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Traditional newspapers were losing money long before ad blockers became widely used. It is the switch to the net that is strangling them.

Sure, ad blockers aren't helping, but are a response to highly annoying crap, malware, etc. being shoveled by the increasingly desperate. It is an arms race, but not one newspapers can win.

Also, little hint: having your revenue threatened isn't an excuse for being unethical. Nobody (even corporations, slowly becoming more equal than others) has a right to a profit, or even staying in business.
Thanks for the tip. Though Backblaze has spoiled us with so much good reliability data, I now feel completely paralyzed in the face of buying a new drive if Backblaze hasn't told me how much I can trust it!
> The biggest problem today is global warming.

No it is NOT! Before catalytic converters the air in many cities was killing people constantly.

Global warming gets all the press, but pollution is FAR FAR worse. It will (and has killed) more people (and animals) than global warming ever could.

The US is very clean (relatively) right now, so you think "oh everything is fine, let's bring back some pollution". But you have NO idea.
I agree, and it seems clear that publishers are caught in a tough spot.. but I don't think that's a very good excuse to employ deception. To me it reads like "We're honest when we're making money, but when we're not... better hold on to your wallets" oh and "We'll decide when we're doing well."
Yeah, I especially hate how the page-down/up is inconsistent with the viewable part of the page -- it pages down as if you could see the stuff behind the un-moveable header, which makes it go too far.
Taco is free for now, but we expect and hope to charge $5-$10/month at some point - cheap enough be a fantastic value for anyone who uses it even occasionally, but also not a free service that you rightly don't want. We're still figuring out when we should flip the switch but in the meantime, you are right, we need to do a better job of explaining possible future pricing.
That is a losing game. Years ago, I worked on a DARPA project that would let radios opportunistically use available frequencies instead of fixed ones. Doing this with a totally uncooperative environment, relying only on the wits of the software, is really hard. Like still in development after more than a decade hard. Like Microsoft and Google gave up on solving an easier problem hard.

Self-driving cars in an uncooperative environment is probably an order of magnitude harder than that. Demanding that they work in an uncooperative environment results in a problem that is probably intractably hard.
Ah. I have gotten into the habit of giving my printers static IPs (still assigned via DHCP). That probably makes things more stable.
To be honest spot reduction is one of those stubborn myths that persists much like people believing that fat is the boogey man.

Nutrition and fitness seem to be areas which really lack good, hard science behind the many assumptions we make about them.
1. License: As other commenters have said, it's fully open source and free to use for commercial projects.

2. Canvas vs SVG: For my use case, using SVG for lots of data points really slowed down the DOM. Canvas doesn't have that limitation and is easier to export to images if necessary. SVG is nice because you can use CSS to style things.
Was it leaking?
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Yes!!! I've been waiting for this to be ready for a while. Psyched to integrated it into https://ChartURL.com !
A lot of the decisions that some might quibble with are not actually Arthur's end of things. The former CEO drove a lot of it.
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As in, healthier diet of fresh foods, better rest at night, free access to exercise facilities.

And yet, a stressful work environment will lead to unhealthy eating habits, less restful sleep, and less exercise if not a dedicated routine to combat the stress. Amazing to me that stress is a still a bastard stepchild of health when it affects health and performance.
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There is an Indian Facebook group about Paleo diet, where dozens if not hundreds of people followed simple LCHF diet and reversed their type 2 diabetics and got type 1 under control among other improvements. Few physicians also got cured and they started advocating the diet. These doctors are working towards getting Indian Diabetes Association to recognize LCHF diet as a viable remedy.

You can see many medical reports posted by the members for your reference. https://www.facebook.com/groups/tamilhealth/
Cat-specific food bowls :-)
We've done this before, but it becomes in and of itself.
If worse is better then there can't be a better BBB.
In regards to #3 & the central bank incentive structure.. I've seen this behavior for quite sometime. Really since QE3 started.

I'm an S&P futures trader that trades many many thousands of contracts every single year & hundreds per day based on real-time order flow. There is an algo that was introduced around QE3 that I have made a tremendous amount of money front running that I have called the "Fed bot". Obviously, this is anecdotal & I have no proof but this bot only ever trades in one direction... long. It has a clear & obvious fingerprint in the market when it is activated & absorbs a huge amount of inventory followed by market order offer sweeps.

Often times on an intraday pattern with a "V" shape where a bottom was put in is when I see this algo active. Admittedly, I've not seen it much in 2016 but it has not gone extinct. Typically when volatility is lower is when I see it in action & it's so obvious that I could show it to anybody watching in real-time.

It never seems to desire a "best price" type of fill, rather its intentions seem to be more like having a direct impact on the pricing mechanism of the market. That is evident by the sweeping market orders clearing out the offers resting in the order book & immediately moving up liquidity on the bid to those new prices.

Could be conspiracy theory but I've been trading electronically for a long time in a lot of markets & the S&P since QE3 has a new long only player that has me suspicious.
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Excuse my ignorance, but this does not seem any way unconventional.

It seems to me that you are treating your condition without medication, not reversing it. Exercise and regulating your blood sugar using diet is what doctors suggest but not many people follow it. You still have permanently increased insulin resistance and you must stay on your exercise and diet to prevent it getting worse.
The link title here is misleading - it's about an article titled 'why people go to grad school.' A better title would be 'A reaction to "why people go to grad school."'
> Inflation ends up being a wealth transfer from the working class to the rich.

Absolutely, and while my use of the word "dodge" might have been sloppy writing, your analysis of it is spot on.

But also, it is almost universally agreed that inflation in the 3-4% range is healthy for an economy, the eventual effect of governments printing money to pay current obligations and/or securities to "prop-up" Wall Street is a much larger rate, like 20%-30% per year

Just read the histories of South American government defaults or look at Greece now for a primer on the eventual endgame for out of control debt.
On the custom side, d3.js has more chart types currently supported, but we've added more with this release and made extending / creating new chart types 100x easier. Previously custom work was much easier with d3, but the gap is now significantly reduced.
Well ... the author could play dirty as well.

If the CIA paid $500,000 per "settlement" and 1000 people left their service between 1960 and 1974, then it's obviously a cool half billion dollars.

In other words, make something up ... then bury a note deep at the end of the end-notes that admits the numbers are "estimates". Who says you have to play fair?
I love to see House of Cards plotlines in the wild
Aren't artistic endeavors already plagued by this... at least to some extent?

Any small microcosm will ultimately generate heated, competitive spirit -- even when the reward is minuscule and virtually meaningless.

In other words: people love to compete over stupid shit.
Would ASLR have helped here? I feel like once they knew where the library was loaded in memory, all hope was lost.
It's been a long time since I played team melee, and I've never played Starcraft 2 multiplayer, but reading back, I'm pretty sure they're the exact same thing:

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Team_Melee

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Archon_Mode

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/314e28/archon_mo...
In the brave new world, it nearly impossible to sell any kind of digital good or services online to consumers (i.e., papers, email accounts, cloud storage, etc.).

The only two things are selling relatively well online:

- non-mobile games

- subscription to porn site (friend of mine runs network and he claims that it is a gold mine)

People do not want to pay for online service. People do not want to see ads.

I'm not sure how this is sustainable. We already see that cloud storage providers stop offering ridiculous amount of storage for free.
However, there is a flaw in that system, in that most people tend to be on the road at the same time (rush hours).
Great to hear, I actually use Taco as a lightweight JIRA UI myself (along with GitHub Issues, a few Wunderlist lists, and starred GMail emails).

Response on pricing above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565896
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But with amazing, new data tools being released every year, these custom-made solutions don't keep up. And with the ability to turn on a new integration in Segment with one click, it's time for a single solution that allows you to consume and act on all of this data in one place.

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If it becomes popular to share cars then this may work. Looking at reality I have my doubts though. If people wanted to share cars you would see neighbors sharing cars for example. In the US many families or friends not even share cars. When I go out with people it ends up with seven people going in 4 cars or similar.

A self driving car takes the pain out of driving so unless society changes a lot we will see more cars driving around (often empty) and people will have longer commutes while sleeping their car.
For those interested here is the github repo for the main parts of this solution: https://github.com/LibreOffice/online I've been following this pretty closely, the loolwsd and loleaflet are the server and client component, but you need to have a user (authentication) system on top of that for collaborative editting which can be anything.

Collabora is the main driver behind this project (LibreOffice Online) and has already provided a beta vmdk (based on OwnCloud for the user part) some time ago: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
Substantial problems with a universal basic income (UBI) do exist, but I'm increasingly inclined to believe that given the substantial technological disruptions on the near term horizon (Machine Learning, Self-driving cars, improved robotics, etc.) that several first world societies will have a UBI within 40 years (around retirement age for me).

I've found more and more friends in my peer group who might not work at the particular job they hold presently, but would absolutely continue to work even if it was optional. I know many people motivated by far more than $$.

As a scientist, I'm expecting to just keep doing what I am doing...
Just as a point of interest, is there any limitation to supporting CUDA on AMD hardware (were this to be compiled with the AMDGPU backend)? With the obvious lack of libraries, etc.
They are representing the taxpayer. They're doing it in a way you don't approve of, but any of us can say that about any number of things the government does!

I'm pretty skeptical that anything the FBI is doing is altering the balance of power in software security between the US and China.

It's also a little weird to me that we have the expectation that a government agency is going to shoulder responsibility for ensuring the software we run is secure. Shouldn't that be the vendor's responsibility?
No, most people do not enjoy strip malls in their own right. However, a great many people prefer spread out neighborhoods and exurban areas within driving distance of those strip malls over denser cityscapes.
We still need to add it to the docs, but here's a sample from the repo.
https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/blob/master/samples/bubb...
It's not obvious to me that an open core business can sustain the necessary margins to be interesting as an engineering company rather than a glorified services business. There are been very few examples (friend of mine argues it's just RedHat).

You are correct though that their model over the years has been to extract a large amount, up front, from a small number of users. They (mostly FD) have failed to make the leap to users outside finance due to what I'd call cultural reasons. They also lack strong technical leadership imnsho (they're, at heart, not an engineering company).

I'd certainly take a swing at doing an open source version for them but not clear to me that they'd know how to play it.
I disagree with the premise. I went to grad school to do research. None of my cohort sees ourselves as losers.

The trick is to go to grad school in a field where you can get funding. Then, you can get paid to learn and write papers. Then it's like a day job -- no losing necessary.

I haven't seen any of the "Who goes to grad school?" thinkpieces the author mentions, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet the authors of such thinkpieces probably haven't been to grad school either...
>The zero interest rate definitely does contribute, but a bigger deal for mortgage rates is that the Fed continues to buy $24-26 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities

I think you've got the right idea, but you are misinterpreting things slightly. Purchasing MBS contributes to ZIRP (as opposed to serving a separate policy objective). MBS are interest rate products based on mortgages instead of US Government credit (although you can view MBS as a US Treasury + some spread). In sustaining purchases of MBS (supporting their price), the Fed drives down their yields (note that yields necessarily move inversely with price). In effect, these purchases result in lower interest rates and go hand in hand with ZIRP.

> that results in a lot of purchases each month to cover the reduction in principal from people paying off mortgages in existing MBS.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. A person's principal is only changed when she makes a payment on the principal. Fed's purchases will affect the yield on the MBS.
The web is a knockout though it would be even more perfect for me if you combined cats and dogs!
Tracks do last forever with normal maintenance and partial replacements. Rails do wear out, and are constantly being realigned and replaced, as well as ties, ballast, signaling etc.

But your point about rolling stock is correct. The PCC street car was designed in the 30's to address that, being a mass-produced, modular system.

Also, the European streetcar systems went through the same economic hardships (and some much larger ones - the wars), even using the same PCC cars, but still thrive to this day.

So it is more about a policy driven by lobbying and intervention from auto manufacturers than purely business model and economics. Robert Moses had a really big hand in this as well...
Could you provide representative CEP use cases? I may be able to provide some insight.
it's not even that they hold 90% of stocks in the Nikkei 225.

It's that among 90% of the stocks in the Nikkei 225 (about 203 stocks), the BoJ is one of the top-10 stockholders. Typically with large US stocks, the top 10 stockholders hold about 1-6% [0] -- so that implies, if the countries are substantially similar, that the BofJ holds 1-6% of 90% of Nikkei 225 stocks, or about 0.9-5% of total stocks in the Nikkei 225.

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=CSCO&ql=1 -- type in any large stock you can think of; you'll probably see Vanguard, T.Rowe Price, State Street, and a couple of other investment firms in the 1-6% range.
Yev here! It's an interesting question. We use the pods in a larger "Vault" configuration, so the way we use them is a bit different (basically a set of 20 pods are connected -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...). But, if you're buying a single pod, you could configure the software however you want, though you'd likely need the first hard drive to go on to the backplane that gets read first. We use different software so ours expects there to be 60 drives, but there's nothing stopping you from configuring Debian or whatnot to read a specific drive first.

We ARE tracking SSD costs but thus far it's not quite at the point where the Cost per GB is in our favor. We'd love to play with them once it gets close, it would neat to build an SSD pod and see how it stacks up!
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Quit treating it as a binary distinction.

Does anyone believe they live in a pure "free society"? There is a deep state beneath every nation.

Like a rational mind exists atop lower forms, higher forms of social organization exist atop lower ones. Democracy is built on intrigue, is built on naked violence. Just as true for smaller countries with smaller deep states.
But where else is better?
Here: https://github.com/LibreOffice/online and here is another thing based on the same components: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
What's amazing as well is the number of ad server requests this site sends. I've never seen my adblocker number get into the 30's before, but I guess there's a first for everything.
It's a pretty big leap you've taken here, between your disagreement with the USG's policy regarding vulnerabilities and their "obligation to run the government people want". Clearly, they're not running the government that message boards want. But that's not the same thing!
Wow. I've been playing with APLs on and off for a while now, so I'd be very interested to hear more (e.g. where one finds such offers). Any chance you'd be up to chat? My email's in my profile.
The housing prices don't really adjust for foreign exchange rates of a currency most of the time. There are forces in both directions with foreign and local buyers both being impacted in different ways.
The historical terms for "unemployment" would have been beggars and paupers. They certainly existed prior to the term and economic philosophy of Capitalism (big-C) being defined.
> That something is used does not mean it is legitimate.

While I agree, in practice what this means is that either all browsers need to coordinate rollout precisely (and even then the result will be that many users just stay on insecure versions of browsers instead of updating) or you will have pages (or employers) telling users to switch to whatever browser lags in rolling this out.

We've seen this play out before. The result is that you end up with users picking whichever browser defects (which reduces the incentive for other browsers to do this) or being stuck on the equivalent of IE6.

The benefit of changes that do NOT break compat is that browsers can just roll them out without needing to worry about the above side-effects.
Agree entirely. Once interest rates rise, you'll see a direct impact on SF housing prices.

People who can afford an $800,000 mortgage at 3%, can't borrow anywhere near that amount when rates are 6% (closer to the historical average).
I've found the same applies to corporate organization tools. I manage my tasks separately with "update JIRA" being one of those tasks.
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You are confusing two things. Here are plausible definitions:

* market: system for trading assets between willing participants

* economics: modeling the behavior of markets assuming rational behavior of participants

The definition of markets has nothing to do with rationality.
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I think it's possible that its both a sickness and a boon. I fully agree with your point that the "fear of being a loser" does drive people to work harder, do better, etc. All of that has (generally) positive effects (well, assuming that you are willing to ignore the fact that many people will use less-tan-ethical means of making more money).

However I can also see it as a sickness in the sense that we fetishize this extreme success. Imagine a hypothetical person that has to make a choice between doing some risky start-up that will consume his/her life or getting a solid job that allows them to work 40 hours per week and then enjoy their personal lives. Nobody would explicitly blame the person who chooses the latter option but we celebrate (especially on HN) the people who choose the former option. We celebrate it to the point that there are many people who choose the harder option simply because they feel they are a loser for not going after it and throwing everything they have at it. I don't see that being a good thing that everyone who is on the fence decides to go for the risky/hard path simply because of some societal zeitgeist.

Then again, as you point out, those individual choices lead to our collective advancement, so it's a really hard balance.
Important thing to note — this may not be the best solution if your goal is to always have an up to date local (dropbox synced) version of a git repo. The docs discourage that:

> If you're using the Dropbox client to sync files, it's a good idea to use selective sync and disable syncing of the folder containing the repository to avoid any unexpected conflicts, just in case.

Also, in case this wasn't obvious, this is basically a "shim" to use dropbox as a git server (as opposed to say mercurial or SVN). No actual git server is being run and if I understand correctly, some useful features from a normal git server are not implemented.

> git-remote-dropbox is a Git remote helper.

> git-remote-dropbox stores all objects as loose objects - it does not pack objects. This means that we do not perform delta compression. In addition, we do not perform garbage collection of dangling objects.
uBlock origin in advanced mode is good for this. So you can toggle certain primary JS scripts to get some sites functional. Then saving the setup for future use. Over time you get to the point where 99% of sites are fully usable while still blocking the vast majority of JS.
The Tensorflow code mentions "GCUDACC" in several places, and from the surrounding comments it seems to be targeted at OpenCL as well as CUDA. So it seems that this has been at least considered.
Haha, sure. Probably one of my proudest puns I've come up with. I posted it on r/showerthoughts one time and got zero upvotes.... think it goes over a lot of heads. :P
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During my years as freelancer I also rarely had a client look at the code although they had access to it. But I can imagine with some tech-savvy customers there is a lot of value in using Github.
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