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>The alternative would be far worse (demanding payment without a preview of what you're paying for).

"dishonest" may be too strong, perhaps just misleading - paywalled articles are often designed to appear as free articles. With a proper preview the reader would know as soon as they arrive that they will be expected to pay to read. I understand why sites prefer to hook you with partial content first, but that practice can appear deceptive.

>The problem with posting paywalled content isn't posting paywalled content. It's the entitled people who can't even be bothered to use well-known workarounds and instead completely derail discussions on political grounds.

I agree with you there - no one can post content from Wired anymore without someone starting a thread about the paywall. If you're not willing to read the article you should just not participate in the discussion about it.
Lending Club is definitely not two-sided marketplace. In marketplace there is always notion of price - to manage demand and supply. LC is just scoring loans and then selling a "product".
"My problem is that I need an app to x, y, z."

No, no, no!
Tax cuts raise revenue!

Saddam had WMDs and participated in 9/11!

Global climate change is a myth/conspiracy!

Obamacare will lead to high unemployment!

Allowing transgendered women into ladies' rooms leads to assaults on our wimminfolk!

The Earth is 6,020 years old and evolution is a Satanic lie!

If Facebook is keeping "news" sources with this kind of debunked, disproven, dishonest "facts" out of my news stream, then I'm going to start spending more time on Facebook.
Or perhaps perception of "empirical reality" is shaped by existing biases, causing them to be denied outright, resulting in an echo chamber that disproportionately affected conservative positions.
They want to control it all to give the best possible user experience

Or perhaps, since Poettering et al. are Red Hat employees:

Red Hat want to control it all ... for reasons
I agree.

I actually like the hierarchical organisation, and I don't like the 10 year usability trend, particularly driven by Microsofts attempts to patch over their horrid structure with even worse workarounds.

The solution to learning my mother were to find her documents is not hiding the place 15 levels deep and having 10 symlinks to it.

Fast, unobtrusive indexing and a good structure is all that is needed. Humans organise and memorise things in hierarchies, and while categories is another helpful abstraction they tend to be confusing if they do not point to a fixed position in a hierarchy in my opinion.

You can also explore a hierarchy; Not so with a cloud of things connected to a bunch of tags.
Speaking of SMF, it's interesting that the seemingly little effort to recreate it led to systemd, while nobody attempts to create a read/write implementation of ZFS. I mean, if you can accept the license of ZFS (huge piece of code), we could have just as well forked SMF, but a clean slate with a different license may have been a favorable choice.
Could you give an example of what you mean by "tender-based software projects"?
I use Youtube while logged in. The recommendations are total trash. It takes accidentally viewing one wrong video and all your recommendations become related to that one video.
That is not true.

"Another former curator agreed that the operation had an aversion to right-wing news sources. “It was absolutely bias. We were doing it subjectively."
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>Anxious for the end of this month, when the first payments are due..

Anxious because you need the money, or just anxious because you don't know how it's going to go?
The article was an interesting read until I hit the picture showing Deplin. I want to share my story about this drug. After having a DNA test done and finding out I had an MTHFR gene mutation, my psychiatrist prescribed me that orange pill. She had lots of samples, too, which I was grateful for as it was extraordinarily expensive. i.e. not covered by insurance since it's technically a "medical food". I paid for it anyways, because she sold it to me as "a magical cure" of sorts and I won't lie, that seemed appealing to me. Something new? After all this struggle? Sure, fuck it, let's try it. I will leave out my backstory and detail about my condition for the sake of brevity (something I'm not very good at).

5-MTHF did work for me, albeit at a MUCH lower dose of 5mg. Some people even get relief from 1mg. But... Deplin comes in 7mg and 15mg doses. My new doctors in Seattle (Naturopaths, not psychiatrists) have advised me that even 7mg is quite a bit of extra 5-MTHF. I don't know the scientific details behind this, but I know from experience, 15mg was entirely way too much for my body and I experienced excruciating periods of "overmethlyation" (extremely high anxiety, all sorts of sensory hallucinations, very uncomfortable!).

The doctor that did the DNA test advised 15mg. Not my psychiatrist. It was just a note scribbled on the front of the DNA results packet. I didn't know anything about 5-MTHF at the time so I did not argue and began on the 15mg. Psych didn't say anything, either: i was only her 3rd patient trying Deplin.

I was completely unstable until I titrated the dose 8 months later: I'd been mistaking most of the symptoms for benzodiazapine withdrawal and didn't think to blame the Deplin for being uncomfortable. I was too unstable to properly judge my mental state. at the time, I had subconsciously thought: why would I question the Deplin? My psychiatrist told me that it was made for people like me (who have the genetic defect). No way it could be hurting me.

I wonder how many other mental health patients are being tortured by a similar conundrum right now? (Tortured may seem a bit harsh, but overmethlyation is something I would not wish on my enemies...) Further, I wonder how many people are being suggested Deplin as they were Prozac, in a case where a doctor doesn't know anything about MTHFR gene and thinks it's just a fancy new drug to try out?

I wish there was more information about the supplement's effects and its dosages available for psychiatrists. About a year later, I began ordering 5-MTHF (the main component of the 'drug') from Amazon for 1/3 of the price. You can also get it made at compounding pharmacies for cheaper.

I feel terrible thinking about other people who may think they are locked into paying for Deplin because their psychiatrist does not know any better. I think what Nestle is doing may be good for profits, by making an illusion of a 'unique solution', but at the same time it makes my stomach turn. Thanks for reading.
What a relief! Thanks for scratching that itch. Also turns out to be good code organization, but I needed that post to boot me up.
>Epigenetic activities may themselves be encoded in genes.

But good luck growing a healthy organism without its epigenetic landscape properly initialized
> What's wrong with putting companies out of business?

Well you have to decide what is or isn't worth destroying a business entity. Let's say Startup X breaks a law that, while illegal, has little to no impact on the general public. Let's say Startup X isn't found out until 5 years in and they're doing $300 million in revenue but without breaking that law they would be at some unknown number less than $300 million. Is that worth putting them out of business? If so, why? If not then what is the appropriate punishment?

Seems like a really hard problem to be fair all the way around.
You can do the same thing with git-annex: https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/metadata_driven_views/
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There's nothing wrong with paywalls and ads. It's annoying when sites with paywalls are posted to public forums since any number of people are not going to be able to join the discussion, but this isn't the site's fault. I think sometimes people forget that they pay for certain websites when they submit. Plus it turns the forum into an advertisement which is not really the intended use.

Likewise, ads are fine in theory but the implementation is absolutely horrible.
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"We're forcing our users not to post sites that would force them not to force the sites to not force the user's viewing habits by posting ads".

You know an arm's race is in progress when...
Shaw's story: http://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead
The issue is that the right wing machine has gone so far that it has destroyed the Republican party. There won't be a Republican party in 2022 unless they get a constitutional amendment to repeal Citizen's United.
Traditional card companies have an additional defense. Particularly now that there's very few big card issuers (chase, wellsfargo, citi, cap1, barclay, boa, usbank, amex, discover), they have blacklists if you include them in a bankruptcy. Amex and citi are 10 years I think. This can make re-establishing credit far more painful.

There are obviously alternatives such as debit cards and credit unions, but those will not come with the same benefits as the cards from national issuers.

I don't think being blacklisted from Prosper or LendingClub for IIB will serve as much of a deterrent.
> Keep an anonymous public database

Due to the nature of genetic information, it can never be really anonymous if you are genotyping genome size amounts of host DNA. There is simply too much data to anonymize it's provenance.

Microbiome is generally anonymous because you can filter out host DNA from it. Though, I bet you could still trace it back to an individual if you tried.
You only get into those situations if you choose to follow theory, which is not necessary. There are myriad sidelines that are adequate outside of the very top level and will give you a playable middlegame with little to no theoretical knowledge.

For example: as White, you can play 1. g3, 1. b3 or a reversed Queen's Indian and get by with zero concrete knowledge. As Black it's a little more involved but 1... d6 and 2... e5 takes about thirty minutes of research and you can play anyone under 2400.
Javascript and Flash ads are the more immediately dangerous ads, but you can still distribute malware over image and text links. You just move from exploiting browser vulnerabilities to exploiting user trust, like all of the imitation VLC download pages that have popped up over the years.

We'd be better off with only static image/text ads, yes, but malware distribution by means of poorly vetted advertising wouldn't totally vanish.
Having developed in Objective-C since iPhone was released, I am very appreciative of Swift. It really puts in a lot of effort to make it hard/impossible to write code that crashes. Swift is such a safe language to develop in, I was able to switch from ObjC to my first Swift project and release builds to my client for months without any reported crashes in my code.
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Same here, needed this for a long time. I wasn't going to keep a duplicate requirements-to-freeze.txt file around [1] so created this tool.

[1] http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/a-better-pip-workflow
I think the worst case scenario is an answer that forms a question, which lead to the answer framing the very question.

Infinite recursion. Basically.
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> I don't see what being online has anything to do with it

States regulate auto manufacturers from competing with their dealerships; Tesla selling online would be a federal issue (interstate commerce).

Ergo, Tesla gets around bad regulatory capture by using a law that supersedes state law.
I've struggled with this in the past as well, having been raised differently.

I was able to unlearn these less effective set of rules by studying different schools of ethics.
There's a big difference between "illegal" and "wrong" though.
I'm glad you're saying it, too, as I get tired of this myth. I wrote a scheme on Schneier's blog for disproving it a while back. Basically, you counter the mitigations which look awfully similar to the one's that got countered in Linux and Windows. Once you have that, wait until a bug is mentioned on mailing list that can lead to memory attack. Weaponize it. Profit.

Leads me to what I claim is dirty secret behind "only 2 holes in..." claim they have: OpenBSD just fixes bugs they find without serious attempts to determine if they'd be exploitable vulnerabilities. They just do accounting differently than the rest. So, by their numbers, they only had 2 vulnerabilities because they didn't assess whether other bugs were vulnerabilities in the first place.

They have good code quality but they're full of shit about how vulnerable it is or isn't.
Which is why the fines should be relative to the amount of money made breaking the rules. As in, all of that money.
> located in a region of the US that is already far-left.

Silicon Valley has a fairly substantial right-libertarian and just-plain libertarian segment, which, in the usual way multidimensional politics are smushed into the US two-party, one-axis system, fall out as "conservative", (and quite a lot of really hard to classify on a liberal-conservative axis types that are extremely socially liberal, but economically center-to-right-libertarian (that is, outside of culture-war kind of issues, they tend to agree more with the center-to-right types on the function of government, as well as leaning libertarian on its preferred degree and means of involvement in fulfilling that function); these don't fit well as either "liberal" or "conservative" in the classical sense, and often aren't very "moderate" though they might get classified that way as a result of being very liberal on some salient issues and very "conservative" (as that works out in the US political spectrum) on others.
Good unilateralism is a stupid idea. May they all succeed and distribute power far and wide.
I love this from the article:

These Apple sites exemplify what I call Chickenshit Minimalism. It's the prevailing design aesthetic of today's web.

"Chickenshit Minimalism: the illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft."
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Being a federal issue doesn't preclude it being a state issue as well, as far as I know.
So, for the amount of miles I drive per year (10,000), I could go on a single dive for the same risk. Good to know, I guess?
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They are still visible in "Most active current discussions":

https://news.ycombinator.com/active
Because sometimes you're dealing with a bad law.
From the number of comments commited so far, I realise that Americans don't want to touch the subject because it hurts. Noam's book should be read along with all the articles written by Paul Graig Roberts. In the end, the average American will realize that she/he complicit to the warmongering attitude of the United States and how it treats the entire world with 1000+ military bases around the world "spreading freedom". If you ask where the word complicit fits in, then look no further to the average American not voting or voting for politicians who have committed crimes against humanity (Clintons, Bush, Kerry etc) or the ones who will eventually commit (Trump)
Good night America.
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You might have a point in another context, but '.jpg' is so completely ubiquitous that you come off as pointlessly pedantic.
You know how to feel about it.

But you rightly recognize that there is a prisoners dilemma when it comes to moral behavior. Your stomach is tempting you to defect. Your heart is telling you not to. And your head is wondering how the game could be structured to favor your heart over your stomach.
And for another grain of salt, it's on Gizmodo, a Gawker property. I often enjoy some of the Gawker sites (esp. Deadspin) but they are openly, unapologetically tabloidy and clickbaity from the top down. Nothing wrong with that as long as the readership understands the nature of the organization. Lots of great articles, but no shortage of clickbait and hyperbole.
How much of the cause of the diabetes endemic is Nestle though? Isn't lack of nutritional education more to blame?

It's easy to come down hard on the smoking industry due to the chemically addictive nature and serious health hazards of the product, but there are many consumers who moderate their fat and sugar intake. And then there are diabetics who don't consume any Nestle products - so why can't they be given treatment manufactured from a conglomerate?
>bullet proof since it's likely that any sample used to test its effectiveness will be run by VirusTotal first.

Nope. There are lots of situations where exploit kits will automatically re-compile and re-pack malware on-demand in ways sufficiently complex that they eliminate any signatures and evade AV detection.

A lot of companies are using VT as a filter for known bad to prevent even having to deal with such samples, but many unknown bad samples still exist and make it past the VT engine, only to be picked up by behavioral detection.

Conversely, a small number of known bad samples that are caught by VT can slip by behavioral detection engines that are gated by VT, causing infection (when VT is removed) where it would otherwise be prevented. Of course, in these cases, it is the fault of the behavioral vendor for not having sufficient behavioral detection, but relying on VT does make that easier. For instance, many companies have a loop where they can take samples detected by VT, run them constantly through an automated analysis lab, and see whether or not their behavioral analysis detects each sample. In the cases where it fails, that sample has a direct line to analysts who can reverse engineer it, come up with new behavioral patterns, and add it to training sets for any machine learning based detection. In this sense, not having VT support makes everything less safe.

The next issue is that companies like this simply can't be run on VT's platform because they're too heavy, as the article mentions. I think a good middle ground here would be to turn this analysis loop into a feedback loop by adding one more step: in cases where behavioral detects and VT does not, submit the report to VT in a standardized format so it can be added to their corpus.
I believe something can be easy to understand (as is i++/++i) but also confusing.

Things that require a double take to read and parse do not help. Additional solutions to the same problem do not help.

There's a lot of cleverness that can come up in programming that may make for neat/short writing but that makes reading and purpose less clear. i++/++i helps with that with no special benefits.

I like how the Swift team approached the decision to remove them: thinking on whether it would make sense to add them had they not been there. And it doesn't, as they solve no particular problem; they're just a special, (not much) shorter solution to something that's already solved.
Great stuff, I watched the video presentation too. The audience clapped at the part where he shows the pyramid illustration of the web - HTML followed by huge chunk of crap, then surveillance at the top. Obviously he is not alone in recognizing the problem.

I'm glad to hear Google are planning to label slow sites. We need this. Bloated websites need to be held accountable.

On mobile devices too, we need a browser option to stop loading any further data for a given site after a defined point. So if the browser has received 3 megabytes of a page so far, it stops and asks the user whether to continue with downloading. It might say how many cents this one website has cost them so far (if the user has setup this feature).

Fair enough "modern web, modern features" but most of the modern features we enjoy are improvements to browsers, servers and javascript. There's no reason why this can't mean keeping page size steady while enjoying new features.
> break the rules and profit from it and if caught, pay a small fine and keep your ill gotten gains. I've learned this long time ago (watching coworkers, family, etc)

Sounds like family christmas was a hoot :)
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I don't use NCCL, I wrote my own ring collectives after reinventing them in 2014 (I felt really clever for a whole 20 minutes before a Google search popped my balloon) to avoid working with a vendor that was trying to gouge us on servers: they beat NCCL by ~50%.

That said, most people couldn't write them so I advise NCCL. You're the third person to tell me NCCL has ish(tm), fascinating.

And sure, you could do the outer product trick. You could use non-deterministic ASGD. And you can do a lot of weird(tm) tricks. But why do these (IMO ad-hoc and potentially sketchy task-specific) things when there's an efficient way to parallelize the original network in a deterministic manner for training that allows performance on par with a DGX-1 server?

Because for me, the action is in automagically discovering the optimal deterministic distribution of the computation so researchers don't need to worry about it. And IMO that's where the frameworks fail currently.
"Conrad sounds like a hacker's philosophy"

I think I agree with your overall point, but not really with this phrasing. Say you apply the hacker concept to food. You can make some cool food at home while bending the rules and everything is fine, but if you open a restaurant and make all your customers sick as a result, then you're just a bad chef.

Hackers hack hacks. Bringing a hackers mindset to something else means that you can see when a hack is appropriate, not that you "hack" things that aren't.

It's like this popular quote... "Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style". Not "Be lazy, claim rebel".
Why would you want to update requirements.txt before testing against the new package version first?

My dependency upgrade workflow for a Python web app is usually:

run pip list --outdated
upgrade one package
run tests
if success
pip freeze to update this package (and its dependencies)
commit
else
investigate or revert and make a note for later (if many breaking changes, etc.)

Perhaps this could be useful if you're using tox to test against many versions of Python, e.g. for a library.

(Or if you only freeze top-level dependencies, even though that goes against best practices.)
What is a "health" product or not is of no value to the discussion here I think, we can debate all day long about what way of eating is correct or not, then let me put it in broader terms: Targeting different groups with different products that actually might have nothing in common or even be antagonists in a way, is nothing immoral or unusual. I used the term "health product" as an antagonist to their sugary products.

I did not in any way say Nestle is not selling the cause and the solution, I was trying to make that point that this in itself is meaningless and in no sense immoral.

As kazinator brilliantly put it:

"Yamaha wants to sell you noise-canceling headphones, and a motorcycle."[1]

We can talk about a tax on sugars, we can talk about a different regulatory framework, but I see nothing wrong with what Nestle is doing here given the current legal and regulatory situation.

And people make their choices, if Nestle wouldn't sell product x, someone else would in some form, they are trying that you choose their product, that's all, that's called competition.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659815