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Oh they're welcome to it. But they aren't going to get the fancy jobs because no one wants to live with their insanity.

Civil rights ain't just "political stance" homie.

It's all right, though. Nobody is going to move tech jobs there so long as they stay evil.

And it's not generalizing any more than saying that a cup of ice-cream that is 47% vanilla and 53% shit is shit ice-cream.
Anti depressants
I wish I could see the humour in it.
General question: is it possible to assign different applications as tabs of one window on MacOS?

A fellow developer does this via some app on his Windows box to keep entire projects grouped together.
I think you can get 95% of the benefit of FP just by favoring abstractions which present a functional interface. Python hasn't really gotten in my way, in that respect, though it would be nice to have first-class persistent data structures with structural sharing.
> choosing a specification that actually solves the problem without generalizing or over-architecting the solution

I would not call it over-architecting, if you sacrifice portability, maintainability, *-ility too much. What exactly is "too much" depends of course.
Do you also hate games with branching paths? It's the same in the end. Either you play the branches of the game or you read the branches of the book. Based on your comments you must hate games like Witcher 3 since you can (and do) make choices that choose one branch over another.
This is what I don't understand. To me, it seems a bit more complicated to me than a simple 'copyright expiration'.

As far as I understand copyright, it stops anyone copying the exact same original image/music/video.

Derivative works have always been allowed, but it's generally a Trademark that stops the derivative works dead in their tracks, as far as I understand. Also, is there a statute of limitations on Trademark? ie Can Disney keep up their TM on Mickey, stopping anyone else from using it?

So all I think this really means is that the original videos are now in the public domain.
In the context more than 75% of black children, and more than half of hispanic children being born out of wedlock, and comparable statistics for all poverty stricken population groups, calling it "the minimum positive effect you can have on the future" is a really an asinine statement. It's not a positive effect.

https://cis.org/Camarota/Births-Unmarried-Mothers-Nativity-a...
> My comment was that even though 401(k) plans are defined contribution plans and are very different than pensions, most people are still dependent on their employer for access to them and there are laws severely limiting what you can contribute outside of payroll deductions via an employer, Roth vs traditional, one-time roll-overs, etc.

I mostly disagree? Mostly. If you don't make a lot of money, you are gonna have a hard time putting away more than the $5.5K or so that a conventional IRA limits you to. (and if you don't have an employer plan, setting up a conventional IRA or Roth IRA for that $5.5K is super easy)

If you make enough that you can put away much more than that, you probably either have an employer who gives you access to a 401K OR you have something like a business. If you have something like a business, talk to your tax professional. (if you make enough money that you worry about this stuff, you need a tax professional. I suggest looking a the 'enrolled agent' license) - There are tax advantaged retirement plans for the self employed that let you put away a lot more pre-tax than the $18.5K that a 401K will let you put away. Ask your tax person about the 'SEP IRA' - there are other plans, and I'm not qualified to guide you here, so ask your tax professional, but there are a lot of really good options for the 'self employed but making a lot more money than I need to live on' set.

(note, dollar amounts are approximate, and probably out of date. again, if you have a business that does significant monies, talk to a licensed tax professional, not a computer technician who burnt out running a business a while back)

>I’m not saying 401(k) is the same as defined benefit at all. Only that the move towards defined contribution plans has not actually decoupled retirement plans from employer intervention in any meaningful way. Employer control is roughly just as it always has been, only now employees are forced to bear the risk of the underlying assets, instead of compeling the employer organization (which is far more capable of absorbing risk and riding out downsides) to bear that risk.

I think the fundamental difference here is that with a 401K, I have to trust my employer a lot less. I agree, of course, with your point about risk, that with a 401K, I am taking on a lot of market risk, risk that a company is better setup to handle than I am. However, key here is that with a 401K, my fate is no longer tied to the companys fate. If the place I work for goes tits up after I leave (which has alrealdy happened to me a few times, I hope through no fault of my own) with a 401K, it's no skin off my nose. With a company defined-benefit pension... it is a much bigger deal for me.

(As an aside, I personally think a government old-age pension that isn't dependent on your income is the rawlsian thing to do here. I'm just pointing out that in the fight between the 401K and the private-company defined-benefit pensions, there are real differences and real arguments in both directions)
Right, I would hope it encourages more consideration for privacy in other business as well. I wonder though if people with privacy concerns will turn to non-profits or other orgs instead of companies. For instance, lots of people on Hacker News will voice support for Firefox, but dish dirt on Brave or even Chromium.

That said, more consideration of privacy as part of product development practice in business, even if non-businesses may end up winning more from this, is a good thing.
That can be trivially defeated by operating on top of Chrome's net stack though.
IMHO average population density is an almost meaningless number, because population density is not even close to a distribution where the mean is informative. I'm not sure whether it's the case in the US, but it's perfectly possible to have a tiny average population density and yet areas where small and medium towns are not too far apart from each other. You don't have to have rail service connection a tiny town in Arkansas to New York, it's sufficient if there is a train to the next city with its own cinema.
the hubbub over this seems overblown. sure, there is advertising value to booking.com, but if no data is shared with them until you click on the offer, this seems like a decent privacy-respecting effort to find another revenue stream for mozilla that's not google. if you already use booking.com, it's 20 bucks free.

moreover you can turn off snippets in the about:preferences > Home tab.

at least it's not chrome, which constantly and intrusively monitors you for advertising value.
Sweden has made the choice unlike the UK that gender equality is only achieved when both parents have equal opportunities in the job market. That way, both parents get equal child leave (with a floating pot to be shared as needed), and childcare is effectively free to encourage both parents back to work when able.

The only other big change is a political system built on coalitions. Apart from that, it’s mostly the same.
Would blockchain have evolved differently if it’s first major implementation was not Bitcoin? BTC generated a huge amount of wealth from nowhere, and it seems like most blockchain ideas where just trying to duplicate it’s success. To the general public blockchain and BTC are synonymous.
No they won't. These characters are not only copyrighted, but trademarked as well, and that's perpetual.
can someone explain? i was under the understanding that it's the works that are under copyright and will be what enters the public domain and not the mickey mouse character as a whole. so people can go off and remix steamboat willie and the mickey mouse representation found there, but it isn't like another company can suddenly take the mickey mouse character and start using it in a broader sense. is that not correct?
'Time is ripe' to use big data for planet-sized plant questions
And it would be written in the genes - models of evolution that work out timing from mutation rates and assays of genetic sophistication don't show any hidden episodes in the record.
One of the arguments I was advancing was that there is a very strong correlation between pay and how well I am treated once I get there; to the point, I think, where evaluating pay might be the most effective way to evaluate how well I'll be treated in non-monetary ways; the most effective way to make up for the fact that it's really difficult to tell how well a place treats you before you show up for work.
There are custom game modes for Dota 2 and some of those are pretty good tower defense games.
I was one part of a group of people who worked hard for several years to try to nurture a growing a tech scene in a rural area not far from Sacramento. I stepped away from that almost two years ago and my current thinking is it can't be done, not just because we largely failed at it but because there are a number of other towns trying to do the same and they aren't getting traction either.

I wonder if a healthy tech economy isn't more of an emergent behavior, and it tends to emerge in cities because there are more people, more resources, and more opportunities all mixing together.

You need good communications infrastructure, not just fiber but cellular too. If all you have available is satellite or (gulp) DSL, it's really painful to get work done. But that requires an enormous financial investment, especially in rural areas where RoI-per-mile is mostly negative.

Often the rural areas already have a culture there, and that culture doesn't necessarily want to get along with tech. Here, cellular providers can't deploy new towers because too many people are convinced that they'll get cancer, including some members of city council. Rural areas will tend to be mostly populated by people who either moved to get away from the city, or have never experienced life in a city. For those people, there's very little about a strong tech scene that sounds marketably attractive.

That also means that the talent just isn't there. And talent isn't there in part because opportunity isn't there. And opportunity isn't there because talent and infrastructure aren't there.

Nobody wants to just pump half a billion dollars or more into a small town just to see what shakes out, and if you did, you'd probably only end up ruining everything that made it an attractive enough small town to experiment with in the first place.

This is all really a shame, because it's contributing to a lot of the political and economic divide in this country, as rural areas are neglected, and shrink, and die slow deaths, while people all jostle for tiny amounts of space at high cost in dense population centers.
The whacky thing there isn't the list comprehension though, it's the implicit assignment of `lookup[x]`. If you desugar it some (which isn't really possible, but

[(x, lookup.setdefault(x, y)) for (x, y) in ('ab', 'cd', 'ef')]

comes close), what's happening makes a lot more sense. It works exactly the same way as any other scope: first checks locally, then nonlocally or globally. You're modifying a nonlocal. The syntax you're using to modify the nonlocal is surprising, but that's the surprising part, not the ability to modify a nonlocal.
At the moment Swedes have less government that most other countries.
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Maryland is a pretty rich state, spoiled by military and government connections. It is a poor choice to use as a baseline for the entire nation when plenty of rural areas are still barely scaping by economically and in terms of access to the Internet. Raising the baseline ability of our communications networks is anything but a terrible economic investment, the fact that you cite Netflix shows your focus is only on the short term. I challenge you to look beyond your short sightedness, once people have had their fill with the benefits to media consumption afforded by higher bandwidth connections, and into the future where such connections will be necessary as our infrastructure and information expand in the decades to come
The part I found especially compelling: "Blockchain proponents have a vision of _society_ in which centralized entities are weakened/eliminated. But blockchain tech is a way to build _software_ without centralized servers. Why would the latter enable the former? It’s a leap of logic that’s left unexplained."
This is a little surprising to me. I was required to take a probability class for my BS in electrical engineering, and a version of this problem was a homework question.
I hope so because my more is “who cares” and apparently thats not the popular thought right now

But what does it really change

The rapport you built or didnt is the same, with the people you grew up with

Whatever they taught you about infidelity is still to make your life more convenient

Find out whatever diseases you are actually predisposed to, or dont

If you have a decent life already, probability is your “real” family lived in an overpopulated bottom rung of society. If not, its still unlikely you get to be part of anything now that the secret is out. Send a note for kicks, but why create the drama?
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If you speak French or German, there is this recent documentary about China linking up its villages to e-commerce [1].

The presented village specialized in silver manufacturing. The example supports your thesis that some form of specialization is needed to be competitive enough in a market.

That said, I think research facilities are only needed if the economy is focused on state of the art technology. Otherwise, the joined experience of the businesses seem to be enough to keep them competitive.

What's interesting to me is that the Chinese villagers seem to have jumped on the opportunity on their own, without any government incentives. I would like to know what's holding back other villages in China or around the world to look for their own opportunities?

[1]: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/085121-000-A/china-doerfer-mit...
I find the part about the MBB people not seeing any point in their work surprising. I used to work in strategy consulting.

Their perception of “Wasteful” is probably from the gobs of money these firms charge for what seems like a relatively small amount of work. But the clients aren’t really paying for the work. The value is having a trusted, third party sign off on whatever strategic initiative management wanted to push. And that IS worth gobs of money to them.

Now I decided to leave because the job was really about helping rich people / firms get richer, and that didn’t feel meaningful to me. But it wasn’t a bullshit job.
The important thing about the NHS is that funding is allocated to regional trusts, which are up to a point responsible for raising their own funds from public and sometimes private money. The result is that funding is subject to what is colloquially known as the "Postcode lottery".

In other words, if you are in an affluent area with a well-funded NHS trust, you will receive prompt and plentiful care whenever you need it and for whatever reason you need it. Less affluent areas must prioritise to meet their budget constraints, so they will indeed make you wait for a long time, unless there is an emergency.

So, reports in the (non-UK) media that claim that it may take "4 months" to be seen by GP or a specialist doctor unless you're dying, etc, are a) exaggerated and b) don't take into account the regional differences in service, which can be very pronounced.
I was hoping the author went full circle to reinventing floating point, but this is a great writeup of the process. Really good motivation.
>If we're going to deny these rights to some people on the basis of birth-location, why not deny the same rights on the basis of other criteria such as race, gender, intelligence, physical health, etc

We don't have to deny them to anybody. Just to ask that those other countries it give them to their citizens, not having us give them to them.

Not to mention, those in those other countries might even value other things.
Could you share the file with me if you end up doing that other design? I’d love to try it out too.
Currently #1 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800547
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Yes, you are indeed correct. It means the original videos can be posted on YouTube and Disney can't request them be taken down. It doesn't mean you or I can take the Mickey Mouse character and make our own Mickey Mouse cartoons.

Edit: To add a trademark is valid as long as it's in use.
The ghosts of technology in today’s language
That's an interesting thought. Those can see the actual tissue as well.
This is an extreme "we told you so" moment, isn't it? But then successful completion of the project was never the goal, just selling blockchain tech to enterprises to generate BTC price rises.
I think your math is off. If I have a $100 endowment, I have $4 to spend. If I have $1500, I have $60 to spend, 15 times as much as $4.
that's not quite right. newspaper ads are paid placement, while these are not. being paid for placement is an essential feature of advertising. so to differentiate from that, mozilla uses the term "offer" here.
How so?

Cryptocurrencies is about divorcing money and state. Seems pretty clear to me.
Thanks. I missed one such opportunity in my life .. encountered guys at a YC event and thought they were brilliant. Managed to get an interview but it didn't work out (partially my fault, and partially because they had no idea how to deal with PhDs). Such opportunities are so rare in life. It is almost like winning the lottery.
Aren't there trademarks involved? The original stories would be public domain, but I'm not sure how easy it'd be to market them without Disney/DC's permission.

There's also the fact that copyright over characters is tied to their first appearance, and (especially in Batman's case), most other recognisable characters from the series aren't public domain. So you could write a Batman story, but it couldn't involve Robin, or the Joker, or hell, any of Batman's familiar rogues gallery.

But it's nice to see this about to happen none the less.
nice list... wondering what EU unis have to offer in this context
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The thing about 80s nostalgia that's strange to me is that it's lasted so long. It kicked off around 2000 or whenever The Wedding Singer came out, after what seems like a brief flicker of '70s nostalgia, and somehow it just keeps going. I'm looking forward to the '90s coming back around, but it doesn't seem to be on its way yet.
It's a great barometer. From the people in my feed getting jobs as CISOs I know for example that CISO is one of these bullshit jobs.
Nothing fell apart, its all part of the process, just like the dot com bubble and bust, crypto/decentralisation is not going away. Economics always wins. Someone will make a better, regulated version, that works.
A buddy of mine at got a gig with a 30 percent raise in another state with it. I got off it years ago along with all other social media because I find it intrusive.
Show HN: I tracked every movie I watched for 10 years
OTOH, an ASP.NET web app written in 2008 and not touched since then would probably still run happily now if you bumped its version up to .NET 4 or 4.5.

C# has had Linq and lambdas since 2007 so there's a decent chance the code would be decently pleasant to work with, too.

Some devs might find 2008 Web Forms apps a bit crufty in 2018 but if you squint and pretend your .aspx is inside a render method issued of a separate file, the mental model isn't all that different from a SPA.
> How is a defender suppose to detect this traffic?

Probably by taking a decentralized approach, that's probably more secure, performant and better to maintain anyways. Also on the server side one could do TLS using Haproxy or nginx, this way it would even be possible to use existing tools - just on localhost though. Or, one can do TLS re-encryption with Haproxy/nginx (or Squid for the other direction), and do checking on the host at the same time.
It appears to work without list comprehensions as well:

Python 3.7.1 (default, Nov 6 2018, 18:49:54)
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 7.1.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: lookup = {}

In [2]: a, lookup[a] = 'xy'

In [3]: a
Out[3]: 'x'

In [4]: lookup
Out[4]: {'x': 'y'}

I wasn't previously aware that this was possible, but I guess it's no different from

a = 'x'
lookup[a] = 'y' # i.e. lookup['x'] = y
> Economics always wins.

Yep, supply and demand. Currently there's no demand for crypto/blockchain as appropriate substitutes already exist.
Billions for sure - we know because the natural reactor at Oklo 1.7 billion years ago is still very much detected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
You are not hearing me. The theory is clear; the practice is that if you kill someone with your car and you are not DUI (no license is fine), you will be very likely not charged.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/07/30/five-weeks-later-broo...
The problem of his statements is magnified with our modern equivalence of intelligence with an individuals’ worth.

If we valued people for merely being, then it really doesn’t matter if his statements were or were not true.

But we don’t, so his statements become clubs against human dignity.

Unfortunately I see no end in our path towards valuing the merely intelligent. What percentage of otherwise wanted babies are aborted because of Down syndrome? How do we treat the cable guy or the painter in our homes?
> Derivative works have always been allowed

Other way round - copyright has always covered derivative works, that's how the GPL operates. And why you need to clear every sample you use in a music track.
It makes total sense.

It's perfectly rational to say:

a) I want the best for my country and fellow citizens

b) I think the best outcome for (a) comes if all citizens in my country are given X rigts etc.

There's no need to "mean everybody" for this to be a perfectly rational philosophy.

If anything, your extra requirement that she has to "mean everybody" seems to come from a moralistic or christian source, rather than rationality.
I think we have to look pre-industrialization to see fundamentally different ways of organizing production and work. The digital age has certainly sped things up, but the 20th century was full of bullshit too.
Hyperstack: A Ruby-based DSL/framework for building interactive web application
would be nice to see some numbers on chip area of occupied by memory
Looks may be subjective but most people tend to somewhat agree on who is and is not attractive. A large number of women think George Clooney is attractive and that Danny Devito isn't. If you take two babies who are identical in every way except one will look like George and one will look like Danny then they will have very different lives. Looking good makes people assume you have good traits.
It didn't generate it. It moved it from elsewhere.
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That big financial site would be Vanguard which only allows Yubikeys for U2F. Blogger is/was a Googler right? I heard they use them for their retirement accounts.
Why Risc-V?
> Buying a car is such a horrible and archaic process still.

Tell me about it. I bought a used car today and my stress level is through the roof.
Yes but Mozilla does a lot more now than produce and maintain software. For example, in 2017 it spent $24m on its internet health project [1].

I’m making no judgement about that but there are two sides to fiscal longevity: getting more money is one, the other is to focus spending.

1. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2017/