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Temporary, yes, and it should also have certain exceptions.

Exceptions should include things like reverse engineering for making compatible accessories or compatible competitive products. They should include fair use for critique and criticism. They should include the right to resell your property and to repair or customize your own copy of a property. There are probably valid and important exceptions I'm not listing.

During that limited term and subject to those exceptions though copyright should be solidly enforced. Otherwise the people creating things will just be ripped off wholesale by people who do nothing but rip them off and relabel things.

Now, I think the copyright term is far too long. It is especially too long for abandoned works. I'd like to see something akin to trademark rules applied to copyright, in which if you're not offering a work or a work directly derived from it for X years the term ends early. The maximum term should be a bit shorter than it is for the specific work, too, but I think suing people for copying or modifying something you are no longer willing to sell them is asinine.
What is the relevance of Tcl/Tk here? AFAIK both are still maintained and developed and used by a lot of projects.
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Sorry, [1] should be https://github.com/tc39/proposal-realms
Your quotes from the article don't support your original claim that she claimed that Samsung did not pay her for her photo. Just the opposite. I think you are reading the text incorrectly. To paraphrase what I think she is saying: "My photo was bought on EyeEm via Getty Images. I don't know who bought my photo from Getty Images but it was probably Samsung".
China and especially Shenzen has special tax exemption for high tech companies. The leadership understands that the key to winning a the economic race between countries is high tech, while other countries are still protecting older industries.
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If you would like to customize your Firefox tab experience, install Waterfox [0] and then install Tab Mix Plus.

[0] https://www.waterfoxproject.org
Well we forget history. Can you imagine how bizarre the Russian revolution or World War I would have felt to someone living through it?
> Public space isn't storage ground for private property.

Except cars, for some reason.
It's a little more shocking when they can identify 3 different users on 1 pc behind one ip in roughly 1 search.

Seriously, freaks me out. I search on youtube for airplanes on the computer tv and suddenly a ton of music I like pops up. Kid searches for some kids show, and many more pop up. Wife searches for reviews or some shitty trash tv shows, and she get's all her interests recommended next. They know us on one computer on one ip without being logged in.
I spent a few months of side work time working on a "secure-deployment-seed" project, https://github.com/jteppinette/secure-deployment-seed. It is a set of Ansible playbooks/roles that have Vault/Consul at the center of a standard web deployment where privacy/security is taken to the Nth degree of perfectionist driven insanity.

I ended up never using it, because it never really felt "perfect" to me.. There are so many circular dependencies between systems (DNS/Consul-Template/Consul/Vault/Ansible) and bootstrapping is just complete hell. Dive into that repo and witness it for yourself.

I can see myself using this setup if I was ever just doing Ops work, but when you are also doing everything else, it is just too much.

Anyways, congrats to the Hashicorp team. Your stuff really is topnotch.
I give Uber drivers 5 stars unless they did something egregiously horrible, because I know that if I give 4 stars, and enough people do the same, that driver will be banned from the platform, even though most people would say that 4 out of 5 ain't bad. Similarly, if I ever actually take the time to fill out a receipt survey from a retail store, I just give full marks across the board, because I know that otherwise some poor underpaid single mom is gonna have to "be accountable" for my responses to an uncaring corporate drone. On the other hand, a person giving a 1 to an Uber driver or bad marks across the board on a retail survey is probably unduly pissed off, and upon further reflection (or exposure to the consequences of their score) even they might not agree they suffered a truly 1-worthy experience. So my question to you is, how do you distinguish signal from noise?
One of the concluding paragraphs undermines the presentation of the article itself:

"Of course, at this point we lack the evidence that Facebook caused the Yellow Vests to organize. "

Anyway, everyone knows that it is the Russians that organize all the bad things.
I suspect the vast majority of downvoted comments on HN are not so controversial that they would significantly affect anyone's employability. If you're self-aware enough to want to 'curate' your identity here for potential employers, you should already have an alt account for your controversial statements.
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Bring a laptop from your home back to your folks place and I bet they can make the connection...
I remember being horrified by this effect when I was watching Star Wars on my friend's TV. It looked like a high-school production. But he was so proud of his new TV that he didn't think it was weird at all.
Good idea, they'll get even more data on emerging competitors than they used to get from their traffic-sniffing VPN app before Apple pulled it from the App Store a few months ago: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/facebook-starts-pushing-it...
…but that is not most people.
There's a short mention about food safety and how ordinary citizens worry about this - I'm in the USA and I and the people I know always inspect the food we eat for country of origin and never purchase anything from mainland China. On the one hand factory farming in the USA means we have to worry about stuff like e coli and safe food handling but that pales in comparison to the risk of feeding your children lead or melamine because the producer was purposely trying to pinch pennies.
I didn't know that. I'll check it out.
Even with a VPN it's possible to somewhat reliably fingerprint browsers, no? You can check user agent, screen size, installed plug-ins, etc.
Why would a company the size of MS host their private repos on GitHub? And open source is open so they don't need to own GitHub for that.
It’s regional but absolutely under no circumstances are franchise holders allowed to advertise in this way. They’re restricted to issuing coupons in middle school fundraisers and buying billboards at little league baseball fields
I'm not sure if the time for this is now but it certainly feels closer to "now" than ever before. The recent corporate censorship I believe has ignited a lot of interest in various segments of the "non-hacker" world. I think to harness this interest there needs to be a relatively user-friendly product that solves their problems.
Quantum computers pose a security threat that we’re still totally unprepared for
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Sony and Microsoft still have monopoly power on the consoles because no matter where you buy the software, it has to be approved and signed by Sony or Microsoft. They charge a big fee for that and it gets passed on to the consumer.

So I think it depends on how the Supreme Court rules. If Apple has to allow software signed by third parties, then I don't see why that wouldn't translate to the PS4 and XBox.
If you were buying $100-$200 bras at 50% discount then you were not buying $200 bras - you were buying $50-$100 bras.

If a brand is refusing to sell $350 bra at 50% off, then it is a $350 bra. Otherwise $350 is MSRP aka the wishing price. If they do 50% off sales then it is a $175 bra. $175 makes it a premium product but not a boutique level premium. Maybe there's a market for $175 bras -- VS tried it in 2005-2007 in some markets but they did not quite sell it was dropped in 2008.

Hermes does not do sales, which is why a a Kelly 22 is $7,200 while LV Speedy is $800 and not $1,400 (Hermes does not do sales and LV does), so Hermes talks about number of units of a kind they ship while LV talks about average revenue per unit of a kind shipped.

P.S. VCs are very bad at funding apparel manufacturers. They pick the ones that they think should work which tend not to be the ones that actually work.
I’m tally certain no one else on this site would find that disengenuosness prrmicible. Chime in with a comment if you disagree
The point is illustration of a photographic technique. If you simply say "The camera has a background blur feature" that doesn't mean much to most ordinary consumers or help them understand why they might want that feature. If you say "Here is a photo with background blur" and "Here is a photo without background blur" they can instantly understand its value. The fact that they deliberately modified the photo to remove background blur should tell you there is a message they are trying to communicate here beyond "here is what our camera can do".
Of course Facebook would made this change now. They have the freedom to do this now. They have effectively won social at this point. They control 3 of the biggest mobile social apps in the world: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook itself. No startup really poses a realistic threat to them anymore. This policy change is just FB saving face in the eyes of regulators (and developers like here on HN).
They've made their argument for why developers should publish there. Now, why should I want to use the Epic Games Store as a launcher?

Don't get me wrong. There's plenty of room for Steam to improve. I want launchers to compete for its users, but all they ever seem to compete for is publishers. For all of Steam's problems, people love it because it offers a huge feature set out of the box.

- Achievements
- Friends lists
- Voice and text chat
- Family sharing
- Streaming
- Multi-drive support
- A decent refund policy
- User reviews
- An easy-to-use mod workshop
- Cloud saves
- User-generated tags
- Independent curators

The list goes on...

So-called "competitors" never bring even half that feature set to their new platforms. Instead, they force users to switch by making games exclusive to their platform.

A lot of people have talked about publishers having incentives to distribute games on multiple platforms, but history has shown us that they simply don't.

I don't know what the solution is. I guess I just wanted to vent.
Why do they always do these surveys on savings accounts instead of sum of all bank accounts to get a better picture?
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Repeating this is either willful misunderstanding of the law or parroting of outrage propaganda. We would all be much worse off if not for corporate personhood. There are aspects of it that are debatable (Citizens United ruling, which is the source of this tired meme), but without it you couldn't enforce contracts with a corporation after the employee who signed it left.
Epic Games is launching its own store, and taking a smaller cut than Steam
Did I need a 90 second video to say what could be communicated in one sentence of text:

“Turn off motion smoothing”.
Nope. Specht v. Netscape Communications Corp. dealt exactly with this sort of click through 'telemetry'. Doesn't matter if it's in a shrinkwrap license.
If you're looking for a wasm-enabled toolchain that runs native apps in a similar way you should check out nativescript[0], I don't think they support it yet (?) but that's definitely where it would land first.

Another example of where they follow standards/stick to browser specs is their use of web workers for background tasks [1]. In comparison Flutter uses dart isolates[2] which makes sense of course, since they use Dart -- similar performance models (do hard stuff in another thread).

[0]: https://www.nativescript.org/

[1]: https://www.nativescript.org/blog/using-workers-in-nativescr...

[2]: https://api.dartlang.org/stable/2.0.0/dart-isolate/Isolate-c...
I suspect if you scattered 400 cars around the city, randomly parked in the middle of streets and sidewalks, the city would have some unkind words for you, too.
Every year where I’m from the first time it snows you see all kinds of people off the side of the road, usually in a place where the road curves and they tried to take the corner at speed. Guess that’s one way to learn.. driving in the snow is very intuitive: go slower than you normally do, don’t tailgate, and hit the brakes gently way in advance of when you need to stop.
I think you're getting ahead of yourself. TikTok stands a real chance to dethrone them over the next X years.
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The argument that you can escape Google monoculture by going with Mozilla never resonated with me, given that Google ads pay for both.

It always felt like a Pachinko prize situation, where adding an extra step to the process lets us sweep human incentives under the rug.
I think at this point, 'X killer' means it attempts to work like or is a substitute for X rather than something intended to 'kill' it.
This could have implications for Google.

Basically this example, if accepted in law, would mean that if you want your data to be private then Google would be expected to respect that, even if you sent them that data in the clear.

It's a ridiculous outcome.
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Maybe if you dial the “punk” down to zero, dial the “dystopia” up to 9, and maybe “cyber” is around 3 or 4 depending on how futuristic modern day China is.
This is why Netflix eliminated the star ratings -- it was too hard to figure out the degree of difference inherent in four vs 5 stars, plus it was a manual step.

And to the author: kybernetes (κυβερνήτης) is the steersman of a boat, not a governor.
Bitwarden is best. I hope they will not get bankrupt from free users. Its funny it is cheapes but also works the best out off all managers i tried. Dashlane is good but its so much more expensive. Bitwarden will slowly kill most of the managers if they keep up the great work.
> That means your (or my!) WPF/WinForms/WinUI apps can all use the same controls if you like, using XAML Islands. I could take the now 10 year old BabySmash WPF app and add support for pens, improved touch, or whatever makes me happy!

that's not interesting. the interesting question is: will there be a SQL Server Management Studio for GNU/Linux?
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Marketing teams working on different timelines than the production/manufacturing divisions doesn't necessarily mean one takes longer than the other...
Game engines are a place where it makes sense to roll your own UI framework many times, so on that point I agree with you. The purpose of a game is generally immersion and escape, so makes sense to remove users from their device's UI in many instances. Game UIs tend to have their own conventions so frequent players don't have much of a learning curve. But in general players accept some learning curve because games are about taking on a challenge.

However, apps are not games. They're tools. And tools are not about giving your users challenges. They're about fulfilling a purpose as easily as possible. UI frameworks and conventions matter here because they lower the learning curve and cognitive switching cost, and they respect a user's preferences for how they wish to engage with their device (including valuable OS-wide capabilities like accessibility).

Companies that choose to use their own UI frameworks or avoid the platform's guidelines are doing so to the detriment of their user experience.

- Some do it accidentally, because they don't know the UX guidelines or subtleties of the platform

- Some do it for expedience, because they need to put out a product quickly with few resources

- Some do it strategically, because they want the user experience worse since it serves other purposes for them

Yes, UI frameworks change as OSes change, but it's rarely for 'no reason'. Stepping back, devices have gotten way more capable and their UX way more sophisticated... which does necessitate change. Though that's some extra work for developers, it's not about you. It's about your users.
> Uber, however, warned that the bill will “lead to higher than necessary fare increases”

Whenever their expenses increase, companies like to imply and threaten that they will pass along the increase to consumers. But that is deceptive: Some of the expenses are paid for out of the company's profits and some via increased prices; the proportion of each depends on the company's choices, on the economics of price elasticity, and on other things.

Another way of looking at it: If the company's expenses go down, do consumers get a price cut or does the company announce larger profits?
I want to note that Dart and Flutter are being used for Fuchsia it seems like[0]. I'm pretty sure that Fuchsia is a big project Google is not going to abandon so Dart and Flutter are probably safe.

There is the chance of them throwing it away maybe noting it as an experiment on the way to whatever they land on inside Fuchsia but the amount of developer ire they would draw is hard to imagine.

[0]: https://9to5google.com/2018/03/02/fuchsia-friday-first-fuchs...
The issue is that you likely wouldn't have said that about China either 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. I don't think you would have used cyberpunk at all. Thats where the unreal comes in.
While the world economy worked on real goods property had good understanding. services and intellectual property are challenging because ideas are ephemeral yet persist, and we have only social constructs to constrain them.

"I have the cake you don't unless you pay me" is very distinct from "You are not allowed to sing happy birthday without paying me"

One is an absolute. The cake is and moves. The other is an idea. You get rent from me expressing an Idea. Do I have to pay if I hum it inside my head? Do I have to promise not to tell anyone in written form? What if I change more than 90% of the notes but keep one theme?

I know this is a reductionist example, but IPR is like this: it has the terrible quality which goes to Patent process or patents over mathematics or physics. If you discover a specific dopant applied for a specific period of time in a specific way to silicon increases yield by 10%, Once the world knows this, why are you paid for the IPR licence time? If its to profit on the investment for research, remember that a huge amount of research is paid out of tax, not by investment returns. What if the counter parties invent a minor twist, or a related IPR moment? Yes.. people trade IPR rights, and collect IPR rights into agencies like the MP3 assciation.

This is a huge cancer on society. Its like CFDs. Its leveraging money moments out of thought.

International trade in real goods demands cheap. IPR demands rent which is "not cheap" -So the US demands for IPR rents on goods made in china, is like cutting your nose to spite your face: If you drive China to pay IPR taxes, you will drive china to seek IPR inside itself to avoid the taxes and charge YOU to copy them.

Better to have no IPR taxes than enforce payment.
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You have to add an extra new-line after each list item to add a line break.

HackerNews doesn’t implements Markdown, only a handful of formatting options [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

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Here’s the same list (reformatted):

• Be patient and listen, listen and listen without any judgment. There is no better friend than active listening.

• No one likes a know-it-all - Be honest, confident and humble

• You will still do something embarrassing. And you will survive. You can't improve if you are worried about your mistakes. Don't worry about it!

• Observe what everyone is doing. Ask questions.

• Be comfortable asking others for help or referencing documentation, Try not-to-figure-out-yourself unless that is expected

• Follow Before You Lead,

• Be tolerant of practices that are foreign to your established approach.

• Mastering established team practices and rituals builds trust.

• Automating an existing process is likely to be better received than making an independent decision to replace an existing tool.

• Spend some of your personal time masterings and enhancing tools the team uses.

• Ensure your output is reviewed by an existing employee before it is rolled out.
These are all good. And, you will make mistakes, no matter how long a list you have.

Try to get a clear grasp of what is expected of you in your role.
Unity is royalty-free altogether, you pay a subscription for the development tools (think Adobe CC or MS Office365) and get all upgrades during your subscription. You can alternatively not pay a subscription fee at all, and accept certain restrictions on your engine's capabilities, mostly on the use of enterprise-level features an indie developer wouldn't have the resources to use anyway.

So, by eliminating the 5% engine royalty for its own store, Epic is making Unreal also free and thus engine choice is not a deciding factor in whether to use Epic's store.

IOW/tldr: Unity and Unreal cost the same amount of money to use and license if you sell through the Epic store.