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> That is to say that I don't believe anymore in pure software businesses.

Does that mean you don't believe in company specialization?

Very few companies can afford to develop and maintain a cutting-edge database. Google, for example, can. But one rung down, and the answer is "no". For example, Kafka began at LinkedIn. The team that developed Kafka at LinkedIn ended up leaving to form Confluent, in order to build it out.
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Here's a thought. Manufacture in the US. Given the losses that they are having this would have saved a lot of hassle and it probably would have cost the same for the size of runs that they are doing. Kinesis makes the Advantage in the US because the volumes are not high enough to produce them overseas.
Literally tens of millions of people have died because of nicotine addiction, so your comment is so frankly ridiculous it doesn't even deserve a more considered response.
That's why Lew Wasserman's innovation in building the modern talent agency at MCA / packaging films was the death of the former studio system, and genesis of the contemporary star system.
Are there any better choices for manufacturing stateside? From what I can tell, not only is manufacturing stateside much more difficult and expensive, often times factories don’t want small business.
He was 'going through some stuff' for a while now, just not the stuff you think https://www.recode.net/2017/12/18/16752796/hq-trivia-founder...
> Few people are in complete filter bubbles in which they only consume, say, Fox News

Sure, if you only want to count "complete" filter bubbles in which 100% of your search results come from a single source.

Averaged over millions of people and billions of searches, however, even a 10% bias is likely to have a measurable effect.

People don't get pushed over to one side of a partisan issue overnight. Like a pollutant in your drinking water, it takes a long time of constant exposure to unbalanced news for the subtle biases to seep into your brain and change how you see the world.
I wonder how one would go about actually quantifying any of this?

The article tries to use two different studies to do this, but this approach seems flawed for the very simple reason that participants are not the same across both studies.

Imho this whole problem is very comparable to being biased in general. We are all biased in some way or another and I like to think most of us are aware of this reality.

But being aware of it does not simply translate to being aware of the full extent of the biases or lead to an outcome where the bias is "negated", if it is as easy as that, then barely anybody should be biased.

In a way, it's like trying to define what goes on inside a blind spot, which by definition, is kinda impossible: If you'd be aware of your blind spot, it wouldn't be a blind spot anymore.

I see the same problem with "filter bubbles", which in a way are just systemic biases very comparable how different social circles have different Overton windows. Most of these seem not to be forced upon people but are rather consequences of choices made based on personal biases/the Overton window often heavily influenced by in ones peer groups.

While one might be aware of these choices, and how one reasoned them, that does not entail knowledge about the reality of other, maybe equally valid, choices. In that context, a lot of this feels more like a philosophical problem than an actual social one. People will, for the most part, rationalize their own choices as the "most valid ones".

If they wouldn't, then they wouldn't have made those choices because only very few people make irrational choices on purpose for the sake of acting irrational.
> "why should that be any of the US's business?"

I think one justification is that the U.S. shares sensitive intelligence information with Germany, and a compromised German network might jeopardize the information.
TeX may beat it in terms of features, add-ons, and community.
That's a myth. Most US debt is held by the US public - all foreign holders combined are less than 50%. China is the largest foreign holder, but only holds about 5% of US debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...
The fairness of one act does not depend on the fairness of another act. It is not unfair to pay executives their worth because you don't pay janitors their worth.

Those two things are completely unrelated.
Current drugs, even. But I would recommend just changing your neurons with your own mind — that’s a cool ability humans have!

See, for example, NOVA’s “Memory Hackers” episode: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kvpX3VZMuyM
Why the request for colorization and dubbed dialog? Metropolis did just fine for a restore and without any of those changes.
For now, at expense. The only major pain I have from the iTunes library is no Miyazaki. Unfortunately they are also licensed by Disney in the US so I’d not expect Ghibli works to ever show up.

Personally I’ve found the netflix mail service to be the best for scratching the itch of arbitrary movies, if you can be patient.

EDIT: also, TV shows are clearly siloed, but I was under the impression you were referring to movie rentals.
Firefox has still some clear advantages over Brave, thanks to owning their engine.

A trivial example is the battery API. It's nowadays mainly used for tracking, but is an official webstandard. Mozilla decided to fuzzy it, so it lost its usefulness for tracking. Google didn't.

And I imagine, there's hundreds of similar examples at this scale, which as an average user you'll just never hear of.

One bigger feature is Firefox's Containers. It's based on work from the Tor Browser. Which also just illustrates what this partnership sometimes brings forth. Tor Browser is going to always be there, checking the Firefox code for privacy problems, and will suggest better ways of doing things, which Mozilla can just adopt.

For Chromium, there exist in principle similar efforts, like Brave, Iridium Browser, ungoogled-chromium, but these will always fight an uphill battle against Google and obviously Google isn't going to adopt and maintain their fixes.
Quite a few negative comments in this thread. Shouldn't the attitude be: very good job on the transparency front!! Everything else doesn't matter -- or rather, it does (filling all tge orders, etc.), but the high morals I find most interesting in this case.
Ok, things I didn't know about where I grew up...
Yeah, it’s not a huge percentage of US total debt, so the “China owns the US” hyperbole is a bit overblown.
GC code size can be pretty small. A mark & sweep GC is only a few kilobytes.
Exactly. A week ago I read on hackernews how desktop linux failed because of diversity. Now I read the web will fail because of monoculture.
I've always wanted a two-factor lockscreen, so that I can scan my fingerprint and then type a PIN. A face scan would work even better in this context.
Not necessarily, no. But on the average, definitely yes.
Everything you typed was factually incorrect.
tldr section missed another important bullet point.
"The new pace may continue: China’s top planning body called on Dec. 4 for local officials to clean up the debt of firms with excess production capacity or insolvent balance sheets by 2020."
These are awesome!

And I’m seriously stoked to see that someone else has posted the link here!
Yay, I’m not the only pool nut in HN!
Does your independent browser properly render a page like the following:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues

?

There should be a left column wide enough to read the text, and some transient menus which appear when mousing over the links there, and a switch to icon-only left column when you scrunch the window size small enough.
I think that viewpoint many of us had about the Internet was naive and it doesn’t take much to realize why.

In order for commercial content to be produced, consumers have to pay money somehow. TV stations preferred an ads model.

When you pay money as a consumer, you pay to a commercial entity.

Therefore a single fee you’d pay for watching all the content you want has to go to a monopoly. Whether that’s a state agency that handles the collection and distribution, or whether it’s a natural monopoly that destroyed its competition, it really is the same thing.

That we’ve got “silos” can only mean that we still have competition in this space.

I would be more afraid of a future where there’s only one commercial entity left. Which sounds good in the same way that communism sounds good.
This person = Palmer Luckey = Oculus VR founder
No, it's not plain old thinking then.

Far too much software has almost no concept of user empathy.

Example: yesterday I installed a new webcam. I was supposed to use a captcha to create a new account, and the captcha kept not working.

After roughly half an hour of searching I discovered that the captcha didn't work in Europe, but it did work if you set the locale to US.

Coincidentally, charges for the webcam cloud backup are much higher in the US.

Did a manager decide to ban the EU and force everyone to use the US pricing? Did they tell the developers to make the change as quickly as possible? Did the developers and the sales team forget to inform users? Did something go wrong somewhere else?

Who knows? As with many products, the user experience was irritatingly hostile and irrational, and the result was a firestorm of one star reviews on the App Store and Amazon.

I have no idea if design thinking could have fixed this problem, but more empathy, thoughtfulness, and attention to detail from the industry as a whole can't possibly be a bad thing.
> ... while people want drivers

And Nvidia has decided that it's not in their best interest to give away that IP for free. If they believe that their driver has secret sauce that gives then an competitive advantage, then that's entirely their prerogative.

> AMD is working on Radeon Open Compute to get all the code written against CUDA to work anywhere.

If you were in a position where your proprietary software fueled 90%+ of a highly profitable industry, would you open source it just for the good of humanity?

Of course AMD is trying to copy that and open source it: they don't have 90%+ market share to lose. It doesn't cost them anything to do so.
Going away from ads is solely a business model question. Ads (and micro payments) allow services to collect value much closer to the actual utility curve of a user.

The issue with other models, (like charging a flat fee - ie, 1$ per article) is that some people will not want to pay the full amount while others are willing to pay a lot more than the listed price. You lose out on both ends - you lose money you would have earned from the people who would pay $.50 or $1000 to access it.

Ads allow the company to extract value out of the content closer to actual value of the content at scale. The hard part is finding a different business model that does that task better.
This is why we have password managers like 1Password.

Oh, oops — was this supposed to be a secret ad for dashlane? And I messed it up?

Sorry, not sorry.
The box model issue was independent of quirks mode. Quirks mode was triggered by HTML not conformance to a modern doctype (HTML4, XHTML 1.1, or one of the three XHTML 1.0) which produced a different DOM tree and thus different layout/appearance when CSS was applied. This was particularly frustrating because even when MS fixed the corresponding CSS defects their DOM tree remained non-standard until IE9.

I remember having to deal with all these things when working with the company's aging CMS. It was a great tool, but the version the company was using was old (before standardized doctypes in 1999) and inserted a comment into the top line of code throwing all documents into quirks mode in IE.

The box model was corrected when IE released version 7, which still also featured quirks mode rendering for backwards compatibility.
This is classic disruption but in a very high cost of entry market. Great if netflix can pull it off. There’s so much nostalgia tied to movie theaters and distributing movies on a streaming app alone can be foreign to some people. But it’s definitely the future, it’s what people want.
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> the latter can easily break off

How? Developing a browser takes hundreds of millions of dollars, and Google is currently providing all the funding for that (meaning they decide what changes get made). Who has the necessary resources to fork Chromium, and would actually be willing to do it?
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The first world war is a bad example. While the war was absolutely started by royalty, they did send their sons to the front to die along with commoners.

> Although the great majority of casualties in WW1 were from the working class, the social and political elite were hit disproportionately hard by WW1. Their sons provided the junior officers whose job it was to lead the way over the top and expose themselves to the greatest danger as an example to their men.

> Some 12% of the British army's ordinary soldiers were killed during the war, compared with 17% of its officers. Eton alone lost more than 1,000 former pupils - 20% of those who served. UK wartime Prime Minister Herbert Asquith lost a son, while future Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law lost two. Anthony Eden lost two brothers, another brother of his was terribly wounded, and an uncle was captured.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25776836

Also, Princes Oskar and Eitel Friedrich of Prussia both served in front-line combat roles and both were wounded.
This is fundamentally a legal topic. And not a particularly new one for lawyers in the industry. For those interested, I'd recommend two cases.

Vernor v. Autodesk

Why didn't 17 USC 117 save the defendant?

What are "notable use restrictions"?

Artifex v. Hancom

Did terms end up a license or a contract?

Why?
remove some sand and it will be 60 fps. Other types of particles are less demanding.
Yea, good point. But some kind of signalling is helpful, no?

And OCW is a great project, but all the course material isn't online. Also, saying to an employer or researcher "I took some OCW courses" isn't a very good signal. A much better signal would be, "I passed such and such examinations with such and such scores." Open competition I think is important.
> so the “China owns the US” hyperbole is a bit overblown.

It is, however, a useful lie to spread for political reasons.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's against the site guidelines. Regardless of which ideology you're battling for or against, we ban accounts that do this, because it destroys the intellectual curiosity HN exists for.

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended?
What’s the browser’s security reputation? Is the project’s approach to security documented anywhere?
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The people should own their own data, and be able to take it with them to other services.
> wait just a little bit longer for the vestibular fix I have been talking about.

If this is what I think it is, it is going to be huge. The buzz is that someone has discovered a cure for motion sickness, and it's incredibly simple: just wear a small vibrating device on the back of your head, sending a continuous vibration signal to your inner ear. For reasons unknown this seems to deactivate whatever part of the vestibular system is responsible for motion sickness. It is supposedly effective in >99% of people and does not disrupt balance.

Read the inventor's description here: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9ywify/inventor_may... Of course a cure for motion sickness will be great for VR but the applications in everyday life will be much, much bigger.
Except that no sane person would hook this thing up directly to the internet anyway.

So it basically comes down to security flaws exposed to whatever interfaces it really is connected to.
Yeah. Why have a high school kid program an Amiga when you can drop $2MM of someone else's money on something just as good?
> There's not an average employee that has that pedigree and access to take over the job.

Either this is a tautology or citation needed here. So far the argument for this has been that they bring in the big bucks so of course they deserve high compensation. The empirical evidence so far is that they have the title so they get high compensation, and their performance has little to no affect on that compensation.

Risk is normally commensurate with reward, thus if we are observing that there is little to no difference in reward, there must be no little to no risk.

I would need to see concrete proof that an exec was worth this high pay beyond, "well what if they weren't there, maybe it would be worse!?!?" Before I believed the argument again
The moment you framed it as two sides you pushed people toward creating one overreaching characterization for both sides. It is effectively asking for partizan position, because no other is possible.

The other question is, what if the cynical disparaging term is factually correct one for portions of each party?
Thanks -- I've thought before about moving with the seasons and hoped there might be better answers.
If you're only paying $10-12/month per service, this was inevitable. There's no way you could fund all the TV and movies that people want with a small fraction of what people used to pay for cable/satellite TV.
First I've heard of the Metropolitan Sepulchre. I very much enjoyed the link.

Shouldn't that be a matter of documentation
in the first place instead of just keeping
structures indefinitely?

There has to balance between razing the ruins of Pompeii, and turning every modern strip mall into a heritage site. Where that balance ought to be is beyond me. Who knows what will interest future generations?

we have books for that.

I don't know if books are a satisfying substitute. Down the road, when VR is higher quality, that would probably suffice.
>> “The article tries to use two different studies to do this, but this approach seems flawed for the very simple reason that participants are not the same across both studies.”

That’s not a valid requirement.

In fact using the same participants in multiple studies biases the results.
It's fascinating to see Netflix's transition from the data-driven insights that led them to the perfectly targeted, yet ultimately artistically-bankrupt House of Cards to the critically-acclaimed, yet hard-to-target Roma.

Comparing a prestige TV series to a feature film may be apples-to-oranges, but it's hard to miss the contrast between a show that seemed to be triangulated from the successes of other networks' prestige dramas and a film that really has no popular successes to support it (apart from Cuarón's pedigree).

Roma is the kind of personal, auteur work that algorithms work against. It's an incredible credit to Netflix's new content strategy that it was produced, and furthermore, promoted.
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And a drug war also encourages manufacturing and selling drugs that are as potent as possible, like fentanyl. The same happened with Prohibition: the underground market was all hard liquor, not beer.
You mean the npm where a hostile maintainer can insert malign code into your project?

Yes.
If you put a random person in his place at average employee price for that firm, would the difference in revenue make up for the difference in compensation? You don't know, so these Re all theoretical questions that's the executive class have decided need an concrete answer in the form of them getting paid tons while everyone else gets little to nothing.

Argue thats how it should be, but don't try and tell me evidence supports it when the only support is conjecture
Thanks, I already started reading it. Initially my impression was that it's a fairly standard geometric formulation of physics, but I really appreciate the simple explanations.
Load times ain’t everything, and it’s a terrible pitch for something that breaks basic rules of browsing.
Are there any falling sand games where it does work?
You’re really discounting how good things have gotten.

Movies today are $12/movie. Netflix is selling you any movie for ~$10/month. Not just crap movies, Cuaron! If you’re not watching a movie alone, it’s a better deal.

Cable would cost you $75-$100/month. Now that service included with your movies.

You could buy 5 of these services and it would still be cheaper than it cost you 15 years ago to see similar content. Most people only buy 1 and share accounts with their friends.

Renting movies is easier than ever and still a great option. You don’t even have to leave your house. Previously you would drive to the rental
shop and pay $4. Or waited in line at redbox and pay $1. It’s true that you can’t always rent, a lot of times ive tried it’s for purchase only.

The silo doesn’t make sense though when you compare to the price of buying movie tickets, or the cost of cable TV, or even the cost of renting. It’s way cheaper today than it used to be.
Except India, Afghanistan - Australia - Bahrain - Barbados - Canada - Cyprus - Egypt - Fiji - Israel - Iraq - Jamaica - Jordan - Kenya - Kuwait - Libya - Malaysia - Nigeria - NZ - Pakistan - Sri Lanka - South Africa - Sudan - Tanzania - UAE - USA - Zimbabwe are not accusing Britain of plunder.

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/955470121232994304
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No no no, that's a completely different issue — we are talking about hasLayout stuff here.
and the water turns into plants as fast as fire burns the plants.
This is what DSSD did since ~ 2014; drive NVMe directly to the D5 from user app, never incurring a context switch (in fact the D5 was mapping into memory on all the PCIe connected clients). Latency was astonishingly low, dominated by PCIe switches for writes and NAND reads for, eh, reads. EDIT: typo
I remember watching Confetti Factory on After Dark, which I think of as a primitive precursor to this. Must have been very early 1990s. Any earlier examples?
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For the same reason Jackson has.
If I git clone software covered under the Confluent Community License, who owns that copy of the software?

The copyright to the software resides with Confluent, because of the copyright assignment clause that all contributors must sign. This is no different than Apache projects, which also require copyright assignment. For example, if you git clone Apache Hadoop, you do not acquire the copyright to Hadoop. Does Bryan really not understand how copyright assignment works?

To foundations concerned with software liberties, including the Apache Foundation, the Linux Foundation, the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, and the Software Freedom Conservancy: the open source community needs your legal review on this!

Why do any of those foundations need to review the license or EULA that Confluent chooses? Confuent isn't claiming that their license is OSI compatible (in fact they explicitly state that it is not.)

If you don't like the license, don't use the software. Or use Amazon's software, which does require a EULA (see https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ ).