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ANTITRUST!

If Microsoft can get hammered for packaging Internet Explorer with Windows (and probably rightly so, given the market conditions at the time), there is a direct analogy to be made here.

Pick what you want to be: if you want to be the greatest goods index and shipment company in the world, fantastic. But you have to accept that you cannot sneak some of your own other-products to the top using that power. In this case, spin off your Kindle etc companies or have them broken up.
A little over a year ago I was building an app, and decided I'd have literally no backend at all. I wanted to build something fast and ship it to the appstores as quickly as possible to go through the process. After I launched, it was featured by apple and was getting thousands of downloads per day. Users wanted to be able to save their data across devices - but it wasn't something I really had time to build in the ways I had in the past. I had heard what Dark was up to, and was lucky enough to join the beta. Dark now powers the backend for my app (nzd.life) - and I really can't express just how amazing it is to use. We added the functionality in just a weekend with a handful of LOC. Dark really is a game-changer. For any entrepreneur / dev who wants to move fast and ship things, they should try Darklang ASAP.
From stallman.org (unfortunately i cannot find the original e-mails that are mentioned in the news articles):

11 August 2019:
(https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#11_August_20...)

Jeffrey Epstein ... He also reportedly raped some of those people. I believe those accusations, and I think he deserved to be imprisoned.

14 September 2019:
(https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...)

I want to respond to the misleading media coverage of messages I posted about Marvin Minsky's association with Jeffrey Epstein. The coverage totally mischaracterised my statements.

Headlines say that I defended Epstein. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've called him a "serial rapist", and said he deserved to be imprisoned. But many people now believe I defended him — and other inaccurate claims — and feel a real hurt because of what they believe I said.
> For anyone looking into buying a new Android phone, I highly recommend the Pixel 3a.

Honestly, I'd only recommend it to people who really value the camera.
Absolutely - some things are agreed upon to be morally outrageous.

This doesn't mean, to me, that we should condemn those who have historically stated things that are not aligned to those morals. I'm unequivocally not arguing in support of pedophilia I'm arguing against shutting down free discussion and open transference of ideas.

In fact, we should celebrate that rms has/had actually been open with these statements. Speech should not be restricted, in my (admittedly very liberal) viewpoint.
If you really think you can explain all examples, why did you pick one (by far the easiest one) instead of letting me pick? Let’s see some natural examples that use general relativity, superconductivity, the fractional quantum Hall effect, and superfluidity.
Specialized is notorious for trademark scummery, it's a shame people still buy their bikes. Other words they've claimed are "epic," "rockhopper," and "stumptown."
How exactly is in case of Android the OS vendor the adversary? Considering the fact it was Apple that lied about not streaming Siri conversations while giving them out to 3rd parties? With no ability to revoke consent or even choose?

Also Apple (as opposed to Google) is the one actively cooperating with Chinese government and giving them decryption keys for iCloud.

If you look beyond the marketing spiel it's kinda ridiculous marking one of those corporations to be more trustworthy than the other.
The article is disappointingly misleading and buries one of the key details

"Amazon’s lawyers rejected the overt addition of contribution profit into the algorithm...

They turned to the metrics Amazon uses to test the algorithm’s success in reaching certain business objectives, said the people who worked on the project.

When engineers test new variables in the algorithm, Amazon gauges the results against a handful of metrics. Among these metrics: unit sales of listings and the dollar value of orders for listings. Positive results for the metrics correlated with high customer satisfaction and helped determine the ranking of listings a search presented to the customer.

Now, engineers would need to consider another metric—improving profitability—said the people who worked on the project. Variables added to the algorithm would essentially become what one of these people called “proxies” for profit: The variables would correlate with improved profitability for Amazon, but an outside observer might not be able to tell that. The variables could also inherently be good for the customer."

Tldr: some people in Amazon wanted to give a boost to Amazon-products. The search team fought them vociferously and refused to budge. The lawyers came out against it as well. Amazon's internal A/B testing framework measures a number of metrics, including both revenue and profit, when determining whether a specific feature/change should be deployed.

The fact that the A/B testing framework measures the profit impact of any change, is hardly earth shattering. This is one of the core features that any A/B testing framework attempts to accomplish.

This also doesn't tell you anything about what the search algorithm is actually doing. An A/B testing framework can only help you evaluate the relative effectiveness of different algorithms. It doesn't actually create/influence the algorithm in any way. As WSJ themselves reported, Amazon's search algorithm does not take profitability as an input.

WSJ has done a fantastic job in unearthing this very interesting internal-debate that's happening in Amazon. But they have reported it in a way that is very misleading and gives laypeople the impression that they have a smoking gun. In reality, the only thing they have produced is the fact that Amazon's A/B testing framework is profit-aware.
End of 2020.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/25/20727317/nbc-universal-st...
Trademark work by classes.

Facebook is trying to register "book" for class 9 (Computer and Software Products and Electrical and Scientific Products).

The bookstore would most likely be in class 16 (Paper and Printed Material Products) and therefore won't be affected.
Seinfeld and Friends were actually remastered off the original 35mm film for HD conversion back in the day. Seems like going 4K isn't going to be much different, especially at the price they're paying.
Thank Mickey for that.
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This is incorrect. Manning’s commutation is just as immutable as a full pardon. Her current incarceration is over supposed contempt of court by refusing to testify in an ongoing grand jury investigation. A pardon for her past conviction would have had zero effect on that. Blame the judge and prosecutors if you think it is contrary to justice.
Is it capitalism or subsidies that got the industry going in the first place? The article can't seem to choose.

Also, paywall.
Yes, I was indeed making a 'Ship of Theseus' argument - specifically, GM's obligations to its current and some obligations to former employees was not extinguished by the bankruptcy.

I was also arguing that the bankruptcy was immaterial to GM's moral obligation to 'share the wealth' when times are good.
I think if the right person got inside his ear he actually might, however I find the chances of that to be low. Most of the republican leadership is of the opinion that he is a traitor (as are most of the non progressive democrats). So it would take someone special
Here here. Those two, Office, Parks & Rec are on rotation.
Most candidates for quantum computing also require extremely low temperatures — in fact, lower than the ones for superconductivity.
Germany is very privacy positive. Majority of the weird internet laws generally come around because of the countries privacy laws. That is why it's got a big privacy activist scene. And that case seems basic Copyright, where in Germany the work is still copyrighted so the copyright owner went to court to enforce it. This seems pretty standard and expected.
Doesn't make sense. My handwriting looks completely different when done with a pen on paper, as it is, when done with the mouse on the screen.

This app needs an upload functionality, where I can upload scans of my handwriting.
The insane amount of time that copyright persists is almost surely due to Disney. Every time their copyright is about to expire, congress extends the duration. You can be pretty sure that the copyright duration will always be today’s date minus the date Disney first copyrighted something.
Amazon also has an equivalent of shelf space: search results. They are just as incentivized to maximize revenue per customer search as super markets are incentivized to maximize revenue per shelf space.
I'm sure I have something on a public httpd somewhere my company owns that is insulting to the Thai king. Better look out, I'm going to Thai prison for lese majeste!
> Apologies for the snark, but I feel it's important to keep in mind in discussions of trust and security the enclosing scope or context. You can't trust the "integrity of the Linux source code" if you are checking it with compromised hardware, or running it on compromised hardware.

You are incorrect in this instance. The topic at hand is ensuring software integrity. Your scope of analysis is what I'll call "full-stack integrity" (hardware, firmware, software, etc).
Dual-clutch transmissions have had a lot of reliability problems, and not many automakers actually use them. CVTs are probably used much more often.

GDI on the other hand has basically taken over; I doubt there's any new gasoline car sold without it now.

Hybrids haven't been doing well, outside of the Prius. EVs are getting more adoption now than hybrids. The problem with hybrids is the cost: you have a gas engine plus a big battery pack and motor, basically two powertrains in one vehicle.

Turbos however have become very, very common as everyone is downsizing engines and using turbos to get more power, while improving fuel economy.
Living in those tiny flats (29sqft, 5.5sqft) sounds inhumane. I always thought Hong kong as developed. What is the point of all that development if people have to live like this :(
They should tie up all legacy shows that are owned by Viacom and Sony.

I recently subscribed & canceled Netflix as all I saw were a bunch of shows and movies I've never heard of.

They need to chill out with pushing all this unknown content their making in their UI/UX; show more familiar/legacy content with spattering of their biggest/most popular Netflix shows/movies.

I'm excited for Disney plus and will definitely subscribe. Marvel tv shows!!!
>A problem for city kids maybe? My parents were smart enough to raise me somewhere more suited for children.

Implying that the only reason people with kids live in a city is because they're stupid? What in the world are you on about? I've read the below thread, and this is one of the most bizarre takes I've seen in a long time.
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When I was playing with Rust a while back, I recall there being no easy to generate a random number in the standard library.
> The union workers didn't pay that, they didn't take responsibility for that, the taxpayers did.

These union workers are also taxpayers.
> ~50 years

That’s very carefully handled books.

My kids books are in no shape in a matter of months. Then adults also spill, grease, and tear their books. I had to buy some cheap second hand copies for a series with no digital release and they’re gross, I made them grossier, and they’re going to the trash bin after me (there’s no shortage of them in the world).

My amazon account is outlasting most physical books I bought in these in the last decade (I also hate amazon kindle’s lack of book organization, biting me hard at the number of books I have, but that’s another topic)

PS: for people going through 3~4 books a week, storing books for 50 years is a nightmare.
Go is already getting away with a magic generic map type, they could have done it the same way, it they wanted to.
I'd say they're the worst around.
Malls curate the stores that they lease space to. That's why some malls are very high end and others are not.
Indeed. This expanded version of your previous comment is accurate. As long as people are still comfortable enough, there will be no change. Unfortunately, it takes great discomfort to motivate people to actually fight for change. (I'm like everyone, so I'm not fighting... yet?)

I do believe the internet and global communication does speed up the process, at least when people get near the tipping point. Knowing that you are not alone in your frustration does help steel people and enable connection and shared-effort. So yes, it's fucked right now, but I think it will improve measurably in the next 20 years. (It does indeed help that many of the most powerful people will die of old age within those 20 years).
There is a limit on canvas size in most browsers, unfortunately it's rather low on iOS, more than 12 megapixels (4000x3000) will result in empty canvas elements.

Indeed progressively loading high res textures or tiling is a solution to this.
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Your argument may have held weight in the past, but now, anyone can distribute video without going through the cable providers regular cable distribution. It’s quite simple technically to provide on demand video at scale, including creating apps for all the platforms. The only issue now is when/if cable companies as internet providers start deprioritizing competitors.
Obama also kept open Guantanamo bay and got the US involved in Yemen, Syria, etc so not entirely sure what you’re thinking of as an example of him being further socially/foreign-policy-wise to the left of Warren or Sanders
I believe that's only true for Safari, which is moving away from the browser extension model that Firefox and Chrome (Brave, Opera, IE are/will be Chromium-based) use.

I use Firefox and the LastPass extension without needing to use the Mac app.
They do care about the quality of their own products. I posted a negative review on an Amazon product, and they called me(!) so that I could further elaborate. It was very odd because they called within an hour of the review. At some point I must have given them my phone number.

This was a review for their TV Cube. I was trying to buy something with good voice control to allow a paralyzed person to browse YouTube, and TV Cube could not do it (maybe it will be better in the future..).

I suspect the only reason I got the call is that TV Cube is in active development.
Selling what?
You must by high on crack cocaine to think that any kind of trademark ON A FUCKING WAVE LENGTH is reasonable under any circumstances. You need Jesus and free market.
Or a mechanism to transmit prescription drug parameters.
jschwartzi was talking about power supplies (i.e., devices that transform mains AC power to DC power), not power banks.
Go 1.13 for Private Repositories
I did that until Dropbox dropped support for ecryptfs. Using Bitwarden now, very happy with it.
After Six Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself
I was quite surprised when my new oven came with a sheet of paper listing all the open source software.
Jean Calment likely was 122 after all, not a fraud
Thanks, I'll look into this. If I understand correctly you do get the "WebGL isn't enabled" message?
Most modern rechargeable batteries have fairly sophisticated chemistry and thus charge controllers needed -- you don't just dump electricity into them blindly and then take it out. It's not quite rocket surgery, but there's a reasonable level of engineering involved, especially if you want optimal performance with the newer standards (which increase voltage on devices which support it, etc.)
I didn't see the observation you made, but I see that easyDNS is in Canada. For clarity, it is not the norm to refer to a lawyer as an attorney in Canada (except in a few specific circumstances).
The data is apparently a year old (see chart). A16Z has seen a number of large exits since then (Lyft, GitHub, etc)
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Fannie and Freddie do not buy subprime loans, subprime stays in the private market. If Fannie and Freddie didn't exist, prime rates would be closer to subprime rates since it's effectively those prime rates that are being subsidized.
I find my lack of faith disturbing
No, there is not a direct analogy because Amazon is not a monopoly. They aren't even the largest retailer.
This is not relevant to this discussion: it's like someone announced that they were buying better locks for their house and you're going “this is all moot because someone could just pull the roof off”.
Blast and fire hits major virus lab in Russia, where smallpox is stored
At least they recalled them! I don't think random no-name brand #12345 would have done that.
Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study
I've heard talk about this from VCs for years. Their reputation and results don't match.
This attitude is exactly why the United States is no longer a nation of laws, but instead a country rules by the arbitrary exercise of power where the elites get a separate treatment from everyone else.

What is true and fair and inline with the bill of rights and all other rights, which should be reserved to the people and not the state, is exceeding clear to the every day American and it takes the elites and experts to tell us white is black and up is down.
It's 2^15 rounds of pbkdf2 with long inputs. There is no master password as nothing is stored. Good luck.
How exactly will my 401k lose half it's value before I retire? Are capital owners going to stop making money or something? Is there an anarchist-communist revolution scheduled next Tuesday?

Your mathematics don't make any sense.

If 60% of my household budget goes towards housing and healthcare, and 40% of it goes towards consumer goods, made by people like me.

If I lose 20% of my wages, for a 10% reduction in the cost of consumer goods, this will put me into a net -16% deficit.

Stop optimizing for the cost of consumer goods. They aren't the problem for a typical household. They haven't been a problem for a typical household since we've figured out mass production in the 70s. They never will be a problem for a typical household, unless we have a complete collapse of civilization.

> Fair enough, let's artificially suppress healthcare compensation in favor of manufacturing compensation. I'm sure it'll do "wonders" for the quality of either.

Every other country on Earth manages to provide equivalent or better healthcare, for much lower prices (Even adjusted for PPP). They don't have parasitic insurance and billing industries, they don't waste healthcare money on marketing spend, and they have reigned in physician salaries. None of those things have any impact on the quality of healthcare (Actually, the first two have a pretty major negative impact on the quality of care), but they do have plenty of impact on the cost of care.

> On the other side of the pond, everyone earns less, especially healthcare workers.

It's not what you earn, it's how much you have left over after you pay the bills.
I'm not disagreeing with the premise that Amazon has issues. But I do not see a similar pattern with other companies and services. Of course, this is anecdotal, but it does seem significantly higher with Amazon itself.

It is possibly that most HN users purchase a lot via Amazon?

Is it a small but vocal group of HN users that have a grudge because they had an unsuccessful drop shipping operation that was harmed via Amazon?

Is there some competitor(ie. Walmart) that is trying to push an agenda?

It just seems high compared to other services, so I'm curious into additional insight into why Amazon, specifically, has this pattern when other services with issues do not.

I personally feel like it may just be that most HN users are, or were, heavy purchasers from Amazon. But I'm just looking to see if maybe there is a more insightful take on things.
Was interesting to read all the sort of "boring" back end pieces, then see that he went with half-server and half-client rendered React for the front end. Was expecting Angular or similar, given the pattern of the other picks.
Smallpox is apparently stored in this lab
Never heard of them, but wasn't impressed by their credentials. Not going to
be give much weight to a random system administrator and high school teacher. If RMS can be attacked for his prominence in computing, then I can similarly undermine his attackers for their lack thereof.
> In fact, to be able to offer .de domains as registrar, you have to join DENIC, and .de domains can only be owned by a legal German person, and always have to have an actual German person as representative.

Most companies offering .de domains do so as resellers, they don't need to be members of DENIC. Also, .de domains can be owned by people and entities outside of Germany, but require either the domain owner or the adminc to be in Germany. Most international registrars offer a service to provide a local adminc.
You mean the left thing
Japan has had something not quite as nice for 30 years. It runs ever night and is pretty cheap. Lots of public baths so you can shower when you arrive.

Tokyo - Kyoto/Osaka
Be very careful. The IRR for a fund that is very young is deceiving. Fund V, for example, closed at the end of 2016. AT the time the documentation was put together, there could have been very little capital deployed and it doesn't represent subsequent rounds that have yet to be raised.
Really? Do people describe chargers or power supplies as power banks? Surely the 'bank' part of it implies some kind of storage.
By sharing in losses I mean losing money in absolute terms, that's what happens to owners. Owners don't just make less money in bad times, they lose money. Workers may lose money relative to what they think they would make otherwise, but they still make money.

Accepting the risk of losses is why owners have a legitimate claim to the profits. Workers take a guaranteed paycheck which shelters them from losses in bad years and forfeits their claim to profits in good.
Heh well done I fell for it. Should have checked your comment history before replying but oh well, I fed a troll.
> It is technically impossible for the government to guarantee that he can present a "public good" defense

It is quite possible for the President to guarantee that he will not face any charges for which he is not allowed to present such a defense.