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I switched to iOS (via a used iPhone on a BYOD plan) primarily for iMessage. I was tired of being the odd man out, missing out on things that were being planned via group messages, etc. Nobody was going to switch to an entirely different mode of communication just for my sake, so the existence of theoretical alternatives doesn't really matter. (And I do try to use Facebook Messenger for group chats, so as not to lock Android people out myself, since I've been on the other side of that and it sucks.)

But really this is Google's problem, not Apple's.

Google could have owned this space if they hadn't taken their eye off the ball and fucked up Hangouts. There was a period of time where everyone used Hangouts, and they did a brilliant job getting market penetration by including it in Gmail. It's cross-platform, so it could have been the lowest-common-denominator in over the top messaging services, the thing that everyone knew everyone else could use when you want something that's not SMS or kludgy MMS.

But Google snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, seemingly intentionally driving people off of Hangouts into other apps. This was incredibly stupid -- when you tell your users to switch to a different app, they may well switch to a competitor's. If they wanted to roll out additional features, they should have done it in Hangouts, not by building new services. (And RCS is garbage. I don't know who wants a carrier-dependent, unencrypted messaging service in 2019, but certainly not me.)

The lack of a viable iMessage alternative is entirely because of Google's failure to invest in the Android platform and produce one.
>Not only with Autodesk but also with other companies, we keep requesting improvements. However, it takes time for those improvements to make it to proprietary software. We expect faster improvements by using open source software.

This is ironic considering that along with Softimage, Maya is the history of CGI, written in software. Most of the features and paradigms we see as classic today have been developed in TAV/TDI Explore/PowerAnimator/Maya and accompanying software either by request of leading animation studios, or by the studios themselves. However, they slowed the cycle down significantly even before they've been bought by Autodesk.
I’ve always meant to go through and read the entire Oz series by Baum. I’ve heard that it’s surprisingly enjoyable from start to finish, given the number of books.
Sorry, but group chat over SMS is crap. Lots of Android phones as well don’t operate group SMS well, you get reduced resolution in photos and videos, can’t like/heart messages in the same way, no typing indicators, etc etc. Losing iMessage features sucks when you’re otherwise used to it.
I’m going to be the contrarian here: no, I do not recommend ever using an app to meditate. Using an app vs simply sitting is (potentially strange analogy here) sort of like being in a restaurant with TV’s vs without. When there’s TV’s, it’s much harder to keep a conversation going because they suck our attention like bugs to a light. Without TV’s, you feel more present, more “there.” Given that, very often, the “point” of meditation (if there is one) is to cultivate a sense of being right here right now, an app seems to me a very uncomfortable and unnecessary middleman.

There is nothing to “do,” no way to make starting “easier.” Just sit, and see what happens, and proceed from there.
Mocking people in power is a time-honored tradition. It's not even really all that subversive: they were playing with well-worn, easily recognizable tropes. It's all part of the film's pretty conventional message: believe in yourself.
yeah fuck americans am i right

totally has nothing to do with the fact that it's a built in app where you don't have to do anything extra to set it up

no-sir-ee

it's the americans who are bad!
You gotta give the CEO credit for investing in CUDA for years before any of these use cases appeared. He knew that it would be massively better at parallel computing than the CPU but it was a chicken-and-egg problem. No one was going to figure out the use cases until it existed.
That's exactly what I thought as well
I use xlogo for that and similar purposes; it’s even more minimalistic in its functionality than xeyes.
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I guess getting into other media was probably the logical first step so makes sense.
Same for me. Keeping up the routine is very hard.
The status quo favors LGBT
This kind of thing is why I love that JRR Tolkien spent a whole introduction page lambasting people who read too much into symbolism in books and stating explicitly that Lord of the Rings was written as an exercise in long-form storytelling with no hidden meaning.
Wait, do you mean every piece of software coming from Australia? Andrew Tridgell is Australian. Would it therefore include Samba and Rsync? Does that mean Sublime Text could have a mandatory backdoor? Is there a list of software affected by this Australian law?
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Yeah they're nice photos but ... how relevant are they?

The tech blog style of stupid gifs is less distracting than content that I can't tell if it the thing or not.
Holographic Principle
Ehmicky/nve: Run any Node.js version
Not that much for _The_Invincible_ I imagine, but there are definitely challenges in translating Star Diaries.
I suspect for most of this, they were just trying to be funny or weird rather than intending this symbolism/meaning to come across to the audience.

One of my economics textbooks contained an explanation of the theory that the yellow brick road was a reference to monetary policy (gold standard), but that theory seems to have been heavily challenged (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_T...).
As someone who uses QEMU as a cornerstone in my daily development work, I’m stoked to see the project pushing forward and putting out new releases. Right on :)
whatsapp messages are by default encrypted regardless of the used device, whereas imessages to android devices are simply plain text. Also which of my data does whatsapp sell, and in what way is the android operating system intruding on me? If anything ios intrudes on its users by tying key functionality of its messaging service (encryption) to the apple platform.

This post is honestly full of unfounded claims, like the rest of this thread. The HN bias towards apple as a company is straight up strange.
If you follow up this claim even very superficially you'll find it's not really 'widely recognized' but rather the oft-mentioned, curious theory of one person.
In my experience the same people who are clueless about gentrification and make jawdropping comments are the same folks who ignore or decry PC.
> I have some friends from mainland, currently staying in HK, who sincerely believe the general public is too naive to be allowed to make any decision. With the right amount of conditioning, people can be led to believe in anything even if it is contrarian to their well-being.

One can see grounds for arguing this in recent history, and not just in Hong Kong. But, to paraphrase C. S. Lewis: "Some say that the public is too naive to be allowed to decide. I do not contradict them. But I am still a democrat, because I see nobody wise enough to decide for others."
Sculpting in Blender is already pretty good, but there is also a work-in-progress sculpt branch that should make it even more of a competitor to ZBrush, once it's merged in. https://code.blender.org/2019/06/sculpt-mode-features-branch...
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...and nobody says "oz" when they mean to say "ounce". These are literal liberties, which fit either way, I think.
One think I didn't realize until my daughter and I read the book together: in the book there were two good witches, the witch of the North (the first one Dorothy meets after landing on the witch of the East), and the witch of the South (the one that tells her she can use the shoes to get home). The movie combined the two characters. Then they had to come up with a reason why the good witch didn't immediately tell Dorothy to click her heels together and go home. In the book, only the Witch of the South knew this.
"Hate speech" according to the opinions of an undeserving minority of rich nerds.
The first people to live at high elevations snacked on giant mole rats
Ironically, it would seem that their name Khara was derived from a greek word (χαρά) meaning "joy".
The article author stopped quoting too soon[0].

> Until they weren't.

> ...

> "These protestors aren't going to solve anything ," she said. "Like, what are those people even trying to do? Seriously. What are they trying to do? Make people mad about getting stuck in traffic? Piss people off because they can't get to Grand Central? It's annoying . I just can't stand it."

> She rattled off a couple of other disparaging comments about the peaceful protestors I was preparing to join, repeatedly referring to them as those people before a chorus of my team’s nodding heads, each bobbing affirmingly behind their desk.

I agree that you shouldn't expect your co-workers to openly protest anything in particular, or anything at all. But I think it's just common sense to not shit on a bunch of people protesting police brutality committed on a black man... when one of your black co-workers is sitting a few feet away. At best it's insensitive.

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For one, what you are modeling itself does not need to be differentiable, only the network itself needs to be.

No. In some simple cases you can model a non differentiable function with a differentiable one accurately. But your model is likely not to perform well if the underlying relation between your parameters and observations is non differentiable, because your model will likely be unstable.

Second, using neural networks in combination with other techniques for program synthesis is an active area of research currently, and although it is currently at around 50 lines or so, your fundamental assertion here is wrong.

Sorry, but NNs haven't made any significant progress in the realm of program synthesis. I can set up a model with Transformers and BERT that spews out thousands of lines of code that stylistically look correct, but does not compile. NNs aren't the right tool for the job here.

Third, there are a number of ways that deep learning could be leveraged in app development

That has nothing to do with the original post. There's no AI that's going to write an app for you.
Removing adverse incentives is a step in the right direction! Now, any employee at a copyright holder assigned to send out manual copyright claims will become a cost center. No longer will copyright holders be able to justify such assignments via captured revenue from creators - instead, they will legitimately need to value the cost of the claiming against the actual damages done to the copyright holder made by the sharing of copyrighted music.

On the other hand, there are a lot of music videos on YouTube that copyright holders might have been fine allowing to exist, and now their only option is to nuke them from orbit. Mashups, etc. may suffer. Essentially, this is a move that may reduce spurious claims, but may come at the expense of certain grey-zone expressions.
Well, yes, you're excluded from discussing that oppression if you exclude matriarchy/patriarchy from parenting. As a society, we deem matriarchy/patriarchy in parenting as part of raising children.

The entire idea of patriarchy in civil rights is that white cis-het men believe they know what's best for everyone in society-- and this power is given to them by society through politics. That's precisely what these "social justice" movements are trying change, the power structure, and increase representation in politics and society at large. Would you argue that is it right for white cis-het men to "parent" other communities in the same way you parent your children?
Censorship is violence, freedom to censor doesnt mean freedom from consequences.
The first time I heard Axl Rose speak in an interview I couldn’t believe how deep his voice was! Listening to basically every GnR song had led me to expect a much higher pitched voice.
Powern and time (latency).
Airports are one great example. So are government regulations, which with a few exceptions tend to get more expansive over time.
They receive something of value - the promise not to violate the terms of the license.

"But wait!" you say. "That seems circular!" Indeed. The issue comes from a slight ambiguity in the term "license." The word is used both to mean the contract between Apple and the licensee, and the permission granted in that license. Strictly speaking, the former is a "license agreement," but referring to the agreement just as the "license" is commonplace.

Indeed, the first line of the iOS Software License Agreement reads: "PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT (“LICENSE”) CAREFULLY BEFORE USING YOUR iOS DEVICE"

Apple gives you permission to use (and, to some extent, copy) iOS. In return, you give Apple a promise to use the software in accordance with the terms of the license. You also give Apple other consideration, such as a waiver of liability in the event that you view indecent or offensive material on your iOS device.

Your point is an astute one. Section 73 of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts reads: "Performance of a legal duty owed to a promisor which is neither doubtful nor the subject of honest dispute is not consideration; but a similar performance is consideration if it differs from what was required by the duty in a way which reflects more than a pretense of bargain."

However, there are other things you give up, as noted above. Additionally, in all practical reality, courts are generally loathe to invalidate a license agreement or any other contract for insufficient consideration.
I think it's less about forgiving mistakes than it is about having the ability to recognize the nature and scale of problems and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate potential solutions. That ability gets lost in layers of management, and the people who are tasked with rewarding the folks that actually create the solutions often don't have it.
Based on that Twitter thread, they are starting new group messages that don't include their Android friends and abandoning the original group message.
They didn't shut it down completely. They only removed the ability to profit from your copyright claims. You're still able to have videos removed or blacklisted for copyright infringement.
Is it really fair to call this an implementation of wc if it is just using a built in function for each case?
Not arguing with the theft argument but there is also the untalked benefit of cheap (may even be called inhumane) labor in the trade between west and China.
It's odd that the article states that they're "fighting against the desert elements to preserve their texts"... which doesn't really make sense since the desert is one of the best places to preserve old paper. Unless the "elements" is a reference to the geopolitical situation.
How far we've drifted as a nation.

People then seemed to realize the danger of fiat money, yet The Federal Reserve Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913, when most lawmakers had already left the Capital for their home states -- and it passed on a simple majority of those present vote. The Federal Reserve (a cabal of international banks that is not part of the US Government) seized control of the US monetary system and their policy of deliberate inflation has eroded purchasing power 97+% (50% reduction since just 1970!). Even though the constitution still describes the value of a dollar as a specific weight of gold, like most other things in that document it is ignored.

Private ownership of gold was decreed to be illegal just 20 years later -- Presidental Executive Order 6102, signed on April 5, 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States" was designed to prevent an internation run on our (drastically less valuable) dollar. Silver was removed from the coin in 1965, completing the transition to fiat money.

President John F. Kennedy voiced support for returning America to the Gold Standard. He was assassinated soon after. His Vice President, who assumed the Presidency, wasn't so foolish as to express support for that idea.

Now it seems to be a spending free-for-all, as if there is no concern whatsoever for the peril that debt (national or private) presents.

What a dangerous time we live in. "Ignore that man behind the curtain!" Who, then, was Glenda, the Good Witch meant to represent?
And there couldn't be anything more exaggerating than your comment here. If tomorrow a climate change protest (which I consider to be of greater importance, by the way) shuts down the whole city, knocking out roads and public transport and prevent me from going to work for a straight week I would be very annoyed. And it's not because my work for this week is greater than the climate change of Earth, it's because these two things are separate and not connected whatsoever. Say anything you want about a subject but never force that into other peoples life.
Except they also explicitly talk about learning new tools on their own time. I'm not paid to learn new tools. I'm paid to write software. If someone on my team tries to convince everyone that some tool they learned on their own time is great and everyone needs to start using it yesterday, either the company needs to let everyone bill hours to learn the new tool or we're not using it.

The comment very much does come across as being mad at coworkers for not putting in time after-hours.
First of all, agree with your decision to use C++17. Great idea!

However, in our case (like with many C++ code bases) the code was almost 20 years old. Even with the Herculean efforts made by the teams to keep the code base up to date and refactored, you run into issues of backwards compatibility with older libraries.

C++17 is definitely the go to for new projects! However, I've never personally worked on a pure green field project written in C++ that didn't have to latch onto some older libraries that require older C++ std versions.
I passed through Chingutti about six years ago and believe I recognize the librarian. That’s certainly Mauritanian garb. Let me see if I’ve got pictures available online; will reply here in a bit if so.
Java has probably the most notoriously limited typesystem in actual use. Judging type systems by Java is like judging electric cars by the Sinclair C5. Try an ML-family language sometime.
Maybe not in the grand scheme of things, but it might help with the draconian banning of things like covers of game music, fair use of audio and video clips, instrumentals, etc. I've seen that stuff taken down, and maybe it was due to Content ID, but I question that when the composition of the content is original. I may be in the minority, but I would be glad to have niche fan-created content stick around without seeing messages like "This video was deleted because of a claim by Universal/Nintendo/Disney/Viacom".
There are Bluetooth sniffers available for low $ks that can listen on all channels simultaneously.
Stochastic Quantum Mechanics
It's not racism to be annoyed by a protest it's the point of protests. The reason you obstruct traffic is to piss people off. You want to irritate them enough to take action to make it stop. It doesn't matter what they're mad at so long as they're mad enough to make the social change you're seeking.

If you didn't want to disturb anyone you'd protest in an open field out of sight -- but what good is that?
Obscure today, but many of these were merely how things were done back then.
Literal millions call Trump dick, asshole, douchebag, and many other familiar slurs. Sure, there are swear words used primarily for a certain gender, but why does that matter? People swear all the time, no need to make it about the gender.
Ask HN: How did you find your co-founder?
Currently trying to find a co-founder for a product that I’ve built and brought traffic to.

Struggling to find a co-founder especially considering all the work and money I’ve invested in it already. Aka: I’d have a hard time giving up half equity to.
Considering how advanced GOOG is at ML, instead of blocking they should just filter out the music instead. You don't even need ML for this if you have the original music piece. This way they can insert themselves as a middleman and act as a marketplace. If the video creator wants to pay for music and music companies wants to profit from it, they can go through Google directly. The two parties don't ever have to even meet each other or know who each other is.
Still seems like YT's version of "Fair Use" is significantly more constrained than the legal definition.

This is a step in the right direction, but YT's system is extra-judicial in nature, and they've decided to be more copyright holder friendly than the law itself requires (likely so the law isn't used, which is cheaper for YT).

I suspect in my lifetime governments will need to create better frameworks for content networks. The whole "they're a private company, they can do anything!" argument is growing weaker by the day as these companies have more influence in our lives (with both good (e.g. anti-hate content) and bad (e.g. copyright holders stepping on small creators) consequences).
I tested and indeed you can use ANSI escape sequences in cowsay templates.
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They actually pronounce it “straya”.
This is a great find. I used a 42S heavily through high school and college. I was surprised at how some of the muscle memory of how I did certain things came back. Seeing the dot matrix answer after doing some calculations brought back the feeling of being bored in math class, when I would just play with all the functions and write little programs. I didn't have a phone or even a laptop to turn to in those days.

Even now though, it will be useful to do calculations in RPN. Even the ability to swap X and Y, and store intermediate results in order to avoid parentheses or M buttons is nice.
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Yeah, I remember setting a SlickDeals alert for a "Titan Xp" and watching inventory disappear because I didn't get to their site within 2 mins.
honestly, these companies should be fined so heavily that it's just not worth it for them.

I understand that legitimate insurance fraud needs to be investigated and prosecuted, and I'm all for it. But you give them all the evidence, period, and let them decide. You do not manipulate them to save yourself from a payout. That crosses a line that has no grey in it.
Maintaining a professional distance while in the workplace makes sense by itself, but it's inconsistent with the "bring your whole self to work" policy that the author cites.
The reality of many governments however is that they are handing out money to the few people who frequently buy new cars for making those cars fractionally less unsustainable, while those who don't drive get pushed aside by even heavier and wider cars (using current "3" by BMW and Tesla as a comparison sample)
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