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> I think you hearing an alt-right dog whistle is exactly the Western-centric attitude I was referring to.

That's because the alt-right uses Japan as a proxy for its own anti-immigration and racialist views, particularly in regards to to Muslim and Eastern European immigrants. It seems to me to be a new form of Orientalism.

>If you think there's no racial tension between native Japanese and Korean/Chinese immigrants I have some news for you.

There definitely is, but that depends on one's definition of "race."

But that tension has existed for hundreds if not thousands of years (obvious post-WW2 sentiments notwithstanding) so I don't see that contributing to the disruption of Japanese culture since it's been a constant in Japanese culture for so long.
Is there any protection to be had by a corporate shell game? Suppose I put my technology assets in one corporation, my revenue and monetary assets in a 2nd corporation, and my customer facing presence in a 3rd corporation. The patent trolls descend on the customer facing presence, which has no substantial technology or monetary assets. If it goes into bankruptcy, I lose brand, but can restart elsewhere and preserve my tech and monetary assets ?
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I learnt a lot just listening and reading a lot of advice from Sivers. He is awesome
After ten years of muddling through, I'm finally coming to the conclusion that I was never meant to run a business. By this point, the mere thought that I might give this up and work for a company that would pay me a regular salary and provide health insurance, where I would have colleagues who would support me and take care of all the things I'm no good at... just imagining that scenario brings tears of relief to my eyes.

I'm not a programmer: I work in publishing, promoting Chinese literature in English. I am supposed to split my time between actual translation and editing, and running projects to promote our books and publishing consulting jobs. Project management is horrible; continually worrying about the direction of the company is horrible; four and a half hours of writing emails in the morning is horrible. I am supposed to be spending half my time translating and editing, but it doesn't happen. I am desperate to fuck off with a book and a dictionary into a quiet room and work, but there's an endless number of niggling details to take care of.

If it doesn't give you a high, don't do it. If it takes your high away, DON'T DO IT.
I've been wondering this for years. It seems like the most obvious way to greatly improve CLIs, yet no one seems to talk about it...
Does this affect non-RSA key types too? I use ecsda25519.
The ICO Grant Shapps quit: OpenBrix, a property website on the blockchain
Yep. Toll roads hit poorer people harder. Maybe there could be a credit limit that everyone (or just people of lesser means) gets by default and you only pay when you start going over it.

Or maybe just build better public transportation.
... and not a particularly good one either:

Followers of Shinto, unlike Judeo-Christian monotheists and the Greeks before them That's a funny way to divide up the world into us and them. It looks more like us == Japan and them == US. The writer seems to miss out the Roman influence that might traditionally be shoehorned into the "western" God Squad history. Not to mention a dalliance with dollops of assorted "pagan" traditions and mythology.

To be fair, I consider this sort of thing as a form of national pride which should be respected when listened to but needs careful consideration. Bear in mind I come from the country that can play "Land of Hope and Glory" or "Jerusalem" without flinching.
If you select from a 10k word list, you get 13.3 bits of entropy per word. 4 of those get you 53 bits of entropy. One p3.16xlarge does 450GH/s. So, as a first order approximation: 253 / (450E9) = 2E4 or about 6 hours. Sure: you don’t get to keep that performance, but we’re talking a day. What kind of passwords do you have that make it “much better”? Or are you saying that already counts?
>I would also add that the whole minefield of communicating with someone of the opposite sex, especially if you are a man. It seems that you have a high risk of being called up for harassment if you want to start a friendly conversation with a female as a male for example. This is a direct consequence of the whole metoo thing.

Wow. I'm married now, but I used to date and approach women non-stop. Non-stop. Not once did I ever feel that I was somehow in danger of being accused of harassment - but that's probably, well, because I wasn't being harass-y and creepy.

I really don't know where this "Look at me, I'm a man, poor little me!" victimhood is coming from recently, but it's definitely on the increase since Trump won. Suddenly, if people like you are to be believed, men are a persecuted, deprived caste of wretches and pariahs who are denied their basic human rights by militant feminists.

It's b.s., quite frankly. Don't be Harvey Weinstein, be respectful, and, well - normal - and you'll be fine.
Yup, same here. I really try to push it as far as I can.
Thanks for the input! I'll look into this.
You need to choose a language and use it as the basis to define your Kolmogorov complexity for all strings.

Otherwise, as you said, the definition of Kolmogorov complexity becomes pointless and vacuous - every string has "Kolmogorov complexity" equal to 1!

Once you have done this and your language is Turing complete, your language's program sizes can be transformed to other languages' and vice-versa by simply emulating languages in each other (which does not necessarily give you the shortest possible program, but just a bound for its size).
Filament: Physically-based rendering engine
in cases like that how can you distinguish loving the cli paradigm and loving some one else doing the work for them
obsd is highly break-things-for-security and pick up the pieces later so saying Linux is the reason kind of baffles me.
Don't forget about ransomware. Imagine the rogue package encrypted your files and demanded payment to get the decryption key. With public key encryption or a symmetric key that is securely deleted, there is no need for network access for the attack to succeed. A fast shutdown could protect most of your files.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker

Although I think the best way to deal with ransomware is a strong backup policy, not a tripwire shutdown trick.
I think this helps being able to solve these kind of hacks: https://google.github.io/guice/api-docs/latest/javadoc/index...
That attitude is what turns non-nerds away from asking our opinion on the technologies that we develop.

If you don’t want to be involved in the debates about AI, automation et al, then you can’t really comment on those who do. If you do want to chip in, inform the public about the realistic dangers. What they need is realistic information from experts so that they can deduce what risks are acceptable and what risks are unacceptable.

Even the most untechnically-informed member of the public will get the positives: AI, automation, (or whatever technology you’re developing) makes software better in someway, doesn’t even matter how or why, it’s taken for granted that you’re developing something that you believe will be a net-positive.

But it’s the negatives that are what needs to be legislated for. Regulations and laws don’t give technologies a pat on the back, they protect the public from misuse of a technology. Your voice would be welcomed.
A language providing good support for asynchronous programming does not mean that developers use those features well. ;)

And even if they do, that does not mean that the application as a whole performs well. You can write beautiful code using async/await that performs awfully, if you wait on the right things.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I appreciate the "I've been there, here's what worked" outlook as well.

I'll start working to implement some of these practices in my life. Finding a good organization sounds like a great idea and something I need to just do.

There's a makerspace a few blocks from my work. I think it's time to email them about membership!
> What if animations started at a slightly slower speed, and gradually increased in speed the more you used them?

That's an interesting idea. Or how about if the initiation of a new animated action forced already running animations to rapidly complete? Then if you're doing a bunch of things that trigger animations in rapid sequence, then they would all effectively just be running at higher speeds, in proportion to your specific speed of working.
I've used a service from Free Map Tools for years that did this exact same thing. It was very accurate, but appears to have recently been taken down.

https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-can-i-travel.htm
I would read that, if anything for the entertainment value.
A fun read about what Cloudflare did to a patent troll: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/09/2...
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>A third-party for-profit business with sketchy monetization

What is exactly is sketchy? What is bad about a for-profit business?

>though they don't tell what you'll have to pay up-front

Where did you get that? You're registering for a free account. If you want to upgrade, you select a plan. All information of the features you would unlock are available upfront.
I second this. My company went through a dozen brothers before switching to HP and Xerox. Brother printers are fine for occasional use but they don't hold up for daily office use.
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I don’t see how removing support for rss infringes on this statement. You can still install a plug-in to shape your own experience. In fact, it could be argued that including their own rss support when most users don’t even know what RSS is was itself infringing on that statement.
Because banks have much greater presence and marketing reach, being involved in a lot more of the ordinary financial transactions than just withdrawing cash. As only one example of this, brokerage checking doesn't have an obvious path towards insured savings vehicles, you'll have to do some research and have an investor mindset which most banking customers don't want to bother with. If you have a loan, it also becomes another account and institution to deal with, which if you're not an investor you don't want.
> If I wrote down all my Spotify songs AND all my Skype messages AND all my texts, Spotify, Skype, and Verizon don't suddenly gain an ownership stake in what I've done.

Bringing up actual communication content is where you start to get onto shaky ground, though, especially considering, for example, the existence of "2 party consent" for recording of communications in some US jurisdictions.

Although I believe that context is entirely for criminal, not civil matters, my point is that there's already a precedent, and a long-standing one predating "data", for the idea that all parties being recorded do, automatically, have a legal ("ownership" may not be the best word, as pointed out upthread) stake in that recording, regardless of which party did the recording or holds the record.

I suspect you used Skype and Verizon, specifically, because, as mere carriers of the communication, they're not really parties to the content that they carry. That doesn't really compare, though, since we're not talking about taping the Spotify songs themselves, and the "ownership" situation there is relatively much clearer, if only because the songs existed previously and aren't being created by the interaction itself.
People who don't use RSS say it's dead, and they won't be convinced otherwise.

People who use it every day know that it's not dead at all.

Firefox's decision will not make the slightest bit of difference for either group of people.
According to the World Bank, Australia gets almost as much rain as the United States.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.PRCP.MM?end=2014...
At the moment, everyone pays the same for roads, regardless of whether or not they use them.

Charging only those people who possess the means to drive, AND those people who choose to drive, sounds like it could reduce the harms to those of lesser means.

Right now, if I cannot afford to own a car and use my bicycle to get around town, I pay for someone else to use roads, because my taxes subsidize those roads.

So, if we paid for roads not out of general taxes, but out of tolls, it seems like it could be cheaper for those who don't drive.

Also, for what reasons do you suppose that demand is inelastic? I'm not sure what mechanism you're assuming is not sensitive to price.
I'm familiar with a lot of wikipedia editors. That doesn't mean I agree with all of them all at once. (Even if that was possible, which it definitely isn't :-P )

As you observed: after reading your first story, I managed to convince JzG to at least consider changing tack wrt Kalholmann. Which they did!

Unfortunately Kalholmann was a very bad choice for a champion. In fact, they decided to post Personally Identifying Information right in full view of the arbitration committee; even after being advised not to! (this behavior is at best unethical, arguably illegal, but definitely against the rules!)

In practice, the ironic fact is that JzG turned out to be more effective for your cause than Kalholmann!

I guess I'm just surprised that you're still sticking with your old story, even despite the added clarity of 20/20 hindsight.

You appear to be rather prone to cherry-picking. I'm not sure whether this is by accident or on purpose. (I'm also not sure if it matters; either way it causes harm!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking
IE had a reader (introduced in IE7 I think). There was some sort of support in Outlook as well.
If I asked 10 random people what IP is, how many would have any idea what it is or how to use it?
One of the truly few notices from companies these days that aren't lies about "improving our services to you" or have a catch.
Lots of assumptions in your post.

Being a victim here was not claimed at all. The discussion here is related to why people are feeling more lonely. And I believe that the boundaries of socially acceptable man-women interactions (amongst others) really shrunk over the last decades, yes.

I also used to approach women non-stop (as you would put it). I simply do it less nowadays because I'm aware of the higher risks associated with it. This has nothing to do with being a victim. It is a loss for everyone, and simply a shift to more "streamlined" ways to meet people such as "apps" that remove all the surprise and risks from the interaction.

On a side note, Why does this discussions HAS to yet again go to a Feminist vs Trump view of the world.
It makes it a lot better, tbh.

It doesn't spy on anyone and it's trivial to disable. Hard to do it better.
Your experience seems to be common, and I wonder what sort of critical marketing failure is responsible for that, because RSS is really straightforward: it shows you which of the blogs/webcomics/podcasts/etc. you follow have updated recently, in one place, without cramming up your email or bombarding you with alerts. It's like a Twitter/Tumblr homepage, but for the entire web.

It's not like trying to explain what Google Wave is for; it's no more difficult than getting started on Twitter. It's really strange to me that it's still such a Here Be Dragons thing.
Would I be right in thinking that the revenue from this is not particularly high?

I think I might be happier working a 40 hour a week (remote) job if the pay were similar. But, after running a business for eight years, I am pretty sure I'm making more money than I could earn from such a job.

The income is also largely passive. I need to upkeep the business, but sales happen without active involement. So I can downcycle when I want.

Leaving this as a qualification to your comment. Not all bootstrapped businesses are equal. The OP described challenges of a successful bootstrapped business - even that is psychologically hard. But it's even harder if the business doesn't work, or only sort-of works.

(My day sounds nothing like yours, not all bootstrapped businesses need that much email, or it can be delegated)
The actual code: https://github.com/google/filament

Additional docs on their material system:

https://google.github.io/filament//Materials.md.html

https://google.github.io/filament/Material%20Properties.pdf

Also, I'll plug http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ which was apparently used to format the docs.
A couple of suggestions for improvements:
1) Use quaternions instead of Euler angles for rotation
2) Show latitude and longitude grid so it's easier to identify equator and polar regions, etc...
Yes, Ed25519/Curve25519 has weird cryptographic choices that make it difficult to do certain things. I wouldn't use it for anything other than the specific use case it was designed for: key agreement and single signature authorization/verification.
In 2014 the Supreme Court ruled in Alice v CLS that computer inventions that claim “abstract ideas” are invalid. What happened in the years following is that the lower courts took this as an opportunity to weed out the crappy patents that were previously good extortion assets. Around the same time, the Supreme Court in Octane Fitness granted lower courts more discretion to shift fees and force losing plaintiffs to pay the defense costs for an unreasonable patent infringement claim. Also, in 2012 Congress passed the American Invents Act that created an Inter Partes Review proceeding at the patent office that lets accused infringers (or others) challenge the invalidity of patents more cheaply than a full trial and often to stop a trial pending its resolution. All these combined have resulted in substantially lower troll demands, and more reluctance by trolls to follow through with an extortionate case.

Good precedent is in Inventor Holdings v. Bed Bath Beyond at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. The holding is that a lower court can decide that if a plaintiff turns a blind eye to how bad it’s sotware patent is in light of _Alice_ and doesn’t drop its case, it can award the defendant its attorney fees. This particular case went on far, far too long and the court awarded almost $1M in defendant’s fees to be paid.
Dating apps are only valuable based off their user base. The coding is not the hard part. The app is not the hard part. Well over 90% of the difficulty of dating apps is successfully marketing them.
I disagree. Viewing a pretty printed JSON file is not something 98% of web browser users want to do, building in functionality for it just adds complexity. Pretty-printing JSON is much better handled by an extension, as is the case in Chrome.
I couldn't afford to buy every issue. But when I did I read it cover to cover. It's hard to believe now, but apart from Byte and Dr Dobbs there just wasn't any other source for tech news where I lived (at least for someone who was half programmer - half build your own pc/local network)
I feel almost ashamed for asking this, but are things really that bad for you guys?

You sound like you guys are half joking, but then, not really. So I can't tell.

If it is that bad, I guess people can be bigger arse-holes than I thought.
They hid the RSS icon a while ago so that the telemetry would tell them that almost noone uses it so that they could remove it from firefox... Firefox is still my favorite, but things like this make me wonder sometimes.
https://planet.com images the earth at 3-5m resolution once a day. At least in theory. I tried out some random pieces of forest in Guyana and depending on the size of your area of interest it's more like once every 3-10 days you get a portion of the area you're interested in. I don't know how fast they update but I'm pretty sure it's faster than 24 hours.

Their interface is well made and they have a free 14 day trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Labs
> At the moment, everyone pays the same for roads, regardless of whether or not they use them.

> Charging only those people who possess the means to drive, AND those people who choose to drive, sounds like it could reduce the harms to those of lesser means.

> Right now, if I cannot afford to own a car and use my bicycle to get around town, I pay for someone else to use roads, because my taxes subsidize those roads.

> So, if we paid for roads not out of general taxes, but out of tolls, it seems like it could be cheaper for those who don't drive.

> Also, for what reasons do you suppose that demand is inelastic? I'm not sure what mechanism you're assuming is not sensitive to price.

Most people would be hard pressed to up and leave their jobs if tomorrow the cost of their commute doubled.
Want to reduce rush hour traffic? Allow people to work remotely.
All my ssh key passwords are generated from password managers. They are random and strong.
> do you think mozilla should continue including un-used features in their browser just because you like the technology that underpins them?

It's not unused, but sure, keep repeating that to yourself. And yes, they should continue including it. What exactly do they gain by removing it?

There's a reason Feedly has millions of users and it's not because RSS is dead and nobody cares.
Great summary of of the challenges involved!

Small bit of feedback on your site: I run a business, and am not a programmer. I use a programmer. I can't tell if this is something would use, or not.

You probably don't want to optimize around this use case, but I was looking for a single line that might say "business owner who employe a programmer? Click here to see if this would be useful for you" --> leads to a description of how browserless helps my programmer
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I blame frameworks and the over-reliance on them.

People poke fun at StackOverflow over everyone answering every JavaScript question with "Use jQuery/React/$FRAMEWORK_OF_THE_WEEK", but its a real problem.

I have a browser game I've been writing, and I've just been using pure JavaScript with no frameworks. It's currently sitting at 28K for the JS+HTML+CSS, and that's without minification. Even when it's done, it'll be under 100K.

If I were to listen to anyone's suggestions for using a framework, I'd already be at 84K from jQuery alone.

"Oh, you want to do X? Well, that normally takes 4 lines of JavaScript code, but you can include this framework that turns it into a single function call!"
This is wrong. Tax is already tiered by income so people in lower brackets pay less for roads right now and richer people pay more.

By narrowing the focus to people who have to drive on the roads and doing it in a flat way using tolls will hurt poor people the most if they have to drive to work. Having to drive to and from a job at a certain time is relatively inelastic especially for lower paying service jobs.

With tolls the same money will be spread over fewer people in a flatter way.
>> While a computer might find some pattern in a string, it cannot find the best
pattern. We might find some short program that outputs a certain pattern, but
there could exist an even shorter program. We will never know.

If more programmers -especially functional programmers- were aware of this
limitation, we would have avoided countless flamewars about whose language is
best- where "the best language" is the one where someone has written a program
to perform some task, that is shorter than some other program to perform the
same task in another language sometimes written by another programmer (but
often, the same one).