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Apple reportedly bought Silk Labs, a maker of privacy-focused AI for devices
Signed into law in 2016. Most of the major provisions did not come into effect until May 2018.
I'm not a user of Clojure, but I'm a user of other FOSS tools (Docker) for which I've had complaints.

Though I have potential issues here, I think it is important that this be said. It highlights missed expectations. This open source thing is a weird new(ish) world, and we need to be on the same page. It's been a few decades, but perhaps we haven't quite adjusted yet. Or maybe this hippie thing actually doesn't work, which would be a real shame.

The fact is that we rely on it. And I think that this really is an alternate mode of creation. I could be wrong but I don't think the idea of "community development" is something that was recently made up. It's part of the Free Software ethos. Perhaps what is new here is a notion that there not be a party at the top of each fork who has ultimate responsibility.

A pure gift, take it or leave it, no strings attached in either direction, is fine, and should be appreciated. But it's useless to users who need to rely on what you've produced. If the project is not subject to the demands of its users (which includes contributors, to the extent that they are users with demands that they are willing to fulfil themselves) then it's got a serious disadvantage over commercial software without a free distribution model. It's not akin to a serious tool for sale. And _if that doesn't meet expectations_, people are within reason to push back.

The other side of it is that there have to be limits, of course. There has to be respect for the producer, their time, their preferred mode of management, the limit of the scope of the project, etc. There have to be judgement calls made, just like commercial software without a free distribution model, as to what does and doesn't make it into the project. For all these reasons I can see that it's important that a producer pushed back here.

But if the producer doesn't voluntarily take on some level of responsibility as part of running the project, whatever the terms may be, then at the end of the day the project can't be relied on within the economy. This is not a demand on the author of this post. He is entitled to treating Clojure under whatever terms he wants. But somebody has to, for it to work in our system.

I think the solution is just better messaging of expectations. What this project is. What expectations should you have as a user. What expectations should you have as a contributor. Now we can all look at it as a reference point, and decide: Do we want to rely on this? Do we want to spend our time working on this? Do we have a basis for complaint?

Really, this is the same set of questions that are answered in any business arrangement. Perhaps there needs to be a SOCIAL_CONTRACT file next to LICENSE, README, etc.
I mean, I guess... Apple is always early when it comes to killing stuff. But as late as 2016 you could still buy a new MacBook Pro with a DVD drive.
Or people would just mass jump to Viber or Telegram or any other messaging app...

I can tell you with confidence that very few users in eastern Europe would pay even an euro for an app that used to be free and has free alternatives.

In fact my friends and I discussed that exact particular scenario when we once got a notification from WhatsApp about future payments.
More functional than and just as reliable as what? There are thousands and thousands of headphone models with the standard plug, many of which are arguably much more functional and reliable.
That is going to further upset the right wing.
> Google’s technology will not suggest gender-based pronouns because the risk is too high that its “Smart Compose” technology might predict someone’s sex or gender identity incorrectly and offend users

Nobody cares when touch keyboards predict the wrong pronouns, so why would the same service in an email client be any different?
I love the analysis that Ben does on so many pressing tech related issues.

I agree with the majority of what he said but I disagree that it is that clear cut that Apple’s rent seeking isn’t hurting costumers. While I’m no lawyer either, the Supreme Court case that is relevant here was dealing with the state of Illinois as a customer and the mass consumer markets are two different things and I believe the Supreme Court will deal with this in a separate lens.

Could be very well that Apple does win but the fact that a product like Spotify, to name one, is cheaper when bought through the Spotify website and more expensive on the App Store shows clearly that in fact this does harm customers. I think the Supreme Court could rule in a whole other direction on this because of that fact coupled with Apple allowing no other competition on the platform, meaning no way to download a second App Store or even link to purchasing the product on a website especially for digital goods.
"I hope all the anti-regulation people (libertarians) will be able to kill these laws. GDPR (and similar laws in debate) have way too broad of power"

It's not the Googles and Facebooks of the world which need protection.

I hope they get seriously and royally fucked for doing this shit. Somehow, I suspect they'll weasel themselves in to a slap on the wrist, if that.
Pioneered in Maine btw! The fish seem to do just fine[0][1]. At the end of video I've linked you'll notice they'll dump them out after landing if possible.[2]

>Department biologists using scuba gear have had trout dropped around them and observed as the fish hit the water and swam away. The biologists report that most of the trout easily survive their aerial drop without injury or harm.[0]

>The Aviation Division also supports the bureau's resource management efforts through aerial fish stocking and various data collection efforts. Aerial stocking is the least stressful method of delivering live trout and salmon to inaccessible or distant locations, Maine's Warden Pilots release more than 182,000 of them — over 28,000 lbs. — into 195+ lakes and ponds each year.[1]

[0]https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2006/may/01/tro...

[1]https://www.maine.gov/ifw/warden-service/specialty-teams.htm...

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYAwaf4CBj4
> There will always be people offended by something.

That does not mean every instance of offense should be ignored or dismissed, does it? How about addressing specific grievances instead of this extremely vague proclamation?
Good. Dark patterns are explicitly forbidden by the GDPR.
Are the developers-who-are-denied-access that you describe also on-call and watching monitoring alerts for when something goes awry?

I've worked in companies where "DevOps" was thought to mean: "Devs have a lot of access, even root/dba/etc. access, and while they're sleeping or if they get stuck on something, they should punt it over half-finished or half-broken to the infra eng / devops group"

^^ This is so incredibly common, especially in small/startup environments. It's a nightmare I actively aim to fix when I join / consult at companies.

There's instability in the environment, inconsistencies, or just a mess, and you parachute in there to fix. Step 1, kick out all devs from any systems they have too much access (unless they're special, knowledgeable ones and know and understand what you're trying to do), Step 2, stabilize the system. Step 2 involves environment separation, real automation that more than one person can use, setting up monitoring, and much much more.
>Overpopulation is not the problem

http://www.kimnicholas.com/uploads/2/5/7/6/25766487/fig1full...
> I would not trust an open source process to maintain a standard of quality.

On what basis?
I think amazon has reached the tip. So many side projects that lay there abandoned because if im not setting up my own vpc subnets and gateways manually i feel defiled and ashamed.

This is what amazon has successfully done, raised the cognitive sunk cost so fucking high you need to pay for their bs certificqtion i didnt even study but somehow passed even aftwr arriving to the exam 30 min late because the city of vancouver are such fucking master extortionist of parking tickets and somehow everybody has decided to park...i digress

Tldr use do or linode....dont soend decade on aws and realize the greatest devil the trick pulled is that he dont exist well lemmme tell u friends unshackle yourseles fromm aws and use netlify
I can find you some people.
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How do you feel reading this article? Who benefits from that feeling? Is there anyone you're more likely to give money or votes to? Are there any actions with economic impact you feel like you should take? And most cynically, isn't there a part of you that feels like you're morally superior or have secret knowledge that the other people below you on your social scale don't share, and you now despise that other group for not "seeing the truth" that much more, solidifying an "us vs. them" mentality with another brick in the wall?

Yes, there's politics here. Being "political" doesn't mean it's wrong, though we have that default reaction for a fairly solid reason, but, still, being "political" doesn't mean it's wrong. There's definitely politics, though.
>Additionally lawns are an unnecessary waste of time for most people and have a large carbon footprint.

I made a serious attempt to do ANYTHING but a lawn. Here are the issues-

No grass= erosion. This + weeds makes a dirt yard impossible.

If you want to 'farm' there is tremendous maintenance involved

Turf is expensive, but might have been a solution.

More concrete= hotter. This is bad for the environment.

---

So is the solution to let native plants grow all over your yard? We did this for 1 year, but my wife ended this.
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The madness is gendered words to be buried so deeply in our psyche in the first place. There's limited need for those assumptions but due to history we let them rise to the top.

Its perfectly straight forward to write evocative and passionate prose without concreting to a gender. It makes sense that when we build general purpose tools we encourage them to choose the neutral words more readily because it increases their accuracy without any loss of meaning.

Are you really so terrified of a world where "meeting him" is "meeting them"?
The shapes of the letters themselves aren't copyrightable in the US, so that if you vector-traced them perfectly, using your own "control points", you could distribute – and in fact, would hold copyright in – the resulting font file.

When discussing copyright "font" doesn't refer to the shapes of the letters (which comprise a "typeface") but the programmatic implementation of that typeface, which has been held to involve independent creativity. So if you take an existing vector font file, and alter the control points, you've created a derived work.

The situation is different in many other countries, which do allow for a copyright in a typeface. Generally the term of copyright is much less for a typeface than for many other works.
I agree. It seems a bit hyper sensitive to me. Esp when it's a machine that's predicting it, and not a human.
Perhaps the GP is suggesting that they aren’t owed money.
> Gender is a “a big, big thing” to get wrong.

No it's not.

Edit: Why is my personal opinion flagged? Am I really such a terrible person for thinking that way? We are so tolerant, but yet people can't have different opinions?
Your control over which apps have your personal data is far greater on iOS than Windows. You’re not going to inspect every app that you run on your computer, but an app on an iOS device is very limited by both the sandbox that they are in and the granular permissions that iOS provides.
> Sorry.

Thanks, but no need for the phony apology.

Typefaces, like other graphic elements, might not be felt to the point of the reader explicitly "recognizing" these contributions. Their impact is real albeit subtle. Designers are aware of that but still work really hard anyway.
That's what I mean. Yes.

But when the caller missed checking some error code, then nothing won't notice it has failed and now you have corrupt data to deal with. That's why I think blowing up at the time when something goes wrong is so valuable.
> I can guarantee that no human being on earth can confidently setup bluetooth on all devices.

I second that. I use my Bluetooth headphones on three devices. But I can only save two connections. So one device I always use via jack to avoid having to repair several times a day.
No one is ever "indispensable to the project", and being smart isn't an excuse for being a jerk. Here's how we do it at my company -- you're given a talking to by your manager and a warning, if it continues it starts getting documented and you get fired.

We have a simple rule when hiring -- we don't hire jerks -- and we make that clear during the interview. Generally that self-selects people out and we end up with a team that is productive and cooperative. This is essential when building products, companies, or even coding as all of them are social interactions at their fundamental level.
Which pronoun(s) will be used by Google AI to address future AI tools and robots?

https://www.wired.com/story/robot-gender-stereotypes/

> Robots don’t have genders—they’re metal and plastic and silicon, and filled with ones and zeroes ... The problem is that even if a robot isn’t gendered, and even if it doesn’t look human or even animal, you’ll tend to want to gender it.
Andy Jassy exclusive: AWS doubles down on the hybrid cloud
> FWIW, this was effectively the only way to fix content after it had been posted without changing the URL

Is it not possible to re-upload a video to Youtube?
I expect the greatest driver of interest in the news is fear. The second greatest is anger.

For a tech crowd, this is relevant due to our general fear of the unknown (new technology). Will this a) destroy us all? b) take my job? Pointing out the minute failings of new technology will confirm people's bias and fears. A large contingent of HN posters seem convinced that AI will take all the jobs, and that this is a Bad Thing.

This particular article plays into our environmental fears, which is also a topic near and dear to HN commenters.

Both the nobody-is-employable and capitalism-is-killing-us crowds can agree that the solution to these problems is immediate massive increase in the power of the government Before It's Too Late (TM).

Getting the Anger clicks is easy: Trump! "Look at the things Trump is doing. Doesn't that make you angry!?" Click. Click. Click.

As in all things: follow the money. When you get fearful or angry from some news article, realize that you are being played. How does reality differ from the story you're being told?

Think back a few years to some sensational stories. How did that turn out? More than likely, things are fine. We didn't all die from H1N1, swine flu, bird flu, Ebola. A few years ago, Texas passed campus carry laws, so college students and staff can carry concealed handguns. How many stories can you remember that bear out the (predictably) hysterical headlines of the time?
I'm afraid the poisons (aka pesticides) that we spew into the environment have a quicker 'evolutionary' rate than insects...

Not doing anything will not prevent our ecosystem from crumbling beneath our feet.
At the end of the article I find it amusing that the author states

> I won’t start about how many times I’ve tried to use wireless headphones only to find them dead, because anything wireless is just another battery to worry about.

The same logic points that his _phone_ is also wireless. Maybe we should add a cord to that?

The responsibility to have the foresight to charge a device has, in my life, proven to be a small and reasonable request.

In many android cases (unsure about apple) you can even charge your head phones using your phone as a battery.
Citing that source is a bit tone-deaf considering that it concludes with the following:

"Obviously big problems remain. Having 1 out of 10 people living in extreme poverty today is unacceptable. Humanity’s impact on the environment is at a level that is not sustainable and we urgently need to reduce our impact. Continuing threats to our political freedom and liberty must be dealt with."

Considering that the NYT articles that get the most traction here are about the environment (such as this very one), poverty/income inequality, and politics, trying to wave away these articles as fearmongering with "don't worry, the world is better!" is particularly counter-productive to actually making the world a better place.
When did Gore predict ice caps disappearing in 5 years?
What's the alternative to MAD? We still have it. People have calmed down, but it remains.

I always took it to be a description of the state of play once nukes exist.
Most people who buy EC2 instances at scale won't want most of them to have persistent storage attached. Storage is handled by a DB or S3.
It is in Silicon Valley.
Nasdaq’s Much Awaited Bitcoin Futures to Launch Next Year
> I think the American suburban yard may be equally responsible with agriculture for a lot of this in the US.

There are over 900 million acres of farmland in the United States, so I'm going to guess this assertion (the "equally") is wrong.

It seems to me you're otherwise right about how we put our yards together, though. You didn't even mention how much water we often use to move our yards away from the native flora.
Alternate wording: "Google's Gmail autocomplete no longer assumes gender."

From the article:

> Gmail product manager Paul Lambert said a company research scientist discovered the problem in January when he typed “I am meeting an investor next week,” and Smart Compose suggested a possible follow-up question: “Do you want to meet him?” instead of “her.”

So really, this is a fairly reasonable decision whereby it doesn't infer gender from signals such as profession.

The article doesn't address this, but I wonder what it would do given an explicit gender, e.g. "She's the investor I am meeting next week."
When's the Hebrew language version coming out? There are many languages for which this "solution" is completely impracticable. On the other hand, there should be no problem with Turkish or Persian.
In most places it's not part of criminal law but a civil matter, although the copyright industry has taken steps to change that under the guise of "counterfeiting".
Permissions requested on Android: Camera, microphone, contacts, storage.

Because YouTube has entirely ethical and noninvasive reasons for needing access to contact data and unprompted file storage.
Haha, I literally just got Amazoned this £130.00 order to enable me to use headphones with HQ sound AND mic WHILE charging my new iPad Pro 11", which only has USB-C:

- http://amzn.eu/d/dm8vC88
- http://amzn.eu/d/0o5f4JK

And I KNOW I'm going to have a 50% chance this works, and 0% chance this works without either software or hardware problems. I'm psychologically for the random audio drop-outs and glitches when I slightly reposition the orgy-of-dongles (that is the collective noun right?)

I'm all over wireless as a concept, but BlueTooth can't seem to handle High quality sound & mic so, I consider removing the audio jack on the iPad pro to be a mistake. I don't hate Apple, I don't think they are offending me, I don't bother trying to guess at why. I just plain think they have made a mistake.

And god damn, when I plug my headphones into an old iPad and ... "it just works" ... god damn.

EDIT: The above config of hardware works for sound! Yay! Not tried mic yet.
I think you missed the point. You can't sideload games on a PlayStation either.
> I don’t believe the actual refugees are the problem.

I don't think so, too. The underlying problem is growing inequality of wealth and opportunities. The very far right-wing people fear that the refugees will worsen their situation (and many are simply xenophobic, too).

I think it's a shame that there is no differentiation between these problems of inequality and helping people who get attacked by their own government. It seems that many people here in Europe don't understand that it's our duty to help people who get killed in their home countries (by our own moral standards).

- - -

France (and other European nations) care about the Syrian conflict because of the fear that more refugees will seek shelter in the EU (most European countries could handle this, but they won't do it because they aren't humanitarian which is pretty sad to see). Bringing peace to Syria is therefore a critical part of EU's solution to this (another wave of refugees would seriously risk the EU because the people here seem to have lost their connection to humanism - we could easily handle it if we want to). I have a hunch that I got downvotes because people interpreted my opinion as being contra refugees, but I'm actually telling the opposite. The problem is that many European countries (i.e. people) have decided that it's not their problem when people are in life-threatening situations and die while trying to get into those countries.
I wouldn't just add some random maintainer with a new GitHub account to a project I controlled. If they had made some contributions via pull requests, I would consider it or if they were a maintainer of other projects with actual users. In this case, there was no vetting at all. A brand new GitHub account with a couple forks.

I'm not placing all the blame on the original maintainer as I understand his philosophy of handing off the torch, but I think it's a naive thing to do, as this has shown.

Ultimately, this has been a good demonstration of a weakness with the ecosystem and I think there are a lot of things that could be improved here to help mitigate this in the future.
I'm not sure why you think there must be some sinister motive here. The comment chain was

P1: Does this violate some California law by deciding who can attend based on sex?

P2: The third member of your team may be any gender

P3: It's still discrimination based on sex

It seems pretty clear to me the "motivation" for the comment was to respond to P2's implication that this isn't discrimination.

You clearly don't actually "want to know what the motivations for it are", but to attribute motives to the commenter yourself.

> I think, if you're honest with yourself, you'll realise that your goal isn't really to help or support anyone, or to end gender inequality, but instead to take the opportunity to engage in a little bit of reflexive and unhelpful "look how much men are discriminated against" complaining.
Much! Working metal is _hard_ and slow.
> Am I the only one who likes Location History?

If I owned the data and it never left my device. Maybe.

But it is barely even optional. That is a huge issue.
> Aside from the first question (may first 2 questions), the top questions are arguably more qualitative than quantitative.

What's wrong with that?
I'm compromising with my wife and only mowing a small portion of the yard we have and I won't touch the rest. I might try and introduce some native wildflowers, like milkweed, though. We live in a more rural part of the country though so it's maybe easier to do such a thing here compared to a subdivision or something.
Elvis operator in expressions and why (probably) it’s not allowed
I worked in graphic design before I made my way into programming full time. My first job was building desktop apps with a team of programmers with very little design sensibilities. As such, there was lots of plain grey, haphazard interfaces. While they functioned fine, they left nearly everything to be desired aesthetically.

I received immediate, positive feedback on my initial contributions. Applying basic design to otherwise "undesigned" interfaces, made a big difference to our users.

While that may be an extreme example, it does highlight the need for design. Whether or not someone can "respect" it, as the OP suggests, is debatable. But, the effectiveness of something designed well, isn't.
I would have voted for Uncle Adolf, but he wasn't running. :^)