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So it sounds like the issue is that Amazon is using its weight to force suppliers into eating their platform fees rather than pass it on to the consumer.

I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but imagine Amazon takes a 10% cut of any sale on its platform. If a supplier sells a widget for $100, they'd only get $90 from an Amazon sale. Amazon is unfairly preventing them from marking up their offerings on Amazon... i.e. preventing the suppliers from selling their widgets for $100 on their direct website, and $111.1 on Amazon (so that a sale is a sale and always gets them $100 in revenue).

If a suppliers margins are razor thin this could cause them to lose money on Amazon sales... so they'd either have to mark up their product everywhere and risk losing their competitive edge, or eat the loss on Amazon... or just not "collaborate" at all with Amazon.
For anyone curious, here are the birds in the US covered by the Migratory Bird Treat Act [1]. A good first approximation is that if you see a wild bird, and it is not a European Starling, House Sparrow, Pigeon, or a bird that you can get a hunting license for, it is probably covered.

There are some curious state laws regarding birds. For instance, California Penal Code, § 598:

> Every person who, within any public cemetery or burying ground, kills, wounds, or traps any bird, or destroys any bird's nest other than swallows' nests, or removes any eggs or young birds from any nest, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Why an exception for swallows' nests?

[1] https://www.fws.gov/birds/management/managed-species/migrato...
'the Hard Way' but no mention of Merkle Trees. Perhaps it's time for Git for Rocket Scientists.
I know this is not the appropriate venue, but can you get somebody to renew the cert for starfighter? Thank you.
That depends if your Sunday school is about religion and conformity, or a personal belief and relationship with God. As the apostle Paul said, "If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone." https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians... In other words, there's no point gambling with your eternal soul. Better make sure you know the truth!
I was really hoping the buzzword kamikaze would leave synthesis and music alone for at least a few more years.
Ask HN: What small/medium sized tech blogs do you know?
Please share a link, if you know any...

*They should cover apps and internet related stuff...
I agree that VR is here to stay, and most of the things people complain about will be solved within a couple of years. I get the impression that most people here are chronically underwhelmed by things. My mind is still blown by the PSVR, the least advanced of the big 3. But I'm older, and I've been waiting for this since 1990. To me the killer app is VR. Myself and everyone I know (including non-techies) got VR to experience VR. I realize a true killer app would have greater reach. I don't think those are knowable except in hindsight. I thought Google Earth was killer, but I guess not everyone agrees. I would love to see game companies invest in decent ports of existing AAA games, including WoW. Again I don't think it needs any big whiz-bang extra, besides being in VR.
I have similar opinion. And I dont think it is even iPhone 1 stage yet. It is more like early Smartphone. iPhone manage to get to a very decent and wide usage Smartphone within a 5 years time. I dont see this happening yet with VR, as it is extremely limited by hardware and software.

As we finally realize, how not very real time our OS and software / hardware. After all these years of abstraction and slight delay added to everywhere in stack. We finally have a motive to unwind / improve those.

May be some day we could have Sword Art Online Style Game to move VR forward. Link Start.
Two of them (maybe, I haven't tried them).

One of those you're referring to is just a blatant case of false advertising (Netsub IT Services one), because it's just showing the trailers and info about the movies, and the Scooby Doo one is just playing sounds from Scooby Doo, not letting you watch Scooby Doo.

And just because such apps exist, doesn't mean that every developer needs to validate every input to make sure that it doesn't infringe on someone's copyright. It just means that Google needs to do a better job at detecting such apps.
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I think the outdoor advertising arm has been sold off from iHeartRadio.

https://www.iheartmedia.com/press/clear-channel-outdoor-hold...
Take a look at Gary Bernhardt's From Scratch series:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog

Not free, but very good.
Or labour, if they had illegal working conditions, or anything at all, really...
But almost no one is actually free to move to another country.
Everyone says that a powerful GPU is needed to drive this thing, but I don't think that's a must. Careful art direction based on current hardware limitations can produce nice-looking virtual worlds — not photorealistic, but still immersive and fun. Nintendo pulls this thing consistently.
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Cool idea. Now I need to figure out what Cipher Browser is.
- Removal of sensor placement the room. This will be harder to do, but cameras/sensors built on the headsets themselves could potentially accomplish this.

Inside out tracking is a reality in consumer devices now. All Windows MR devices that shipped late last year have 6DOF inside out tracking via cameras on the front of the headset with no external sensors. Moving forward there will be more devices from other vendors that use inside out tracking. Qualcomm has shown prototypes, Google + HTC were working on a tango device that got cancelled, HTC is working on an inside out standalone for the Chinese market, Oculus has shown standalone inside out tracked prototypes, etc.
I couldn't find one, and the bill even tries to prohibit Judicial review...
Oh, I did not know that. Still, using Vulkan strictly for its compute shaders sounds weird to me.
Or subscribing to cable. A lot of people can't get OTA. (In the case of the Oscars specifically you could get it from ABC online.)
I had meant "Send me a box this week".
But copying and reproducing snippets from wikipedia doesn't do any harm to their technology infrastructure. It would be a negligible amount of hits to their system to grab and update the cached snippets.

And you are correct that the terms of service and license are different (even if there is a bit of overlap) but it's the license that matters when you are "copying" the content and reproducing it on your own, and the license is either CC BY-SA or GFDL both of which have no ability to prevent any one specific person from using the information.

>In summary, they reserve the right to block access in response to abuse.

This isn't abuse, its use. If copying the data from wikipedia and serving it up with attribution is abuse, then they need to update their terms of service and licenses to explicitly say so (which would pretty much end wikipedia). If Google is harming their infrastructure by causing excessive load doing the scraping, wikipedia has every right to block them. But Google is not (as far as we know), and therefore wikipedia does not have any moral right to block access, and Google has no moral or legal obligation to stop scraping and reproducing the content on their own servers. And if wikipedia does block Google from the service, Google has every right (legally and morally in my opinion) to find an alternate way of getting the data and reproducing it that doesn't access wikipedia's servers directly.
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You know what would be a really useful audio tool that may be amenable to a machine learning approach? An AI-mastering algorithm. Training set: pre- and post-mastered audio files. IMO the biggest thing holding back indie producers is that final step that turns your home recording into radio-ready music with requisite "loudness".
How is it a relaliation, which still is far from ethical, if it was to Saudi Arabia, and a non-military building at that?
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The "lining of pockets" is deployed as investments in other companies. It isn't stuffed into a mattress. The richest people in our society live off an infinitesimally small amount of their wealth. The lion's share is deployed as investment (company stock, bonds, etc). It makes some sense to entrust this discretion over resources to people who have demonstrated an ability to manage resources at scale.
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They can do whatever they want, it won’t matter in a few years when Amazon flattens them.
I'm not suggesting your position is wrong, just that like IRC there's going to be lots of discord users who have a use for some kind of notification but would never want to give their number out.
Or in the MS-DOS 2.5D days of gaming (Think DOOM). Despite the technical limitations, it is this awesome feeling of experiencing something revolutionary and new.

Previous VR endeavours, like 90s, early 2000s would then be the Pac-Man and Donkey Kong in this analogy :-)
They are ambivalent, but the headline isn’t.
What I find most interesting is the multiple training methods used to get the network to improve its performance. They name a few in the article:

- dual learning
- deliberation networks
- joint training
- agreement regularization

I haven't read the paper to see how these are combined but it makes intuitive sense that using multiple training methods can lead to better performance. That is to say, to more effectively search the weight space of the network.
I think the comparison would be more accurate if we had numbers for BBC's live viewers and those who streamed it for the rest of the year, since the Amazon view count includes people streaming weeks and months after the program debuted.
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> Am I missing something with archery?

It involves weapons, and weapons are exciting?

See also: that cross-country-skiing-with-rifles winter olympics event thingy
You have to believe that it'll stay profitable for long enough to repay the investment, which is dubious at present. It definitely is a belief.
Sure, anybody can publicise any objection to any law in any system. Ensuring such an argument is actually paid attention to and that revisions are actually made is a different matter entirely.

Relatively easy for a representative to make a case for a particular amendment to a particular piece of proposed legislation by addressing the need to rewrite Clause 17b to a group of elected legislators whose full time job is scrutinising that legislation, and then proposing the amendment is voted on there and then, with the proponents of the legislation having a pretty good idea of whether making the change will be necessary to carry the vote. Much more difficult to convince a significant percentage of the public who enthusiastically support the intent of a bill that they should take the time to read objections to Clause 17b and then vote against the whole thing because of Clause 17b. Not least because even members of the public informed and concerned about 17b are aware that the reason for their vote isn't tallied, and voting against a law they want because of unhappiness with one specific provision will torpedo the whole thing.
If you ask me, the article is trying to interpret intentionally vague marketing speak in a very specific way. But that is only my opinion.
Yeah, the sample rate is really low (I assume to make it more performant) so they all sound bitcrushed.
Providing services to cultists certainly does not make you a cultist :)

What motivates people to write these silly comments attacking cryptocurrency investors? Jealousy?
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Protonmail if you care about your privacy.
Biathlon ;)

edit: (I love the winter games)
That could work. There should be something. If only in the early years so people get used trusting SDCs (self driving cars)
To its credit, OpenWRT/LEDE community implemented DFS per the requirements they were able to glean from regulatory bodies. Open firmware can indeed be hacked to operate against its authors' wishes, but as other comments indicate, closed firmware isn't inherently immune to the same exploitation. https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/dfs
I haven't found an article or comment that gives me any insight into what Ms. Holmes might have been thinking. Did she earnestly believe she was on the cusp of some breakthrough, or that one was inevitable with enough brute-force application of investor money? Or was she shrewd and cunning to the core, calculating that she could siphon off enough money to make it worthwhile and spend enough money to spin the facts? I'm totally perplexed trying to put myself in her shoes and understand her motivation.
Does Leanpub Markua (http://markua.com/) fit into your requirements?
Matt Levine proves, again and again, that there’s more nuance to any situation than one might think.

He’s the living embodiment of the law’s “reasonable observer”.
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That’s a good idea, just like a quick description and what makes them unique, I like that
Foveated rendering should help a lot, but you'll still definitely need a powerful one.
What is the oracle for telling the blockchain which team won? Do we just trust the person who wrote this contract?
Per-pixel operations in games have become extremely expensive in the quest for ever more impressive rendering. That gives lots of room to scale back, and still provide a very immersive experience, just with more modest rendering.
Gaming today is big. So big I dont think anyone forsee this coming. And VR is going to push this into another level.

I would have loved Apple to capture on this, as they stand to be the company that makes software and hardware well integrated. The problem is Apple has never gave a damn about gaming. They say they do, but they dont. And It isn't their priority, it isn't in their DNA. ( I bet none of the VPs are gamers of any sort ).

Nintendo could be another fit. But they are always lacking in Hardware and VR is very much hardware limited.
I think that would be reasonable, yes. It would parallel other science/engineering splits.
I think that paper came up on HN before and IIRC the tasks they were measuring were things like manually positioning some figure in an arbitrary position. This is not a use case LaTeX optimizes for or one that comes up often in my experience.

Edit: See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8797002 for an earlier discussion of the referenced paper.
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> 1) They haven't

I'm a bit confused by this statement. In the vast majority of cases where an individual purchases something, they do it because they want it (food is purchased because the body desires food, phones are purchased because the brain likes communication and connectedness, medical care is purchased because people realize it helps them, etc). Therefore, for someone to have accumulated a large amount of profit, enough people must have decided that whatever they are offering is beneficial.

Simply put, if a person has a large amount of money earned through a truly free market, then they must have provided a benefit to society.

Now, this can be confused by things like regulation. Regulatory capture, corruption, and many other things can all force people to purchase things they do not desire or do not provide as much benefit as a different product, but this is not an issue that can be solved by more regulation or taxation. Instead, it is an issue with interference in the market which causes the inequalities that I would agree, very much do exist.
How do you get the actual results into the Blockchain? And how can we trust that part?
Both Netflix and Amazon seem to have come to the decision that, lots and lots of viewer data notwithstanding, predicting hits is really hard. (In all fairness, Amazon and Netflix are probably also content with niche content far more than traditional broadcast does.) So as they've established streaming original video, they seem to have gone more for throwing lots of things against the wall than going only for relatively surefire hits.
Google has Dapper which has been around for a while. I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of these different tracing systems.

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html
It's easier to avoid one country or move either yourself or your business from a country (or even threaten to move) than from a large union.

For example, let's say the EU would vote to make the internet illegal inside EU. I could move to Norway but otherwise my nearest alternative would be either the US or Russia. Neither of which is an easy move or even thinkable.

I agree that it would be awesome if they only passed sensible legislation, but unfortunately the risk of them passing stuff like this is too great for them to have this power to begin with.

The EU have done so much good stuff, but also so much stupid stuff and if this gets passed I'm probably going to vote against staying in the EU if given the choice.

The scariest part about EU is how no one understand how the process of creating legislation is. It is very hard to keep track on stuff as a normal citizen and you are completely reliant on information from third parties like in this case Github. Also when stuff like this happens, I have no idea who to write to unless someone tells me who to write to and I don't have a directly huge belief that they would care about what I have to write about it anyway. The power to make grass root changes within the EU is super small compared to making it within your own country.

If Github wouldn't have posted this I would never have known and that scares me a lot.
Torn?

"I'm all out of faith / This is how I feel, I'm cold and I am shamed / Lying naked on the floor ..."
I know next to nothing about this domain (sports...), but I guess you need to have the outcome of the matches to make this work? How is that information entered onto the blockchain? I guess there is a trusted party somewhere that acts like an oracle?
Ask HN: What expenses do banks incur by accepting ACH transfers?
I can see that my bank charges $25 to accept 10 ACH transfers per month.

Stripe charges between $5 and $25 (maximum) per ACH transaction [1].

I'm curious, what costs do banks have to process a transaction, and what would determine their price?

This example is facetious, but Venmo is free and they deduct directly from my bank account too.

Is it just the costs of keeping their servers running, or it is some transactional expense, or liability, etc.?

[1] https://support.stripe.com/questions/pricing-of-payment-methods-in-the-us
Desire to easily buy GPUs for gaming at a reasonable price!
"Times does not list which investigators they have spoken to directly."

"Times does not indicate which "investigators" believes that."

Not disclosing your sources is journalism 101. You will have to choose to trust or mistrust the professional integrity of NYT journalists and editors. Integrity is the NYT's main selling point, so make of that what you will.
*For the datacenter.

There doesn't seem to be a concrete plan for consumer chips.
Slightly more detailed:

> The only thing that prevented significant damage was a bug in the attackers’ computer code that inadvertently shut down the plant’s production systems.
> I have been a voice in the wilderness since about 2007 on this one

The Hacker News commenters have always been quite kind and optimistic about Theranos and Ms. Holmes. Were your doubts downvoted?
Hey Siri doesn't work on the iPhone 6 if it's not plugged in. Only the 6s and later do, and it's enabled by a specific low power chip.
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In the Bay Area I was using Good Eggs, organic grocery delivery which did meal kits on the side. Was great to have the flexibility of skipping weeks and adding regular items to the order, and they did next day delivery.

After using them I was a lot less bullish on the future of these subscription sites. Whole Foods could launch a home grown line, delivered through Prime, and I’d use them day 1.
Yes, I wonder if Antirez is inspired by DHH making these videos.
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I have crossed those waters many times from a kid to adult in boats of all sizes.
People were always weary of the water in the area not because of the potential of a loss of bouncy to the boat but because of the choppiness that just makes for an uncomfortable ride and sea sickness(to the uninitiated there this was the volcano's doing). There is at times a strong ocean current that runs between the islands there.
I dont remember there being any major boating incident in the area thankfully.

A few years ago there was an underwater expedition there a few years ago. They discovered the largest mussel(Bathymodiolus boomerang) down there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AojyOfbRe3Q
Porn will always be displaced by technology that takes out the middle man. Right now premium snapchat stories are huge.
This is so true. Case in point: Brass Tactics uses cartoonish "game of thrones intro" graphics that is quite optimized. A current graphics card can even render the game world from a different overhead view on the monitor, with capacity to spare.
Why the hate?

I sometimes catch Martha Quinn's 80s show in my morning or evening drive and enjoy it. No throat-shoving there!
funny because it (amazon video) auto plays trailers before shows on the iphone app
Does anyone know how to compile the the open-nsynth algorithm into a VST that could be used with a DAW? I couldn't find this yet.

source: https://github.com/googlecreativelab/open-nsynth-super/tree/...
Little by little, using privacy, copyright protection and fearmongering, the EU is trying to destroy free speech on the internet.

As it often happens and as it certainly happens with the EU, while they say they are for free speech and want to protect it, the truth is that they only want people to repeat what they think it's a valid opinion.

The main reason why they are pushing so much for internet regulation in EU is that the governments of EU countries really, really hate "fake" news, aka talking about immigration and related policies. This is the whole deal. Since they can't make a law that says "don't talk about immigration", they have to resort to laws that slowly destroy the ability of people to spread informations. By implenting things like cookie law, GDPR, and now upload control for copyright they make sure that few people can have websites and therefore they can control them easily.

Personally, I think that people who hold any kind of public office and propose such laws should be banned from public office, and voting, for life, and should also be investigated to see if there were any kind of external influence and eventually considered for a penalty up to life in prison. Free speech is a BIG deal, and when you attack it, it's like you are making a life-threatening attack to people and should be dealt accordingly. No compromises.
> Chemical plants (and other such facilities) should not be Internet connected

That merely hardens the target, but does not protect it. Stuxnet was delivered via USB to an Iran nuclear facility and had the exact same intent of triggering physical damage, which it apparently did successfully.

A decade ago, disconnecting from the Internet would have been considered security, but things have progresses and security needs to as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
I love when he says "and DONT kneel on the ice" as it shows someone kneeling on the ice messing it up.