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Pkilgore,

Discussion is a two way street. It involves one talking and another responding. What I am advocating is for honest, open discussion. All I said was that we can have a discussion without judgment. You and I may not agree on something but I am not going to judge you for having an opinion that may be different from my own.

>We have to learn to listen without judging. "Why? Why are you allowed to say something I find abhorrent, but I am not allowed to think and express my honest (here, judgmental) response? You don't have control over how I feel in response to anything you do. I do."

And hence the open discussion. To me, and maybe I see things with rose colored glasses, but honest entails truthful which could involved heated, passionate, calm, even frenzied discussion. It could involve telling me I am wrong, it could involve agreeing. That allows us to understand where each other is coming from and could involve me or you having a change in position. I am in no way saying I have control over your response or feelings about my stance just as you have no control over my interpretation of yours.

>Sometimes we have to agree to disagree and your response was "that this does not mean I cannot express my disagreement with my own speech, including invective, should I find it appropriate to do so.....But your speech does not gain the privilege of being immune to my criticism in the interim."

I think you have wholly misunderstood my statement. I welcome your response, in whatever form you may find appropriate. What I said was that at the end of the day (after the discussion, which may sometimes be heated as passionate discussions sometimes are), we may have to face facts and that may be that you and I (as your example showed) may stand on opposite sides of the issue. We have openly discussed the issue.

You are correct that change is difficult. Nobody is advocating that a listener must be respectful of an idea they find abhorrent as you stated. I am simply saying that after the discussion is over, I am simply saying that response to the idea that is disrespectful is wholly different than slurs etc that are disrespectful or degrading to the person on the opposite side. I have spent my career fighting for the rights of marginalized persons (the disabled) but my experience is that you gain more ground from listening, responding, and then working to find common ground in order to make some progress. And, yes, sometimes that common ground is the tiniest of slivers, but once it is found, change can occur. If I stay on my side of the street and you on yours, hurling words across the void gets neither of us closer to a better place. YMMV.
It's true. https://www.theymadethat.com/things/iwe/apple-macintosh-128k

It's just so hard to track any history related to people who are not super famous.
I have W10 running on a 2012 Panasonic ToughBook that has a touch screen. For quite some time I believed that a touch screen was hokey and no one wanted to get smudges on the screen. But I've got to say that once you start using it, whether to click on links, launch apps, or whatever, especially with the large tiles in W10, it becomes very natural. I do think, however, that it is more natural with smaller machines where the screen is just physically closer to you...like on the XPS 13.
Those are the projects I'm referring to, they will come online in early 2020's and use turbines that are not currently available

They are subject to final investment decision in 2020/21, so could be scrapped if commodity and CO2 prices don't move favorably
Related to:
https://blog.adguard.com/en/ad-blocking-is-under-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14990137
That .1 change has __all__ of the same (and maybe a bit more) problems as the move to v6.

(Because it makes things even more complicated, now you'll have not two incompatible but about three things.)

And of course the problem is/was of economics. No incentive to change, v4 is good enough for now, for the incumbents. And even if large companies with new users were running out of v4, they can afford trading netblocks and/or carrier grade NAT devices, both are cheaper than telling others to upgrade (and you'd lose customers/subscribers otherwise).
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> penumbric emanation

Vocabulary much? I'll bet there's a blip on Google Trends today.
In fact Vimeo's pricing and core audience (largely-independent semi-pro uploaders of high-quality media content for promotional purposes) is identical to SoundCloud's. And Vimeo recently doubled down on that model, abandoning a massive Netflix-like product line in development [0]. So someone from that culture will be very well suited to promote stability of that business model.

What remains to be seen is his degree of financial control, given that Vimeo's parent IAC could presumably spare relatively large amounts of funding for it due to its stake in Match and Tinder. I have high hopes for its stability though.

[0] https://www.recode.net/2017/8/2/16086880/vimeo-subscription-...
In principle, I am right with ya. We need ways of beating (or at least coping with), the diffraction limit. It's fun to think of, say, stuff like this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06351 (as far as big lenses go)

Using the sun as a gravitational lens would be pretty sweet.
I have a feeling we will have some more tricks to play with E&M locally before we can go to space on that scale though.

edit: My own semi-blind musing has made me curious:
metamaterials for super-lensing: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0263.pdf

entanglment enhanced microscopes?!: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.8075
(@shpx linked to this quantum stuff before me, by the way)
It is super ironic that the co-founder @jameshartig was previously at GrooveShark aka "The legality of Grooveshark's business model, which permitted users to upload copyrighted music, remains undetermined."
AR headsets.

There were MP3 players before the iPod, but they weren't taking off quite yet. Then Jobs came, and the iPod changed the music market. And then changed the smartphone market. Google Glass was a good first mass market prototype, Microsoft seems to be going in the right direction with Hololens, but we all know it's not quite there yet. Whoever manages to figure out what the magic combination is for an AR headset that gets massive adoption, will usher in the next UI/portable computing revolution.
I did too
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> HN certainly isn't a utopia, and a lot of the problems mentioned are just inherent to online forums.

The old style of forums didn't have the same kind of compulsive pressure, since you could always respond the next day/week/month and the topic would bump back up to the top of the post. If you don't respond on HN or Reddit quick enough, no one is going to see your comment. I frequent some sites that has the older system, and I'll find myself occasionally saying "This isn't that important; wait a few days and see if you feel like responding." But that's not really much of an option here - how many people are going to read your comment if you make it several days later?

And it wouldn't be hard to devise a system that actively discourages compulsive posting behavior. If you, say, had a web forum where everyone could only post once a week, you'd have much less of that urgency (and you'd get a discussion with more users, not just the fraction that habitually post everywhere).
Looks like they hosted on Amazon S3 but didn't set up an alias record for www http://covalentai.com
> And if github cannot standup to DMCA abuse, then well, easylist and all other developers should be giving a clear hard though to their continued use of the github platform.

This. This is the main topic here. The wide use of centralized services (such as Github, but it applies also to Facebook, Google et al.) makes you dependent to corporate decisions, including coward (or maybe rational) decisions towards freedom of their users.

This is also why linux kernel developers will never, ever use a service like Github. Apart from scalability issues, the single point of failure that these services are (not for technical reasons, but for political reasons) is simply scary.

TL;DR: Assholes who send buggy DMCA is not the issue here. Depending on a centralized service is.
Yes! Somebody in the community just recently built this:

https://github.com/sjones6/gun-mongo

https://github.com/sjones6/gun-mongo-key

Anything else?
Sources from the company told us the layoffs had been planned for months, but SoundCloud still recklessly hired employees up until the last minute, with some being let go within weeks of starting. Employees told TechCrunch that the company was “a shitshow” with inconsistent

It's sad that the execs get free pass on ethics violations like these. And there are no consequences for these execs. And I don't understand why after such violations people still stay with the company.
I don't think they are offering SVG versions of their icons until the next version, and BS4 is moving away from font (non-SVG) icons, thus their exclusion.
> Text zoom is also disabled within <svg:text> elements, which leads to some trickiness here.

Not sure I understand this. Is the author saying that if the user tries to zoom in, svg text won't change size?
I'm not sure exactly what you were expecting, but the title seems suitable to me.
Sort of tangential, but I felt this exact same way when I moved from being a post-doc in neuroscience to being a data scientist. The impostor syndrome was so strong it was painful. It has subsided now a bit because I know I'm able to bring value to my company - despite the fact that I know there are much more capable and qualified data scientists (by a large margin) out there, and despite the fact that by-and-large 'ML' and 'AI' is definitely a buzzword around here. But it really, really motivates me to strengthen where I'm lacking.

The funny thing is, it took me about a year to find this position after a good amount of rejections. About a year after I got my data scientist title, I've been contacted by recruiters from places I would have never expected to be contacted from (Amazon, Microsoft, FB, etc.). Did a few interviews, and realized during those interviews that I still have a lot to learn.

For one of the interviews, they gave me a take home assignment where they literally duplicated a column in the feature matrix... I didn't catch it, and during the phone part of the interview I get asked 'do you know notice something interesting about those two feature distribution plots you have there?'

"Hrmm, no I don't. Oh, wait, they look pretty similar."

"They're exactly the same."

"... shit."
I think the speed element is too narrow. The bandwidth caps you see in the US are very very rare in the rest of the developed world. It's also extremely expensive compared to more competitive markets and it's almost all down to regulatory capture.
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There used to be software called Mojoworld that would allow you to do this, using scientific modeling of various things (geology, botany, climate stuff, etc.) to make the generation realistic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MojoWorld_Generator

It hasn't existed for a long time, which is sad. Anyone know good (or even not so good) alternatives?
The difficult thing is finding people who are highly knowledgeable about the telecom industry who are not in the employ of the telecom industry and don't hope to be.
Not at that point in the sentence!
Well at this point the expectations are a little lower. "Anything but going all the way to zero" seems like the current tone.
I still go to SoundCloud to listen to new music from Techno artists. I guess that's what it started with. Nowadays I find mixes on SoundCloud and MixCloud. I find YouTube has plenty of material found nowhere else but not always that particular kind of stuff.
Sadly, no. Although, I haven't been to one in awhile. I reached that age where there's fewer weddings and the divorces are starting.
This is my objection also. Sturgeon's Law says that most things are bad; it doesn't obligate anyone to celebrate those failures.

Having spent time in quite a few 'iconic' Brutalist building, my experience is that they're frequently terrible. Impressive looking, but deeply unfriendly to their inhabitants. There's one where it sometimes rains indoors because the venting and vault-ceilings are so poorly executed. It's still lauded as great architecture.
Didn't know about that. Thanks for the link.

When is the last of the ClearType patents due to expire? Is the patent expiry date based on the Publication date/Filing date/Priority date + a fixed number of years?
Ask HN: Monetizing newsletter with 2M and 1M members
Does anyone else run large newsletter lists? We're having a hard time monetizing our weekly emails to our members.

We have nearly 2 million members (that haven't opted out) in English and close to a million in Spanish for a book website. We send weekly emails with new featured books. We've been looking for interested sponsors and I've been looking at other previous discussions here on HN on monetizing NLs for ideas. Most of them seem to be for a much more niche/focused NL list though. Any tips or ideas on how to monetize a large NL list like this that isn't too focused (other than it relates to books)?

I've tried submitting to Upstart.me but don't see it added yet, so maybe it's a bit too generic to be listed there as well.

We've been using it mostly for promoting our own products (such as membership upgrades), but using the same few products over and over again start getting diminishing attention and returns from our members.

(note that we are capable of segmenting our list internally by topic based on the books our members are interested in, but I'm not sure how to turn that into a steady revenue stream as of yet)

Thanks for your answers!
The most surprising thing will be that most things will stay the same as now.
That constant sound is also useful for the spies. Without that it would be hard to know you have tuned on the right frequency (I'd assume they would use some pretty simple and low tech radios).
Well, because Damore touched an extremely delicate subject, that is the relation between biology (sex/race) and behavior, and the progressive view is that the latter is influenced mostly by cultural factors, with the former playing only a marginal role. The NYT team, as a whole, is likely to hold and profess the progressive view, so defending the opposite view is something I wouldn't expect to be published, even as an opinion piece.
Wheeler came from the industry, yes. But that's where the comparison ends. Not sure what you're trying to say.

Wheeler was pretty consistently pro-consumer. Pai has shown the complete opposite in each decision.
I hate to say it, but the ad-blocking community is handling this problem the same way governments often handle things: Reactionary instead of pro-active.

The real source of the problem with ads, is that almost every ad network allows ads to be self posted with little to no filter. This opens us all up to the abuse from ads we've been experiencing for over a decade now.

Could you imagine what would happen if you were allowed to self-post an ad on television without the network manually approving each one?

It's time to hold ad networks responsible for their own content. If a virus spreads because of their ads, THEY should be sued, just like MTV and others were when they violated FCC decency rules during the Super Bowl.
While this is cool, it just seems like a clunky version of an actual virus.
Shocking that the Southern Baptist Convention isn't familiar with online debate.

> They define 'alt-right' as a synonym for white supremacy

That's not how the term is usually used online, though, except to suggest that anyone to right of Bernie Sanders is a white supremacist.
One of my friends is in finance, and the other in biology, and judging by the way that they talk about it, they believe that AI is about to take over the world, and they believe there is a huge monolithic black box that can solve all the world's problems. So yes, there is a huge bubble. The question is how exactly will the bubble pop? Or will it pop?
I think it is more about the underlying "paternalism" than any specific UI/UX design.

Damn it, i have seen a comment from a prominent Gnome developer basically stating that users are idiots. This based on some usability testing that was done back in the day, apparently.

So expect more and more out of Gnome, and by extension Freedesktop, to be about putting users in padded cells...
Obligatory "HYUK HYUK HYUK, WINDOZE IS SO BAD LINUX IS MUCH BETTTER HYUK HYUK" comment
This article would suit Washington Post better
Oh man I've wanted to ask you guys for ages (politely) - how do you justify the cost of your program? I'm sure you've heard it before, but everything you offer I can find on my own, at a hostel cost of 10 bucks a day and a coffee cost (for wifi) of like 1-2 dollars/day, in SE Asia. Your program seems to be charging several hundreds/week for establishing housing.
The problem is a general one with government agencies hiring folks other than career civil servants.

How do you find people who are highly knowledgeable about he telecom industry but who haven't on the payroll of a telecom company and don't hope to be?
Is there any site where as security vulnerabilities are disclosed, you can see each what platform/contexts are affected, which have updated, and how to do that update?
Your points 1 and 3 are about the alt-right...but you just said you weren't talking about the alt-right.

How is Charlottesville relevant again?
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subscribing to labels or artists works for a small amount, Bandcamp does this. I pay an amount to select few of my fave labels that are doing it, and I get unlimited streaming and downloads of new releases It's great.

However, Soundcloud serves more purposes. I don't think that works for the rest of the music out there I want to listen to. I mean there are tons of other podcasts, clips, etc that I want to listen to regularly and am not going to pay hundreds of dollars for. SoundCloud's rise to popularity is very much likely because it is a storehouse for audio, the internet needs easy to use and access repositories like this and since no one else was doing it at time, SC did well.
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Huh? Sorry, one of the problems with your analogy was that it seemed to presume the legitimacy of transgender identity. I personally recognize it, so if Pat, born a man, tells me that they're a transgender woman, I would say, "Good to know Pat". If Bob thinks transgenderism is total bullshit, I'd disagree with that, but if that Bob told Pat, "I still think you're a man" -- I'd understand Bob's line of reasoning.

Not sure what we're arguing about anymore. You said [0] you've seen "lots of comments on HN that interpreted [Damore] as saying something indistinguishable from those things [e.g. fewer women are able to be good engineers than men)."

I replied with what was not meant to be a direct disagreement (I don't doubt you've seen those comments), but to suggest that someone can read Damore's memo and by reading between the lines
, argue that Damore was asserting/implying things even as he didn't literally say them. This includes thinking that Damore is anti-diversity even if he claims to be pro-diversity, because some people who act very racist have been known to claim that they are not racist and that they have many friends of different racial groups. That's all.

I get that Damore supporters don't have to agree with how anti-Damore folks have chosen to interpret and paraphrase Damore's memo. I argue only that it's hypocritical to dismiss such arguments-via-interpretation (especially since Damore used it when referring to articles and studies).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986958
Just getting YouTube red is a great solution - for those two or so countries where it's available. Most of us here in the non-US part of the world don't really have that option.
And then you have a prominent Fedora dev and a prominent Gnome dev shouting a big NO to the claim of choice...
Trump's mix of threats and secret talks with NKorea are 'coercive diplomacy 101'
There was an article awhile back in the NYT stating that in many cases asians people can be found cheating on those tests or lying about their educational background.

Lets face it. They have resources to both cheat and get tutoring on the ways to pass an exam. Lets see how everyone does cold turkey when all of the outside factors like money and resources other than race and gender are held constant.

What are the results of a study like that? That would be a more interesting test than saying X or Y is genetically more suited to this field.

Most if not all of that line of reasoning is based on 1000 year old social constructs...and the mountains of "research" that was later made up to give it credibility when people started to question these social constructs.
Filing a counter notice has risk...being right still has costs.

Obscuring it makes the DMCA filer have to better explain the why in the request. Something more than just "this short piece text is on this page and I don't like it".
No, it's not.

Used it for years due to the hype.
Switched to Fedora & Gnome - delighted ever since
Google is replacing Uber, but not the way I predicted
Exactly. YouTube has the same problem and does all kinds of things to detect this. They have the benefit of already having the media on all their own storage which they can run a map-reduce on, however.
Then they would purge it from the repo. In fact, it's questionably the case that they have abided by the DMCA order, for the very reason that it still exists in the repo history. As far as I know, DMCA takedowns normally lead to closing the entire repo.
While there is truth to that, mindfulness provides the basis for authentic expression of the natural self. And often times, that will mean GTFO of an abusive situation.

How you know whether it really is authentic and not simply a story is that it arises naturally, spontaneously, and effortless. It will have a "deep" marker to it. There is an active test you can apply: try to poke at the action. If it resists, comes up with any excuses, rationalizations, or justifications in order to stay attached to it, then it is still a story, albeit, coming from a very deep place inside of it.

If in poking it, it stays silent and it feels like it is expressed unsupported by any narrative, then that is coming from your authentic self. In other words, it doesn't need your approval or disapproval, or anyone else's, including social norms and corporate policy.[1]

Note: the Buddhist notions don't have a notion of "true self" (or rather, it moves from "no self" -> "true self" -> "no self"). I'm drawing from classical, transcendental non-dual Shaiva Tantra[2] (which inspired and cross-polinated with tantric Buddhist), and it goes with "true self" -> "no self" -> "true self".

The point of mindfulness is your freedom and your state of mind. It's fine if you are inspired to practice it because corporations made space for it (or more cynically, make you do it in order to tolerate bad situations). Your mind is your own, whether you want to be happy or miserable. There _are_ people who will mindfully tolerate bad working conditions as expressed from their authentic self ... and there are many others who won't. You won't know until you have cleared enough of your own obscurations to find out.

[1] The followup is: in tantra, someone's natural, authentic self may be an asshole. If you don't like what your natural, authentic self is, tantra provides the tools for transformation into a different natural, authentic self. However, it is not as simple as changing the narrative, since a change in narrative is merely a change in narrative and not a change in your natural, authentic self.

[2] Christopher Wallis. Tantra Illuminated