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Quoting the actual mistake is more useful, as that sentence doesn’t actually clarify the question — it’s what they’d say if it were for political reasons, as well.

> In the letter, Ecker wrote that she and her coauthors had "identified a problem with the script that was used for the prediction of biological sex in male and female individuals with ASD based on their respective neuroanatomy in our original sample."

> That meant that "the probabilities we assumed to be indicative of the default (male) category in the female individuals with ASD, as shown in Figure 1B of our article, were flipped and in fact reflect the probabilities for the category of biological female individuals."
> Golang

> all of these things have ideas and features directly drawn from functional programming

golang is the complete opposite of that, they disregarded useful research with unsubstantiated claims and it's just a basic procedural language with some concurrency, that's it.
Why is your response so polite?
It's a new audience that these games attract, not necessarily the way gaming is heading. Everyone has a gaming device in their pocket now where as 10 years ago only people who sought out gaming would play games.
More like locks on a motel room.
Will we get to see the changeset?
For the greater good of the world he shouldn't OSS it, but make it free! I'm mostly a R/Python statistics type, but a multi-day course in Mathematica left me in awe. It is great software. The way you could make models dynamic in a user interface kind of way was way ahead of it's time. It's pricing was prohibitive though and we chose not to pursue it.
Not sure which Silicon Valley you are referring to. My house in that place has no insulation in the walls nor in any other place and none of the windows close properly so the breeze is steady throughout the interior. Of course they are /historic/ windows so I can't fix any of them.
Huh? The benefit to the restaurant is exactly as promised. The only ethical concern that I see is that all the content is grabbed from other sources (the author claims to give proper attribution).
@bgoldy

We use manage chef server in multiple production environments and long standing customer and install the binaries automatically when building new servers and AMI's etc. Can someone explain how this will change in the future and impact us licensing wise? As up to now we pay for number of nodes managed by chef cloud servers (manage.chef.io) which makes it very clear what we paying for.. With these news it now not clear at all what we need to have liencing for :(

Also what happens to chef-zero etc? I looked at the pricing page https://www.chef.io/pricing/ which has been updated. Is this per month, year or perpetuity? and what counts as a chef infra target and inspec targets actually mean? as we use these for test-kitchen local development and testing as well we use chef-zero for Packer Images (AMI's) and AutoScaling vms.

I read the FAQ section (https://www.chef.io/bmc-faq/) and none of it is very clear as Chef does not need to be used with just a central server but can work standalone. So can someone explain how the pricing will work for these non connected workflows in the future? Chef-Zero for AutoScaling VMs, Packer Builds, and InSpec Profiles for Local Testing etc..

As looking at these changes it will be huge nightmare to keep track of every chef-client and inspec target installed everywhere when we got autoscaling and build systems running Chef as we prefer to use the official binaries but with this change that seems we may have to fork the Open Source Repos, even if we paying for some of infrastructure to be central managed by chef directly so we are 100% confident we not breaching any terms of service.

Will the build release process be also made open source so we can have confidence we will be creating compatible builds? As we much prefer to use vendor releases but under this new licensing terms that does not seems possible :(
Everyone has the ability to play non-obscure videos i.e. all of YouTube. (Including Premium originals!)

How did "DRM video player" become part of the "reasonable feature set"?? Don't most people use dedicated apps for Netflix anyway?
Cool for them, but that hurts my wallet. I never felt safe using google products, and the only one I paid for (adwords) decreased in quality, so...
> Usually an organization starts with a top-down direction and the rest of the company is compensated for executing it. Not at Google. The "let a thousand flowers bloom" approach that developed from the early days of twenty percent time and total engineering independence has created a disorganized mess of a company. Multiply the individual incentives fifty thousand times and you get a company that throws stuff at the wall to see if it sticks, and if it doesn't kills it immediately.

This is also why we had a botched rollout of Material Design across Google's apps following the release of Lollipop.

Apps rolled out Material redesigns whenever, often months and sometimes even years after Lollipop's launch. Apps used various different versions of the Material support library: the Drive Apps in particular had text and widget alignment issues that made them look very unlike the other Material apps. And for a while, I was tracking which apps exhibited correct behavior of the status bar and the hamburger menu, because there were multiple ways apps could implement each one, but only one correct way (ironically enough, I was doing so in a Google Doc) [0].

To me, this is an awful way to roll out your new company-wide branding initiative. You want a new brand to be consistent across all your products and rolled out simultaneously. In retrospect, it was the moment when I began to lose faith in Google as a company.

Some time after that, somebody explained to me why, and it was exactly as you said: engineering groups operate independently of each other with no top-down chain of command. There's nobody telling them "you have to roll out the new branding by this date", "you have to make sure you're following these company-wide standards", etc. Basically, I was told that at Google, "company-wide" isn't a thing that exists. And that's awful. And honestly, it makes me never want to work for Google. That kind of chaos is exactly the opposite of the kind of working environment I could thrive in.

[0] Correct behavior: status bar is a darker shade of the toolbar's color, the hamburger menu covers the screen from top to bottom with the status bar as a translucent overlay on top of the menu bar, and the hamburger icon doesn't animate at all while you drag the menu out. Following Lollipop, there were Material apps that broke every one of those rules, but in completely different combinations from app to app.
I would guess that Firefox's approach is only possible, because Mozilla made sure it is. I doubt that anyone else is allowed to "redistribute" the binary by automatically downloading it at runtime without getting a license.
I have no sympathy for Netflix; not too long ago, Linux users had to jump a series of hurdles just to be able to play Netflix videos (including installing 32-bit Mono and Silverlight (yuck) and faking the User Agent string). As an end-user I'm happier now that it just works; as a FOSS fan, I blame the "content-owners" onerous demands for DRM.
More so, you can protest against your corrupt local government as long as you support the central government in Beijing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukan_protests
I use GoodNotes. It’s a notebook/paper paradigm which relies heavily on pen input - but it works fantastic for what it does.
HDCP is broken, so people just get their captures from there I think. The Widevine stuff is also clearly not as trusted by publishers, which is why they only publish 720p streams on it IIRC. I think this is because it gets less help from the platform to prevent copying the frames.
Except that there was no such trade off here. If they refuse to approve DRM and then some browsers unwisely implement it anyway, having their approval makes it worse, not better. The browsers doing the wrong thing can claim to be following a standard, even though the standard is useless garbage because the entire point of having a standard is so that anyone can implement it, which in this case they still can't.
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Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9176538.
A different person said that. I thought your response to him was fine, except for the weird thing about sRGB.
I'm sorry but Windows is not "good these days". It's as terrible as ever.
Prices of commodities tend to asymptotically approach the cost of their inputs in a free market. When I was into it a few years ago, I recall hearing the materials cost was about 3% of the cost the batteries and the energy requirements of production are low, so perhaps there's still about 15-20 years of 15% price reductions?
The same happened to me, sort of. I never once had a psych say "You might try exercising to treat your depression." They would only prescribe medication. Then a few years ago my GP, who took over maintaining my prescriptions, asked me if I exercised regularly. I wasn't. So I started going 3 times a week, then 5-6, and I've been much less reliant on my medication to keep my spirits up. It's pretty shocking to me that this is neither a standard question psychs ask nor a suggested (additional) treatment modality.
I love Google Keep. It's simple, syncs great and overall it's a great tool for keeping notes. But I am trying to switch to something else. I don't want to wake up one morning and see a blog post from Google saying they are shutting it down.
I'd be happy to use one browser for Netflix and another browser with better privacy/security/adblock/anti-track/bookmarking/speed for everything else. I'm already in this world: I use Brave for most things, except for a banking site where it doesn't work.\

The browser should explain clearly what's wrong and what to do when a site requires DRM. Don't be like QuickTime, where opening any unsupported file bounces you to a FAQ page where the question you most likely have ("how do I view this video") leads to a huge run-around.
I'm trying it out right now. Works! I heard about people using Googles Speech-to-Text to solve the audio challenge some time ago... ty for showing this 1!
True but they did at least disclose it, "Full disclosure: Although I have been using Drobo devices for a number of years, I recently became a Drobo ambassador"

My experience with Drobo is less stellar.
Thanks for clarifying! I think I got hung up on the part where you were saying that licenses cannot give us the kind of community we want. (Which I agree with.) In my utopian fantasies, every software project has a constitution as well as a license, defining how the project is governed, who may participate, what participation looks like, what obligations you undertake by using the software, how the constitution itself may be changed, provisions for an afterlife if the project is abandoned.

Real-world voluntary organizations like grocery co-ops have long operated on this model, and some software projects, notably Debian, actually have constitutions. The Debian model, however, doesn't place any obligations on Debian's users, doesn't even acknowledge their existence. Their specific constitution has a lot of other weaknesses in terms of its ability to generalize, but the existence of the constitution seems like a very good idea.
How is that a violation? I don’t think the author created the account in an automated way, and the “collection information” clauses are so vague I have no idea what they actually mean.
Consumers must take some of the blame surely?

If there's nothing but coal powered electricity generation then vote to change it.

If the company you buy electric from uses more coal than others, then change company.

IMO ordinary members of the public take more responsibility in that because it's relatively straightforward to understand: buy your electric from renewable generation and get less negative environmental impact.

Understanding the best sources of power is hard however, so consumers have to trust published government research for that.
Uh medicare is more efficient than private insurance, despite having it's hands tied by current legislation keeping it from negotiating drug prices. Medicare also takes on the oldest in the population demographic, needing the most and highest cost care that the private insurance companies are then relieved from managing.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20110920.01339...

"The private insurance equivalent of Medicare would cost almost 40 percent more in 2022 for a typical 65-year old."

Medicare for All would make medicare even more efficient.
Google/Microsoft/Apple/Adobe want to support
media content, but to do so requires towing
the line with the media companies

Sounds like the problem is the web browser companies also deciding to be movie streaming companies. Thus giving movie producing companies leverage over web browser tech.

If it weren't for Google Play Movies and iTunes Movies they could have just told the MPAA companies to take a hike.
Corporate political economy (ecology? anthropology?) is always pathological like this, one way or another. Seems inevitable, like factionalism and partisanship taking over parliamentary politics in every example we have.

That aside, it kind of makes sense that Google places this much emphasis on the revenue producing parts of the business.

On "what about new products and innovation" see the first point. While every corporate pathology is different (Google's flavour seems unique) a near-constant is doublespeak. There might be (or might have been) a logic behind it, it just gets communicated in corporate-speak because plain language is too harsh.

Ultimately, at Google's scale (like a VC) a meaningful innovation is >$1bn annual revenue or the equivalent of that. Not many projects have that kind of potential. Letting a thousand flowers bloom means letting 998.3 flowers die.
Evernote isn't perfect. That said I've used it forever since the days when it was just a desktop application and have thousands of notes. I've never lost one. While it shocks me, after many years there is still no real alternative to seamlessly synch all the documents I am reading and filing across all my computers and my iPad. The product is feeling a little stale as if active development has stopped but it does work fine as it is.
Does exercise treat depression effectively? Yes, of course! The only problem is when you're too depressed to work out. This is where SSRI's and other first-line treatments can be valuable: they can lift you up just enough to go get the rest of your life squared away.
Xoogler here. Individual contributors are aware of it, but have very little to no power to change it. I left when I realized I would never make career progress due in large part to this incredibly restrictive advancement model. My partner, also an Xoogler, left for the same reason.

Google is big enough, and appealing enough as an employer, that it appears to be comfortable accepting this turnover as part of how it does business. Anyone who wants to change things leaves, or is "encouraged" to leave, and only those who buy wholly into the model stick around to get promoted. Then, since that method of promotion worked for them, they entrench and encourage it, and the cycle continues.
Agree with everything you said except for this last bit:

> If you're a football player or a film director, add drugs probably won't do much.

It's obviously not a useful data point, but my own personal experience is that my physical endurance is greatly increased on the days I've taken my Adderall prescription.

If you read up on amphetamines, it's pretty interesting. They known to provide significant physical enhancement in a number of dimensions. The trick is keeping the user from developing a physical dependence.
Unless your workdays are full of playing games and drinking with coworkers you’ll probably burn out with that schedule.

But then again startups founders work those hours or more
https://support.google.com/widevine/troubleshooter/6027072
Media companies would rejoice. Since such a coordinated move from Google, Microsoft and Apple would destroy streaming for everyone indiscriminately, it would re-level the playing field and enable everyone to start competing anew. Disney, HBO and others would fork Chromium and add DRM support back, then market the shit out of it. They'd start signing deals with phone and TV manufacturers to get their DRM back, each preferably in a way that excludes the others. There'd be a lot of churn as whole media space gets re-balkanized, but that's all good, since churn means they make money.

A lot of smaller companies would die, and a lot of users would suffer - but none of the parties involved actually cares about the users; we're just a natural resource to be stripmined.
I think the comments in this thread are somewhat missing the point. Its not so much an issue that bounty hunters can track you anywhere, its that anyone with a little money can access the same databases. Given the actions of the US/foreign intelligence agencies over the last couple decades, it would be foolish to think that they wouldnt be keeping their own copy of all this data. 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 think we're all past the point where the idea of individually targeted misinformation campaigns are out of the realm of scifi and are very much a real thing. Location data alone is enough to create an extremely accurate demographic/psychological profile for a person.
There is jamming and then there is spoofing.

I think I have seen GPS jamming in Washington DC.

What I found interesting in the report is the methods that they used to detect spoofing, namely with a receiver on the ISS.

Anti-spoofing countermeasures are an interesting topic but are classified secret so you don't hear much about it. I think one basic principle is comparing information from multiple sources. The belief is that spoofing is not so bad, even for life safety applications, so long as you know it is taking place. For instance there are multiple GPS signals and also signals from GLONASS and Galileo and a Chinese system is about to go global. Effective spoofing against a receiver that can receive them all is more complex than just spoofing one signal.
Did you mean to ask whether Apple are making their cables fall apart more easily in an effort to make the more environmentally friendly?

That's an interesting take. I don't think it holds up because their charge cables have been falling apart before the charger reaches end of life for at least as long as I've been using MacBooks, so 13 years.
Thanks so much! I'll review this in depth after work.
> Multiply the individual incentives fifty thousand times and you get a company that throws stuff at the wall to see if it sticks, and if it doesn't kills it immediately.

It sucks for some users but isn't it good for Google as a business? The way you describe it, it sounds like Google is internally approximating a free market to allocate resources. I understand the risk of damaging the brand but for a lot of new Google products, the only competition comes from startups which equally are a risky bet.
The intersection of people who are familiar with maintaining operational security, have sufficient cash on hand to go on the lam for an extended period of time with some fake ID, etc. with those that Dog the Bounty Hunter is looking for is likely pretty small.
Nothing you described justifies a block.
My New Vegan Life (2018)
Nationalistic slurs will get you banned here. Please don't post like this to HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Of course, content producers could run back to the state for more protection (as they always do) and get legislation forcing browser makers to comply.

Implementations of such forced-by-court features tend to be buggy. ;-) The implementation bugs might differ in subtle ways in each new browser release. ;-)
Free software was always about users, not developers, hence unrelated to production aspect. Maybe open source was about developers?
Android Things is no longer for “Things,” focuses on smart speakers and displays
You never bought it in the first place. The Adversary doesn't sell things anymore, it only rents them out.
> That is, one way to think about the Free Software/Open Source divide is that copyleft ensures freedoms for users at the expense of restricting developers, and permissive licenses ensure freedoms for developers at the expense of restricting users.

I think there are two errors there: one is conflating the Free Software / Open Source divide (which is less about licenses and more about consequentialist vs. deontological justification for desire for licenses with particular features) with the copyleft/permissive divide, and the other is conflating direct licensees with “developers” and indirect downstream licensees with “users”. (It's true that the GPLv3 contains specific protection for certain users qua users via the anti-TiVoization provisions, but that's not true of copyleft licenses generally.)
uc browser and qqbrowser are monitor pages you visited.
This is the most plausible outcome. Netflix wouldn't just leave that money on the table and the most obvious thing to do would be to provide the support they want from browsers themselves.

Users follow use cases and would not be averse to spending 30 seconds installing something in order to watch their favorite content.

There's also sort of a game theory situation with the removal of DRM, as it would be a competitive advantage being the only one that supports it.
I’m not interested either, but I’m not at all surprised that there are at least 30,000 people who are interested in faux-HDR photos of NYC.
Hopefully they triple-down and release a SP with USB-C.
C9.io to shutdown on December 31, 2019
I'm not sure it's an elephant.

I work in this space and I think the EME path has been a fairly elegant solution for a lot of what was preventing us from being able to use HTML5 video, including DRM but also live streaming and its ilk with HLS/Dash and being able to quickly implement new codecs and transports. Having to fall back to a flash player was never ideal.

If you want to make an argument that DRM is bad, or, maybe more relevant, ineffective I'm not sure I'd argue with you. However I think the solution we have in place has made the video ecosystem in the browser better and did it quickly.

The issue here is about commercial use of a product and while we can blame Google as the owners of Widevine this really doesn't have anything to do with Chrome - outside of the fact that the author was able to quickly create his own browser based on open source components upon which Chrome was based.
> I do not believe it will prove to be too little or too late. I absolutely believe that technologies will continue to evolve and be discovered that allow us to move our global ecological impact from the red (deficit) to the green (surplus) and in the very long term from a political sense, but in the blink of an eye for our planet, this 21st century panic will seem really quite overblown.

But it is too late already, by many metrics.

The paths that lead us to 3-4 degrees of warming do take into account technological progress, energy efficiency improvements, petrol price hikes and so forth.

There is no "moving from red to green" on the biodiversity loss. That took millions of years to build.

Technology might save us from going back to pre-industrial revolution, but won't make the future "abundant", at least not for all of us.

There's no denying that a major part of the US population will make it through this century. They are not the ones whose life is at stake here.