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That is certainly one view of it, but there is a clear difference between groups like UL and The Tobacco industry.

I am not trying to that everything will work out in some kind of pure capitalist ideal utopia, because I think it clearly won't. Rather I think some industries have enough decent people in them that they can find good ways to increase profit and increase long term good will.

People here make is sound like the ESRB was the only thing stopping video games being legislated out of existence. When the game industry chose to do it, they did it to attempt to make it easy to wholesale games correctly so walmart could confidentally buy games and not mix in porn and sex stores could readily get get all the AO games they wanted, this certainly prevented a few embarrassing situations with porn being mixed in with kid toys.

The video game industry could have done something else; a purely selfish and stupidly self motivated industry might have sued the government, hired lobbyists, or made illegal back room deals some other way like it seems apparent. Big Pharma, Big Sugar, the "Military Industrial Complex", Big Oil and countless other Big whatever get accused of this all the time and often with decent evidence.
Explain for a five year old why you dismissed his study if you could. thanks!
Well that's not quite true.

You have to fight poverty and improve educational attainments for those most in need.

Contributing to those causes will have the side effect of stopping overpopulation.
In the US, use passwords to protect your phone. Passwords have been held by courts to be testimony and thus protected by the 5th Amendment. Patterns, swipes, facial recognition and fingerprints have been held by courts to be the equivalent of "keys" and you can be required to turn them over upon being ordered by a lawful authority (such as a police officer demanding them). Passwords require a court order and if you have a competent attorney, they can argue that revealing the password would result in self-incrimination (and this can spend a lot of time in court before anything happens).
I wonder if post-scarcity will reveal that ennui and depression are the "default state" for human beings and we just never noticed because we always had enough work to distract ourselves.
What's interesting is that you know this. Which means that others should as well. Which means that, I don't know, perhaps modelling what might happen as rains returned, even conducting some tests with tankers full of water could be considered a prudent idea.

In other words, the idea that things could go bad once lots of water came back isn't a far-fetched concept. Yet we are reactionary. We don't seem to spend any time a-priory to try and get ready for such events. History is full of such fuck-ups.
In my town they banned plastic.
(People grumbled because their wasen't a problem with litter here, but it might end up in the ocean? So--o.k.)

We still have plastic tooth picks everywhere. Those little white tooth picks. ( I knew the spoiled brat who's took daddy's idea, along with unlimited funds, and is a 1 perecenter now. (It was so hard watching dad give this kid anything he wanted, including a yacht in high school. He gave him some great dental product ideas, encouraged him with funds, new toys, to stick with the products. When he found college boring, he went back to the nice office dad rented, along with staff, and made a few calls--calls dad researched, and they sold tooth picks/dental picks.)

O.K. We were forced to buy paper bags. I'll bottle up my envy.

At first, people refused, but after being told, "You have to leave you back pack at the front of the store under the watchful eye of Mr. IdontgiveadambecauseIhatethiscompany; we just bought the paper bags. I still try to bring on a reusable bag though, but 95% just buy the 5 cent bag. I don't want to know where the money goes.

I'm waiting for the first lawsuit. "Why are women allowed to bring on whatever purse/bag they desire, but I can't bring in a small back pack? A pack with a few thousand of gear in it?"

The paper bag companies must be doing backflips?

The whole store is filled with plastic, I kinda don't get the ban. The amount of plastic packagaging that goes into theft prevention, and advertising is mind boggling, but we are demonizing the plastic bag?

What would Dr. 350/hr. say? Projection? Or, a carefully designed plan to divert our attention to the blatant problems of manufacturing? Yes--most of the crap we eat is manufactured too. We--I am not we. I am poor. Maybe that's the only advatage to not having much money? You can't eat too terrible, or buy too much?
People in Silicon Valley have been using matrix factorization for the same or similar tasks (like predicting behavior, making recommendations, and categorizing users) for ages.[0] I updated my comment to mention this.

[0] For example, the Netflix $1 million competition in 2007 was won by a team that used an ensemble of methods, including a form of matrix factorization, to predict which movies people would like: http://www.netflixprize.com/assets/ProgressPrize2007_KorBell... -- and using matrix factorization wasn't a new idea back then either.
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Ok, so people living outside major cities in UK voting against centralization of unaccountable power in the EU and unemployed, politically abandoned industrial workers in the US Rust Belt were just a bunch of idiot rubes tricked by click bait headlines. Does it occur o anyone they may have actually had real grievances against globalization? Maybe they were tired of being belittled by metropolitan and coastal elites ignoring those grievances and dismissing them as racists to be ignored.
He's probably looked at it and felt that it wasn't as important in terms of the best ROI for his foundation.

His foundation takes a very analytical approach and he wouldn't dismiss that issue lightly.

They can't tackle everything. You have to pick your battles, even when you're the richest man in the world.
Have you ever written up or documented the technical aspects of your whole process to scan one of the cartridges you receive? That would be something that I would find interesting to read.
You can edit for up to 2 hours, I believe, regardless of any replies. You can also delete during the same interval, unless someone replies.
You're forgetting he'd be hampered by Congress. POTUS isn't a dictatorial position.

He can move more or less unilaterally.
Again, not the methodology that is groundbreaking, but the findings, right? Even still why dismiss because you disagree with adjective used?
The first day is the hardest of the three, though.
Well, for taxes, there's an obvious Scylla and Charybdis[1]: too high, and economic activity is scared away or pushed underground. Too low, and you can't afford public goods that make the place pleasant to live and facilitate economic activity.

I would like to see a similar model explaining what labor law accomplishes and how you know when the laws are being too strict. The problem is that the obvious answer ("so workers don't get exploited") isn't very satisfying: there's sort of an inherent barrier to not paying enough, which is competition for workers[2]. You would need to explain labor law as filling some role that isn't a simple matter of competitive compensation.

[1] My post on the importance of having a model that identifies both a Scylla and a Charybdis: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2015/12/the-scylla-charybd...

[2] The typical argument is like, "look at [obviously poorer time]. They paid [obviously bad wage]. Now [after years of accumulation of capital] we mandate they don't do that, and stars above! They get good wages now." I don't find that satisfying.
I agree. I find https://visualgo.net/sorting to provide easier to understand animations. Also, the fruits are less understandable to me than simple numbers.
Interesting but without INSERT and UPDATE it just isn't worth it for me. When can we expect it to handle data manipulation language (DML) statements?
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I wish everyone in this space well, and huge funding rounds can be a huge weight dragging a company down, but I feel like Meta is severely undercapitalized to be in this market.

Microsoft doesn't have a tethered product right now, but it seems very likely that an OEM will[0] and Microsoft will help them build it and will provide the software - somewhere that Meta 2 has been struggling with.

[0] https://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/01/microsoft-opens-window...
statistically you will change you mind when you are 59 years old with young (or unborn) grandchildren.
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An alternative that works equally well is intermittent fasting. Every 3 months, you fast for 5 days. Make sure to drink plenty. If you can't fast for 3 days straight, you can also do a 2-days fast every month.

See summary of studies: http://outcomereference.com/causes/115-Fasting
You can be a bit healthier by just doing a whole variety of things and accepting the average, than by letting an expert choose what things you should do. ;-)
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Better than Google's never-delivers-on-its-hype machine. E.g. Google Fiber, Google Loon, Google Self-driving car....
100 years ago there were people who still believed in the miasma theory of disease. The scope of human understanding of physiology and nutrition was straight up garbage before the modern era.
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This isn't the case, and there is no newco at this time. Unfortunately, I had to lay off all of employees today. In addition, we are liquidating any IP, closing customer accounts, paying out our cash, and dissolving the corporation.
Is that wine offer still open?
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> Does AGPL prevents some company creating Github like services for Pijul?

Not at all, if their service is AGPL licensed.

Of course, many companies may not want to use AGPL, and there's a whole lot of discussion on this page regarding what might/might-not be allowed to work around the AGPL. However, I didn't see anyone mention the possibility of, you know, using the AGPL, which is the entire reason the authors chose it ;)
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I know that I switched to Ramnode when I had problems with another VPS provider back in 2013 or so when one of the Admin panels was hacked across a large number of VPS providers. Ramnode was down for a few hours, the other VPS was down for a few days.
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I wonder if Mad Men is more of a caricature. My family would go on picnics in the 60s and we'd clean up after ourselves. Maybe it was because my father was an Air Force officer and the USAF took a dim view of disrespect of other peoples' property. I remember AF bases as always being clean and well taken care of.
A Better Place was another massive, $1 billion example of such a failure. https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...
I sincerely feel your pain, we also had to fight old paper and excel habits with a digital tool. I am also in a startup working on a Scheduling product with math optimizations (absence management, work constraints, IBM Cplex solver)...! I will be happy to review your open source code and see if anything can be reused on our side. PetalMD has a freemium approach in a niche market (Canadian healthcare providers), and we burned lots of money before we finally focused on the core value for our user base. The freemium gave us the critical mass and leverage to have discussions with partners and we learned through the years what had to be enhanced in our product to offer several pricing plans.

Our niche is really helping focusing the product enhancements and the marketing efforts. Scheduling needs are broad and we constantly have to refuse opportunities.

Good luck with your next venture!
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Ask HN: Do users understand smartphone app permissions (specifically location)?
Yesterday on NPR, longtime host Terry Gross did an interview of the author of a book called "Aisles Have Eyes". During this discussion, they addressed the topic of supermarkets developing apps. At the beginning of the discussion, Ms. Gross asked about location permission, specifically the iOS modal asking to grant access to location, saying, "What does that mean?" The author of the book cited a Gartner survey that stated that ~50% of Americans believed that a website with a "privacy policy" meant they were protected. Is the public really so misinformed and we need to establish protection measures?

referenced piece:
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/13/514322899/aisles-have-eyes-warns-that-brick-and-mortar-stores-are-watching-you
> One popular use is to mount them on a drone, wait for it to detect a particular IMSI and then bomb the general area. That is the reality of the so called "precision strikes" in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Holy crap. Do you have a good source for that? I've somehow never heard this before.
To Bill and Melinda Gates:

It was really uplifting to read this post.

Because of it, the world now looks a little brighter to me.

We're all surrounded by alarmist news every day and often lose sight of the big picture.

PLEASE write a post like this one at least once a year :-)
It would seem more honest to help people avoid manipulation in general, rather than simply helping to manipulate people in a different way.
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could you please tell me why GPLv2 allows Apple to include bash3.2 with macOS but not the newer versions with GPLv3? I always had the idea that including GPL software requires the rest to be GPL too.
B-but, it's their choice to be enlsaved ! /s
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> The evidence surely indicates that this man used his computer regularly, which necessarily required unlocking his disks, and that means that by all rational conclusions he is, or at least was, capable of complying with the order.

Well that is understandable but what if he burned the passwords just before he got arrested, heck he might even chewed them up and those are long gone. How would they find out? If he is a such dangerous child molester should they go full Sam L.Jackson Unthinkable style on him?
Oh, yes, lets do it!
Having worked in OpenGL-DirectX for decades we suffered immensely from "standard by committee" and lack of competition in OpenGL. When I was young I was naive and thought things would improve, but it was so painful.

Most people doing graphics have to implement an abstraction layer anyway for handling DirectX, vulkan or old OpenGL.

Once you have it, it is not so much work adding one additional back end.

I now believe competition is great and one of the things that made Europe for example to prosper while China stagnated for 5 centuries.

If you say for example: "We only support text shaders because it is simple and works well enough" and someone else uses and API or DOM and it goes 200 times faster, I want the option to let the first guys down and pick the 200X improvement version, not having to stand the original "because it is the standard and we don't care".
This seemed inevitable. People lamented the growth of fake news and niche circles reinforcing extreme attitudes on the internet. Ads exist because they effectively target increasingly small and specific groups of people. Its concerning enough when the motive is profit, but the same techniques can be applied to much greater effect as propaganda. The real concern is when those reinforcing themes are applied to individuals, instead of large swaths of people.

Using Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and other data aggregators exposes you to manipulation. It can be convenient when it shows you relevant ads and the motivation is clear (money). But by the time you realize you're being manipulated for greater causes, like electing officials to power, its far too late to revert those changes.
Well it wouldn't be Gates of 1992 running, it would be Gates of today.

Have you changed in the past 25 years? I sure have.
It's just another form of advertising. The AdTech world should be delighted

And if you think advertisers won't exploit this (and aren't already), well ... that's just precious. Bless your heart.

Advertising (and "public relations") are rooted in propaganda. Which happen to be the titles of Edward Bernay's two classic works on the subject:

https://archive.org/stream/BernaysEdwardPropagandaEN1928153P...

http://www.worldcat.org/title/public-relations/oclc/546945

And it's always been inherently political. Something the advertising industrial support complex, which includes Google, may not wish to admit.

https://archive.org/details/BernaysEdwardL.CrystalizingPubli...

Sleep well.﻿
> The Code of Conduct at Contributor Covenant is specifically designed to force politics on other people inside and outside FOSS projects. Its creator describes the ideology here:

That's insane. Why would anyone want to force politics into a technical discussion. I can't think of a single place where the Red or Blue on my ballot would influence my software development prowess. Same for nationality or opinions on social matters.

Some of the things in this article make no sense.

> There are those who firmly believe that the politics of social justice have no place in the world of open source. They think that the injection of political ideologies is a corruption of the apolitical nature of free software.

> From the onset open source has been inherently a political movement, a reaction against the socially damaging, anti-competitive motivations of governments and corporations. It began as a campaign for social liberty and digital freedom, a celebration of the success of communal efforts in the face of rampant capitalism. What is this if not a political movement?

> All political movements start with an ideology. But when they are set in motion this ideology may become obscured. It is crucial that we constantly scrutinize the manifestation of our principles to ensure that the lofty goals of our ambitions are in line with our actions.

This is going to be a really really good read. Thanks for the share nick!
If the alternative is 20 $10/month subscriptions, one $200/month one has advantages: only one bill to pay, only one set of credentials to manage, a clearer picture of how much you're actually spending every month on content.
Perhaps those grievances get obscured when people parrot the same nonsense about "elites" that the AI propaganda spouts.
If the options are:

1. Public (online) discourse is vulnerable to manipulation by bad-faith actors (and this manipulation is impactful on a geopolitical scale).

2. The events of the US election and Brexit were symptomatic of unrecognized problems and unheard voices.

These ideas can both be true. Frankly, I find the notion that (1) isn't true too far-fetched to believe. It sounds like far too good of a business opportunity.

Running ads is a valuable activity not because every person who sees the ad becomes a customer, but because in aggregate x% of viewers will consider a purchase and y% will become good customers. Cambridge Analytica sounds to me like they're just applying the standard techniques of digital content marketing to a relatively unsophisticated realm (political advertisement).
That is why they voted for who they voted for. But if you look at the track records of the people they voted for (in the US: the Christian Right in 2000, the Tea Party in 2012, and Trump in 2016), it's no better woth regard to privacy. And apart from some regional excepions it's not better in any other category either.

If you think a vote for Paul Ryan is a vote against unaccountable power you are badly deluded.
Was it worth it?
Nice, even in times of Stalinistic oppression things weren't as easy...
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> Maybe they were tired of being belittled by metropolitan and coastal elites ignoring those grievances and dismissing them as racists to be ignored.

They could be. Or they could have been manipulated into believing that there was a cadre of elitist puppet masters out to get them.

It's obvious that there are issues all across the socioeconomic spectrums, all over the planet. I'm more apt to believe that for the most part that people all over are quite similar, but propaganda triggers and psychometric targeting make it seem like we are light years apart.
Cellphone companies is one more layer in their trust circle. It's easier to just bypass them and collect the data yourself. Warrants only really became a requirement in 2015. And police were misleading judges on Stingray usage to hide the tech.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/appeals-court-no...
Hacker News commenters in a nutshell!
Also impressed; it really was that easy.

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