skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 9th is involved in spirit because the Federal Circuit was in principle bound to apply 9th Circuit law on the copyright claims (which, arguably, they did not do.)

But that's mostly immaterial at the Supreme Court, as the Supreme Court isn't deciding based on whether the CAFC correctly applied 9th Circuit precedent.
The secret to a good social network is reputation. Upvoted content floats to the top, while downvoted content is pushed out of sight.

It's not always fair, and certainly does not always bring the best content to light, but it's a lot better than a purely level playing field of equals, where a fool's opinion is weighted exactly against that of a great philosopher.

Charging for access is problematic, however. People have been trained to expect free stuff, and unfortunately it's not clear the value proposition of Wales' offering. To avoid seeing ads? To have vastly better content? To be a superior UX? He has a pretty tough row to hoe.
Ironically, I stopped using Best Buy at all due to their return policies.

More than once I've had missing components from what I purchased. And they won't accept refunds or replacements unless all parts are included.

Amazon takes nearly anything back, from my attempts.
Does it matter? It's a private business, they can do what they want, right?
Why is this ad on HN?
In heard a good explanation for that in a talk by law professor Eben Moglen.

Congress passed in 1982 a statue called the Federal Courts Improvement Act, where instead of having a random judge make decision, you now instead have selected judges specialized in IP. Those specialized judges comes from lawyers who have worked for companies protection their IP, and thus a bias in favor of IP in the court of appeal. When the case goes to the supreme court this bias goes away.
Substitutable, and no it isn't.
Google deliberately broke compatibility with java, its language and its packaging.

From the UI perspective, there is actually a reasonable justification for limiting compatibility - but they went far further than what was reasonable.

They did this to prevent applications executable on any JVM from running on Android.
It seems like startup advice is based on the repeatable observations that people who've worked with a lot of startups have discovered. That means there are a bunch of situations that don't get covered because they don't come up a lot.

When playing an odds game like startups, you want to do all the maximally viable things possible, but that doesn't mean other decisions aren't also viable, they're just not observed to be as successful, so they're not mentioned. Doesn't mean they won't work.

There's also opportunity cost. What could this team have done if they were working on something more... disruptive? The execution here is incredible, applying that to a new problem would have probably also done very well.
Within a narrowly defined range of acceptable debate (see: Noam Chomsky)
The paperback version of my book is out – Design Patterns and Video Games
Microsoft is reportedly working on 64-bit x86 emulation for Windows 10 on ARM
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to filter by this though? Surely Amazon has a history of who bought what from who - why not make it an option for consumers (apart from the obvious fact that Amazon makes money letting people sell shit on their platform)?

Amazon could easily solve this problem but they've decided it's more profitable to let it fester. Whether or not it's a good decision in the long run, the same way Sears permanently ruined their reputation by selling shit through their established in-house brands, remains to be seen.
Which one is that? Super interested for one of my customers...
MacBook Pro teardown confirms the new keyboard is just the old keyboard
It seems my guess was wrong. This map [1] shows where the factory will be cited (apparently based on some German media reports).

[1] https://i.redd.it/eze28dydmiy31.png
The MacOS Feel That Developers Love
If they were travelling in a straight linear track across the Milky Way, they'd be about 275 thousand light years from Earth, or somewhat further from us than the Milky Way is across (150k - 200k light years). Current speed of Voyager 2 relative to Earth is 5.4 * 10^8 km/yr, a half-billion km/yr, or 0.05 millilightyears/yr.

In truth, they'll be orbiting the galactic centre in an orbit somewhat offset from the Solar System. The Milky Way will have completed about 20 rotations. No idea what the resulting offset would be, but all but certainly somewhere within the galactic disk itself.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
I'm thinking specifically about copyright, not the 9th circuit's rulings overall. I don't know if that would make a difference from the overall stats you link to.

Although having just said that, the Blurred Lines, "these songs sound similar so that's good enough to say they're infringing" case didn't get overturned, and I think that's almost as dangerous a precedent as this. And a few other commenters are saying that it's actually more just patent-law expansion that the Supreme Court has been wary of.

So maybe it's entirely wishful thinking on my part.

I dunno. I just want someone to tell me it's all going to turn out OK :)
Because it comes from a known source. The problem isn't where the physical money has been in the past it's entire lifetime but what it enabled last. This is also why laundering money is a thing, because if you can prove you got the money in a clean way you are no longer on the hook.
New satellite measurements show how polluted Los Angeles' air is
The margin might be ample, but the fact that it adds up to only $60K per month might not attract much competition. This is no unicorn, it pays the bills for a couple of families.
Capture the Flag Competition Aims to Trace Missing Persons
Path of Exile 2
That's an interesting argument: can creativity exist without emotions?

It speaks directly to the nature of creativity. Is creativity simply the discovery of the new; or is it an expression of desire for the new? Is it something else?

Hmm...

Although, to the original concern: I don't believe constraints on behaviour necessarily constrain emotions; such constraints influence emotions, but I wouldn't expect a general suppression of emotion.
On his twitter account I found this: https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/1115631402119...

> The two companies with the biggest internal social media platforms for their employees (Google and Facebook) also have massive employee turmoil… Anyone surprised?
There are multitudes of venues for political expression, why cannot the workplace be a refuge from that maelstrom?
Ethical means one ought to do it, and unethical means one ought not do it.
I’d be surprised if this doesn’t happen very frequently tbh...
it probably cost less than $1/month to host the average user... this is just craziness
I doubt I'll be the only meditator that disagrees with you, on every point, regardless of citations.
And how long until they reach the next star? They're not pointed anywhere in particular. We are talking about millions of years here.
They were specifically talking about marketplace fraud, where Amazon customers are misled but no money is lost. Customer fraud (against Amazon) is a different thing, though there's a bit of overlap when it comes to fraudulent returns.
Time Outdoors and Physical Activity as Predictors of Incident Myopia (2012)
I think you’ll find that the political diversity here is quite wide. There’s people here against guns and people here who believe people have a right to own them.
Of all the offenders in bad search quality these are hardly the worst offenders. The throwaway SEO’d affiliate blogspam and factory produced Medium articles are much worse.
All marketing is “neuromarketing”. It’s fundamentally a practice of exploiting human psychology to drive their behavior.

Also yes, all marketing is fundamentally unethical if it is done by a profit-driven company.
On the copyright of the actual software by Phoenix or Award or whoever, not an API licensing fee.
The Fakeslot chrome extension is pretty good at spotting fake reviews. I’m curious if it can detect transferred reviews...
I'm trying to establish convention in our lab that bibliography generation is the last step before submission. It always ends up that the bibliography (ie field codes with ref info in Word) is the most fragile part of the document, and everyone that isn't the person that generated the bib is terrified of changing anything in it for fear of ruining the references.

It seems a lot more sane to use nicknames for references and then format references right at the end when you know it's not going to be edited any further. It still seems like it's an unsolved problem in the process.
Thanks. I need to think about this.

The source and sink are arbitrary? Or do they need to correspond to some actual reality?
> typical big corporation with typical corporate politics

I don't know why this would surprise anyone. People are people and politics are politics in any large organization. There is no reason to think Google would be exempt.
I don't disagree with you about that being a danger - but I don't think that the solution to bad faith operators in copyright is to bring the system down any more than I believe it to be the answer in patent law.

I think that the system desperately needs to more actively punish those who abuse the legal system.

If a case is found to be frivolous I belief that the plaintiff should have to pay both fines and damages. The plaintiff's lawyers should also be punished - warnings, fines and eventual disbarment.
This case has the appeals court striking down de minimus claims as well. : /
Thank you I didn't know that.
Is there some benefit to keeping it free and increasing users, like a network effect? Seems unlikely, so you should try to monetize from day 1.
Effectively Using Matplotlib (2017)
Its ridiculous to equate talking about politics to sexual harassment. Talking politics doesn't magically turn you into a chauvinist.
Google Brings RCS Support in Its Android Messages App to the US
What property has Google destroyed that Oracle is trying to protect?

Owning a property doesn’t give you the right to sue other people who develop a property that offers the same services.
Postulating a "reasonable effort" legal standard does absolutely nothing to answer the more important questions about what kind and degree of compatibility should be considered the goal. Whether it's judged strictly or with some leeway, we still need to know who other than Oracle gets to decide how much compatibility with Java would be necessary for fair use to unquestionably apply.
The question we should be asking is if regular marketing is ethical.
I suspect: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

GP shouldn't insinuate vaguely, IMO.
I've found that Reddit (in terms of content, not UI) has gotten somewhat better in recent years, while most discussion venues have either gotten much worse or gotten rid of commenting altogether.

In relative terms, it's superior to most of its alternatives (present site excluded, of course).
Not sure if the joke was if they were valued at $100M or not. But they last raised at Unicorn valuation. If they’re selling 10% of the company or less for $100M, then they’ll still be a Unicorn.
The dude said whole classes of people were genetically inferior. That makes employee evaluations impossible. He had to go.
High-level and low-level are ill-defined and I prefer to stick to more precise language. Additionally, calling Rust high-level is inaccurate. It has high-level features, but the linear typing used by the borrowing system ultimately imposes cognitive overhead that does not exist in, say, OCaml. I think it’s also interesting to note that garbage collectors for Rust that function reasonably are still pretty experimental, with the most promising approach I’ve seen so far being withoutboats’s Shifgrethor (https://github.com/withoutboats/shifgrethor).

Haskell and Idris and the like (other languages with a type system in the calculus of constructions) inarguably support a higher level of abstraction than Rust does, and are also “GC-obligate” languages. So your example is something of a red herring. I could say the same about Kotlin and Swift and Scala, none of which really have a strong story for static memory safety like Rust has, though it’s being considered for Swift. The only language that is reasonably complete that I could think to compare it to is ATS, which is far more complex as a result.
You would be surprised at how low wages are in Japan and how frugal people are to save to supplement their employer pensions. You would also be surprised at how many poor people there are in Japan. The stereotypical wealthy Japanese salaryman has pretty low salaries by American standards. There are also homeless people in Tokyo who sleep quietly in the streets and then clean up after themselves, disappearing completely from sight so you wouldn't know there was an encampment there. There was one famous case of an older person starving in Japan. He had a very touching diary where he wrote he dreamed of eating just one rice ball. He went to the unemployment office but they turned him down.(source: https://asiancorrespondent.com/2012/02/starving-to-death-in-...)

In Japan 2/3 of the average person's retirement income is pension benefits and 1/3 is savings, so Japanese augment their frugal pensions by saving a lot. Even so, 1 in 6 Japanese live in poverty, and 1 in 5 seniors live in poverty, suggesting that the low pensions play a role and that some Japanese are suffering because of this (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/04/business/financ...)

In terms of Japan being expensive to live in, it depends on your lifestyle. You can certainly spend a lot of money in Japan, but the median household income in Japan is about 40K (source: http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/Distribution_of_Yearly_Ho.... more salary breakdowns here: https://resources.realestate.co.jp/living/average-salary-jap...) so assuming 2 people, that's about $1700/month per person, so a pension of $1000/month is completely unsurprising.

Private consumption in Japan, as a share of GDP, is about 10% less than in the U.S. E.g. they consume about 57% of GDP and we consume about 67% of GDP. This includes consumption of fixed capital. If you back that out, the median Japanese household is just much more frugal than the median US household, and it's not all increased out of pocket healthcare spending (source: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/how-do-united-states-c...). They really are more frugal and more risk averse than US households.
The JVM itself makes backwards incompatible changes. I have jars that work on earlier VMs, but don't anymore.
Perhaps "scale" should be its own block. The first 7 modes listed are in fact modes of the same scale so the name is fitting. But "Melodic" and "Harmonic" are their own scales, each with a corresponding set of 7 modes.

It would be cool to select modes of those scales as well. For example Phrygian Dominant (mode of Harmonic minor) is very common in a lot of metal music, some classical, Eastern European, etc.

As an aside, the line visual for the arpeggio styles is really cool! It would be neat to select different arpeggios for each chord and see the whole progression drawn out as a line.
Thanks for the response. I almost went to IU in Bloomington for grad school, and I still love the town. The Runcible Spoon is still top 5 breakfasts I've ever had. But outside of there, and maybe Indianapolis, the state just seems forgotten by time.
The informal "just be yourself" spirit can work quite well in a small startup team.

Google used to be just that, and they made untold billions from it, so it's not surprising that they held on to remnants of that spirit for too long.

Now they're a gigantic megacorp, and need to act the part.

...and life goes on, everything is different but also the same...
How do you install it on linux? I'm getting the error,

error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap
"Aether-2.0.0-dev.14+1909192130.00bf3c3.snap"

SO [1] suggests this can be forced with `sudo snap install --dangerous` but that doesn't sound right.

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/822765/snap-install-failure-...
> Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

I liked Neil deGrasse Tyson's description of how what we call space is still ridiculously close to our planet and how far away everything else actually is, using a standard classroom globe for scale: https://youtu.be/Tt0uV5d8tss?t=99
Mozilla WebThings Gateway 0.10
This is straight up lifted from this demo - https://codepen.io/jakealbaugh/pen/qNrZyw (previous HN convo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13273901)

Actually, this whole site is pretty strange. Lots of code and open source projects just kinda copied into an app library.
The CAFC, not the second district.
How to store video data for your grandchildren for 100 years
On a friday evening at the music club that I sometimes visit, after a couple of beers, I received a question which may concern us.

How to store the raw uncompressed video of, in this case , live bands, for a period of 100 years? How can long time archival be accomplished? What methods are there currently and are open source based, scientifically and practically proven and could adhere to the 100 years standard?

-- SelfSp0rk
But then you're ordering from walmart...? A company decidedly worse than amazon by nearly every metric.
rms is extremely political, and has made significant contributions In the operating system and application space. The entirety of the free software movement is a political movement, stemming from a philosophy that people should have freedom to change the software on devices they physically own. I assume you're not considering him one of "those in question?"
> There is no reason to think Google would be exempt.

It can be controlled in some way. If you only hire people from the same political pool, for example. Or getting them early enough (young enough) to shape them in a way that will lower internal tensions. Not every large company is burning in political fires.
Limited refers to how many studies have been done at the time of the survey, not to whether there is a consensus. We have already gone over this. If you include types of gun control other than disallowing concealed carry, there are many more studies that apply, and every single one shows negative effects. Again, this is something that we've already gone over.

You continue to report "stats" like they're something that a journal would publish. We've already gone over that as well. You have a long way to go before you understand the scientific process.
Are you retiring within 2 years? Calling it quits on learning new tech seems a pretty good way to end up like the COBOL developers in the early 2000s as jobs slowly dried up and the ones who refused to change became obsolete.
In my opinion, every great work needs its justifying myth. If you don't have that, you won't have the confidence to pursue it further.

That doesn't mean that the myth is necessarily a good, ethical or healthy one. A lot of myths are of the form of "worthy sacrifice." Others are of the "defending oneself" sort, or the "ascent to greatness". The myth is made to fit the times and the task.

Organizations, and teams in those organizations, often take on their myths without consciously thinking about it. But it's absolutely critical to have them there to set the tone and allow everyone to proceed on the same page.
At first glance, Terminal looks like it still needs some level of integration and development work. It's not a ready-to-go, install-the-app-and-process-payments solution.
> Amazon has no third party seller rating ... People cannot review sellers

Sellers have reviews and ratings just like products. You can leave public feedback and a star rating for sellers you've purchased from [1]. On the 'Your Orders' page click on 'Leave Seller Feedback'. This page also describes how to do it [2].

You can see these ratings while selecting which seller's offer to buy from. For example, many 3Ps are selling '5 Hour Energy Shot Berry - 24 count' [3]. Alongside each seller's offer, you can see their star rating and positive feedback percentage. For the first seller I see a 5-star rating and "96% positive over the past 12 months (1,122 total ratings)". You can click on that to see individual feedback.

It's my understanding that these ratings influence whether a seller's offer will be chosen for the 'Buy Box', which is the default offer that's shown on the product detail page. When an offer appears in the BuyBox, underneath it will say something like: "Sold by 7-Eleven, Inc and Fulfilled by Amazon". The seller name is a hyperlink to the seller's profile page where you can see their ratings and reviews [4].

Amazon also has a slightly different problem than Ebay, as I understand it, because Amazon is trying to have a single product detail page for each "product". There should be in theory exactly one page for "24-pack of 5 Hour Energy Berry". I'm not experienced with Ebay, but it looks like every Ebay listing is completely separate and independent. Doesn't that make it harder to comparison-shop for the best offer for a specific product among multiple sellers? Is there an easy way to see all offers for one specific product? I couldn't see an easy way to do this while experimenting with Ebay search right now. Amazon is trying to make this comparison shopping easy by consolidating all offers for the same product into one page, and then selecting a recommended offer based on various factors (including seller rating, shipping speed/reliability, etc.) that matter to customers.

(However, because there is a single page for each product, and sellers have some ability to create and modify pages, that occasionally leads to abuse, like the kind being discussed elsewhere in this thread.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/feedback [2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... [3] https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0021L9XK4 [4] https://www.amazon.com/sp?_encoding=UTF8&asin=&isAmazonFulfi...
> There already is a decentralized Reddit where subreddits are called

...newsgroups...

> and anyone can start one and run it as they please.
In case anyone is interested in delving deeper, I wrote a detailed series of posts on persistent homology including the fundamental math and getting a working python example: http://outlace.com/TDApart1.html
PyRadio: An open source alternative for internet radio
But I think your framing is backwards here.

* Banning politics from the workplace is a huge benefit to people whose views are less mainstream. In the presence of politics, people with non-mainstream views have to either lie about what they think or live under a constant cloud of controversy.

* Banning politics from the workplace is the only way to keep your values independent of the political environment. If politics are allowed, you constantly have to monitor the political landscape to make sure following your company values won't make your employees rebel.

* Your analogy does hold, and it would be unreasonable to have a rule where I'll be punished for chatting in the breakroom about how my cousin might be deported. But it would also be unreasonable for me to interrupt meetings with demands that the company must cancel its medical plan, because my dad has the same insurance and I don't think they're treating him right.

More broadly, I don't think anyone actually wants or would benefit from politics in general in the workplace. The only people I've seen argue for it are confident that their politics will be popular, and that all political views they find offensive will continue to be forbidden.
90% of people surrounded by 10% ? The word "surrounded" seems inappropriate.
Yep, the flag is right. Unfortunately the way snap is designed is that they really don’t want you to distribute binaries outside their special snap store, to the point that if you try, they try to scare your users off by naming ‘install outside snap store’ flag as ‘--dangerous’.