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The government spent untold amounts of money breaking up AT&T, then allows them to continue merging into a bigger company than ever.

AT&T and Time Warner both suck. Their goal isn't to produce great products, it's to protect and expand their monopolies. One of the reasons most of us have only 2 choices for Internet service is that AT&T and the former TWC pay local community governments in exchange for exclusive access to the community. And if a community tries to "do their own thing", they get sued.

Google is trying or considering coming to Louisville and the first thing AT&T did was sue them. I know this deal is about the TWC media company, but AT&T's behavior in other areas is still relevant.
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Empathizing doesn't mean understanding someone's argument and deciding that it is really stupid. That is pretty much the opposite of empathy.

Empathizing means understanding the person well enough to see how they came to be someone who reached that conclusion, even if it is illogical from your point of view.
> when people make comments that aren’t just reasonable sounding but are actually correct, those comments tend to get upvoted

For a while, I found that on pages with lots of comments the most interesting ones were to be found at the top––and, buried between actual dross, at the bottom.

That might have changed, I don't see it that much anymore. But that could be a side effect of something even less desirable. I think some people may have started flagging whole articles when the discussion has "too many" comments they dislike. I can't prove this, of course.
We're planning to use Same-origin policy to prevent this. It was first brought up here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/651

You can read more about same-origin policy here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...
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These DPI companies always make me smile because 20 years ago I was the inventor on this patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6182146B1/en It describes a way of doing DPI to identify protocols that are not running on standard ports. We used this for a protocol analysis product [0] that did network monitoring (for accounting purposes inside companies and led to companies discovering what people were mis-using their network connections for---hello PointCast[1]) and for prediction of network scaling needs. And all that was based on stuff I'd been doing from about 1984 [2].

Bottom line: scooping up packets is easy; encrypt your shit.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/au/news/tool-gauges-web-apps/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast_(dotcom)

[2] http://blog.jgc.org/2011/01/network-protocol-analysis-prior-...
such things exist (such as the pico from http://pimodules.com/) but I've had nothing but grief from its firmware using v1 and v2. There appears to be a new version, and I suppose it might be better now.

For most <1 day outages, a simple USB power-bank with passthrough capability (output whilst also possibly charging) will happily keep the pi going, but without some frankenbodging there's no 'power lost' signal that the pi can sense. I've idly toyed with the idea of a phototransistor on the powerbank status LED and an attiny or something.

Now that I think about it, there was someone trying to make a supercap idea, but I don't think it went anywhere: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/juice4halt-supercapacitor...
That visualization perfectly fit to the music I was listening. :)
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The CLR can be used to run C++ code compiled with the C++/CLI (/clr:pure) setting of MSVC.
Java apps can even run on the CLR because of IKVM (https://www.nuget.org/packages/IKVM).

Good luck at using pointers in Java.
I know that each of these deaths is a tragedy, but if we turn back the clock to an era of polio, TB, cholera and malnutrition it is amazing to find doctors preventable mistakes in the top three.

Yes it needs fixing, but it also needs a quiet fist pump in the same way more people die from obesity related diseases than starve to death.

It's the very definition of a first world problem.
>>Then what's in it for me, rich person (In the hundreds of thousands of savings at 35, starting from $500 at 22), to give back or be kind?

I've done my fair share of charity and volunteer work, both locally and internationally. Let me give you a piece of advice... True kindness and generosity come from the heart. The positive effect you have on those you help should be the only thing that factors into your sense of fulfillment.

If you are giving back and being kind to people with the mindset of "what is in it for me" then you will always feel dissatisfied and unfulfilled regardless of how others view and treat you, because in your mind it won't be "worth it."

So yeah, if you're doing charity work to boost your social status or to deflect criticisms about your wealth or upbringing, you're missing the point.
The real problem is The list price of CDV does not reflect the actual cost of the product to hospitals that purchase it, after rebates and other adjustments.

Translated, it means "Some payers are idiots and base their payments on whatever list price we choose.". One of the biggest idiots is the US government by way of Medicare and Medicaid.

As far as the production of pharmaceuticals, just the other day I was talking to someone involved on the testing side and they were describing how the latest production techniques let them put everything they need to make a drug in a pretty small room. Basically, you could expect improvements in chemical engineering processes to drive down costs over time.
That is a gross generalization. It is true in the US if you are a primary care physician or one of the lower-paid/lifestyle specialists. It is far from true if your are a higher-paid specialist or sub-specialist.

Also consider that unlike tech, where you get paid more for working in higher-cost-of-living cities -- in medicine you get paid more for working in lower-cost-of-living cities.

Also note that unlike tech, the peaks and valleys are much less pronounced.
Limiting Asange's internet access could readily be within Ecuador's national interest independent of any other factor. It's hard to see real politic gains for Ecuador by the release of Clinton emails.
It's about some of core principles of software: Keep it simple, use the minimal code (if it's not there, it can't slow you down), see where speed problems are before optimizing, optimize before scaling up.

It's common sense, but it's rare to actually follow it.

Actually, I'm guilty of this myself. I was finishing last year's Advent of Code, and was given a problem which I tried to optimize, as I assumed the naive approach would be too slow. Then I realized I was trying to optimize Travelling Salesman, so I bit the bullet and went for the O(n!) solution. And it ran in less than a second. In interpreted scheme, no less.

I felt kind of silly later.
It's also full of people who readily classify deviating opinions under naive political opinions, groupthink, and a tendency to blind optimism on all things technology or new.

I do agree with you second statement though, often before forwarding a link to colleagues I read the comments and see if my enthusiasm is not easily killed, it often is (and rightly so, in most of the cases).
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I don't see how his interests are separate from promoting the value of the corporation. His approach is just very risky.

Hyping investors to take too much risk is OK unless he intentionally hides something and don't put it in financial statements.
One could build a courtyard, or a passage or archway to a garage behind. Or go underground. I think these are expensive options compared to sprawling out like the houses in the article.

A large, attached garage is such a pleasant amenity, I totally understand people wanting one - but there's no attractive way of just attaching one to the side of a house. It's essentially a warehouse out of proportion to the other rooms.

Perhaps ideally, build on a hill, such that views from most sides are of an attractive hilltop house, while from the garage view it is apparent that much of the house is built on top of the garage.
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Also, Eudaemonic Pie (the "American" version):

https://www.amazon.com/Eudaemonic-Pie-Thomas-Bass/dp/0595142...
Reddit and HN make an interesting comparison. Reddit's highs are really high, far higher than HN's, often skirting the level of "so good as to be newsworthy". But Reddit's lows --- and I don't mean trolling and harassment, I mean the lower bounds of normal conversation there --- are much lower. I think the median HN comment is better, by a lot, than the median Reddit comment.

I think you can extend the same judgement out to entire threads --- the best Reddit threads being so much better than HN's that it's hard to even imagine what HN could do differently to compete, and the median HN thread being better than the median Reddit thread.

Another interesting thing is that the comparison would probably fall apart completely if not for the heavily-moderated subreddits that produce the best comments. If the Reddit comment cohorts included only the lightly moderated subreddits, HN would probably win on all metrics other than volume and diversity of topics.
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When you're reading the data later, how would you know where to find "the end" if you don't already know the length?
Ah, I understand. Yeah, it's not much we can do about that but in the future it can be expected that you'll be able to use some sort of service to help you with the initial seeding of the content.

So instead of you sharing a file from your home connection and five friends have to share that, you'll share your file with some hosting provider and once they have the file, you'll just send the same hash to your friends and you'll have at least 2 nodes providing the file.
It is usually not because of doctor-shortages that doctors work long shifts -- it is because hand-offs create errors themselves. Think of it as a game of telephone. 8 hour shifts means 3 hand-offs. 12 hour shifts mean 2 hand-offs. One is 50% greater risk of mis-communication as the patient shifts from one doctor's shift to the other.

During training, the long hours serve a double-purpose -- compressing more years of training into fewer. If residencies were 1.5x longer, more doctors would choose not to be doctors. Residents working 80 hours vs 40 helps compress the training time and let doctors get on with their lives and careers faster. Unlike in tech, medical residents get paid little for their training period. Shifting 3-6yr residencies into 6-12 year residencies would make residencies viable only for already-wealthy individuals who can withstand 4yrs undergrad + 4yrs med school + 6-12 yrs of low salaries in a captive residency.

(btw, w/r/t/ shortages, it is probably due to the doctors themselves -- specialty boards such as the Board of Radiology essentially throttle the number of available training positions (residencies) per year creating artificial scarcity and keeping up their own pay.)
Yep it seems anything by Elon is sacrosanct with much of the HN crew.
But it should build lots of housing for tech workers for whom life just isn't worth living if they have to be anywhere else on the planet.
> That's what the formal definition is for. If a document doesn't match the CSV description then it isn't a CSV document. It's something else.

Right, and if there was a formal definition of CSV, that's the situation we'd be in. RFC 4180 isn't one. It's a description of one dialect of CSV, which was written decades after CSV came into use. There are dialects of CSV out there which don't conform to RFC 4180, and which are perfectly valid in their own right.

> JSON is also a trivial format to parse, and a JSON lexer alone exceeds 500loc

FWIW, i wrote a JSON tokenizer in 235 lines, and it really should be shorter:

https://bitbucket.org/twic/jsonomic/src/e0cae9587b20def003b9...
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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ is unrivaled in its signal-to-noise ratio.
Any bashing on Named Data Networking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking

Rather than the system getting less reliable exponentially as it scales up, it gets more reliable exponentially as it scales up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGEMQveoqg&t=1667

Integrity and trust are properties of the data; not of the way that you obtain ​it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGEMQveoqg&t=3006

There's no routing. You get rid of all of the routing chatter. You get rid of all of the routing brittleness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLGzGK4c-ws&t=5071

We wanted to turn around the incentive structure where right now senders have a lot of power and receivers have basically nothing, they have to eat what they're fed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yth7O6yeZRE&t=23890
While some will condemn this is runaway greed, this is a natural side-effect of a healthcare system turned over to the private market. Outcomes and/or public health improvements are side-effects, if the happen great, but the motive will always be profit, regardless of how you get there (so long as it's legal).
I've heard this complaint many times about upwork. They step all over freelancers and you are presumed guilty. Thanks for taking the time to write this up and I hope people will heed your warning.
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The strategy of shifting macs to ARM with a closed-up MAS is nonsensical and has no evidence for it. MAS is a graveyard, it would seriously antagonise all existing mac user base, and it's not supported by the article (iOS being XNU-based is a sufficient reason to have ARM references in there).

Now if Apple wanted to close up "the desktop" and shift it to ARM, what could/would make sense would be scaling iOS further up from its current position: revive the iBook brand (or create a new brand) as a Chromebook-type laptop on ARM with a new iOS form factor, possibly with a touch-enabled display or as a convertible. That would be a relatively natural extension of the iPad Pro concept, would have precedent in the aforementioned Chromebooks, and could provide an acceptable entry-level (sub-$1000) laptop replacement to the 11" Air, at least for students and the like. It could even have a cellular option.
Get a next gen phone; They should all do Wifi Calling now. This causes your phone to tunnel the cellular via internet link, and you get full call and sms coverage.

Of course, 2FA via SMS is a bad and deprecated pattern and needs to die! But! you can get your phone overseas without roaming which is pretty neat.
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Why I created a music discovery newsletter
Hi everyone! I'm Zach, I'm 16 years old and I created The Fifth Print which is a t-shirt shop based on music. I've always thought that music plays a crazy important role in our lives and has the power to make us more productive and happy among other things. It has the power to change lives and unite communities.
So, I decided to create a weekly email digest where each edition has a couple of songs representing a different genre (example: one from rock, rap, alternative/indie, and pop). And also a reader submitted one. Lastly it'd also include a profile of an artist so you can find out why their sound is their sound and a music video since I believe that music videos have the power to greatly enhance a song.
I'd love for this little project of mine to become a great way for everyone to discover new music and explore different genres and find new artists. I'd love to get your feedback on it! Tweet at me @zach_cmiel for suggestions or questions or if you just want to talk music. I'd love to chat! Hope you guys enjoy it and discover more jams!
> - no access from/to Internet until explicitly enabled by user

This would be better. It would get rid of this IoT cloud madness.
Client-side validation can be very useful. At this point I think that the inconsistencies between implementations are the primary pain points, similar to what prompted the Web Standards Project.[0] Is there anything similar to the -{webkit,moz} in CSS for HTML? Or abstraction libraries comparable to jQuery?

It would also be very useful if the validation is extensible, as different projects require different validation rules.

I'd also want validation rules that are portable between the client and the server to reduce code duplication.

One combination I've been toying with is using clojure.spec[1] with ClojureScript/Clojure with varying levels of success. I imagine you can do similar things using server-side JavaScript.

> we should use another technology to do other things we've been commandeering it to do.

What types of things are you thinking of?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Standards_Project

[1]: http://clojure.org/about/spec
>"This last attack on Dyn appears to be Mirai again, so devices with unchangeable default username/password combinations"

The credentials can't be changed on these? Ouch. I didn't know this. Has Mira released any kind of firmware upgrades for their set top boxes and IP cameras?
I had a dual-core G5 tower for a while - thing sounded like a jet when booting up.

That's why the laptops never got further than the G4 - the G5s were so hot and power hungry a laptop probably would have melted on the spot.

I wish Apple would bring the aluminium Mac Pro form factor back - it was a beast, but looked great and was as expandable as anything.
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iOS NoUI builds have separate kexts and the full Darwin CLI tools, including the Clang compiler itself.
True. I was curious and did look at their site and didn't see a Kevin in the attorney list. Not to say he isn't one, just he wasn't listed on the site. I would have ventured to bet he was a rogue IT employee, but with some of the responses to complaints on Facebook, it does somewhat appear that if you question them they get defensive and argumentative.

I run a site that helps ex-offenders find jobs, resources, etc.. and it is always frustrating to see companies that take advantage of a vulnerable group. Not to dismiss the OP and the evidence against them is pretty overwhelming, but there are always two-sides to every story. I have removed the link and references to them and their parent firm as a resource from our site. While we aren't a huge player in the industry, we are growing fast simply because we provide personal help if we can and try to treat everyone fair. I refuse to risk that reputation on a potential bad apple. It's easier just to remove them now, and if down the road this comes out as a simple misunderstanding or whatever, I am happy to add them back. But for now, to me at least, it is better to be safe than sorry and not risk my users paying some greedy company to be treated poorly.
Since it's impossible to know who owns, claims to own, or has licensed any particular content, #1 is a fatal flaw unless users can officially receive immunity (which seems doubtful). Otherwise we'll have a situation like speeding on the highway, where "everyone does it" at the risk of a random ticket, but in this case the fines are thousands to millions of dollars.
I spent the last 4 years integrating with various hardware vendors (non-iot market but the problems are the same) for my employer's Saas offering. Hardware companies are great at making reliable hardware but they have very little to no understanding of security or heck, even software in general. Most of the time we find that their hardware engineers are writing software and and the entire protocols are wide open usually without any built in security mechanisms. Some transmit sensitive information completely in the open. If we ever come across a vendor who understands SSL that's about as good as it gets.
What's an example of a pure economics discussion?
> That things like amputating the wrong limbs

Wrong site surgery is a "never event" in the English NHS. That means that there's never any excuse for it to happen, and it should not ever happen.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/patientsafety/never-events/

Indeed, it's the first one on the list: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/never-...

In 2012 / 2013 there were 83 wrong site surgeries.

That's way too many, but for context:

http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nhs

> There were 15.892m total hospital admissions in 2014/15, 31 per cent more than a decade earlier (12.102m).

(Not all of those will be surgeries)

and:

> In 2015, across Hospital and Community Healthcare Services (HCHS) and GP practices, the NHS employed 149,808 doctors, 314,966 qualified nursing staff and health visitors (HCHS), 25,418 midwives, 23,066 GP practice nurses, 146,792 qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff, 18,862 qualified ambulance staff and 30,952 managers.
Controlling the circumstances people are born into would require controlling the circumstances up until their birth, which would mean mean the "game" was fully deterministic. If the game was deterministic, it wouldn't be like playing a game, it would be like watching a movie you already know by heart - i.e. not so engaging. The fact that you are free to act, and the outcome is uncertain - that is what makes for a compelling experience.

Additionally, you assume poor people in third world countries are automatically miserable. In actuality, they're only miserable when they're hungry, sick, mistreated, or made to feel want by having affluence rubbed in their faces - kind of like us. It is true that their odds of being hungry or sick are higher, and in some unstable countries there is a lot of mistreatment going on. That being said, I've been around a fair number of third-world villagers, and my experience is that in general they are just as happy as your typical first-world american.
In any case, it is what many research professors are evaluated by, that and how much grant money they bring in.

I always thought I would enjoy doing research on the bleeding edge, but doing that research isn't what matters for your success in that industry. Citations and funding are "traction" in academia and I don't see anything displacing that, whether we like it or not.
Sounds terrible. Absolutely disgusting.

Still, Upwork is an excellent mechanism for building professional network with both customers and freelancers and should just be used wisely.
Slashdot has something similar. Moderators' points have to be tagged with "Funny", "Interesting", etc, and users can choose how to weigh each type of point.
> They already do this with GPUs in their laptops and they do a similar thing for their CPUs in iPhone 7.

They do very different things on those. Both GPUs "speak" opengl/metal/whatever, and both core types of the iPhone 7 speak ARMv8. Handling concurrent ISA in the same machine is a very different problem (early PS3 did it to retain PS2 compatibility, they actually embedded PS2 hardware directly).
I have another rule, along similar lines: Never introduce new information at a meeting.

We tend to decry "politics" as a dirty thing, and I'm no great fan of dysfunctional organizations. But even among bright, innovative people, I've observed what I think is the root cause of your rule:

Most people, especially managers, really don't like to debate and negotiate in front of an audience.

I'm like that myself. I think (could be wishful thinking of course) that I'm a high performer. But I'm a terrible debater. I'm not quick with facts, and I don't handle the emotional pressure of debate very well. I'd probably flunk a coding interview. I prefer to sit down and think something through, and to access the information that might not have been presented by the debaters. And in any event, I've noticed that most conclusions reached through debate in meetings are simply overturned by facts later on.
I think UpWork deserves the negative PR now... They will be more careful from now on..
War criminals? Are we talking about the same people?