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>, they can just continue to buy all the other new social network that pop-up

Yes, many people have this fatalistic perspective about FB but they shouldn't because Zuckerberg can't buy all the competition. Buying a company requires a willing seller[0]. Consider that Facebook itself rejected offers from Viacom (~$1.5 billion), Yahoo (~$1 billion), Microsoft ($24 billion), etc.[1][2]

The bigger companies such as Microsoft can't force Zuckerberg to sell if he doesn't want to sell. Likewise, Facebook tried to buy Snapchat for $3 billion but Evan Spiegel said "no". Yes, Snapchat is no longer a threat but that doesn't mean another superior competitor can't rise up as a new threat that MZ can't buy.

[0] my previous comment with other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15733501

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-companies-that-ever-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/10/21/steve-ballmer-microsof...
A major airport has effectively closed down with 10,000+ passengers affected.

This is costing millions right now.

Then, one day a plane might actually be taken down by a drone during landing or take off.

I think we are far beyond "people can be assholes" territory.
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I'd encourage all active researchers who support the move to open access to sign the following petition: http://michaeleisen.org/petition/

It basically tells funders that you support them to negotiate better open access deals, even if that risks limiting the number of venues you can publish in.
With that mindset nobody should use that word. We should wipe it from the dictionary.
I think the extreme stance still makes sense, as some things still meet all the criteria. You can get an old ThinkPad or an Asus C201 Chromebook and run libreboot on it with a GNU/Linux distro using no blobs. These aren't bleeding edge, they're not perfect, and they don't come totally free out of the box, but they show that this level of freedom is possible. I think that's enough for us to want to strive for it.
>From my understanding both Linus and ZoL team prefer to be separate.

I sincerely doubt that. If Oracle would relicense/dual license ZFS as GPLv2 compatible then I feel convinced that the ZoL contributors would happily do so as well.

I can't think of a single reason why they would not want to be in mainline Linux, and I have seen nothing indicating that the Linux kernel devs would be anything but happy to have it 'mainlined' as it would only make Linux better.

Of course this all hinges on Oracle, which makes it extremely unlikely in my opinion.
> To top it all off emissions are only measured for a countries production not consumption, a big beef exporter gets the blame for another's hamburger.

Yes. The US, Europe, etc offloaded lots of carbon emissions to China. Along with lots of toxic chemical pollution.

And even with regulation, as you note, enforcement -- or even knowing what's happening -- is hugely problematic.

It's funny, given my stance on privacy, but we really need emissions data for greenhouse gases that's unbiased and reliable. Then we could negotiate who does what, and who pays for it, based on actual data. Not that I'm at all optimistic about the prospects for that :(

Edit: And damn. I hadn't heard about the CFC-11 issue. When I read your comment, I was thinking of long-lived radiative forcing CFCs.
Yeah, there was a period between ZFS not happening and APFS really starting, as far as one can tell.
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Thanks to hacker news and reddit this piece got over 100,000 page views which should be enough to justify the blog staying on platform!
Is your threat model that you trust your ISP for your wireguard server more than the mobile ISPs? WiFi I completely understand but 4g providers seem to be on par if not better than cable companies in the us when it comes to molesting your traffic.
That’s what I call the « pendulum effect » (I think I get it by myself but may be I read it somewhere. My philosophy class is too far in the past !)

Man « domination » have been here for a long time, and when the pendulum finally starts to go down to equilibrium, we’ll, it doesn’t stop immediately and goes on another extremity.

I think that’s what’s happening right now.

There is (finally !) an opportunity for women to stand in their right place in the world. But because of the pendulum effect, there’s gonna be a minority whom will make a bit extreme decisions.

And, the saddest part of it, it’s that it will impact the image and the males who feels insecure, legitimizing in their head their own revolts, using words like feminazis, etc..

(Hope I make myself clear that I fully support genders equity despite my lack of English vocabulary)
There are plenty of examples of companies facing a saturated market. The logical next step is to grow vertically as you cannot grow horizontally anymore. Some succeed, many fail. In the long run, nearly all companies fail.
> Indian IT workers will simply drive down wages in the IT sector, and the quality of work received will not be world-class.

But unlike the US they are not randomly selecting immigrants based on a lottery. They have a point based system which lets decently talented immigrants in.

Also, immigrants are free to move around and switch jobs. Canada is doing a lot of the things which US is doing wrong.
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That’s a nice sound bite but it isn’t really convincing for people that don’t know what wireguard brings. Is there a short comparison article you could point to that highlights the differences?
This. I'm working in that space and I can tell you it is very much alive. It all comes down to ease-of-use and cost of sensors. 2018 has seen especially some fantastic progress. There's still a lot of low hanging fruit to capture.

But people have stopped using the word IoT or SmartAnything and that is a good thing
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Really appreciate for taking the time to answer my question.

I use zsh myself. Have not tried fish yet but only heard good things about it.

Also, regarding the pipe to clipboard, I liked the 'pbcopy' command on Mac. So, right now I have added an alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'. It's really handy.
> It seems nearly everyone always believes that a recession, big disaster slowdown, market crash, Etc is "right around the corner." And for the last 10 years they have been wrong in the macro sense :-).

What?

Every western economy seems to have a recession every decade or so.
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On the wake of some recent audiophile posts, I'm looking to buy a good pair of headphones but I seem to be drowned by the sheer amount of products and reviews.
I trust that the collective knowledge of HN will point me and others to the right direction..
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In a happy world the guardian wouldn't rely on a company we spend a lot of time reporting on for unethical practices (tax avoidance, worker exploitation etc.) - but we decided it was the only way to compete. One of the big drivers was a denial of service attack on our datacentre in 2014 on boxing day - not an experience any of us want to have to deal with again.
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Throw away for privacy.

I make about $275K a year (that's cash, not stock). I own a home but have a mortgage. I have no other debt. I invest all of my extra income in low expense index funds.

What else can I do to grow passive income or increase my income?
Even to people who are struggling to make ends meet, there is likely some monetary value to using facebook, as many community service organizations now organize charitable events through facebook, and facebook groups are excellent resources for local information (local deals, budget-friendly groceries, giveaways). I suspect you'd still be hard-pressed to get many such people off of facebook for a year for less than $500
In this case they quite simply saw the drones...

It seems to be the most common way of identifying them.
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I don't think the UK is the best place for immigrants these days. The government has adopted a "hostile environment" policy for immigrants and the number of crimes related to race is skyrocketing.
Lets (broadly) split creators into 2 groups. Individuals and companies.

Individuals tend to produce smaller works because theres only one of them, concentrate on less capital intensive forms of creation, and I would contend tend to create regardless of copyright. Therefore the focus should be on allowing them enough money to create. Does 50 years allow them to do that? The majority of a works financial success in general comes in the first few years. I don't think the long tail of income dripping in is going to meaningfully allow them to carry on creating, and the cost to society isn't worth it either.

Companies are more likely to work on larger, more capital intensive works. And are less likely to be intrinsically motivated to create. Creation is about what money they can make. Therefore the focus should be on arranging it, so that it is worth their time to create new works.
Companies do not think long term in general. 10 years out is about the maximum. They aren't going to make investment decisions based on year 11. It will be based on years 1 - 10.

Will that film not get filmed because copyright is only 10 years? Will that book not get written?

I don't think those decisions will change, whether copyright is 10 years or 100 years. The only difference is society loses derivative works. What about that high successful fan fiction writer that never was? Or that director that (never) got their start remixing films?
The status quo isn't some Neutral where nobody loses out. Subsidies we give to current and past creators have to be paid by some one.
Mattermost (dot com) is a great open source alternative to Slack.
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> Researchers at the 200 institutions supporting the DEAL negotiations have consequently foregone access to the Elsevier platform and are broadly making use of alternative routes for their research needs.

I wonder what "alternative routes" those are... /s
If it has anything to do with personal data, under GDPR they must gather consent so yes, they must prove users gave them consent.

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Yeah. Reddit's mobile experience is a frequent topic on /r/assholedesign (recent example with video: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/9oy75c/reddi...).

Their efforts this year to make the desktop site look and work more like 9gag unless you plug "old.reddit.com" into the url bar was pretty fun too.

It's been for the best though. It's helped me cut my time on that site down to almost nothing, which has improved my overall mood quite a bit.
Probably mostly because browsers just block them. If it wasn’t for that we’d still be clicking away pop ups and pop unders all day.
because economists are so good at predicting recessions?
> I guess "just Google for Mu" won't work any more.

And it never did work for such an ambiguous term (greek letter? Micron Technology stocks? Manchester United?), unless you googled "mu editor" in which case you're still fine.
The various responses to my "embrace, extend, extinguish" got me thinking about why I continue to be apprehensive about Microsoft. Perhaps it is because of my experiences with Microsoft and their dirty ways. They have a history of screwing the user over.

A bit of a rant/recall follows:
I had lost content to a doublespace bug and was asked to pay for drive space via an MS DOS upgrade to 6.22, I have seen how Microsoft encouraged piracy in schools and colleges in India, how they have used FUD to suppress open source education and adoption efforts in the government and education spaces. I also recollect all the dirty stuff around Frontpage "extensions", IE extensions + IE's excessively forgiving tendencies to HTML violations and incorrectness, how MS took spyglass software and did bad things with it. Later, the Haloween Documents showed how MS said one thing in public and plotted another thing in private. They were Gurus of scheming behaviour. Then there was the Microsoft Windows tax, where you had to pay the Windows license fee even if you planned to run Linux on your computer. I also had to struggle with the MS Java, J++ rubbish. Microsoft used to do such bad things so deliberately. I also recall bad things around UEFI, around making it difficult for Linux distros to dual boot on laptops (which got resolved later).

Recollecting all of the above doesn't make it easy for me just to accept that with some code releases and PR announcements, MS would have turned over a new leaf.

People behave as they are measured. Satya Nadella is changing the public image of Microsoft, and even walking the talk. I learned just now on Wikipedia that he tripled MS stock, and that anonymous polls within MS have called him the best CEO of a US company. I am not an MS employee, so I won't know if he has managed to change the internal cultural tendency of being insincere and vicious (see above for examples).

I'm just apprehensive that at the end of the day, he is just an employee. Employees can get fired anytime, overruled anytime.

Perhaps I am being unfair to MS and Satya Nadella, and to all those MS employees who are giving their best. To them all - I apologise for my ill will.
I agree with the sentiment but I do think the service journals provide was once worthwhile, before the web, as disseminaters of academic knowledge. Universities paid a subscription fee for physical copies of journals, allowing their employees to keep up to date with what was happening in the world of science. Once the web took off the proposition was no longer good value, as scientists could bypass publishers. It just took two decades for academia to change the habit of a century.
I've recently started working on a code base with great comments and they are worth their weight in gold. Especially class and method level description comments. And doubly especially the class level ones.

Also there is none of the code golf in there that you have just given as an example.
Why would that be a bad thing?

The only real difference I can think it would make is that set top box that you cant modify anyway no longer has a link to a 10 year out of date kernel.
Don't do what, precisely? He listed several examples.

And I think he's agreeing with you, he's just sarcastic.
It will probably be something similar to the approach the UK undertook in the 90s when it had a very similar issue, with revived copyright. http://dictionaryofiplaw.blogspot.com/2013/10/revived-copyri...
Didn't mean to be disrespectful either, I was joking.

I think that blogging is kind of like painting, coding, entrepreneurship or any other creative activity. Everybody that makes it starts giving contradictory advice on what worked for them, which is all good. As an individual your job is to make your own decisions. Having a lot of advices to pick from can help a lot in my opinion

BTW You seem like an interesting person, hit me up!
Doctors in Canada have to choose to participate in either the public system or private system. They can’t straddle both.

Hence there are VERY few private clinics in Canada except for services where the govt realized it was in their benefit to allow it (MRIs).
It's just not that simple. I've seen the video but it only starts filming separately after being opened and there's no material loss since the item is retrieved at the end.

Even if this was a normal shipment being stolen, you have to weigh all the costs in time, effort and tax-payer dollars being spent to arrest a suspect and prosecute. When most shipments are either insured and/or replaced for free, it's not worth police time on these petty crimes.
In many cases the library service of these institutions can still obtain copies of journal articles via inter-library lending or individual purchases. Yes, researchers will probably bypass this and use Sci-Hub simply because it's quicker, but Elsevier can't argue that universities expect researchers to obtain Elsevier journal articles illegally.
I love this program, I find it so relaxing to simply listen to some music or a podcast and create some unusual works or art with it. I would love for the creator to make an iPad version one day though, I think using the stylus to work with this tool would be fantastic.
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EDIT:

I block Javascript (and Twitter), so couldn't see content in hall-of-shame, only a link to the Twitter page. It just seemed ironic to have a website about dark patterns and one of the most relevant piece of content is not a simple, nice (maybe sortable) table hosted locally, but a rather chaotic list on social media, with all the tracking, etc.

Darkpatterns.org can still be useful, I haven't RTFA, sorry. :)
Who knows. He doesn’t have to know the specific value. Maybe the thief has analysed the data in some way and has calculated the expected value of a package.
Where are the old programmers?

But they never existed in the first place!

The programmer population doubles every 5 years (approximately).

So even discounting the age pyramid (dead people, or career changes),
there are only 0.20% of 60-64 year-olds, vs. 50% of 20-24 year-olds.

0.20% 60…64-yo,
0.39% 55…59-yo,
0.78% 50…54-yo,
1.56% 45…49-yo,
3.12% 40…44-yo,
6.25% 35…39-yo,
12.50% 30…34-yo,
25.00% 25…29-yo,
50.00% 20…24-yo.

That adds up to 6.05% of 40-64-yo vs. 93.75% of 20-39-yo.
There never was enough programmers to make old programmers.

Of course, we cannot stay on this exponential growth long, so the question will have to be revised in 20 years; then we'll see what happens of all those young Amazonians :-)
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Why is that? Windows Update also ship CPU microcode uodates since forever.
> Why are vendor directories a bad habit ?

They aren't, not having them is.
> Police say drones are a "deliberate" act to disrupt flights at Gatwick Airport, but say there's nothing to suggest terrorism, as hunt to find operator continues

Ummmm that's the exact definition of terrorism. Scare people disproportionately.

Possibly one of the most damaging drone terrorist acts so far?

13+ hours later still unable to stop it? They make it to easy.
> That's faulty reasoning.

Why? It's an obvious potential point of compromise.
>But Ubuntu figured it was ok to ship with zfs.

Yes, but it's shipped as a separate kernel module (as in separate file) rather than built into the Linux kernel. As for the legality of this, it can really only be determined in court, which hopefully won't happen since I can't think of anyone who would want to prevent Linux from using ZFS now that Sun is gone.

It would be great if it could eventually be part of Linux mainline which would then allow it to easily be used on boot volumes as well. That would require dual/relicensing though, since Linus Torvalds have said that CDDL code will not be merged with mainline (most likey a result of consultation with Linux Foundation lawyers).
Now is really not the time. The Home Office will have an extra ~3m permanent resident applicants over the next year, as all EU nationals are made to go through the process.

Which visa route would you use?
> There are plenty of examples of companies facing a saturated market

Globally though? Are there companies that have saturated the entire planet.

Facebook use is BOOMING in the developing world. I've been moving around Africa though 30 countries for 2.5 yeas now - it's rare to meet someone that doesn't have Facebook and whatsapp.
Maybe WeWork is picking up left-over locations. Some rent is better than no rent.

If the landlord could find a better tenant, WeWork would have zero chance to rent any of it.
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You check out the dependency you want to change and add a replace directive in go.mod. Either a temporary one to a file system path or a permanent one to a forked repository.
I'm used to random downvotes for comments about current controversies - I'll say things about income inequality that people won't like, and it's okay, you have your politics. Deep learning shouldn't be part of your politics, it either does stuff or doesn't.

Deep Learning is amazeballs for Computer Vision. It's fun because people like looking at pictures. But sufficiently prodded Isabelle proves theorems, I've seen it first hand, and the "sufficient prodding" is way underdeveloped yet. At one point backpropagation was dead too.
You can eschew turmoil, but that doesn't mean it will eschew you, as my EU co-workers are discovering in the UK.
Not OP, but hiring manager at a SV startup. For all positions we interview for, we get applications from citizens, GC holders, and H-1Bs. We hire the best candidate from among the applicants applied for that position.

Two engineers started this Monday - an iOS specialist, and an Operations engineer. One is a citizen, and one is on H-1B. We pay both engineers according to the firm's salary bands for those respective positions.

> Or because you dont have the budget to pay the required salary demanded by native workers with that skillset.

So what you insinuate is possible, but not always the case.
Had something like that happent o me when I tried to terminate my Audible abo. Apparently, the website was broken, the button to click simply didn't do anything. Last resort was to call support via phone. This taught me a lesson, and was bad for the whole online bussiness. Since that, I think trice before I go into a monthly-payment thing, because, after all, who knows how hard it will be to get out of it again?
Depends on the country I am in as to whether or not I want to VPN whilst on a mobile connection (whether that is for just having an IP in my home country or don’t fancy my traffic going over their wires).

It is primarily for public and/or untrusted WiFi connections, or so that I can take packet captures of iOS applications easily without a jailbreak or connecting the phone via USB to a Mac.
Trained falcons are probably not particularly cheap.
Facebook open sourced many useful libraries, and it's what matters to me first.
Secondly, as a user, it has problem, just like any company.
Different customers get different discounts on all sorts of goods and services, reflecting the various importance of the customer, difficulty of dealing with them, etc. We get an x% discount off list on Cisco network kit, I assume that others get y% or z%.
It's also complicated by the fact that Pooh is unambiguously in copyright in Europe until 2027.
A few ideas depending on your definition of passive and your tolerance of risk.

1) If/when stock prices enter recession mode, buy up a strong blue chip (e.g ATAT or Verizon) and collect the 4% dividends as income.

2) High yield checking accounts. Mine pays 2% and that is genuinely riskless and passive.

3) Become a consultant and farm out any menial work you can't do yourself to a loyal and trusting associate (like me!)

4) Consider an annuity. Even though I personally feel like they're a horrific scam designed to make insurance brokers a lot of money, guaranteed income is a really powerful thing, especially if you are planning to live deep into your 90s and dont have any retirement accounts or pensions.
My first thought: Great, an ultrasonic brain cleaner. Back in the day, I used an ultrasonic homogenizer for mitochondria preps. But this would be a lot gentler, I guess.