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> The PUT is merely a small optimization that is now obviated by the spread of HTTPS.

Idempotence can be useful knowledge for client-side caches, so HTTPS doesn't obviate the value of the PUT (or, for the same reason, DELETE) vs. POST distinction.
You're suggesting there is a type of symmetry around relative moral beliefs on the gun debate, and it is somewhat arbitrary to be upset on one side of it but not the other.

If that was all there was to it, I would agree.

However, that's missing the huge asymmetry at play here: money. Specifically, the NRA is an industry-funded group that has lots of it, and the people who's family members have been victims of gun violence don't.

If this was a spat between, say, Google and Oracle, each of which has boatloads of money to buy the competitor's advertising spots, no one would care.

But this story feels scummy because it's a human story, one where the little guy is fighting a noble cause but is being shaken down by organizations who write weekly checks larger than some of these people will see in their lifetime.

If you pretend that money doesn't create an asymmetry, then yes, you being upset this way but not the other is all relative.
Not sure if the article title is misleading, looks like 2015 percentage of 1-2 TVs is up.

However, the no-TVs is increasing and 3+ TVs is declining, more than the delta for the other ranges.

What does that mean? likely a) more people watching on smartphones, tablets or PCs for anything other than the main TV. b) Some folks never buying a TV is going up.

Netflix/Amazon Prime are probably influencing this significantly.
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Wow, this is timely, I'm going to stay with my Dad while he goes in for heart surgery on Monday. It's kind of terrifying since he's had no heart problems his entire life until very recently, and unless he was taking his pulse for another issue wouldn't have even known it as he's had no other symptoms or any sort of discomfort.

I also used to work with an older guy who had known heart problems and a defibrillator. He worked on a piece of equipment that required him to lean over a big moving dangerous piece of mechanical moving death trap. One day we noticed him leaning in in a weird way, jolting and then getting back into the correct position as if nothing had happened, it happened three times during a week. We talked to him and he just insisted he was tired. But the shift boss took him off the equipment and told him to go see his doctor. They checked his defibrillator and it had gone off something like a half-dozen times in that week. His heart had stopped and he would have died a couple different ways if he hadn't had that thing in his chest. He never even knew anything was happening except feeling lethargic. But he wasn't passing out, he was dying.

Jason Scott on the other hand had lots of discomfort, but didn't realize it was his heart at all. The signs of heart trouble are so many and this just reminds me of how unclear they can be. We're a lot better off with a Jason Scott than without, so I'm delighted to hear that they caught the trouble and sorted it out with what sounds to be a miracle of modern science.
I'm not saying regular people don't enjoy these. I'm saying that people in our field have a rather unhealthy fascination with a rather narrow set of topics.

Instead of having a laser focus even for our hobbies I'd advocate a wider range of hobbies.
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You're not the only one. I was surprised when my girlfriend didn't know it, but I can see how it wouldn't be noticed.

As other people have said, not all cars have the arrow. My first car had it, so maybe that's why I was aware of it?
I think that's sorta true, but this formalizes something in a way that at least might change something about it. IANAL
I think he meant that the price would come down to about $2.50 or so...
does the closed captioning need to be in all possible languages? if the captions are in english, even though the audio is, is that enough. can the same argument be made for everyone that can't read english?
I'm trying to isolate the political beliefs from the "treating customers badly" or "being mean" concerns. People sometimes confuse them and expect that groups on their own political side should be given better treatment than opposing groups. You might not be making that mistake yourself so perhaps it's no use to you. In general, I think isolating those separate ideas is helpful for thinking critically.
> It costs roughly $1 for a professor to prop his camera up at the back of a room and record himself speaking for an hour... it costs $180-$600 to close-caption that video.

No, both of your figures are wrong. I actually worked in UC Berkeley lecture recording and captioning, and the figures are on the order of magnitude of $10/hour for each. The problem lies in the massive backlog of older courses that would need to be captioned for only a few non-students per course.
Every taxi I've taken in the last 5-6 years has built in cameras that film both the back seat and the passenger before pickup. There notices but I don't believe you can assume privacy from the driver when it's not a limo with the screen up or something similar.

There are legitimate reasons why this is done in a taxi: preventing people running away from payment, engaging in harassment or other bad behavior, or claiming you refused to pick them up for reason X when you had a good reason to not pick them up. From what I know of Uber, these reasons all apply to their drivers as well.
s3e3 of The Newsroom captured this brilliantly.
we have been doing thus for a while now : https://www.sourceclear.com/blog/millions-of-program-builds-...
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Thanks.

Any (informal) opinion on the validity, according to the new ToS, of mirroring third-party F/LOSS projects on GitHub (ones distributed under GPL, MIT or BSD)?

Do I need to get the permissions from each author of the work to upload it, above what Free Software licences already allow?
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Not you, the solo developer, but maybe a team at BigCo currently running their own datacenter or a hybrid.
Is invading them not enough? Does the US have to force an encyclopedia of Lord of the Rings trivia on them too?
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I've never seen Patlabor. Sounds like I should.

And Sneakers, asides from the magic, encryption-breaking MacGuffin, is some of the most realistic hacking in movies. What's the preferred tactic of these tech geniuses? Basic social engineering. Sure, they know a lot of other tricks, but why figure out a clever way through the badge system if a cake and some birthday balloons will work just as well?
> the common sentiment is 'the best time to take action was 40 years ago. The absolute limit was 20 years ago. There's no stopping it now

My impression is that this is the latest fallback position intended to stop/delay us from acting (I don't know that the parent commenter intends it that way; this isn't a criticism of them). In rough order:

1) There is no global warming

2) There is global warming, but it's not caused by humans

3) It's caused by humans but there is nothing we can do about it.

4) We can do something about it, but it's too expensive to be worthwhile.

5) It's cost-effective (because the cost of doing nothing is so high), but it's too late to act.

6) ? Any predictions for the next fallback argument?
You're just repeating my point, but applying a predictable anti-liberal bias.

>Obama has been the best gun salesman for the United States ever.

Because of all the extremist gun control legislation he passed?

No, wait.. people just believed Obama was coming for their guns but he never actually did that.

It's almost as if people have been trained to respond to gun violence by supporting the NRA and buying guns ... in some sort of Pavlovian response.

But I can't imagine what organization or industry could possibly have spent decades and millions of dollars in political capital engineering such a virtuous cycle for themselves.
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> He references one of my favorite functions, 'nextafter'. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/nextafter

It is a cool function. I remember using it for some testing I did while checking the accuracy of various implementations of basic math functions.
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FYI, for PyCharm a remote interpreter is probably an easier solution as long as you aren't needing your app to draw anything on an X11 window.
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Agreed, and I am becoming quite a fan of their work and their direction.

One concern I have is that they don't make it so feature rich that it becomes slow and overly complex - or at least be smart about which features to push out to extensions.
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What specifically has Monsanto done lately that was unethical or immoral?
I'd love to hear people's proposals for this. There's of course natural methods such as reforestation and soil building, but I have a feeling that we'll want to augment that with more synthetic means.

Carbon chains, or in the simplest case, methane, are expensive to produce, as one might expect. By far it's better to never have burned that fossil fuel than to try to reclaim it from the atmosphere or ocean. Setting a $80/ton CO2 carbon tax (Exxon's internal estimate for new project planning) or even a $40/ton CO2 carbon tax (Shell's internal estimate for new project planning) is an obvious step. When even the fossil fuel companies are using this tax level in their internal estimates, it's just stupid that our government and political leaders aren't pushing for that or double or triple it.

My personal hope is that by 2040 we will have lots of excess electricity from solar and wind because we overprovision them. And we'll overprovision them because they will be the cheapest electricity, and we need enough of them such that at their low point of output they still meet our needs. In that case it seems that we may have cheap intermittent electricity. At that point we can start making hydrogen, then combining it with CO2, to start getting rid of greenhouse gases.

Some people think that we'll be able to take methane (natural gas) and make hydrogen and precipitate out the carbon as graphite. that's probably the easiest form of carbon to dispose of, whereas a liquid like methanol or even diesel is going to pose lots of problems.

It seems that CO2 in the oceans is going to be a bit more easy to remove than atmospheric CO2. So it seems that there are all sorts of chemistries that would be useful for that.

But still, we need a carbon tax to fund such carbon sequestration activities. Without a market mechanism, there's not going to be much investment. We need to both do research, then develop them into large industries really quickly.

Carbon tax, carbon tax, carbon tax. Don't vote for anybody or any party that doesn't advocate for it. This is the biggest single issue for our children and their economy.
If NaN is nonsense, what would you have 1/0 or acos(2) to produce? (An exception is the same NaN, only less convenientlying packaged.)
Is it remote only for Canadians?
Even 'better' just store them in fixed point representation.
There's definitely reasons to imprison murderers: (1) to prevent them from murdering again, (2) to rehabilitate them so they do not murder again, (3) to give feelings of closure/justice to those that cared for the victim.

I think ThrustVectoring said it best in a post above yours: we're requiring creators to subsidize the disabled.

An alternative way to subsidize the disabled might be to give them some amount of money every year which they can use to buy transcription, parking, etc. services. This might result in only certain content being transcribed. This might result in less parking spaces that are continuously empty. Maybe that would be a better use of everyone's time. Maybe it would create unnecessary decision burden on disabled people.
You'd rather have words on everything?

I would love to see what your desired car interior would look like, with little plaques everywhere for "A/C", "Headlights", "Turn Signal", "Hazard Lights", etc.
> Why do people expect ethics and morals from startups?

I think this depends on what you mean by 'expect'. If we believe that they will act morally at the expense of their own interests, that is probably naive in most cases. But if we 'expect' them to act morally in the sense that we hold them to a certain ethical standard, and get upset if they don't live up to it, then the expectation can to some extent be self-fulfilling: if bad behaviour will hurt their reputation, they have to take that into account when making a decision, and in some cases that will cause the right thing and the self-interested thing to converge.
Yep, and the other piece of this is the stress and expectations. At certain levels literally all that matters is results. To some extent a CEO doesn't care how the sausage gets made by a given team because he has people that are paid to worry about that. And so the actual "you need to do X, Y and Z" might not be specific things like "overhaul this legacy thingamajig" or something similar, but rather "find a way to grow revenue 20% YoY with a budget that is 10% lower than last year's."

The other flip side is the risk--if you want to step up to the plate, at a certain level you need to understand that the stakes are such that if you fail, you likely need to leave or you'll be fired/asked to leave.

Not everyone wants that level of responsibility or risk. In my job I oversee one of the biggest sources of spend in the company (ad spend) and am responsible for driving a large part of our growth. If I don't do my job well that has company-wide implications that are present in my mind literally every day. That's a level of ever-present stress that many people don't want.
Sorry...that's not what global warming does.
My prediction is "we're encouraging the development of new waterfront properties".
Yeah, many other requirements of ADA are for small businesses to actually build things. This would require paying a transcriber for a couple hours per hour of video.

That's really not a lot. Probably blame a dumb and inflexible budgetary process.
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>It is, yes, but I wouldn't refer to it as comparable to an SSD.

EBS (gp2) is flash based, has far better performance than high end magnetic disks, with excellent latency and consistent performance. So, it's more comparable to SSD than anything else.

>Surprisingly not! Testing in ATTO I got read and write speeds that were almost identical, and a peak of 2000 IOps.

Really? Were you looking at 4K write? Typically that would be under 1 MB/s for an SD card.
What windowing system do you use this with?
To be fair, we are still fairly early on with this stuff.

Yes, folks have their echo chambers. But alternatively, perhaps we simply teach the new generation better critical thinking skills, introduce uncomfortable viewpoints, and how to better not fall for tricks such as "fake news".

Just because we have problems with echo chambers now doesn't mean that we will in the future. Heck, in a way, the internet is teaching us about our echo chambers - it isn't a new phenomenom (families and community provided it for us), but having a choice in one's echo chamber really is.
But you can't charge and use it at the same time
This article is unreadable on my Android mobile.
Also, the average number of people in US homes is declining. There might be a connection.

https://www.census.gov/hhes/families/files/graphics/HH-6.pdf
I will never take startup advice from investors. They care about your company and their money, not you.

Of course they're going to tell you not to worry about giving more of the company away, they don't care who owns it. More money flying around is almost invariably a good thing for early investors.

You don't really need advice about funding from anyone, just look at some successful companies and see what they did. Funding is one of the few aspects where you can mimic your startup idols because it's public info.

The fact is, all the biggest unicorns had enough promise and brains behind them to retain majority ownership, or at least full control well into billion dollar territory. If you're good enough investors will be practically begging to give you their money.

Yeah, so fuck the advice from investors. Make sure you keep as much ownership and control over your company as possible until it's sending people to the moon.
So that's what CRM means.
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> The problems with the United States are the large area to cover,

That argument is never valid. Parts of the US may present a challenge due to low density, but the overall geographical size is not a determining factor for anything relating to internet infrastructure.
Just wanted to add that Dave's notion is not quite as absurd as you make it out to be.

As you might know, daily rebalancing leveraged ETFs (say, 2x or 3x) are basically a bad idea for long-term investments, because they are (simplistically) short vol. So, they might outperform the (non-leveraged) index/ETF if vol is low and total return over the period is high. But typically, with normal or high vol, or over long periods, they underperform non-leveraged.

By analogy, a less-than fully invested ETF/trading strategy that's basically "0.7x" leveraged will beat the (non-leveraged) index/ETF in certain trading regimes (where total return over a period is negative or modestly positive, while vol relatively high).
In their query they do:

FROM (SELECT id,content
FROM (SELECT id,content
FROM [bigquery-public-data:github_repos.contents]
WHERE NOT binary)
WHERE content CONTAINS 'commons-collections<')

Why the subquery? Why not WHERE NOT binary AND content CONTAINS...? is this a bigquery thing?
Though for the purposes of comparisons, -0 and +0 are the same in IEEE 754.

So the expression "x >= 0.0f && x <= 1.0f" is true for x = -0.
I like the way you put it: the creators are required to subsidize the disabled.

Would it be better if this was approached from the other side? Creators could create without this concern. Disabled consumers would then pay for services that make specific creations accessible to them. The US government could then explicitly subsidize the disabled people.
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Lol, seeing the comments so far I might be the minority, but I loved reading this. Made my mind feel like it came up from under water to see the sun. Happy
Immutable blobs are really the right choice with s3, as it's eventually-consistent (when using it as a blob store anyway. If you're hosting a static site or similar it's a bit tricky to immutableize and not necessarily worth the effort).
They should just make them available with the sound all distorted and super noisy like partially deaf people face, or just no sound, and autogenerated subtitles.

Then, have online students sign up to write sub-titles or verify subtitles. For every hour of subtitling you get 20 hours of hearing. Verification via a CAPTCHA like system that interrupts video playback to verify snippets of audio. Sell this corpus to deep learning people.

With hundreds of thousands of people doing MOOCs it should be very doable.
> Baidu Baike, which is much larger than zh.wiki.

Great point, but Baidu is super-rich, so it's unlikely zero-rating Wikipedia would make any effect on them. Not to mention zero-rating in Iraq probably not exactly relevant for zh.wiki :)

> Right now there are about 100 online encyclopedias, each of which potentially competes in some degree with Wikipedia in some sense.

In "some" sense, surely. To be really on the level comparable to Wikipedia by breadth of coverage and participation? Unlikely. None of them would be noticeably impeded by zero-rating Wikipedia in Iraq - most of them probably get next to zero participating from Iraq anyway. Same probably applies to any other place where Wikipedia Zero works.

> but currently none of those religious encyclopedias is zero-rated by a mobile carrier.

Because it doesn't make sense to zero-rate niche sites. By the same vein I could say Wikipedia competes with a knitting site run by my friend because if you want to know about knitting, I'd go to a knitting site, and it's not zero rated. That doesn't make much sense to me - if you want to enable minimal service to people, you choose something with broadest coverage, not with deepest one, because deepest one would necessarily be niche.
I truly don't know what to feel about this. On one hand I think this is bad for the future of content and users and even the web. On the other, I feel that Google, Apple and MS would proceed regardless of the spec, meaning that "the web" becomes a content delivery platform much like cable TV was, controlled by a small, wealthy few. Either than or users migrate to where the content is and leave the web behind.

This at least standardizes the process. Perhaps that's a bit like standardizing the roads we drive on: it gets people around and enables commerce, but the long term trade-off might be too much.
7) Fake news. NOAA was faking the data, and things are fixed now. New data is great, but we don't release it.
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I have no idea if your cost assumptions make sense or not so I don't know whether they are pretending. Either way, I have a better idea: no rules.

They are releasing high quality content online for free to a large segment of the world's population. Just let them do it!

Here's another idea: The people who are so concerned about accessibility could join their efforts and provide a transcription. In multiple languages, by the way. We don't want to exclude anyone.
What if I'm both deaf and blind? Should Netflix have to cater to me through some kind of touch system?

If I'm blind and I go to an art gallery should there be an audio track to somehow explain what I'm not seeing?

What about a play? Are plays specifically exempted or is it just that nobody has bothered to sue a theatre for a lack of subtitling just yet?

What if I go to a fancy restaurant but have no sense of taste or smell? How will that restaurant compensate me for the experience I'm missing out on?
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