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> You could except you would get sued. The Kindle 2 was announced with a feature that would read the book to you and Amazon landed in court.

But yet here we are, 9 years later, and the Kindle apps on Android, Windows and iOS support screen reader access to books. Those screen readers can use an array of voices, undoubtedly including the speech engines used in the original TTS feature written about here.
Perhaps someone can quote detail from the actual paper from the journal 'Sleep'.
Burying ‘One Child’ Limits, China Pushes Women to Have More Babies
What does "5 nines of reliability" mean to you? "Nines after the decimal" was nonsense to begin with. But no, it doesn't make sense to assume, when someone uses established terminology, that what they really meant was to refer back elliptically to their own different idiosyncratic terminology.
> I would love to defend the plaintiffs for free.

The plaintiffs are the people who are bringing the suit.
I was mostly pointing out the hypocrisy of so many Americans ignoring Chinas awful human rights record because there is money to be made. The same applies to Saudi Arabia, which is much worse than China yet also makes Americans rich so we look the other way.
And License not for everyone :-))
M. C. Escher's Exhibition in Brooklyn Opened My Eyes
Interesting. Amsterdam actually has a scheme that promotes this ('woongroep') for the express purpose of accommodating students.
It’s illegal to sleep in an office. That legislation, like many others, was put in place to protect renters and workers but now ends up hurting them instead
You're absolutely correct. We've already had cases that started high on moral outrage and continued so until the plaintiff's case collapsed and it turned out (at least according to the court) that it was all fairytales: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pao_v._Kleiner_Perkins
Exactly, the cost of the rental ($2180) for a single person for a 310 square foot apartment overshadowed the modular/technical aspect of the story for me. If it was 800 square feet or something like that I could understand but these are tiny.
Idk why you're being downvoted when you're right. I guess people are incorrectly thinking you support this behaviour instead of simply stating how it is capitalist.
Totally agree that generics in objective c are very bare. And that's what frustrates me the most. Apple/Lattner could have improved them, but chose not to, by focusing all their energy on Swift.

"Simple" things I want from generics:

1. Carry over generic information from header files to .m files, and not force us to drop all type information by having to use "id".

2. A compiler flag to enforce that the generic type must be specified at usage.

3. Where clauses in generics: Foo <T where T : NSCopying, MyProtocol>>

4. Generics on protocols, ideally with all the other features.

I know some of these are not trivial to implement, but they are mostly new syntax and hence don't have backward compatibility issues (except #2 which is why I asked for a compiler flag).
I thought it said cows, which got me thinking...
I'm impressed Berkeley went to all the trouble of designing, approving and erecting an entire dormitory without ever seeing the point - or maybe while trying not to.
With 250$ per share he can buy 0.2 * 250/420 = 12% of the shares. And in that case he would not have any shares left. Again buddy, this does not make ANY sense.
Did a bit more looking into this and it seems to be the case. The issue is with organisations that have historically captured info about EU citizens which even if they stopped access to new EU users, still makes them need to comply with GDPR. So preventing access might also need to be supported by removing any EU user data from your system. Discussed in detail below.

https://www.econsultancy.com/blog/70065-gdpr-which-websites-...
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Pizza joints have been using caller ID to tell your address for, like, forever.

Also probably doesn't matter what they do with the data but the mere fact they have it means they have to comply with all the requirements of this new law so even if they just use it so you don't have to tell them your address every time you call they still have to treat it like they are selling it to some marketing megacorp.
Would alternative control by the private sector be better? There are tons of cases where private control of public services has been bad for the people (jails, schools etc).
I live in Seattle and have never heard of “Ketron Island”, the location of the crash. Cursory googling shows that the 220 acre island is privately owned, and only 17 people live there. Of all the land masses to hit in the area, that one is probably the best possible if the intent was to hit Earth and injure no one but yourself.
The concept was specifically to include the best ideas, not everything
All of the independent studies say that Roundup causes cancer?

Unscientific assholes downvoted me.
Yes the Russians do it, but I remember the US doing the same thing multiple times. I guess no country wants their citizens to be tried elsewhere.
Not really, they do it because they know can get away with it.

I've heard horror stories of people that got attacked by like 7 guys holding assault rifles when the wife was pulling into the garage. Your safety magnum in the bedroom isn't gonna do anything for you in that case, and chances are they are just gonna steal it from you if they find it.

Also, a lot of robberies happen on the streets. A middle-class person open-carrying a gun is just going to be a pickpocket target, and concealed carry is going to be vulnerable to two-team robbers (one approaches you, the hidden one shoots you from the back if you fight back).

In a favela, the drug gang would probably just raid your house and steal your gun, if you could even afford one. Or, more likely, your kid would end up joining the gang.
Not long ago, I worked for a brand you can find in every Best Buy in America that also sells direct on Amazon.

Returns would come back used/opened/filthy by the crate, and they get shuffled right back in with new inventory. Everyone wins, everyone loses.
Can Blu-Rays be manufactured to make each disc unique, with an embedded code that is used to link a license of the game to an account?

Then the publisher could simply decide to disallow games from being activated on another account.

Or, bundle a CDKey inside the case, but I think this exposes significant fraud risk if a rogue employee cracks open hundreds of cases from a shipment, sells the keys online, then reseals them.
That's the sad reality of bay area housing in 2018. However, if they keep building enough units like these, prices should eventually become less insane.
Wow TIL
My dad, a retired farm manager, remembers a RoundUp salesman who used to drink the stuff as part of his sales routine. We wonder what happened to him.
One of the problems is Amazon decided to become a bazaar instead of a store. So it might be sold by Amazon, or fulfilled by Amazon, or sold by somebody else. You have to pay attention to who you're buying from and what the policies are. It's like walking into Target and there's the regular store but there's been a flea market setup inside as well.

Personally I wish they'd segregate the experience. Have one experience be the Amazon store as it used to be with consistent expectations. If you can't find the product you want it could then direct you to the bazaar.
>You have no idea what precise benefits their work contributes to society.

Can you inform us?
> prefabricated all-steel modular units made in China

Hope they were tested for formaldehyde and other VOCs, lead paint, etc.
It's so rare that a journalist actually holds people to account for what they say nowadays, it's like an unexpected delicious lemonade stand on a hot day when you actually stumble upon those examples.
If only the approval process didn't take 250x as long as the actual building of the units...
> The project, initially approved by the city in 2010 as a hotel, then re-approved in 2015 as studio apartments, will be leased to UC Berkeley for graduate student housing

8 years of permitting!

Most infuriation article.
That needs to be written in unit tests and also needs to be code reviewed. Also such bugs can be brought into the system by experienced devs as well.
“This product is known to cause cancer in the state of California”
List and Cost of Mega Projects World Wide
That and scheduling. For many of us this is like a return to college, I imagine.
True. While stipends vary from school to school, they don't really seem to vary according to regional cost of living. You're probably maxing out at 30k/year whether you're in Boston or Cleveland.
You might be right. I do think that by being intentionally hosted, it avoids a number of traditional lisp problems. If it was a stand alone implementation, I wouldn't be nearly as bullish on it.
Totally agree. AI is decision tree models and correlation analysis. But the massive computing power can crunch huge amounts of data looking for relationships that may hold a clue to causality and possibly even a cure. But raw power alone is not enough. And decision tree models cannot evolve on its own without creative human insight.
I just thought was a fascinating list of mega projects, what really stands out to me is the cost of some of these projects in comparative terms to alternative or potential projects. I wonder what are their effective rates of return? Also, the cost to stage a large-scale event like the Olympics is enormous
Not only for Linux.

Works great on FreeBSD as well.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/freebsd-desktop-pa...

... and if Redshift seems too 'bloated' with too much dependencies there is OpenBSD style SCT - Set Color Temperature:

https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/sct-set-color-temperatu...
The rocks are very big, very heavy, very dense. I've taken a hammer and banged the shit out of them. They didn't have a scratch. I thought the hammer was going to break. And there's a lot of them.
I wouldn't either (though not for any of the reasons anyone on this thread have brought up, which are, um, stupid) but we are all required to be civil on this site. Accusing someone of brigading for their employer is uncivil. Also, in this case, stupid.
PhotoShop'ing disrupted by AI
> Anyone can come along and claim a corporate culture is toxic for virtually any reason. If your company had a policy that...

Yes, yes, what about all the cases that aren't actually happening and all the lawsuits occuring for any made up situations that you can come up with? That's what we should focus on.

This is a specific example of a toxic culture and sexual harrasment in a workplace. It is real and not a thought experiment. When examples of your imaginary cases come to court we can discuss the merrits of those.
why can't we write laws that are conditional, where we explain the intent of the law, and then the law can be ignored when the conditions aren't met
I'm not sure what better to call it. Charm++ (its core) was around ruining the lives of chemistry grad students and their sysadmins long, long before pycharm was a twinkle in its creators' eyes. I'm sure jetbrains won't be coming for it any time soon.
False dichotomy. There is something between forever minus one day and btw you'll go to jail for copying a movie and open license.
Berkeley hasn't built a damn thing since Gerald Ford was President, while the population has increased a lot, mostly through longevity rather than the oft-blamed migration. Going rate for a normal sized studio apartment is about $4000/mo.
How I scaled a website to 10M users
Well, they should install keyloggers. Okay, not keyloggers per se, since they are pretty useless, but if you control the software on the device, you can monitor internet activity in a million and one ways, none of which involve breaking the internet.

Looking at the Lewandowski stuff, that's what Google does. And for obvious reasons. Just logging internet traffic isn't very useful at all for compliance.
Southern Utah (Cedar City or St. George)... The area is growing, it's a skip and a beat to 'Silicon slopes' up north in Provo, and has decent weather. St. George you could save on utilities in the winter as you wouldn't need heat, but it gets hot in the summer. It's also 2 hours from vegas.

Cost of living is decent 4-5 bed homes run 200-300k. Rent is roughly 1200-1500 for a 3-4 bedroom townhome.
Great, another way to create huge, slow, bloated "native" apps.

It confuses me that slack, with their hundreds of developers, cannot build a native piece of software that doesn't require 10+ seconds to init.
Small nitpick. Reason is Ocaml. They are exactly the same language. Just different syntaxes
> If all employees want it and only one employee doesn't want it, why is it bad?

Because everyone is supposed to have an equal opportunity for employment, regardless of race, religion, sex, etc.

The CEO made sexual advances towards her, and it was demonstrated that her job security would depend on how she reacted to those advances. This amounts to sexual harassment, a form of discrimination against ones sex.

The reason people are downvoting you is, if you were really an executive, you'd be expected to know this stuff. So you're playing dumb, or you think the rules don't apply to you. You should not be allowed in any position of power.
The end result is a hack. The on-wire format of TLSv1.3 is tweaked, to make the TLS 1.3 handshake resemble TLS 1.2 session resumption requests, which is just enough to make the connection being able to pass broken middleboxes.
I like this idea of different signals for different levels of trust. In practice how would it be best implemented though? Some sort of entry in DNS that says "we have all certs signed by one of these two CAs" and then clients could see if a cert is valid but chains up to a different root and show "this is secure, but not in the way you think"?
I suppose they're only the publisher, so maybe this doesn't count, but Doom 2016 is hands down the best fps I've played in a long time.
SSL inspection isn't immoral. That's an uncharacteristically silly argument.
It's interesting that booleans are stored as 0 or -1 [1]. I wonder what drove that decision. I just checked, and Rust's LLVM stores booleans as 0 or 1.

[1] https://cranelift.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ir.html#boolean-t...
And one of the great limitations of AI is it doesn't work well with non numerical data. Health sciences data are more qualitative in nature so doesn't lend itself to AI like other engineering sciences.
Without judging the merits of this particular law, it's because conditions will be abused by the people who have the strongest incentive to game them.

Laws are like code in this way: simplicity is not always easy, or possible, given the constraints, but complexity has significant downsides.
> prefabricated all-steel modular units made in China

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3-9fMcqxg4k

Not really a prefab. It is LGSF + foam concrete, pretty common outside North America
Certainly does, and as I recall, teenage boys continue to be teenage boys even when they get a girlfriend. Sometimes even more so. I would hazard that the kind of person who thinks this is a good idea in the workplace wouldn't stop thinking that by having a girlfriend.
If "litter collecting crows" produces an amusing mental image, just imagine my momentary initial misreading of that healine with "intelligent cows" and somehow it seems to fit the "theme park" idiom far more appropriately.
> The presecution claims it's not the active ingredient but the whole herbicide that's cancer causing. I think the studies are only on one of the ingredients, not on the whole herbicide?

Yes, the claim neatly was crafted to render all the systematically gathered evidence only tangentially relevant, so what you are left is a lay jury deciding what they feel is more probable (the civil standard being a mere preponderance of the evidence, not the beyond a reasonable doubt standard of criminal law) on a complex scientific topic without strong scientific evidence and with plenty of opportunity for factors which roster to the likeability of the parties to influence the decision.

Whatever the arguments are that this is a necessary thing to accept in the legal system (and maybe even desirable, in that it disincentives certain antisocial corporate conduct), it doesn't really say much about the underlying facts.
> Edit: Downvotes don't teach me anything, enlighten me instead.

Sexual harassment is not just an edge case in a "one size fits all" world. It makes the company liable. By all means, see how far you get trying to defend it.

This is not subtle and not new. It's obvious and very well established. If you need to be educated on such basics, it can only mean that you're willfully staying uneducated.
You have vermin?

Is there not a pest control service about?

Good luck
If only there was a way to catch array index out of bounds.
Same thing here way over on the other coast in the Maritimes. The crows by the hundreds head home in the early evening, it's quite a sight. There is a local play/artsy thing about it too people dress up like crows. http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local/crows-run-riot-throu...
I wholeheartedly agree with you. It never leads to any meaningful discussion or interesting ideas. It's one of the cheapest arguments one can make and it's a type of argument that doesn't deserve engagement with.

I would welcome a rule against empty arguments like this on HN.

CC: dang, is there any version of this that we can perhaps institute?
Along with all the other explanations on this thread of why that's a silly argument, there is the fact that glyphosate isn't the only thing in commercial RoundUp weed killer solutions.
Don't confuse you not agreeing with decision with authorities not being accountable.

And if you think unregulated exchanges aren't mucking with the market then I have a bridge to sell you.

Bitcoin is deliberately unaccountable. Someone did something we all agree should not be done? That sucks, we decided to mathematically prevent preventions of that.

And remind me, what happened to Ethereum to create Ethereum Classic? And apparently they are going to (or have already) done it again! It's capitalism for the poor, communism for the rich all over again.

And if you think central banks are unaccountable then why haven't they literally stolen all the money? With Bitcoin everything that can be stolen is. Central banks don't literally have armies.
>If I'm using my own device, I want TLS to actually provide security and confidentiality. If that means denying my personal devices access to the corporate network, so be it.

That's how middleboxes work already. How could they work any other way? If you don't install the root certificate on the client machine TLS fails as it should. You'd need some generally accepted CA to issue a wildcard certificate for the whole internet if that wasn't the case. Has anyone actually done this?
The sum of the alleged behaviors here is immoral IMO. Simply watching porn is a world apart from this situation.
I'm honestly not sure if that title is intentionally referencing Less Wrong or if it was an accident. I'm leaning towards intentional, since this seems to be far too close to what I'd expect from the rationalist community (steelmanning, etc) for him not to have heard of it...
Thanks, I will work on incorporating these changes. In my defense it was my first project and I was solely focused on getting the results and didn't focus much on making the code "accessible"
Plenty of things are safe yet you shouldn't drink a glass of it - vinegar, dish soap, sea water, urine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonolite
A typical Rust bool would use `b1`, which doesn't have an observable representation.
There is no trolling whatsoever. ZFS was originally made by Sun and Sun was acquired by Oracle almost 10 years. ZFS is owned by Oracle and is a legal minefield.
I think "crash" in these discussions generally refers to "abort the current action and return to a safe state".
I want to agree with you, anyone can come in and claim toxic. I can get behind being weird and experimental but that doesn't mean there aren't lines worth drawing.

The suit isn't happening just over someone who didn't want their norms tested and wanted the corporate culture to conform.

She faced retaliation when she didn't reciprocate with English's advances. She got frozen out and harassed. That's just bread and butter bullshit. Classicly toxic work environment. The rest of the weirdness just makes that central issue worse (and probably a catchier headline).
I think the people that throw trash from cars are EXACTLY the kind of people that would hunt down a nugget bin, but then get really pissy and entitled when it out of dipping sauce.
The danger is not that unencrypted SNI exposes clients to additional MitM attacks. It just exposes the client's intended domain to everyone on the connection route. It's an information leak, that's all.
It's not just programmer error, it can soldier on through some hardware errors, rogue cosmic rays, and arguably the hardest - other people's software errors, like os errors, driver errors, library errors, network stack errors...
I think you still don't want the government out of medical and telecom.

Examples: Your doctor sells you homeopathic remedy (i.e. water) and charges you all the money for it, saying it's real medicine. Oh, you say you'd Google the effectiveness before accepting? Sorry, no government to demand doctors don't flat out lie about what they give you.

Car accident? Sorry, pay everything you have right now or we won't even call your insurance company.

Telecom: Bob, CEO of the only company that sells phone service in your area, hates blacks so you can't have phone service.

You don't want "getting rid of government". You want good government.
I personally believe stop breaking these middleboxes is a necessary evil/compromise to make TLSv1.3 to be universally accepted. The net gain is a huge positive.

> Breaking them (and thus effectively forcing them out of the way) would have been the better approach.

This is exactly what the security people are going to do after TLSv1.3 is introduced. Google Chrome is going to implement the so-called GREASE protocol (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-grease-01), which actively tries to negotiate a connection with random, non-existent, but standard-compliant values in various fields of the protocol, to actively break the (future) broken middleboxes early on. Revenge time.
Same here. I learned the rudiments of operating systems by studying Xinu in college. That was pre-Internet, so text books like Xinu's were hugely helpful.
It uses an RPN to generate the region proposals so it completely does away with the selective search which was the bottleneck for speed in fast RCNN
I'd argue that the typecasting in that last paragraph may not be realistic.

> But more importantly ... to business's eyes, Rust is too immature, Scala and F# inherit all the billion-dollar mistakes from their parent VMs, Julia is a data-scientist's tinker-tool and Haskell is too great a paradigm-shift for most programmers. So OCaml is far from being "dead", let alone meriting death.

In my previous business, we used Perl, C/C++, Julia, a little Python, and others. We aimed specifically for the best tool for the job. Rarely, if ever, did one language fit the bill, covering everything we need.

I've not used Ocaml, so I can't talk to this. I can state, emphatically, that julia is far more than you indicate. I am rust-curious, though haven't found a good reason to spend time with it at $dayjob. Similar for Perl6, and other more modern languages.

If you advocate a language for the sake of the language, rather than the set of problems you can efficiently express solutions to in that language, I'd argue you might be missing the point of the language. Paraphrasing Iverson on this, language and notation are tools for expressing thoughts. No single notation/language is perfect for all thoughts.