such meaning. The meaning he ascribed to it is but one of many meanings, all equally valid, none preferred. When I first took note of the bull, to me it represented everything that was wrong with Wall St. and America. It was a symbol of what Wall St. was doing to America: charging it down and trampling it to death. This is pretty much the opposite of what Di Modica meant but it's just as right an interpretation as his. After reading this and other articles and knowing the history of the piece, I still prefer my own interpretation and think Di Modica's quite lame. The girl even adds to that. The fact that she represents SHE just adds to the irony. Anyway, my interpretation is not important either, just like Di Modica's isn't. As far as relevance and meaningfulness, they are equal. Di Modica, as an artist, should understand that the best. Too bad he doesn't. The rest are just boring legal issues surrounding a confused artist.
I'm confused about how either MIT, Harvard, or UC Berkeley owns the IP. Ostensibly the research was funded by the NIH or NSF, not those institutions. Is it really the case the the universities own the IP of NSF-sponsored grants?
>The reason these things aren't discussed is because they shouldn't have to be discussed.

Whether one chooses to analyze the economics or ignore it, the fabric of monetary incentives is always there because harddrives and bandwidth are not $0.00. Even ephemeral things like "trust" and "reputation" are not zero cost to implement. Maintenance tasks such as
"software installs" and "upgrades" are also not free.

If those costs (which are never specified -- and can't be specified) in the technical protocols are not mentally accounted for, it will seem like "centralization" is some weird illogical phenomenon. One would incorrectly believe that the masses haven't adopted distributed protocol stacks like IPFS, sandstorm.io, Diaspora, GNUSocial etc because the "technology" is a problem. If you focus on technology like that, you'll just end up inventing another distributed protocol that non-geeks will not use.

Put another way, you can write a paper specification that such & such protocol is designed for decentralized deployment. You can also draw out an architecture diagram that illustrates how peer-2-peer nodes can be federated, etc. However, all those intentions still have to be executed in the real world and the real world costs money. That is why decentralized protocols/tools like SMTP and Git coalesce into centralized entities like Gmail/Hotmail and Github.

E.g. the Git specification about BLOBs, sha1 hashes, etc does not include a free $10/month VPS server. Therefore, if I want to post a public repo without having to use my credit-card to pay for bandwidth, I can just put it on Github. Thousands of people making that similar economic decision leads to a centralized Github.
Kinda click-baity title. There's nothing new here. They still need to process the collected data to get an actual image.

Also, it has started to bother me the way that popular science articles overly dramatize things. For example, the description of waiting for good weather as "nerve-racking." I almost laughed out loud when I read this trying to imagine the action-movie-like intensity they were attributing to what was probably a predicted and fairly routine part of the project.
A de facto dictator wins the majority in a "democratic" election. News at 11.
Maybe in return for his time, he gets to post it publicly? It could prove useful to others, surely.
My understanding is that Church Slavonic is nearly indecipherable to someone who knows modern Russian, which would make Old English the correct comparison. However, I am not fluent in Russian and am relying on others' characterization.
This will not end well for Europe. With the pussy governments we have here and Erdogan with complete power over the faucet of refugees, we are at a high risk of becoming Erdogan's bitch.

Either our governments do something, and fast, or the rise of fascism in Europe will only accelerate.
> The hard drives from the South Pole telescope can’t be flown out until the end of the winter season there at the end of October.

Yeah, it'll be a while.
Now that's some latency
Definitely seems like the latter. It's pretty strange to see archive.org adding more and more stuff that's under copyright without explicit permission.

They have a ton of copyrighted games, they have recordings of concerts from artists who almost certainly haven't authorized that. Personally I love this, I just really hope they don't get sued into the ground.
Each of the bronze sculptors involved are talented artists, trying to make money and make more art.

The corporation and the marketing firm didn't make Fearless Girl, Kristen Visbal did.
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Sony has done some interesting e-ink things, of course they were able to partner with e-ink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW9nB6SlsFU
Ask to HN: Any online cryptocurrency exchange with hidden service option?
I would like to use TOR to access exchanges without trusting exit nodes. I love how KeyBase, ProPublica and Coinpayments offer this option. Bitsquare is an interesting service over TOR, but too low activity for now.
A quick and easy way is to create a landing page for your events. Create an email account, track amount of times the page has been visited, and see what/if people respond.
>>in the face of male dominance
>It's a big jump to that from "Fearless girl".

In that case, the secondary statue would not have become so symbolic for some (as referenced by current NYC mayor).

>The bull in deep space Queens becomes, I dunno, a pair of brass balls attached to a bull?

I don't think so. It may become detached from the wall street aspect, but it's still a bull ready to charge. It's like saying Michelangelo's "David" loses its meaning if it were moved to a commercial square in Shenzen.

And you may say David is more like the girl in that they're both defiant. However, I think not due to the symbolism behind the David as well as the bull.
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You can even claim that the same stuff was available via PPV at exorbitant prices, as in movies not the live stuff. Now it's available for nearly free. Yay capitalism!
Well it's like most other funds that are managed on social principles -- it underperforms its category peers.
Why the heck is this Hacker News?
Complete noob here. Bucklescript compiles ocaml to JavaScript? Or is it a new language by itself written in ocaml?
And the article says as much:

>"Traditional (linear) TV audiences are declining at a significant rate, and they are practically aged out of key demographics. Cable customers are also declining."

Note its qualifying the statement with the word "linear."
Other possibility: Europe mostly goes on as usual, ignores Turkey.
Thanks for the link. What a goldmine of cool stuff!
Liberalism (in the classic democracy enlightenment-age concept, not the US partisan party sense) has flourished and waned over the years across the globe. It will be interesting to see where this goes in the next 50 years.
Piracy is still booming. It kind of support my point that ad-blocking laws wouldn't be enforceable, just like anti-DRM laws.
A little bulky I think. Not something I would casually drop into my backpack.
oftentimes in companies, a consultant will be brought in to create controlled rebellion - a consultant is basically a mercenary who will operate at the direction of one of the bosses inside the company, and the results of the consulting or research/development efforts can be discussed in terms of political strategy as well as actual results.

of course, the trade-off for being a consultant is that you're very well compensated but can be fired for any reason, or no reason at all, without any of the legal protections afforded an employee. this is a business model for management consulting firms but i've seen plenty of smaller outfits or individuals do this as well.
> There's really no such thing as market "saturation" when you can grow the market and eat old participants.

The car companies aren't making the same mistake that Microsoft and other old tech companies made with smartphones. They all see that autonomous vehicles are coming and they're doing their best to put out their own solutions. For them to "grow the market," they have to do AVs far better than everyone else. It's tough to imagine them doing that with Google working on this since 2009.

> Apple has $250 billion in cash, so this doesn't strike me as a huge concern.

It's an arms race to outspend in this area. Yes, they could muscle their way through, but only at a huge cost. And even then, employees could leave to start their own startups (see Faraday Futures, Otto, Argo AI, etc.)

> If Apple enters this market, they'll play by Apple's rules and give up virtually nothing

There are way more parts in building an autonomous vehicle than a mobile phone. This graphic [1] does a good job of getting into some of involved industries. Shareholders won't stand for them to sink money into reinventing the wheel (e.g. car components, vehicle to vehicle communication software, AI.)

[1] http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/SELFDRIVING-SUPPLI...
It seems you are also having trouble reading the article so let me paste a quote directly from the article to help you:

"But it was also down to a rather unusual diet of three eggs - two raw - each day for more than 90 years."

I'm not sure how else to interpret this statement.
What's your BMI?
Erdogan has full power over the islamisation of Europe. It remains to be seen if citizens of Europe will stand this for much longer. I think it's really frightening.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/eu-turkey-refu...
Because major world events effect everyone.
Blah, capitalism.
DMCA exemption.

http://archive.org/about/dmca.php

And the Archive could always move out of US jurisdiction if absolutely required.
Remote Desktop on Windows.
The Guardian says things are getting messy (not that anyone was expecting anything else, I might add).

"There is still confusion about the number of votes counted in Turkey and any result, whether declared by the president or not, should be treated with caution. [...] the supreme election commission is reporting that only between 65-70% of votes have been counted, while Turkey’s official news agency Anadolu is reporting that 97-98% of votes are in."
Europe just tried to make a "pleasant deal" with Turkey about the refugees, giving Turkey a lot of money in exchange for them to close the border on their side.

But if Erdogan becomes a nuisance Europe can always go through the unpleasant path, close the border from our side and not give Turkey a cent.
The problem is that everything useful has either showed or stopped scaling. For example, at 10nm (7nm for TSMC) we're getting an ungodly number of logic gates, but sram cell size scaling and Dennard scaling, two things we actually care about have slowed. Similarly, the cost of data movement hasn't come down much.

So 3d transistors and graphene transistors won't help all too much. And besides, FinFET s are basically a form of 3d transistors.
You just can't jail everybody that avoid DRM or blocks ads. There would be nobody left to pay for said prisons.
Since this most certainly means that a large group of people will be deprived further from a fundamental right called freedom of press. A right that many people from this community hold dear.
"It's like the love life of an elephant: Lots of loud noises, passion, drama, and then nothing to see for 22 months."
"The telescope zeroed in on two supermassive black holes: a beast as massive as four million suns". It's incredible thinking about how tiny and insignificant our planet is compared to the rest of the cosmos.
> With about 98% of ballots counted, "Yes" was on about 51.3% and "No" on about 48.7%.

What majority? Typical "elections" in the Middle East have the dictator get 80-90% of votes. Examples include Egypt, Tunisia (pre-Arab Spring), Algeria, and Syria.

The guy actually has quite a following in Turkey, so 51.3% voting "Yes" doesn't surprise me at all. I know that Erdogan is proposing a system that gives him virtually unlimited power, but that doesn't mean that the vote was rigged.
I think it's better to wait a little bit and see what happens, because there is still controversial things (such as unsealed votes being counted) going on which is usual after every election in Turkey, but who knows.
If you lowered the CEO of McDonalds's pay by 90% and distributed it to all the employees, they'd get less than $20 each. It doesn't exactly bump them up to a living wage.
Television isn't dying. Over the air TV though is on life support. Just like gas stations someday soon local TV stations will be ancient history.
So what is this global investment trying to say?

"We specialize in profiting from misfortune when the market is tanking ... but we aren't scared of the bull, either: bring it on!"
That's an easy one. Construct the page so that the client can't tell the difference between real content and ads. There's no inherent reason ads have to be served from ad-specific domains or downloaded into HTML elements that are detectable as ad space. That requires you to download the whole package, including ads. Then, when the client attempts to analyze the content before display, it could potentially be construed as "circumventing DRM".

Pre-legal speculation disclaimer: IANAL.

They'd have to define DRM as not only preventing ripping the video outside of its normal context but any type of alteration prior to display, even if it occurs after the encryption module terminates. That'd be hard because the decoder ordinarily makes some alterations to the decrypted video stream, e.g., scaling for different displays, overlaying subtitles, applying filters, etc.

HDCP is intended to make DRM circumvention apply to any intermediary devices, like capture cards, but that wouldn't work for computers since HDCP is just working between the display and the GPU driver, if it supports HDCP; the program used to playback the content would be unconcerned with this.

Again I'm not a lawyer but I don't see how blocking ads could be construed as counteracting DRM, as long as the analysis is occurring after the normal decryption cycle.

The wiggle room for publishers is probably in whether or not destroying the ads creates a "derivative work" or not. The consumer's argument that the page is not saved and displayed only temporarily would probably not work due to the RAM copy doctrine.

Things like the Family Movie Act [0], which was passed in 2005 to pre-empt a lawsuit filed against ClearPlay, a DVD player that provided fast-forward and mute macros to bypass objectionable content in legitimate DVD copies, would not apply since they explicitly authorize "making imperceptible [...] limited portions of the audio or video content of a motion picture [...] for private home viewing"; scope limited to motion pictures only.

Ad blockers have been challenged several times in European courts, where they've won, but I don't see how they could expect to win a copyright challenge in American courts (beyond blatant judicial activism).

My assumption is that big shots like Google have not pursued this yet because they're more worried about the Streisand Effect than allowing relatively advanced users to install ad block. Knowing that the blockers are legal in Europe, there's probably nothing they could do to stop people from using them, and it'd just create a huge PR issue.

Maybe the DRM angle is intended to get European courts to rule against ad blockers? I don't know.

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/pl109-9.html
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To me, Facebook was cool when I was in college... when it first came out. Was nice to link up with people I had classes with the previous semester but didn't see much any more, look up cute girls from lectures, and learn stupid details like my friend Joe was into the same bands I was.

But... it instantly lost all appeal once my parents and grandparents joined. I used it for a bit to keep up with friends after college, but then I decided I would de-friend anyone I hadn't actually spoken with in the last year... or didn't expect to ever really talk with again in the future. I did that every year for a few years... and eventually just shut down my account. For me, noise exceeded signal. Every time I got an alert it was some fake friend wanting to connect or share something I didn't care about.

I keep in touch with friends I care about with text messages, and we have our own Slack channels... and that's good. The absolute last thing any of us want is this super-public, broadcasted-bullshit, boast-fest full of people we don't really care about. Some girl I thought was cute when I was in college... there's no reason I need to know when she has kids or what she is up to 15 years later... superficial friendships are just a time sink that take away from real friendships.

Anyway yeah, 5+ years Facebook-free and no regrets on that. I like Snapchat (saying this as a nearly-40-year-old) because, like natural conversation, it's not some crapy thing that comes back to haunt you. Say what you want, and it's gone. (But... yeah, I HATE that it's stored on some server somewhere for the government or advertisers to use to track me.)

Slack groups work really well for me and a few of my groups of friends. Because we know they are exclusive, and won't spam us, we actually value them. When someone has a message for the entire group... "I got engaged / married / had a kid / new job / moving to Singapore..." whatever... it's just information, not someone trying to milk fake internet points from strangers.

Focus on real friends, focus on communication that mimics real life... you say things... and they're gone. Imagine if some asshole was walking around with a tape recorder and recording every conversation you had... that's how I see Facebook / Google+... The whole concept of these networks just makes me cringe.
Interesting. I could see using something like the blockchain as proof of which domains/urls are the current central authority to get the rest of the info from. Such that the base reference isn't easily shut down. It's whack-a-mole to try and kill the head, no need for complex decentralization.

Would be kind of fun to watch the giants trying to shut it down. Given some level of popularity, it might become too difficult​ for them to do. Users donate newly minted Google/Microsoft accounts as old ones get shut down. With some sort of karma reward for doing that.
I have been logged out of Facebook for a few weeks, and started receiving emails (trying to entice me to come back) that I hadn't previously. The latest one was April 15, 3:12 PM PST.
Sure you made an engine, I doubt it has 1/50th of the real feature of the top engines. Can it import layers for photoshop or do you have to save as .PNGs. Can you import Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, and others or only some exported format like Collada. Do you have support for Right to Left text, All of Unicode? Do you run on 15 platforms including things 3DS, Switch, ... Do you have an IDE non-programmers can use? Does it have undo? Is it localized into other languages? Does it have a plugin system? Can those plugins be loaded and unloaded while it's running to do you have to exit, recompile, and restart to use plugins. Do you have shader editors? Animation Edtiors? Can you apply different animations to portions of a character? Do you have physics? How about phyiscally based animations?

I'm sure you're going to tell me "yes" to all of those but sorry, as someone who's made several engines myself NES, Amiga, 3D0, DOS, Windows, PS1, PS2, PS3/XBOX 360, I know from experience that just "making an engine" is like 3% of the real work involved in getting to the level of Unreal and Unity.

It's very easy to "make an engine", it's a lot harder to fill it out with features and tools.
> Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.

Try to imagine a set of proposed conventions and tools for building decentralized (or distributed) digital cryptocurrencies written before the Bitcoin whitepaper. All the hard problems-- consensus, reducing trust in third parties, defending against Sybil, etc.-- are outside of the scope of this proposal.

What are the chances that such a proposal would be not only relevant but also significantly improve the design of future distributed cryptocurrencies?

This is relevant because many of the same hard problems are still outstanding when it comes to building secure social applications where the user has some semblance of control over their data.
Hope EU is happy about it's long term position toward Turkey.
It's not the cost of the contracts themselves that are so expensive it's the overhead of profit taking by the recipients of each contract. When you hire a contractor you avoid taking on capital expense and internal complexity overhead, but you are generally going to pay 15% or more above what it would cost you to do it in house. You accept this tradeoff with the understanding that people you contract with have to make some profit too. When you are small the complexity overhead can easily draw you off course. Month to month and on demand contracts can be paused rather easily to adjust to cash flows.

It's not the cost of drawing up the contract that adds a significant part of the cost. The contract work itself that adds overhead.
Programming delay effects with your instrument
You're describing US law only, right? Because the rent-a-VHS-and-keep-a-copy thing is perfectly legal in many parts of the world. It'd be that way with BluRays too, except that there are laws now that prohibit the breaking of DRM systems.
Actually sdrtrunk does claim to support multiple dongles, though I have not verified the functionality. I tried it with an Airspy (10 MHz BW) so I did not need the multiple SDR support.
My first cut guess is that at each telescope at each relevant point in time, they need to capture both the intensity and the phase of the sub-millimeter wave electro-magnetic signal and, then, for each point in time add those signals.

So,

(1) How do they get the time points coordinated just right among all the telescopes?

(2) How do they capture both the amplitude and the phase of the signals?

Gee, maybe readers are not supposed to ask such questions?
Debt repayment destroys money.

http://positivemoney.org/how-money-works/advanced/how-money-...

Banks don't have a shortage of money if less people save. In theory yes, but in practice, banks can borrow money at basically a 0% interest rate from the government. If the government sees that there isn't enough money in circulation, they will just put more in circulation.
> ... it's still a goddamned 128kbit or less stream. Arguably, this is worse quality than ye olde FM on average.

I don't claim to be a "golden ears" or anything, but I find 64 kbps HE-AAC to offer better-than-FM quality. (HE-AACv2 benefits really only make sense at 48 kbps or lower.)

Hydrogenaudio tests showed that a good HE-AAC encoder does just slightly (imperceptibly) worse than Opus at 64 kbps[1].

[1] http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm