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> extremely frustrating when someone uses "violet" to mean "purple" (or vice-versa) in a technical context. E.g. if I buy a "violet" photo filter, I will be extremely disappointed if it turns out to be dark magenta/purple.

If you are buying a photo filter you should look for a chart showing what specific wavelengths of light it absorbs.

Neither “purple” nor “violet” is a technical term.

> hundreds of years ago, "blue" was used to refer to what we would now think of as "cyan", and "indigo" was used to refer to what we would now think of as "blue" (0x0000FF on a computer monitor).

0x0000FF on your computer display is not anything like “unique blue” (some blue color a typical observer would say is neutral between green and red). Arguably calling computer-display primaries “blue” is a huge mistake.

Reasonable unambiguous human-comprehensible names for the RGB primaries would be something like “orangish red” (or even “reddish orange” if you take the ISCC–NBS color category name), “yellowish green”, and “purplish blue”.

> The colour people typically refer to as "cyan" in RGB colourspace (0x00FFFF) is the same colour referred to as "cyan" in the CMYK colourspace used for printing.

These are not close at all. Look at the chart I made in 2010, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Color-map-2.p...

The +, ◻, and × are printer’s “cyan”, (the ISCC–NBS named category for this is “greenish blue”) and the triangle shows the mixture of sRGB B and G (right at the edge of the ISCC–NBS category “bluish green”).

In a similar way, printer’s magenta is a purplish red color, whereas the 0xFF00FF on a computer display is very slightly reddish purple. The two are not remotely similar.

Notice that diagram also shows dotted lines for the NCS “unique hues” of red, yellow, green, blue, and also shows round dots for the world color survey’s color category foci.

> have you considered having the spectral sensitivity of your eyes tested?

Yes, I have normal color vision, can perfectly pass a Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test, etc.
Completely agree. Those government believe that protecting intellectual property is necessary to further human and societal progress. I won't take a position on whether I agree with that or not.

However, based on that premise they've instituted rules to "protect" intellectual property, but unfortunately they're so weighted toward the "owner" of the IP that they do (IMHO serious) harm to regular users and consumers. It seems to me that regardless of which political side you fall under, we should agree that governments exist to protect the rights and interests of everyone, not just a select few.

Something is really wrong here, and getting mad at Google or Widevine or some other company is a red herring. The real problem is what we've allowed our government(s) to do. We need to fight back there. Once the government isn't propping up the companies anymore, their abuse will disappear.
Would bringing back extinct animals turn out as badly as 'Jurassic Park'?
You're right: No fun is EVER allowed. Is that a smile on your face? Doesn't look very productive to me, now get back to work.
Seller performance is not the legal team.
Man oh man. Having (loosely) followed this saga, it sounds horrifically similar to every other "feature rush" I've ever seen in software development. I know this a fiction, but I can just imagine the scene - boss comes into SWE meeting, says "some other team implemented this thing that the higher-ups wanted, we have to change all of our stuff to make it work, and we only have X weeks/months" (common sin: deadlines before effort estimates). Then more issues are discovered in dev, SWE's try to push back but are ignored (common sin: concerns are not heard). "Scope is reduced" (common sin: this ALWAYS happens with hard deadlines, but SHOULD NEVER happen with human safety involvement, although it still does all the time e.g. healthcare).

It's not until some poor, senior engineer, who is probably one of their best staff, has a stellar reputation, and genuinely cares about their job, their team, the product, and the company ... they have to fall on the sword and TELL management what's going happen: we're not shipping this yet, IT IS NOT SAFE. Then that goes all the way up the chain, management at every level wrings their hands, "how oh how did this happen?" (although they specifically are talking about the missed deadline, not the safety concerns). It gets high enough that feeling is overcome by senior leadership wrath, which flows back down, and ultimately that engineer and their entire team is punished.

What a dumpster fire.
In addition to practical benefits, people who get a diagnosis talk about feeling seen and understood. And then other people will be a lot more understanding — although not guaranteed to be nice — about someone having autism versus "that person is weird."
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Network sockets, files, capabilities, any sort of privilege checked object the kernel supplies. It depends on the OS.
> You should be purchasing hardware based on whether the current model looks good, not what model may be next in that product line.

I couldn't disagree more. When I buy a laptop, I want to know that all the time I invest in learning that ecosystem and customizing won't be wasted time. Or any other hardware. Especially if I have to buy apps for it. I want to know that when I get the next piece of hardware, it will support all the software I already know and love (and paid for!)

I'm reluctant to buy into an ecosystem that might be on the decline, because it means a higher chance of that stuff not working anymore.
That's not how budgets work. You don't automatically get to spend $350B because of a budget shift. You also have to consider the diminishing returns of things like disease fighting, crime fighting, and the incentive to fraudulently justify your research/actions.

The F-35 is designed to be more expensive but cheaper to maintain. Fleet maintenance, especially in the US eats up a massive, massive chunk of the budget. So while the F/A 18 might be 1/3rd the price, once you count in maintenance, it might not be much cheaper...and it's last generation. There is a complex math behind it. There is absolutely waste, fraud and abuse in the military...but it's probably not as much as you think since the majority of military spending in the US is actually on pensions, healthcare, housing, salaries and maintenance of aging equipment. Things that in other countries are much cheaper or just not given to soldiers. Comparing the US to China and Russian (at least their public spending numbers) is so misleading. New research and projects is a drop in the bucket.
Regarding the product, is this for allowing friends to watch Game of Thrones and other shows together remotely?

Because I had this idea and was wondering what tech would be required to solve it.
Don't forget everyone, people are just like the average of those in their demographic! It's good to talk about huge groups of people as having common properties. It's a convenient shortcut that helps you understand people faster.
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Theres a guy with a whole youtube channel about eating military rations.. He loves em' !

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA
If you redefine terrorism to remove the dependence on violence, unless I missed something in the article? I don't personally believe that trying to find security flaws terrorism.
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I'm all for attack surface reduction, but little to exploit is not nothing to exploit. Your shell, sshd, and networking stack have probably all been exploited many times.
If you can contribute better Fortran programs for those Intel Fortran measurements, please do.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...
Reading this now and agree that it's very well-written.
Streaming game services, not so much.

Yes. The game industry is very reluctant to use Improbable's Spatial OS, because, through a deal with Google, they force you to host your game, expensively, on Google's servers.[1] Nobody wants to spend $100 million developing an AAA title using that system, and then suddenly get an email that Google is discontinuing the product.

(Spatial OS is technically interesting, and, hopefully, someone else will do something like it, with reasonable licensing terms.)

[1] https://massivelyop.com/2018/01/12/chronicles-of-elyria-is-d...
> Stick to "teal".

Teal is in the vicinity of #0AA, while cyan is around #5FF; there's almost as much difference between cyan and teal as between cyan and (light) blue or green.
“I forked Chromium and Google refuses to give me the proprietary bits” seems to be a better headline IMHO.
Looks like we can at least have a guess, makes sense.
I don't think it's really fair to condemn all of asynchronous due to the slowness of QDI. There are faster ways of doing things like GaSP, dual rail domino done detection, bundled data, one sided handshaking, etc.
Agreed. It definitely has its uses, but it lacks the self-consistency needed to be a language. Alot of this is for understandable historical reasons, but it has never been smoothed out as it would be in a project with more community involvement. Again that's ok.

Maybe we need something to be to mathematica as octave is to matlab.
That doesn't seem like it would work in this context. Whichever retains the Amazon domain name (or if somehow forfeited the most memorable/closest) would retain the lion's share for the one stop shop. Barnes and Noble is still around but that market seems fairly winner takes all.

MmThe break en up mantra seems demagogic pandering as opposed to a real solution- especially when actual abusive and far more dominant, abusive, and all consuming monopolies walk by in the background whistling.
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> Waiting 4 months for a minimal response from a vendor with

> such a large percentage of the market is unacceptable.

Umm... expecting any kind of response from a vendor with such a large percentage of the market is... kinda arrogant.

Who are you to demand any kind of response from anyone? Big project or small? You'd probably be less offended if you had a better sense of self awareness about the nature of your relationship with Google.

Thinking that Google should kowtow to your desire to build a product is pretty foolish. You need to build a product and get some traction and then have some leverage. Widevine is evil. Google is evil.

... but so is Electron, and requiring your users to use a custom browser to use your product / feature. How about an Web Extension that coordinates playback in the browser, as opposed to a whole custom browser?
I guess your definition for "the rich" is "not poor":

57€ for a 700 km travel is cheap compared to a car that will take x2 the time, unless you are OK with burning double the money on fuel and ignoring speed limits, of course risking fines and license suspension.

A full car will be cheaper if you ignore the cost of the car itself + maintenance and saved time. Families use to travel by car on holidays only because they need the car for short trips during the holidays, not because it's cheaper.

Buses were dirty cheap, I haven't even looked at the prices in the last twenty years, I had enough unconfortable eight hours travels when I had no alternative.
The problem is the big gray zone between spam and letters from Mom. All those mailing lists you get on because you signed into their website or thought something looked interesting once, and they're more or less behaving themselves but still more noise than you're willing to deal with most days.

Inbox dealt with that category of mail, which is at least 90% of what I get, in a simply beautiful way that I can't replace. Gmail has clunky tabs with 90s style pagination and ads at the top.
I am an individual and not a hivemind. I, personally, find piratebay unethical. I pay for what I consume. Paywalled scientific articles are a different beast, which I don't want to get into here.
I'm more worried about stalkers, psychotic exes or angry twitter mobs being able to buy this data.
> And finally we don't even know the level of instability

It'd approach criminal liability if the FAA certified a plane they didn't know the level of instability of. This is why test flights are performed.

As the other commenter mention, something that gets lost in this discussion is the fact that MCAS was there to make the control feel approximate other airframes.

The same aero adjustments could be accomplished by the pilot, but regulations prohibit their being necessary. So, MCAS.

We're talking 'stability that adheres to control forces required by regulation' rather than 'F-117 drop out of the sky' instability.
> Google would prefer you spend more time fighting the interface in Gmail and seeing ads

Do you see ads in Gmail?

I don't anymore and it feels it has been like since a very long time.

(and my AdBlock os turned off on Gmail)
Small world, but yes look into Ed Rosenberg. He knows who and how to talk. Out of Brooklyn but I am sure he can help.
I personally know the author of this paper who conducted these analyses. He is my office mate.

He discovered his own error that then led to this retraction. The error involved under-documented statistical code which expected the coding of male and female (0,1) to be reversed when training a classifier on each group, is my understanding. He kept the coding of sex the same across both training regimes. This created erroneous results. He became suspicious about the results after new applications of the analysis to new dataset produced over the top beautiful results.

The take is this. The mistake was honest, and way too easy. My office mate is a superb scientist with the highest integrity. He caught a mistake, and fessed up to it. This is good science.

Note: I am not part of the group that published this paper.
You are right that manufacturing is tricky. Supply chain management and Quality Assurance are complex topics that alone can be full-time jobs to stay on top of, and can take a lot of work to replicate for potential competitors. It is an area that is vastly underestimated by most Kickstarters.

At least those that don't operate in a very similar space, and have already invested this time.
But even then parts are often designed for a particular manufacturing process or supplier (though it is said that best practice is to always have multiple suppliers for any given part).

However for the PCB part of electronics, this has become a lot simpler the last 5 years. There are now many excellent and very affordable manufacturers that will do between 10-1000 boards (assembled & tested), available by just registering an account online.

But manufacturing of enclosures, cables/interconnects, final assembly is still a tedious, hands-on process for the buyer.
Zipkin. You've reinvented zipkin.
Caps Lock should be remapped to Control, as the Sun God intended.
He clearly doesn't understand what he's writing about - his example is Apple Earpods, where Amazon is the only seller due to an exclusive contract between Amazon and Apple, and there's no commingling at all going on.
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I think a very good thing to do is to write test code (almost never done in my experience) with made-up datasets where you know exactly what the results should look like.
Google+ has shut down as of 10:00PT/18:00CET.
Have you tried temporary containers Firefox plugin -- it's basically automated private mode for everything.

Article about it -- https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/10/29/virtual-browsers-fi...

Extension -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
What if the man with the knife stabs you in the stomach before the guy with the gun gets there?
I'm yet to see a clear explanation for citizens not being as much of a risk as, say, a random foreigner located far away from your country.

If anything, a citizen is more capable of carrying out a terrorist attack, or just doing any action some foreign power wants to perform in that country.

The exception for domestic citizens seems to be just a concession for the masses and their representatives, not a pragmatic choice.

Edit: a pragmatic reasoning could be compartmentalization — keeping citizens under the watch of a separate entity (e.g. FBI) but it doesn't explain why domestic mass surveillance should be ruled out.
While this issue is not unique to Google, IMHO their hiring process exacerbates it further. From day -1 you're primed to game the interview racket; once you're in, why would your mentality suddenly change wrt to climbing the promotion ladder? Your incentives haven't changed.
They keep showing more and more (or bigger and bigger) ads. At some point, they'll hit the law of diminishing returns.
> The lack of moral consistency is astounding.

Is it? Did you expect all HN users to have exactly the same moral compass?
Back in the 90's and 00's, I read some quips about how intra-company politics was starting to run counter to the welfare of Microsoft's user base.

In 2019, it seems like Google has succumb to the same pathologies, but unfortunately amplified by certain societal currents. (No matter how idealistic and noble the goals, activism entails grabbing power, and power attracts sociopaths.)
>would you also be OK with the Saudies or the Russian FSB knowing this

I think almost everyone has more to fear from someone they know (who is out to get them) than foreign governments. There's not a lot of Edward Snowdens in the general public.
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This is a good point. The parents of Children killed at Sandy Hook have been persistently harassed online by Alex Jones listeners including death threats and doxing. Imagine how much worse it would be if they could just publish their exact GPS coordinates.
It's like Microsoft used to be.
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Does this journal have a ranking or impact factor?
It feels like that'd really boil down to whether identifying a fugitive's location based on signal from the location-broadcaster they're carrying voluntarily on their person, connected to a distributed service network shared by customers of a private company, could be considered "unreasonable search and seizure."

To a first approximation, my guess would be "probably not." No more so than, say, a train station dropping a dime on you if you try and buy a ticket on a train and your name comes up as wanted.
Google+ cannot be used with customer or brand accounts anymore
What you really want is data formats and import/export functions across applications.

We've been over this with Microsoft Word making its format difficult to convert - stifling competition.

All these internet giants don't even have a file format for you to try and convert! Brilliant on their part.

Once you have your friend-list and stuff-you-posted as json, go ahead and switch to a different application - it'll be a 2 click import and you're set.

Regarding search and gmail - I fail to see how they have any hold over you, just use duckduckgo and one of the many other email service providers.
What's stopping them? You can buy this information right now.
At least one forum uses them to notice followup posts https://devzone.nordicsemi.com . It's redundant in that the forum can be told to notice by email.
He addresses this point specifically in his post ... developing it as an extension would reduce the features he can support, and further entrench it in google's walled garden (since he'd have to publish it on the chrome store).

I don't have much more context in this person's project than anyone else, but your response is kind of the point, one vendor has too much power because they can't be expected to support any kind of innovative ecosystem; yeah, that's not a great state of affairs, and begins to echo/suggest anti-competitive practices (whether on purpose, or just as a function of their size)
A few years ago, we had to wait one and a half hour before takeoff in a 787. After that time they said "Sorry, the we needed a bit more time for the software update on the plane" over the speaker ...
> Even if you're OK with your own government having access to your current location at all times, would you also be OK with the Saudies or the Russian FSB knowing this?

I see this sentiment a lot, and I've never understood the thought process that leads to it. Your own government is the worst possible party to have information on you, because they have a lot of power to do things to you. They are also much more likely to care about your activities or other things that concern you.

By contrast, the Saudis are way the hell over in Saudi Arabia, have very little power over Americans in America, and don't care what Americans in America do. In the immortal words of Achilles:

> I came not warring here for any ill the Trojans had done me. I have no quarrel with them. They have not raided my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea.

You can change whether the Saudis care about what you're doing, if you try hard. But you can't bring them up to the level where they care more or have more power than your native government already does.
Any knowledge or skillset can be misunderstood and/or misapplied. I'm doing my best to express my understanding, which may, of course, be completely wrong. I've also been doing my best to understand this stuff, which included taking a long break from engineering work to study it.
There is still flaw in the reasoning though. Transitionning implies much more than just a change in hormone balance as you are aware. Plus emotionnal responses to subjective feelings and physiological cues are not free from social influence either.
I also lost some data. I used to keep a personal journal in some random website, but when they closed that I copied it as a single huge block of text, encrypted. One day, it cropped 80% of it. Gone forever.
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> Overall, this can mean significantly higher throughput and lower energy, but getting those benefits requires very careful design and completely different computer architectures.

What effect will this have on our programming languages and programming idioms? To some extent, our low-level programming languages have influenced CPU design, and vice versa, but it's not clear what effect an architectural change like this would have.
Although you make some valid points it should not be main practice for companies to dominate the software scene, how else did the original great SW get made? It's almost impossible to start a garage band company and this is like large trees in the canopy shading out more light to the forest floor. Granted, it's not the best or only example of this interaction, but independent devs need equal representation against the Giants especially in starting new products.