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> 1.Wixen brings this action against Spotify for willfully infringing the copyrights in the musical compositions listed in Exhibit A (each a “Work” and collectively the “Works”). Wixen is an independent music publisher and exclusive licensee of the Works, all of which have either been registered or are pending registration with the United States Copyright Office. Spotify is the world’s most dominant music streaming and limited downloading service. As Spotify has publicly admitted, and as recent lawsuits and settlements confirm, Spotify has repeatedly failed to obtain necessary statutory, or “mechanical,” licenses to reproduce and/or distribute musical compositions on its service. Consequently, while Spotify has become a multibillion dollar company, songwriters and their publishers, such as Wixen, have not been able to fairly and rightfully share in Spotify’s success, as Spotify has in many cases used their music without a license and without compensation.

2.A recent proposed settlement involving rights holders and Spotify inthe class action lawsuit Ferricket al. v. Spotify USA Inc. et al.,No. 1:16-cv-8412(AJN) (S.D.N.Y.)(Dkt. # 167-3 (“Proposed Settlement”))does not adequately compensate Wixen or the songwriters it represents. Wixen has and, to the extent not yet effected, will opt out the Works from the Proposed Settlement.

From the actual lawsuit. https://www.scribd.com/document/368281292/Wixen-Music-Publis...
>My experience is that many women will not agree on that but instead point to (if they are really stereotype feminists) patriarchal structures in society benefitting men.

I'm curious as to why you think this an "either-or" proposition? Can men make choices and benefit from a "patriarchal" society? In fact, might men have further incentive to make the choices that will convey the benefits that disproportionately await them?
I reckon Mono had offered the same thing, although it bundles the entire mscorlib...
That was painfully trivial and over-the-top pompous. So it is baffling.
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Or to rephrase, it took sobering from the cocktail of illegal drugs to realize what had happened. Or it took getting away from the people who allegedly raped her to, etc. The risk of coercion is real, and much of the reason for the jurisprudence around consent.

Give people enough drugs and put them under enough pressure, and you’ll get in some of their pants. You might even get something that sounds like consent, but is it really?
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Clearly you've not heard of the H1STRONG visa.
The world's biggest YouTube stars are seeing a massive slowdown
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I had to climb down Intel's management pecking tree for a technical issue, and it was eye opening. I passed through 6 layers of management to reach 1 engineer.

Worst part of that was the management sucked up to me when an SVP was copied on the email, and low-key ignored me when she wasn't.

This political cesspool cannot compete effectively against driven companies like NVidia. Intel seems to be the new Blackberry.
It's funny, I also thought of it mere seconds before reading it in this article. I have this bad habit of scrolling to the middle of a document before reading it to see if the first half is even worth reading (if I'm confused, then yes it is) and when he mentioned "paperclip maximizers" without context to capitalism my first thought was to tie it to corporations. It's so obvious now that I'm embarrassed I didn't think of it first.
Show HN: Backpropagation to classify points in the unit square
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See above: the one which provides the most context.
Right now it's "Today you, never Equifax." Too-big-to-fail institutions do fail do fulfill their obligations, and if they're not substantially gutted and rebuilt they will only fail to fulfill obligations to an even worse degree.
Not a reasonable replacement as maintaining your own mac servers is non-trivial and all the major cloud providers don't have mac as hardware options.
All over but the parties are in North Carolina, Florida and Vegas mostly.
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Not surprising. They’ve gone from having the perception of being the most elite organization for hackers to more of what is described in Good Will Hunting [1].

Perception is everything. I say this as someone who dreamt of working at the NSA for most of my high school years, but would now never even consider it.

Edit: although I bet a lot of it is the 4x-5x salary jump you can get in cyber security jobs by having the NSA on your resume. :-)

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg
Pivotal Tracker has been around for a fair while now; it's usually compared to JIRA.

They have quite different DNA. Tracker grew out of Pivotal Labs and it is mostly molded to how Labs and R&D teams do their daily and weekly work. To me it seemed constricted and limited until I came to work at Pivotal; now it makes sense.
> If this law does pass, I believe those being asked to leave should sue the US for repayment of Social security and Medicare taxes paid

Uh, they’ll lose, but I guess some lawyers will make some money.

> after all they're non resident aliens and should be taxed as such.

They are taxed exactly like other non-immigrant aliens permitted to work in the US.
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Hard part in this case is not the actual build code or even the CI runners, its actually maintaining a mac server farm for your builds. None of the major cloud providers have mac hardware options.

Buddybuild and very few other CI systems have iOS and Android support.
I feel "gold digging whores" is overly strong.

In the US, full time moms tend to get viewed and treated like leeches, regardless of their socioeconomic class. I was a homemaker a long time. I have six years of college. I was a military wife and homeschooling mom. But America is pretty sucktastic about treating full-time wives like pariahs and non contributors.

If your land is more civilized than mine, I am very glad to hear it.

Edit: And I am not questioning it. I met an Australian friend for lunch/dinner with a group of friends in San Francisco years ago. He talked very differently about his full-time homemaker wife than is the cultural norm here.
> I meant compared to lab-grown meat

How are you able to say this? Have you seen any data about how efficient lab-grown mean is to produce?
I got in post-beta, but invite-only free version in 2008, and I remember it having a lot of albums where names of which were still scene releases because (I presume) the parsing was off. I also remember specific releases having audio compression artefacts matching what I streamed from Spotify.

They replaced everything in phases, because I remember all the URI:s to songs kept breaking in my playlists before they implemented auto-matching of your songs to new location once a specific album was rendered unavailable.

No affiliation to Spotify, just a long time user.
> ...squeeze runtime and disk size to be comparable to other systems.

Really? Most of the "microservice era" or "cloud native" or $timely_buzzword platforms are really big. Golang binaries for large services are bloody huge.

TL;dr don't assume other systems have small footprints until you deploy a Node.JS app and do "du -h node_modules/"
I totally agree, but can you describe the facial/behavioral stuff? All I get is "she looks like a typical southern lady" and am interested in why
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If the hit is as bad as they say (30% performance), cloud providers will be almost forced to upgrade when the new hardware comes out that fixes it. Are they really ready to adopt AMD? Go long on INTC?
I would have thought that would have been a lot of context switching with graphics driver calls

(Or maybe they already do as much as possible in userspace and then batch kernel calls?)
I don't think you have to cover every conceivable cost. It's OK to stop when you think you're down to insignificant components of cost. I think rather than trying for a more comprehensive analysis, you should try for a more rigorous analysis.

For example: the analogy involving chicken prices. It seems like a reasonable idea, but there's no quantitive evidence about how good of an analogy it is. If you could find additional supporting evidence for including this factor, it would make your analysis more solid.

Same goes for "T-shirts, leather wallets…what’s the difference, am I right?" It is far from clear that you are right and your 50% fudge factor is likewise totally unsupported and arbitrary.

These back-of-the-envelope suppositions reflect a logical train of thought, but IMO the imaginary elements should be supported by more facts, which would improve the soundness of your logic and make your blog post much more compelling.
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It is so cool to implement 3D illusion with such simple equipments. I expect more exciting works by the authors, like human-size 3D illusion with same cost of display construction.
When the entire page is 50kb of compressed text and some cached images, I don't mind reloading it on every single navigation (at which point dynamically generated HTML is more than adequate for dynamic data). It's only when devs insist on shoveling 5mb of compressed JS libraries into it that it becomes an issue.
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Because they were giving people $1500 to sign up for their card effectively. I am one of those people that signed up. I signed up for no reason other than I am getting a tremendous amount more than what I am paying for. Last December Chase announced that they lost about 2-300 million off their profits due to the generous promotion. If I taped a dollar bill to every can of Coke and sold them for 50 cents and the sales of Coke exploded, would you say I put a marketing coup on Pepsi? Chase still has extremely generous benefits even without the promo I am wondering how long it will last. As long as it does I will keep the card.
Google is playing the long game. They want to digitize as much information about the world as possible. Autonomous cars, location recognition from arbitrary photos, location-based marketing, etc. As computing becomes more intertwined with our physical world, there will probably be many new markets where having the best maps is a competitive advantage.
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Speculative execution bug causes speculative stock sale non-cancellation?
We're deep enough in that I don't know who the parent of who anymore, but to be clear I bought in-the-money calls at around $93 (the hit to their stock price), and sold the contracts when it hit around $111 (seemed to have leveled off).

But you're probably not talking about me, as I'm the one pissed off that those calls made money, not thinking they've been punished. It should have hit $93 and stayed there.
This is going to have dramatic effect on the cloud computing market. It might make sense to make sure any VMs you run are on AMD processors or it can really hurt your performance and basically cost you more to do the same workload.

It also seems, from early benchmarks, this can slaughter performance with databases.
"They are taxed exactly like other non-immigrant aliens permitted to work in the US." --> incorrect. Look up 1040-NR. As a non-resident alien, you're not required to pay social security and medicare. So, H1-B is basically the taxation of a resident, BUT rights of a non-resident [no access to social safety net, or voice in political system by means of voting]. I'm all for uniform policies, tax non-residents as non-residents!
It seems like the most visionary idea in America these days is "just buy your customers by giving away a lot of money."

Chase, Uber, Amazon all seem to enjoy it as well as many wannabe startups.
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>In wealth-oriented societies, rich people have been fighting a war to get rid of poor people since the beginning of time

Would only quibble in that it's not getting rid of them that's the general goal, but leveraging them for their own benefit (which in some cases might involve the former).
'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, WIN redesign
"Move fast and break things", remember? Who cares if the legal stuff is a quagmire, just scale your user base and hope someone buys you out before the shit hits the fan.
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It seems like it's pretty hard for the government to compete with private industry in compensation. Federal pay grades are capped by Congress, and the top grade is around ~$150k a year [1]. And note that since it's the top of the scale, you have to start people off lower so that there is salary progression.

Pretty sure a top cryptographer or security expert should be worth several times that, especially if they are also dealing with classified information and safeguarding all the data collection (e.g. if the NSA is going to spy on us, wouldn't you like that to be as secure as possible?).

This is another reason why we're going to enter an era of corporate feudalism. There has been a cycle of:

1. perception of gov't incompetence

2. normal people ask 'why are we paying people so much for doing a bad job?'

3. gov't pay scales fall further behind private industry

4. rise in relative mediocrity

5. repeat

I think voters largely don't realize how much competence actually costs in the market now and will vent about their justified perceptions of inequality by preventing equalization of pay between the gov't and private sectors, but that will paradoxically just make things worse in the long run as the private sector snaps up all the talent and we end up with a barely-functioning federal bureaucracy.

[1] http://work.chron.com/nsa-pay-scale-16399.html
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Why do you think you need native look and feel?

I have worked on a Java desktop app with Swing UI for over a decade. Mid 2000s we would get asked to "modernise" our applications UI, which really meant: "make it look like Windows XP".

After Apple released iTunes, which totally ignored the native look and feel on Windows, people stopped caring so much as long as it looked ok and was intuitive. The boom in web apps with every SPA defining it own internal LAF through CSS and Javascript and the fad for flat UI components seems to have further watered down the arguments for conforming to a native LAF.

I haven't played much yet with JavaFX so can't answer your actual question but I believe it is more flexible than Swing and Swing is already very customisable (though you sometimes need to create your own widgets by extending/implmenting off the default widgets).
This combines a long running problem in government – not being allowed to offer competitive salaries for high-demand skills — with the new presidential administration’s chaos, and the specific feeling that the agency is not a force for good. I feel bad for everyone trying to do their jobs but struggling under the weight of so much baggage.