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This isn't very true. Modern copyright, with its many problems, is saner than that and has a more literal view of derivation. There needs to be actual copying involved, not just influence. Likewise with patents claims needs to be unique but also specific. Overly broad and obvious claims are regularly dismissed (if not by the examiner, then in the course of a suite). The problems mostly stem with the litigious ways IP is abused (which of course reflects on the value of the whole system) in that claims of derivation can be made with limited evidence and the recourse will be costly to rebuke.
The likelihood to oversteer depends on whether the 2WD alternative is front or rear wheel drive. RWD is more likely to oversteer on acceleration in slippery, turning conditions.
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Singapore rolls out coronavirus contact-tracing device for seniors
Is there a way to make these shapes evolve with time?
The problem is you can only read it with an LTO drive 1-2 generations newer, so by that point all existing drives would likely be at least 30 years old...
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>Transgender icon J Edgar Hoover

Citation please. This is the first time I've ever heard him called that. There was some speculation he was gay but nothing conclusive AFAIK. In any case he's one of the last people anyone should pick as a positive representation of their group.
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When Huey Long was governor of Louisiana, he wanted to build roads. His opposition did not want to pay for roads. But he managed to wrangle enough budget for 60 miles of road. Then he paved one mile of road in each parish. After having experienced the difference between the single paved mile and their existing mud ruts, the populace voted for a much more substantial road-building program.

(another unusual Louisiana political stunt:
https://www.athensnews.com/news/local/louisiana-gov-huey-lon... )
Motorcycling, cycling, and walking are all significantly worse than traveling by car.

Is this because of the chance of getting hit by a car?
Why does this mean anything. The average electronic transaction in shops and online in The Netherlands is a fraction of the cost of that.

Maybe it's different for higher amounts of money, but it doesn't matter.

Bitcoin is a solution to a problem nobody has figured out yet.
I love FF’s dev tools. Safari however? MEH
> It is not a 6-parameter function, it is a family of 3d-functions each characterized by 3 parameters. Those parameters can be modified using the dropdown in the top-right corner of the page.

Sorry to be pedantic, but these two things are the exact same thing.
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Could you please read and follow the site guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We're hoping to have a different sort of discussion than internet default here.
Unless those rulings have since been overturned, they are still precedent and therefore relevant. They don’t just expire.

For example, the judges involved in the “cash for kids” scandal had their rulings reviewed using a rule established in the 18th century:

> Acting under a rarely used power established in 1722 and reserved for extraordinary circumstances, known as "King's Bench jurisdiction",[58] the Pennsylvania Supreme Court appointed Senior Judge Arthur Grim of the Berks County Court of Common Pleas as special master to review all juvenile cases handled by Ciavarella
This is not limited to software development. Try being involved in Wikipedia and you'll eventually have the displeasure of experiencing the same lack of structure and rigor in arguments. (I'll say, though, that the author mentions GitHub, which does seem particularly bad in comparison to the average Bugzilla instance, say, 10+ years ago, and it's part of why I avoid GitHub, purely for my own sanity and productivity.) It's these experiences that make you appreciate the role of a judge if you've ever sat in court or read through trial transcripts.

What we're all really aching for is a solution to the ratiocination problem. pron put together a nice overview of some of the history of thought in that area a couple years back[1]. There's also the Toulmin model[2].

1. https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Toulmin#The_Toulmin_Mo...
is this irony?
Abstraction is like a multi story building. The concrete at the bottom is unrefined unprocessed raw sensory present moment experience. Building up, a floor is an abstraction built on top of that concrete floor. The concept of addition could be seen as a first floor. As we know, math builds on to of itself. The farther up the tower you go, the more abstract.

Abstractions require a solid foundation, be it a floor below, or concrete. So, when I struggle with an abstraction, I look at its base parts, identifying what is required to understand the abstraction. What I find is I often do not understand a prerequisite as well as I think I do. Sometimes I have to go multiple levels down to hash something out, but once the abstraction clicks, it becomes effortless and as difficult to think about as any other word I use in English to talk and think.

Getting a solid foundation can be a time consuming process. If you go slow and relax, you'll find the missing pieces and everything will come together.
To an amazing degree. In the limit, the large vehicle proceeds nearly unimpeded and the small one is a ball of tinfoil.
Yes and no. The current US president has a completely different communication style than the 'serious'-tone mainstream media. You're correct that he's become president because of it.

And people were aware and complaining, but not doing much themselves. That's what changing now.
In what way? It definitely appears less user friendly, and has the "typical open source look".
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Ask HN: Is working at ThoughtWorks a good opportunity?
Hello HN!

I got an invite to a phone interview at ThoughtWorks next week and I wonder if that's a good opportunity or not.

From what I perceive, they have a reputation in outstanding practices and an interesting choice of tech stacks. Also, they do consultancy, so the tasks are never the same (I wasn't able to work on the same product for more than two years in the past).

So, the setting I imagine from the limited info I have, would be perfect for me. Could you provide some more info, such as insights as an employee or customer of TW?

What is the general (int'l) tech industry perception of TW alumni?

What are the career perspective in such a consultancy?

Two concerns about TW rose:

- First, did the sale to private equity firm have a significant impact? Is TW still reputable in what and how they do it?

- Second, I read that "social justice" would take a third of their interview process. I certainly respect what they do, but I would consider myself a bit more on the conservative side. For example, I believe that helping people in need is an act of decency (and I am engaged in non-profits for that reason), but I doubt that this kind of compassionate behavior should be "enforced" on "the rich" by the government, also I do believe that equality of opportunity should be top priority for a society, but economical equality ("redistribution of wealth") should not be the desired outcome. Would their left-leaning culture accept such views?

Thanks for your input!
Good on Apple. This and backwards compatibility, make a compelling case for iOS.
My uses case includes controlling both sides. I just don’t want to have to use JS for what is a non-interactive use case that could easily be handled declaratively by the browser.
Thank you for your feedback. Yes, I think will be good tool to get an overview of your day in couple of seconds

I used the same logic but with one frame per second and the output of 60 fps
Trac was great 15 years ago, but now Trac is a dinosaur. It would be somewhat redeeming if it was at least fast, but it's mind numbingly slow. Before we eventually ditched Trac we had to buy ever faster hardware but requests could still take 20 seconds. Git support in Trac is an afterthought (It started as svn-trac after all!) so pull request management etc is either missing or handled by plugins (and most trac plugins seem inactive or defunct by now). Trying to get a good mobile experience, slack integration I haven't even tried but I assume it's no picnic.
The example app is about 4.5MB, so still quite bulky but cacheable and reasonable for office applications.
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This is magnificent, thank you for the link!
Interestingly, Argdown appears to use a different model: it has statements and arguments, where IBIS has issues, positions, and arguments.
Yea, and no metric stays hidden forever if there is enough money in it getting unhidden.

Statistical metrics have some of the benefits of hidden metrics while staying "hidden" forever, but they also can be much more time consuming to do right and are even more frustrating to be evaluated by.
Ya, little fucking late to back track that now.
Ask HN: Summer Activities for Bored Kids?
I spend time programming Scratch 3 with my daughter as an activity. But this is not something she wants to do everyday.

Covid has put limits certain kid's activities like parks and arcades.

What activities have you come up with for kids age 6-10 this Summer?
If there were a better way to learn guitar, everyone would jump on it.

Software doesn't have to be so difficult and tedious to use, as has been demonstrated by a decade of u/x in the UI space. Nowadays, nobody would ever consider gordian knot for their video editing, and I don't blame them.

This idea that one must suffer to learn is as outmoded as alchemy. You don't need to take the good with the bad; learn from the bad and make more of it good. I lived though the old times, and they sucked!

Nowadays, if the developer doesn't give any thought to u/x, people won't give any thought to his creation, and rightly so. The days of cryptic incantations and tedious rituals are largely over.
Idea for someone: IsTapeBackupWorthIt.com - showing the amount of data you need for tape backups to make sense at any given point in time. Niche audience for sure, but revenue per click is going to be pretty high.

If tapes are worth it for someone -> show referal links to some trusted tape provider partner based on region

Otherwise, show good deals on hard drives, per region. And recommendations on QNAP/Synology enclosures.
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I recently moved back from living in Ecuador for four years and I can say the inequality there is far far less than it is in the US. Your point is totally valid in many places, but Ecuador is a weak place to make it.

Carpenters seem to make a fair wage there, it is the norm to buy things that were manufactured by the shop you are buying from and that can range from inexpensive to bespoke and higher end.

As someone else mentioned Ecuador works really well as an economy for the things it gets to keep within its borders, which is a lot since they have a surplus of oil, great agricultural resources etc..

But once you start importing things the gap widens a ton. Cars are very very expensive (the few manufactured locally a bit less so) due to import tariffs. iPhones just aren't really a thing. And getting a big LCD monitor there wasn't even an option at any price, I lugged one in in a suitcase.

The craziest bit is that Ecuador is dollarized, so they don't even get to print their own money!
There’s a host of further info in the paper itself:

https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Holograph...

“Finally, holographic lenses can be constructed so that the lens pro- files can be independently controlled for each of the three color primaries, giving more degrees of freedom than refractive designs. When used with the requisite laser illumination, the displays also have a very large color gamut.”

They have full colour working, and apparently well, in the benchtop prototype.

There’s discussion towards the end as to options for implementing full colour in the HMD prototype.
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Both cards don't have words "debit" neither "credit" on them. I need to be really careful to use right one, as they are virtually indistinguishable.
Yes, from my point if view one is debit and one is credit, but I wonder is it possible to know what does payment system think about them?
I dream about bank for geeks, where all technical information about each transaction could be seen in web interface :-)
Can you expand on what you mean by "more colors" ? Toward the end of the article they show a multi-color image from the larger benchtop version of the prototype. Do you mean that adding colors doesn't scale down beyond a certain size?
What's the purpose of a restricted "free" plan with a max of 250 issues? There are enough actually free options out there that the free plan doesn't bring anything to the table. Why wouldn't you do a free trial of an unrestricted plan instead? The obvious thing that stands out is that you'd have no way to test their support before paying.
AR is shit. Garbage technology, useless features. Requires too many coincidental factors. That about sums it up.

VR is better because you can fabricate entire worlds and spaces for any task. Instantly useful. And if you really needed to combine the real world with generated content, you could theoretically do it by just overlaying content onto a video feed in VR.
Using any ticket/bug/issue tracker is better than not using one.

That said, much of the information you put in one of these is really sensitive, perhaps even confidential and quite often embarrassing if leaked.

So. Privacy policy? Extremely generic, and doesn't guarantee you anything.

Terms of Service?

"We take no responsibility and assume no liability for Content you or any third party posts on or through Service. However, by posting Content using Service you grant us the right and license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content on and through Service. You agree that this license includes the right for us to make your Content available to other users of Service, who may also use your Content subject to these Terms."

I don't know about you, but I don't really want the discussion of security-critical bugs in my product to be publicly reproduced and made available to other customers.

Maybe fix this, Linear?
What about this one:

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I was ruined for bug trackers by RT (https://bestpractical.com ). Driving issue tracking from email is brilliant - I only had to look at the application for reference or planning, all the normal back and forth happens from email. (Optionally - you can of course type in a web browser if you prefer.)

Jira's email behavior is pointless to the point of being counterproductive, and I disabled it. I have to look at it constantly anyway, why would I want it peeing in my inbox, too?

Of course, those who hate email are would react to it differently.
> If you have a few thousand and spend it on a dining room all at once, you won't be able to handle an emergency even if your income would have easily handled the monthly payments.

Just as a single purchase can wreck your short term budget, a purchase spread over multiple months can wreck your long term budget. If that same family has an emergency that causes them to go into debt, they are now saddled with 2 debt burdens and can't pay rent/ make car payments/ eat.

If buying a choice dining room set will wreck your ability to handle an emergency, you are almost certainly better off not buying it either way. There are plenty of options for buying inexpensive furniture that isn't going to threaten your emergency funds.
Don’t forget the 2008 kids for cash scandal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal. At least those judges were eventually tried and are serving time.
Dude looks like an emoji with those glasses on.
What a strange state of affairs that in 2020 an USP for an issue tracker is that it is fast. An issue tracker. How did we get here?
We've done just that. Some folks at work wanted sentinel in front as a cluster management layer, but our particular use case did not work well there. Instead, we have some "logical clusters" of 3 nodes that we replicate reads and writes to, sharded to (currently) six clusters. Some logic around quorum for ensuring writes make it to at least 2/3 nodes in a given cluster, with some optimizations for reads sometimes only needing 1 node to respond. We had to do a bunch of tweaking around state and memory management, and all the details were in the docs, which was great. It does exactly what we need it to do, but it is more expensive to run, and we've not figured out a way to do this right in k8s. We don't care for the cost model going forward for when we want this model serving 10x traffic (which is not pie in the sky, it is known actual volume this solution would need to support). For 10x traffic, we'd be looking at 10x node count. At nearly 200 redis nodes, that can get expensive, esp. if we want to move to a managed solution. Anyway, not sure where I was going with this. Yes, redis can scale. Yes it can stay performant. At some point, it just becomes a lot to manage though and costs can add up. We are going to be designing a new solution to keep costs low and performance high.
That walkback depends on trust, honor, and suability between all actors involved.
You can walk back a bitcoin transaction, too, if you have those preconditions. Just ask the other guy to send the money back.
I don't know too much about optics and VR/AR, but can this technology can be adapted for AR applications (a la Google/Apple Glass)? Personally, I think AR applications are much more interesting than VR (especially in the short term)...
> Well, you do realize that all of your communications is already transmitted to the Five Eyes?

There's no equivalence or even comparison. Watch the Youtube video I linked above. If you complain about the police, the Five Eyes aren't going to forward a tip along so you can be locked in a tiger chair to be dominated and made to apologize for your insolence. Five Eyes allow the use of all kinds of technology that makes their jobs hard, rather than mandate all your messages be sent to them directly. China is several orders of magnitude worse.

Also, here's relevant lecture about the features of an old version North Korea's homegrown OS:

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events...:

> Investigating functionality that can be used to invade the privacy of users was our primary goal. We found that the features implemented in Red Star OS are the wet dream of a surveillance state dictator. It provides a set of surveillance features like the capabilities to watermark different types of files that can be used to track the distribution of documents and multi-media files. We will have an in depth look on how some of these features built the foundation for a suppressive state in a modern world.
The meaning is that for 48 cents, anyone may participate in a global transaction network that cannot freeze or restrict your transactions. Banks have a habit of monitoring and interfering with transactions because they are heavily regulated.
I do think that manipulating a purely instructive measure is less extreme than manipulating a compliance test; consumers can seek alternate tests and reviews, but the state emissions test has special status even if a dozen other tests give a different result. That said, I believe Energy Star ratings affect tax rebates and electric bills, and they're required to be printed on products - so that's not really an arbitrary test.

There are other differences here too, I think. The water heater trick is passive manipulation that stays in place at all times, which limits how far from "real" performance it can get. And per the story, it seems more like "teaching to the test" than "cheating". That is, Volkswagen consciously moved away from the mandate outside of testing. The water heater was (potentially) as energy-efficient as they could design, with the test score manipulated on top of that.

None of that makes it harmless - if "as good as you can make" doesn't hit standards without manipulating them, that's still a problem. But I do find it less galling than "intentionally worsens emissions outside the test bench".
Show HN: We built a low friction registration service for UK pubs
Same thing that happened to Toys R Us if I recall correctly.

So sad.
Great for the last mile. Thinking more of storage and server management.
Yesterday in my mad dash to slurp down whatever good stuff I can find in the ACM library while the window is still open, I ran across a paper about using hypertext for "Representing the structure of a legal argument" (haven't been able to give it any real attention yet, though, since the candle is still burning down).

https://doi.org/10.1145/74014.74031
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It might be safe personally, but not necessarily for others. I'm guessing the death statistics don't count the deaths caused by cars such as running into pedestrians or cyclists or air pollution deaths as driving deaths?
I have a very hard time believing claims like this. Not to single you out, but you should be able to draw perfectly then and imagine whole systems in your mind.

The latter is especially unlikely given that most people are limited to 5-7 "items" in their working memory. To design even a simple system, e.g. a brake caliper, that's way more than 7 items, and they aren't "atomic" items either.

Again, this isn't a stab at you, this is a stab at the concept, because it's kind of like people saying they can put on 5lb of muscle a month without roiding. Sets false expectations.
Wire transfers, between banks, can cost something like 20-50$ depending on who you are transferring too, and if it is across countries.

Rich people don't have to care about a 20$ fee. Poor people do though.
Some quick measurements:

- By .gz: 2.18 MB

- By .br: 1.77 MB

- Uncompressed: 5.72 MB
My "Show HN" post was in the bottom half of the HN home page for less than an hour. Traffic to the site was roughly 100 times greater than its current levels (by bandwidth):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rik-roots-50349611_in-case-an...
We've been using Linear for an 8-person engineering team for the last few months, and I just want to say thank you -- we've really loved it. The well-designed app with hotkeys makes managing tickets and cycles so fast that it doesn't interrupt your concentration to update a ticket and continue working. It's really brought the fun back to engineering management.
Ok, we changed to that from https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite?n... above.
The US has an independent judiciary which will rule on disputes between the government and Google/Apple/MS. China does not. It is really that simple.
In-demand locations are always going to be expensive

They need not be nearly so expensive as they are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704501
Change your statement to read “black” instead of Chinese and see if you still think it’s OK.

The crime is hacking, and your attempts to “expose” Chinese hackers is more like an agenda to prejudice Chinese even if statistically many Chinese-originated traffic is attempting to hack you.

In the chance that the hacking is actually caused by American hackers routing their traffic through China, then what purpose does your Chinese assumption serve except to encourage others to profile and prejudice Chinese?

In a more realistic example of how your comments may incite racial prejudice for no good reason is that it is actually very likely the biggest botnets have Chinese victims (because they are poor, run Windows XP still, and generally have very poor internet security practices). Oh, and also they happen to have the most people on Earth, so statistically any given thing would be mostly Chinese.

So, unless you are absolutely certain that being Chinese makes you a criminal hacker I would recommend leaving race or nationality out of the discussion.