skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a higher than market price, then other players can come in and disrupt your monopoly. If you are selling stuff at a loss to drive other players out of the market, then it is impossible for a new player to get off the ground. The definition has more to do with what is in the long term detrimental to the market's diversity.
For me it's more about what I put in to it than what I get out of it. I realized really quickly I wouldn't make much more than beer money out of this hobby.

I think the most difficult thing about the video game industry is the amount of drama in the hobbyest scene. Still trying to find a "group" that isn't jumping on the latest "cause" rather than feeding in depth discussions of randomly generated worlds.
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That's why streaming on bad (narrow, high latency and/or jitter) connections is a bad idea, no? Download in the background, then view, makes much more sense.
It'd be nice if this from Bertrand Russell was remembered more: "(1) that when the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be held to be certain; (2) that when they are not agreed, no opinion can be regarded as certain by a non-expert; and (3) that when they all hold that no sufficient grounds for a positive opinion exist, the ordinary man would do well to suspend his judgment."

Of course, most people don't actually even see what the experts say, they just take on the belief of what one person reporting on one expert says... so you get misconceptions like http://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/

I'd prefer if leaders focused on being good leaders and not trying to play expert or even knowledgeable-enough on technical matters that really don't concern them. A good leader will find the domain experts and drill them for critical information needed for their decision making, they don't need to understand the domain details. (And they can verify their trust with other experts.)
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> A monopoly is historically identified with having a higher than market price, not a lower.

Are you sure ? AFAIK it's about market shares, not about how much one sells their goods.

> along with the 1999 conviction of Microsoft being a monopoly in part because they gave away Explorer.

They were giving away nothing, Users had and still have to pay for Windows.
As the first example of the money involved in railway signalling, in 2012 "Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Invensys Rail, the rail automation business of Invensys for approximately €2.2 billion"

That's presumably not the kind of operation that can be run in someone's spare time, and exactly the kind of work that graduates from these universities are training towards, and would expect to be well-paid to do.

> if the concern is that technical stewardship might be out of the realm of a municipal infrastructure agency

...then they really must employ someone to do that work. Except perhaps for the tunnels, the signalling system is their most important asset.
> reckless maniac

That's an absurdly partisan statement considering his likely opponent is currently under investigation for reckless behavior while serving as a senior government official.
Not a fanboy, thank you, just a happy IT pro. We use and prefer BSD and attendant software because we prefer the BSD/CDDL(ZFS)/MIT and similar licenses. The GPL is off-putting for what we do, so we avoid using Linux or other GPL'd software where equivalent BSD (or similar)-licensed software is extant.
Unless you are making 12.5 million a year, I think you converted wrong. It's likely 20 or 200 times more the proportional amount of your yearly revenue.
I suspect very few people will ever admit they took a job for the money. Even though its usually true.

One of my favorite comments was actually by James Spader about Stargate. You can find the direct quote online, but he basically said it was an awful script but he took the job for the money, and doesn't think there's any shame in that.
It's just a topical way of saying "this is why people get disenchanted with government." For some people, supporting Trump is just a "screw you" to politics.
This is a cool service. I've gotten a few recommendations from them and they are on my to read list!
As you note, the circumstance surrounding this particular anti-trust case isn't the most clear, but I think it does make sense when drawn out a bit more:

Consumers were 'harmed' by the actions taken by Apple to approach and collude with publishers to break a monopoly that would benefit the publishers and Apple more than the consumers, even though the publishers felt they had no choice but to deal with Amazon and accept is loss-leader business model.

It doesn't seem rational that breaking up a monopoly would be worse for consumers, but based on the situation of this Apple/Publishers/Amazon case, that's essentially what was argued and the court system agreed at the end of the case(s).
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If you also sold a robot that could put the toast in the toaster, I'd love a toaster with a wireless connection. I could start breakfast from my smartwatch while I'm still in bed upstairs and only go downstairs when it's ready.
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I really wish the anti-caffeine meme on the internet would die. While it is true that the alertness/wakefulness benefits are greatly reduced with habituation, caffeine has a whole host of benefits:

1. It helps promote a healthy body weight by suppressing appetite and boosting your metabolism.

2. It enhances dopamine action in the brain which is linked to improvements in learning and memory.

3. It has been shown to be neuroprotective; caffeine consumption has been linked to lower rates of both parkinson's and alzheimer's.

4. Caffeine intake has even been linked to higher testosterone levels.

So, enjoy caffeine all you want, just don't consume so much you feel overstimulated, or can't get to sleep at your usual bedtime.
Awesome work! I've actually been making something in a similar vein myself, but it's not nearly this polished.

One issue (I'm not sure how it could be fixed) is that sections of code that were disabled by the preprocessor are not highlighted at all. For example, the compiler (or flags) used when parsing the boost code did not support move semantics, so "BOOST_NO_CXX11_RVALUE_REFERENCES" was defined, which means this line is not parsed:

https://code.woboq.org/boost/boost/boost/any.hpp.html#69

But this is a minor thing, and I'm not sure there's really a solution.
Except we're easily at a point now where both coal and nuclear plants can be phased out as they reach the end of their natural lives and replaced with solar + wind farms at a reasonable cost, as Germany and Denmark are currently demonstrating.

The variability problem turned out to be smaller than nuclear+coal industry led us to believe and relatively easily managed with market based solutions (e.g. ramping up/down power usage by aluminum smelters and simply building in extra capacity) rather than by building massive batteries (an idiotic idea).
When I think of how much shit a bank would get for a headline like that...
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I may be missing something, but it seems to me that this technique(if not this particular implementation) could be used to easily track individual users.
Games and graphics are the whole reason I started programming, but after 20 years of on and off game programming, I mostly agree with the article. The technical details of how games and graphics work are very interesting, but the actual process of finishing a viable game is some degree of hellish nightmare. I can relate to the statement about being primarily a problem solver. There are tons of interesting problems in games, but they only make up a fraction of the necessary work. I've shipped a small number of both indie and studio titles, but it took me decades to admit that I'm primarily a problem solver, and probably not primarily a game-maker.
> the assumption that the United States is the only country [...]

Do you see the part of the earlier message where I said "literally every war in every country?" No? Maybe because I didn't write that...

> That's not the best line of argument I've come across.

You need to read the entirety of my messages and not add anything of your own, otherwise you're just arguing with yourself.

> people called up to the military can easily avoid the trauma of being shot at and having to take other human lives by.... buying a gun and starting a firefight.

Sigh, no. Where did I say easily?

It's your responsibility to not be forced into murdering innocents. If you can more-easily leave the country, great. If not, even jail is better than killing people, but if all else fails - it's better to shoot the people conscripting you than be forced to kill innocents.

> probably don't feel better for shooting back

Who said it was enjoyable? But the conscripts still have more agency than the civilians they're firing at.
>This goes back to the phenotypic screening argument.

Truth. Domagk would have missed sulfa all together if he had been using an in-vitro strep model.

Prontosil (what Donmagk discovered), and azodye connected to a sulfa molecule, must be enzymatically digested into the individual azo and sulfa molecules before it becomes biologically active.

Sometimes reduction of a problem, looses the problem all together.
> Hillary Clinton is to the right of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, for gawdsakes!

In what world is this even remotely true? She's not to the right of Nixon and Eisenhower. Your standards have shifted.
I'm noticing portfolios are much more important for dev jobs these days
And valve's handbook is short, 37 pages of common sense English, cover and blank pages, and some great full and half page illustrations in a pdf [1]. It seems Zappos requires a translator, proprietary HR software, and at least one consultant along with whatever they call training.

[1] http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
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I can't understand what is the problem with p-values. You should never talk about the results, the essential point is that the method provides valid conclusions 95% and invalid conclusions 5% of the time. If your conclusion is wrong (you are in the 5% part) that is not a paradox. Also you should not try to prove things since your conclusion can be wrong, you should be glad to have a procedure that gives you useful information but is not infallible. By being humble you solve the problem.
The solution seems quite obvious to me in the case of the live cd:

Don't ship ZFS on it.

The overwhelming majority of users reliant on a CD-ROM drive to install a distro do not need nor want ZFS on their system.
So blatant. Who is responsible for that site? Local chamber of commerce?

Here is a humorous view by John Oliver, of nearby (60 miles) Marshall, TX, another venue for patent trolls
https://youtu.be/3bxcc3SM_KA?t=429
Exactly right! There is a lot of misuse.

A friend of mine is researching cancer threatment at a commercial lab. They make a lot of long shots. Lot's of PHD students are hired, and they let them work on 1 of those longshots.

Costs them milions of euro's, but potentially gives them bilions.

These studies survive on statistics. It is even tweaked by having cross validations where they leave out the worst bins, 'because they are extremes'.

Always be very suspisious about statistical proofs, especially from companies with great commercial interests.
That's utterly repulsive. It's an advertisement promoting how easy, profitable, and even fun it is to sue people from their district. If that website were a prop in a sci-fi dystopia movie, I'd dismiss it as being unrealistically exaggerated.
You are also normalising the difference by the variance, so the t-statistic has no units.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240867
Exactly right. I love doing that kind of thing but it's hard to find an environment in which I can practice those skills. Loads of reading and simulation, very little time at-bat. That's too bad, because that's the kind of work that makes me truly happy.
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Well I'm not wrong that the origin of psychology is simply a blending of philosophy and writing, which are fundamentally outside the scope of the scientific method. I went out of my way to argue that biology-based science is truly science (e.g. psychiatry) but that didn't seem to register. Oh well, audiences miss the point all the time.
Thank you. Useful tips again here, especially about shortening the message and saying what the product does as early as possible. Much appreciated.
Can anyone recommend a good Canadian/Quebec alternative to Bench? I'd love to use them, but they're US only.
Thanks for the very clear answer.
> A monopoly is historically identified with having a higher than market price, not a lower.

In American antitrust law, it historically can be identified with either one. The usual assumption is that artificially low prices are one tool used to create and/or maintain monopolies, and then secure monopolies are profited from by raising prices. It's actually the first part that's illegal; the Sherman Act bans "attempt[s] to monopolize" a market, not profiting from a monopoly that already exists (if it came into existence without foul play). High prices can be used as evidence that a monopoly exists, but a monopoly can exist without high prices, if for example the company is aggressively defending it with predatory pricing. The general concept of "predatory pricing" goes back to at least the 1910s.
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most people seem to think that 4chan is only /b/. there are way more boards than /b/, with useful discussion.

i had great discussions on /sp/ when the world cup was on. same with nfl games.
As someone who started a business structured as an S-Corp and running it without a professional bookkeeper, I found this site immensely helpful.

I do have a tax advisor, but I was on my own for day-to-day bookkeeping. It was well worth it to spend a few hours on this site absorbing as much as possible.
It's a little darkly funny how people react to perceived indignities in the sciences with the exact same behavior pattern they're bemoaning.

The narrative of these people is that there are bad people out there doing unreproducible work. They know they're bad, but they're just motivated by grants, low p-values, etc, and eventually they just snap and do bad science all over the place. It's an incentive problem.

So, to prove this, they... go get grants, do a meta-analysis with some nice statistics, and get subjected to the same incentive system. Except this time, they don't even have to do anything original. They just have to badly copy something else.

There's always something like this in the article:

>In his lab, Baumeister told me, the letter e task would have been handled differently. First, he’d train his subjects to pick out all the words containing e, until that became an ingrained habit. Only then would he add the second rule, about ignoring words with e’s and nearby vowels. That version of the task requires much more self-control, he says.

I really hate getting science news from sources like Slate, because you have to decompile the journalese into what the scientist actually said, but the technical terms here are that Baumeister had participants perform a fixed-target character recognition task. This is an incredibly old cognitive task that was used in some of the first cognitive psychology experiments like [http://psych.indiana.edu/tradition/Shiffrin_and_Schneider_19...] that showed that over time with practice, a controlled or manual cognitive process, like "determine if this word contains the letter 'e'" will become an automatic process.

My cognitive psychology professor was one of Shiffrin's students, so he was actually in that experiment, and was very annoyed by it, because in the fixed-target condition, you pretty quickly start noticing your target letter all the time. It'll just "pop" out at you when you're trying to read.

Obviously the exercise here won't cause that sort of behavior, but once you learn a rule like that and start having to react in miliseconds to the presence or absence of an e, even a little bit of training will create a much stronger effect than no training at all.

This is a huge study, and it would have been drastically more expensive if this facet had been included. But it also might have reproduced Baumeister's work much more fully and the answer would have been useful. As it is, this is literally more bad science, for exactly the same reason as the original science may or may not have been bad.
> Makes sense. Apple gets sued for charging more than a retailer that owned 90% of the market in an Anti-Trust case and is fined $450 million.

No, Apple got sued for conspiring with the publishers to raise the prices and force Amazon to rise the prices as well (through agency pricing).

The iBookstore has been a near total failure too, so all Apple really accomplished is to make readers pay more for books on Amazon.
>Sorry, but the world ain't full of copyleft warriors

Linux is the most popular operating system. A legal ideology that presumes that could never happen is simply wrong.
Thanks!

"But would really want to assign the review to particular (or a group of) people i.e. the more experienced people in a team." => doesn't https://about.gitlab.com/2015/06/16/feature-highlight-approv... allow that?

We seem to be in sync on all other feature requests.
A monopoly is characterized by a lack of competition. Microsoft gave away IE to get customers locked in, which in turn let them use their "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy.

Similarly Amazon sold at a loss to get customers to use their gateway above all others. Their strategy is to take a cut from so many pies that it doesn't matter that their slices are so small. They're okay if some of those slices end up not covering their costs as long as none of their competition gets any pie at all.
I had a passenger who'd been at several of the government's secret bases, in the 1960's. I wrote a diary about him recently:

Imaginary Workplaces - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2016/1/2/03328/96840
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Thanks.
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Seems unlikely that either will ever come to windows guess you should check out ReFS or install Linux

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS#/search
> Accounting is the rare subject that's nearly impossible to learn on it's own.

This is total nonsense. Accounting isn't that complicated, you just have to commit to learning it just like any other topic. I learned the basics in about two weekends.
> One issue is that if you have a large effect that's consistently and easily reproduced, you don't actually need very accurate measurements or a statistical analysis at all.

I mostly agree with this, but you never have that in a difficult decision.

> Another issue is that science is expensive and we need to make decisions all the time whether there is any science backing them or not. So what do you do if there's no science that meets the minimum standards?

Right! My entire point is that maybe data driven decision making isn't as useful as we think because it mostly doesn't hit scientific levels of accuracy. Maybe there are other, more intuitive systems, that make as much if not more sense, in absence of good data. How would we even know either way? We can't!

Regardless I'd love for the discussion to be "this is the best we can do" rather than "yes we did A/B testing so we know it's true!!!"
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> Oracle holds a copyright on most of OpenZFS since it was forked from the original ZFS code base. It would be within their rights to decide to relicense ZFS under the GPL.

Why imply it should convert to GPL? It could become GPL compatible by making the license more permissive.

https://blogs.oracle.com/chandan/entry/copyrights_licenses_a...

"A common misconception is about CDDL and GPL incompatibility. (Incompatibility in the sense: to combine two source files, one under GPL and another under CDDL, to create a common executable.) GPL is incompatible with most licenses like Mozilla Public License, Apache, and CDDL. GPL wants you erase those licenses and use GPL in that place, where as these licenses do not permit erasing them. Hence the incompatibility deadlock."
It wasn't even known about until about 100 years ago. It's not like it's a great treasure admired throughout the ages; more of a pop-culture curiosity from the past century that was created millennia before.
Hey thanks for the marketing info, especially the tips on what to make stand out. To be really honest, I am finding the marketing of this WAY tougher than the actual development! I struggle with 'telling the story', so your hints are especially valuable - I really appreciate it. Thanks also for mentioning the design flaws on the site, I will check those out.
Also, does that mean 9/11 was domestic violence?
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This isn't quite correct.

Nothing really prevents the LiveUSB distribution from writing to itself under ext3, build the ZFS during installation, then use the binary compiled from this process to set it up on the actual SSDs/HDDs. This is legally essentially the same binary blob Nvidia driver as you aren't distributing the binary.

I'm assuming the reason this wasn't done was due to the convenience + you'd need to setup the USB like:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence

But once you compiled it on the persistent partition, you'd be able to perform the installation just fine legally and technically is my understanding.
Historians centuries from now will never understand how the famous and wealthy scion of one of the wealthiest families in the most famous and wealthy city in the world was ever perceived to be a "reckless maniac" outsider. This guy is as inside as inside gets. His entire public persona is a calculated pose. He was recorded saying that he would develop such a persona, were he ever to deign to run for office. A vote for Trump is the opposite of a vote to burn down anything, no matter what the rubes think.

If, as seems more and more likely, Trump is elected, I guarantee the following: no "border wall" will be built, the TPP and TTIP will both be ramrodded through, and the "1%" will get even more "1%" than they already are.
> should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold.

It seems as though you'd missed the "only" in the clause. Further, they say nothing w.r.t. "does not pass" (aka: not hitting minimum threshold). Both your complaint and their point are orthogonal.
Thanks everyone for the upvotes :)

Right now we're wondering how to make a bit of money out of this. Do you have any hints or recommendations? (consulting/contract work is the main income for the company currently)

Current license and price: https://woboq.com/codebrowser.html#license
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I'm far from an expert on ipv6, but I think there may be some "shortcuts" that let you work with less than the full address. See, for example:

http://networkrecipes.blogspot.com/2014/08/ipv6-shortcuts.ht...
If you follow this train of thought, don't all drug laws (or really any laws that restrict what 2 consenting adults can trade with each other or put in their bodies) violate human rights?

I'm not taking either side - life's too complicated - it's interesting to watch.
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Cool, nearly half a billion in repatriated money that won't be shuffled to offshore accounts...
I'm genuinely worried now. I'll have to thumb through the Book of Revelation again, but I'm pretty sure MSSQL on Linux and Donald Trump possibly becoming the next President are two of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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