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There is no moral obligation for people to be paid for their work, even if other people enjoy that work, even if it is widespread. Are you going to track down every person who told you a funny joke at a bar that you go around repeating to your friends, or perhaps feel guilty about repeating that joke?

The idea that there is moral obligation to pay authors for their writing was itself a tactic used by the publishing industry to establish copyright law when it was first being debated. As you point out, publishers almost always receive the bulk of the money while creators receive little if any compensation. Copyright has always been about business interests and not about morality.
If you are big names like Intel, everything is cheap. Local government could give you insane special rates(remember China has no rules, what you need is just an approval from a single local leader)

And the average salary in Chengdu CITY is about $400/month ($800 in tech and they might have master degree)
nope. poor mission structure, boring characters, annoying controls rockstar have not really implemented anything new with this game that was not in the first game. it looks great tho!
Yeah, sometimes the compiler unrolls too much and innocent looking one-liner can be compiled into a monstrosity like this:

https://godbolt.org/z/aKtko5
The sort of images most commonly posted to reddit are screengrabs from movies or games with text added for humorous effect. This sort of use has traditionally been classed as fair use under copyright law.

Penalizing reddit for doing so would not result in more revenue for the creators of the source material.
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Someone once gave a talk on 'the Art of API design' that covered logical design of a RESTful API and one of their points was in close alignment with the article.

Can't find and slides to share but will edit/reply to self if I can, the talk was very informative and covered not just resource creation but destruction, Discovery, and even a bit about authentication.
I do not completely disagree, but I don’t think European legislators like to “punish success”. They respond to an electorate that feels much more strongly about economic disparities than in the US, because they are more painfully aware of their roots: thousands of years of violent oppression by elites, of which we are reminded every day with royal families, castles, abbeys and so on.
But you wouldn't say that I picked your lock if you had left it unlocked.
Nothing is safe from the HN Dismissal. What's the purpose of such flippant negativity?
I believe the way copyright is structured and enforced today is the moral issue here.

Let's not forget why Hollywood is in Hollywood after all.
When I call them morally bankrupt, its because of the social manipulation, meddling with democracy and selling of user data, not so much the fact that they allow people to share images of Yoda. But I guess I could have made that a little bit clearer.

I don't personally think the laws are wrong though. I'm a content creator myself, and while much of the code I write is open source, and I'm happy to see people use it to build cool things, I also don't want anyone to steal it and pretend it's their own, and I certainly wouldn't want a social media company to make money from it being shared.

So I like the law, and I think it should apply equally to you as it should to a social media company. Reddit shouldn't be above the law, and it makes me proud to be a European citizen when our politicians stand up and tell these companies that they aren't.
Very sweet and humorous writing. Sci-non-fi gone right, for once.
To each his own I guess, but it’s being universally acknowledged as GOTY.
I really can't be bothered to defend platforms like Reddit or Facebook from directives or laws, but what I do care and hold dear is the user experience that will suffer greatly if the directives pass as proposed. In the end, it's the users who will bear the brunt of legislation like this by losing access and tools to communicate, and that is the crux of this issue, legislation rarely does what it's primary intention is and ends up harming the public the most. After all, laws are very blunt objects to deal with soft matters because they are enforced by fines and penalties and weakest members, usually individuals, are least prepared to defend their rights, companies can hire lawyers or even shift focus to something else. Users will lose everything.
This depends on your jurisdiction, and in many places precedence has been set by case law.

But generally, unfortunately, no. If you create something "on the clock" or using your employer's hardware (even in your free time), then the copyright is typically implicitly transferred to your employer.

EDIT: This is actually covered in season 1 of Silicon Valley... Yeah, legit reference, I know ;)
> Other than the obvious solution of keeping every task in the DB with a “finished” flag, which doesn’t scale...

Why doesn't that scale?
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> Perhaps universities like harvard have lower standards.

Believe me, I'll be first in line to shame their academic standards. However...

> In any case, consider that this system is in fact a solution to the proposed problem.

It might. I think that it creates other sinister problems in the process. You have to ask whether you think that the purpose of going to school is to better yourself versus competing against your neighbors. If a person does poorly in class because of someone else's performance, that's pretty fucked up. Likewise, if someone does well in class because of someone else's performance, that's also fucked up. The system you appear to be describing perversely encourages sabotage and cheating, because learning is secondary to "winning", because you're fucked by other people succeeding. My intuition is that systems that treat grades like a competition produce a combination of accidental failures and assholes who treat other people poorly.
I want to help articulate the point even though I don’t know how I feel about it: Reddit makes money when users post popular things with no regard to how those things were acquired. Often this happens via the inner circle of power posters and meme-trend setters and not actually original content authors. And reddit is perfectly okay with this because it makes them money. If you believe it’s immoral to treat content creators this way it’s a moral issue. I tend to agree more with the GP because I’m pretty copyleft, but I also don’t like the fact that the “reddit machine” is basically an internet link record label where the payout is zero...
> would rather see politicians just leave the internet alone

Unfortunately this can't happen because too many can't take the bad with the good. As a global platform, those who prefer their governments take control will affect everyone, often killing liberty with thunderous applause. GDPR wasn't enough, people gave givernments a mandate, implicitly promoted anti-web news blitzes, and generally helped build an enemy out of the internet as a projection of disagreements with elections and society in general.
It does to a lesser, but still worrisome, extent in Java.

I think it's precisely because it lacks a good committed (commercial) owner like Android and .NET have. I could see it going from bad to worse in the future, as Oracle continues to jettison responsibility for bits of the ecosystem.
Drone strikes regularly kill people who are not the targets. Children. Journalists.
If Reddit and other similar sites want to make a point, a banner won't be enough. They need to do the unthinkable: Block all access from the EU.

If the legislation as written is going to make it impossible to do business in the region, then that's what these companies are facing eventually anyways. This sucks for them, sucks for users, sucks for everyone. So let's have a taste of what that looks like. A preview.

Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Instagram, TwitchTV, etc. All the websites where the content is made by users. As a group, shut down for 24 hours within the EU, instead displaying a simple page explaining the problem and what can do done about it.

Until they're willing to do that, the users don't know or care what they're talking about. Legislators are relying on a population who is too distracted to care what they're doing. Well, fine, let's take away the distractions.
You're falsely presenting theory as fact, as is quite common in psychological/psychiatric discussions; social and environmental factors seem to have very strong effects/influences as well.
What do you think of CGAL?

Are you using a scene graph for the display?
You probably already know that the Fourier transform can be seen as a polynomial evaluation: The nth coefficient f_n of the Fourier transform of a series (x)_k can be obtained by seeing the series (x)_k as the coefficients of a polynomial, and f_n is the value of this polynomial at ω_n, the nth root of unity.

If done in a naive way this takes on the order of m^2 time if your series is m samples long. By cleverly re-using results, the evaluation can be done in the order of m log(m) time.

The re-use of intermediate results can be done by observing that P(x) = P_even(x^2) + x P_odd(x^2), and using this recursively. The FFT of a sequence can now be computed by dividing the sequence into even and odd coefficients, taking the FFT of those subsequences, and re-combining them into the FFT of the whole sequence. The combination of the FFT's to the FFT of the whole sequence can be done in O(n) time, and total time is then O(n log(n)). The recursion is similar to that done in mergesort. One important difference is that it is essential that the length of the sequence is a power of two.

If P(x) = a + bx + cx^2 + dx^3 + ex^4 + fx^5, then P_odd(x) = b + dx + fx^2 and P_even(x) = a + cx + ex^2

This is the basis of the algorithm. The bit reversals are only needed when you do everything in place. And honestly, I don't understand that either.
But if everyone drives lightweight cars, the need for crumple zones is probably greatly diminished, right?
its the gaming press lol i wouldn't trust them as far as i could throw them
They work just fine for millions of services; they're called "websites". When you click on a link/button that starts a long running task, you often get redirected to a status page which refreshes (polling), and which has a link to cancel.
Autopilot is the system that moves the flight surfaces to maintain altitude (or a climb/dive rate), and heading. There is an FMS (Flight Management System) that can give commands to the autopilot. The FMS knows the X,Y,Z of every waypoint and every runway touchdown point, and has in it encoded the 'highway rules' of aviation. When the FMS flies the plane, it is going on a pre-planned route. It does not adapt to anything. Imminent collision with another aircraft (TCAS advisories) alert the pilot to do something, not the FMS/Autopilot. It is a long way from self driving a car. The specifics make it a good analogy, but how much of the public understands it to this depth.
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> almost every image posed on reddit is a form of piracy

You mean copyright infringement? You know there's an infinite amount of debate as to how much copyright protection costs society vs its actual benefits (most of the said benefits go to big cartels rather than individual creators anyway).

> almost every image

Really? You have any source to prove your extraordinary claim?

> very rarely does the original content creators actually benefit from having their works shared or altered on reddit,

Erm... ever heard of publicity?
Most widely used oss projects are not hobby projects. Only small trival projects tend to be hobby projects. Notably, apache projects are not hobby projects per foundation requirements.

Quite a lot of contributions are need driven - client project needing something digging into code and fixing it. It is called "scratching own itch". The reason for popularity of oss libraries was that comertial ones had historicall low motivation to improve after point of sale, especially when it comes to performance. That is why you see a lot of oss targeted at developers and very little at general public. Closed source libraries were unable to compete not just because of price, but because business of selling libraries does not value quality.
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Besides the supported tar features, bsdtar is definitely my favorite. With libarchive it supports all kinds of archive formats, so you can work on .zip and even .iso files with the usual command line interface.

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm...
I think that, more than just locking people out, it incentivises people to acquire credentials they don't need.
One thing I could imagine happening if the EU's attempts to regulate the internet become too onerous is that companies like reddit would simply pull any legal presence out of Europe and ignore European law. That would leave the EU with only nuclear options for enforcement like a Great Firewall of Europe or trade sanctions against the US.
I spent 2 years working on my second to last side project before giving up. I’m now 1 year into my current full-time “side project”
I don't think a parent encouraging their kid to have a little balance in their life is necessarily a bad thing.
There are many people in the world of climbing and mountaineering who voluntarily subject themselves to stress and fear just because, and they're not stupid, they just have different priorities.

The most well known outlier is probably Alex Honnold, and he's been conditioning himself mentally for El Cap since he first scaled the walls of his crib. In the years since he's logged thousands of hours free soloing, with many close calls and moments of panic along the way. Many climbers dabble in free soloing but don't get very far before they realize "holy shit, this is scary", but Honnold keeps going back, and overrides powerful hardwired instincts for self-preservation to do it.
> They need to do the unthinkable: Block all access from the EU.

This is not a solution. This is just allowing beauracrats the power to make us voluntarily erect borders in cyberspace where none are required.

Blocking entire geographic regions is the worst possible response.
of course the drunk driving is the driver's fault. i didn't say otherwise. i made two points. one, auto-pilot is a misleadingly named and marketed feature. two, auto-pilot was not necessarily a benefit in this situation as the article implies.
Consider that their govt calendar is primarily organized around 5-year plans, that they apparently have 100-year plans (and possibly even longer), and have many long-term plans such as the 'belt and road initiative'.

Even if they didn't originally conceive of it as a plan before Nixon/Kissinger's 'opening' (i.e., the original opportunity sort of fell into their lap), we can be quite sure that once they recognized the opportunity, they have made very careful long term plans to exploit it.

We can also observe that these plans are being diligently executed now.
I loved RDRI and was eagerly awaiting the second installment all year. I fully expected to get sucked in.

I played it for at least eight hours and just couldn't get into it. There's nothing driving the narrative. It's an outlaw gang doing mundane robberies and trying to avoid the law. I kept waiting for the story to draw me in and it never did.
A one day blackout was very helpful in stopping the US SOPA proposal. I can imagine the same thing being useful in raising public awareness in Europe.
Wow, beautiful!

Looking forward to the next chapter on trust by review. (And I don't mean 5 stars on some "app store" you've never used before by reviewers you've never met.) Big ups.
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... or it could be simple arrogance. The certainty that there would be no comebacks or consequences ...
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yeah, we often overestimate the general OPSEC awareness and measures these guys take. I mean doing this in a foreign embassy, in Turkey of all places, in the foyer? When I worked overseas our security people told us to assume everything is bugged ... they swept the SCIF everyday, and before any meeting where sensitive information is discussed. Basically, anything not in the SCIF is capable of being monitored/hacked by intelligence services.
> both are very capable and suitable languages

No, both are terrible, garbage languages, languages that have been whipped into reasonable shape over a decade or two by good programmers forced to use them due to awful monocultures that arose through successions of largely arbitrary events. This reasonable shape means that the most recent versions can be used with relative pleasure if you ignore half of their syntax, clamp massive libraries to them to replace the other half, and assume that your end product will be as fragile as glass.

edit: sorry about the trolly comment (which I make in response to a good comment), but if PHP and javascript aren't bad languages, I wouldn't know how to make a case that any language is a bad language.
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Reddit replacing all of Reddit for EU users with a page explaining how to contact their government officials is the only thing that will work. Users won't be bothered for anything less.
> I certainly wouldn't want a social media company to make money from it being shared

If you can't handle things like this, you basically can't handle platforms that allow others to share things openly. You'll never have an open environment for anyone to create platforms if you also want to pick and choose communication outlets because it effectively devolves to prior restraint like it has here.

Freedom comes at a price, be it sharing your stuff or whatever, and every effort to curb its ills, no matter how noble, reduces the freedom. Sadly, the rest of the world has to suffer these freedom tradeoffs so some can feel proud they are standing up to some companies they don't like.
yeah sad, but true.
that's all well and good, but i am not talking about airplanes' auto-pilot. there are also still differences in terms of everyday joes buying teslas using its auto-pilot versus trained pilots using auto-pilot. there are differences in availability so the airplane situation is not as suscpetible or vulnerable to a poorly named feature and marketing hype. maybe it is, but i wager the tesla situation is worse.
I live in the EU and I fully support this. Youtube should block all access from EU, as well as Reddit and others. The legislation is insane.
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> They need to do the unthinkable: Block all access from the EU.

This seems like a deeply cowardly move. The courageous and virtuous move is to simply ignore the law and continue as usual - to challenge the state to do what, if we all unite in support of each other and our basic freedoms, it will be unable to do.
> especially on small and medium-sized companies like Reddit

slightly OT, but is Reddit really a small / medium-sized company? or are they seriously downplaying it to get sympathy?
I love the A4 drive as well.
> As to why I think it’ll save lives. Let me give you an example. I once tried to search for the US consulate in China on Baidu. The phrase for that is “美国领事馆”. Try it on Baidu. When I last searched it, the website for the consulate was on the 3rd or 4th page, the address was nowhere on Baidu, and the rest of the results were travel agencies trying to make a profit.

I'm not in China but the Baidu show the related information (ustraveldocs.com) on the first result. To search "suicide", you've got the telephone for help.

I don't know why you selected “美国领事馆” while similar issues happened in China. Google's DragonFly will block it too. If you search "香港政府", you get the best on the first result.

> and the rest of the results were travel agencies trying to make a profit.

It's smarter than Google! People in China are trying to escape at the time. Baidu shows a more accurate result base on the trend. It works like the Yahoo or newspaper's homepage.
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Especially post-tax.
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Because your storage requirements would grow indefinitely as you would need to store a record for every task ever performed.
Why? That doesn't seem unlikely to me at all - it's far easier to capture meta-data than content.
that style of feature rollout works in a mobile app, but does it work in a car?
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The Google Shopping case is very interesting atm. Google have given other companies the opportunity to bid on that slot, and have separated out Google Shopping Ads as as it's own profitable entity that has to bid on that slot alongside other companies. Unsurprisingly, most of the companies that were basically surviving due to free traffic from Google have not really bought many of these slots.

If the EU does not strike that down, it will provide a template for resolving many of these commercial result complaints in a similar fashion.
Nah, money is a strong motivator, and the sale of private information on the dark net is a lucrative world wide enterprise. How could you possibly know if one anonymous party has less of an interest to make money than another, simply because they're "foreign"?
I think that XKCD only really applies in systems where there is an infinite number of possible ways to do something. While there are a lot of ways you can configure a coordinate system the number of reasonable / non-intentionally obtuse ways is finite.
Thank god all the terrorists wear t-shirts identifying them as such.

Also, luckily everyone in the world agrees who the terrorists are, so it's not a problem.

Furthermore, it's awesome that governments never use the terrorist label on people they just don't like.

Thought experiments:

Are the people that Kim Jong Un calls "terrorists" good guys or bad guys?

Are people that drop explosives remotely from miles away "terrorists" or "good guys?"

Why do we bother with trials in this country? Since those people would probably be found guilty, wouldn't it be better to just find them guilty from the offset? Especially when issuing lethal sentences!

This is not meant to be snarky, at least not a lot, just trying to show that things aren't this clear cut.
> Blocking entire geographic regions is the worst possible response.

I agree when it's only on principles (not everyone there is guilty). However, blocking entire geographic regions is entirely reasonable for small businesses unwilling to comply with those rules. I'm glad that governments haven't completely disallowed companies the freedom to choose their regions. I have no doubt this will be attempted at some point via treaty.
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Fast and useful stuff like mysql_escape_string?
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Are you volunteering to pay for the lawyers and any fines?
What kind of Facebook thing is this?
this is why regulation exists. it isn't enough to just say "well, we warned you". and tesla has become more stringent in their marketing and careful with warnings of auto-pilot in the wake of all these accidents. they clearly used the named feature to generate hype and sell more cars.
What would happen if he had met another mom before the one of the story ? Would the same spell have happened ? Or was it a bit of luck the first mother was the one ?