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> Claiming covers, interpretation videos, etc as "copyright infringement" is, to put it mildly, a stretch.

I don't know what an "interpretation video" is, but covers are clearly copyright infringement.

The first question to ask is: does audio deserve copyright at all? I think the answer to most people is yes: audio is just as valid a medium for fixation [1] as writing.

In that case, it's pretty obvious that a cover violates the copyright of the song writer.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Fixing
I'm using the "I don't care about cookies" Firefox plugin and didn't notice a thing. Frankly, the GDPR is such a shit-show it's the only way I can use the web now.
If this article is persuasive, I recommend looking at the following:

http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
An interesting review / commentary on that book, and his worldview, by someone with a rather different one:

https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/10/brad-delong-eric-hobs...

"He is writing for readers who take the central theme of twentieth century history to be the tragical-heroic course of World Communism."
Far too many people go to college as it is. More subsidies to go to college only make that problem worse.
A Proposal for a Flexible, Composable, Libre Desktop Environment
> I had to manually ISP flash a bootloader.

I read about that problem with the Tokyo60 v3. Seems like a big problem with quality control, that should have been fixed by sending a new, working versions of the PCB to all customers.

I'm currently waiting on some Aqua Zilents which are delayed thanks to the current pandemic. I understand the delay, but they waited until the posted ship date (April 10th) to inform customers that it's going to be late. That rubbed me the wrong way for sure.
Tri-boot Catalina/Win10/Ubuntu19 on Dell XPS 9650 (i7-7700HQ, 32gb RAM, 1tb NVMe, touch 4K UHD w HD 630 & GTX 1050). Two caveats are WiFi card needs replaced for iCloud (30$ on eBay) and fingerprint scanner only works under Win10.

Re: guide -- DuckDuckGo/Github/Google is your friend -- this model in particular is rather common, but which guide is right depends on your comfort level.
No thanks. The pensieve is cool in Harry Potter, but the IRL one will probably come with DRM and product placement.
WFH: A lot of people that never really considered work from home will start to demand more, the people that was a big opponent of it will soften up. They won’t miss but will despise the traffic to work even more, the time and money saved from the travel will be amplified.

Eating out: there will be a down tick of people that eat out because they discover and become more handy at cooking.

Biotech: Uptick in interests in biology, major speed up in biotech collaborations and tools, govt removing certain red tape.

Social: Extroverts discovering solitude become more introvert. Introverts becoming a bit more extroverted because of the critical need of online interaction easing them back into social circles.

Health: There will be lots of people under exercising and slew of injury after things reopen and ppl start playing sports.(please be careful)

The demand for telehealth will spur remote Standard tools that are installed at home that allow doctors to diagnose most things, like blood pressure, heart beat, stenograph, some type of all in ones. Sponsored by health insurers.
Relevant - Tom Scott explains the copyright situation and YouTube's Content ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU (42 minutes)
I would argue that they're all useful but its very tough to be accurate when confounding actions are occurring to the problem. For example, in the US, the increase in social distancing measures and mask usage couldn't be easily baked into the original models. Forecasting accurately is very tough. Look at what's been said about Renaissance and its Medallion fund, they're right a little over 50% (they just leverage very heavily). Think about that, the most consistent and dominate hedgefund might only be right about 51% of the time. The issue with just using historical data is the data might be different. But I'm sure all of their models were using data or at least some domain knowledge from the spread in Italy and China.
A lot of people I went to high school with chose to stay home and go to community college to figure things out. Most of them puttered around for a year or two, studying part time while working, eventually getting distracted and abandoning their degree plans.

I think I can count on one hand the kids who actually transferred to a 4-year university and finished their bachelors degree.

I guess dropping out of a community college is a less costly misfire than dropping out of an expensive 4-year university, but anecdotally the people who went straight to university tended to stay there and finish. Obviously, this wasn't a controlled study and the university crew were probably more academically-minded to start with, but it is an observation.
The point is that a lot of people who go to community college who plan to finish at a state school don't actually make it to that state school.

I agree with the parent comment, the people in community college will tend to be less ambitious and it will likely affect you. This is not a knock on community college folks, it's just different people have different priorities.

I do think that there are many states with excellent public universities that are a comparably great bargain, especially if you can get scholarships.
Sorry, I already have decided in another post your "Swiss Doctor's" summary isnt't very credible and that National Review article seems to have an awful lot of hedging in it.

Thank you for the effort, but I don't believe there is much more to say on the subject.
Go to college. While I have worked with engineers who didn’t attend university who were good engineers, the ones who attend university have a better, more mature approach to problem solving and learning new technologies. If you find a good computer science program, you’ll also gain a solid foundation on the underpinnings of the systems you’re working on — compiler design, CPUs, mathematics — and be worth so much more when you come to the table looking for a job.
Nice article, however, you may want to think about changing the color scheme of your website, the gray text on a gray background makes it a bit hard to read.
Not rare. I shoot USPSA and Steel Challenge and have seen all kinds of revolver malfunctions in matches. Cylinder binding because bullets walked out under recoil, broken firing pin, cylinder falling out on the ground, timing issues (chamber not aligned with bore axis), broken springs, etc.

Most are catastrophic, meaning that competitors cannot fix them on the clock, and if they don't have a spare gun they cannot finish the match either.
Yup. Just look at how Communist countries view dissent. It's not "this person has a different opinion", it's "this person is broken and we must fix them".
> it definitely hurts the bottom line of indie musicians, writers, moviemakers, etc.

One could argue that open-source hurts the bottom line of plenty of people building similar things that aren't free. And that if we'd spent hundreds of years making open-source illegal, there would by now exist many industries and professionals whose jobs are only possible due to that fact, and who would therefore suffer financially if we removed that artificial protection.

Ofc this analogy isn't perfect, but you get the idea:

"People relying on business model X will make less money if you do Y" isn't on its own a strong moral argument against Y.

Why does X warrant unique protection? Sure, we've all gotten used to X, and we enjoy the creations of many who make their living that way, but who's to say the world wouldn't be better and more creative without it? Again, in a world without open source, I think it'd be tough to guess that millions of developers could come together to share massive amounts of code and work for free.
Because, as you said, it's a shitty thing to do. I have the skills, experience, and finances to find a job where we can have a mutually beneficial relationship without trying to pull one over on them.
I don't quite understand why Apple and Google are releasing an API instead of a single system application.

This is going to create a gigantic mess as governments with limited software development competence slowly release incompatible and partially broken applications, while Apple and Google could just deploy a single solution via a system update.

Also, it's much easier to make it mandatory if it's a system app (and obviously it needs to be mandatory to be useful).
I believe it’s very much expected to see some resurgence and to adjust measures accordingly. Over time, it might become easier to measure which interventions are most effective and to focus on those.

Schools are certainly a risky gamble, but their closing is also among the most expensive measures. Many people are staying at home because they have no options for their children, including many doctors and nurses.
Could it be that the perceived necessity of attending a 4 year school from the get-go is causing some of these issues? If the expectation is that good students go to 4 year schools, which I believe it currently is, then only the less ambitious students will go to community colleges. It's a positive feedback loop that could be broken by making prospective students aware of the financial and self-discovery benefits of community colleges.

Some of the best professors I had were at the community college I attended before transferring to a much larger 4 year school. The class sizes were smaller and they had more time to help their students than their 4 year school counterparts.
Why? Der Spiegel is selling headlines to try to make money, that's why.
Link to study:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903284

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899272
Great book! Scala really needed some pragmatic programming resources! And I really like the website, is it open source?
I have no college education because decades ago, I was in the same situation as OP: had a job in hand, so I went to work instead of college. It was the best choice I ever made. I never worked somewhere that required a degree, three years into my career was making six figures, and have made at least that for the next ~20 years of my career. I had no student debt, or school expenses. I have had employers offer reimbursement to go get the the undergrad checkbox, which I’ve passed on (more important things to do IMHO).

YouTube, online material, and actual experience of trial and error will take you a long way without a degree. You probably also don’t want to work someplace that prioritizes a degree over experience. Don’t forget to network: that’s the biggest ROI you’ll ever have. It’s who you know, not what you know. Two cents from 20+ years.
Sometimes, yes. It's common for local supporters to open their homes to out-of-state volunteers. When I was younger, I spent months living for free in a nice lady's basement in Iowa.
ASK HN: How to Pivot the Business
We are a small startup working in digital/non digital outdoor advertising. Since the onset of COVID-19, there seems to be no place for outdoor advertising (for only a few months hopefully) with people staying in their homes. And the thing is with everything uncertain, we just can't afford to sit idle or work on our product without any revenue. So we were discussing on pivoting the business. I was hoping the HN crowd could also give me some insights on how to reshape the business to counter this situation.
I'm not sure this fall would be a great time to work on a political campaign either, since you might not want to be meeting a lot of people in person. I guess you could improve your phone and video conferencing skills, though?

Giving online courses a try seems like a good idea.
As a Datadog customer, I still use Sentry next to it, mostly for the top notch exception grouping, reporting etc. It’s just their core product, they’re better at it when you need to zoom in and actually debug.

For the bird’s eye view, Datadog is fine.
Thanks for reading and the recommendation. You should see a white background! I am still tweaking the style for all browsers/devices.
Always reminds me of pirate party political party. Great ideas, awful name. Or the church of Satan people that really like science. Provoking names hide great ideas.
I'm sure you see why a graph of just Denver is suspicious. It strongly suggests that the rest of the country saw a smaller second hump or no second hump at all, so the graph makers had to exclude it.
I think there's some confusion. Are you sure that you are talking about the same thing? What I meant here is a real HSM, something similar to a IBM 4758 [0] (which was once vulnerable, but only because it had buggy software), not a SIM card or a credit card chip. Do you imply that many HSMs are based on the same Gemalto chip?

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/ibm4758.html
I think this depends a lot on what peers you have access to through your work and whether you'd expect them to be comparably awesome (both in their competence and the depth of relationship you're able to build with them) to whoever you'd meet in college.

Even if you do decide to go to college, I think you'd get a lot more out of it after having worked in the real world for some amount of time--in college it really helps to be good at deciding what to spend your time on, and exposure to what non-college life is like will help a lot with that. I know lots of people who got a ton out of gap years and no one who regrets it.

(I wrote more advice here: https://www.benkuhn.net/college/ )
Microsoft patents cryptocurrency system using body activity data
Anti-lockdown protesters call Covid-19 vaccine ‘the mark of the beast’
Ask HN: Recommend YouTube Exercise Videos?
On the heels of last week's "synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890595

Do you have a favorite 'follow along' exercise YouTube video or channel?

Looking for all types of recommendations: Yoga, cardio, bodyweight fitness, strength training...
Facebook Released Libra
You don’t need to stop shipping features to fix technical debt
That article was Tiger-King-esque in that by the end of it I hated pretty much all the characters involved.
If you'd like to start with a light, fun introduction, "Lists and Lists" is an old interactive fiction game from the illustrious Andrew Plotkin, in which a genie gives you puzzles to solve using Scheme.

It's a delightful introduction to Lisp-y thinking. You can play online, or download and play offline: https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=zj3ie12ewi1mrj1t
Angela Merkel has a Ph.D. in quantum physics, and an academic background is probably exactly what's needed in a situation like this (versus the more business oriented skills of e.g. Trump).
You’re right. Edited to fix the error.
Thanks, and no worries, my original post was... raw. Representative of my inner weltanschauung, but not of the self I present and project, and not intended to signal anything, just to provide context. The intent was to share the unspoken unspeakables for others who might share these experiences but are more self-censorious, as most in this position are.

As to experience, I have lived what feel like many lifetimes - I have loved and been loved (I’m married to a woman who challenges me, and I wouldn’t have it any other way), I’ve had the most spectacular pain, emotional and physical - the senseless deaths of dear friends, severe and life-threatening illnesses (writing a will at 26 thinking it’ll be needed imminently is a bag of laughs), I’ve lived in abject penury, while desperately trying to keep the lights on for my sister, after our parents split and both absconded, leaving us alone in the U.K. at 17 and 11, respectively. I took a life, accidentally, as a young child, and it haunts me still. I could create life, but I won’t, as I carry a fistful of genetic disease. Hour-long? You’re not trying ;)

I’m working on leaving behind my baggage, but like The Luggage it does rather like to follow me - therapy is helping, and this is actually part of it - I am under instructions to talk about this stuff, openly and honestly, and to see that people aren’t as judgmental as the wounded child within believes.

As to travel - slow travel opens the mind to so many possibilities, so many ways of living, what matters to people, how they differ, how they’re the same. The scenery is just the backdrop for the infinite theatres of human experience.

Oh, and I absolutely am insecure. Confidence oozes from my ears, as far as others are concerned, but inside its little but doubt, guilt, and shame.

Anyway. Thanks. I really do appreciate the reply.
Just because audio deserves copyright protection doesn't mean every element of it does (like melody or information presented).

I think it's immoral and should be illegal to distribute others people work without permission but I think it should be perfectly legal to make art based on work of others as long as you don't use original samples (it's fine to make a cover, not fine to use original soundtrack).

The same goes for software: distributing what others make is wrong and should be illegal. Making something similar yourself? Fine, go ahead with it.
I don't disagree with this sentiment, but Apple laptops can be limiting in a lot of ways:

* Want a keyboard with more travel? (Or, until recently, one that just won't break.) Too bad.

* Want USB A ports? Better track down a 2015 MBP.

* Want a touch screen? Go buy an iPad.

So, basically the same reasons you'd want to build a Hackintosh desktop.

Back when OS X releases were sold, though, I always made a point of buying and using a physical disc. I'm sure they weren't priced to truly cover development costs, but I felt like I was doing something.
"I'm also getting old" It could be worse; you could stop getting old.

(I turn 70 in a couple months.)
Copying isn’t theft but copyright to my mind is protecting your creation from being used in a way
that you don’t like, for a limited time. I’m thinking of Pepe the frog...Who’s creator didn’t seem to appreciate his use everywhere but certain policial stripes.

You can make your work free to use as an option.

For me the main problem with copyright is it’s very very long duration (70 years after the creators desth I think) I think having to register a work after x years (20 ?) to protect it longer would make a lot more sense.

what do you do when your creation is used in way you don’t like.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't .380 Auto and .380 ACP the exact same round?
That above isn't just an idea, it's the idea of sound visualization. It's a bijective projection between sound and shape that turns nice sound into nice shapes and vice versa. The analog sound visualizer would be an air filled glass sphere put next to speakers, if only we could see air. All you need is a performant software simulation of it. The only problem to solve here is visualizing the rapidly changing patterns in a comprehensible way. P.S. actually, we can see air patterns if we fill that glass sphere with dust. Edit: In fact, that's been done already. Find the "Yantara Jiro voice made visible". They used a cymascope (a water bowl in lab conditions) and captured the formed patterns with a fast camera. A water bowl is indeed a great music visualizer.
Interpretation as in a sign language interpretation.
Do Chinese Consumers Hold the Key to Global Economic Recovery?
To be fair, their expanded informal explanation of their "copyright notice" is a wall of text in the right hand rail. This is an area of the web I personally tend to ignore.

I think it perfectly reasonable to point out the (potential) hypocrisy of their "formal" copyright notice placed at the bottom of the page in the typical copyright notice location.
Edwin from Stripe here—I’m sorry for the trouble. Could you forward those emails to me and I can take a second look? edwin@stripe.com
Yes, we have little idea about non-symptomatic carriers.

However, combining a prescreen with a test does significantly reduce the chance of false positives.
The entirety of human history is copying, improving, developing better tech.
Censorship is not theft, either. It's extremely entitled to claim that you are being "robbed" if you are blocked from viewing someone's art. If I write a book, but then don't publish it, have I stolen from you? If someone breaks into my house, steals my unpublished book, publishes, then I issue a C&D and take it down, have I "robbed" the public?
Multithreading Dashboard App pushing the capabilities of Webapps to new limits
Truncating the title makes it seem like this article is a green light for piracy when it really isn’t.
What is Python used for mostly?
If people really stay apart from each other when exercising (anecdotally that does seem to mostly be the case here in the UK), then it's not really going to spread the virus in any meaningful way.
1. These are (mostly) independent issues. Many countries have free universities, but not many of them.

2. I don't know what US colleges are like; but - higher education is to a great extent its own rewards. Of course, if you're doing it for the diploma and the chance to score a better job, then it's a different kettle of fish.
Editorialized submission title, unnecessarily so.

I realize this isn't a major concern yet, but will be in the future. When a copyright claim runs out, will all the videos etc that have been "taken down" (which really just means hidden) automatically be made visible again, or would somebody have to re-upload them?
> Please stop pretending like these people are egotistical and narcissistic when they simply don't have any other choice.

I think some of the contention here is that you believe those protesting the restrictions are the same as those who are most hurt by them. But I don't think most people here are upset that people who have no safe place to go, don't have money to buy necessities, etc. in the best of times, are facing terrible difficulties and are upset.

Maybe it's different elsewhere, but at least in my own state (Michigan), protesters seem to be people who are frustrated that they can't go about their daily life as usual. They tend to better off than many and can do things like drive to Lansing to protest, with the most vocal yelling about how they need haircuts, not being able to keep their lawns in perfect condition, and how they can't go to their cabins up north. And plenty still believe this is all just a big conspiracy and government power grab (tons at the protests didn't wear masks or socially distance at all).

People in my city (Detroit) are getting hit the hardest in the state, partially due to poverty (and race, but around here the two are inextricable). It's not those working-class people who are protesting: they're too busy just trying to survive and stay as safe as they can.
The name is a pun on "broke"? (I first thought it was Swedish for "brøk" (fraction/ratio), but it turns out Swedes don't say "brök" but "bråk", which just means "noise" in Norwegian&Danish. But that's way too convoluted a pun, even for Haskell).
> having to register a work after x years (20 ?) to protect it longer

I wouldn't be in favor of that because every company would just do so and we'd be in a position not dissimilar from today, but if this is what we can get everyone behind as a first step, then I'm agreed. Anything shorter than the current system (indeed 70 years after the author's death) makes more sense than the current system.
Show HN: Add license key verification to your app easily
Everyone is at risk from Covid-19. Younger people are at less risk, but they are still at risk, both from suffering a severe case, and from death.
I don't get it either. Normally you'd use coroutines to have an implicit state machine, without writing out explicit states.