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You’re suggesting copyright is obsolete because technical means of protecting content are so easy to circumvent.

That’s absurd, considering laws protecting rights that are easily protected by, for example, physical means are entirely unnecessary.

The only reason we have laws against burglary is to allow us the benefits of not living in a personal fortress. To turn this around and deny anyone going out in public without a personal protection detail the benefit of laws against being robbed or raped is indistinguishable from just scrapping all criminal law.

The other, more common and less interesting (but equally wrong), assumption you’re making is that there is some secret business model that thousands of publications and journalists have somehow missed to see. Or, alternatively, the strange situation of gleefully enjoying the decline of journalism, coming up with all sorts of accusations to deny that their work has any value for you or society, while simultaneously spending 8+ hours these days reading their work.
Yep - this was a somewhat common format for pro-audio hardware in the early 2000s.
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God, the minidisc players were such beautiful devices. Way ahead of their time. It's too bad Sony didn't bring them to the US market in full force. I remember buying one online in Yen and having it shipped from Japan. It was my first international transaction as a kid.
The user interface seems to assume someone isn't awake across midnight, which doesn't make much sense to me; like, if you want to try to coordinate a meeting with me, and you expect me to be functional during it, it really needs to be scheduled between 2pm and 4am, but I can't enter that time range due to how this slider works :(. (Speaking of which, it is nearing 5am, so I should probably start heading to sleep.)
There is probably more truth in this than people realise at first glance.
That is not true. Hong Kong has its own government. Yes, the government collaborates with China but we have a separate legal system and are treated as a separate country for customs and immigration purposes.
What stereotype are you referring to?
Your emergency fund isn't supposed to accrue interest, it is supposed to be a safety net against these kind of situations.
FWIW, media reports of deaths in Germany quite often reported that the deceased had other illnesses too, so I'm skeptical of all the blanket claims that Germany isn't reporting deaths that have other causes too.
Isn't it a balance?

VB6 code was easy to understand on one level, but its lack of expressiveness lead to a lot more code. On the other hand when I look at Ruby code there is too much syntactic sugar for a non-ruby programmers to understand it without looking some thing sup.
He will be most likely fine but this shows the extent of this pandemic for sure and should encourage people in UK and anywhere else to take it seriously.
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> We have a separate legal system and are treated as a separate country for customs and immigration purposes.

Of course Hong Kong has its own legal system and maintains its own customs and immigrations. However, mass epidemological response is carried out in accordance with the demands of mainland China, and so it is no surprise that Hong Kong is not being distinguished from mainland China as the OP expected.
Such studies, papers and news always makes me cringe.
It seems overly engineered with limited usefulness.

Superpower glass … really?

As background I work in public research and have no background in Autism research.
Yet, due to a mutual friend, I was lucky to meet Kelly Hunter, and attend one of her workshops (together with several other researchers working on helping autistic children).
I knew the Stanford project, mentioned it and got just strange looks:
“This does not really solve any of the problems we are facing”
It seems detecting facial emotions are not the main problems of the autistic children they are dealing with ...

https://flutetheatre.co.uk/changing-lives-of-people-with-aut...

Here’s work from a friend on the topic:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/sites/grand-challenge...

The system itself can just help children with very mild symptoms.
One colleague who works on wearable sensing for them mentioned that even head bands and wrist watches cannot be used
as children commonly take them off and throw them around.

Kelly also runs a fundraiser right now in case somebody wants to help out. In my personal opinion much more useful than the solution described in the ieee article:
https://www.facebook.com/donate/574661226469627/101582037614...
We don't work for you. Your various snotty replies aren't useful.

"Of course we know it works for them"

How does this anti-logic make any sense? Do you think the masks have a sensor that turns off the "works" bit if it's on the face of a medical professional or not?

This is bit like demanding to see research that gravity has an impact on alpacas. We know fundamentally how gravity has an effect on mass, so it follows. Just as we know the fundamental filtering ability, and contagion spread limiting, of masks, including even surgical masks. We know that the CDC is telling health workers that don't have masks to even use a bandana wrap, as not only does it stop face contact it has some limited utility in stopping the tiny droplets of liquid that are one of SARS-CoV-2's vectors.
Well - that software will hopefully solve the problem of data being spread across 15 different systems (although to some extent, now you've just added another system in the mix :) )

To start solving the problem of equipment being swapped or walking off, that's when you need to look at an active RFID or other real time tracking solution.
If you like Zotero, Dataverse[0][1][2] might be appealing as well!

[0] https://dataverse.org/
[1] https://dataverse.org/software-features
[2] https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse
>Inalienable rights are not without limits, at least within the American system of governance. You have the right to free speech, but you don't have the right to yell "fire" in a crowded theater and endanger others' lives.

That's an interesting example, because that quote was actually originally used in the context of jailing somebody for opposing the WW1 draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the.... And the actual ruling was partially overturned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio. There's an in-depth analysis here: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic... . In short, it's not clear that you don't in fact have the right to shout fire in a crowded theatre.

Personally I don't support quarantine because I believe a negative-rights-based system produces the best outcomes in the long term. Yes it might do worse in a pandemic like this, but it also severly limits the possibility of other worst-case outcomes like the hundred million people killed by Mao and Stalin, the Cambodian genocide, Hitler's atrocities. If the countries involved (and by extension their governments) had been absolutely committed to the protection of such negative rights (and had institutions that made it extremely hard to violate these rights, a strong court system and constitution), they could never have justified the atrocities they committed.
Its been really interesting to me how various health minsters and government officials seem to be getting it in surprising numbers when only around 0.006% of the world's population is infected. The amount of famous figures with the disease seems to be vanishingly unlikely to happen if it were distributed entirely by chance.

What mechanism is it that made these political/buisness/celebrity figures more likely to catch it? More international travel?
My key takeaway from this entire situation is that authorities in Europe and USA don't understand how exponent works. Every country that is now suffering from the pandemic went through "c'mon, it's just 10 cases" phase. We had ~two months to observe how the situation unfolds in Asia, yet learned nothing. As for me, back in late February when I checked the dashboard and saw that ~10 cases were registered in my country, I decided that "nope, I am not going to use public transportation any time soon".

It should be mandatory for any politician or government clerk to take an exam in differential equations. There _was_ time to prepare, and there was a chance to contain the situation.
This piece of advice is wrong on so many levels, from the general context. I cannot believe it got 1st place here.

(I got a Ph.D. in theoretical quantum optics, and I do have over a decade of experience teaching gifted high-school students. There is a lot of experience that works, and doesn't work, on people without prior background.)

Feynman Lectures are much a more lively, insightful, overview of physics (I started reading when I was 14 or 15 y.o.; jumped there after reading one advanced high-school textbook). While I do know people who preferred Halliday & Resnick, these were people who liked a more straightforward, even if less insightful or colorful, approach.

> learn the math tools first.

Nope. You can spend 2 years (not a joke) to get mathematics to prove Stokes theorem, in one of the more general versions. Or draw a few cubes and squares, and get there is 15 mins or so. For regular 1 dim integrals, it is a one year course of mathematical analysis, if you want to do it rigorously.

For many tools (e.g. Fenman Path Integrals) there is no rigorous math approach that is in use (at all). While, sure, you need to continuously improve your mathematical skills, my strong suggestion is first physics, then maths. Same Dirac Delta first as a trick, only later (and if you wish for math's sake) learn about distributions, Radon measures, etc.

For E&M: for introduction, totally start with Griffiths. It is much more approachable as the introduction.

> There's very little difference in undergraduate vs graduate quantum mechanics.

I don't know where to get started, but it is nor true. For quantum information - yes, you can start with undergraduate maths. For anything going into quantum field theory, you would need to know much more about Lagrangian mechanics, group representations, symmetries, differential geometry, etc.
Ruby's default test suite is minitest, not RSpec. I agree that RSpec can be overkill sometimes.
And well, libraries and frameworks expect you to go over their docs if u wanna use them, that's kinda universal. Can u write a Spring MVC app without going over he docs?
* The text research feature : it highlight what you search for and you can switch to a regexp. It works well with1G+ log data

* You can set a color for each tab, so you instantaneously target the good ones

* You have an history replay

* Picture integration. Useful to visualize data from sql query in my psql shell

* And some others I forgot.

I hope that more and more, there will be linux's native alternatives when I'll switch the day after the hypothetical death of my late 2011 macbook
Great. Looking forward for new members.

The project mailing list can be found here:

> https://lists.fu-berlin.de/listinfo/linux-minidisc

For archiving purposes, I recommend getting a Sony MZ-RH1 (and the MZ-RH200 IIRC) as its the only device that can upload regular MD tracks using NetMD over USB. All the other devices can only playback over SPDIF.

FWIW, VLC also contains a universal decryptor written by us for any OpenMG media files saved by SonicStage. So if you have recordings on your hard disk which cannot be decrypted with SonicStage anymore because you forgot to backup the decryption keys, VLC should just work.
> should encourage people in UK and anywhere else to take it seriously

I'd love for you to be proven right but given what we've seen so far, not least from the government, I'm very much on the fence on this. Maybe in a few days we might have cause for cautious optimism
The US military provide plenty of early advice suggesting a pandemic was on it way, but that advice was mostly ignored:

https://ktvz.com/politics/2020/03/21/washington-post-us-inte...

Some of the politicians did heed the advice, at least when it came to managing their share portfolios, taking the opportunity to sell up while telling their constituents there was no imminent threat:

https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-7-...
I'm guessing they travel a lot and meet/shake hands with people all around the world?
Yeah, except you happily disregard the fact that a lot of asian countries including china have reimported cases mostly from Europe and the US. I'm pretty curious how this plays out in those countries.
Not following their own advice. MPs tested positive and yet the House of Commons remained open as normal.
In the past two weeks I've met three people, I imagine Boris might have interacted with 300
More access to testing;

Many people consider that COVID-19 has spread far beyond what the official numbers suggest.

This is more evidence of that.

For context; an NYC nurse spoke to NYT about many people coming into the hospital for other things such as car accidents and the CT scan showed signs of COVID-19 on the lungs: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-...
That's a good question. Travel and meeting lots of different people are major factors, of course. Most people in politics meet lots of different people and then meet each other, so it might well be that politics is a major vector for spreading this disease.

And with politics being dominated by older men, and older men being the most vulnerable group, this sounds like it could easily turn into a major political disaster.
Perhaps - I wonder if this kind of thing might inevitably lead to less physical contact in buisness/politics, or at least more caution around that kind of behaviour
Globals, similarly to "goto", are considered bad, because people tend to abuse them. But, same as with goto, they are not inherently bad and have their use. There are just lot of bad programmers who have been told that using globals (or goto) is dangerous and take it as "NEVER USE GLOBALS (or GOTO)" and spread this warped message further.
My sister is managing a project aggregating ideas and resources around connecting midst pandemic remotely here http://bit.ly/virtualhugideas and there's a page for games https://sites.google.com/view/virtualhugs/games?authuser=0
This is just C being generally bad at any feature detection. This is why the "./configure" exists, and you check for the existence of headers and functions there.
they tend to do a lot of hand shaking and celebs will have people asking for selfies and stuff like this, so essentially they are in close contact with a lot more people than the average person.
Presumably persistently meeting lots of people, and having to necessarily do so in order to do their job
Yup that was my understanding as well. Not sure why I'm being downvoted, it was a genuine question lol
only around 0.006% of the world's population is infected

Maybe that's the hypothesis you need to invalidate ?
> What mechanism is it that made these political/buisness/celebrity figures more likely to catch it?

Outside of meeting a lot of people, shaking hands, lots of contact etc it's worth remembering that they probably have much easier access to testing...
> ... compliant population with mandatory civil service and memory of recent authoritarian government, can mobilize techno-authoritarian surveillance. ...
Did you read the NPR article? The very first chart shows that there is a big difference between the various countries. The logarithmic scale allows for much better visualisation than the almost nonsensical charts on the John Hopkins statistics page. The circles are also a completely inadequate visualisation. I.e. much better would be coloring countries by incident rate per 100.000 inhabitants.

They do a good job collecting all the data but a seriously bad job visualising them.
It's not about protecting you from other people, it's about protecting other people from you. Many people are asymptomatic or very mildly sick, yet are able to infect other people. When you cough or wipe your nose, you risk infecting other people. The cheap mask prevents you from touching your face as much and catches heavier particles that can't curve around the bends of the facemask as easily like water and mucus.
I've used this to successfully run legacy 32bit commandline tools, though I think it's still too unstable to rely on it in a production environment.

I think there's been a notable upsurge in interest though, so I expect good things to happen with it this year.
If this documentation is accurate, Darling doesn't support raw syscalls either:

https://wiki.darlinghq.org/documentation:system_call_emulati...

Their Linux kernel module does seem to be XNU based, but it feels like poor design / a rushed job to run it as a Linux kernel module instead of isolating it in userspace.
How is the Linux kernel tested?
Coronavirus: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive
It's likely orders of magnitude more people are infected than are tested. But, in the UK, people like the PM and the Prince of Wales are a priority for testing. When they are infected, it's noticed.
I think there were even 4- and 8-track MD recorders IIRC.
I can't vouch it either, not sure why flagged, possibly there are multiple articles appearing in /new and someone is trying to make one of them the canonical one.
You never ever eval user input.
Yes! the blog is full of more articles just like this, i love this stuff.

http://fabiensanglard.net/
Wonderful program. We're happy to be partnered with them
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Scott Alexander has a good post on this, and he convinced me of a “good faith” explanation for the recommendations against (or, more accurately, “not in favor of”) face masks: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...
> It wasn't even created until 2002

This is technically true and often-cited, but it's really misleading. Its 'creation' was more of a restructuring.

When ICE was created in 2003, it absorbed many parts of the United States Customs Service (founded 1789), the Immigration and Naturalization Service (founded 1933), and the Federal Protective Service (founded 1971).

Before ICE, the INS was responsible for arresting and deporting those who violated immigration laws.

All this aside, I'm sure we can agree:

(1) there's a correlation between (A) willingness to illegally immigrate and (B) the risk of deportation after crossing the border.

(2) that an increase in illegal immigration without governmental response would more closely resemble the concept of open borders.
From what I have read the danger is nearly as high in the American Midwest. So many animals and so much antibiotic (mis)use.
This one was the first one.
I don't like the "unsafe for me, but not for thee" attitude where "third-party" code is held to a different standard than the compiler/stdlib code. This attitude is especially strange to me when it doesn't distinguish between something relatively high level like your example of parsing http headers, and something quite low level like the concurrent data structure implementation we're discussing here.
I don’t understand that as well. It seems many articles from well established places are getting flagged.
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It looks to me like a bit of an indication who has the most social capital. China was late to the party because the local chief of police overrode the doctors during the early days of the crisis.

The rejection of masks looks to me like a similar prioritization of law enforcement's preferences over public health.
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Great for them, so far, but let's hope that a vaccine is found and fast. This cannot be maintained for ages. The mask thing, even if not N95 makes sense, you don't touch your face. Go home wash etc etc.
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There's nothing really to say about it.

I run about 8,000 CPU cores in GCP and what am I going to say?

I like the transparency, in my experience it's more reliable than AWS- although AWS does _not_ report problems until they're absolutely undeniable.

Other than that, shit happens, this is upsetting but eh.
I’ve used this for years!
Ask HN: How do you manage your eBooks library?
I'm curious what tools you use.

I have myself tried:

* Calibre -> not the most beautiful UI/UX. Does it even sync across devices?

* Mendely -> Good for paper management.

* PapersApp -> Much better for paper management and research stuff.

* Kindle Cloud -> Only for epubs. I have epubs, pdfs, djvu.

* PDF viewer -> Files here and there and often in multiple places. Hard to manage across topics/genres.

* Preview (Apple) -> I can highlight. But files scattered.

* iBooks -> can't open PDF.

Personal frustration:

I'm cursed to live in permanent temporariness so far, but luckily am fully adept at spending countless hours reading books (and papers) on any screen. I read on various topics and usually just because I love consuming knowledge, and not necessarily hoping that I'd churn out a paper (so I don't care about bibliography/citation features). I guesstimated and realized I've read some 200 non-fiction books and around 70 papers in the last four year and I alway end up discovering some gems left in some folder. Now it bothers me so much that I'm planning to write a webapp just to solve this problem.
> So if you want to implement cryptography or codec, WebAssembly is a good tool.

For cryptography specifically, the security considerations are the same as for JS: all of your security promises die if your threat model assumes that you cannot trust the security of TLS.

WASM can be MITM’ed just as well as JS.
Most present societies and thus governments do not believe that people should get to run their businesses however they see fit.

There are a thousand different ways in which companies are not presently allowed to be operated, even if the owner sees fit to do so: worker safety, discrimination, collusion, et c.

I’m not saying these things are good or bad, or that there should be more or less of them. I’m saying that Zoom’s (and Facebook’s) spying is a problem, remains a problem, and is not solved by them putting some text on their webpage.
> What am I missing?

See my reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22701821 Mind, I just don't know if what I'm saying there holds water.

Citations are good, following up!
I'm sure you'll get more traction if you explain a bit more, or at least phrase your title as a question.
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Zooniverse was a direct response to a PhD project that Chris Lintott was supervising. His student was tasked with classifying galaxies and in the end decided that the volume of data was just too great.

There is a good supply of volunteers, and the tasks are enjoyed by those who undertake them. Where volunteers identify notable things, they are also credited by name in the resulting papers.

> maybe they should think about if repeatedly firing, whimsically dismantling expert teams, and cut the funds to scientists at the slighest opportunity really pays at long term.

I don't see much evidence for this happening in the UK, where the project is based.
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