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> Copyright, patent, and trade secret laws restrict freedoms; open source just gives some of them back.

I can't say this is 100% true.

OSI licenses divide into two camps, usually called "permissive" and "copyleft". Even permissive licenses usually restrict the freedom to publish the source without the author's name, which is, while trivial, a restriction nonetheless.

But copyleft licenses restrict the ability to modify the source without publishing your modifications. This is indeed a significant restriction of freedom, and why the BSD/MIT/etc camp are called "permissive", because copyleft is less permissive.

I prefer the permissive licenses for this very reason, although I'm not opposed to using or contributing to GPL-licensed code.

Now, you may say that the freedom hereby restricted is justly restricted, as we justly restrict the freedom to, say, put chalk in milk. I find it more consistent to reject the restrictions of copyright entirely rather than exploit them to force sharing; after all, the only way to use the clause in GPL requiring source sharing is to pursue satisfaction through the court system.

One thing on which I'm sure we can agree: both of these camps are producing open source software, and 'source available' is an entirely separate state of affairs which cannot be included.
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But how do you know which 1 or 2% of the time it's happening?
Probably Northrop Grumman [0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14689610
The nuclear family is born in industrial modern society. In city in fact. Remember the one to be jailed - it takes a village.

No. Not sure in western society but in the old village (even to this day all those chinese has a village in their passport marked), you have a place where the punishment to be held.

Come on. Treating kid well is a modern concept. Whilst I think parent could be and should be lovely. It is not so in history and around the world. So is not your social environment.

If a minor deed like Friday the best no report card, please do.
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When they cost as much as they do, is it really a surprise that a good portion of people don't want to replace them every other year? I would like to be one of the people replacing theirs every year or every other year and while I could afford it, I can't justify the expenditure. Add to that the fact that most phones purchased within the past couple of years remain performant enough for most people.
Just for a reference:

https://blog.linode.com/2003/11/04/new-linode-96-plan/

96M RAM

3GB Disk Space

38GB xfer

$29.95
Great points, especially #4 (reminds me of the "No Speed Limit" post from Sivers), but I wonder about #3. It was (maybe still is?) common for lazy nerds to bemoan "Why couldn't I have been praised for effort instead of smarts as a kid?" as if that was the major cause of their laziness. I've suspected that even if they were praised differently it still wouldn't have helped many such lazy nerds because the effort required would still have been very minimal up until they hit their limits where things weren't so easy anymore without working hard (AP classes, college, sometimes all the way to grad school). As far as the effects of praise can shape someone I've figured getting praised for something you didn't do is worse than being praised for a trait, even if being praised for something you did do is better than for a trait.
Yes, I have absolutely put this into practice. I have encountered companies that have blanket policies about either low or no severance, and I simply reject any offer or request to continue negotiations without severance. This has certainly made job searches take longer and certainly left me feeling frustrated after investing time in take-home tests, on-site interviews and negotiations, only to learn that severance agreements weren’t possible in some cases.

But I gained a lot of experience regarding how to negotiate it and talk about it, and ultimately found that most companies are perfectly happy to negotiate it as part of the job offer.
> Optimists (and phonemakers) argue that a new wave of innovation could rejuvenate demand.

Hopefully that innovation is the return of the headphone jack :P
Are consumers rallying against the excess of the smartphone market or is this just a product of the quality of new devices? The yearly improvements feel more incremental than ever, so I'm inclined to think it's a little of both.
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HtDP is about systematic program design, not just coding; after reading it one will know how to start any new program, no more staring at a blank screen.
Well, 64 bits is often used with nanoseconds, and 32 bits is in seconds, so it's a bit more complex than it seems.
I am happy to say that my desktop from 2004 is still alive and kicking. Some websites are a drag, but some on-board replacements have kept the old warrior running. I hope one day we can keep our smartphones on life support for a long time.
> Many people here want to write about code in their chats so at the very least want to have an option for monospacing parts of a message.

Most IRC clients (I'm thinking of HexChat) let you choose the font, which you can set to a monospace font.
It’s wrong thinking like this that allows companies to continue omitting severance from many basic developer job offers. Meanwhile, if you don’t assume “it’s ridiculous” and actually ask for it, you find many companies are perfectly willing to negotiate it, even for junior level software engineering positions.
Yes. I told my boss, when he asked. They would find out, since I left to their customer.
Can anyone confirm this? It looks really scary
No it's not. All the AMP websites I've seen were just as bad as their non-AMP counterparts. Reddit's AMP pages in particular, are slow and immensely frustrating to use.
They mean andyidsinga.
Your example is someone without diabetes but referred to as a patient?
I care about federation, scalability, robustness, access to past messages (history, as you put it) and disconnected operation (e.g., access missed messages on reconnect) -- that sort of thing. Maybe file sharing. The only rich text features I use are: code quoting, and text quoting, and I just don't need those if I'm using a traditional IRC/XMPP client. I don't care about text styling or formatting, or emoticons.

IRC is ancient, and pretty much broken, but it still works fantastically well for some things, and I really like having a text-based client to run in a tmux.

EDIT: IRC, XMPP, and such, support integration just fine via bots.
What are you guys using to sync mobile and pc? I think I may just try this with a notebook and try carrying it around with me.
this sounds terrible :(
wouldn't it make more sense to use 1 as a placeholder
> Only if the examiner issues a final rejection will the invention be reviewed by a board of appeals comprising senior examiners.

Yes, that's quite backwards, isn't it? Granted patents should be reviewed more carefully than rejections. Where the PhD system is built to minimize false positives, the patent system is built to minimize false negatives.

Here's how I've seen it put in the past. A patent is a deal the public makes with an inventor: the inventor gets a temporary monopoly in exchange for disclosing how the invention works. The problem we have is that no one in the system — neither the PTO nor the courts — is specifically responsible for representing the public's interest, by making sure that the information being disclosed is valuable enough to deserve the monopoly.
Like parent said, if a page takes 8s to load, I sure as heck don't mind seeing some partial results so I can start reading in those 8s.
I work for a competitor and we definitely do not do this, so I don't think it's ubiquitous at any rate.
Yes, Oregon's wage limit (4 person family) and 18 time limit help...

This coming from someone who's former employer tried to enforce a NDA on me.
I'm going to give the medical community the benefit of the doubt here, and particularly, the dermatological community. Skin cancer is something in their domain, and so of course it's a big deal for them, but I think they're missing the forest for the trees.
Great, then serve AMP pages to people in Brazil. I don’t see why I can’t permanently opt-out of AMP considering I’ll alway be browsing on either wifi connected to gbit fiber or a high speed 4G connection.

Better yet, make AMP opt-in.

It’s naive to think AMP has anything to do with improving the UX, it makes it worse in every way.
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Fair point, tempted to go down this rabbit hole with a SDR.

You'd assume airplane mode should completely disable it simply for airline regulation reasons, but can't say for certain, and some manufacturers perhaps dont care. Xaiomi and Huawei come to mind.
Our school district administers SBAC tests. Students are given a general score, but nothing specific. Nobody is allowed to know which questions a student was given, let alone which ones they got right or wrong. The tests are completely adaptive, so every student gets a different set of questions.

The school district uses cumulative results to assess students, teachers, and entire schools. But it's all meaningless. You don't know which areas a student struggles in. You don't know what topics a teacher doesn't explain well. You don't know where the specific holes are in a school's curriculum. You fire teachers, shuffle classes, and fund schools without useful information. There is no way to take a teacher and make them better. You can only replace them and hope for the best, shooting in the dark. You can make a student feel generally bad about themselves, or good about themselves, but not help them assess their specific strengths and weaknesses.

It all seems so pointless to me that I specifically pull my children out of testing days. If an entire day or three has no educational value, there's no point in attending.
This is Hacker News. There are lots of people obsessing about things that aren't a problem.
Rob Pike on Go's simplicity:

> The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.

via http://nomad.uk.net/articles/why-gos-design-is-a-disservice-...
> Also I believe that https would prevent injections.

Depends where it happens. On shared web hosting, they control SSL termination and everything behind it.
To protect kids, we could create a new system of grades that involves more data than just numbers and scores. Maybe that could be a long-term solution for a lot of seemingly unrelated problems.
You and the OP are basically describing eugenics.
no script support that makes you wait eight seconds in a technology to make things ×faster× isn't really support, is it?
I work in a datacenter, and can confirm this exact setup is still quite common even recently. We used to offer our own shared hosting setup. Even though we've moved away from that service model and generally only support Cloud / Dedicated hardware, several of our customers do exactly that, leasing out our hardware and acting as a reseller for shared hosting services, sometimes using Plesk or another turnkey control panel, other times using their custom in-house software.

Unfortunately, shared hosting comes with all the risks described: if just one site on the server gets infected, everything else co-hosted on the box feels the effects, especially when the infection is something resource intensive like a cryptominer, or sends out spam emails en masse and gets the physical box on a blacklist. From an infrastructure standpoint we can only do so much; keeping the OS patched and up to date helps to curb the really nasty infections, but the reseller plays whack-a-mole with their customers, detecting infections and shutting domains down as needed.

It's a bit of a mess really. At the same time though, the economies of scale really seem to favor shared hosting from a pure cost perspective, especially for very small businesses that can't otherwise afford a technical team to manage a VPS. So, I think that market is always going to be there.
I switched to wireless headphones (AirPods) and don't miss the headphone jack at all. Good riddance to tangled wires.
Namecheap is supposed to be getting it soon: https://www.namecheap.com/blog/true-totp-2fa-and-u2f-are-com...
I've got a dollar that says the new wave of innovation largely involves just making everything slower so you need faster hardware to do the same things.
Yeah instead we spent it on a 1.1T tax cut for the 1%.
No, the pointer always has the native pointer size. I think the type in my use of "dynamic type system" confused you. The type has a very narrow meaning, it has only two values. It is either POINTER or NON_POINTER. A POINTER type is like a tuple of size and liveness. It does not track the static types like integer, float, or struct, etc. Hope this clarify it. Perhaps, I should call it 'dynamic pointer tracking system'. Does it sound more clear?
A website that hasn't been gratuitously since 2010 is almost a positive sign for a registrar, especially if you only want them to shuffle around paperwork and not managing day-to-day technical aspects of the domain.
>why people tend to feel sleepy after carb-heavy meals.

No. This is well understood science. The fatigue you feel soon after eating is caused by postprandial hyperglycemia, or a “spike” in blood sugar soon after eating.[1] You can, and I have tested this after overeating carb heavy meals and that's exactly what's going on.

I'm prediabetic, so I watch this carefully as I have a family history of diabetes.

[1] https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/nutrition-exercise/nu...
I liked Mill's On Liberty, but it's pretty old-style.
Or perhaps removable and replaceable batteries. Maybe if the boom is ending despite all the planned obsolescence we can get a break from the planned obsolescence. Though I won't be surprised if the major companies just double down and make things even worse. Whatever, I'm hoping the Purism phone is good, my old Note 3 has been showing its age...
You still use a desktop? The portability of a laptop is something I couldn't do without.
Yes I wondered why they omit it from the title.

Really nobody in the industry uses Netbeans, only education and amateurs, right?
It's a waste of money and time for the average person that eats right and exercises. It borders on obsessional behavior.
What kind of crazy leap of logic does it take to go from we can't assume everyone can be a good parent to nuclear families don't make sense?

There is a world of things society and government could do, beyond what is done today, to try to ensure the well-being of children -- everything from better education programs to drastic things like requiring parents to be licensed -- before one gets to the idea of dissolving the concept of families completely.

If logical arguments exist that supposedly support such an exotic and questionable idea, you should probably not leave it to the rest of us to guess at them.
One I was at:

A constraint solving problem where you had a map with a grid and various clues gave you constraints like 'not within 2 squares of a bomb shelter'

A thermal imaging camera so you could detect which one of a set of 'sample containers' was warm and you should use the code printed on it elsewhere.

Combination locks where the combinations were given by giving the element names and you had to enter the atomic number (a table was on the wall)
In China, the smiley face emoji means something else
If anything it’s ocaml.
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Controversial: I use Input Sans as my coding font. Yes, it's a proportional font (designed for code).

Using a monospaced font feels like a robotic concession to the ancient ways... Doing my small part to bring about the human-friendly future of coding I dream about.
Longer lasting devices are strategic for Apple.

It means a larger installed base for the delivery of software, services, and adjunct devices which otherwise wouldn’t be possible when competing against cheap android devices.

A lower TCO is a selling point. Analysts are just failing to understand the evolution of the business model.
There are a ton of interesting tidbits in this:

- The simplification of solfege notation from 7 named tones to 4 is intriguing - while it introduces some ambiguity in that a melody cannot be perfectly reconstructed from the limited information, it lets someone need to remember fewer solfege tones when guided by other information - a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersampling ? Optimization for pedagogy rather than perfection is a technique that we should keep in the back of our minds when we're designing any types of systems.

- In the article's words: "With this dispersed music, each line is a tune unto itself. It is not written just to harmonize with the lead. It's a tune unto itself. That's why they call it dispersed harmony." The article goes on to describe how this can feel to a listener like a single thick "heavy metal"-like instrument. The technique here, of thinking of harmony as if each voice is its own melody, rather than just part of a chord, is common in jazz arrangement, referred to as "soli" or a "thickened line" - as explained well in Adam Neely's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vY3IVxl1fU

But what's curious to me is that there's a tremendous psychological element to giving each voice the agency to be the melody. You're not just backing up a higher melodic line; everyone's vocal part has the lead simultaneously. And that's tremendously empowering...

- Neely's video and the OP both touch on a further phenomenon: that this type of polyphonic timbre is very different from the "zeitgeist" of "modern music." There's a deeper societal component to this; we expect things to be so polished in modern popular music that there's little emphasis on the individual contributors (besides a lead singer) to the overall sound. Personally, I wonder: does this parallel the expectation that social systems trend towards a "winner-takes-all" mentality, and that one can only have agency if they strive to be that winner? Does musical taste reflect the stressors of society? Are we less able to appreciate musical complexity if it doesn't have a simple narrative of a single melody, a single winner, a Star to be born?

If any of that is true, things like Sacred Harp, and jazz-fusion rearrangements of pop music per Neely, and musical genres like progressive rock... all may be necessary respites from the crushing trend towards simplicity. At some level, it seems like the people interviewed in the OP are reacting in a similar manner, and it's amazing that there's a cross-cultural community in Sacred Harp that is welcoming them with open arms.
Then the supporters of the proposition should have no issue with the change in title.

They are only insterested in an honest accounting on the merits of their beleifs, right?
I am hopeful of these changes, too. But market alone won't have any influence in deterring hospitals from charging arbitrary charges. Market works best when there are range of options available, but in case of hospitals in US only few big players are hoarding all medicinal resources leaving patients with no choice.
I remember reading about issues with storage of the waste from a molten salt reactor. A problem discovered was the radiation was producing fluorine gas from the metal fluorides.
Wordpress plugins get injected with crap all the time, same with joomla, pretty much any site running a super old php version with their CMS, etc.
And if you're a 'worker' no court is ever going to enforce a non-compete clause.
Alternative Theory: running interference to distract attention and mask some other crisis.

If it’s nothing, but extremely convincing nothing, maybe there’s a strong motive to produce an incredibly opaque smoke screen.

In situations where an unexpected event becomes a threatening incident (an accident that might get you fired if it gets noticed) you sometimes improvise and find creative ways to give people other things to look at.

This improvisation is usually just really weird to the unsuspecting observer. Unless, of course, the real situation is discovered.

But it all comes down to timing, location, and the audience to be distracted, and by whom. We know the people operating the distraction (diplomats), we know where (Cuba), we know when (on the heels of a presidential election upset).

In my case, we had just destroyed a ceramic toilet with a waterproof fire cracker, at a friend’s house. Oh shit! It’s leaking water and unusable. Oh shit! Friend’s parents just got home! Oh shit! Anything to hide this! Keep them away from the upstairs bathroom. WE NEED EPOXY FROM THE BASEMENT TO GLUE THE CERAMIC FRAGMENTS BACK TOGETHER.

The solution: “Wow! Hey mom and dad! Check out this AWESOME Britney Spears dance routine we’ve been working on ALL AFTERNOON.”

The toilet got epoxied, and no one noticed for years, except to occassionally comment about how the upstairs bathroom was always so incredibly clean and never in need of the Mom’s effort to freshen up.
There are good reasons for that: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/world/europe/poland-escap...
Investment banks do. In fact, it's how the SEC catches fraud and other foul play maneuvers.
Lol. Every company you listed gets blasted all the time here on HN.

I normally don't like qoutes but i think the Batman one fits well here with how people perceive companies: 'You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain'
Ask HN: Future of Education: Which SciFi setting resonates?
1. Fast Times at Fairmont High, Vernor Vinge

Or

2. Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson

Any others?
Tesla Vehicle Ramp Cycles Getting Shorter (Charts)
Agreed. I picked up a X because I just couldn't help myself, even though I tend to think the 's' updates are the ones to get.

Barring calamity, I should have no problem holding onto it until the XIs (or whatever they end up calling it). Might need a new battery at the halfway point, but performance is pretty clearly leveling off, the camera is quite nice, and it's hard to imagine what new shiny tech they could add that would get me to buy a new phone in the next three years.
> Some things I have inculcated as a part of my children's education:

> 1. Lots of peer interaction and physical playtime

Also known as being a normal human being...
Exactly,

at this point phones cost about the same as laptops and laptops have a ~3-4 year replacement cycle.

I won't be surprised if the same starts applying to phones, now that the improvements between generations are mainly cosmetic.
What don't you agree about?
A lesson for my next mothership is to not skimp on the case, it's the single factor that keeps my current 2009-era desktop from being a real ship of Theseus. Over the decade I've upgraded RAM, GPUs, added a network card (mobo's jack died), more storage... but I can't get a pair of the beefy GPUs I want for lack of space for the cards themselves and a beefier power supply, plus I'd need to upgrade the mobo. Might as well do it all at once for a new rig and start fresh.
No doubt. Pixel Art at its peak. The icons in particular were spectacular. But none of it would be considered pretty by today’s typical aesthetics. Shameful really.
Then again, Vodafone Portugal was caught rewriting CSPs of all your visited pages to whitelist their own domain last year [0].

[0]: https://twitter.com/JackyHallyday/status/968263408003973121
I'm going to put my money on alcohol being a factor. People drink more on weekends, and of course the link between alcohol and child abuse is strong and incontrovertible.
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