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No. The US constitution was a lot more forward thinking than people give it credit for, securing works for a LIMITED TIME is explicitly stated and there's a reason for that. Disney in particular has made a killing releasing copyrighted products based off public domain, and it extends far beyond the obvious ones like Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, etc.

We have ALWAYS lived in a culture where reusing older works in newer ones has been a driving force for creativity. I just went to a play a friend helped put on a couple weeks ago called Heddatron, a mashup of Hedda Gabler, a telling of Ibsen's life, comedy and robots. The whole thing made absolutely no sense to me, but it was amusing as hell to watch. Hedda Gabler came out in 1890, if our current copyright laws applied to his work it would still be under protection and there's a good chance it would have never come to light.

We don't need to grant MORE protections to IP, we need to severly reduce the copyright terms back to sane levels.
to make it secure Security is not binary. It's trusted less than physical contact readers for large value transactions for very good reasons. They care less about low value transactions, but that's not a security question.

You may not care about security, but all I said was it's worse, and not good enough for me which you have not denied.
Pro people don’t upgrade parts, it costs too much time and is too risky. Pro people just upgrade the whole machine. And they don’t care if it costs $500 extra if it saves them a few hours of grief.
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This is just an op-ed
Because that's what antitrust laws are for.

Lack of competition is bad for consumers, bad for the economy, bad for everything... except for the owners of the monopoly.
> A person with a non-terrible credit rating can max-out around $16,000 using multiple credit cards

Even with non-terrible credit, you aren't going to get multiple credit cards with a total of $15,000 in credit line if you are food insecure; you might have gotten them first, maintained zero balance so that that money is all available for relocation, and then become food insecure, but that's a rather exceptional set of circumstances, not the norm.
Wasn't the whole point of LetsEncrypt's short certificate expiration period to promote setting up automatic renewal?

So no more calendar reminders every year, having to look up what's the correct order to concatenate comodo's chain and so on.
My own family had a somewhat big creation (Winnie the Pooh). At some point, the copyright was moved to a company, that was then bought out by Disney, (Slesinger. It's actually a more complicated story).

We can't release it into the public domain, and we can't allow anyone to make derivatives, 50 years later. We even tried to prevent Disney from continuing to create new derivatives, but lost that case.

A family legacy can't be reclaimed, or preserved, because of copyright extensions.
The thing is the Simpsons did so many episodes, and so many predictions that they are bound to get some of them true.

The Simpsons is basically an illustration of the infinite monkey theorem.
This comment section is dragging in some reeealy weird comments. I've seen some of them even disappear (deleted by mods?) which is something I haven't seen here in such a drastic way and short time.

I would love to see if this is some directed action. Few people? Links leading to here, etc.
With 5120 x 2880 resolution and a P3 color gamut?

Dell's UP2715K is very comparable and it is $1300 from B&H. So what similarly spec-ed monitor is $500?
A Microsoft company attempting to exploit the law for profit? Imagine my shock.
Tenant farmers were subsisting on potatoes almost exclusively. They were 19th century serfs. They didn’t have access to expensive grains or meat.
You certainly do not need "infinite scaling" to do that. Just a queue of workers running on a dumb server or even just a crontab... Yes it is the very definition of over engineering.
I specifically didn't suggest it because you can't connect it to anything that doesn't supports Thunderbolt 3 monitors since it doesn't have a display port connection, so you can't use that with a PC in any reliable way.
Psychology vs. the graphics pipeline
One should not blame heroin- it only brings out in humans, what was allready there. Blame the monkey constructor instead- get a torch and find a church.
Not really - they're a London based company, and they follow whatever laws are applicable in the country of each customer (EU gets VAT, India gets GST, US gets nothing), etc.

If I work with them, the idea is that I've sold my product to them, so I'm exporting it to a company in London. I'll need to either pay or get exemptions for my taxes based on export rules. They re-sell it worldwide and handle whatever country specific rules are prevalent in each country, but that's not my problem any more.
The reason for the existence of copyright is that authors can receive compensation for their work, to incentivize creation in a new world where copying costs almost nothing ("why would I work writing a book when anybody with a press can just copy me?"). Similar to patents. But it seems people forget this.

Disney won't _die_ if their early characters become public domain. If they're hurt it will be very slowly, with enough time for jobs to shift.

And it's not clear that copyright is necessary for creativity. In some ways it can hindrance sometimes. See the case of the fashion industry https://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashi...

I guess people somehow think that only the lowest quality versions of public domain works will be popular, when the opposite is frequently the case. Like it happened, for example, with Disney versions of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Which is rather ironic: Disney created an empire in big part thanks to public domain.
> Because people who are food insecure don't have savings to relocate, or the ability to take the income they have with them, generally.

B.S.

If they cannot afford it, they can move. My parents moved, I have moved, it f'ing sucks, but it's completely possible and feasible and the responsible thing to do.
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I don't mean the article. I don't see anything wrong there. However what happened in this comment section within minutes/few hours was very interesting. I haven't seen anything like that since I'm on this board.
That is why Netflix bought Millarworld earlier this year.
Except that if there are problems with the ssd and it was built in, it’s covered by the Apple warranty.
No, you don't need "infinite scaling" for just that. But if you have a FaaS-Setup anyway, you might as well reuse it for such relatively simple (but still useful) tasks.
Surprised that the article didn’t mention the EUs incoming data protection laws (GDPR) compliance with which is bound to be costly for Facebook as well as shifting power towards individuals more broadly.
> TD Gammon, one of the very first algorithms to reach superhuman levels in a nontrivial game, learned by self play.

Thank you for mentioning this! Neural-nets self-trained bots have been a thing for quite a while in backgammon. Chronologically, from my memory: TD Gammon, Jellyfish, Snowie, GnuBG [1], XG (eXtreme Gammon) [2]

[1] http://gnubg.org/

[2] http://extremegammon.com/
Do you mean kangaroos?
Wolverine (and others) have been around since the very first MvC. Heck, the direct precursor to MVC was X-Men vs. Street Fighter.
almost all of the land in the Western US that has been encouraged to overgrow is held by a government.

the fires on the coast will be nothing compared to the soon-inevitable mega-fire that will reset the Federal land holdings in the Sierra range

if more of the Sierra range had been allocated for productive use, we probably would not be in this situation. the Federal government is an absentee landlord
> LinkedIn argues that imposing criminal liability for automated access of publicly available LinkedIn data would protect the privacy interests of LinkedIn users who decide to publish their information publicly, but that’s just not true

Protect them from what, your unlocked front door? [0][1]

[0] "Hackers selling 117 million LinkedIn passwords" http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/19/technology/linkedin-hack/ind...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_LinkedIn_hack

I'd also note that these companies are barely (if ever) held liable for life-compromising hacks on their platforms.
Kind of. Depends on what part of capitalism you're referring to.

Because monopolies greatly reduce or limit competition, and competition is the big force that makes capitalism work properly.

Capitalism without competition is no different from Communism or a lot of other systems in which one party rules supreme.
Some articles worth reading if you're interested in this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14318646

https://priceonomics.com/does-using-airplanes-to-put-out-for...
Facebook offers some good functionality for keeping in touch etc, but it's littered with too much noise and too much influencing (to the point that it's unpleasant to use). If they fix that, they'll be okay. If not, there may be a mass exodus to something else once enough people get sick of it.
Ask HN: Can we save net neutrality through open source licenses?
Random thought: What if we added a clause to all our open source licenses that prohibit them to be used by firm that violates net neutrality?

How far could Comcast or Verizon really get if they have to write their own firmware to every router and switch and server they use?
Yes, they do in fact want to use state violence to insist on attribution. They don't want to use state violence to insist on the W3C going away, but they still want the W3C to go away. That seems reasonable to me.
They may have been off and potentially very off on the timing. But the amount of physical resources theoretically available to us is certainly limited by the speed of light so even making the most generous possible assumptions exponential material growth can't continue forever.
It's indeed hands off now (though I will be flying to Vietnam next week to meet with the designers).

Short answer: I just want to try to build cool stuff and make money along the way :-)
Fun story, my once CC provider (the now defunct "Egg") for a period responded with three A records for their main site (egg.com or something).

This is fine, except one of these A records was a 192.168.x.x address so their site didn't work intermittently.

I called them to report it and they refused to listen. Claimed the site was worked as intended from their office and they wouldn't escalate.
Depends very much on the writing style. Some authors don't use a lot of fancy, poetic language.

For instance, reading a translation of the Da Vinci Code, Hunger Games or Harry Potter, you're probably not missing out on anything. Reading translation of pretty much all poetry, you're missing out on everything.

There's a whole spectrum there in between.
>~$250 for a good case

what? $250 is really overpriced for a case. it will get you a really good case (see: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&I...)

>~$220 for a good power supply

that's definitely overkill.

>~$120 for CLC water cooling for the CPU

>~$100 for case fans

that's like, at least 6 really expensive case fans + watercooling. does the mac pro even have that good of a cooling system?
No, the problem of "things are expensive because demand outstrips supply" cannot be solved with more money. Only by more things.
Really fantastic point. I'm not a heavy user of Python. But, when I need to quickly prototype something its simplicity - i.e. one good way to do something, although this is a little exaggerated - makes the development very quick. Given my late start with Python, I work only in 3.x so I don't even need to look at search results with 2.x solutions in them: the range of solutions is narrowed further.
The first few weeks mostly goes to the distributor, the longer it is in theater the more money the theaters make off of it, which is why Titanic was such a big deal for theaters.
> How? How do you move to Nebraska when you have $100/week for food?

You scrounge and save up or work odd jobs and get enough to move.

> How do you find a job, when you have literally 0-day you can spend without working?

There are plenty of jobs. They're not very good jobs, or jobs that most people want to do, but life isn't always about doing what you want. If you cannot afford to live somewhere, you need to move.

> And are people who flip burgers in Nebraska so much better?

My parents worked jobs equivalent to that in Washington D.C. It became impossible, so they moved to southern Virginia. You can live in southern Virginia on minimum wage jobs. There was food on the table every night, and a roof above our heads.

It sucked, don't get me wrong, but we managed.
>> Legality aside, whether sharing copyrighted information is amoral or not is determined by one's own values.

This can even be a gray area for content creators who care about copyright, but only for their own profession.

I regularly see stories of famous musicians improperly lifting photographers' work for their marketing or social media efforts.

I also see professional photographers using unlicensed music for slide shows.

It's really quite bizarre to see content creators fighting each other for not respecting each other's copyrights when they themselves should know better.
"In your face, Hollywood."
>We should also be developing robots that can do what the human can do. That investment will pay off in many ways

That investment is absolutely worthwhile, but we aren't even vaguely close to a general-purpose robot that can do what humans do. One human geologist could do the work of an entire fleet of Curiosity rovers. It's a matter of if all of the associated dangers of space travel worth all of that scientific knowledge gained from both sending people to do interplanetary science and from developing new tech to get us there is worth it - IMO, the answer is a resounding 'yes'.
Yes, nobody wants good movies like Logan!

Know what we need more? Mediocre movies like the ones Marvel have been making. Know what's better than a good movie? A shallow movie full of forced jokes.

Now we can see the Fantastic Four facing space pirates that sleep with pacifiers in their mouths, maybe hugging teddy bears to. That would be a good movie!
I quite liked the tl;dr, except that it left out how most of the article is "...and why". We've all heard the advice, but the article is trying to explain why the advice is true. I think an ideal summary would mention that.
Of course not. But they are a sign that professionals, who literally put their money on the line, think the company is getting more valuable.
Well, Stratechery has been shilling for the industry for quite a while now, on most major corporate issues.
There are a lot of great artists who put out work that doesn't catch on until 5+ years after they make it. It seems like a large social problem if such creators can't be rewarded for their work; given that this kind of work is usually the most innovative, it could lead to a creative stagnation.
How is GDPR affecting to Facebook as a service?
2017 was bad for people who didn't buy facebook stock.
Admittedly Marvel was just a fraction of the equation. There's the Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age, Peanuts, Dr. Seuss, and soon Ferdinand) and the distribution rights to other tons of other films. I've been hearing report that Fox is keeping the rights to specific classic films and all music rights. But the music will be licensed out to Disney for practically nothing.
Don't you read Bezos's letters? It is still Day 1...
Seeking senior developer with two years experience. Climbing walls. Switching jobs to work with the latest Javascript framework. New Macbook Pro. Free lunch...

TANSTAAFL. Programmer workplace dynamics have changed since Office Space. The boss's Porsche isn't the only one in the lot. TPS reports still exist, but "I'm not missing it" is not a rare response. The guy in the basement never got hired because of culture fit.

In popular culture, programmers aren't beleaguered. They get nap time. They don't wear ties.
XUL seemed interesting, not being backwards compatible with html was one of it's strengths.
Balancing open source and proprietary IP–they can co-exist
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> I haven't upgraded a single PC I've owned in the past decade if not more simply because at the point when upgrade was needed it was pointless.

Maybe it's becoming less common to upgrade, but it doesn't mean people don't still do it. I've upgraded several machines in the last decade, for myself and others. Not everyone can afford to just chuck out an upgradeable PC and buy a new one.
Regarding your last sentence. In Europe that may change with GDPR.
People have the responsibility when making predictions that others will take action based on their prediction.

Speculation without merit, only going by "first guess" should not be shared.

If you are an expert, your opinion (even offhand) carries weight.
>its massive length but wasn’t able to make it shorter

It's always possible to make it shorter to help communicate a main idea. (However, it does takes extra effort to extract the essence of a long piece.[1]) Your essay is ~15,000 words and desperately needs a short "elevator pitch" of its main points. I'm a very verbose writer so when I think others' writing is verbose, it means everybody is going to drown in the text.

Here's my summary of what I think you're trying to say:

1: There psychological problems with deadlines and large bug lists that cause counterproductive results

2: I discuss 2 psychological "tricks" in software development to counteract the unwanted behavior

2.a: Estimate software by abstract units such as "points" instead of concrete units such as "time/hours/weeks". The abstract units bypass the human biases that lead to bad estimates. Use the points to determine "relative" sizes of each "story". (E.g. Developers vote to converge on the "size" of each story point.) The last step is to multiply the points by a unit of time to derive a finish date.

2.b: Do not have a big global list of bugs to burn down. The size would be overwhelming and demoralizing to teams. Instead, triage bugs into smaller "hot lists" so they "see" a smaller manageable queue to work on. Also, measuring bug fix times will eventually let you derive an "average bug size" that's reasonably accurate

The tldr would be something like "Here are 2 counterproductive management techniques with setting deadlines and assigning bug fix work -- and here are 2 ways to counteract it with management ideas that take advantage of human psychology."

Somebody else can wordsmith it better than I can but that's what I think your essay is basically about. The 15000 words are mostly examples or background ideas leading up to your recommendations (SLO vs SLA, Tesla, what I like don't like about Agile, Kanban, etc).

I recommend that you put your strongest main points at the very top to give your readers the mental scaffolding to hang the rest of your 15000 words on.

[1] "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." -- Blaise Pascal : https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
> What doesn't work is deciding when you're going to get there.

That would be an ETA, which is quite useful in many cases.

> Or telling salespeople they need to sell 10% more next quarter.

That's a minimum quota. Also useful.

> Or telling school teachers they need to improve their standardized test scores.

Which is not so much a 'goal' as it is a response to the need for kids to actually learn information. It's a goal in the sense that "you should be doing your job to a minimum degree of proficiency" is a goal.

> Or telling engineers they need to launch their project at Whatever Conference (and not a day sooner or a day later).

Which is absolutely an arbitrary goal that doesn't have anything to do with the product, but is also good business sense.

Sometimes you need stupid goals.
That your parents once did something in different circumstances does not mean everybody can here and now.

Even if we value family connections on a pure cash basis -- which I don't recommend -- moving can be bad for people. E.g., the cost of replacing grandparents with professional childcare can be astronomical.

Family also provides an economic buffer against the ups and downs that are especially hard on the poor. What if your old car has a sudden breakdown that you can't afford to fix? If you have family around, perhaps you can borrow somebody's old car or get a ride to work. Move to a place where you have no social network, though, and you could be in deep trouble.
Without technical details of each test its useless. What queries were actually run?
Well, he is great at using numbers to tell stories that everybody already knows.
nobody? well that sucks
Pro people keep expensive machines running for a long time before they buy a new one. If one part goes bad, they'll buy a replacement part before they buy a new machine. So the machine has to be easy to service.
> expected early next year.

Those users are likely to be disappointed since Apple did not commit to shipping it in 2018. All they said was that the new Mac Pro would not ship in 2017.
HTML 5.2 becomes a W3C Recommendation
Oh yeah? https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/938112396668805121
He meant over the phone, not on a phone.

Ex : I call my bank and I have to go through a menu leading me to the right agent. Eventually, it asks for my password over the phone that I need to type using the 10 numbers on a phone dial.

Good luck using your fingerprint there :)
Someone is making good money there. What if People invested on learning coding instead of spending a fortune just to feed the uni market?
I have this theory that they've noticed that the platform is being used less and less, and is why we're getting so much ads mixed with our friends' posts. They're milking the cow before it dies.

I feel bad writing that because I like facebook. But I use it less and less in favor of messenger, just because I see less and less about my friends in my news feed.

Now their other acquisitions instagram and whatsapp seem pretty healthy, and VR is the future, so I wouldn't worry about the company as a whole.
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>> Imho Steam has also regressed quite a bit in that regard, it used to be a place for good deals but increasingly feels like a platform to shovel around shovelware for badges and trading cards.

Well in fairness to Steam, app stores in general (including those run by Apple, MS, and Google) are platforms for shovelware.
> The reality is those perspectives are from someone educated enough to understand economics, government programs and how the system works, and someone with a supportive well functioning family. All of which someone working a food-service job is unlikely to have.

Don't make assumptions.

They can move. My reality is of a first-generation immigrant. My parents did not have degrees and worked minimum wage jobs. They moved multiple times when it became financially unfeasible to live somewhere.

It wasn't fun, it sucked a lot actually, but we did what we had to do, not what we wanted to do.
> Stratechery has been shilling for the industry

"Shilling" implies, perhaps to the point of requiring, monetary compensation for publishing certain views. The only people I know who pay for Stratchery use it to invest in start-ups. Maybe there is something shady going on. But reducing any argument you disagree with to shilling isn't productive discussion.