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I agree there is many use, which is what I have done with IMIDI. You can also use it with television and all sorts of stuff. While most of the commands are same as MIDI (a few are removed, and also a few having to do with forwarding signals to connected devices are added), some of the meanings are bit more general, and the signal is two ways and the format of the SysEx payload is different (and does not require any kind of registration) (although the framing is same as normal MIDI, so if the signal is recorded by something that does not interpret SysEx payloads, the recording will still work). You can also forward signals to other devices; you can have a tree structure of devices and each device can have up to 128 children, selected by the use of the Device Select command (which is an optional implementation; compliant implementations are required to parse the command even if it is otherwise ignored; this is the same with all other commands, which it is required to parse even if it is otherwise ignored). (My own intention of a computer design is using IMIDI for all of the input devices, rather than USB or PS/2 or whatever (I dislike USB). And you can also use the IMIDI to transmit captions along with a television picture (the picture using Digi-RGB, and the sound using ordinary analog audio ports), and/or to control the channel setting of a external TV tuner and to control the VCR, too).

Specifically, for exclusive messages in IMIDI, the first byte specifies the type of message and the channel (some exclusive messages might be channel independent, and this is also indicated), and the second byte is a namespace number. The four types of exclusive messages are: application message, namespace error, namespace request, namespace response. Note that the first byte has four bits for the channel, one bit for channel independence, and two bits for message type, filling up the seven available bits, and the namespace number is also seven bits. (If the channel independence bit is set, then a 11-bit namespace number is used, because the channel bits are used as additional bits for the namespace number in this case.)

Some namespace numbers may be predefined by the application in use. Other namespaces are negotiated by the use of the protocol mentioned above.
listen, ask questions, mirror back what they say until you can explain back what they want and then they confirm this by saying “that’s right”. then later get them to think from your shoes by asking questions that start with “how” e.g. “how am i supposed to do that”. the book is deep, just read it.
Is “Star Trek” Is a Communist Space Tyranny’s Idealized Vision of Itself? (2012)
You can only see LEO satellites near dawn and dusk. They are in shadow most of the time at night.
I'm curious how the new Github Sponsors development plays into the one or very few maintainer "issue." My gut instinct tells me it will be an added incentive to keep the governance of such projects small or solo because how do you deal with distributing the funds over numerous maintainers with vastly different levels of contribution? I guess one could argue that a project valuable enough to attract a large sponsorship would also be too unwieldy for some to handle alone.

But I haven't given that much critical thought and I hate to default towards cynicism immediately after getting presented with a way to help get open source developers some financial support.
Yup, buddy had his amazon account banned for using such cards. His gf, who orders 10 things a day from there, and shared the account, was not impressed.
Will web components let him use a React module with Vue.js without loading both libraries and learning React?

Or is web components a third library that is so much better that you don’t need the other two libraries?

Is this the situation where there are too many standards and you can only solve the problem by creating another standard?
Acknowledging the risk of an echo chamber, maybe the ubiquity of these books means that they're tools of the trade. Knowing how to build a great software product/business is a useful skill set that these books teach well.

From there, the path to success comes from being well-rounded and exposed to new ideas/their accompanying opportunities. Read "The Power of Habit" because it's an incredible book, but then also read books specific to the domains to which you're applying those skills. Working for a healthcare company? Read "How Doctors Think". Jane Jacobs for urban planning, Foucalt for history...

It's wonderful that you (and likely half of the people on HN) have read many of these books, and I think having this list is useful for people outside the industry getting a mind for how tech thinks. At the same time, exploring the pantheon of great works in other fields is a virtue that, luckily is toted by many of the books mentioned above.
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>I really like how github fork can be implemented as new HEAD etc references to the same objects. New commits refer to the original project's objects.

This can be done (more effectively, actually) without the user's explicit involvement in the fork process. You can dedupe blobs across the entire platform on git push.

>Regarding the article, it seems to be saying you can't bazazr-fork a project on github

I'm not saying you can't (I thought that was clear enough), but that GitHub is designed to encourage you to use a different approach.
“...there’s a lot of misinformation about GDPR out there on the web”

It sounds like your lawyer is telling you not to add to that misinformation. Also, you already said this deck is based on advice from counsel, so you’re maybe dragging them into an endorsement, and there are strict ethical rules about what lawyers can opine about to non-clients.

Anyway, GDPR is not that hard to understand. Just read the source materials. It’s one of the least-difficult legal texts you can take on.

Also, why bother? Like the EU directive before it, there won’t be any meaningful enforcement of these rules. A few examples will be made, but you’ll need to be woefully unlucky to be one of those.

I wish I weren’t so cynical but I’ve been following this area since 1997. It’s just an excuse for lawyers and consultants to rack up fees through careful manipulation of FUD. The intentions of the lawmakers are good, I’m sure, but laws without truly vigilant enforcement are eventually flaunted.

(IAAL but not your lawyer.)
I can only speak for myself but I don't have more than ~$20 in Robinhood because the ETFs I buy are commission free at Fidelity and I simply prefer to use Fidelity. Fidelity is a better experience, I use websites on a desktop, I don't really use "apps" very much and last I knew Robinhood was only an "app" and didn't have a web interface. I basically only signed up for Robinhood for the $10 referral.

EDIT: apparently they have a web interface now.
It fascinating that in 2019 we aren't able to get one text editor that would work seamlessly across all frameworks , but instead need to basically re-write huge "bindings" to support the reactivity and the rendering logic in each of them.

Web Components have definitely failed.
Have you ever thought about switching to a desktop? You could keep the screen, and case, and other peripherals. It'd be cheaper, and there'd be less e-waste, and you could more conceivably use the desktop for a longer period of it. My 2011 desktop PC can even play modern games, and the only upgrades have been RAM and video cards.
Static is perfect for an admin dashboard since it doesn't have SEO requirements.

Static doesn't mean there isn't any dynamic content is just means the assets are static files that can be cached both server and client side. Dynamic content can be fetched by the client, it doesn't need to be fetched and delivered by the server.
We have the Do-Not-Track header that should be interpreted as a denial to all cookie notices and GDPR requests but they didn't write that into the law.
I was just thinking about this. I have some elderly grandparents that spent their lives as elementary and high school teachers with a home farm. They lived modestly and have collected retirement pensions and farmland for many years. So they are actually very well off. They want for nothing financially. They have lived long, storied, beautiful lives.

Billions of dollars of wealth and power would make no difference to them. Because they already have more than they need. In fact, it would probably just bring unwanted attention and stress.

I'm sure at a younger age, more wealth and power would have been nice. Perhaps to take away the more stressful, tedious parts of work life, but something about going through those moments make the better moments that much sweeter.

Spending your life trying to accumulate wealth for the sake of wealth and power alone will do nothing but create stress and headache for yourself.
It is well known in sv that most if not all social media companies keep inflated numbers for investors, annother for sales and marketing, and a thrid for internal/technical use. I would like to see any evidince that this does not happen. As it stands, your claim is the one that needs to be backed up.
I respect and admire the risks Musk is willing to take and am amazed that he is able to find financial backers for his projects.

But I have to wonder whether the internet connection can be maintained during cloudy days and what the expected upload/download speeds will be and finally what the expected costs will be.

Affordable and globally available internet could be a game-changer. If viable, couldn't it challenge wireless carriers and ISPs?

Also, aren't there geopolitical ramifications. Would China, Russia, EU, etc allow their citizens to access the starlink system? Or will starlink have to be censored, filtered and monitored in these regions?
Digital advertising grew by 17% in 2018 according to IAB / PwC report
Any proof this works?
Scribble can export to LaTeX and includes templates for a couple different CS conferences, actually, though probably one would have to extend it a bit to use it for other venues.
Random: I read the "Autobiography of Gucci Mane" a couple months ago based on a recommendation from a HN comment (and based on liking a few of his songs). He's wildly popular in pop culture but so far nobody I've talked to in SF knows who he is. He's known as the rapper with the ice cream cone tattoo on his face, if that rings a bell.

It was a good book. The narrator is definitely "immoral", which can be disturbing, but he's basically a product of his environment. One lesson I took from it is that Alabama and Georgia (at least in the 80's and 90's) might as well be a different country.

It's also related to business since he says he always wanted to be the one pulling the strings and making the money, rather than the talent. He became both.

The economy of making and promoting niche rap -- which became mainstream pop, e.g. Migos has at least 1B views on YouTube -- is pretty interesting. Somehow the rappers know if a beat is worth $1K or $10K, or a co-appearance on a record is worth $1K or $10K. It's a very collaborative business. They obviously understand marketing.

And even though he was addicted to "lean" (cough syrup) for years and in and out of jail for various violent crimes, he (and his collaborators) still have significant practical knowledge of contracts, copyright law, and use QuickBooks!

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So there's some diverse content on HN if you look hard enough :) I'll also say that I didn't read "Sapiens" for a long time because I thought it was one of these "tech bubble/meme" books, e.g. the first place I heard of it was from Tim Ferris several years ago.

But I read it last year and it was great -- definitely worth reading, and I read Homo Deus too. I guess the whole point is that it's from someone whose background is not in tech saying a lot of things that are relevant to the industry.
The new attributes in the spec should make it possible - although not entirely easy - to include 2D position information with note on messages.

I would have been happier with a more general note spec that left the number of attributes and their resolution open and system-definable. This would allow 2D/3D/4D/etc control of note events, super-high resolution pitch definitions for microtonal support, and so on.

Bandwidth really isn't an issue any more, so there's no reason to limit the spec to a low common denominator.

Even so - 2.0 is better than the limitations of 1.0. So that's progress.
“I’ve been investigating these guys, and they look just like normal businessmen. So, what makes them stand out? No matter which [illegal factory] we raid, we always find the owner is from China.”

Chinese opportunists can no longer get away with it in China, so they are exploiting nearby developing nations to do their dirty work.
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Thanks for sharing. Is the code still running on Python 2.x or planning on transitioning to Python 3?
Your public profile would, but not the data collection and utilisation attached to it. Shadow profiles are often more detailed than 'real' ones.
This is really awesome. I’ve been watching Prosemirror for a long time and have considered building something like this on top of it, but haven’t had the time to try. I’ve been using Quill instead, since it’s a lot simpler and was pretty easy to just drop in place. This looks like a nice upgrade though!
Not to be too critical, but wouldn't it be a better idea to make this decision before spending a couple days of dev time developing something?
I read it as: if you know some stuff very well already you do not read about it and conversely that you can spend too much time reading about it instead of doing it.
What do you think a product which basically turns Microsoft Word into something like WordPress?

Basically it's a file manager for .docx files, but more importantly, it can generate static site* out of your Word documents, and style them nicely with bootstrap.

Yes, that's something I'm working on and I'm close to the end of a beta release! https://docxmanager.com/
Because Mathematica is the part that actually solves equations and does file parsing, genetic algorithms, 3D visualizations, blockchain...etc.

It looks like you still need an expensive and closed source Mathematica license to go with the engine part.

That is why there was so much discussion...most HN commenters we're trying to figure out what Stephen's announcement actually meant. The fine print also gives them the right to audit your use and you have to respond with what they need in 10 days, so I'm not sure how many people would want to deal with that if they don't have to.
Strong statistical significance. When I was in med school (UCLA 1970-74) everybody took aspirin and/or Tylenol. Now, I'm the only person I know of who still takes those two drugs rather than the zillions of newer, more expensive pain relievers. Why? Because none of the drug company-sponsored studies concluding that their new drug was better than my old standbys were convincing to me. As an experienced scientist who co-authored a number of investigational drug studies, I know whereof I speak. References:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en
It is very relevant. It just looks very bad when you see the actual numbers.
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> "...and individual users won’t be identified..."

Perhaps not as individuals, with enough personal meta data your identity can be reverse engineered.

That aside, anyone you believes there is no hidden agenda here is naive. Any understanding will have a second benefit for doing the opposite (i.e., preventing movements).
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Sure. But what about the 100% of the population who are not perfectly rational beings with infinite time and energy to do thorough research before getting outraged?
That's good then. And no I don't think it's uglier. You're right that many of the billboards and such are ugly but I still believe this to be ugly as well and I don't thing something being uglier invalidates it

Someone else commented something that puts me at more ease but it is worrying at first glance.
America exercises significant control over our poorer trade partners, and we have great power here. We could require oversight and review of our e-waste recycling partners, or we can just dump our waste out of sight and claim no responsibility in the matter. One approach would solve the problem, and one shifts blame to someone much less power to really solve the problem.
Margin loans don't give you cash to go buy a car or house, or pay for a fancy vacation. If somebody figured out how to do this they probably are breaking the law. There are also a lot of limitations to how much can be detected in this manner.

So back to the point, at some point, you are going to want to convert your wealth into actual cash to spend. When this happens taxes are levied. Yes at different rates.

Loans backed by your assets do come at lower interest rates, because of less risk, but the interest as profit on the bank is taxed as income -- for the bank.

Also, on the title "U.S. businesses contribute the smallest share of federal taxes" while may fair, looks interesting next to "U.S. businesses pay us nearly all of their paycheck".

I think it would be more simple of businesses had 100% the tax burden, but I don't think it would translate into any of us taking home more cash. All that would happen is wages would lower and businesses would pay the tax.
I currently have a static microblog, which is open source [1]. It's generated from a single mark down file with some custom stuff to separate articles. I've been using it for two months and so far I have been able to blog daily [2].

[1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
[2] http://plurrrr.com/
Like GitHub's organizations?
Professional Assange Smearers Finally Realize His Fate Is Tied to Theirs
Mailgo for WordPress (Wip)
Am I understanding correctly that this visualizes a 3d cross-section of a 4d cube? Is so, it might be interesting to put together a tool that shows a 2d cross-section of a 3d cube so people get the intuition.
Guide to getting started with Lambda expressions in Java
You’re being downvoted for knowing factually correct information that happens to disprove some of the biases that’s HN posters hold, which is a shame. Downvotes aren’t supposed to be a consolation prize for having your inferior arguments lose.

As a reference point, season 3 of the tv show “The Newsroom” has a plot that centers around a new reporter who aids their source in collecting confidential documents from the US government, and every reporter in the newsroom immediately understands they’ve ‘solicited’ information and thus violated the espionage act. I sincerely doubt that this is a concept that a tv show writer can understand and effectively explain, yet would be opaque to a reporter.

As a minor note though, Wikileaks absolutely buried trump related documents and carefully timed the release of Clinton related dumps, which makes sense as Wikileaks had been reduced to a front for Russian intelligence by that time. But the emails they released were themselves authentic, and their veracity can be independently verified by the DKIM system they had enabled. Funnily enough, for all the sound and fury over the Clinton emails, the worst thing that they show is that Clinton received a debate in advance, just like Donald Trump did.
Hmm no. That does put me at more ease.

And yeah I included that last part in the estimate for seeing up to 50, otherwise the projection would be of course up to half of all of them.
If you're concerned about waste, you could donate your old devices to an individual you personally know who would use them.

Young children and "hand me downs" are the prototypical case for this.
British Airways Opens Archive Collection to Celebrate Its 100 Year History
This is basically a fluff piece. Here's a link to the actual research paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaav8490.full
> And the right to opt-out of data collection creates a free-rider problem where users who opt-in subsidize the privacy of those who opt-out.

The actual fuck? Pardon the language, but I cannot express this strongly enough.

What does ”subsidize” mean? Users who agree to sell their data subsidize those who agree not to sell their data? And not having to rely on data sales puts financial burden on companies and drives them out of business? Good riddance
I used to play games a lot as a teenager. Then I got more into creating rather than consuming, and now, I just have no desire to play any type of computer game at all.

I even try to play games occasionally because the idea is still somewhere in my brain that it would be fun and relaxing. I even usually overbuild my workstations to handle AAA games thinking I might just play one this year.

But they just don't hold my interest anymore. I don't really know why. That endorphin hit when playing just doesn't happen like it used to.
While I have been ducking tricks for the last few hours, there's no medals in anything? Pink Floyd is a lie. And a trap for the lower 80 percenters. Only idiots without exceptions are into any of those skits. #hnapplauds ,
Did you sell them on EBay?
It's funny how some Smug Emacs Lisp-guy are confronted with why the Emacs with extension mail client was deprecated. It must have been some life changing experience chatting with non Smug Emacs Lisp-guys people actually wanting to use Emacs.

I can quite understand why you would want Emacs for Customer support emailing, with the ability to semi-automate tasks and extend extensions. If it's your full time job to write quite similar emails, it's probably worth the effort.
No B2C tech company can avoid doing business involving EU member state or UK citizens. You have to assume you’re in-scope unless you have zero contacts with Europe.
We probably could do better with re-use. A lot of stuff isn’t as disposable as people think, but they throw it out anyway.

A broken HDTV could be a matter of re-seating a Cable, replacing a fuse (why aren’t they resettable???), or a new backlight or power supply board. But the average person will just toss it to the curb.

Even if they tried to repair it in Asia, it’s already further destroyed.

In other words, we should treat waste electronics more like wrecked cars.
Is a thing where DSLs are expected to be for non-programmers? I mean language is right there in the name. They are programming languages and you have to have programming skills to use them.

Unless by non-programmer you mean non-developer. People for which programming is secondary or tangential activity. Like scientists.
Picking the Right API Paradigm
It's not, it's an obvious violation of copyright. Outline.com's primary use case is pirating paid-for content.

They have a whitelist of domains they support, and they intentionally implement support for paywalled sites.

They're just not big enough yet to where large publishers have started to go after them.
The illegal part is that you are not a Cab, Sir. May they call you a cab? No they may call you something quite completely else. They may. Who in the trucking industry knows.
This lw has been in effect in the form of various national laws for over a decade. GDPR is only slightly different from Swedish national Data Protection Law, for example. So yes, this entirely the tech’s fault and debt. We as an industry have ignored these laws for too long, and now crying because the debt is being collected. Boo hoo. Cry me a river.
Churn Prediction
> And the overarching topic is essentially User Experience.

Which is User experience and not Developer experience. As a developer I can agree with them but as a user I couldn't care less about their brand. Sorry if I sound rude. It's not as if they are paying me to keep their brand consistent among desktops.

I theme a little my desktop because I like the general idea of the GNOME desktop but I don't like many of their graphical choices. Colors, scrollbars, margins are all wrong IMHO.

I'm sorry that those developers are suffering and I know that somebody is thinking about reducing the ability to theme GNOME, but I'll keep doing it as long as I can and if I screw something (my emacs scrollbars) it's on me.