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Google is a fascinating test case for Elizabeth Warren's plan to create board representation for workers. Googlers have a very distinct culture that would advocate for very different positions from the ones Google is making right now. If Google employees had 40% of the board, they'd be able to do a lot more to stop decisions like this one.
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> perhaps they had previously discovered terms in which monetization would be agreeable.

If that was the case, I doubt it would have been explicitly and legally formalized in the contract as disallowed without a payout.

If two parties decide that a clause of a contract doesn't need to be enforced, you rewrite the contract. Anything else is just stupid, as it allows the person likely to gain to say "well, I didn't really mean that...".

If you've formalized something in a legally binding contract, be prepared to follow through on it. Full stop.
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The grandparent was using a type of figure of speech called hyperbole which is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
True, but the concept of ray used here is neither particle nor wave. The whole thing is way more geometry than physics.
I think the argument is not that they are not morons, but that they clearly "did expect" this.
http://www.q3rt.de/

if by "new" you mean well over a decade old...
I also liked the yellow color. I've been finding myself using the evening feature ("Night Shift" on iOS) a lot lately.

The site was 95% solar, but the blue bar at the top was 100% distracting. I could barely read the content.
You know, I used to think times like this when us conspiracy theorists could say "I told you so" would make people rethink some things, but that has proven to be false. I was ranting about NSA and other unconstitutional abuses before Snowden and was getting called "crazy", and then after Snowden the majority of comments around here became variations of "Well, are you surprised." and "If you have nothing to hide" and "Broken clocks are right twice a day"...

Google, like facebook, was from origins designed to end up this way. It was not some organic complication of motives due to massive growth.

Relevant reading: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...
Yeah, but you have to admit "Chlamydia" has an exotic Mediterranean sound to it. ;-)
> The immorality is on the victim,

Does Chinese culture actually shift moral blame onto the victim? If not, then this sounds a bit like the "victim blaming" obsession of modern American culture, which misses the crucial point - there are two types of blame to be passed around here. The offender was evil - they cheated. The victim was stupid - they were aware of the danger and ignored it.
Fair enough. But since, there has been no priced round, dont think investors have any voting rights in the company either. Can they still effect any change in the company then?
that just renders as black pages, I can only see the text by selecting it. I have encountered the same with black text on white pages being invisible. I'm using the default document viewer on Debian. With such pdf's imagemagic was able to render the teext though... does anyone ever see similar problems sometimes with pdf's? where was the bug? poppler? which version do I need to fix it?
Some of their images look like they are best suited to PNG format.

I do agree that the consistency is nice for aesthetic reasons, but poorly rendered images do detract from the overall message.
Of course America got all its technology fair and square.
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Liberal doesn't imply that they care for the working class; in Marxist terms, they're still bourgeoisie, just with a somewhat socially liberal bent. Money is still more important than anything else.
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From strictly a UX standpoint, I recently found Virgin's website to be fantastic to use-- very clear hierarchy, nice fonts and colors, and a unique approach to form error handling-- the text of the submit button itself would change to tell you what fields still needed to be filled in.

No idea what their backend looks like though.
See "brutalist" websites. At the start it was very similar in spirit with this website: raw, functional, rejecting looks for something you appreciate in a different way. Now: ugly, full of js, heavy.
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I too want to know this. You'd think it would be "How (a) blockchain works" or "How blockchains work"... The way this is written feels like they're suggesting there is only one.
>It's a potentially revolutionary technology (trust-less, decentralized, nearly tamper proof, etc) that hasn't yet found a killer app(s) at scale

I'd argue it has: cryptocurrency and all the criminal enterprises it supports (e.g., ransomware). If you're willing to enter legally-enforceable contracts with other parties, then "trustless" and "decentralized" don't matter all that much to you.
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Edge does that. You can "set aside" the tabs you currently have open. You can have multiple set of tabs "set aside"
What prompted me to write the article was running across several tech news articles declaring ray tracing to be a new technique on pieces about the RTX hardware -- real-time aside. To clarify that ray tracing is not new but real-time ray tracing (generally) is was my purpose in writing the piece.
Tried to sign up for Airdyme. Entered my email and it started "processing"....still does, one hour later....hope your investments are doing better.
Can't wait until I see new exploits!
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Hi, HN!

I present to you Sononation - it is a music discovery platform.

We created Sononation to skip Shazam when listening to Radio. What the app does: you listen to your favorite Radio station and if the station is providing the info about the current artist and song you can save it to listen to it later, via Youtube.
You can also discover music tagged by the community members.

Discovery mode works worldwide. Radios are only from Europe for the moment but will add more and more countries.

links:
Web:
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iOS:
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Android:
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Listen to your favorite radio and chat with its listeners.

Save current song that is played on the radio.

Enjoy your previously saved songs.

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Ever thought about opening an office in Portland? :-)

I don't have any real desire to move to SF but I do miss the fact that a lot of the cool jobs only happen down there. Ah well.
There's nothing beings flawed in the ways that lead to this state of affairs (generally subsets of selfishness) can do but become the kind of beings that aren't flawed in those ways.

So get busy changing yourself and raising new instantiations not thusly flawed.
Sure those places are “liberal” unless a working class person is also a gay man who is afraid of being beaten to death in the streets.

I associate the housing crisis not really with liberal hypocrites but rather with ineffectual old ways of being “green”. Tons of Boomer environmentalists think you can save the planet by recycling, driving a Prius, and not wearing furs. That’s why the hot issue in Berkeley is plastic straws when they are undergoing a severe housing shortage. The fact is that installing a family in an existing dense, walkable city is the greenest thing that can be done. Being a NIMBY and having your Prius serviced by a mechanic who commutes three hours each way from Turlock is not green at all.
Whatsapp was among the first inter-platform chat app. Kik was another. It didn't matter if you were on a Nokia (Symbian), iPhone, Blackberry (BBM was big at the time) or Android. They also solved for many individual phones globally that no one would go near to build their network.

For these reasons I don't see Whatsapp as a Todo app. Chat apps did exist, but there wasn't really many alternatives for inter-platform chat like there is today.
Even with peering in place behind the scenes, cloud providers would still usually charge for egress from storage and cdn services to a provider like cloudflare.

What Cloudflare et al are doing here is utilizing the peering connections that they have already in place and not billing at the usual egress rate when traffic routes over these peering connections.
Correct. There's no catch.
Can we retire calling things clickbait?

The post does cover the history but it is a response to coverage like this: "...a new graphics rendering technique called ray tracing."
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results.asp?print=false....
Good point. We are setting up a foundation to initially run the project, but even the foundation will be deprecated as we go forward. In fact its primary role will be to enable further decentralisation i.e. to make sure that no single party can monopolize the system through various consensus methods.
Was holding back updating to 69, and after restarting le browser, boom I'm now im forced to use this crap with no way to go back.

Spent hours trying to figure out how to disable automatic updates on a Mac. Everything is so deliberately hidden it's disgusting. Find com.google.Keystone.xxx, LaunchAgents, plists, edit this XML, and edit that UpdateDefault field, policies, etc. [1]

Then, being fed up with Chrome, lets see Chromium website, maybe those guys without any bad motives can provide a developer friendly way to disable updates.. It should be somewhere in about:about right? Nop, clicking on how to turn off updates guide[2] redirects to a a Google page irrelevant to auto updates..

This reminds me of the time that Chrome didnt have any password (keychain) protection and they were claiming it was a Feature!

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7591084?hl=en

[2] https://www.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-upd...
Surprisingly, I've yet to see a service which fronts Pi-Hole or similar and allows you to point your DNS resolver(?) at it, so you can use it on the go -- without having to use a VPN.

I tried to set this up on my own using a VPS and Pi-Hole and it did work for a while. However, bad actors eventually found the server and started using it to perform DNS amplification attacks against, of all things, cricket news websites. I don't know too much about networking, so this may be a limitation of the DNS protocol. However, it seems like Quad9, Cloudflare and the like have figured out a way to prevent this sort of abuse... So, if any provider out there is reading this, please add this capability and I will gladly pay to use your DNS service.
Cletus, of which Cleytus may be a variation, has a long Christian tradition going back to the third Pope, St. Cletus (also known as Anacletus, which makes me wonder if his evil twin was named Katacletus).
The site is a commercial enterprise, and as such can go kaputt at any given point, especially if it does not find a lucrative business model. Although it's not a strong indication of long-term issues; in October 2016 the site "made transparent" the server costs, and started to accept donations. A weekly crowdfunded target of $800[4] is set to maintain the site.

Prior to this, the site actively refused donations. A donation link took the user to an animal shelter donation page.

Stated in January 2017, through donations the site only receives "more than $1.50 every day, enough for a bowl of phở".

Src: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archive.is
Oh for sure, companies are aware but what can they do about it? For all that we talk about all powerful mega corps, they still have to bow down to actual governmental power. The only appropriate way for them to fight this is by requesting diplomatic intervention from their home state.
Doesn't this seem a bit uncharitable a characterization? What's an example of a "real low-tech website" that does better than the work presented here? Are you browsing hackernews using lynx or surfraw?
Yes, GPS on AW was worse than Garmin in my experience. That also caused the speed pacing on AW to not be usable. The GPS difference with friend who has Garmin Fenix 5 was even noticeable on the map. AW had a jagged line, whereas the Garmin tracked the trail exactly.

Often when glancing at my AW when running it would show the wrong screen. It would either show "now playing" music (even though I don't run with headphones) or my Strava app... when I actually wanted to see the heart rate app.
I'm developing a theory about brain's network called: Ghosts in the Shell.

I'm trying to decentralizing my brain to a network of brains.

Ghost in the Shell (Japanese: 攻殻機動隊 シェルのゴースト) is a 1989 Japanese media franchise originally published as a seinen manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow.

In that post-cyberpunk iteration of a possible future, computer technology has advanced to the point that many members of the public possess cyberbrains, technology that allows them to interface their biological brain with various networks. The level of cyberization varies from simple minimal interfaces to almost complete replacement of the brain with cybernetic parts, in cases of severe trauma. This can also be combined with various levels of prostheses, with a fully prosthetic body enabling a person to become a cyborg.

We are still way far from that kind of individual advanced tech in 2018, though we are slowly becoming the cyborg with a supercomputer in our pocket. With the sheer amount of information available in the world today, we have become overwhelmed.

Our mind is in a constant racing state.

Inspired by Ghost in the Shell, I believe the future of human thinking is to decentralize ourselves to a thinking network like "GHOSTS in the Shell". I think we should try to turn our brain into composable and functional brains network by starting to view everything as a function and iterate it like a machine, together.

We need to elevate our mind in this digital age. Not only as human, but also as human + machine.

(https://github.com/allenleein/brains/wiki)
I'm sure Acton and Koum told themselves they were also keeping the power to be in control. I'm sure they went into it thinking they could avoid this end. The brain is a powerful rationalizer when it sees generational wealth within reach.

The indignant tone of the comments here make me laugh. There are very few things I can imagine readers of HN not doing for a billion dollars. People may say otherwise, but until they've been tested I choose not to believe them.
Everyday. Being able to turn my car on, have the station already set and not use any sort of data I have to pay / account for is irreplaceable. I also get a variety of information from the morning talk show that I wouldn't have otherwise heard or learned about for the metro area. You also might not believe this but there are also people still using cable for television, crazy I know.
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Incidentally Delta has the same market cap as Square at ~$40B. It also owns 881 airplanes. Plus it has to write critical software to keep them all running smoothly. Non-tech world is tough.
While there is some truth in what you say, it isn't very strong. The Red States typically have just as much zoning. They just have a smaller population and a much larger undeveloped area. (An ocean next to your city cuts the amount of land near your city in half. Mountains on the other side do the same to a lesser extent.)
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If Chrysler is worse off, that's its own damn fault. Anyone watching the management of American auto companies over the past 30 years can't be but gob smacked about how incompetent it has been.
Peering has been in place for a long time between cloud providers. However, the cloud providers have charged their customers the same amount regardless of whether traffic is sent across transit (which they pay incrementally for) or peering (which they don’t). The Bandwidth Alliance does two things: 1) cloud providers agree to waive or substantially discount the price of bandwidth for their customers when passing over peered connections; and 2) Cloudflare hauls the traffic at no cost to customers to the nearest location where it can be passed over a peered connection. The net effect is customers’ bandwidth bills are substantially decreased and it becomes far more affordable to move data from one cloud to another.
My thought is most of the commenters don't see the big picture of what happened but just what they want to see.
You won't be beaten to death in Red states. They will make you feel unwelcome/uncomfortable, but they are not so violent as to beat you to death.

Yes some people are that violent. However such people are everywhere. You are more likely to find them in the blue states just because the population density is higher.
>Don't buy a raspberry pi just for this, chances are you have some old windows machine you can slap Ubuntu server on and set it up easily. That's what I did and I have very little Linux experience.

But this would require having a full-blown PC running 24/7 and increasing your electricity costs by at least a few bucks a month. It would be much wiser to buy a $10 Pi Zero W and put Pi-Hole on it.
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Even if you're replying to a shallow and dismissive comment, personal attacks have no place here. We have to resist this temptation if we're to have any hope of an insightful discussion.
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Even if they listen,you can monitor network traffic and find out for sure. The difference is a home assistant should send your recording and metadata while a smartphone with similar network activity would be suspicious.

Anyways,this is one if those problems that should be addressed in criminal law. Unfortunately most law is retroactively created,this means society will have to face irreversible damage of technology abuse before laws are updated.
Not at all. Just because it involves an "hour", rather than a "second", doesn't mean that it resembles a "timezone shift". It's totally different.

With a timezone shift, all that happens is that "09:00:00 +0900" is the same as "10:00:00 +1000". We can cope with that. But if you make UTC jump back an hour, then we have "09:59:59 +1000" followed by "09:00:00 +1000", and then the whole previous hour happens again. The internal timestamps in computer systems (typically expressed as a number of seconds since some epoch) repeat themselves for an hour. Causality is violated. Most computers stop working. You would probably have to switch them off beforehand to prevent data loss and even longer interruptions to service. You could shut down all the servers and desktop machines, stop all public transport and so on, but you can't just turn off the computers in embedded systems and satellites and so on...

So let's not try to arrogantly predict the situation in 500 years. Let's carry on with the established system of leap seconds, at least until someone comes up with a sensible alternative. Then there won't be a "situation" in (less than) 500 years.
Where in day-to-day situations, like walking around outside or in a building do you see diffractive phenomena where a ray approximation breaks down far enough for you to notice?

Usually all of that is smoothed over by light sources being extended sources not points, so the interference contrast is lost by infinitely many interference patterns being overlaid incoherently. Also, almost all light sources (except for rlasers) have microseconds of coherent emission, so the pattern changes so fast it blurs into a regular blurry edge of shadow.

I can only think of some very special situations where some blinds select a very narrow angular range of sunlight and then you see interference fringes in the shadow.

Or when you look into a puddle with an oil film or at some sort of diffraction grating or holographic film (which can be predicted with ray-based methods, like Wigner-distribution based ray-tracing, though that still comes with some error at large angles).

Even in laser optics, 95% of the optics design is done with geometrical optics methods, because the rays you use can be related to the phase profile of the radiation in the system. You can then integrate (with rays) the diffraction pattern (but not as well in the shadow of apertures ofc).
The aria.microsoft.com domain is for analytics and client metrics for probably some microsoft produced app you’ve got
It's a self-updating hosts file. If you only do it once in a month you'll start seeing ads again. Also you can edit the hosts file if you're rooted, but you definitely can't if you're running a stock unmodified ROM. If you're rooted and you only care about your Android phone, you can also install Adaway, which does pretty much the same thing without the whitelist capability (Get it on F-Droid), but if you have a number of devices to protect, and some of them are iOS devices, TVs or whatever that can't be rooted, jailbroken, or you don't have administrative privileges to, Pi-hole is a good choice (if you run pfSense at home you can also use pfBlockerNG, which is essentially the same thing too).
Add the cost of paying for your health insurance into your rates. A full time employer would be calculating it into compensation all the same.
If I understand correctly, Zuckerberg forced Acton to hold onto his Facebook shares - and the value of those shares then doubled in a three-year period. Surely that must mollify Acton's animosity somewhat.

It reminds me of the scene in The Big Short where at one point the investors a clamoring to withdraw their money from Michael Burry's fund. They hate him and call him names, but he refuses to let them withdraw. Later when he pays out a huge profit he emails them saying, "You're welcome".
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Ah yes, I believe I have a Knight’s tour solver written in Swing. Not sure I ever fully mastered GridBagLayout! Now to convert that to Autolayout and Swift...
I'm with @rb666; Don't rely on it as most will support plus+ addressing but not the the fast mail subdomain addressing as I am now in the process of migrating to Migadu.com and I need to go and unsubscribe and resub using the plus+tag. It's a PITA... lesson learned, stick with best industry practices even if there is an easier method because you'll thank yourself later.
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There are big concerns about both false positives and false negatives. The one lead ECG in the apple watch will very likely only detect afib. one lead ECG's are not diagnostic for heart attacks or any other cardiovascular disease. If you're having a heart attack and your Apple watch says you don't have a-fib, that would be a big concern.
Yup, when it comes to housing, nothing has caused more harm than terribly planned regulations and zoning.
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Apparently this was a research project. Anyone have links to papers, conclusions, results? Should be interesting…
> There's no low user or micro transaction options for these, so I get a choice of pay say £10 a month or nothing

There is yet to be a quick and simple micro-transaction infrastructure for the web. Transaction costs inhibit micro-transactions. They don’t scale down.

Some are trying to use crypto to do micro-transactions, but even crypto has transaction costs that inhibit how small micro-transactions can be, not to mention the exchange rate volatility.

It’s a big unsolved problem. Gotta spend money to spend money.
Well Facebook makes about $1.50 per year per user. So they could charge a lot less than almost $6 per month, but it would be harder to capture that money.
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It's more like "192 wrongs make an international norm" than "2 wrongs make a right".

https://xkcd.com/1170/