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It is outrageous that private corporate disputes over copyright result in jail time, rather than just financial or corporate sanctions.

Edit: After reading Microsoft's blog post https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac... and the e-mails Mr. Lundgren sent, however, it does seem pretty clear that he was trying to profit from these repair cds and sell them as, basically, genuine cds. US government brought the case through customs and it seems there was willful intent to defraud the government.
Imo it's not that the traditional OSs can't be the OS of the future. It's that the future OS needs to be developed from scratch without carrying over the assumptions and obligations to older design principles. Historically, this has been very difficult. E. G. Cocoatouch (ios) has significant differences to its cocoa (osx). Bottom line is you have to go all to do it right, but its risky for those big companies that have a financial interest in squeezing out as much value as possible from their cashcow OSs
Its great in theory practice not so much. Delivery is complicated on a logistical level, especially for larger items that bikers cannot move (e.g. things not like uberEats). You have to deal with dimensional weights, freight classes, fuel rates, concealed damaged, among other things
Having been censored multiple times by tech firms, I fall squarely into one camp.

During the Snowden Disclosures, I took to Facebook with the documents getting published and started to do my own summaries.

Facebook implemented a policy in which it would not let any post that contained a link to a Snowden Document. In some cases they would let the content get posted, but I confirmed with a friend's account that it was not visible when scrolling my feed from another account. Posts about other content were all visible and otherwise had no problems.

I complained and Facebook got back to me with a customer relations paragraph about keeping their platform free of unwanted or questionable content.

Not long after I discovered through media, and then some friends from Turkey, that what I experienced was identical to state sponsored censorship that Facebook extends to the Turkish government.

This lasted for close to the entire duration of public attention on the global and domestic surveillance scandal.

(Other links and content in other scenarios, for example May Day protest organization, was similarly blocked by Facebook - at least in Seattle for the organizers that I was in contact with).
Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass it on to the website team :-)
50° FOV. It's still like looking at the world through a shoebox strapped to your face.
> over 30 years getting arrested for minor shit all over the US

Have you tried not spending three decades committing petty crimes "all over the US?"

As for your original point - credit for time - you get 1.5x for time served. If you're sentenced to prison. If you spend weeks in jail but don't actually get sentenced to prison, there's nothing against which your time can be credited. Nobody's crediting jail time toward probation.
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What's depressing is that this man was "selling" the copies for 25 cents in order to recover the cost of the physical CD he was burning -- not to enrich himself.

This is a good guy being screwed over by Microsoft and the legal system.
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And those are terrible experiences.
Congrats to ML on shipping! Achieving the technical challenge of seamless natural and artificial photon sources will pay dividends for many decades to come. But in the immediate term, market fit is going to be the next enormous challenge here. Their paradigm is dubbed "spatial computing". It is in a sense, "high-fidelity" augmented reality. Close range precision tolerances for delicate design work is probably the most demonstrable application. Although it has yet to be integrated into existing pipelines for microscopy, etc. However, CEO Rony Abovitz seems to be positioning the ML One Creator Edition as a consumer electronics device for casual gaming enthusiasts?

I am just unsure which demographic they are targeting with a $2500+ headset. The tagline: free your mind. With a poster that even includes a reference to a VW microbus. Obvious roots in psychedelic culture. For which, undoubtedly, the experience would be immensely hedonic and synesthetic. How large is this audience of virtual shamans?
Also a big fan of this "Visualizing Concurrency in Go": http://divan.github.io/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/
This is a review of the June LiveStream [1] from Karl Guttag that did a detailed analysis of the hardware.

[1] https://www.kguttag.com/2018/06/10/magic-leap-livestream-02-...
I think there is a lot of benefit to knowing the fundamentals. Some people can develop their intuition just by looking at things but for me learning some theory is definitely useful. For example I had to take art classes in school. My stuff was horrible even after trying for years. Then my sister showed me drawing technique and some other trucks and suddenly I could draw decent stuff. It didn't make me into an artist but at least I had a foundation to build on. Same with photography. I think knowing things like the rule of thirds and some color theory can give you a big jump start.
> but there needs to be education around fact finding and logic.

I picked up that mentality while being involved with the family farm as a young child.

The elementary and secondary systems came of age when the vast majority of the population also had significant involvement in agriculture. One would imagine that kind of thinking would be pushed at those early school levels, long before one reaches the typical post-secondary age, but you are suggesting that is not the case. It may have been assumed that one would already pick that up at home given the circumstances of the time and we haven't looked back since?

Has college become the replacement for agrarian exposure in our modern urbanized society?
I meant that individual Asian countries (especially in East Asia) are usually homogenous e.g. most people in Japan are Japanese, Korea Korean, China Chinese etc. So much so that often race and nationality are conflated.
Similar. I realized how biased even 'respected' news organizations are especially when I started travelling more or doing a simple compare of various sources of news about the same issue.
Hmm, interesting. I thought we were just talking about voting shares. Musk has said current shareholders would be able to hold on to their shares. Do you think behind that statement he implied "but will lose voting status"?
Yes but also screw off the deliberate ignoring of the difference in risk and culpability. Its always the pedestrian that dies; its always the driver with the mechanical advantage to put their vehicle where it needs to be quickly.
In China there exist several different terms. But hey, do most people even know the difference between Free Software and Open Source? It depends really on who you talk to; lets say a manager mostly will look at a cost perspective, while a software engineer might see benefits for integration, and even then mostly driven by the fact it is easily available, and perhaps even only consuming it. this is can also be different for most other places; Europe is more idealistic in the approach than America/US.

Note: European; Now I live in Beijing/China, help projects with consultancy for open source, did this for many years for companies... and now work for Red Hat.
> I'm not saying Magic Leap's OS is that OS but that OS is not MacOS/iOS/Windows/Linux/Android

One of those is not like the others: “Linux” is not a graphical environment. If you had said “X11” or “Wayland” (or even “Gnome” or “KDE”, etc.), I would have agreed with you, but “Linux” could perfectly well be the base of an entirely new 3D-based application environment.
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Its better than my portfolio site, which has absolutely nothing on there right now. Because it all lives in private codepens and private repos :)
RIP Jerry, I learned a lot from you.

Jerry's blog: http://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/

Jerry's books: https://leanpub.com/u/jerryweinberg
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There are also situations where a sticky note can be a vital piece of safety equipment because an instrument is malfunctioning. And even though the pilot knows the instrument is showing bogus data, they're so used to looking at it that they will instinctively do so and react to its bogus indications, so the safest thing is to hide it from view entirely. Fortunately there's enough redundancy in the information from the basic instruments that even if one of them fails, you can still fly the plane by extrapolating the missing information from the other ones.
This happened back in April:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634
How do US consumers gain from tarifs?

My company is US based with some manufacturing done in the US, some in China and some in EU. We are constantly dealing with price changes due to tarifs, and consumers are going to get hit hard once the price increases travel up the food chain to the end product.

The way tarifs are talked about by our president is laughable and sad. That is not good for the US.

Trump plans to use $12 billions to help farmers hurt by tarifs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-...
I don't think we know quite enough about the detail of Magic Leap's technology yet - there are some analysis articles based on their patents, but it's an incomplete picture.

However, the general concept of a "light field display" is worth knowing.

Normal displays work by creating pixels that glow. Each pixel emits light in all directions. That passes through your eye if it is looking at the object, which focuses it back into one point on the retina.

In a (pure imaginary) light field display, instead individual rays of light are produced, not pixels. The individual rays can be faked so even though emitted very near your eye, they are focused by your eye and your brain thinks they are further away.

Possible advantages of this (off the top of my head based on reasoning from the physics and the way vision works and the way existing displays are used):

- Can create objects at any distance - including infinity. Your brain (it's stereoscopy tricked) will believe they really are at that distance.

- The viewer can change focus, and the objects will correctly blur and come in and out of focus.

- An individual large object could have varying distance and focus across its form as in the real world.

- Because of the improved stereo and focus, in an AR display especially, there will be less contrast between the projected objects and the real world. They will just seem "more real" in comparison to real objects.

- Vision correction. In theory a light field display could project images that correct for any vision defects you have - dynamically. (In practice the talk of special lenses for glasses whereas in the OP article shows that Magic Leap isn't at a level it can do that yet)

- Special effects. So of course you can then do other funky things - play with faking visual defects for special effects. Your character could appear to need glasses, and then get them as a powerup etc. Or you could make someone's vision blur when they're tired or about to die. Or have a boss which is always out of focus in an odd way.

Of course Magic Leap won't be that good. It is only digital. It will be granular both in normal resolution and in effective depth of field resolution. But still... It really does sound like it has some of the above benefits.
Vision Zero is city-wide initiative for pedestrian safety in NYC not just Queens Blvd.[1]

And blocking cross-walks is very much an issue concerning pedestrian safety. So yes the OPs comment does very much apply to the article being discussed:

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/visionzero/index.page
From what I've seen of "developing nations", a "gas station" is a roadside hut with a shelf of liter-size glass bottles and a skinny dude to pour the bottles into the tank of your motorcycle. Obviously no one would handle pressurized liquid ammonia in that fashion, because it isn't physically possible. One wouldn't imagine that developing nations are the target market for this anyway. The point is that lots of people know how to handle ammonia, and if the market expanded lots more people could learn. If we're serious about reducing carbon emissions (frankly that's an open question), what would be so terrible about bringing back filling station attendants?
You can learn everything online except for the things you can't
Radio style play gas compulsory licensing. If the user can't pick the music directly, Spotify can play any song, without an explicit license.
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> If you spill just 1 gram, the smell is so strong the average person is running away in fear.

That's a safety feature.
This.

The comparative advantage nations have over each other in energy in a post-fossil fuel world will be much reduced. That is, Saudi Arabia has a huge advantage over Japan in terms of cheap fossil fuel energy, so Japan imports a lot from them. Though Saudi Arabia likely has an advantage over Japan in renewable resources, its not as dramatic as their fossil fuel advantage, so Japan would invest in their own energy resources and import less of them.

Because of this there will likely be much less international energy traded in general.
> 1) let you out (drop charges) and expose the public purse to wrongful imprisonment damages,

> 2) take it to trial and lose, also exposing the public purse to the same damages,

If a doctor makes a mistake, he or she is liable (in addition to the hospital). In the case of wrongful imprisonment, there should be exposed liability for the officers too. They are the ones who make the judgement call to arrest someone based on the information they have and the threat they perceive. If they fail at that and end up causing a net harm to individuals, they should be bearing (within reasonable limits) responsibility for that.
In case you don't want to watch the video, here are the citations from the description:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17279190/microsoft-restor...

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-microsoft-r...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/24...

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/recycling-innovato...
Even if they used proguard or similar stuff, if they're putting the full code for that check client side they're dead in the water. People have been cracking obfuscated stuff forever and there's plenty of tooling to make it easier.

Honestly, it seems so stupid that their best defense is probably that no cracker even thought to check.
The product is getting restless, the customers aren't happy with their brand being next to all of this inflammatory content. This was bound to happen in an ad-supported internet.
Yeah, typo. Too late for me to fix. I get it right the second time around. :)
Sure. that is probably very possible to have an offline solution and I would heavily prefer that too. Common smartphone hardware would certainly be enough and then some.
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2 reasons

- They don't have time, someone with that expertise is valuable

- Writing is hard especially when no one is reading it. That was the biggest barrier for me to get started writing. I have a natural tendency to write things mechanically, not fluidly. But on forums I write whatever I feel like

Related video that also explains why engineers dont vlog either, this was insightful to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Jh8fx8LuY
This is a case of the Streisand Effect[1] in action.

If anyone is really curious, it is called Source-SnapChat and it is all over Github.

Github is going to have to mass delete these mirrors, and prevent anyone from re-commiting it anywhere. Snapchat sending DMCAs is not going to be enough.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Without wanting to sound like a socialist, couldn't these apps / businesses just be built to "cover costs"? Instead of producing 500 millionaires.

I'm not saying I could necessarily resist the temptation of becoming a millionaire at the cost of turning my great idea in to a shitty one, but I sure wouldn't feel good about it.

Perhaps I'm just a bit naive about these things.
Parents, uncles and grandparents getting on Facebook and other social media is basically the end of social media for teens/youngsters.

The one true thing teens want is freedom from parents and other relatives: they mostly represent a repressive force (positive or negative is not the issue) and they want to interact with other teens freely.
Your pricing is fu*ked. >9c to Germany, >7c to Ireland, > 8c to France, nearly 10c to Netherlands. More expensive than SMS.
No, I use 2 screens.
I would actually place one rule before those, and it's a purely technical one:

Understand and embrace exposure compensation. If your camera doesn't give you rapid access to that control, get a new one. (Thankfully most cell phone cameras do these days.)

90% of crappy Facebook pictures could be made passable if the subjects were correctly exposed. Too often, bright or dark backgrounds are exposed as a dull grey, leaving subjects washed out or in shadow.

If the scene is bright ("high key"), nudge that knob up so it looks bright. If the scene is dark ("low key"), nudge it down so it looks dark. This can completely change the dynamics of a photograph for the better, and will allow you to more readily focus on the aesthetic aspects of photography such as composition.
Well, I guess if your goal was to learn a statically typed programming language Java or C# would be fine. So I don't disagree with you.

Personally, I have been in the role of teaching people programming, and I have seen what Java does to them. And I remember what it was like when I first encountered it.

So, I don't have a better suggestion if that is the goal. But if the goal is to learn programming, I have plenty to say on that. I worked as a TA for 3 years and from my rather biased experience, I would highly recommend HtDP and Racket.
Every company has parts of their system that has "zero" traffic from time to time.
Obviously reducing blue light from screens is not going to be helpful in spaces lit by blue light. 6500k bulbs are not suitable for night time lighting.
You can get a good idea of this with virtual desktop software running on Vive. After trying it myself, I was reminded that I actually love retina displays and feel like an even higher resolution would be nice. Also FOV is major. Until I can get massive FOV and retina+ resolution, I will always choose a regular desktop display.
Please defend this position.
This statement does not support the argument that you were making in the first place
In which case, I'd much rather we increased taxes on income and/or wealth to a) help workers move up the value chain, and b) provide a safety net for people who lose out on trade.

A tariff on "cheap shit from Amazon" is a heavily regressive tax, and acts to reduce total delivered value. Whereas taxing the well-off to pay for education and encourage investment increases total delivered value.
One tiny group of people hijacked 3 planes, and we're suffering the fallout decades later.
In around 2002, my father and I owned a computer assembly and repair business in a small town about 200 miles away from London, UK.

We were doing just under $1.5m in revenue a year. I was just 22 years old. We had a few large clients that were contributing to the bulk of our revenue. Life was good.

I can't get into the details of exactly how it happened because I dont want to open a new legal case or anything, but Microsoft used similar intimidation tactics to drive my father and I out of business, despite the fact that legally we hadnt done anything wrong. We got really scared. We were a small company and I was very young and we had no financial muscle comparative to Microsoft and as a result of the bad publicity etc, we lost our major clients anyhow.

Microsoft drove us into the ground.

A year before that, we had a major University in the UK as a client that defaulted on a payment for a large volume of inventory and left us to pick up the tab. Thankfully it didn't kill the business, but it certainly brought it to the teetering edge.

This is how many larger institutions destroy the small player and why so many are afraid of going into Entrepreneurship. He has the most financial clout often tends to win.

I have many other stories from other associates I could share too, but we really need people to step forward that have legal experience that can help the small player that doesnt have the financial clout for taking on the big boys, not to mention regulation needs to change but im not so hopeful for that.

Just thought I'd share. I've not mentioned this anywhere public in over 15 years.
TL;DR: Both paths require knowledge beyond how to write a web application; using Lambda doesn't absolve you of having to learn about or hire someone to manage your infrastructure.

> There is a non-zero cost in maintaining that process

Just as there is a non-zero cost associated with maintaining Lambda, API Gateway, and the associated CloudFormation scripts, and finding people who can (and are willing to) maintain them.

> That automation is significant complexity

99% of that complexity is already shouldered by AWS and their ilk. They implement log forwarding, metric dashboards, instance health checks, and simple (complete) examples of how to scale based on CPU and memory - the two metrics used for scaling in most cases.

As for OS upgrades, yes, those can require a bit more expertise. That said, those occur every two to four years, and for the past few OS upgrades I've had to handle, the pain was limited to converting sysvinit scripts to upstart scripts, to unit files (none of which were strictly required, as an aside, since both upstart and systemd support sysvinit scripts natively).

> If you're trying to do with same with a relational database, it only gets tougher.

You mean RDS? Databaes need to be maintained no matter how the application is run. For a quick personal anecdote, there's a world of hurt waiting unless someone is hired who knows how to manage and tune databases, no matter who runs the infrastructure.

> Otherwise, it will be Linux troubleshooting to find out if it's your software, an OS patch, a third party software patch, or some other issue.

How is this different? Linux troubleshooting skills won't help to identify if it's third party software or your software - and those pains don't go away magically with Lambda. In the exceptionally rare case that it is the OS, it will be fixable by kicking off your CI/CD pipeline.

A small tip: Like compilers, the problem isn't the OS. Even when you think it's the OS, it's not. It's your software. OOM killer taking out processes? Those processes are leaking memory. Running out of disk space? Clean up the logs. Cron is misbehaving? Fix the typo. It's also worth mentioning that all of those problems are at least temporarily resolved by STONITH; enough to give time to fix the application.
Facebook’s PE is like 25. Best to stay focused on valuation metrics. Historically it’s a steal, in fact I expect it slide back to 30 in the near term
Apparently there are more facts to this story https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8f9lsc/microsoft_se...
I can't imagine that the capital required for "water boiling equipment" would be very high. Metal tanks, pumps, heating unit, etc.
lobbying is illegal in many countries yet it does not make corruption dissappear, far from it. Its like the war on drugs: it makes cartels stronger, if anything.
I think it was just a wry joke.
They are paying but it's 34°C and 80-100% humidity currently in HK. A lot of these subdivided flats don't have proper access to air conditioning units.
This is an amazingly well thought out and written article. As a budding (astro)photographer, I'm keen to read this over and over.
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