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With physical property, there is the concept of Squatter's Rights. With copyright, if you fail to protect it adequately (which I don't think is very well defined by the court system), then the IP in question can pass into the public domain.

I'm not sure what all rights (physical or otherwise) might be applicable here.
If it doesn't make sense for you, then you're not a startup.

That sounds ipso facto, like I'm saying "PaaS is the best option for startups, because if it didn't make sense you're not a startup." but I mean it legitimately.

Startups are VERY DIFFERENT from normal businesses, in almost every conceivable way. Great startup engineers do not necessarily make great "normal business" engineers. Great startup infrastructure looks nothing like great normal infrastructure. The same solutions do not work for both.

Startups, generally, have "large" amounts of money and "small" amounts of humans. So when you say "based on my specific metrics (money) PaaS doesn't make sense"... uh, yeah, duh. You're not a startup. Being a small business does not make you a startup. Writing code does not make you a startup.

Startups burn money like hell in the pursuit of a 100x product-market fit. "Burn Rate" is thrown around a lot as a metric. Do you think the term "burn" was chosen by accident? Startups don't "invest" money. They don't spend it. They BURN it, with the hope that the kindling will explode and they can worry about the damage they caused later.
> (The park was known until January as AT&T Park; it has since been renamed Oracle Park.)

I've always called it Pac Bell park to avoid confusion.
Doesn't matter what people are asking. Ok I just listed my one bedroom apt in Duluth for $55 million. Is the Duluth housing market now crazy?
A VXer's Best Friend: The Delta Offset
"terrifying and clever" describes a lot of the Woz's work...

So I am a little fuzzy on the NTSC standard, because it has been a while since I looked at it... but the hack goes something like this:

Monochrome TV puts video on an upper vestigial sideband with the carrier at (IIRC) 1.25 MHz up from the lower edge of the 6 MHz channel. (The high frequency parts of the lower sideband of the video signal are whacked off with a filter.) The FM sound subcarrier is up closer to the top edge, I forget what the offset is exactly.

Then color came along... so they added a color subcarrier just below the sound subcarrier. This reduced the bandwidth available for luminance, but got you color in return. The color subcarrier IIRC is kind of a flavor of independent sideband, but is really two double sideband signals on the same carrier, 90 degrees out of phase with each other, one skinny, and the other fat but with a notch filter applied to allow the skinny signal to ride in the middle. Or something like that.

Anyway... if you send a monochrome signal with high-frequency components (high frequency == high dot rate) that fall in the range of the color sub-carrier, you will get color artifacts. This is because the color decoder simply responds to the rf it is getting, whether on a proper subcarrier or not.

Another thing I used to know but am fuzzy about is I am pretty sure you need to put out the standard color burst on the back porch of the horizontal sync. Otherwise, the TV receiver will not sync to the "color subcarrier" that you are faking with artifacts.
Robotic Surgery: No Evidence It Is Better
I'd count the likes of AWK, shell scripting, PostScript, Perl, and even (depending on how you define "language") HTML as domain-specific languages, so they do seem to be a thing still.

Personally, I tend to use them quite a lot in my own projects. These aren't commercial (and often aren't released at all), so might not count. Still, it's very handy to be able to embed a DSL into a complex project to provide programmability, and most of the modern scripting languages tend to be too large and/or too slow for my purposes.

My DSL of choice for this tends to be TCL-based, as I can easily extend the language in task-specific ways and drop the parts of the language that aren't useful for the task at hand. This results in something capable, tiny and fast.
I see what you did there, but it's worth noting that that's not true even when the related extreme assumption underlying the secretary problem holds: that assumption is that every selection other than the very best is equally worthless. But strategies other than the very best will have different probabilities of picking the best selection, and so will have value proportionate to that probability. (Since they will have a value equal to value of the best selection with that probability, and a value of zero otherwise.)
If you leave you car keys at my house for 3 years does the change the answer? With the car parked on my drive?

I'm not sure a car is the best comparison though.

How about a restaurant putting mint imperials by the cash register. Is it legal for patrons to take one?
>I don't want to just donate to charities, I want to end systemic problems that lead to charities needing to exist in the first place.

You could give some of your salary to political groups that you think will help fix those systemic problems. If you're working for a FAANG, you're probably making like twice as much as you need anyway.
This is another example of the fallacy where you give all the credit to the famous leader in the news. While leadership is important, it's not like he did it all himself.
This was published a year ago!
I thought Gen Z was just entering college? They're in the job market already?
The hype comes and goes, but they always have and always will be, in one form or another. But they don't always get called DSLs. Put the idea in your toolbox, and use where appropriate. Call it a DSL or something else based on what is currently cool.

Good programmers have long known that you should build your language up towards your application, and then write your language within that language. What tools are available to do that and where the line is drawn will vary. But you'll find customized languages buried in your database (SQL), configuration languages like https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl, specialized build configuration languages like make or ant, regular expressions for text matching, and so on.

Some languages encourage building external languages that you then parse and act on. Others encourage customizing an existing language to your needs. (Our Glorious Leader published a book in the mid-90s on doing that with Lisp, see http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html for details.) There have even been languages which are designed to be easily implemented in other languages, with whatever customizations you want. For example I personally worked with code from the 1980s that implemented a Forth variant to write financial models in.

But the idea doesn't have to be literally a new language.
Squint sideways at any API, object model, or library and you can see it as a language. Conceptually there is a close parallel between scripting web services, and writing a TCL script that uses prebuilt commands written in C. If you can see the parallels and see how principles from the one apply to the other, the odds are that you'll be doing both better. Whereas if you don't see it and reinvent the wheel from scratch, you're going to wind up learning lessons the hard way that were learned many, many years ago.

All that said, writing and maintaining a language is significantly harder than writing business code. Therefore you'll always see rather more people writing code in languages, than writing languages to make code easy to write.
>By one private firm’s estimate, the fax accounts for about 75 percent of all medical communication

https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/10/30/16228054/american...
But the articles (not just this one, but very nearly all of them) don't talk about X and Y - they talk about "white people" and "minorities", and stubbornly pretend the two groups are distinct.

A quick search (though I couldn't find any particularly authoritative sources) says white people are ~16% of the global population, behind both south and east asians. To keep calling everyone else 'minorities' is more than a little US/Eurocentric. Especially when they put phrases such as "In a world where world-class...", implying they're not limiting themselves to 'country X'
You realize that's not the issue. Right?
Show HN: Mixing WebGL and HTML, Both Rendered Out in React
This is a common misconception. Mass is still mass, no matter how optimally it is placed in the chassis.

A Lotus Exige already has near perfect weight distribution and low center of gravity. Since it is mid-engined it also has 160KG of engine over the rear axle which improves traction.

Adding an extra 500KG and putting it lower in the vehicle will not improve braking performance, handling or agility.
There absolutely is a future for enterprise open source. It's not through direct monetization, but rather driving down the price of complements for existing product lines.

Running a service on AWS requires two goods. High-margin computing resources that Amazon really wants to sell, and the software to turn those computing resources into solutions to business problems. Solving the business problems has a fixed dollar amount to be split between the two, so the cheaper the software is the more money Amazon's customers can afford to spend on AWS.

So the final equilibrium is that Amazon ends up funding open-source solutions, and profits off it from increased AWS margins.
> I don't know enough about the reason for the shortage of doctors but I'd go out on a limb and say its probably not because they don't get paid enough.

So not cheaper.

> It won't, and it shouldn't. Patents for pharma don't preclude successful implementations of universal healthcare anywhere else.

So not cheaper.

> By regulating fees for services, by lowering the price of drugs via negotiation and bulk purchase agreements, by eliminating marketing budgets, by eliminating insurance billing departments and by capping executive compensation. Hospitals and doctors are public servants elsewhere in the world, not elite rockstars who can bill as they so choose. That doesn't mean they're not well compensated.

Rationing. (It makes it cheaper, but also reduces the amount of care given out). Shutting down hospitals is probably not the way to go on the space, but its one way to reduce spending.

> By having a single table of rates that apply to everyone. Ideally with a single payer. This makes billing much, much easier.

Also rationing. If you have a single table of rates, you can get 3 results: you pay less than today, and thus you will have rationing of services (for example, less convenient locations, less services, etc), you pay the same (so no gain) or you pay more (more spending). Billing is a big pain, but billing medicare is the biggest pain of all. Medicare pays less and has more admin costs for providers, which is a big part of why its not covered.

Its virtually impossible in the US to force doctors into single rates, so what you would get is that insurance has very low coverage, and cash-pay will dominate healthcare services.

> Everything I indicated above put together. If you want a concrete example Medicare does most of the above (they can't negotiate drug prices, and they're not single payer, and they haven't socialized malpractice insurance) but they're substantially more efficient. Medicare spends 2-5% of the budget on administrative, where private plans spend 12-18%. That's without recognizing some of the other savings I pointed out. [2]

Medicare uses these statistics with great trickery. First of all, medicare does not do collections administration: its hidden in other government agencies that collect the payroll tax. Second of all, these statistics have some other biases like using total cost of spending but not per patient, where medicare is actually not that much ahead. And finally but not least, what people will always love about medicare is that its dirt cheap to the patient: the average social security benefit is 1400~, and the standard premium of medicare is 135. But turns out that medicare costs about 11k a year per patient: if you took away 1000 out of those 400, you would not find great support for medicare from retired people!

Finally but not least, medicare services have severe rationining elements, and potentially cost shifting: doctors make 1/2 with medicare than without. This means that: doctors that offer medicare are the ones starving for patients, and doctors that take a bit of medicare are actually putting some of the cost unto regular insurances.
At someone who professionally works with relatively modern C++ (eg: C++14/17) and originally learned C++98, it's not as difficult once you get into the headspace of it.

I'd definitely prefer writing in OCaml every day if I could, but I can understand why a lot of C++ is the way it is, and having the newer features is an improvement on the day-to-day.
Literally every company report GAAP and non-GAAP numbers. And you publish a reconciliation report. non-GAAP profitability is as valid as GAAP profitability, otherwise you will get dinged by SEC as you are publishing those numbers in your annual report.
Yes we boot the BEAM on the hardware.
Why isn’t this a source URL?

Took a while for Ruby to get it but for the last 5 years you have default config for self-hosted sources whenever you make a new gem.

Of course, npm is unique in being privately funded. It doesn’t want you doing that.

Benefit of the doubt says that they thought they were publishing privately.

Going back to Ruby, you will fail a bunch of CI steps just by leaving defaults in place.
>he made a possibly illegal tweet to show off to his girlfriend, about and whilst on drugs

citation? what are you referring to here?
My understanding is that it was based on custom/ industry norms. But yes a lot of lawyering would probably be involved.
What is dropbox basic? I see no explanation anywhere.

It's been ages since I visited dropbox but my god how things have changed. Every flow and part of their website is about converting people to paid.
Or modern day... "Nobody uses Facebook anymore, it's too crowded"
Interesting! Thanks for the reference. I'm not sure how not revealing the pre-image would allow them to affect the result with any degree of predictability - it is equivalent to them selecting a different uuid, is it not?

I'll try to read up and see if I can answer that question.
They've burned a lot of APIs in the last few years.
This is absolutely very useful. Definitely within a specific team or company, but generally anywhere, especially when combined with Keybase's proven identities feature. I can imagine a "Vote with Keybase" button ubiquitous on the internet wherever they want to conduct surveys.
How is it different to employing someone in the mid west for half the price of silicone valley or India? Can any Indian move to another country and earn more? How is it different to any other country? You just pick on Israel because it is a Jewish country so even when they employ west bankers you find something wrong with it. And Gaza is not occupied by Israel, it is an enemy entity to Israel which want to destroy it. The mere fact that Israeli employ anybody there should give the a noble peace price.
It is quite hard to A/B test. And the sales people making the bonus is often part of setting the strategy.
Kennedy is a different kind of facility, even from some of the other NASA Centers. There's a huge emphasis on compatibility of launch & ground systems. And, you're right about bureaucrats and you could even extend it to lobbyists.
"Ignorance" is not having knowledge about a certain field. Everyone has it.

"Stupidity" is having ignorance about a field but pretending not to.

These lawyers may have 7 years of law school education, but they are still "stupid".
That's a good point, and it's probably the main reason why Facebook wants to integrate the infrastructure of all of its platforms, possibly sharing the users and ads between Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp[1].

What else there is to do, when the most profitable product of the company has the slowest growth rate of all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18997923
Are you maybe thinking of trademark? If you fail to protect a trademark then you can lose it.

AFAIK, you can selectively (or not at all) enforce copyright all you want and then change your mind later.
A disquieting article. I had robotic surgery a year ago to remove a kidney. From the patient perspective, the robotic surgery was clearly the better choice because it was non-invasive with a quick recovery.
so, whatever happened to btsync?
>These claims are certainly plausible to me, but they are by no means obvious. (For reference, I'm a postdoc who specializes in machine learning.)

I don't think I disagree very much with you then.

>People thought the same thing about nuclear energy. A popular quote from the 50s was "energy too cheap to meter." Yet here we are in a world were nuclear energy exists but unforeseen factors like hardware costs cause the costs to be much more than optimists expected.

In worlds where this is true, OpenAI does not matter. So I don't really mind if they make a profit.

Or to put it another way, comparative advantage dulls the claws of capitalism such that it tends to make most people better off. Comparative advantage is much, much more powerful than most people think. But nonetheless, in a world where software can do all economically-relevant tasks, then comparative advantage breaks, at least for human workers and the Luddite fallacy becomes a non-fallacy. At this point, we have to start looking at evolutionary dynamics instead of economic ones. An unaligned AI is likely to win in such a situation. Let's call this scenerio B.

OpenAI has defined the point at which they become redistributive in the low hundreds of billions. In worlds where they are worth less than hundreds of billions (scenerio A, which is broadly what you describe above) they are not threatening so I don't care - they will help the world as most capitalist enterprises tend to, and most likely offer more good than the externalities they impose. And as in scenerio A, they will not have created cheap software that is capable of replacing all human capital, comparative advantage will work its magic.

In worlds where they are worth more, scenerio B, they have defined a plan to become explicitly redistributive and compensate everyone else, who are exposed to the extreme potential risks of AI, with a fair share of the extreme potential upsides. This seems very, very nice of them.

And should the extreme potentials be unrealizable then no problem.

This scheme allows them to leverage scenerio A in order to subsidize safety research for scenerio B. This seems to me like a really good thing, as it will allow them to compete with organizations, such as FaceBook and Baidu, that are run by people who think alignment research is unimportant.
They mention students identifying strangers based on just a few details, but not whether they verified the correctness of that identification. It's easy to think that you successfully doxxed a person, only to later find out e.g. that you misspelled their name and all the info you found was actually about someone else.
> This seems to be the default position of almost everyone in IT, everywhere I go. People make this claim without doing any calculations.

I constantly see people not even considering what it means to be giving (potentially critical) business processes away to another company, not having any real knowledge in house, and not realizing that sometimes partners suck and won't help you fix problems in their software.

Neither is a sure bet all of the time, but just dismissing pulling things in house neglects a lot of other downsides to outsourcing.
Yup. The cost is so irrelevant, its a little laughable how many other people keep bringing it up. The relevant metrics are People and Risk. If you host your own VM; ok, maybe it works great for you and you don't have to touch it. But the future risk of something bad happening is High. And when that does happen, if an engineer has to take 1 day to fix it, you'll have literally paid the difference for a PaaS for the rest of the year.

But, again, cost doesn't matter. What really matters is that engineer had to WASTE a day working on it. That's a day that could have been spent advancing the product toward market fit. That's a day when that engineer wasn't coordinating with the rest of the team. That sets back her work by a day, which might block another engineer by a day, and it ripples down and down. That's not something startups want to happen. Because Engineers are expensive, yes, but more importantly, they're hard to find. You can't just throw money at hiring talent like you can at Heroku (or App Engine, or Lambda, or whatever works best for your business).
The upload itself does not constitute the Company's policy. It is not "The Bank's" action. There is a legal standard for a company's action, which is a signature by an executive or possibly a lower signing officer. The employee that uploaded this almost certainly is not an officer. Their failure to discover that the upload was their own error is their failure.

Thus, a DMCA request is appropriate, as the GP points out, the original employee that did the action quite likely cannot undo that action.
Good old hacking :)
Top ten Docker images contain over 8000 vulnerable paths
Lessons from the East Asian Economic Miracle – Byrne Hobart – Medium
Its not really „on RTEMS“, its more side by side. RTEMS is not a layer between the BEAM and te hardware its just helping by providing threads, TCP stack and file access. From a Erlang NIF or port driver (thats what we use to access the outside world in Erlang and Elxir) you have direct access to hardware registers and e.g. CPU interrupts.
Theres just such duplication of functionality I don't see them bothering.
Back in the day, the name Silicon Valley came from the fact that most of the companies worked with actual silicon. Most of them were based near Mt. View because 1) The land was a lot cheaper than SF and 2) Most of the capital was there.

The "new" SV is north because all the consumer websites set up shop in SF since all they needed was office and not chip fabs, and they were mostly being worked on by younger folks who wanted to live in the city proper.

Now we have a bifurcated ecosystem where all the hardware folks (and companies) are still in the south bay (and don't kid yourself, there are a ton of hardware startups down here still) and all the consumer stuff is up north.

You just hear about the consumer stuff more because most of the silicon companies are B2B.
... Is you don't talk about Arch Linux?

;)
I think the issue here is that you're viewing the merit of open-source entirely based on the immediate profitability of the software.

The benefits of FOSS are largely non-monetary. I know as entrepreneurs and professionals that might be a hard line-of-thought to default to, but I think it is extremely short-sighted (and borderline ignorant) to judge the merits of free software by its profitability.
If a salaried employee lets his boss see him when he comes into the office early, then when out of sight sips coffee and relaxes until his coworkers arrive, is that also fraud? If you caught one of your employees doing that, would you call the cops and report him for fraud?
It is the corporate internet. The internet exists in the box, as far as your employees / security model are concerned. (as far as the security model is concerned, There Are Always Bugs - this is a feature).

If it weren't for the need for remote backups, email and such would be hosted there as well, and you could run a company on one of these with no access to the public internet at all. Accounting, finance, etc: all of it.