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> "might've been wondering why GoPro never seemed to assert their rights."

That it has nothing to do with asserting rights, how the original product was developed or anything GoPro has done since. It's just how the world works.
There's also a forensic watermarking technique used that is invisible to the viewer. It is supposed to survive any kind of transcoding and scaling that might occur. I can't remember the name of it, but we would use it to encode videotape masters as well as for DVD/Blu-ray encodes. Very popular for use in Academy screeners.
I think the hard part is we haven't seen anything take off in reality yet.

I've thought about one from a conceptual standpoint. In finance, many buy-side firms are collecting the same alternative data. This might be anything from consumer reviews to executive flight traffic data. So, could the buyside band together to create "Bloomberg"?

More buyside firms now have data science teams, and with the explosion of alternative data, you could make the argument that the DIY is too taxing for one firm and the vendor is too slow at incorporating new datasets, and merely is the middleman. I don't think a hedge fund would give away its secret sauce, but much of this data eventually becomes table stakes.

I've thought about whether a token could be created to provide an incentive for firms to build and share datasets. Tokens could be rewarded if a large number of other firms use/read from a particular dataset, or another firm could fork a dataset to clean dirty data and potentially tokens would flow to multiple firms in this instance. More firms using the network should lead to more data and a more valuable network/token.
you know, it's pretty damn incredible that we've sent little tiny space probes out of our solar system and they can still talk to us. sometimes i like imagining this tiny ball of circuits floating in space talking to its home planet and it just boggles my mind.
The article says NYT was able to go through the users' location histories.

How?
I remember seeing linotypers at work, a bit over forty years ago. The Linotypes (or Intertypes) were a very nifty bit of technology. But if the editor had forty column inches set in 10 pt. Spartan and then decided that it just looked too small, the only option was to have it reset from the beginning.
I am not afraid to outsource domain-agnostic projects to smart junior practitioners, though. Your conclusion is a cultural barrier where metrics is the real king. Domain expertise is absolutely needed in a few specific cases only, the rest being gatekeeping.
Uh, how so?
I downvoted you because PHP is a perfectly fine choice. All web scripting languages are cross platform and work perfectly fine, there's no one right language.
Just to expand on that: the kinetic energy of the particles in 1 m^3 of the material at the core of the Sun is equivalent to the yield of a 5 megaton bomb. So when I say "exploded" I really mean it.
I had the same initial reaction. This time it's Voyager 2, not Voyager 1. And the term 'leaves the solar system' is moderately misleading. See my initial response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18650987
How 4 plucky Englishmen held mighty AlphaZero to draw
And my point is that has nothing to do with why there are cheap knockoffs as there are cheap knockoffs of all well known consumer electronics (fake iPhones even come out before the real iPhones!).
160 bits per second is actually pretty high. As comparison the German radio time signal used by parts of Europe sends out 1 bit per second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77
If the goal is to save resources, maybe it's worth switching to Go entirely.

It's a shame the article does not explain what was unsatisfactory about php-pm [1], which is a native php solution that also allows the application to boot just once for all requests.

[1] https://github.com/php-pm/php-pm
I'm surprised no one in this thread brought up the Adverse Childhood Experiences study. An ACE of 6/10, as compared to a 0/10, may actually have worse deleterious effects than a lifetime of smoking. A six score on average dies twenty years younger than a zero (when correcting for lifestyles and risk-behaviors between the two groups)!
My next phone will be an Apple device due to this insidious crap.

This kind of insidious crap is the reason I've never considered Android as an option.

I have two Android devices for work, and they both stay in my work desk drawer. I'd never take them off campus.
there are other gui kits like the one used in sublime that you can license https://juce.com/

I'm not sure if sublime built their own gui.
It was even on the news in Sweden so it has generated some coverage at least.
Oh, you're right:

When I was preparing an early technology demo of Doom 3 for a keynote in Japan, I was having a hard time dealing with some of the managers involved that were insisting that I change the demo because “Steve doesn’t like blood.” I knew that Doom 3 wasn’t to his taste, but that wasn’t the point of doing the demo.

I brought it to Steve, with all the relevant people on the thread. He replied to everyone with:
“I trust you John, do whatever you think is great.”

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2146412825...
Maybe the closest real-world example I've heard so far is the Catalonian government using IPFS during an election, and how Filecoin could be used on top of IPFS to pay people to store data:

https://medium.com/swlh/filecoin-and-ipfs-f5e84ae79afa
They should modify it so after launch it is based on active users. That will keep good things growing.
I used to feel this way, but found it to be an unproductive model until I realized something: sure, most people are kinda stupid and sufficiently intelligent people can make many tools work for them. But most people's actions are driven _very_ heavily by their tools, and from a pragmatic perspective, criticizing tooling that drives bad actions for the average engineer makes a lot of sense.

As an example: I recently ran a small engineering org (started out with just me, grew to about ten eng) working on a Python system. The founders had a lot of trouble sourcing, so we ended up with engineers that ranged from okay to mediocre to terrible. There's a ton of dangerous Python footguns that competent engineers have the discipline to avoid; engineering in Python at Google isn't exactly fun, but it's workable. OTOH, trying to run an engineering system in Python with the kind of engineers at this last company is a constant nightmare of catching and stopping idiotic abuses of Python's flexibility. Using something like Java would have imposed discipline on this engineers for a subset of the mistakes they were making. While it's true that sufficiently skilled engineers would've been aware of Python's pitfalls and worked around them, it's entirely fair to say that this permissiveness is a downside of engineering systems in Python.

As another example, I feel exactly the same way about Facebook: for all the talk about how usage makes you depressed and scrolling through the newsfeed is bad for your mental health, I'm able to use it as a messaging, photo sharing, and event planning platform and can't remember the last time I looked at the news feed. That doesn't mean that it's unfair to criticize Facebook for the effect it has on those who can't resist doing so.

To put it more concisely: while it's true that smart/competent people can think critically about the weaknesses of their tools and work around them, the need to do so is fairly described as a flaw in the tool.
That's a pretty bold claim in light of the disconnect between Japan's housing market and those in the west, highlighted in a recent thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18548742
Over the long term, this will destroy their brand. I don't take forbes.com any more seriously than I do medium.com, and I doubt I'm alone in that.
Sure, but plenty of companies actually assemble their own products (like say Samsung).
I really hate the 'This startup's revenue grew at x%!'

Like what does that actually mean? For all we know they went from $100k to $170k in revenue while raising $100 million dollars. It could either be very impressive or just lame click bait to inflate a company they invested way too much money in.
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Ah thank you for the correction!
I've brokered terabytes of data over the last 10 years.

It's worth paying attention to companies like https://alternativedata.org
Most applications focus on either the GUI or the CLI because building two complete interfaces takes a lot of work.

You're right that a lot of GUIs aren't designed for automation, but CLIs aren't the only answer. Classic MacOS had a powerful scripting architecture. (It still exists, but it's been neglected.)
There was a similar threads around Thanksgiving 2 weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18509717

You're right the 24/7 non-emergency phone number in Germany where doctors are ready to answer questions (116117) is great. All the best for your injury.
The research article you linked to is for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, not variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Sporadic CJD has no link to brain consumption.

Honestly there’s a lot of fear mongering in this thread about brain consumption...if anything it’s healthy for you. The main issues are most likely when the animal eaten has participated in cannibalism. For example, Cows were fed bovine blood meal which is what led to the Mad Cow scare, kuru is caused by cannabilistic human tribes, squirrels are known to be cannibalistic, etc. Lamb/sheep don’t participate in cannibalism. No need for unnecessary fearmongering
Whom has told the leader of that party donald trump on the national and state level to stuff it plenty of times.
Plea to authority is a fallacy when it is an inappropriate plea to authority. Asking that someone who writes a history book actually be an authority on history is not a fallacy.
being able to see everywhere I've been in the last ~seven years on Maps feels to me like one of the great innovations Google has made.

Your phone is perfectly capable of making this map on its own. Why does it have to share all that information with the Google mothership?

Apple's phones do the same thing, but don't send your personal location history to Apple. (Though I believe the history isn't a full seven years.)
Outline specifically what you would invest it in, otherwise we have no reason to believe you.
Don't forget good old ignorance either.
Depending on the project, Raspberry Pi Zero W is often powerful enough. $5 on sale at Microcenter, $4 for the case.
I've made a short video about last week's HN post on the Lyft IPO filing
> Google is great at scaling up aquisitions and optimizing them for the audience.

I'm not sure if I buy this line of thinking related to Google only. It just sounds like another dig. Most big tech companies are fairly good at either scaling acquisitions or buying them for their IP/Talent. Some big tech companies can't even get this right.

I'm still forced to ask myself: what was Android or Maps before the acquisition?

If we compare, for example, the hacked version of CP/M (that later become DOS) with Windows 10... can we not say the same for Android - pre-acquisition? Google has certainly done much more than simply optimizing it.

If it's basically an idea that Google's buying: the idea of a hut. Optimizing that hut might be akin to building a skyscrapper. At what point does Google get credit for actually building something useful vs "optimizing and scaling" (which I think has become another meme)?

This also still leaves us with Chrome, ChromeOS, Entry into schools, some hardware, and a host of other stuff someone more in tune with Google could address.

If the response is that Chrome is based on Linux, then the counter is that macOS is based on BSD. The question remains, what is Google doing differently from other tech firms. Might they actually be building a better mousetrap (re: their successes)?

Not a fan of Google. Just think that too often people box companies in and disparage the actual work they do while, in the meantime... they take over the world.
> tries to take into account the interests of both founders and investors

Customers first, employees second, founders third, investors last. You may want to think over why the last two are in that order, my reasons are simple: investors know the risks going in, and they will not eat one sandwich less. Founders need to be able to get on with their lives too.
Algebraic data structures are really nice for representing ASTs and intermediate languages. And a compiler lends itself very well to functional programming, because what you ultimately want is just a function that takes the input code and produces the output code.
My uncle worked for Merganthaler. He always had mis-formed type to give to us kids at Christmas. Really got me into mechanical things and eventually electro-mechanical as a field.
I love that Google Photos is able to add location information to my old photos and pictures I take on my actual camera without manually mapping everything. It's surprisingly accurate and really enjoy seeing where all I've been over time.

Apple's phones and computers do this, too. This is not unique to Google. What is unique to Google is that Google uses the information to profile you, while Apple just uses the information to draw a map.
Isn't widely known? It was the top rated BI solution by Gartner in 2017 and 2018. Full disclosure I used to work on it, and when I left we had over a million users so some people might have heard of it.

[2017](https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gartner-positions-m...)

[2018](https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gartner-recognizes-...)
If a company is throwing off profits like that (as dividends, presumably) they are in absolutely no risk of being shut down.
My knowledge is a year or two out of date, but I think “it’s all just webdav” is part of the problem, and they sort of painted themselves into a corner by using it as a protocol. They ended up with a bunch of extra API hacks on top of WebDAV for things like multiparty uploads, and things still go wonky if you try to connect a random WebDAV client to it.

I built an ownCloud file storage replacement that worked with their front end client, while it was all technically WebDAV, syncing issues were a nightmare. I have a great amount of respect for how much effort they put into getting WebDAV to work, I just think it’s not not as solid/specified a protocol as one would hope.
Looks beautiful.

That being said: I never got used to those panels that slide in from the sides, at least on the desktop. On the phone and the tablet they are really practical and I wouldn't want to miss them. My desktop the other hand is a space for my windows, nothing else: no icons (certainly no trash bin), no task bars, no notification or control centers.
Weren't they also saying somewhere that they are only keeping the logs from the last 3 months or so? So saying "we don't have evidence" might be true, but means nothing compared to the 6 year span the bug was present.
40x speedup claim with 0 evidence or reproduction scenario. It's like that meme: "source: trust me dude". The conclusionnis: they made a middleware, something that nginx's auth module does.

I want to believe this.
I want to be hyped.
It sounds great.
But there's no reproduction scenario.
Some claims are also false (php doesn't kill the process to start the processing cycle).
Others seem too good to be true - like 40x speedup.

It just smells like "hey, we are cool kids too, look at us, we're advertising using the hype that other kids use!".

If I'm able to reproduce 40x speedup, I'll so gladly eat my words and flame myself.
Went to your Amazon page, but it looks like the product isn't being sold? There's no way to buy it.
Omg yes ! I was confused having read the first paragraph and did not understand why it was titled this way.
making more revenue
Absolutely - I had to rub my eyes and make sure I just read that a sustainable, profitable business (by that metric already more successful than most startups) is being referred to as a "zombie" etc.!
Are you taking acyclovir solely for Alzheimer's prevention?
As Wikipedia says of ml (meta language) languages in general:

"Its types and pattern matching make it well-suited and commonly used to operate on other formal languages, such as in compiler writing, automated theorem proving and formal verification."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
Found another rilkef: https://christine.website/blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-3...
PHP is the worst programming language ever made in current widespread use. There was never an excuse to use it, there were always other options, even many years ago.

> "To them, we say “think again.” We believe that the only limit PHP has is the limit you set."

You shouldn't be writing PHP in the first place, and should slowly work to (incrementally, slowly) shift your codebase into any other programming language in existence if it is already written in PHP.

The core language is terribly designed. PHP 7 did not fix this. Even JavaScript is miles better (PHP has a type system equally as bad, if not worse).

Of course, this sentiment is unpopular, because you're never supposed to rewrite anything even incrementally, and Popular Means Quality, and saying otherwise is heresy.

I propose the more radical solution of killing PHP entirely (again, incrementally, slowly), and replace it entirely with the language of your choosing (maybe that's Go).
You can bring in some fresh cows while continuing to milk the older ones, which is what both appear to be doing (e.g. WoW, Fallout) ;)
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Your anecdote about looking through the site. How could you possibly not understand that?

Nothing I said in any way was a defense of the site. Where did you get that idea?

You're obviously not reading anything that I wrote, and just trying to be contrary to make it sound like you're making an argument. Please don't bother replying if you can't understand what I'm saying, and make stuff up that I didn't say.
Were you able to remember all the instances? If so you're lucky. I'm stuck with fleeting flash bulbs of what I would guess to be a small percentage in my 'library' of adverse experiences.
That doesn't get as many clicks!
Old lexicons had misspelled words put in to catch the copycats. Since they don't have to prove who did the copying it's easy, they just have to prove that the copy is from them.

We do something similar to our stuff. No need to prove who did the copying as they publish the stuff on their app/homepage and have exactly the same spelling mistakes as our homepage displays to the ip-numbers we know they are using for harvesting. Document all and send to the lawyers.
Very cool. Did you write this yourself? How long did it take?
s/exponentially/quadratically/g
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I don't have studies but I did email the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center asking "is there a breakdown of cases of the individual Animal Prion Diseases by location and possibly by year (i.e. cases of human prion disease acquired by eating contaminated meat)?" and here was their response:

> To date, in the US, there have been no known cases of variant CJD, or human prion disease acquired by eating contaminated beef. Here at the NPDPSC, we have diagnosed 4 cases, but they were all acquired out side the US; 1
case in 2044 acquired in UK, 2 cases in 2006 acquired in Saudi Arabia, and 1 case in 2014 acquired in the middle east.

> In several western US states, Canada, and now South Korea and Norway, there is concern that chronic wasting disease (CWD), the prion disease of elk and deer, may be transmissible to people who hunt, butcher, or eat the affected animals. Although transmission of CWD from animals to humans is unlikely, recent data indicate that the barriers between species may be weakened when CWD has been transmitted from animal to animal several times (as may happen in the wild). The NPDPSC, along with the CDC, Department of Health, and the Game and Wildlife Administration, is carefully monitoring any possible case of acquired CWD in humans.

Asked for extra clarification, "So although there is a concern with CWD crossing that barrier, there still haven't been any recorded cases?"

> That is correct.
It's still interesting that AFAICT there's still little questioning from users to install an app of that nature which needs microphone permission.
I've never understood the need to "ban" on twitter. The entire system is set up so that you see speech from people that you want to see.

Put up a disclaimer "This account is known to promote speech that is antithetical to the values of Twitter, and the values espoused here solely belong to the individual(s) posting these messages." Put a checkbox for the user if they want to see these results in search or not. Let people decide for themselves who they want to follow.
Many harms are very subjective, the application of the law depends on many subjective factors, for instance, as does almost any account of justice. To say something is subjective (and imply therefore be discarded, or it is invalid) is rubbish thinking. Just as with many other phrases, "men aren't women" isn't simply a clear expression of fact, it has an ideological message or meaning behind it, just as 4chan's famous "it's OK to be white" wasn't merely an affirmation of a fact very few (if anyone) doubted, it was designed to provoke a response: if challenged, the proponent could reply with "so you're saying it's not OK?".

To frame it as "look how silly these rules are!" without taking into account possible context(s) and intentions seems disingenuous - I have a very hard time believing that someone (even on HN) could make such a statement in good faith.
As a hint, ML is about predicting/future. How about predicting any kind of operation volume (sales for e.g.) before happening?
I noticed a Bitcoin address was added to his website, it looks like in 2016 [1]. It would be nice to know who controls it and what it's for.

1. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1AaronhQN1sfV24364mne...
Just FYI: Your last 2 links [2] and [3] are marked as high risk due to the presence of "Mal/HTMLGen-A" by Sophos web protection.
Thanks for the recommendations - I just bought both!
Ron wanted a job with the organization that asked him to make his repo private. Cooperating is the best strategy given the goal. Ron can always make his repo public later.
And if it really got bad, you’re not winning against fighter jets and tanks with whatever guns you’ve been allowed to amass. The 2nd amendment is weird, and the political fighting about it even weirder. In 1776, you could reasonably expect to possess the same weaponry as a government. In 2018, you’d need to have advanced military technology. For all the hoopla about the 2nd amendment these days, it’s painfully naive to believe it makes any bit of sense in the context of modern warfare.
They mentioned php-pm, but marked it as unsatisfactory w/o providing any rationale.
On the other hand, if you don’t build something with it, it’s hard to tell when to apply the tool.

I personally have to build some things that turn out to be the wrong approach so I really understand how to build the right thing later.

Some small problem that could be replaced is a great opportunity to really understand the solution space ml offers.

It really boils down to how important people are to your organization. There is a spectrum between cog and irreplaceable, sometimes growing people is totally worth the cost.
Define topics and let Hacker News stories come to you
The article is about Tokyo specifically not Japan as a whole.

Japan's population is decreasing but Tokyo specifically is as people migrate to the big cities increasing.
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