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>Is there anything wrong with profit? No, certainly not.

Citation needed.

For some people's ethical values (which is the only way to judge "wrong" and "right"), there is.

For one (again in some views) it dilutes the power of art as a statement in itself.
You're talking about data parallelism, the OP is talking about task parallelism. Since in both cases things are occurring in parallel it makes sense to use 'parallelism' as an umbrella term for both and it was clear from context here that it was task parallelism under discussion.
Any tips for coming up with good projects to do? Something like this is obviously beyond the scope of most novices.
How exactly does the DRM work when I refuse to download the DRM-protected content? That's like saying I'm circumventing DRM by not renting movies to watch in my Bluray player. Your comment is nonsensical.
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As some of the comments mention, the download button is an issue for sites that are using third party content which they have permission to use, but not to allow users to redistribute. Unlike browser extensions or even right-clicking on the video, a download button implies that users have permission to download the video, and arguably even to share it, which could get the site owners into trouble unless they develop custom controls to remove the download button.
I really doubt that before the bull arrived, a statue that challenged the mythology of Wall St instead of glorifying it would have been allowed to stay for more than a few minutes in that location.

The bull is still there because it makes a statement that appeals to certain people. The amount of money Di Modica spent on it is tangential at best.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Digital nomad from Portugal (currently in France)

Remote: Yes

I'm a professional frontend engineer with 15 years of experience and I have a passion for translating beautiful designs into functional user interfaces and building great web applications.

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Front-End Engineer

nuno@nunoarruda.com
Personally, I visit hackaday.com almost daily. It contains a bit of hardware news along with a bunch of interesting projects (called hackaday.io). Main focus of the website is modding of HW and SW though
First of all, great work. It's been a long time since I've done a weekend hack like this myself.

However, it seems to me that Kafka is unnecessary in this system. It's clear that, at least in the final version, the system isn't designed to scale beyond one application server. For one thing, you're storing the ban list on the local filesystem. So it's definitely not 12-Factor compliant. And you're storing a local snapshot of the image. So why send the edits out to Kafka, only to have them come back in to the same process?
OP is specifically talking about the ability to use arbitrary images as cursors. Why aren't the standard i-beam, crosshair, resize etc cursors enough for your purposes?
Implementing graphs in python, with type hints
CDs degrade over time, both flash and CDs are bad long-term choices.
Those are essentially solved problems for which you don't need to reinvent the wheel and can copy what any successful small or medium business does.
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Surely Apple's semi-recent mega-success (iPhone onwards) puts them in a fairly uncommon position among companies? For this strategy to work, don't they need a huge surplus of (foreign) cash AND a reasonable expectation of a Tax Holiday in the near/medium future? Given those, it would seem most companies would be wrong to do the exact same thing (even if in this case Apple "gets away with it").
Ask HN: How Hacker News can scale for larger userbase?
I was wondering how Hacker News can deal with increasing submitting users each year without falling into poor quality but trendy subjects? I can't tell if it is a real problem but over time I think karma isn't an infinitely scalable way to promote quality content.
That may well be a factor in what's going on, but for whatever reason, there is evidence [1] of a height-based pay gap in hiring and compensation. We're seldom aware of our subconscious biases, but they still influence our actions all the time.

[1] http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/standing.aspx
Great article! I always feel this way, but not many understand me!
> Non-copyable text, hijacking right click.

The vast majority of publishers don't use those tricks.
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I am really on board with what you're saying. The economies and diseconomies of scale play a big role in this.

The reason people build and join centralized social networks is that building decentralized networks is hard to get right. So you get stuck with "natural" monopolies for a time.

You need to try to re-decentralize in every generation, however, as technology improves.

There are more serious socioeconomic issues however:

1) Centralized organizations have better security. That's why gmail is more secure than a random host with squirrelmail. That's why AWS has better uptime than a small data center. That's also why people joined cities formed alliances to fight off the invading hordes.

2) Network effects. To leave a service for another competing one, you need to pull all your friends with you. That's a high barrier for most people, so you have lock-in. The key is not to compete head-on.

3) Interoperability. There is so much politics that it's hard to make something interoperable that doesn't get forked up the wazoo.

I believe that, in the future, technological tools will lead the way, and protocols and regulation will follow. You see this with anything:

Bitcoin
IPFS
Scuttlebutt
And hopefully Qbix [1]

I also hope that in the future we will have decentralized

Power generation
Wireless communications

[1] https://qbix.com/Qbix/Platform
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> Honestly I'm seeing it as a pure political decision and huge waste of money

Sounds like how the BJP is about to force all high school students in India to learn Sanskrit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/world/asia/india-sanskrit...
I'm curious if the European context of corporate "command and control" differs from the North American one. (edit: The authors are European. edit 2: I've heard anecdotes that European labor laws make management more "strict" with workers.) I also wonder if the profession and industry make a huge difference.

In my limited experience in North America as a software developer, there has been little "command and control", and far more "chaos", i.e. the businesses didn't seem to have any kind of control over their software development, and would tolerate a surprisingly low amount of predictability. This was almost always because non-technical types were in charge. (edit: Non-technical types often view software management as intractable, and tend to utilize vague approaches like "we'll ship something on this date".)
Probably the best way is through your school/department and the companies that are recruiting. Otherwise, searching companies individually because which countries they recruit interns from and where they place them creates a combinatorial explosion.

Good luck.
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> The representation of the pixels is a great example in this case

That's funny because I thought (assuming you're referring to the bit-packing of the pixels) that seemed to me one of the more obvious choices (to do something else would have been more remarkable to me).

Beyond that though, I have zero experience with real-time networked systems. Especially with a gazillion users and that everybody gets to see the same image, that seems hard.

The cleverest solution that I read in the article, that I really liked but probably would never have thought of myself (kinda wish I would, though) was the part where the app starts receiving and buffering tile-changes right away, and only then requests the full image state, which will always be somewhat stale because of its size, but it has a timestamp so they can use the buffered tile-changes to quickly bring its state up to time=now. Maybe this is a common technique in real-time networked systems, I don't know, but it was cool to learn about it.
Crucial question whose answer I didn't catch while reading the articles: how do you determine who is considered a "scientist"?
How about: Buy-backs are more tax efficient because they result in a higher stock price than an equivalently sized dividend.
I don't know the full backstory of why your domain was blacklisted, but if it's only because of your criticism of YC, that sounds wrong and I'm sure the HN moderators will be happy to remove your domain from the blacklist.

Also, what is the #caboose channel on freenode about? I tried joining to see what it's about, but it looks like it's invite only.
I agree actually -- I mentioned Drudge Report as another example of the phenomenon that a website can be popular without a lot of visual design. Maybe the point is that content trumps appearance.

Also good point about the design not changing. I hate that seemingly every time I go to pay my Comcast bill the UX is different.
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I think they would end up finding 8 or 9 dudes playing beer pong at a chalet all year with the money. They wouldnt actually "find" that, but it would be the internal outcome. And to of course a bunch of doctored papers with fake results.
"Psychology, emotion, and interpersonal relationships play a far greater role in shaping policy than any objective fact. Unlike many, I don’t see this as a problem or a bug. It’s just how large groups of people make decisions. We are not robots. We’re leaky bags of meat that have no inclination toward rationality."

Pretty insightful thinking there for a programmer, if you ask me. As a group, we tend to focus on rational facts and ignore the emotional aspects all too often. I also quite enjoy reading Kyle's struggle with how to find happiness and fulfillment. I absolutely love writing software, but after 30 years of it, I'm also struggling to find happiness in it. It is starting to feel more like an addiction than a fulfilling pursuit of life that will help me grow.
>Seems like pretty cheap marketing

In retrospect, yes. The art could have just been permanently removed by the city, and nothing would have come out of it (except some extra fines).
"Embedded OpenBSD"
Also it might be relevant that FB buys third party data:

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-data-brokers-2016-12

It wouldn't surprise me if a credit card payment for a doctor visit might lead to such an association or suggestion.
Why can't HTML5 be relevant without Netflix?

Most gamers use Steam, not WebGL, and the internet hasn't fallen apart.

People can survive using Roku/FireTV/AppleTV/PS4/XB3/standalone PC app for their streaming movie services. And if Google and Mozilla would allow people to keep installing third-party plugins like Flash, then they could do that to watch Netflix inside their browser.

If you become your enemy to defeat him, then you've already lost whatever it was you were fighting for.
I wonder if the rise of standardised formatting for source code helps here?
In what context do soldiers get "yellow"?
I believe this is the correct answer, it happened to me as well. I got friend suggestion for my daughter speech therapist, and all our communication and appointments were done only in paper form. But I searched her name on FB out of curiosity. :-)

OP: Can you exclude the possibility that the doctor just searched your name on FB? Why wouldnt he do that...?
Stability at the cost of autonomy breeds complacency, which is the opposite of OP's attitude. Presumably he lived with his parents. But he wants to be paid for his work commensurate with his contributions.

Means tested welfare has the same problems as full time employment: people are so used to that paycheck that they are afraid to do rock the boat and work on something meaningful in ther lives. They just drive the same truck every day, until they lose their job.

In fact, even Adam Smith proposed the free market as a way to achieve equality among men. Even socialist anarchists like Oscar Wilde were most incensed by the degrading nature of the employer-employee relationship.

You don't need this model for everyone. Just for those who are sick and tired of playing office politics and pretending to work 8 hour days becauss they finished in 2 hours and can't be seen doing anything productive for anyone else, since the company can sue them.
There is Libui-Node (https://github.com/parro-it/libui-node) for creating native UI in node.js.
natural selection does not play a role past reproductive age. If you die at 50 or 130 (for the vast majority who do not bear children in their 50s or later), your chances of propagating your genes to the next generation are the same.
> That's a different and actually quite a good question, from an ethical point of view. Answering it without resorting to arguments based on either greed or envy is surprisingly difficult, and almost certainly requires some exploration of both economics and philosophical views on the nature of modern society.

It's actually not that hard: The concept of property itself is a social construct, so without a social norm that establishes property, you having an income of 200 million doesn't mean anything. If you simply claim ownership of something, but noone agrees with you, then you don't actually own it. If society grants you the advantages of this norm and enforces it for you, it's just as valid to partially revoke it where that is to the advantage of society at large. It would be completely arbitrary to say that everyone is obligated to help enforcing a norm that's to their own disadvantage and they should not have any say in it because the person profiting from it says so.

> Given that in the sort of cases we're talking about probably no-one needs to have access to any given content, the situation we're considering is actually closer to your second example than your first and third.

What does "need" mean? Does a slave need freedom? Or is that just a preference?

Is the ability to save and replay information sources under your own control (and as is explicitly exempted from copyright restrictions in quite a few places) just a luxury in a democracy?

Does a human need participation in culture?

In any case, you presenting those arguments already contradicts the idea that you only should be allowed to have an opinion on a norm if you profit from it.

> And I'm not sure exploring the economics of content creation more thoroughly rather than making a superficial analysis is going to lead to the conclusions you want it to.

What conclusion do I want it to lead to?
You can only distribute to your shareholders your reserves. They do not have $246B of reserve. And yes they can spend some of it, but that will come in deduction of their equity (through P&L). This is not the balance sheet of some risky start up who will borrow to pay their bills. I believe Apple has a AA+/AAA kind of rating. These investors are not in there for the risk.
> But that sense of relief is tinged with anticipation: So much data takes time to process, and the team must wait months to find out if their massive effort was truly a success.

It could be a few months before something comes out.

I have the same sentiment that you expressed.

Eagerly awaiting pics. What wonderful times we live in.
"Does anyone other than a graphic designer ever look at a website and think “Holy crap. That thing is a pixel out of place!”. Probably not."

Users won't notice when something is perfect. But when anything is misaligned, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Dont give up, we care about the pixel.
Even Amazon recognize this...

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
Yes, there is Graphene with Servo: https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml/wiki/Building-Gra...
As far as I'm aware the best meta-analysis shows that life expectancy peaks somewhere between 2 to 4 cups per day.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n...

It would be crazy to think that that's strictly causal but I think it does show that people who care about their health can drink 3 cups a day happily.
I imagine a whole lot of people could do a better job than Yahoo's new CEO, for example. At that level, being the CEO of a corporation with that level of money that already runs itself, you could likely get by doing pretty much nothing/just going along with your advisors'/the board's advice to keep the company at least in the black.
Properly pressed CD, at that.

Burned discs rarely last longer than 5 years, a decade max.
Because most people want to read what you publish. No further explanation needed.

Now, being included on a mailing list because you bought something is a dick move. However, most people dont mind.
Nothing about free speech is straightforward. At least, that's my take: I don't believe free speech by itself has a lot of value. It's just noise, until you can interpret it; it's the message that matters. And in lots of ways, this isn't controversial: when you prevent plagiarism, protect trademarks, punish libel, enforce honesty in advertising, or root out academic fraud you're doing so because free speech alone isn't enough.

Similarly here; just because some people may have a message they should be allowed to proclaim does not mean they should be allowed to (effectively) silence others, nor that they should be able to misrepresent the origins of their message.

I don't think their message is particularly objectionable, but I don't think it's reasonable for it to change the bull's message so severely. Separately I don't think it's healthy for something so context sensitive to be pushed so publicly without proper attribution. Then again, I don't think advertising is good for us, either, so on that front I realize that there's definitely some disagreement.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I like to sign to remind myself I'm replying to a fellow human, so NOT signing will make me feel uncomfortable!

Maybe I should stop replying...
That's because the current "social" web is really about announcements and talking at crowds.

Real social activities are decentralized local things like:

* Going to dinner
* Taking a trip together
* Chipping in for a gift
* Attending an event
* Dating
* Interacting with one another
* Forums and communities
* Group driving
* Meetups
* Volunteering in community
* Helping after a disaster
* Buying and selling furniture

That's the stuff you don't need global singletons for.

You don't need your signal to go to facebook or even AT&T to invite friends for dinner.

Centralized social networks and governments cause perverse feelings in local communities where eg democrats and republicans living next to each other increasingly hate each other.

I talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzMm7-j7yIY
You need to hire a social manager (email is social media). Have them manage while you grow new ones.

OT: Why dont you vlog about candy from japan? Id love to see videos about it.Maybe stores that sell it, taste comparisons, history of a specific candy, etc.
I enjoyed hearing about Solid and other "de-centralizing technologies" at the Decentralized Web Conference last June in SF.

That said, I think that there is a less elegant but far simpler approach that I use: I write articles for my own blog and often I decide to license my books using a Creative Commons license. I then use traditional social media (Gnu Social, FB, Twitter, G+) to link to my own content.

It bothers me (a little) when I see people putting a large amount of effort into generating content for platforms they don't own. I personally think that social media is OK for posting vacation pictures and simple stuff, but for anything you work hard on, why not have your own content on your own domain?
We've gone through this many times, its nothing nefarious.

1) doctor uploads his contacts (phone number/email addresses) to facebook and sets his contact info

2) you upload your contacts and set your contact info

if there's one match between them, facebook believes (correctly) that there is some sort of existing relationship between you. The fact that its professional and not personal and you want facebook to just be personal doesn't change it.

In other cases facebook can see you are friends with many of them same people and hence figures you might know each other.
It would be nice if Facebook's register an account pop-up didn't occupy 1/4 of the screen.
Exactly, nobody said that proven and established hardware couldn't be your own hardware after all
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I do the list on buy thing and the first email people get is "If you don't want this, unsubscribe now [big fat link]"

Almost nobody takes me up on it. My guess is they care about the free updates and such.

The reason I do this is because I too once made the mistake of not building a mailing list for a moderately popular blog.
Only examples I have seen are closed source / available as services (e.g. http://en.savefrom.net/)
The alternative mentioned in the article is React Native, which runs on iOS/Android/Ubuntu/OSX/Windows.

Another lightweight alternatives to Electron are: Mozilla Positron (https://github.com/mozilla/positron), Webkit for Android/Windows (https://github.com/daewoong-jang/webkit-android) and Qt Quick (https://www.qt.io/qt-quick/).
I think it would have all the problems of lending money to or going into business with family or friends.
Agreed. Unfortunately, when you take your social network public, investors demand growth. When user growth plateaus, it seems FB has chosen to be more aggressive in forcing you into their network ^.^
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Thanks. My blog is running on the same server as the app itself. Its a small linode machine with only 1 CPU core, and nginx isn't keeping up with the traffic of both sites while fighting for CPU with ghost and kafka.

So much for my big talk about performance numbers. I'm fixing it as fast as I can.
What if we had reddit but with arbitrary group activities instead of just chat?
The Python idiom is to guard pretty much just the main() function; the Python package system does the job of keeping the rest of the details from leaking.
If in doubt, archive the facebook post.
http://archive.is/mdDuI
Anything with a TXCO is pretty good.

I like these: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/
And these: https://www.amazon.com/NooElec-NESDR-SMArt-Enclosure-R820T2-...
I wonder how many people just delete that mail without even consciously reading far enough. I've observed some interesting cases of "banner blindness" in myself with helpful information that was too big and fat...
The mobile view is slightly more readable https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=195070274849...
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It depends on how you define "easy".

I have a feeling that if I took all the time and energy I've put into studying and working with computers my entire life and chose to put all that time and energy into studying and working with business concepts instead, I'd be able to run a business, possibly even a Fortune 500 one.

Alas I didn't spend all that time and energy on business, so I can't run a Fortune 500 company, but alternate universe me might.
I've biked in several major American cities and nowhere have I ever heard of a cyclist getting tackled and punched by a motorist. I've gotten yelled at and had stuff thrown at me by angry motorists, but nothing like what Russ saw in NZ. At the time it happened, Russ blogged about it a bit and he also had never seen anything like it in all of his cycling miles in the states.
> all our communication and appointments were done only in paper form

Just because your communication happened on paper doesn't mean that they haven't stored your email address or phone number in some service digitally, and that somehow that info has been shared (e.g. a phone with a facebook app that uploads all contacts)
Maybe 180 degree turn and put her side by side with the bull