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>Article 13 dooms smaller companies and startups, thus further entrenching these big corporations.

Only "smaller companies and startups" whose main purpose is "enabling users to upload and share a large amount of copyright-protected content with the purpose of obtaining profit from that activity". That's what the document says; how it will actually be enforced is still a mystery, of course.

P. S. I have pointed to that "protection" on a previous comment [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19491806.
Update: I looked up the app in the screenshots attached to Google's email. It appears to have been removed as well.
My son will be 3 months old in 2 days. There are two things that have made things so much easier for my wife and I. First, a Fisher-Price Rock and Play Sleeper[0]. We never got a bassinet and we were going to borrow one from a family member but they ended up starting to use it. We had a pack & play type thing that had a bassinet that was ok for sleeping. It worked for a bit but he ended up not sleeping well in it. There was no stability and any movement he would make would wake him up as the bassinet would move. My wife and I were frustrated and looked for other options and that's when we found the Rock & Play. You can connect to it through your smartphone and control what it does (rocking, music, light show, vibration) easily. I have a setting that turns everything on and puts it on a timer. It is amazing since I can do that from the bed (he sleeps in our room for the time being) and it will soothe him to sleep (if needed, we don't turn on any of the features if he falls right to sleep).

The other thing that I recommend is a swaddle. You can swaddle your baby in a blanket and that is what I learned when my wife and I took a class on caring for a baby. It was super easy to do, however, that is because we were practicing on a doll. When we got home it was a bit more complicated as my son would be squirming which made getting a good, tight swaddle hard. We ended up getting a SwaddleMe brand swaddle. It makes it super easy to swaddle him tightly and quickly. With the swaddle and rock & play he has been sleeping through the night since 6 weeks.

[0] https://fisher-price.mattel.com/shop/en-us/fp/baby-sleepers/...
Get a day job and use your spare time to produce Free Software. It works for musicians and artists, and it works for our creative endeavor as well. (Code is art and little of what we do is genuine engineering.)

As somebody who produces Free Software and has a day job, I think that this new movement will strangle itself, and that that's an appropriate fate.
A shopping mall has opportunity costs (limited availability of space, location, infrastructure needs) that computer based "malls" don't.
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Is there any way of disabling dark mode on Mac OS?
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A few years ago there were a few rabbit holes on Reddit that one could go down into and find the occasional Voynich Manuscript related out of this world theory.
That could be clearer, sorry. We compare against RapidJSON and sajson for the bulk of the paper and for the 'splash' graphics as these are the fastest two libraries that validate to a similar extent (gason is a little faster than RapidJSON but accepts some crazy stuff).

In the paper, we do also include measurements against 7 other libraries including jsoncpp. It is an order of magnitude slower than we are on the measurements we took. I am not familiar enough with it to know whether that's meaningful; it may have a lot of other attributes that make it more useful for what you're doing than what we have. We're pretty barebones, especially at this stage.
lying isn't the same thing as fraud.
You could vote for your country to exit EU.
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It doesn't save the PDFs as far I can see.
I didn't. I expected to be greeted with "We care about your privacy" and then have to opt in or not being able to access the content.

I was right.
I recently went through a change where I manage people but still try to code and I don't enjoy it at all. I also prefer to code rather than manage the politics and emotions of the developers I manage. I hope I can move back to coding full time at some point but we're a startup and I'm the CTO so I'm nervous that won't be the case. If you're able to make the change back I would just tell them you don't enjoy your current role and go back to being a developer. You don't have to be unhappy just to make your team happy. There are others that will manage them just as well and will enjoy it.
Yeah! Webassembly blob and you use JS to operate it.
Cool. Awesome work, thanks for sharing :)
I'm curious why you're not making the same demands out of the ones who voted no.
(the broader comparison is in Table 9 at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.08318.pdf)
To be fair you shouldn't notice the laptop waking up for power nap, if I'm not mistaken.
There are an absolute mountain of US sites which block European IP addresses to avoid GDPR. Mostly news outlets. I've never seen so many 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons errors in my life!

Still others present a "subscription required" page if you connect from Europe, but display the content if you access them from the US (or through archive.is).
I think you confuse software development with I don't know what.

All the time we look at other peoples code. See Stackoverflow. If it is only a couple of lines that is also not plagiarism, that is code reuse which in software is encouraged (see DRY principle).
If you can take some code (as is) and just change some params that is just using a library or a framework. And libs are usually free to use if they are publicly available. If you just copy the library and say its your work that is plagiarism.

In Software we don't just look at code we take snippets and reuse them (ALL THE TIME), like an architect snipping a windows design out of someone else's plans and reusing them. A couple of lines of well written clean code should be reused. Don't write your own interpretation. Either you have a better cleaner version or not.
There is sober discussion of the purported deciphering at these two links:

https://www.voynich.ninja/archive/index.php/thread-2175.html

https://ciphermysteries.com/2017/11/10/gerard-cheshire-vulga...

Headline is lacking a [2017], and also appears to be entirely untrue.
This is an extremely grey area that honestly comes down to the patent laws of your country, the uniqueness of the code you're reusing or porting, and your intended use for that code.

This is where it becomes important to use open licenses on public projects, as it lets people know "It's okay to use this code" instead of simply putting the source out there and leaving it's intellectual ownership as an ambiguous question.

In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with using code from others' projects or works as long as you're educating yourself or, if used commercially, your use of said code is solving a different problem than the project you took it from. This is just an opinion with no real consideration given towards legal implications.
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The line between police and military in France is a bit blurry, given that the two national police forces - police nationale and gendarmerie nationale - are themselves part of the French military.

Hell, the Paris fire department is an Army unit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Fire_Brigade
Not quite a conspiracy theory about the Voynich Manuscript, but its a fun twist, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-...
>kids are walking to school in the dark.

As they already do in many other places. Why should this be particularly dangerous for the UK compared to elsewhere?
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I keep reading horror stories about developers having their apps removed from these stores and I still fail to understand how they're not legally considered as monopolies largely abusing their dominant position...

I get that neither Android nor iOS are monopolies on the smartphone market, but why aren't Android and iOS themselves considered as markets of their own, on which the Play Store and the AppStore are monopolies?

Why don't they NEED to propose alternative stores on install as it was the case with browsers on Windows in the past?
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The New Yorker published, prior to the "deciphering", a short and interesting overview of the history and cultural relevance of the Voynich Manuscript [0].

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-unsolvable-m...
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I was shocked when, as a kid, I learned that the official justification for this war was "the border is too close to Leningrad".
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A bit disappointed that this page doesn't generate the maze with each visit
sure, and it's getting worse, I live here.

But it's a problem of hungary not having a strong democratic culture. It's not a problem of "not what people want".

Also, I feel the immigrant thing is not as relevant amongst Fidesz supporters: Jobbik has the same view with regards to migrants that Fidesz has, but did not get 49% of the votes.

People vote with their pockets, and hungary had years of good economic growth, the government cut income taxes, tourism boomed and real estate followed.

Much like the situation in italy's '50/60s economic miracle, people will put up with corruption as long as they have a booming economy, even if the government is not responsible for such growth.

Hungary will hit a brick wall in the near future, but it will have gone there by the will of its people.
> What does his personal life have to do with the point you’re making?

For the leader of a country, character is important.

If I was French it would definitely worry me that my president dated his 40-year-old high school teacher when he was 16, and married a woman 25 years older than him. Not the average Frenchman--which was my point.

> Why is it that right wingers want it both ways - Tucker Carlson thinks it’s not a big deal and presumably you don’t too until the male involved grows up and actually holds power.

I have no idea what you're talking about.
More than anything, I'd say it feels threatening. I wonder what would happen if an employee said to the founder: "I've noticed this and that. I feel frustrated. I request that you do something. Can you please recap what I just said so it's clear you understood?"
"Twitter is much more important than then bank I keep my money in"
Wow, I will gladly trade you my twitter handle for your credit card number ;D

"Banking in fungible."
You cannot instantly replace a bank account, transfer credit, or make changes without the help of the bank itself yet twitter can instantly be replaced by many forms of communication (SMS, Email, IRC, Talking, etc).

"I'm much more relaxed about a 2 day delay in my banking than a 2 day delay in Twitter."
So if your car is on empty and you stop to buy gas only to find that your checking and credit accounts (from the bank) have a 2 day delay, you would find that acceptable!?
Your premise is sound. But it's in your conclusion that you miss the point. The point is its not 2005 anymore. Today, if Google didn't do it, someone else will and can. Except that a certain brand of monopolies set things up in a way that a rather worrying number of people think that without these monopolies there's no other choice. You think that it's Google that's enabled and empowered all of us. That, my friend, is where you are wrong.
What's weird to me is: Europe isn't exactly a content powerhouse. Why are they so concerned with copyright protections?
...but not the linked PDF unfortunately. Neither has http://archive.is/mU1XU .
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At work, we tried DroneDeploy and Agisoft, but we settled with Pix4D, expensive, but we got better accuracy and the people who operate the drones found it easier to use.
I remember someone saying it might have been related to the Syriac alphabet, I wonder what came out of it.
Not generative, but of interest if you like that: http://musicforprogramming.net/
And do what with it? Most aggregaters won't host your content for you for fear of lawsuits and if you host it yourself, nobody will find your dinky website because nobody is going to pay you to link to it.
Possibly not, since we're pretty good at following another person's gaze instead. And different cultures point differently. I knew a guy who lived in Papua New Guinea for a while and he had to untrain himself to point with his finger. People there would just look at his finger. They only pointed with their chins.
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With some manual labor that's easily doable. There is opendata available for Council[1], but Parliament vote dataset is yet to be found...

1: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/general-secretariat/corpo...
All the people I know who create their own content are utterly pissed off about this, because it totally screws them over when it comes to sharing their content. It means that every platform they use will be forced to either shut down or instate odious, false-positive-prone, likely career-ruining content filtering. The only folks it's good for are the large corporate content factories who are effectively almost totally exempt from dealing with this mess.
In the same book, an old one-liner called "BURROW" from Pet Gazette:

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They were about as well-informed as much of the general public.

There's a Youtube video kicking around of someone (I forget who) going round Europarl asking MEPs if they'd actually read Articles 11 and 13.

The most common answer, by a country mile, was "no".

We elect representatives to read these things and make a reasoned decision on our behalf. Not to do the political equivalent of putting on a blindfold and throwing a dart, hoping to score a bulls-eye.
Another interesting idea: apparently, positive motivation (reward) works much better than negative motivation (punishment). Allegedly it's "scientifically proven" (for some definition of "scientifically") which I haven't yet taken the time to research, but I plan to.

I've been thinking about how to apply this in two of the most important areas of interpersonal interaction in our lives, in our careers and in interpersonal relationships. We often discuss on HN why it's difficult in careers (conflicting interests, hard to measure results, under-specified goals, etc.). In relationships, I think the main difficulty is that we enter relationships with so many expectations (i.e. "my partner should love me and spend time with me and give me gifts" or similar) that these can't really be used for positive motivation, instead we interpret the absence of them as negative motivation. One idea I had, though, is to explicitly verbalise rewarding in addition to the actual reward (i.e. instead of just spending time with them, say "I really liked that you did X yesterday" and spend time with them).
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Hi, I am on my third week of 30mg each morning, 7-8am is when I take it, never after 8am. I was diagnosed at 23 but didn't start until 26.

Sides during first week or so: increase in blood pressure, slightly higher heart rate, decreased appetite, teeth grinding, could feel a "crash" in late afternoon, some difficulty sleeping ~1030pm

After the second week: unsure about blood pressure, body has adjusted some and I believe it to be more normal now. Heart rate still increases slightly, appetite still suppressed throughout the day (I eat a banana early and try and get ~20g protein by noon), not getting those "Crashes" that i had first week (or if anything, not so bad), I can sleep now and I am aware of the teeth grind thing but that has definately decreased.

Overall I think body adjusted to this well, may consider 40mg instead of 30mg. Don't think i'll go over 40mg personally. The focus benefit throughout the day really helps me with my productivity

Oh I should note I kept drinking coffee during all of this. When I first started (with those sides) I went from 4 to 2 cups a day. Now I'm back at around 3ish cups a day.

Idk if that helps, overall I feel great
This is by the same person who authored Hyperscan, which is also mentioned on this blog & worth a read.
Ah! you are correct. I thought the author was referring to the possibility of a country south of another being 1h ahead/behind depending if they do the yearly switch or not.

But in this case we go to the general problem of choosing of timezones. You have plenty of cases of south borders with different timezones (ie. without moving in longitude you still switch zones).

It's a matter of country size, not to mention that it is a matter of economic interest to keep the same timezone as neighbouring countries. I would assume the scenario you mentioned to be quite unlikely.
In general I think you are right, but imo you have one serious flaw in your argument

>Worse, you've confused giving away Free Software with giving away hours of labor to startups. These are very different situations, and I think that you know it, but by confusing them, you get to claim that FSF and GNOME are as exploitative as Y Combinator. To give you a clue, one side backs Free Software, and the other side doesn't.

If you are working yourself to death for free software instead of ycom, you die the same. Producing free software isnt some magical net good that is worth your life.
I'm not convinced it's less serious. Google's bad behaviour is serious precisely because it has total control of the memetic environment. I've never had a problem with Google that would have required customer support, but I am conscious that I make dozens of Google searches a day, and that my view of the web is exactly what Google wants my view of the web to be. That scares me more than the customer service I've never gotten.
Besides Zink, there is GL ES support on top of Vulkan through GLOVE[1] as well as Google's own ANGLE[2].

[1]: https://github.com/Think-Silicon/GLOVE
[2]: https://github.com/google/angle
>and focus on feelings instead of consequences.

Agreed, and I think an unintended consequence of 'focusing on feelings' is that it basically ensures that future interactions will also be all about feelings. (ie. we get more of what we reward)

As an aside: Early in my career I had a manager who was really tough. He was quick to point out problems and was very direct in his language. At first I hated it and was fairly intimidated by him. However I noticed a few things: It was never personal, no personal language was used. It was always factual and consequential. Second, he was good a making decisions and sticking with them. In the end I enjoyed working with him because I knew were he stood on virtually every issue, so it was easy to adjust my work to his expectations.

Next in my career, I worked for a very very different manager. She was very nice, but passive aggressive. That was actually not much of a problem, but her biggest fault is she didn't like making decisions. She would refuse to commit and want everything to be as fluid as possible. In the end, I hated my time there. I normally felt that any meeting with her was totally pointless because she refused to produce any actionable decisions from the meeting. It may sound like a dream job to some to have a boss that "never tells me what to do", but after a year or so it becomes a soul-grinding nightmare.
Yeah, I definitely don't know much about the side you're describing, wherein a company has pains with commercial licenses. I thought companies want either a "clean" FOSS license /or/ a commercial license. What's the difference between buying OSX/Windows for your business and buying commercial OSS?

Personally, I'd rather get an open source commercial product that I can read the source and contribute back to (which means yes, I would be giving those contributions back for free, that's part of the deal), than having to deal with having either no source code, or code and consultants, which is also fraught with challenges.

It is scary you can't fork a commercial OSS project, but if the company dies they usually make the software free.
It is not the EU which is the problem. It is the reluctance of the political establishment (both within the countries and across the EU) to acknowledge the opposition to such laws.
You can still communicate freely with your European colleagues. Take a photo, send it in an IM. Chat about politics.

What you can't do is claim that uploading a rip of Generic Marvel Action Movie VIII is 'communication'.
I'm familiar only with the DJI drones and they do capture Pitch, Yaw and Gimbal and a few other variables as well. It stores them on the "extended" part of the EXIF.
That's what I used to think too.

But some (admittedly junior) developers I've spoken to said that there was so much concern about IP theft they weren't allowed to look at other peoples' code (I assume Stack Overflow was an exception).

And this link https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/100081/does-two...
is about someone who was accused of plagiarism because of two lines of code.
So the goal of them was to make adults scared to learn?

What an incredibly ridiculous waste of time and money school must be these days.

The world's not a very nice place in a lot of ways. Hiding from these things doesn't change that. Learning about and understanding things that may 'trigger' you is a lot more effective and enabling you to deal with these things in life than sticking your head in the sand and hiding from them.
Javascript version:

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And a fun curvy variation:

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Haha nice one. I shall too advocate :D
No I am most certainly not. Nowhere did anything I said in the comment above indicated I was referring to both a lower AND upper bound which is Big Theta.

Honestly it sounds as if you might not understand the difference between Theta and O. I understand that a function that is O(N^2) grows no faster than O(N^3) asymptotically speaking however the intention of my original comment and example is quite clear about their context.

Please stop, you are adding nothing to the discussion.
France has many levels of police, too. Most countries have similar federations as in your US example. In France, the CRS is a reserve force of the national police who specialize in crowd and riot control. If you've ever been to a sporting event in Paris (or a train station during one) you'll see dozens of CRS there keeping order. And they're not the actual military.
This is devastating. It has long been clear what needed to happen, by law. The law has been systematically ignored, causing millions of needless deaths over decades of inaction.

There is more than enough disgrace to go around to all responsible parties. Shame on you all.
Those won’t work either with most big services asking for verification. There’s subreddits dedicated to getting non VOIP phone numbers (which Twilio isn’t) for verification.
That's an interesting way to look at it, as a kind of selection bias. Only the most fanatical people become converts.
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I don't understand. Having a stable api is also good for researchers / amateurs as well?
DJI drones stores that on the image itself. No need to use the logs.