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Why would any of that happen? I don't think the internet copyright proposal will affect things in a way you describe...
I guess I have a higher opinion of the capabilities of stupid people.
Seriously Google are getting some stupid "PRODUCT MANAGERS" who know fuck all about anything
Directives have to be transposed but, again, transposition has to match the contents of the directive otherwise there is no point.

It is possible to lodge a complaint with the Commission if transposition is deemed inadequate (and I'm sure copyright holders would do exactly that), and the Commission may bring a case against the country before the ECJ.

See: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-making-process/applying-eu...
This has anti-trust written all over it, again.
That's funny. In a minute you'll be saying that one will be enforced in Europe. I mean perhaps they're racist enough to enforce it against Google, but they won't prevent monopolies.

(Europe, where near everything is mono/oligopolized and the behavior of those companies is abhorrent. From beer in Belgium (they own the cafes or loan them money and force out competing beers from the menu), to cheese in France (import and health regulations mean almost no non-French cheese and French producers are exempt from even most of those health regulations). To German cars (read how Dieselgate played out in Germany, ie. German manufacturers got exempted from ... car regulations ... not even joking ... or what keeps happening to startup car manufacturers in Germany and France, ...)
I think HN should be able to eschew lame attempts at Reddit-style humour whilst still welcoming good-natured enthusiastic praise!
I'm in complete agreement, but I don't think the desire to leave is particularly contentious if it's backed by reasonable arguments (and Farage was always very keen on talking about why he didn't like the EU). The real problem comes in when we get to the point of "OK, we want to leave the EU" but immediately trigger the process without planning a strategy first. Especially with reluctant and un-aligned (May was a remainer) leadership in place.
> I am not buying the "think of the poor" angle

Me neither, opening a bank account takes one hour, costs less than one dollar, you get the bank card the same day, and there are no monthly fees (for debit card). The only case where it could be difficult is for people without ID (ie second child that were hidden back when the one-child policy was still enforced)
If only Linux users would pay for desktop software, maybe we could have a Year of Desktop Linux someday, instead we got Android and ChromeOS with their stores.

Right now is it not worthy to build a business selling desktop software to Linux, unless we are talking about enterprises, movie studios and a few other niche markets that migrated from UNIX workstations to Linux desktops.
I didn't know that. Is it well-known & used outside of Australia?
On the side, I've owned some chain restaurants for 32 years. Mine have always been noted as friendlier, cleaner, fresher and all that. I like to say that it's cause it runs downhill and I care about the customer experience.

Three years ago, I sold one of those restaurants inside a mall while still owning one just two blocks away. People from the mall come into this restaurant. Just yesterday someone told me that they hated the mall one. "They're just so mean to everyone!"

They did not know I was the owner.
Yes, I guess this type of behaviour is why they have called it "inter"net in the first place.
See also philatelist, notaphilist, lepidopterist, coleopterist, dipterist, etc.
All large mobile providers have offerings targeted specifically at foreigners (e.g. https://www.mychinaunicom.com/) and getting a Chinese SIM is one of the first things to do for exchange students in China.

Maybe those are all registered on a random citizen's ID, but given the scale and visibility of that business, it seems unlikely that all of that is happening in violation of the registration requirements.
On the other hand, newspapers were a lot less rubbish two decades ago when they could still afford to employ many journalists. That is what they're trying to get back to with legislation like this.
How does this law change anything? Are you distributing now via arXiv preprints despite not being legally allowed to do so?
Awesome, thanks! In the future, I won’t need to confuse the issue.
You didn't read what I wrote.
"Don't want to be warned in the future?"

Does that imply that having MS Edge installed is something to be warned about, or that installing Firefox/Chrome is somehow bad for your PC?
At 16, she could have chosen to do a million things that would have messed up her life. Kids can choose to hurt themselves in many ways. We can’t “not allow” kids to do jumps on their dirt bikes or venture into danger in other ways. Once they are given freedom from constant adult supervision, they have to act in self interest. You think that being 16 somehow absolves them from the responsibility of surviving. That’s ridiculous and unnatural.
Thanks!

It would really be interesting to see how AlphaZero style game play would work out. In particular, the very wide branching factor (when accounting for stochasticity) and relatively shallow game tree might change the characteristics noticeably.

One thing that might be hard is to construct a reasonable game state representation for the neural network that is efficient for learning.
I disagree, I think it's perfectly fine to want to leave the EU on principle. For example, the principle of not wanted to be ruled by unelected oligarchs who can pass laws like Article 13 which affect UK citizens.
They are as open as Intel, AMD, ARM, Google, Apple and IBM, the beloved ones from FOSS.
Although the EU looks like a democracy, it is not.
Not so much morality as empathy, I think.
It's true, but not all employers track this or are willing to pay it unless forced.
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I am always looking to improve service performance at my company. One of the harder services to scale is analytics driven by python. I am curious as to what underlying libraries or technology you use to run analytical code at scale hopefully without sacrificing developer speed?
Like releasing Chromium is enough? Seems like a double standard to me.
Two more examples examples for arXiv and one for Figshare. (1) Article in journal has a flaw. For some reason the journal is slow or unhelpful concerning a correct version, so the author posts on arXiv a revised and perhaps much bigger version. Filters (will these be on arXiv?) detect a copyright infringement. (2) I translate an Euler article and post it on arXiv (with all attributions). Or an English translation of an obscure German or Russian article by a great mathematician. (3) I post on Figshare (and GitHub?) the meat of a published article (like data, procedures, results of experiments, programs) in order to make the research Open Science. I explain the context but maybe I don't pass the automated filter which detects a copyright infringement. For all examples, same questions as before.
Regulatory capture implies Google and Facebook were in favor of this and made it happen, which I doubt is true.
The number one thing the US needs to do is to mandate transparent pricing of all things medical. Wherever you look there is opaque pricing that's intentionally hiding information from other market participants. No market can function without the participants having information.
For the anecdote, Nils Torvalds, the father of Linus, is one of the many authors of this text law.

I'm from EU, I had the time to look at the recent amendments about this law, in which they added precisions about the fair use of data, for non-profit and public research.

They also precised that this law and the technical implementations should not go against already in-place freedom of speech rights.

Hopefully, people will be able to easily defend themselves versus the big corporations in case of abusing take-down requests. The recent example of Twitch streamer Lirik being unrightfully suspended on a simple request from UEFA shows there will be an adjustment period for everyone involved. His case was quickly resolved and he was unsuspended in less than 24 hours after the take down request. However, he is one of the most famous streamer from the Twitch platform, he can easily use his social network to acquire visibility. For smaller and not well-known streamers, it may be more difficult to obtain justice...
That code doesn't run independently. You need a compiler, compilers aren't bug free. You need other functions to gain it's input and functions to do something with the output - those might all contain bugs. Even if you're not targeting different OS's or even "POSIX's", and even if you're not targeting different CPU architectures, you still get subtle variations in AMD64 chips that can - if you're working low level enough - throw up some bugs. And if you're not working that low level then you have the entire runtime stack and their bugs to contend with.

If computing was still just flipping switches and waiting for LEDs to flash then you might have a point. But in real terms, it's just not possible to write 100% bug free code anymore. The real trick is eliminating all the bugs that people are likely to experience in normal operation and all the bugs that attackers might exploit. Even that is no small feat.
> Why wouldn't a company want people browsing with Tor?

You're supposed to be working on your work machine and "IT teams know best". Tor is usually a big red flag that your machine is attempting to evade corporate surveillance, which means that you're actively exfiltrating data or that you've been infected by something bad.

Sure, you probably don't want Google to know that you're studying the market for a specialized piece of software/solution. But Management doesn't care, so just use the Incognito Window, and be happy...
"Exactly how the legislation will be interpreted will be up to individual nations, but the shift in the balance of power is clear: the web’s biggest tech companies are losing their grip on the internet."

I feel like this is actually forcing the biggest tech companies to increase their grip on the internet.
Lack of users is stopping Google's customers from using those alternatives. Users themselves (or people) are not the customers.
Bureaucracy, compliance cost, uncertainty of enforcement... The category doesn't need to be the same, just the pile upon pile of anti-(small)business regulation.
I trust Google less than Microsoft, for example.
Do they not also run popularity-contest to collect installation data on packages like Debian did? Or did they get rid of that?
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If I’m not allowed to use your service you won’t get any of my money though. Unlike kids under the age of 13 I have disposable income.
Combining two videos in this way would be unlawful in the UK, where we have the very restricted "Fair Dealing" concessions, because downloading the videos in the first place is a tort[0].

Combining them is another, sharing them is another.

We basically have no concept of personal use in our
copyright.

[0] if they were broadcast you can record but only for time-shifting, you can only watch once (alone!) and then are obliged to destroy the copy; you aren't allowed to format shift.

The lack of any remaining semblance of balance in copyright between the rights of the demos and media interests shows how badly distorted our Western democracies have become from representing the rights of people in general above the rights of the rich.
I'd like to see a discussion around these aspects. I see only cries re big platforms and news outlets.I'm neither of these.
But there is a centralised mechanism to keep MRIs expensive: certificate of need laws.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/31/17629526/m...

It used to be a Federal Law. That got repealed, but certificate of need laws live on in several states. Still, state wide counts as a central mechanism if you live in that state. Since I'm not American, I don't know how the scam works in other states.
A comment from someone who has actually read the article: https://np.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/9ely8y/why_the_w...

For example:

...the EFF argue that the idea of what constitutes a link is not fully defined. I'm not sure what they're talking about. Recitals 31-36 set out the concepts in article 11, fairly clearly. They make it clear that what is being protected is substantial or harmful copying of significant portions of the text. They also make it clear what organisations this will affect - press organisations - with a fairly clear description of what a press organisation might constitute. (FWIW, memes are not covered, and anyone you hear talking about "banning memes" is getting their news from very poor sources.)
They are bound by treaties to implement EU directives like this. Part of the single market.
He was the first one to report the decision on Twitter, and was literally livestreaming in that link I provided before the news was reported anywhere. I'm sorry that he's not on your approved list of people to report on this event.
I found this book [1] as a good starting point in understanding how XMPP works. It was written almost a decade ago, but it is really good for walking you through examples of how the protocol works to accomplish something.

I also recommend using Gajim. It's a really solid XMPP client that has a feature that I found super helpful. In it's advanced feature, it has something called the XML console. You can see the stream of XML between the client and the server to see a real example of what is going on in the background. You can even send your own XML and see how the server will respond to it.

I'm pretty new this stuff as well. At my work, I'm helping build a chat solution for one of our products. XMPP seemed to make the most sense for us. I'm not an expert or anything, but I found these super helpful.

Good luck to you!

[1] https://oriolrius.cat/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Oreill...
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Yes, it's easy to drop money on packs and either get a pack of duds or (less often) an amazing player. I tend to get quite lucky spending a few hundred pounds in total, but there are videos of YouTubers dropping £1000+ in a day and barely getting anything interesting.

A workaround would be for EA to simply officially sell the game's "coins" instead of packs in affected territories.. but then you'd have the opposite effect of players there getting a major advantage :-D
I’m not surprised that every egregious example of spreads is for recently launched generic drugs.

The key problem with drug reimbursement is knowing what price the pharmacy paid. Drug manufacturers have list prices, but offer discounts and rebates to drop the price, particularly when a drug goes generic.

So if the list price is $100, the pharmacy might have paid anywhere from $95 to $5 for the drug.

In the past the PBMs are correct, that spread went to the pharmacies. That’s less of a bug and more of a feature - it incentivized the use of generic drugs.

Basically the PBMs inserted themselves in the process and grabbed the spread for themselves.
Chans have much worse than copyright infringement going on
Back? Never left them, it merely improved its PR efforts.
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Newspapers are dying and try to find a way to make money from their content. They find that the big user distributor Google doesn't give them their fair share and therefore try to make him pay. They get supported by other content producers and now we all are facing another absurd law.

I am a big fan of the GDPR, because it protects the rights of the users. But this time they are building a law to ease the fight of large corporations, affecting everone else in the process... not cool.
This article doesn't really say anything. Walmart is a much better example of "Why Clojure". Or anything that comes out of Rich Hickey's mouth, basically
Every socialist regime progress towards total control of every aspect of human life. This is just another step in that direction. They are always using sob stories or exploit social groups to progress their goal on the back of it. European Union needs fundamental change, it supposed to be a group of free trading nations and now has become a totalitarian regime. Together with brainwashing beginning at school through the television most of the EU citizens don't really mind, just like a cattle doesn't mind being locked up for their meat.
The copyright laws are totally wrong. If you produce an opera and don't want it to be reproduced or used in other works, don't share it. Keep it for yourself, don't show it to anyone. If an author spontainously share an opera making it public available (for free or selling it is not important) must accept the fact that the opera can be used and elaborated by anyone. If I see something I must have all the right to try to reproduce it, rielaborate it, use it to create something new, resell it, givit it free to other. If author don't want this, must keep it for himself. Sharing something (free or by fee) and asking to not reshare, re-elaborate, copy ecc. is an act of intellectual violence. Author thinks that is this violionce is necessary to grant him the right return for the work he have done. But this is totally false. The copyright law is useful only to aliment of an ecosystem of leeches that prolifer around the artist limiting his and his audience liberty and freedom. "Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. (Mark Twain)"
I'm not saying it's right, but there's a chance Microsoft is feeling emboldened to get away with it based on Google's success steering search users to their own products.

In the beginning, it was just Microsoft.
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This is a great example of why people still hold gold as a safehaven asset of last resort; it was valuable two thousand years ago and it is still valuable today.

Gold's value has survived being buried, natural disasters, war, peace, ends-of-empires and anything else the world has thrown at it. Even after two thousand years it is simple enough to verify that gold is relatively pure.
I'm still stuck on "Yeah, but I need a credential to authenticate with Vault to get the other credential that I want".

Very chicken and egg.
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What's tragic is that millions of poor children are being raised in households considered poor because there is only a single earner. We have to address the cultural issues leading to the epidemic of single parent households.

That will do far more for the children of the future than anything else.
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And another thing I hate about the yearly releases of CoD and BF: The previous versions more or less die when the new ones are released.

As someone who play games on macOS, the delay before the Mac/Linux versions are released makes it so when you get to play the games, most of your friends play the next version or something else. I've stopped buying games like CoD and BF because of this.

It seems only Blizzard and Valve understand they can keep people playing the same games for decades with little investment.
Just to show how absurd such practice is - if Mozilla wanted to do the same, they should intercept requests for Google.com and Bing.com, advising users to use Mozilla's search engine instead. I doubt Google would keep paying them if they did that though.
That totally works for me as well :-)
Why would you apply an update on day one with an OS that still gives the user total control over update behavior?

On a productive machine, waiting a few days to see if a new update causes problems for others is standard advice for any platform.

If you choose to run MacOS in a virtual machine on standard PC hardware, backing up the machine state before applying an update is as simple as duplicating your virtual system disk before applying the update.
github - https://github.com/CriticalTechnologiesInc/SABLE

website - https://sable.critical.com/

Some papers produced as a result of this effort:

* Formal Verification of a Modern boot Loader https://surface.syr.edu/eecs_techreports/183/

* A Formally Verified Heap Allocator https://surface.syr.edu/eecs_techreports/182/

* A High-Level Overview of SABLE https://sable.critical.com/media/whitepaper-sable.pdf

It's certainly a work in progress, and lots planned for the future, but we wanted to share this with the community sooner than later. Happy to answer any questions about it that I can!
Are you comparing it to age prompts? Those were way less effective than IP based geo blocks. Since GDPR, a lot of, maybe even most of the time it's not worth the effort to reload the page through a proxy. Especially for stuff linked to me by social media.
It's looking more and more like your money isn't worth the compliance cost to companies to obtain your money.
Why not? AFAIK about a 1/3 of the arXiv articles are later published in journals.
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BF3 was pretty painful too if I remember correctly. Horrible hitboxes and lag.
That's why it would be a fun comparison!
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I'm not sure if I know what you're talking about. Could you expand on this?
That's shifting the problem a bit, but does not solve it. Which journalist would investigate a topic which is considered unimportant by most of the readers (and in this specific case the decision is also welcomed by most of the journalists employers).

And who would read MEPs reasonings about something "uninteresting"?

So, yes, there is plenty of room to improve democratic processes today, especially with the communication tools we have. However, I guess that laws which make things worse for the general public but are in too complex niche areas for people to actually realize the issues, will ever remain a problem. Try ask your non-tech social contacts if they consider it fair, that big internet companies like Google don't have to pay for other peoples' work. And this is the narrative of the supporters.
This corrupt old farts. The brexit people were right ...
That’s theoretically true, but we’ve (seemingly) never come close to that in the US. Moreover, as the article reminds us, the minimum wage has been drastically higher (in real terms) than it is now.

Regardless of the correct level before causing a crowding out of employment, what do you believe the purpose of having a minimum wage is (if not to prevent poverty)? Why not just let the market decide?

Edit: I mean this seriously, and don’t intend it as an attack. I’m (personally) unclear on the perceived purpose of the minimum wage.

Edit 2: like many folks, my “we’ve never come close to it” is influenced by http://www.nber.org/papers/w4509 and similar studies, and I’m aware of the opinions that the study was flawed or doesn’t generalize (e.g., https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/timworstal...).
That's why pervasive "Does anyone else love the New Microsoft?!" style comments have seemed odd. People talking about how they like specific products is perfectly normal.
For some companies, making the IT-related changes to accommodate for GDPR was simply too expensive.