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> The MIT license is replaced with a custom, ‘free for non-commercial and evaluation’ license

This is really all I want out of anything. I don’t want to pay to evaluate, just to see if it’s a good fit. But if I’m going to use something commercially, I actually want to pay for it, at least if that thing is a complicated component like a rich text editor or handsontable. These open source projects usually have 1-2 developers who account for 95% of code changes[0][1]. If they went away, the project would die. Commercially, that’s a huge risk.

EDIT: Just read this license. I wonder why they went with license keys?

[0] https://github.com/quilljs/quill/graphs/contributors

[1] https://github.com/basecamp/trix/graphs/contributors
This is UKIP's stopped clock being right once a day, they just vote against anything in the EU. They would support a worse version of the bill locally.
Oh ffs another article about Big-O without the actual definition anywhere in it. Put it at the end after motivating it, put it at the beginning and then explain it, I don’t care. Just actually give it at some point.
Doubt it. I don't think many people know or care about this.
I'm not sure if the British internet is any better... https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/13/17349910/uk-newsstands-po...
Mach wasn't the first generation, there were the Aleph and Accent kernels that were predecessors to Mach.
There is nothing we can do, by design. The European Commission has the exclusive ability to create new laws, and they're almost totally isolated from any kind of democratic control.
The young'ish CEO of .. Dutch Royal Shell (?) .. one of the majors .. was overtaken by an internal coup and kicked out, for embracing green energy openly.. in the early 2000s. It was quite well documented.
UK/France isn't such an issue, there's a big stretch of water in between that takes a minimum of an hour to get across by any mode of transport (once you factor in waiting/boarding time).

Not sure how many people make daily border crossings between Spain/Portugal like those I described in my other comment, but even then it is something new if the time difference between states varies with the time of year.

In short, if your country opts out of summer time but your close neighbours don't, all those living in densely populated border areas are still affected by the summer time changes, only with the added complexity that your neighbours in the next suburb don't always keep the same time that you do...
Similar to what another commenter mentioned, I've done some experiments creating a virtual MIDI port from my code where I push all the notes to. A DAW can then read from this like any other MIDI device, as if it's just a MIDI keyboard that someone is playing. Another approach is to generate a MIDI file of some specified length and load that in the DAW, which is nice as it doesn't need to be generated and recorded in real time.
> rich and poor

You seem to have a mental image of the internet that doesn't correspond to reality. Poor didn't have access, they couldn't afford a computer, much less an internet plan.

Step out of the Hacker News bubble for a bit.
Keep in mind that in America a "sabbatical" may mean something like 2-3 weeks off...I.e. what in Europe would just be a normal vacation (most every job I ever had in Austria or Germany included ~25 days [5 weeks] off per year - it is common for people to take 2-3 weeks of those in the summer in one go).

The original meaning (and the one that will probably throw europeans off) was 1 year every 7, which I would venture a guess is so rare outside of academia/education as to basically be irrelevant.
If a single law makes you switch countries you should overthink that decision. It's a bad law for sure, I even joined a demonstration against it, but it's like totally on a different scale than censorship in the Iran. Please inform yourself before making such statements.
My point about how addiction affects the mind (above) holds true even if you believe the chemical computer is only part of the total system of "you."
The book “Never Split the Difference” was recommended on HN recently:

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De...
VCV (https://vcvrack.com/) converts 2.6% of its free users to customers of its commercial plugins.
Armies are supposed to fight against foreign troops, at worst, they are supposed to take sides in the event of a civil war, in no way are they supposed to be sent against their own citizenry. At least not in a democratic country.

What's worst is that the crooks that run things around my part of the continent (I live in Eastern Europe) have given Macron's recent actions as an example, as in: "if France's rulers are happy to tear-gas their own citizenry why are we blamed for doing the same thing"?
> The problem with server browsers, or user hosted servers are/were arbitrary rules enforced by the admin of that server

I'd say it's a benefit. I remember playing on a bunch of CS servers with special and/or zany rules that couldn't exist without server browsers.
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This also affects small online communities, who pay for their servers by running a few ads. There are a lot of these platforms.
The UK in general will support such increases in copyright power. The government for the most part is not tech-savvy enough to understand the objections to article 13.
Great article. Is an extended edition of aisatsana available for download anywhere, or is it only available through generative.fm?
> The EU Parliament, who we vote for every 5 years (and have elections coming up), vote for a law. You don't like said law, therefore it's undemocratic?

Did any parliament members run on this issue? If so, how many? The point I'm getting at is, to what extent did "the people" really have a say in this issue?

Politicians are elected and some time down the road laws are proposed without much, if any, input from the people. It's not really possible to know ahead of time what laws will be proposed years in advance and how your representative will actually vote on them when the time comes. That's my main gripe with the whole "well you should've voted for a better representative!" argument. Yeah you can vote them out after the fact, but ahead of time the best you can do is vote for someone who represents your district's interests in the most general sense. It's really a crapshoot as to what your representative is going to do once they're sat in front of some dense, hard-to-understand legislation cooked up by a nameless, faceless corporate-political committee.
But you cannot change the copyright or license of the existing code. You can add GPL code that cannot be merged back, but nothing gives you permission to change the copyright of the original.
How is this any different than various people bordering Germany thinking they can just pop in for some shopping, only to discover it's Sunday and pretty much everything's closed?

Maybe the result of countries being able to fiddle with DST is going to be silly, but it's a big stretch to think that it's something the EU must centrally enforce as an economic union.
Iceland is not in the EU. And also has no land borders with member states. So it doesn't really matter what they choose to do from a Europe-wide perspective.
The GP's neighbor sounds like they have their panties in a bunch but going out of your way not to offend/annoy those kind of people is just the reality in those kind of places. If you want to live somewhere "nice" but not the middle of nowhere you need to conform. Unfortunately things like having a large garden, having parties, having a project boat, or collecting late 80s vintage cars do not fit within the scope of "conforming" for the purposes of the upper middle class suburban neighborhoods that most HNers will settle down in. The GP didn't conform so his neighbor complained and someone sent him a letter on official letterhead. It doesn't really matter who's letterhead it's on.

Only well off suburban/urban communities the resources to justify mediating disputes to the tune of "my neighbor's hobbies look/sound/smell offensive". If you want freedom to do what you want on your own property you need your neighbors to either have bigger problems or be far enough away to not care. Those places don't generally have good schools or aren't within commuting distance of lots of good jobs. There's tradeoffs to every approach.
How else would you want them to measure it besides ratios? What would absolute numbers mean in this context?
It seems like the main point of this redesign is modularity for security's sake. Curious to hear who is asking for this OS, where Google will use it, and what type of system any of the HN crowd would consider putting Fuchsia OS into. Can't shake the feeling that it's somewhat...uncalled for by the market?
You also don't seem to understand economics. It isn't plain and simple, things are far more complex than that.

And if you read the EU decision, you'll notice that they're assuming that Android doesn't compete with iOS...
Complaining is a good way to get companies to improve things. You may think that it's a lost cause, but others have the freedom to think otherwise.
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There's a bit of nuance to bring here.

Moving militaries to replace police on some institutions' security is and was stupid, as it's not their core mission.
But calling "citizens street protests" the guerilla-like behaviours that triggered this clumsy response from the government is a bit naive and misleading as well.

If you study France's Fifth Republic rules (Constitution), you'll see the president has some discretionary power that are not democratic, in order to be able to take on decisions to safeguard the republic - that's a direct heritage of De Gaulle, that saw that in 1940, the president had not the power, and could not decide to make the army react fast enough to counter German invasion.

So, nothing real new so far.

This initiative was supported by Macron, as it was by many others. Nothing new either that France (and French cultural crowd) has always been historically in favour of this kind of copyright move, or even stronger ones.
I haven't read through the article but people have been doing generative tracks in Reaktor for years
Having tracked the position of stories on the first 10 pages for a few weeks last December, I saw a lot of things flagged off the front page before they even had a chance to get comments. While I can't and don't blame HN for the flagging activity for users, I can and do blame it for not making flags public. Votes are one thing, but flagging articles isn't an expression of anything private, or at least it shouldn't be. If flags were public and came with a bunch of radio buttons and a text field for a reason for the flag, that'd be at least a start. "Send us an email when you see a pattern in the data we don't provide" doesn't really cut it.
You can still share on your personal site (even your commercial one, as you won't violate copyright I guess and so can't be sued effectively (if local legislation would get their shit together even not in the typical extortion form))... Random, unaccounted internet fame by the magic of some proprietary algorithm might be harder too achieve though, but I see no censorship in this (and indeed today, censorship is possible with this algorithms).

I'm not sure, how the blocking you propose should work (your comment shows as much ignorance as most MEPs speaking for the reform do), as the directive basically enables any rightholder to enforce claims against the platform as soon as they publish any copyright violating material. The whole point is that rightholders should not have to rely on takedown notices anymore, which imho is not necessarily bad – this does also not in any way stand of overdue policy which limits the outrageous fees on copyright violations (for example, why not sign bills which make you pay the (standard) license fee+30% if you're violating copyright, when you are using the protected works in your own work (for blatant theft, like reuploading a music video, fines could still be like they are today...)?).
You're replying to voices in your head, it seems.

I never mentioned anything about any form of life at all. (Or any time scales either, for that matter.)

My comment was that the 18th century idea of uniformitarianism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformitarianism) is obviously wrong, and discussions about prehistory need to take this into account.
The artifice is absolutely transparent, especially when it comes to business relationships, particularly employer-employee relationships. They are short-termist, interchangeable, and besides, the employer is a psychopath. Everyone has internalized that fact, and then they insist you express your feelings! It doesn't get more preposterous than that.
I think the problem of nuclear proliferation shouldn't be underestimated in this grand idea to replace fossil fuels.

A few extra nuclear bombs going off per year in cities would soon change the desire for this I suspect.
I may be wrong but I don't think that last statement is true if the lifetime of the customer/asset is short--especially shorter than expected. The business model seems too new and for me it hasn't proven itself viable.
Old doesn't have to mean bad. Folks are switching from MongoDB to PostgreSQL, or wish they could if it wasn't too late and expensive. Evaluate on merits, not age.
Pretty sure most of those tracks are not actually playable by a single person and that they're all programmed.
I wonder how Fuchsia will manage in the regulated world's (medical, aviation).

A micro kernel is a big sell for regulators/QA. Also, being a RTOS.

This would disrupt many big players in the field, such us QNX.
I am sick of people using this as some kind of an universal argument. The communist party in 1946 was also elected lawfully in my country, and Hitler also was (and yes, I'm fully aware that he lied to the German people - that's the point). And the fact that someone elected these people does not change anything about the possibility of them lying to the people that elected them, and it also changes nothing about the lawful and moral obligation these people have to their people (people they represent - all citizens of their country, not "people that voted for them"!) that they should act in their best interests - which they can just not do at any time, such as now, which makes this argument irrelevant.
That's some valuable feedback, thank you very much!

When you say laptops without mouse, are you talking about using a touchpad or a touchscreen? The "Play mode / Select mode" switch is only visible on touch-enabled devices and doesn't really affect mouse or touchpad clicks. Using a touchpad, the left button plays and the right button selects/deselects. I suppose what you mean is that I should modify the behaviour of the mouse/touchpad in the case the mode switch is visible. That seems reasonable.

I'm not an expert on sound synthesis and most of the included synth configurations are library defaults, or presets I found somewhere. I'd like them to have a bit more character, and it would also be nice to add some more. This is an area I could work on, I agree.

Someone else here has suggested the same thing about making the sound settings more visible. I think it's a good idea, I'll see what I can do!

I thought about adding that feature in the 'explore harmony' modal but I was concerned about having to choose a specific voicing for the chords. But I guess it shouldn't be a big deal: if the provided voicing is not the best to integrate in your progression, you can always modify it.

Great comments, thanks again. And good luck with your Hexpress app!
>You call it "more perspective", I call it dilution and spam. It could be attached to any discussion, and it doesn't tell us anything new.

It wouldn't tell someone "anything new" presumed they already knew their side was doing the same shit. Most don't. And being predominantly told about the evil others doing it (in accordance with whatever the current enemy/ally du jour is, and which agenda is to be pushed at any time), doesn't make them any favors. That's the actual noise.

>As I said, "You use the people who do that as fig leaf to ignore the people who don't."

No, I'm interested in actual outcomes, and those have to do with frequency of something being done. You can find some people doing the right thing at every point in history and on every matter. Their existence doesn't make it less of a problem -- as long as the majority (or a big enough segment, or those with more power) are not doing the right thing.

I'm not sure what the "fig leaf" accusation is supposed to settle. If someone speaks about e.g. tourist's polluting a national park, would you go and tell them "there are some people who don't throw garbage when they visit there", as if that somehow makes the problem go away? And you'd be mad at them when insisting the problem exists, because they "use those that do as a fig leaf to hide those that don't"?

>That doesn't change what you and the comment you found so spot on are doing, which is not responding to the actual article

That's called "agency". As an individual, I don't have to respond to the way something is phrased and stick to that like an automaton.

Nor is it always to the detriment of the discussion not sticking to the narrow scope something was presented in. Especially in politics (this is not a technical matter).
Nuclear isn't built because it isn't financially viable. I'd love to see more nuclear, but it just isn't going to happen anytime soon. Maybe if we added a carbon tax that was reasonable considering the climate emergency it might be.
Militaries were not sent against anyone, they were placed to protect more of the institutions (that were not on the paths of protests), so that police forces could be relieved there to be concentrated on hot protest areas.
This does not address the root of the problem. No matter where you go, you will be a minority, susceptible to these kinds of "reforms".
Again, improve your reading skills.

Android J++ as Java fork could pretty much use something else other than JNI, after all they are using another VM to start with.

Second, even with JNI, there is a big difference between forcing millions of developers to write boilerplate by hand, and offering an Android Studio based tool that would automate the grunt part of the work.

Finally, update yourself with the Java world, Oracle is indeed bringing forward a JNI replacement.

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/

Which, naturally will never arrive to Android J++, but that is a discussion for another day.
Stock images are legal they are just resold a bazillion times.
Are you teaching game networking to Glenn Fiedler? You probably learnt it from him, or someone who read his articles!

Now seriously: client side prediction is not magic and it always introduces its own problems, like getting killed after getting into cover (especially in low TTK shooters) or the opposite: bullets not registering when if they hit in your screen.

Client side prediction is sleight of hand. It will never replace actually perfect network conditions and will still feel better the lower your latency is.

It's necessary, but not sufficient.
Don't write off gas yet. Switching from coal to natural gas allowed the UK to cut CO2 emissions dramatically in a short period of time and have resulted remarkably less carbon intensive electricity generation compared to countries that have spent massive amounts on wind and solar like Denmark and Germany. Also the potential for carbon capture and storage for gas power generation is good and could see it remain a power source even in a net zero CO2 emission future.
This is the reason I bailed while trying to create a twitter account recently. How often do you change your phone number? Once these ad companies get hold of your phone number they can track you across multiple services and build a complete profile of everything you do and track your every move.
It's pointless because of the hedonic treadmill. Any feel good feeling is neurochemical in nature, and any moment of feeling good will be counterbalanced at one point or another.
Yeah, it could be, but then why the other EurSkep. parties voted for it?
I'm seriously baffled about the amount of HN commenters, who I'd assume are highly educated, who think that democracy doesn't work if they don't agree with every law produced by it.
The private cars were also diesel in great numbers, and there were many more of them, carrying on average barely more than 1 person.

You can't blame London's poor air on it having a congestion charge...
This is the French survey: http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/15/autres-commissions/com...

The results are here: https://www.vie-publique.fr/actualite/alaune/changement-heur... and 2 103 999 persons answered it, with 83.71% being in favor of dropping daylight savings time.

That served as a basis for the French government's contribution to the draft that was voted on at the EU parliament. The draft didn't drop from the sky, it was written by the European commission, which is made up of representatives from all EU countries.
This is an important consideration in practice, and I think it would be helpful if classes teaching O-notation would include an exercise that makes this point. It is also true, however, that O-notation considerations always dominate for large enough problems.

Anyone expecting the O-Notation to give the outcome of measured performance has made a category error, as it is never about run-time itself, it is about the change of run-time with problem size (and only in the asymptopic limit).
In the lab I work in we have internal tools for doing something like this for precision agriculture, but I have never heard of an open source solution. UAVs generally don't record their orientation or GPS data without setting up a separate log file (I have no idea how you do this on Pixhawks. We use BYU's autopilot or our own autopilot).
> I don't understand this view at all. Why would a company that benefits this law spend so much money trying to prevent it from passing?

A couple of Devil's Advocate suggestions for you:

- Their self-interest is enlightened enough to see that there is long-term benefit in the playing field being at least somewhat even, e.g., because unassailable monopolies become lazy and eventually collapse under their own weight.

- The people who run Google were startup founders once, and many of their employees and products were once startup founders/startups, so they know that a healthy startup ecosystem is to their benefit.

I neither strongly believe nor disbelieve the truth of these positions. Nor do I know if they are any part of Google’s thinking behind its campaigning.

I'm just suggesting them as possibilities that might help you make your own position more robust.
I'll go you one better, 100% of Americans have chemicals in their bodies, such as dihydrogen monoxide which causes certain death if inhaled in sufficient quantities.
This list of votes was just linked from blog.fefe.de:

https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/copyrightvot...
Where I live they owe interest to the tenants on deposits.
TIL World War II ended in 1969, at the earliest.
If Fuchsia is wrong on this point, they can add more POSIX compatibility later.
Seems very reasonable to me. Here are some other theories at the time from the wiki article about where birds came from:

"Some theories of the time held that they turned into mice, or hibernated at the bottom of the sea during the winter, and such theories were even propagated by zoologists of the time."
> You cannot solve a demand-side problem by attempting to reduce the supply.

Of course you can. Works perfectly well for rape and murder, for example. (As well as for traffic violations, for that matter.)