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> You need to stop thinking of the Android SDK as Java, because it isn't.

That is exactly my point, Google has broken Java's compatibility story, regardless if they have found a legal loophole to get away with it or not.

Objective-C and C are two completely different programming languages, where Objective-C is a superset of C. Any C compliant code is compilable by an Objective-C compiler.

It is not the same as what Google has done to Java.
>Also a "football field" isn't constant between football codes (Canadian, Association, Gaelic, Australian, American, etc.) nor even between different grounds in some cases. Not a great unit.

I was going full American here with American football fields (standard 300x160 feet) forgetting about the ambiguity saying "football".

I understand your frustration, but having an idea of what 7,000,000 of anything would look like is non-trivial. If it were 7,000,000 cubic meters you might re-express things to be easier to visualize.

Unfortunately for the time being, the US is using gallons, so I'm stuck making these comparisons to grasp at what that volume looks like.
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Personally I am peeved that I can’t individually make fractional reserve loans in genuine fungible currency (costs ~$30m to be a bank), so I’d like to choose a zero-sum point where the rich don’t get richer by default
These companies are reporting it now because they don't have a choice, it's a federal law that most large public companies have to report median pay and CEO pay.
"Affecting employment" is not the same as reducing the total number of jobs available. And all Brin said was that we need to understand what the likely impacts on employment are.

Certainly, if it becomes cost effective to have your fleet of vehicles operated by software instead of humans, a lot of people will have to find new jobs. "Truck driver" is the most commonly held profession in a majority of the fifty states.
We do not translate or study ancient philosophy necessarily for the validity of the ideas it proposes. It's more of a historical endeavour, more useful in learning how people of the past have though, and in learning how to think ourselves. Like when a Python programmer studies assembly, C and old Unix sources.
> The recitals are a pretty good commentary to clear up the law, the same recitals will be used by regulatory bodies and judges later on, as a guideline.

But they are not law. The law says anyone "in the Union".
AI is used to predict XYZ. Well, given the short sentence describing ML is "how to make predictions from data", this is really not surprising. Now, what is the success rate is the only question that matters.
Depends on where you live.
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Facebook has been party to gross human subjects research misconduct on multiple occasions. It's not just the advertising.
You'd refuted the caim of long-term decline with a single counterexample.

I responded noting that an earlier period's darling had in fact declined.

I really don't have the time or patience to go into details here, though I can point to Microsoft's monopolistic and anticompetitive business practices, its quality problems with bugs, security, malware, and spyware, its "plays poorly with others" reputation (see PG's essay for a manifestation), and considerable brand erosion, to the point that Microsoft branding, particularly within the mobile space (WinCE, Windows Mobile, Zune), and search (Bing).

Much of which might be traced to pursuit of short-term returns over long-term risk.

Or in a word: yes.
AI is a threat? Seems more like tech companies leaking or selling personal information is the real threat.

AI looks to be more of a distraction.
You are rejecting the negative connotation of the word “print” but the fact is that the bank can do a financial operation that would be illegal for a non-bank and which most humans would call printing money, and make a profit
Docs are linked to from Microsoft's blog.

They answer your question on the Dell disks, which basically boils down to the convenience of customers unable to reactivate properly for whatever reason, who merely get nag screens. May only have applied to some Dell customer groups and some Windows versions and I'm not about to dig out my old Dell XP reinstallation disk to find out! Presumably they trust that [certain groups of] Dell customers are not buying new computers with bundled Windows versions with the intention of reusing the software on unlicensed older machines, and make enough from selling the OEM licence not to care about the low level of piracy they anticipated as a result.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/FIN...
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Big difference between Europeans and Americans. Europeans assume benevolent regulators/government, Americans assume malevolent regulators/government.
This is the "lead in fuel" equivalent of our generation.
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> Bezos' role is to get everyone working toward the same vision. Stories go a long way toward articulating that vision.

Definitely. And maybe he's both, but Bezos seems like more of a "mandate" guy than a "story" guy, per Steve Yegge's infamous Google platforms post[1] and other anecdotes by people who know him.

> So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses.

> His Big Mandate went something along these lines:

> 1) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

> 2) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.

> 3) There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.

> 4) It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.
>
> 5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.

> 6) Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.

> 7) Thank you; have a nice day!

> Ha, ha! You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a shit about your day.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
Author of P9k, here. Glad you're enjoying it! =)
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Really cool! I love simple solutions like this.
> Amazon affiliate links also aren't necessary to use the service, and that sets cookies. Have to get consent before users can click on those links.

Assuming that these cookies are only set after clicking the link, and that there is no personal information in the links, then what is the problem? In any case, Amazon setting cookies is not your problem, it is Amazon's.
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And that provides a profiling oracle that can be used to determine data about individuals. Once they interact, you know. It's not even difficult to pull off.
This is a cool idea.

$200 is probably not that incentivizing to most us/Western European based entrepreneurs. However it may be a big deal in other regions.

Perhaps you might want to consider marketing in geographic locations where you think $200 would make a difference to the entrepreneur.
I stopped buying windows and the MS Office suite years ago when Microsoft clearly stopped caring about its consumer base. As for this case, its unfair to Lundgren - should have had better lawyers - Microsoft is simply taking advantage of the best legal system money can buy to keep its shareholders happy
A vote against spaced repetition
A lot of people don't know that RoundUp is sprayed on many (perhaps most) grains shortly before harvest. It desiccates the grain crop, keeping the combine from getting gummed up and increasing yields.

When I learned this, I decided enough was enough and switched to strictly organic grains. I think it actually helps my health quite a bit. I wonder how many of the health problems we blame on wheat are actually due to the poison that is routinely sprayed on it.
The bottom of the FAQ did me in, but that's a perfect place: the people who are about to bounce anyway.
Weeds choke out food crops - you can't just mow a soybean field.

"Natural" alternatives like vinegar can be just as harmful to the soil & environment as commercial herbicides, and other methods can be economically unfeasible.

Unfortunately, to sustain the growth of population and increasing consumer "appetite", herbicides are the only way (at this time).

Nobody, including those who live in rural areas like I do, WANT to use herbicides (they aren't cheap) - it's just the only way to stay in business. There is no scaleable alternative at this time.
I am not so worried about AI exterminating us - because they depend on electricity and they would probably like to keep meatbags around for reboots and such - unless they figure out how to train other primates to replace us.
Of course, he would have been able to stay awake long enough to finally photograph 'ol Nessie.
Almost, but not quite.

For one, the male class is not given any opportunity to rank females, as it is presumed that most males would attempt to game their own preference rankings to maximize their chances at getting a match. Secondly, the classes are not closed, and additional members may be added or removed at any time, when some matches may already be dating.

To be sure, whomever it is that figures out the fair dating algorithm would have to cite Gale-Shapley as a starting point.
I get your joke, but the parent comment means "if the advice is from Google, then launch missiles", not "if it is a correct advice from Google, then launch missiles", so the assignment vs comparison question doesn't apply.
There's also the community. I've never seen another language community built with so much deliberate effort, rather than just accreting around a project. And for a language like Rust, I think this is necessary -- with so many unfamiliar concepts and new ways to fail, it would have been very hard to get any traction without a strong community push.
Letting your lawn grow more wild/naturally is catching on in some cities in the US whether through conviction or just apathy. But ironically, as you mention, many places have local laws or HOA rules preventing this on a large scale.
It depends on what you are growing at right now. If you are doing 10x YOY, keep doing the same.

If you are doing 10% YOY then going to Vegas and betting it all on red would be a good choice.
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EDIT: A moderator helped me out on that last question, and refunded my reputation to let me ask a new, better-worded, question with a bounty. Thanks to that moderator.
Perhaps I've never hit the problems that go solves? I just don't understand why I'd learn it when it offers nothing new or unique and feels even more clunky to work in than alternatives.

Specifically for me, I know enough poorly-typed lanagues that I want to be learning and using languages that offer me a good type system to express my program in, and not just jump through hoops to get things to work with no large benefit or reduction in code (and do when I get a chance).

I get coroutines are cool, but they don't really seem to solve the problems I have with concurrency. They feel like baked-in message queues.
In practice, labour contracts with one firm within an industry, for major unions & firms, often set the industry payscale

This was long the practice in the US auto industry.

Discussed in this story:

https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2015/09/08/uaw-pr...
That would be nice, but they make money from sucking wealth.

When Walmart Comes to Town
https://economics.mit.edu/files/7575

Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-25/wal-mart-...

An early Snapper Mower take on walmarts practices:
https://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-Sr3SjBzk
With one minor exception, you have just described GDPR.

The exception being: there is no minimum for fines. So a small company could be fined absolutely nothing for an infringement if it was representative of the harm caused or they fixed the issue.

Also. Security representatives--actually called data protection officers--are only necessary at large scale or highly sensitive operations.

The law is being applied gradually. It is already in effect and has been for two years. The approaching deadline is when the penalty clauses will come into effect. How it will be applied remains to be seen, but has no bearing on the validity of the legislation itself.
Most of the rest of us in suburban areas have streetlights that never go off, plus an incredible number of them point the wrong direction (some or most of their output goes straight to the sky, which defeats the point of the lamp) or have been replaced with LED versions that are far brighter than anyone actually needs. I can't say that I've ever seen the milky way outside of photographs.
Civilization absorbs technology.

"Learning dominates when technologies are new and not very useful for broad human purposes. If you want to explore a coral reef in 2017, buy a plane ticket to the tropics. If instead you buy “FishWorld, a fully immersive underwater experience for Oculus and Gear” you will learn more about virtual reality technology than you do about reefs. Now cast your mind forward: in 2037, you will not play with or think about “virtual reality”. Either it will be defunct, or it will be so useful that we speak of an evening at home exploring coral reefs. The technology will fail and evaporate, or it will succeed and be absorbed, but either way, it will disappear."

http://www.sampenrose.net/civilization-absorbs-technology/
Some people here have mentioned ignoring it completely in the short term. While I wouldn't recommend this, for a small, personal, non-profit side-project, it is worth mentioning that lot of the checklists and advice out there are:

1. aimed at, at the very least, medium-sized for-profit businesses, and as such include requirements that explicitly don't apply to very small projects

2. very often are trying to sell you something (consulting services, compliance audits, training, etc.) and as such are motivated to make GDPR sound as scary as possible.

There is a little more to it than this, but, my advice would be to just be mindful of any info you collect on users.

If you are worried about it, you can focus on projects that are open-access or don't necessarily involve accounts and login, but if you are implementing auth, just note what the auth collects, and be careful with it, both in terms of consent and securiy.

Don't give it to 3rd-parties (the easiest way to do this is doing things like sending userIds to Google Analytics in custom JS events). Consider whether your small side-project really needs Google Analytics (logging, crash analytics is good for debugging issues, but behavioural analytics is moving towards building a business, imo).

Note: I'm not implying side-projects shouldn't be moving toward building a business, but I'm just making the point that if that is your intent, you should be spending a little bit more time considering user privacy and compliance. And getting proper advice about it. You don't even need a DPO for <250 employees, so this really isn't that burdensome.
What about sensitivity to noise? The guy upstairs walking around in an old uninsulated house causes thumping which instantly wakes me up. A rug didn't help. Next door, my bedroom is next to stairs where stompers stomp up and down the stairs morning and night. Earplugs and noise machines don't help.

While thinking causes me to remain awake, sensitivity to disturbances causes me to wake up. It's been a sort of punishment my entire life, made worse because no one takes me seriously or cares, since they cannot relate.
Its free for YOU to use, its not free to copy them impersonate MS and profit off them en masse
Please, someone. Instead of working on pushing ads into our minds, develop a software/device that can pick up all these chemicals.
What scientific proof is available that they are actually harmful?
Sort of, except that the bank can only lend out 90 of the 100 with, for example, a 10% reserve.

But in the end, that doesn't matter. The process is multiplicative, with a diminishing return.

Presuming that 10% reserve, when the restaurant deposits that 90, it can then serve as a reserve for the restaurant's own bank to lend out 81 which will then be deposited in someone else's bank. Now there is: the original 100, the 90, and the 81 all deposited as funds. 100 magically becomes 271, with the corresponding debt offsetting it. Rinse and repeat.

The reserve requirement is the only real brake on runaway inflation. With a 10% reserve, the theoretical maximum amount of money that could be created is 9X the original deposited amount. The formula for the multiplier is: 1 - (1 / reserve%). Of course, that's the theoretical maximum. It never goes quite that far.

But of course, then there's the interest that must somehow be paid. Interest is the only reason we have banks in the first place. It is why people deposit their money in banks, and it is how banks make their money. No interest, no banks, and (consequently) no loans. Since most money is actually created through loans, there is not enough money in the system to pay off the loans and the interest. The only way to pay back that interest is if loans continue to be made and the money supply perpetually expands. This is why we have central banks and government monetary policies.

Keep in mind, that this is all a simplification of the process. There are many layers to it, especially when the central banks get involved. Witness the Fed system in the US with the lending windows, T-bills, the role of government debt, etc. But it all boils down to the same thing when you strip the layers away.

If the sovereign currency referendum passes, the Swiss will inevitably have to deal with this problem. Their central bank will be forced to expand the money supply electronically in the form of loans made to banks, with an ever shrinking reserve. I just don't see this referendum making any difference whatsoever, except to centralize all debt.
> Don't they have laws, HOA etc.

Ha ha, no.

Maybe Canada is land of the free?
The "influencer" would just have to take a lot of pictures for each event. Maybe the same from different angles...

Could easily generate hundreds of photos from one "session".
Ask HN: How to bring in a business partner?
Hi,

I have a very small forum of professionals of a specific field (let's say they are dentists), it has 3k daily visits.

I'm making big changes (moving to a better platform, better domain) and I would like to bring in a dentist onboard. The forum is not generating revenue but I think it has great potential (there are no big competitors in my country, and it's growing despite I'm making no effort to make it grow)

Without a dentist onboard, growth rate will be very slow. That's why I would like to have a partner or a employee to:

- Generate quality content

- Answer questions

- Invite dentists

- If the site growths: generate connections with businesses and find advertisers

I think that a partner will be more motivated than an employee, but I'm not comfortable by giving someone 50% of the (future) business without knowing how much will he work if currently there is no money, specially because the site is already running and growing.

What do you think is the best path to bring a partner?

1- Should I hire a dentist for some hours per week and later ask him if he wants to become a partner? I think this is the best path, but it's expensive and I do not have a lot of money.

2- Should I ask him if he is wants to volunteer until the site growths from 3,000 to 6,000 visits and then he will have 50%?

3- Or should I just him give 50% if he commits to work?

Thanks!
Right, but these languages are declarative.
Its like this, linux is FREE, but if you start impersonating red hat to push linux you'll be in trouble
Thanks for answering! Apologies if I used a term that isn't wide use, yet.
That law says if you offer service or goods to anyone or monitor them while they are in the EU. It does not say "anyone in the EU" as people you aren't offering services or goods to and you aren't monitoring are not included.

Afaict from summaries on court cases in germany, "offering goods or services" definitely means you have to have more than accidental contact with EU customers. Monitoring is hopefully obvious.
This article isn't about dumbing games down, it's about making UI adjustments to make it easy to start playing.

If you play some Ludum Dare games, you'll see how important a good UI is to pick up a new game. You'll see lots of unexplained controls, unexplained mechanics, and indecipherable labels. And these little details will make or break games.
I know how to workaround the paywall by blocking or deleting the cookie :-) But I wasn't aware of this entry in HN's FAQ. I disagree, but if this is the rule on HN, then I'll follow it. Thanks for your reply.
I try not to be an asshole with user’s data and it worked out great for me even before GDPR.

I haven’t actually read the regulation and couldn’t care less if I comply (I’m sure there is like 10% of it that I might not comply with), but my point is that nobody ever complained - I give users an easy way to nuke all their data (actual delete, not pretending to delete), I don’t share their data with anyone, no analytics/tracking/advertising and problem solved.
Investment in a company is traded for power over that company (ownership of shares). It's not so much giving money in bulk, as it is paying for your share of control and reward in the company. If a majority of the controlling ownership of a company decide to liquidate the company, then they can do that, and get back what remains of their investment.

There is not usually any right to get your money back as a minority shareholder, as this retraction of your commitment would be damaging to the interests of the other shareholders.
Google has the lowest ceo/pay ratio since their CEO gets $1.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/ceo-pay-ratio/

I know Facebook included Mark's security/ travel into compensation. Did google just not do that?
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They spray organic food as well. Just with different stuff, like nicotine.
FWIW: After I taught my kids to sleep in their own beds both my health and their mood improved.

YMMW but I was starting to get ill after not sleeping a full night for months.

Emphasis on taught because while we knew we had to teach or kids to eat and walk it never occured to me I had to teach them to sleep.
> Don't they have laws, HOA etc.

Most homeowners in the US are also not impacted by any laws or HOA rules mandating they have perfectly manicured lawns, either. This seems to be something limited to upscale suburbia particularly in the west, where the arid conditions require you to actually care for your lawn if you want grass.
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You might want to lead with "they used a picture I uploaded to a free use stock photography site" in your original comment.