skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a little annoying watching you repeat these things and not only that but to take time to jump into any thread that critically discusses the military/security agencies and dismiss all criticism with the most absurd reasoning and then pretend that you've been attacked so as to avoid having to reckon with what it is your actually doing. For example, quite recently on a thread about the Cuba Embassy TBI incident. Unlike other people on here I don't think this makes you some automatic spy/asset/plant but having had to deal directly with security state as I personally have, and as my family has literally for generations, you get annoyed at people attacking good journalism because it conflicts with you ideology.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I want to add that music taste has an important social component that often seems overlooked in favour of nebulous ideas like "artistic merit" (not from you, but elsewhere on this page.) If you and your friends only listen to Top 40, that music has personal and social resonance. It probably makes you feel good about your relationships, and also fosters the strengthening of those relationships. While some people prefer the individuality of their tastes, for plenty others there's a thrill to participating in a monolithic cultural event like One Direction or Ed Sheeran etc. These metrics of "good"-ness shouldn't be dismissed simply because the subjects of them don't play crazy polyrhythms where every song has 34 chords.
After working in two jobs where my job was using quantitative analysis to try figure out what marketing channels to invest in I have to say this is incredibly hard to get any answers - to the point where you might ask why bother? The current solutions in the marketplace AFAIK are either extremely expensive vendors (think $50k pa starting price) or startups which are most focused on direct response (an example I was shown was web traffic from a TV commercial which let you "win a jeep".)

The best steps you can do for your business are have a very firm commercial idea of what success looks like (i.e. measure LTV, churn etc by channel) and have a robust framework for market research. I personally like the idea of splitting spending marketing spend between branding (where your aim is to promote unprompted brand awareness) and acquisition (where you want CPA < LTV.) Also remember there are A LOT of businesses which spend money in things that an expert can identify as not commercially sound - so audits by external agencys can be useful (i.e. not using negative keywords in AdWords and spending many thousands on direct response campaigns that don't work.)

I'll add the cavaet that rhe worst thing about "attribution" I've found is it puts an unfair amount of pressure in the bottom of the funnel. Brand focused marketers aren't really held to scrutiny at all (lots of marketing teams in businesses I know don't even do total spend / total sales) - I think this can cause some resentment between teams.

Good articles on this are few and far between but this one I don't mind https://www.cmo.com.au/article/641243/iag-marketers-must-end... as well as Willem's talk on what they did to bring programmatic in-house at Foxtel.

Happy to connect with anyone interested in this space.
Well, Egan was just repeating things that others were saying before.

This is M-theory basically, and Stephen Hawking, among others, has mentioned it as a possible "theory of everything".
> Surely a free software license couldn't say "it's forbidden to run this program on iOS"

Of course not, free software allows the user to use the software however they wish. Anything else would be unfree software.

However, if you receive software governed the GPL, it is NOT legal to publish that software via the iOS App Store, as that violates the users' GPL-given right to build and run modifications. (The original author can dual-license software they create, in both GPL and iOS-licensed versions)

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/why-free-software-and-ap...

Government backdoors are irrelevant to free software, since anyone can inspect software and remove backdoors.
ITP 2.0 just got the Seal of Approval.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1003716676813090818
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I take it as sign of failing moderation that the parent comment was moderated down and rendered harder to read by default. It's quite right--music copyright licensing is not foreseeably an issue of life and death. Any music copyright holder depending on that income can try and get another paying job, even a non-musical job to earn money. I'm not a fan of that approach (for reasons outside the scope of this discussion) but it is more practical than waiting for a license check and starving. Planting seeds, harvesting plants for food, and replanting the seeds that naturally grow was a process big agriculture had to spend effort to stymie because the natural way got in the way of profits. That's harmful to us all.

Also, the grandparent article is conflating copyright and patent laws in the language of "intellectual property" and ought not be allowed to go without comment. These laws work very differently, cost different amounts of money to acquire and defend, and conflating them is a sign of ignorance or a sham. These laws have far more separating them than they share (one sentence in the US Constitution). https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Intellect... explains more in-depth.
That would definitely work to an extent—especially for newswire producers and consumers like wire services or newspapers.

Magazines and some newspapers, however, are very zealous about their design—and rightfully so. Apple has tried to find a middle ground with the Apple News format[0], but it's still a little wanting with regard to print design standards. Some art directors/teams are more accepting of new constraints than others as well.

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[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_news/apple_n...
>Do you really think this?

...yes?

>you're woefully underestimating their impact on communication and language. The emoji library on a normal iPhone is enormous

What does one have to do with the other? Yes, there are a lot of dumb icons to chose from. How does that directly lead to "[having a] large impact on communication and language"? If that's true, do you think it's a _positive_ impact?
No, I am using the language of current legal system (which recognized IP) because otherwise I have to establish an alternative context. Again, the language is being used, but the underlying purpose behind the law is not being respected.

We can imagine a society where copyright laws don't exist, i.e. content created by someone is not considered their property and others may do what they will with the content in a GPLisque manner. In that society we would never have to use 'my/their content', as there will be no notion of IP in that society.
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More like: why are you making harsh language a crime since murder is legal?
it's definitely different for everybody. text based ones are limited in range of emotions they can convey.

I never understood people that spent money on digital goods until I found kakaotalk emojis.

for me there is no comparison. I adore their animated emojis and I'm willing to pay for them as do many others.

you can check them out.

https://youtu.be/sKCPUfPaJBI
Upfront, I'm not a Apple person. I generally buy Business Class windows machines (after making sure I can install Linux on them). While their speakers generally arnt the best, I do enjoy the extended battery life and SSD. I mostly use them for coding laptops. I also like the "flippy" ones, but that's only because I have the tendency to carry them around by their laptop lid and this way it does not snap the neck.
I've added a timeout on the font loader, you should make it through after a few seconds, although I don't know how good the page will look without the custom fonts.

I've also added a transpiler.
The API is rich and neat, just hacked a little demo with driving directions https://github.com/vasile/mapkit-js-demo
I don't see why you're getting down voted so much. Other than it's a pretty vacuous comment with nothing to back up the statement.

Nevertheless I do agree. I get really frustrated at how people are willing to accept cars that are so ugly.

The Bolt is better than others, but I personally think it's still a really ugly car. It's a complement to say that it's only as ugly as most regular cars are, but still it's ugly.

I'm impressed by the new leaf, it actually looks like a nice car. But the front of the first leaf looked ridiculous.

Tesla somehow figured out that people who want to buy electric cars, like cars that look nice too. It's the most obvious piece of advice, yet no car company could think of it.

Nice looking cars add something to the road scenery, bring pleasure to those who pass by them.

What I'm most impressed about is that Tesla have done what almost no luxury sports car brand has done and try and sell a mass market car and keep the nice looks of the brand. I'd liken the Model S/X to more like a Porsche/Aston Martin than a BMW. It's actually a bit simialr to the Porsche Boxter but that only makes up 10-20% of sales [0].

Personally the major attraction for me is that for $35k (when it comes in 2035...) you can get a car that has similar styling to a luxury sports car.

Making nice looking cars is worthwhile. The new Mini achieved it, the Fiat 500 managed it. Beauty is something to be cherished, and when you're going to make a million of the things and you only have to design it once, why not make it beautiful.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#North_American_sales
> What’s the text version of a birthday cake?

Is that a serious question?

> More challenging: what’s the text version of a singing, eye-rolling T-Rex?

Who cares because that's dumb? Can you tell me what deep emotional state is being conveyed by a T-rex rolling its eyes? I think you lost track of the premise we're debating.
Thank you for the reasoned and considered reply.
> Open Source is more than that, it is actually more "free" than "Free Software".

The remainder of your post you only talk about Richard Stallman. Sure, RMS is the father of Free Software, but that doens't mean RMS's beliefs are all perfectly aligned with it.

If you wish to argue about OSS vs Free Software, you should be arguing about licenses, movements, and emergent behaviours and incentive structures within each of them.

Arguing about one single person's beliefs on either side will not be productive. No one person defines OSS or Free Software in full.

By way of example, I disagree with RMS politically and on many many other subjects, but I still believe the free software movement to be better long-term than the OSS movement.
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What does a welcoming, supportive and inclusive conference look like?
I think a higher price puts the vendor/manufacturer in the mind that the user has sunk so much into the product, that they are pretty much ensnared.
How does it compare to atrium.co? Are both of these for the same type of companies?
OpenGL is pretty. Much prettier than these Metal and Vulkan abominations.

The difference is that OpenGL is designed to be easy for humans. glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES); glVertex3f(x, y, z)...; glEnd(); you can't beat that. The issue is that it hard for the driver to optimize.

That's where Metal and Vulkan come into play. These are low level APIs, sacrificing user friendliness for a greater control over the hardware. It is designed for 3D engines, not for application developers.
I really hate that we have to criticize these awful articles and press releases all the time

There's a solution to this: stop linking to science journalism pieces. Instead, we should link directly to the paper.
Alternatively (and arguably much less complex and much cheaper): 1) eat less, 2) exercise
First, there are no morals involved in taxes. I don’t make the tax laws and I have no responsibility to pay more tax than I owe. If Congress wanted to close this then they would. I believe it was a plank of Hillary’s campaign.

Second, there’s a very narrow window where it actually makes sense. Above $128k of salary you don’t pay Social Security tax at all, just Medicare. “Underpaying” social security reduces your future annuity, so it’s not like this is a panacea.

Third, paying yourself zero salary and taking profit sharing distributions is indeed a massive audit risk. I’ve never done that and don’t ever plan on it (see: article title).
> What makes you think that Apple refuses to allow GPU vendors to provide an OpenGL implementation?

Because it is a fact that Apple develops their own drivers. Also, when did you last download a driver update from NVidia for your Mac?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-...

Article is about Vulkan, but briefly mention Apple's own outdated OpenGL stack.

http://renderingpipeline.com/2012/04/sad-state-of-opengl-on-...

From 2012. Which means it is still accurate, given how out of date drivers are.

There are more references, you can look it up.

> The real question is why would a GPU vendor go through the expense of creating and supporting such an implementation when Apple doesn't even make a computer with slots that you can install their video cards into?

They still have GPUs, which can be Intel, AMD or NVidia depending on year and model. Just because they are soldered on, doesn't mean they don't need drivers.

EDIT: Some more research seems to indicate that there are drivers developed by NVidia for the NVidia Quadro GPU line.
Elon's thinking goes back to college in areas he felt would affect humanity the most. These are Internet, sustainable energy (production/consumption), and space exploration and habitation. He eventually would have companies for all of these: Solar City for production, Tesla for consumption, Space X for space and internet. It is amazing that he is able to get a moonshot chance at all of these.
Look, people fall asleep driving cars every day. People text and drive, eat hamburgers and drive, wear headphones and drive all the time. For whatever reason, when they do this stuff in a Tesla, critics claim that Autopilot made them do it. I don't excuse this behavior from any driver, but all things equal, a driver who does this will fare better with Autopilot than without it.

I don't see a contradiction in your questions. Yes, Autopilot appeared to save this person from injury or death. Yes, Tesla would blame him if it hadn't. And yes, they'd be justified in doing so, because it would be his own fault for falling asleep at the wheel. Autopilot, like emergency braking, can mitigate a bad situation. But should it fail, it doesn't relieve you of responsibility for getting yourself into that situation in the first place.
To whom or what are you referring? If my suggestion that the commenter’s requirements seem quixotic — guilty as charged.
But their source code wasn't illegal.
There is context which neither you nor pg presumably understand.

Gaza is closed off not only by Israel but by Egypt in the latter case it is because terrorists from Gaza have killed many Egyptian soldiers in Sinai. Israel is in fact using its technology to save the lives of Egyptian soldiers.

Israel pulled out of Gaza and the Palestinians elected to lead them Hamas, a terrorist organization according to the EU, US, and Israel that also brags about blowing up family restaurants such as Sbarro in Jerusalem where a pregnant American woman died among many others.

They chose terrorists to lead them over Fatah. Instead of improving Gaza, Hamas used funding to shoot missiles into Israel and to dig tunnels into Israel attempting to kill civilians.

Israel ended up developing the Iron Dome missile system that protected Israeli civilians from rockets from Hamas. Israel now has a joint venture with Raytheon building and selling these weapons systems. Three countries besides Israel have thus far purchased them.

It was when Iron Dome made Hamas missiles ineffective that Hamas began building tunnels into Israel to attack civilians.

The 2014 conflict was the third conflict (2008, 2012, 2014) and in that conflict Saudi Arabia and Egypt both backed Israel over Hamas.

GAZA KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION CEREMONY: KIDS STAGE MOCK MILITARY ATTACK AND HOSTAGE-TAKING
https://www.memri.org/tv/gaza-kindergarten-ceremony-stage-mi...
More precisely, under GPL the author of the software has no power over users. The author has all the same rights as the users.
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> Let me put it another way: what’s the point of these newfangled moving pictures when we already have books?

Yeah, figured that would be trotted out at some point. That's a fine sounding argument, but do you really feel emoji's are on the same level as the advent of video? I don't believe you do. At some point you have to take a look at the specific thing you're talking about and get down out of the clouds.

I have yet to hear a reasonable argument as to why emoji's are better. All I see here is "they're different and can be funny." Ok.
I have a python project to manage headless chromium, which exposes basically the entire dev-tools UI:

https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController

It also supports some nice bits - there's a tab pool interface, it does execution lifetime management, and there's actual parameter checking for arguments generated by parsing the `protocol.json` file the browser supplies.

I use it as a mixin for some high(ish) volume web archiving I do as a hobby. It does a nice job poking through things like buttflare and other bullshit WAFs.
Since this is an advertisement, why would they tell you what they learned? If they did, then you'd be able to, theoretically, compete with them.
Chicken and egg. If they remove it apps stop working, if apps don’t update they can’t remove it.
Because if it turned out to be dangerous it has been determined that the animals being hurt/killed is better than that happening to human test subjects.
The Affero General Public License attacks this problem

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

> The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.
They mentioned in the State of the Union that this is the first step towards removing it.
Only when the coalition doesn't have a majority of the parliament seats. I don't think minority governments are common at all in Europe, as the whole point of a coalition is usually to get majority.
I have a GW690II, have you used that one? Do you know how does it compare with GX680?
Duplicate? [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006503
Right: that narrow window is what makes it so crazy-making. Virtually everybody who employs this dodge is comparatively privileged. Most people don't get to opt a big chunk of their income out of Medicare/Social Security taxes; why should tech company operators?

We're an LLC filing as S-Corp, for what it's worth. I just don't play this particular game.
> is completely wack.

Truth is stranger than fiction and a journalist only lives by their credibility. He wouldn't publish it if he didnt think it was solid.
If there ever was an example of how Apple has let their browser languish.
A lot of beans take longer than 20 mins.

And beans are super nutritious.
> it might signal criticism or a desire to party

I'd like to see examples of both of these. Specifically how the T-Rex plays a role because, if you take the T-Rex out, we're back to something I can easily convey in ascii.
>Why do full nodes need this? They don’t actually validate these blocks.

This is straight up not correct:

https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#p2p-network

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Full_node#Economic_strength

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Miners.2C_developers_or_som...

The mining process makes it expensive to lie to the network, but if no one is checking for lies it could still be lied to. Full nodes check that mining nodes aren't including invalid transactions. The requirement to submit a valid hash with your mined block means that the network can't be spammed into oblivion. Check the hash first (cheap), and if the hash passes, check /everything/ in the block to make sure it's all valid (expensive). If the block contains only valid transactions accept it, federate it to your peers, and thus give the miner lots of money. If the block contains any invalid transactions, reject it, thereby levying on the miner an opportunity cost for doing the wrong thing.

Removing the second step of validation would mean that you could attack the network with considerably less than 51% hash power. You could buy 1% of the hashpower and submit fraudulent blocks 1% of the time on average. Note that submitting fraudulent blocks is not the same kind of attack as a 51% attack.

Anyway, you see this "full nodes don't validate the blockchain" nonsense a lot from altcoins that think they've found a neat-o way to get faster/cheaper transactions. They usually have, but they invariably have to lose the trustless nature of the system to do it, at which point you'd be better of using a regulated bank. It's a big red flag that the developer of a coin doesn't actually understand the technology they are using.
>"observations wrought by Newtonian physics"

I'm not sure what this means. Is it different from just making an observation? Eg, "this light in the sky is of this color at that location", or "this object drops at that speed".
Is there, though? Maybe I'm just cynical, but I don't believe in the idea of "trusting" a corporation at all, because their default behavior (especially for larger companies) is to only care about the bottom line. Once you accept that everything a company does is for their own benefit (even if their actions happen to also benefit others) and learn to take each action at face value, I find it easier to evaluate the consequences of those actions.

The idea of trusting an entity that is designed to try to take your money seems silly and futile to me.
Isn't this a required feature under the new EU laws?
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I really hate comments that are highly negative, but fail to include specific arguments.
You didn't read. I said that you can convey any of these equally well in ascii. Yes, it's handy to be able to plug an :) at the end of a sentence which may otherwise sound rude/overly direct. That doesn't mean I need 1000 icons, and _that's what we're talking about_.