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> making it easy to flag propaganda in apps and then blocking it as she describes is in fact building in a type of censorship

That is not what was described,

> this will inform the Facebook's algorithm so that it will stop being preferred to show on people's newsfeed, but it's not censorship. If you look specifically for that friend, that post is still there, but they have a warning that says it's already fact-checked as false.
By the very name YouTube was about individuals creating content, and not a select few creators. YouTube is a successful example of the old saying "content is king". People just wanted to be entertained, and cared little for the quality or lack thereof (whether in the content or the encoding). Even Vimeo hasn't quite the traction that YouTube has even with it's focus on encoding quality.
Well, obviously someone will find some actually unrelated reason for why this will fail. Let me try one: the thumbnails don't autoplay when I hover. That's why this failed. There's going to be a God of the Gaps thing going on here.

Oh oh, how about "this doesn't accept crypto. it's doomed"
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this is simply not truth, at least to me. I tried couple of coffees around a week and then suddenly my heart went to nearly broken. For most of people, I guess too much coffee will do more harm to heart than good.

That's why I always say Study and Research is an ongoing process which people tend to understand the universe, and it maybe wrong and wrong again, until u finally veiled the final secret.
But this explicitly doesn’t work as an SSO. How can I tie that back to the actual email address they would have used to create an account using their FB / Google account?

This sounds like a tremendous headache that I really don’t want to worry about. But Apple is looking to leverage their power in the app market to force me to implement a tool I may not be interested in as a merchant?

I despise being strong armed. I hope the EU crushes this.
Isn't obtaining and decrypting classified information what journalists are expected to do in America? The onus is on the government to keep the secret secret. If they are unable to do that, why lash out on journalists?
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> > does not exist for the purpose of letting folks create their own countries

> Says who? this is an arbitrary interpretation.

> Further, there is obviously no law about how and where to create a new country, as the UN by definition will defend the status quo as a union of sovereign nations. Most countries emerged violently and illegally in their beginning, and got recognized later (including the US).

> The mojave is in the middle of what the world recognizes as a sovereign state, it would be a much more difficult starter and impossible to find allies.

I think what amalcom is getting at, is that maritime law does not offer any protection to aspiring nation states. It is in place solely to allow free travel. That same free travel would allow another sovereign who happens upon your budding nation state to take it with impunity (unless the state is prepared for armed conflict with another, more established (and probably more populated and wealthy) state).
Every 6 months? It feels like every 2 or 3 months to me.
On the downside if I use Apple Sign In on apps I probably won't be able to sign in to that application on my Android devices.
Contrary to the usual Google hysteria around here, they held the line on disguised ads a lot longer than everyone else; but this is wayy beyond the "deceptive" line, at the level of Promoted tweets with their tiny, grayed-out bottom-corner labels. I remember a pretty robust employee culture of pushing back against even slightly deceptive things (though that was starting to change when I was there); I can't imagine how this change could have gone over without either significant employee restiveness or a dramatic cultural shift since I've been there.
Oh man. Somebody who really knows PowerShell. That's really rare :-)
That article explicitly mentions "big ticket deals" at "higher price points" as the problem there. Many SaaS businesses charge each customer pretty small amounts and get very few chargebacks. The time it takes to fight a chargeback, even if illegitimate, isn't worth the amount of the charge itself, to say nothing of the opportunity cost of getting more customers who want to pay.
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There's a famous account on Reddit of a naïve US anarcho-capitalist kid hanging out with Greek anarchists. Things don't end well for the ancap!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/3ucp8y/...
It's not really that tricky. Singapore is one country who has got this beautifully right.
I've done a fun exercise with grade 5 and 6 students where you build a computer that can taste food.

It takes about 30 minutes and the students simulate the algorithm by walking around the class, so it's engaging.

Training the algorithm:

The students line up along one of the classroom walls. I name a food like broccoli or chocolate and the students walk across the classroom a distance (out of 10) that represents how much they like the food. Most students would walk further across the classroom for chocolate than broccoli for example.

The class then comes up with an median score that represents how much they like the food based on the position of middle positioned student in the class. For example, for chocolate, the middle positioned student may be 80% of the way across the classroom. For broccoli, the middle student may be 30% of the way across the classroom.

We then talk about the visible features of the food. Chocolate, for example, is in a wrapper, is brown, is rectangular etc. Broccoli is green, round, small etc.

Testing the algorithm:

After repeating this for 10-12 foods, we then take a food we haven't looked at yet. An apple, for example. The students individually write down their rating of how much they like it out of 10 (but don't tell anyone their rating). We agree the features of the apple and then calculate the score based on the score of the features from the 10-12 foods that we scored in the training.

The students then go to the position in the classroom that represents their rating and we calculate how much the computer likes the food.

Tips:

You need to carefully select your foods so you get multiple results for as many features as possible.

Class discussion:

There's lots to discuss:

Median, machine learning, bias etc
I'm not going to go through every example of agencies being told they can't use the term climate change on their twitter or every policy and action that has been done to undermine, something Trump does to everything he touches, the validity and efforts of the people behind climate science and education. But here are some PDFs and a articles that sum a lot of the stuff up.

http://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/climate/climate-change-tr...

https://envirodatagov.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Part-3-...
Don't worry. It's fucking doomed anyway. It's not a real business.

They're very obviously your typical pointless operation that has no hope of becoming relevant, useful or widely used. They aren't going viral, no matter how many growth hackers sell them snake oil about the possibilities.

To look at what they promise the subscriber, in exchange for money, it's a fly by night concept, that will evaporate when some other service blows them out of the water.

If anything, it's probably just a company that appeals to a few YC investors trying to pry open an insider track on some kind of break-even supply line of coffee for their own purposes.

Let's say you have a multi-million dollar coffee bill at a few companies you run. How can you cut that number in half, and still dump free coffee on the employees? Exchange a ten million dollar price tag, for buying a million dollar life boat and throwing it at hungry idiots, drowning in their own promises. They stay afloat and scrape by through sheer "hustle" culture, but you know more than them, that their baby was born retarded, and it's always going to suck. It was an abortion waiting to happen, but maybe you can harvest some stem cells and fix your liver that you drink to oblivion almost daily, with no signs of stopping.

Think about how that trade works. They "invest" in someone to do the leg work, and get compensated with freebie demo coffee. Bang: coffee at cost, unlike the rest of the suckers who pay full retail. Maybe it profits, maybe not, and once that's over, it gets cut loose.

The business isn't doing anything new. They aren't doing anything hard. They aren't doing anything special. They aren't special in a way that offers advantages to the thing they do.

They sell dry goods on the internet, and there's nothing incredible about their offerings.

But hey, job write-ups are notoriously touchy feely in their personal classified ad seeking roommate/hookup culture manner of presentation, and so, there's never any particular surprise when you discover a total disconnect between what gets produced versus the way the people who produce it conduct themselves.
I think they would rather be making jokes about plant-based diets.
The scaleout relational db world is definitely interesting. There's about a dozen competitors now consolidating around mysql and postgres dialects with both strategies of building on top of the native engine and building a new one to emulate it.

What does the Planetscale team see as the main differentiation with these other companies?
So, Homebrew?

You can't tell me that Microsoft is able to ship entire distribution's userlands (Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, and more) through the Windows Store, including all their GPL3 components, and Apple can't figure out how to ship an updated version of base64.

If I'm grumbling, it's just because making devops/CI scripts work on Windows and Linux is easier than MacOS and Linux these days because my colleagues run into issues like "base64" or "uuidgen" having different arguments in the extremely dated MacOS userland, and they then have to brew install a bunch of isolated components.
Once you get to know the rules

Only one rule matters in Chicago: potholes have the right of way.
Perhaps Apple's vision for the future is one where you can't do that (ex: App Notarization seems to have us heading in that direction.)
The memory on the iMac Pro is user upgradeable, and I believe it’s the case with the new Mac Mini. One big strike against the new Mac Mini is how much the higher end CPUs are thermally throttled. Not good for a relatively expensive machine.
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I don't understand why GPLv3 would be a problem on macOS.

On macOS, you can run anything out of the box (depending on security/gatekeeper settings) and you can replace or modify system executables (such as /bin/bash) if you turn off SIP (which is slightly tricky to do but can be done from recovery mode.)

Running your own customized /usr/local/bin/bash is easy of course, and package managers like MacPorts or Brew make it simple to install various shells including the latest bash.

On iOS, however, there might be an issue, as you have to sign executables with XCode, but unfortunately Apple reduced free developer provisioning profiles from one year down to two weeks in order to block third-party app stores and malware, and to get more people to sign up for the paid developer program. Moreover, there is also no Apple-sanctioned way to modify system executables that I am aware of.
Or a non-Mac computer? I doubt it. This is likely just an Apple id sign-in that is progressively enhanced on ios / osx.
Can someone comment on the deeper distinctions between this and DeepMinds ILP paper on learning explanatory rules from noisy data? AFAIK thats a special case of SAT?
And? So are lots of other things.
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The definition of the word "Monopoly" is already widely denoted as supply side control:

That's obviously too narrow. Someone controlling the demand side could be just as obnoxious. A company in a company town is in control of the demand side of the labor market, for example.
Duopoly isn't much better than a monopoly. Especially when the other half does basically the same anti-competitive behaviors.

Really, of all of these, Apple is seemingly the most blatant in their anti-competitive behaviors. Google and Facebook at least offer choice even if that choice is a somewhat of an illusion. Apple just flat out forbids competing with it in distributing iOS apps and vigorously guards its cut of subscription revenue.
Using 'Sign in with X' with service Y means you're giving X, or anyone forcing X to abuse their position, full access to your account on Y.

Additionally, anything sent to you@privaterelay.appleid.com flows through an Apple server.

You can trust Apple with this now, but it's not so easy to revoke that trust later. Still, it's useful for throwaway signups and garbage I suppose.
Android has the same limitation.

i.e. I can connect multiple displays with Android via hdmi and a usb adapter but Displaylink technical support suggested for an extended desktop I'd need to pester Google.
They do have an sdk for web, will probably work on any platform with a web browser.
Hey souprock, thanks for sharing!

Please do post that job on the above linked job board (it's free)! It should get you at least a few good eyeballs and the community of people who care about the thirty hour week will appreciate it as well.
Fuck no. Social media apps are already too invasive and tracking. I refuse.
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> GTK+3 has a good approach there, I think. It turns the window titlebar into a thick "header bar", which includes a "title" part for easy grabbing as well as a handful of button-accessible menus

In case you don’t know, that’s what modeled after macOS. (It had it from the beginning. AFAIK)
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One really nice thing about Linux is that Perl, Awk, and Python are installed on most versions and I can script without thinking about it.
Just for kicks, I too google image searched for "space frame" and while most of the images were of entirely triangle-based space frames, there were in fact some that showed constructions using curved bars. So if we're using google image search as an authority, it's now proven that space frames can have curved bars. Notably, most of the curved bars I saw were in boat- or car-related designs, if you want to see the "proof" (though I would hardly call google image searching for something to be actual proof, but since it seems to be a metric you're using, I'll go with it).
I don't think the prior poster is suggesting that you would have to sign existing software.

I believe that they are suggesting that Apple would be required to let you sign your own software if you do choose and give owners the right to opt to have their os trust software they OR Apple signed.

There is something that was addressed in the gpl community called tivoization.

Tivos dvrs were Linux boxes wherein they shared their source technically complying with the letter of the gpl but in fact locking them down so users couldn't modify the devices violating to many peoples mind the spirit and clearly expressed intent of the license.

This is if I understand correctly dealt with in gpl 3 which is what I think the poster is talking about.

Apple ios devices are non free in the same fashion as Tivos which is incompatible with gpl3
"When getting on the Autobahn, there will always be a "Beschleunigungsstreifen" or acceleration lane. Use it to get to speed while watching the traffic on your left (while signalling, needless to say), then merge in."

And use it to actually accelerate. A lot of people are very reluctant to step on the throttle. I always try to match speed of traffic or go even a little faster before I merge. Much easier to look forward than having to worry about people behind.
This might work if there is some reputation attached to the borrower's crypto address. So if they don't pay back, no one will lend them money again.
Are you their customer? Do you buy their products? If not, then no you're not important. Their business model is to serve their paying customers.
I’ve used split keyboards in iPads since I bought them 3 yrs ago. Split keyboards were there forever.
If there's a single truth of Hacker News Apple threads, its that someone will eventually say "no professional would ever..." and then immediately be rebutted by multiple professionals claiming they indeed would "..." and not only would they "...", not doing "..." would be unusual and even undesirable.
Lmao. That's awesome. Just don't be surprised about people being disappeared down a dark alley.
Charter/Comcast have pretty paltry profit margins compared to Google (especially if you look at the non-NBC parts of Comcast). If they've managed to snag a monopoly through anti-competitive behaviors they're doing a bad job profiting off of it.
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The trick is, you want to not screw with viewers you already have while still having discoverability tools for the rest. Theoretically this would be like what the sub page SHOULD be plus the home page that recommends stuff based on your viewing habits. Gimme both well segregated and I'm interested.
lol, for the few comments that did this, that's most likely just standard internet posting. The "location [X] is in the title, thus I'll make a comment about location [X]" is particularly common. With little relation to the substance or intentions of previous comments.

Though, I admit I'm not sure if this post is being tongue-in-cheek, since it was made by a completely new account. Thus demonstrating in itself another way that online discussions can be influenced.
> If you've got valuable content you can host it somewhere else and people will watch.

I'm not sure I agree. Discovery is a big deal. There are many lifetimes of content out there that I want to watch, and some of it exists in places I've never heard of. Content that's already famous will be fine, but quality content alone is not enough to attract viewers, in the same way that a quality business that nobody knows about goes out of business.
I absolutely hate driving on the Autobahn in Germany. The pure stress and the amount of assholes you encounter is absolutely astonishing.

I was surprised by the poor behavior I saw on the Autobahn outside of Frankfurt a few months ago. The Polish trucks were especially bad.

I have driven cars before in other countries, including the “chaotic” Italy and the US, and it was always a more pleasant experience.

And then I got back home and realized just how undisciplined and generally awful Bay Area drivers are.
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zsh is the default shell on all of my machines because I make it so. I think the tab completions that ohmyzsh provides have saved me on the order of 40 hrs / year, and helped me learn new APIs much easier, since you can see all options without the --help.

If you haven't tried it, I cannot recommend zsh + plugins enough. Only install that you actually use, otherwise it can slow start time a bunch.

Here is a list of the plugins that are available:
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I hear making a clock out of an Arduino goes over really well in the classroom environment. Just be sure to notify all authorities before attempting it.
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It seems like you'd like me more if I sold proprietary software.

It is pretty disingenuous to call Open Source code an advertisement, I don't profit off of it.

An exponential amount of people from HN have used GUN than I've gotten downvotes, so yes, I keep hanging out here. Scaling databases is pretty up the alleyway.

Cheers!
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