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I'm sure that you will be greatly comforted by a return policy or the fact that a company had to spend a few dollars to hire an Internet PR consulting firm or buy off yelp to smooth over any temporary loss in brand loyalty that occurs when they, say, don't properly care for their meat and people die from eating it. Or when they put poison in their children's toys because it's cheaper to make them that way and kids die.

It as a method generally works when consumers are aware of all of their options, do their research and stay informed about every single economic purchase they make throughout every moment of their lives, and the consequences of a bad choice are not serious. So nowhere in the real world.

And it's not so horrible when the choices don't matter: when none of them are harmful, and we're simply deciding based on quality. It's still bad, but we tolerate it because nobody dies from it.
> I take issue with a society that would ever allow them to be sued for climate change.

I'm curious where you draw the line here. You must acknowledge that the price of gasoline, for example, is subsidized by the public dealing with its side-effects. Asthma, acid rain, acidification of the oceans, global warming, etc. are all side-effects that have costs associated with them. These costs are paid by you and I—not Exxon-Mobil. Why do you think it would be unreasonable, assuming Exxon-Mobil is guilty of spreading misinformation, for them to cover some of these costs?
I think Bernie Sanders elucidates well on this issue in this video. It's about immigration but essentially the same situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

Basically whether it is morally right or wrong is irrelevant because the US government has a duty to put the American people first.
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Thank you for your comments in this discussion.

Often persons will be categorized as mentally ill just because they deviate in their beliefs or lifestyle from the mainstream culture.

Reminds me of this quote:

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

-- Albert Einstein

Simply being unconventional can be dangerous. Lots of people who were the wrong sexual orientation, skin color, you name it, have been classified in an ugly manner as an excuse to justify mistreatment of them.

(Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania)
Your points are well-argued. They remind me of an article in Harper's, "The Neoliberal Arts"[0] which had a similar effect on me.

Allowing for just the possibility of non-financial rewards of an education shows how shallow our "return on investment" culture is. When we see no value in learning about art, philosophy, history...what does that say about our values?

[0] http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/
You mean http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/? Looks ugly as sin to me...this new Guile site though. It looks more like an Apple product than a GNU project ;) (in a good way)
That doesn't sound the same. PhoneGap uses a web view to render your layouts, React Native uses native platform components to render layouts.
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Stick a printf/file write/breakpoint at the root of the code path if you want continuous verification that the code path never executes except by clicking the button. This isn't hard.
From the section on competition: "But 99% of startups die from suicide, not murder."

and more precisely, from David Packard: "More organizations die of indigestion than starvation."
Yes. Let's wait for a pipedream to start doing things morally.
Can you find a regression window using http://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/?

That will help us figure out what broke and fix it.
>Why is it bad if they make us a bunch of stuff for cheap?

For the same reason that US food aid destroys agriculture industry in Africa.
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Hi everyone. First time posting here. So I'm really into machine learning and all things 'data sciency'. I've got a handful of years working in the public sector doing data analysis/research kind of stuff (nothing like apply ML techniques though). I'm also in grad school part-time in the NYC area, in a non-CS department though the majority of my classes have been CS/Stats related (think ML, algorithms, distributed computing, etc.). My school program is kinda like machine learning for the social sciences. I'm thinking about switching jobs into a company that does more ML kinda of stuff. But when I look at these job posting I see a lot of requirements about pure CS backgrounds, etc. Which is kinda of troubling since I don't have that structured CS training (rather I learn it as I go or when necessary).

For the folks who work in a ML role or at a company as such, does this background matter? Do you look for people with really solid training a CS? Also, what was is like when you started after school? Was the work load completely different than what you saw in school? More difficult, less difficult? Thanks in advance.
Can you elaborate? What social and/or cultural aspects do you see as roadblocks? And in which countries?
This seems like a pretty clear false dichotomy. The best companies tend to be great for both employees and shareholders.
I feel like this is the direction Julia is going in. It's in this interesting space between statically and dynamically typed languages - technically it's dynamically typed, but you get a lot of the safety and performance guarantees afforded by static type systems through Julia's aggressive type inference [1]. As the type system gets richer, it should only get better on this front.

If you haven't checked out Julia yet, it's a beautiful language. There's a reason why Graydon (the guy who made the very early versions of Rust) likens it to a Goldilocks language [2].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28078089/is-julia-dynami...

[2] https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/189377.html
I find it hard to believe that someone with significant karma on HN doesn't understand surveillance-as-a-business-model. Just being a yet another Service As A Software Substitute[1] is bad enough, but in this case these rent-seekers are exploiting user ignorance (it's a "dark pattern"). Firefox has always been a local app, with remote features requiring the user to opt-in to an extension. The distinction between Mozilla "only providing a button" and the actual feature that loads from the remote SaaSS only exists for people that understand these technologies.

Mozilla is being especially hypocritical with the integration of these features. During their previous projects (e.g. Australis) Mozilla pushed a lot of previously-integrated features into extensions. This caused problems for a LOT of people, but I reluctantly supported it because a minimal core with most features as plugins is generally a good design. For them to turn around an integrate a plugin that baits people into using spyware is outrageous - and somewhat suspicious.

That button needs to be removed because it's an attractive nuisance[2].

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
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Hurting alternative revenue streams for somebody you're negotiating with can help to increase the leverage you hold.

For example, if you're trying to sell tickets to your ski resort, it wouldn't necessarily hurt your bargaining position to burn down gyms, bicycle shops, and other places that command your prospective customers' time and money.
Well, the raw picture (light field) from the camera looks like something from an insect's eye - a hexagonal grid of tiny pictures saved into one giant jpeg [1]. The Lytro software processes that data into a stack of jpegs of reconstructed views at varying focal lengths when you first import the image.

[1] see for example http://lightfield-forum.com/2012/07/lytro-hack-how-to-extrac...
S3 storage is pretty cheap, it's the data egress that really costs.

For academic centers though there is often an incentive to move things in house due to different treatment for capital expenditures and the opportunity to externalize some of your costs from your grant onto central services.
The article isn't saying you can claim executive compensation for SR&ED. He's saying that the SR&ED tiers are tied to net profits, which executive compensation counts against. So you can increase CEO pay to push more of your profits into higher SR&ED tiers.
>all swear an oath to the Constitution. Not to the queen, not to the president, not to the United States government, but to the Constitution for which it stands.

Technically the United States Armed Forces oath of enlistment is sworn to the Constitution and the President which can create quite the pickle when the President decides to violate the Constitution.

>"I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
Could be a good Minecraft service :)
“If you want eggs, take care of the hen,” Inamori said in an interview on Oct. 23. “If you bully or kill the hen, it’s not going to work.”
Asthma, for starters. Pumping your car's exhaust into your cabin is probably a poor idea. It's not harmless when you, instead, pump that exhaust into the air we all breath.
>I suspect others downvoted you for taking the default position that the status quo is the best prospect

In my line of work I get to see a variety of approaches to accounting. This is not a game where the bleeding edge wins. In fact those do a lot of bleeding and zero winning.

>Comparing it to an ERP platform is a non sequitur.

Oh come one dude. I specifically said people should get a proper ERP if its need in my opening post. At no point did I compare this to an ERP. So please...chill with the latin, especially the false kind.

As for your other points. You list the "trading platform" as an example of this being successful. Sure. You could use this to effectively run a kitchen pantry too. Its still no good as a commercially accounting package for day to day use though.
How is that relevant at all? It could have been a lie. The police would never know.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2013-03-07
I wonder if I could convince the one apparently responsible, Luis Felipe López Acevedo, to make us a better website for GNU Octave too.
Wow, Telidon - I figured I was the only person who remembered that system. I would play with the Telidon kiosk at the local mall, and I think there was also a cable channel broadcasting weather data from Telidon. One problem was it was extremely slow, drawing images at literally 2 polygons per second, so you had to be really patient as it drew, say, a cloud on the weather report. Also, the content on the interactive terminal was pretty uninteresting, stuff like find out about your local government agencies and watch for 20 seconds as it draws their logo. There wasn't any cool art like the article describes. While the Telidon concept appealed to me, the actual system was kind of awful and I'd head down the mall to Radio Shack and hack on a TRS-80 instead.

As far as early interactive systems of the 70s/80s, does anyone remember PLATO? I only got to try it once, but it was a super-cool interactive plasma touch-screen system with awesome software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
I have nothing against it per se, but it seems that there is a trend in which "serious stuff" is graphically designed as if it were meant to be used by only children. There are many examples. One good example is carbonmade [1] which is a website to showcase professional portfolios (quite "serious stuff" if you ask me). I genuinely wonder where that trend is coming from. Is it because the current generation of engineers grew up watching cartoons? (Just guessing) Or is it because it is a simple way to make difficult stuff appear more friendly?

Anyway, I like the design, and I think the designers did a good job.

[1] https://carbonmade.com/
I agree, bhouston. I thought this post was wrong so I sent it to my Canadian counterparts, and they confirmed that the OP definitely misstated how SRED works. Flagged as inaccurate since this article risks spreading woefully incorrect information.
Too much pressure, too many meetings, projects coming in behind schedule. Must have been awful in those days.

Do all those people look like they actually hate their jobs, or is this just a Finnish manner?
It just changed to that for me, with Firefox as well. A few minutes ago there was a paywall blocker popup.
Just tried it. It makes me look incredibly boring. :( I just don't seem to tweet enough links to things that are actually interesting. Lesson learned.
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Sure, but let's not start pushing for that to happen more. The comment I responded to sounds very approving of this.
Really? But you don't need server side DNA to do a simple file system search.
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> In a 2004 book on his philosophy, he questioned Japanese people’s increasing tendency to value leisure time.

That makes one of us.
This is good news, DoneJS help so much to build frontend application.
You're confusing two different concepts. "Going strong" means it's quite lucrative to sell oil. Which it is.

> Global climate change is costing the world tens of trillions of dollars

It has certainly been speculated that if the ocean rises due to climate change, that will be very expensive, but I'm not aware of any current expenses of twenty trillion dollars or more that can be directly and convincingly linked to climate change. Since you seem very certain about it, though, perhaps you can provide some links?
What about the GNU Octave site? Ugly as sin or uglier?

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
It all depends how many cores you're willing to burn. If you're getting 2x performance but you only have 75% as many CPUs left for your application, you're going to need more than half as many nodes. At SiCortex we were selling into HPC. These people were thoroughly used to working on football-field-sized compute complexes, and they still bitched about how much CPU time was being burned in the I/O stack. No matter how many cycles they had available, they wanted those cycles used for their apps.

As I also said before, this kind of thing does have its place. It all depends on how many cycles you're likely to spin before you actually find anything to do, and whether you have another need for those cycles. If it's not many cycles because you really are pushing a lot of I/O, that's great. If you don't need those cycles for something else because you're an appliance and this is your only job, that's great too. If it's a lot of cycles and you do need those cycles for other things - which is the most common case - then burning lots of cycles busy-waiting for events that haven't happened yet only decreases real hardware utilization and increases either capex or time to completion.
> His turnaround also cut roughly a third of the airline’s workforce, about 16,000 people.

At first glance that looks an awful lot like bullying the hen
And what the rest of us are saying is that executive compensation is excluded from the computation of net profits (when calculating net profits for SRED purposes) except to the extent that the executive's compensation directly relates to SRED activities (i.e., R&D, etc.). The idea behind the exception being not to penalize small companies where the major R&D driver may also be an executive.
That's why the article points out that it's not a dichotomy, and that "the man himself sees no conflict".
I personally use scala.js and clojurescript quite a bit, but in every case of an existing non-JS language compiling to JS, there is a semantic mismatch coming from the runtime mismatch. This results from various things like the lack of static types, threads, 64 bit integers, etc. Furthermore, the performance still leaves a lot to be desired.

WASM holds a lot more promise for all of these problems.
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Exxon Corporate Strategic Research has multi-decade project timelines. They are absolutely interested in the next 50+ years.
Amusingly most chopsticks used in China are made in the US, though that's more about having the right climate to grow good wood than about manufacturing capability.
Im really doubtful whether employees are actually happy working there. Never heard of Kyocera being anywhere nesr tge top of Best Places to Work surveys adressing employees satisfaction. This sounds like a big PR piece with no fact to support any claim.
Yeah, I see that now. They stand accused of "funding groups that sought to undermine climate science". Presumably because, had the listed global warming in their annual report as a risk factor, they would have precipitated it's acceptance into the mainstream, thereby inducing government action which would have reduced their sales or profits.

I bet it will be difficult to prove malice. Free speech has wide bounds.
I really love Haskell and wish there is more opportunity for me to use it. But for high concurrency web projects Elixir has one big advantage -- Chris and the team doing very focused and high quality presentations. Building the community and hype surrounding the project (I say 'hype' in best possible meaning) is half job done. I really get itchy fingers to start some serious Phoenix project every time I see Elixir team at work. Respect.
I'm not sure what they intend to accomplish with hydrogen, really.

It is difficult to store, expensive to produce, expensive to run. Zero emissions and range are the only things I can see that can make a difference.

You see, people are complaining about electric infrastructure even in California. And all it requires is a beefy power outlet - to reduce the charging times, as you can use even a standard outlet if you can wait. You can imagine how that will go with hydrogen.

The article says nothing about the technical challenges. Presumably, they are storing hydrogen as gas. What about hydrogen embrittlement? Also, I don't think drivers would be very happy to know that their fuel tanks are slowly but surely letting their hydrogen escape. The atoms are too small, they can escape from anything.
> His turnaround also cut roughly a third of the airline’s workforce, about 16,000 people.

Your feeling like you will be taken care of might not be warranted.
Russia seems quite fond of deniable warfare at the moment: doing things that are acts of war, like invading other countries, then denying that they've done it and using their propaganda outlets to spread confusion and disinformation. Cutting cables would make a very effective way of waging war without seeming to wage war.
Why??? There is no environmentally friendly way to produce hydrogen. Either it is stripped from natural gas producing CO2, or from hydrolysis with currently about 30% efficiency. That means an equivalent electrical car can drive about 3 times as far on the same amount of electricity. Finally, refueling stations are extremely expensive to build because hydrogen is a rather volatile substance.
You rarely hear complaints of companies that have neglected their shareholders in favor of their employees, while the reverse is endemic. When the scales are overbalanced this badly, you need to give them a firm shove, not carefully add equal weights to both side.
It's a worthwhile question. I'm a huuuuuuuge supporter of the current design though! This conversation came up on the guile-devel list, and I gave my response there too: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2015-09/msg00...

Basically, I think that Lisp and Scheme have a reputation for being unapproachable. This reputation partly comes from how we structure our communities, who we reach out to, and etc. But it also depends on how we message ourselves.

There's a very conscious decision in the new design to make things look playful and inviting, to encourage experimentation. I think that's super important. It seems like it's having some effect on encouraging people to become engaged, and it certainly doesn't seem to be doing any harm to those who are already into hacking parentheses. :)
OK. Will LTE-U devices transmit at the same time as Wi-Fi devices and impair their bandwidth?
Fair enough. I'd prefer to get rid of the "fake" portfolios and simply have "Minister without portfolio" for the members who are added for the purpose of diversity, though.
The last time I tried Electrolysis I had issues with plugins. Some of the plugins are fairly essential to me (e.g. NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere) so I wasn't able to use it as a daily driver. The fault for that may rest at the plugin developers, but I wonder if it has been resolved?
I used to have to manage memory in MS-DOS for CA/400 for DOS, Netware client, and MS LAN Manager.

Things got easier with MS-DOS 6.X and memmaker but MS-DOS 5.0 I had to managee upper memory by hand.

I had to configure adapter card ROM memory to fit into the same 64K C000 block so that there was 64K free D000 for an upper block to more the network drivers into to keep more conventional memory free.
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He says exactly that if you read the article. His point is that you must take care of the employees because they produce the value. If you make short sighted decisions in favor of the shareholders, you could be killing the hen that lays the eggs, to use his metaphor. I don't see any reason why taking care of employees is in contrast to making a healthy profit. If employees are happy they will be more efficient and that will spill over into profits.
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> They are not being sued because they sold oil. They are being sued because they lied about the known health risks associated with buying their oil.

Defining climate change as a "health risk" is insane, sorry. If we go down that road, any policy someone doesn't like could be defined as a "health risk" by a sufficiently creative and unscrupulous debater. Legalize drugs? Health risk because of more addicts. Oppose mass surveillance? Health risk because of injuries from crime and terrorist attacks. Favor green energy? Health risk due to poisonous materials used in manufacturing solar panels. Et cetera.

Please at least be honest about this. People like the NYAG are unable to get their agenda through democratically, so they're going to sue their way to victory instead.
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If I'm reading it correctly, it's not a new species, it's just new to Portugal.
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The OP wrote "leaving SF to travel around the US."

I read "SF" to mean San Francisco.

Also, I usually have better luck overseas with my credit union visa card than I do with my credit card (since I know the PIN for my checkcard).