skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per [1] my understanding is that they took down the game worldwide, but that the action will only affect Chinese-speaking markets since the English name was not trademarked in China.

Perhaps if they had trademarked the Chinese name in the US (assuming this is possible) they could fight this. Or maybe they would have to fight it in every sovereign country, e.g. Taiwan (ROC), Malaysia, etc.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/bs6n3l/apple_remov...
A million times more risky bet? By what measure? The risk to his livelyhood? His savings? That kind of hyperbole might help your argument, but I think it's wrong in a few regards. If he came from a lucrative job in the finance industry that means that he had a position to fall back on if it didn't work out, he would have had plenty of capital to bankroll his business without hefty, high-interest loans. His interest on those loans would almost definitely be lower because he is less risk to the lender. He would also have had connections in the business lending industry but I think that is getting too specific for my argument.

Compare this to someone who has a background in retail or a warehouse worker, the personal and financial risk of starting a business is arguably higher. In order to accrue the savings to start their business they would have to work far more hours, and if it doesn't work out they may never have the opportunity to try again. They have less job security if the business fails. They have less savings, and may completely deplete their savings and incur a large debt if it doesn't work out.

I'm not saying that Jeff Bezos didn't earn some of his keep, or that Amazon doesn't provide a lot of service, but I would say the risk vs reward of his business is atronomical compared to the average business startup. The entire idea that he took a risker bet starting a business than a minimum wage worker is, I think, totally wrong, it's utterly ridiculous, and lacks any perspective on what minimum wage workers have to stress about.
According to this article, the plane itself was found while researching Lt. Col. John Donalson, who was credited with piloting the lead aircraft during the invasion.

It also provides a reason why this plane was selected:

"Donalson's plane was in the lead partly because it was equipped with an early form of radar that homed in on electronic beacons set up on the French coast by a small group of paratroopers in "pathfinder" aircraft, Scales said. Some mountings of that electronic system remain on the C-47's fuselage."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/d-day-anniversary-cere...
You’re ignoring the boring but more important human aspect for abstraction: he was capable of getting such a job once and was well connected to a couple dozen people that could toss $50k/each at him on a pipe dream.

If it failed, he would have had plenty of options relative to the average worker.
Ask HN: Letting your employer know before contracting / freelancing
Hey folks,
Youngling here with only a few years into my career. I live in the bay area and working at a mid-size decent startup. Recently, I got an opportunity to freelance a few hours. I am currently working full-time as a salaried employees and my full-time contract says that I have to let the company know before I start contracting.

1. Should I let them know? Do I have a legal obligation to do so?

2. Will they find out if I don't tell them?

3. Ok, assuming I have to tell them, any thoughts / ideas on how to approach this conversation with my manager? HR?
WTO TRIPS and current political environment offer some options.
You need to read the details more carefully. Playsaurus messed up:

1. They launched in China without registering a trademark

2. A competitor registered the trademark after 3 months of their launch

3. They continued to sell for 4 years under a name trademarked by another company, making $73,000+ yearly from that one country

Now, they complain about it on Reddit, even though China is a 'First to File' company.

The fault lies entirely with Playsaurus, nothing illegal occurred here.

https://www.trademarknow.com/blog/first-to-file-versus-first...

This situation could have occurred in many other countries - the difference is probably that the competitor is content to just sell in China, under a Chinese name, whereas products sold anywhere else would need to use the English name.

Edit: Apple taking down the game worldwide is unusual though.
Are there examples of RefMut::map_split? It seems pretty useful if it does what I think it does.
Browsers are moving away from showing differences between EV and DV certs nowadays though. And anyone can register a company name and get an EV cert - that doesn't make it trusted. https://stripe.ian.sh/ is a prime example of this.

HTTPS is a nice reassurance, sure, but an EV cert isn't.
What’s your estimate for the ~cost of the setup, and how many years do you think it will last? Curious if the cost/month is similar to what I calculated.
I believe that there will eventually be a completely anonymous and unblockable bittorrent replacement. A bit like Freenet but (much) faster. Perhaps the sites or sharers would be funded by anonymous coins for seeding.

Once that happens, the seeders will return.

We keep dancing around the fact with copyright laws, but the laws of mathematics are unbroken and information wants to be free.
> What exactly is JavaScript's numeric type then? I always presumed it was a 32-bit, signed integer.

It's not ideal to presume such a thing when there are ways to find out the answer, either from the link in a sibling comment or by observing JavaScript code that uses the Google Maps API or similar mapping APIs. How would you represent a latitude or longitude with a 32-bit integer?

I don't mean to pick on you. I have made these same kinds of assumptions too many times and it always got me in trouble.

Here's a particularly embarrassing example. When I did my first election results map for Google, I needed a way to represent the outline of a state. I saw that the Maps API supported polygons, so I thought "that's great, I can use a polygon for each state!"

Until the map went live and someone asked me "What happened to the northern part of Michigan [which isn't connected to the rest of the state]? And where are the rest of the Hawaiian Islands?"

It turned out that a single polygon wasn't enough to represent the outline of a state. Who would have guessed?

Don't let this happen to you. :-)
Is this cyclic? When the economy is poor, most CEOs leave because the company's doing poorly, when the economy is good, most CEOs leave for other reasons.
Executive power has disproportionately increased vastly in the ~50 years since the Pentagon Papers. Covert warfare irrespective of congressional approval, public knowledge, or international boundaries like that exposed in the Pentagon Papers has become normalized since at least 2001.

Pretending judges are somehow magically independent and immune to political influences and pressures is silly.

With that being said I'm not sure I agree 100% with the parent comment you were replying to.
YouTube started testing AV1 - I would not be surprised to learn that’s most of that number alone. Video format market share is tricky to measure because just a few sites like YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo, Twitch, etc. represent a huge fraction of the total streaked bandwidth even though there are so many other sites which publish video on the web.
I've seen crows drop walnuts in front of oncoming cars so they'll get run over. Corvids are smart birds.
Oh, that's great to hear! I thought this might come into focus, once WebRender is officially released.

By the way, how is the progress for WebRender over Vulkan?
The worst for China is that we block them from our markets. Which Trump is trying to do
Show HN: A Rails Quiz Application
I've been a Virtual Post Mail (https://www.virtualpostmail.com/) customer for 10 years so far and they've been great. Reliable and very quick to respond to support emails on the rare occasion it was needed.
True. They should have a limited number of slots and choose via lottery.

That said, according to the article, these ascensions only happen two or three days a year. So it’s not like there are 200 people summitting every day. It only happens in very rare spurts when the weather is favorable, which is around 1% of the days.
I have been using ClevverMail for personal stuff since about 3 years ago and I am happy with it. I do not receive a lot of mail on that address (incidentally in Toronto as well) so it usually costs about $5/month. They have a lot of locations and mine is a UPS Store that handles the scanning/mailing etc.

For UK specifically I've been using ScanMyPost which comes out to even less per year and is run by the same people that keep track of your credit score (and potential fraud) and I'd trust them even more.
So this indicates a few troubling things:

1. It is way easier to steal something and resell it convincingly, than it is to prove original ownership convincingly. This tilts the market in favor of thieves, as they need to do none of the investment and still reap maybe half or more of the total potential income.

2. Apple pulling something from a store should affect only a fraction of a normal market; instead, it affects literally everyone.

3. Gatekeepers such as Apple win regardless of who sells an app. If a developer complains and Apple has millions of alternative developers/apps, why would they even listen? The motivation is simply nonexistent.

These problems would all be nullified by abolishing the concept of a single gatekeeper store.

If you can easily steal something but there is no easy place to publish it to get stolen revenue from “nearly everyone”, the value of the theft is reduced. (Imagine if you had to find a way to propagate your stolen app to 100 stores. Would it be worth it?)

If you can convince one storefront to accept your stolen app as legitimate but you still have to convince a bunch of other stores, the value of the theft is again reduced.

If each store has a relatively smaller chunk of the total market, none of them would want to become known as that store where crappy apps make it into the list so they would be more motivated to curate a decent catalog.
When Can I Reuse This Calendar?
Trademarks are automatic once you make your first sale.
For the first time there are more people over 64 than children younger than 5
For instance, “Window Tidy” or “Magnet” ($0.99). There are probably others.
Sounds like the profit motive has some significant issues.
Why disparage the climbers? Getting to the top of Everest is an impressive accomplishment.
If life isn't a support system for art, the implication is art should support life. My take is that art (or your work) should be supplementary to life itself, and should not take over it entirely.
Out of curiosity, who are the people who want DRM? I understand that big media producers want them, in some misguided attempt at protecting their IP, but is that it?
Opportunity for a lottery system: pay some significant fee,
put in a few weeks hauling trash down from high camps
to earn a 10 to 15% chance at trying to summit during the
next season. Unlucky entrants are welcome to pay fee and cleanup to try again
another year, and the mountain ends up cleaner.
Or review the details and decide that the specific issue doesn't apply to them. This actually makes sense in larger environments.
Apple took down the Clicker Heroes app in all languages, English (for which the company does hold a trademark) included, worldwide.
The resignations and firings from the Equifax and Volkswagen scandals were not in 2018.

Meanwhile, Demos Parneros, Paul Marciano, Steve Wynn and many others were directly taken down by #MeToo in 2018.
Honestly, Equifax should’ve folded after that breach. Any company that loses all its customer data should cease to exist.
This isn't a children's playground.

There could've been a targeted dispute over IP. But instead what has happened is that a range of tariffs are involved which has resulted in Trump just giving $16 billion to farmers. Some of whom are now planting crops with no intention to sell but purely to get money from the US government.
The issue is China's predatory trademark system forced them to abandon the Chinese name of the game worldwide, which affects their sales in other Chinese-speaking markets like the sovereign countries of Taiwan (ROC), Malaysia, etc.
What good could this possibly serve to imprison him? Shouldn’t western governments be spending more time supporting destabilizing efforts in authoritarian countries?
'Classic' NVP and this is in production right now.
Reminds me of the Bill Hicks joke about being 'for the war, but against the troops'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_whePVoqOY
This. Everyone's downvoting my comment below, but they're not understanding this. People who say this is not the issue need to explain why.
Could you give up flying? Meet the no-plane pioneers
How would TPP have helped?
Many songs are sped up, and the discovery that this often has the effect of making them sound better than the original may have created a whole new "genre" of music --- nightcore. I've come across some very pleasing "nightcore'd" songs, and listened to the original, but still think the sped-up and higher-pitched version sounds better. It's an interesting psychological effect.

...and I've also noticed the content ID system still detects them, but they probably remain because the IP holders are content to monetise those videos and reap the profits rather than getting them taken down (and earning nothing.) That turns the question into "is adblocking piracy?" and that's a whole different can of worms...
It doesn’t correlate well as you age though, so these devices could in principal help a miscalibrated biological system.
This is the direct result of failure in the educational system.

With a little bit of financial knowledge (applied), nearly every American should have something to fall back on.

Financial education should be mandatory.
But why don't they remove the Chinese localization like that person is saying and get it re-activated? Is that not possible?

This is a post from the developer which doesn't make sense if it's impossible:

> We can re-name it in China, yeah. With a ton of effort changing all of the artwork we created with the old name. But renaming "Clicker Heroes" (which we already trademarked) in the U.S. and EU would be senseless
> potentially treasonous activities.

You do know he's not an US citizen don't you?
> BitInt's "n" suffix appears to stand for "numeric"

It actually stands for "not numeric"
Your government is rotten and corrupt, but you want more of it, and you vote for more, because you would rather have more "security" at the expense of the looming debt default (to which you are blind because you've got your Pinterest stock options).
Journaling. It feels like modding life with extra memory and save states. I made a tool for it. Thinking about doing a "Show HN" some time.
Well that depends on what he wants to charge for the drug now doesn't it? and dont give me some free market BS because there is very little free market left in pharma pricing. its just extortion by making artificial monopolies plain and simple.
Just because a company is American doesn't mean they can flout the laws of a country they are selling products into.

Think about it in reverse. Would you accept a Chinese company ignoring US law if they were selling something to US consumers.
Why some Americans all naturally consider the whole world should and will follow US law...

And if not, they need to change their law as the US told.
Kind of supercilious, isn't it?
It's speculated this is why human males lack a baculum.

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/researchers-in-museums/2012/11/26/ho...
I wasn't presenting it as fact, I was just trying to save some people a click to know what was going on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_in_Rome,_do_as_the_Romans...
Fill a glass bowl with ice and have a fan blow air over the ice. The more insulated the ice, the better.
I sent them pictures not a live video screen cast..
Forge TV/OUYA Shutting Down
Gotcha. I'll check it out - in my tests that's returning "PayPal IPN ( https://www.paypal.com/ipn)".
Thanks for getting back to me.
It appears so: https://web.archive.org/web/20180810123522/http://tcpcrypt.o...
To everyone who has an iPhone: not only can Apple decide what you can and can't run on your device, but any random Chinese company now also gets to decide what software you get to run on the device you dramatically overpaid for to "own".
http://www.drsessa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Delysid-19...
I had thought Cicadiads are the waves of cicadas. Turns out people say brood.
Interesting to compare this 'unprecedented jobs boom' with forecasts made in 2011:
https://buzzmachine.com/2011/08/05/the-jobless-future/

Jeff Jarvis said, "We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future."

Alfons wrote: "This is an unprecedented time in history, been a long time coming, but never the less, a not if but when phenomenon. I have been thinking, writing and talking about this for over 40 years, and was roundly ridiculed every step of the way. I told you so! Nice to see many people finally catching on. Socialism is the only way to mitigate the situation, there is no solution as far as I can see."

Roland wrote: "today, global labor arbitrage moves meaningful work to India/China... increases in computational power, robotics, etc, reduce the amount of white collar and blue collar work in total...all western nations, esp ones which don't export raw materials, will have major declines in living standards. How to stop it? ... In ten years, it'll be virtually unstoppable"

I wonder how these people feel about their past statements.
Costco fits a rather different definition of “bulk”. They carry 50 lb bags of rice, but they don’t have dispensers where you can fill your own bag and pay by weight, which is what GP was almost certainly referring to.
My mechanic gets his motor oil in an oil drum to which he attaches a hand pump to dispense it.
A lot of language VMs use a Forth-like bytecode. Python, WebAssembly, even the JVM languages (sort of) use a stack-based bytecode. So it's a useful paradigm to understand if you're interested in working on the internals of a language like that.
Serious question: Hasn’t the the Bay Area become the antithesis of diversity and killed the local culture? I don’t just mean black culture, but also the beat culture, the Italian neighborhoods, etc.
A Google search seems to reveal that they were targeted by a patent troll in 2018 as well. Seems this company can’t get any slack from life.

I would strongly hesitate to blaming the victim. You can easily make the case that they had poor business ops. But this shouldn’t have happened to them.

And all the same, I have a hard time empathizing with the anti-China rhetoric. Zynga’s Pincus has been quoted by multiple sources as saying along the lines of: “copy them until you get their results.” Gaming is pretty brutal in that regard, but no one complained when Samsung or LG copied Apple’s designs. There’s a lot of selective bias and double standards here.

Although I could fault China’s tech industry for other things, it’s really hard to stand up for the US in the broader context given the hypocrisy with which we apply our ideals.
So, water cooling for people.

> High core temperature was a limit on endurance. With a device to keep your core body temperature even, you could basically exercise at high levels for long periods of time.

Using this cross-disciplinary analysis- clearly, people have bad TIM between the heat-generating components and the IHS (skin). The solution, then, is to either replace folks' visceral fat and so on with liquid metal, or to remove the skin and fat entirely and cool the important parts directly.

Okay, so the comparison might not quite be one-to-one, but...
What is the culture here on correcting wrong star wars quotes?

"An elegant weapon for a more _civilized_ age"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aRtupiY9Dw
It is grasping at the straws indeed, to try to come up with any kind of justification for a scheme like this. Esp. when it would be pretty obvious to anyone who bothers to check, that people with that kind of "money" do not have it as cash they got as a salary, but rather as assets (stock). Do you propose taxing unrealized gains? Or simply confiscating assets when they appreciate "too much"?

The only positive I can see here is that this will kill SV for good. Unfortunately it will also kill most real innovation as well.
With Firefox 67 on a quad core Mac I'm getting solid video playback on AV1 on Youtube 1080p

If you want to test this right now, here is how to enable AV1 in Youtube and test videos.

Goto the youtube testtube page and click "Always Prefer AV1"
https://www.youtube.com/testtube

AV1 Beta Launch Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqf6gJt7KuHBmeVzZteZ...

And click "stats for nerds", if it's working it should show "av01" under the Codecs tab.

https://i.imgur.com/eKTFaYU.png
Minor quibble: it's spelled "ColdFusion." :)
2,300-Year-Old Iron Age Shield Made from Tree Bark Discovered in UK
As a streaming industry software engineer: File based streaming is done not for DRM but because of distribution cost and user experience. A segmented ABR video delivery massively decreases CDN costs (which is why Youtube, which is drm free does it). Video startup times, seek times, thumbnail scrubbing, fast forward, clip previews, ad insertion and many other things don't work in a file based experience.

In addition subtitles, secondary audio, descriptive video, and multi-view video etc. are all things which we mandate by law which do not work well in a file base expierenced.

Peer to peer as a distribution method is not only know, but there are plenty of providers that use peer to peer like streaming setups (see https://streamroot.io/streamroot-dna/). You may be using something like BitTorrent and _not even know it_.

Distribution is 1/10th the story and DRM is only a small part of it as well. BitTorrent does nothing to solve the other 9/10ths and removing DRM doesn't either.
With super-low unemployment, and rising wages, this is truly of concern.

If the headline is true, it really underscores the need for basic financial education. If people can't help themselves in this economy, there is little hope for them without some big change. (To the struggling people. Not to the economy.)