skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profits aren't automatically inflated margins. There are healthy margins, and there are inflated margins. There are even margins that are so thin that it's unhealthy, as in the airline industry.

Now, to loop back around to your point about investment; either party having additional capital will allow that party to further invest.

That is true in the case of formalized businesses, like the ones your thinking about, who can further invest in capital goods.

However, it's also true of more informal businesses that you're ignoring, specifically, the employed individuals themselves.

Employees are in the business of services -- they perform some labor, be it mental or physical, and are paid for that labor. Formalized businesses are their customer.

Profits that those employees obtain are also capital which can be invested -- whether that investment is in their health, their happiness, their residences, their educations, buying tools, the stock market, creating new businesses, affording time to raise and educate their children, and so on.

Theories of economics which ignore that the employed are also themselves informal businesses are disjointed, and fail to explain the totality of economic growth and investment.
>You are advocating placing blind trust

Nope. I stated the opposite: that all of the evidence already pointed us in this direction. No blind trust required.

>The mistake you make here is to assume that we can apply common sense

Ah, yes, the ol' "who ya' gonna trust, me or your lyin' eyes?" defense. Sorry, I prefer that my fellow Americans leave our eyes and brains switched on. We really need them these days, what with the shills and propagandists running rampant.

>the landscape of "facts" we are considering has been contrived and heavily influenced

The landscape of facts to which many of us are referring don't require quotes and include the otherwise inexplicable words out of Trump's mouth, coupled with his actions, removal of key parts of the RNC platform in Russia's favor, secret connections with his aides and the subsequent lying and admissions, etc. We know enough as irrefutable fact without relying on our intelligence agencies. Odd that you suggest we ignore it all.

>I'm not arguing that Russia did not meddle...our default judgement should be to de-escalate rather than escalate tensions

This argument comes straight out of Trump's mouth and makes no sense. It's essentially an argument for encouraging any adversary who wishes to extract concessions from us to simply attack us.

And, where else do we advocate responding to direct attacks with kindness? Where else do we advocate not holding aggressors responsible and instead to appease or "de-escalate", as you put it? Indeed the normally bellicose Trump himself has inexplicably treated our allies far less favorably than a foreign aggressor. Now, why is that?
Turn phone on silent and vibration off.
Then YOU decide when you will check in on it.

This puts you back into control without fine grain tuning the notifications of all the apps and services.
It matters when the tool you're using doesn't respect your privacy, yea.
Takes me directly to an insecure login form.
There's a very nice introductory medchem course on edX with Prof Erland Stevens at Davidson College. It has been through a few iterations already, and another round just started this Monday: https://www.edx.org/course/medicinal-chemistry-molecular-bas...

Some members of the audience may find it interesting as this or that facet of the subject is discussed with regularity on this forum - the FDA, antibiotics, intellectual property &c pp.

Discussion of the regulatory and business environment is included, it's after all part of the environment that med. chemists find themselves in.
It's revealing how you suddenly change the example from "Facebook" to "Wikipedia".
Hm, I can 'defrost' it, it's not up any more but it is something that should work without too much effort.

I put some extremely un-secure features in it (ability to evaluate code on an index card) so it never was public.

Let me see what I can do.

Edit:

Ok, here you go:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/3-x-5.png

That's just two cards, one with an apple pie recipe and one with a tiny javascript snippet but you get the idea.

3-x-5 ended up being a bit of a limitation so I made the cards auto-size as you put more text on them. I thought it would be a funny interface to a hypercard like stack with javascript as the language but I didn't pursue the idea any further.

What I did end up doing was butcher it and turn it into a tool that I use daily to do my work, but it lost the index card looks.
Appropriate that I'm responding to "throwaway399": your perspective that monopoly support is partisan lacks an appropriate level of nuance.
>I'm downvoting you because you're not engaging with the arguments of those who disagree with you, and therefore not adding to the discussion.

I am in two separate threads. My question was in this thread, where I was downvoted with no response. I cannot engage with arguments that are not put forth.

>It's clear that one can both agree with "you can't always be 100% utilitarian", and that accommodation is good, and still think this particular application of it is not an optimal resolution.

Something I have not disputed.

I've said it before, but I think I need to put an "I neither agree nor disagree with UCB's decision" in every comment I make in this thread. I am not defending their decision. I am, however, pointing out flaws in the criticisms of the decision. It is OK to say you do not agree with the decision. But when you give a reason that is problematic, I can highlight that.

>Simply repeating back that "we need to accommodate the disabled" is not responding to anyone,

I agree, but this is not what I said. I am pointing out what I think the law says, and how I am guessing UCB is interpreting it (it is definitely how the DOJ is interpreting it).

>Note that you have yet to answer even the challenge I presented in this thread: are you opposed to the private hosting of these videos?

Can you supply me with a reason to answer that, when I do not have an opinion on UCB's decision? Your demand from me is part of the problem you are complaining about. Making an issue binary without accepting the nuances.
The theory is that a cohort whose uncertainty over a decision is so close to 50/50 that a coin toss has a large statistical effect on whether they make the change or not[1] ought to be close to 50/50 on whether it has a desirable outcome in the event they change
(allowing for a degree of risk aversion, and making the fairly standard economic assumptions that humans primarily optimise for an analogue of [future] satisfaction, and their errors in predicting their future satisfaction are random rather than systematically skewed towards underestimating or overestimating their future outcome)

In practice, it's likely the choice of reported happiness over a six month followup period as the indicator of whether it worked is the major factor here; many negative aspects of a decision take much longer to take effect (get even more bored/frustrated with the new job, miss their ex despite the shortcomings in their relationship, realise that going back to school is costing a lot of money and not advancing them in any way)

It's possible that the larger fraction of people who are happy six months after making the change they agonised over is entirely cancelled out if you ask them after 24.

[1]the paper seems to suggest the coin had a statistically significant impact on the sample group's decision making even if their ex ante predictions of their probability of making the change were greater or less than 50%
I love the idea of a command line based writing app, I'm going to try it out
I find it a bit amusing you're being downvoted, because while it's certainly possible that's not what said relative cared about, I've seen firsthand how much relatives care deeply about stories of dubious morality several generations back.

My dad was very interested in genealogy, and one of the things that frustrated him for years was a particular dead end:

An at the time young, unmarried woman a few generations back in our family tree had a child, and then moved in with her sister and her sisters husband.

The father was named as so-and-so, "currently employed as a travelling hat maker, resident in Bremen".

A "travelling hat-maker from Bremen" was not particular common in Norway at the time. He should have existed in the police register in Oslo for that time period (people had to register on arrival back then), and he's not. My dad found no trace of him in any other relevant registers from that time period either to my knowledge.

All clues point to the girl inventing this hat-maker to hide that she either didn't know the father or that the father was someone it shouldn't be, or possibly that the father of her child gave her a made up story. At the time not giving the name of the father would have been a crime, hence it was not that strange to see likely false accounts.

But here's the thing: That branch of the family had taken to the idea of a German ancestor that gave them justification for an upper-class sounding double-barreled last name, and even though that decision had been made a couple of generations before my dad started talking about this, that branch of the family reacted with intense anger at any idea that the woman in question had not been truthful, and were furious that he would not let it go. It was already scandalous enough that she was unmarried. That the name of the dad might be fake was too much.

This came up in the 90's. People got angry over something that happened about 150 years back in time, several generations before even the oldest family members involved were born.

Which goes to show that sensibilities around morality has an astounding power over people.

(I still occasionally for fun do searches for the various possible spellings of this supposed hat-makers name, and have not found a single German family using it)
I like this. Very well put.

However, I can't seem to be able to make a connection with the examples your parent comment mentioned. For example, if you want to lose weight but keep eating fast food despite that---what is the healthy need manifesting through that, and how do you address it in some other, good way? Same with being addicted to e.g. alcohol or smoking.
Just like with health care insurance, ISPs are an anti-competitive market. Both ISPs in my area have hard caps, crap service, and are widely disliked. Even within the city, there's a surprising lack of overlap where entire neighborhoods are only serviced by one of those companies.
Usage monitoring (charging) sits squarely next to traffic shaping and filtering. Just no.
Need a review of Personal Money Service logo and website design
Thanks! Yeah this is just for demo...I had a self signed SSL but removed it for demo...I didn't buy the certificate yet. I thought no one would try it if the browsers say "This is insecure..." :)
Change the name fellas. Sketch is a brand new tool that's about to replace Photoshop for almost all web design work.
Ahh Harvey. He was really one of the best teachers I had at Berkeley.
A few problems with scio:

- It uses machine learning models on 10-datapoint IR reflectance spectra, meaning it's only useful in a trained regime. It doesn't give information about composition, but instead classifies a sample as a member of a pretty constrained population. So a mystery substance that can't be roughly identified ('vegetable', 'pill' etc) can't be scanned, etc.

- So, evaluating drugs ("we can distinguish fake from real viagra") is done by looking at the surface coating which typically has no active ingredients (and even if there were, the signal would be washed out by inactive ingredients). The model is basically trained on 10-100 scans of a presumed good viagra pill, or maybe 10-100 different good viagra pills if they felt like it

- Building models requires purchase of a $250 license in addition to the $250 hardware, which is just ridiculous. Of course they're doing the calculations on their servers, but it still seems really scammy, hostile to developers, and counterproductive to launching an ecosystem of scanning models. The useless 10-point IR "spectra" notwithstanding, I would totally buy one of these if you could use open data and open models supported by a public community
> the cold startup time of the JVM itself (which is not relevant on a server in comparison to desktop Java apps).

With microservices run as containers that are started on demand it matters; with other architectural choices it may matter less.
I took a MUMPS course at University (my professor at the time at UC Davis was one of the language maintainers IIRC; a fellow named Dick Walters.

It was baffling in spots, but the M database was kind of neat. Overall, someone else in this thread said it best "You can easily do lots of terrible things in Mumps, but those things are usually more straightforward than the terrible things you do in other languages. You can also do elegant things, though a little less straightforwardly."
Calculating Pi
Not sure that counts as proof.
So really big companies will/do have teams of VA people, also where they're a regulated industry so subject to things like PCI, I'd expect to see that as well.

However as you say in the small company space, it's very hit or miss as to what effort can be put into this kind of work.

The thing I'd say about services that do package vuln. scanning is that they can be useful but it's easy to get seduced by absolute sounding numbers (e.g. a CVSS 10 oh that must be much worse than a 4).

Unfortunately from what I've seen scoring can be pretty arbitrary (e.g. https://raesene.github.io/blog/2014/11/17/want-to-improve-yo... )

Also the problems there have been in the CVE space (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/25/mitre_fighter_deploy...) could reduce the efficacy of that kind of scanning if there are gaps where vulnerabilities are not being placed into the system.

All that's not to say there's no value in that kind of work, it's definitely a piece of the programme, but it's important to get it in the appropriate context :)
At the moment the discussion isn't super carrier or no carrier, it's 12 super carriers or 14 super carriers.

And I don't think anyone is questioning the force projection capabilities of a carrier when facing an enemy that lacks countermeasures, the questions are about the strategic value of a $10 billion carrier that is pretty highly susceptible to a $5 million missile.
It's funny because Google has been trying to break free of ISPs with Google Fiber. Unfortunately huge capital costs and regulatory capture by ISPs effectively torpedoed expansion plans. Now the head of the FCC, a former General Consul for Verizon, is adamentaly opposed to net neutrality.
Once an Amazon interviewer asked me this (in my second or third year of University) as an interview question.

I didn't get it at the time and I deeply resented the problem. What does this have to do with being a software engineer?

But interesting to see how it's actually done.
Probably not a good one the more you increase your data size
> U.S. intelligence conclusions that seem to perfectly explain Trump's otherwise inexplicable behavior.

I think this statement needs to be flushed out a bit to understand the absurdity of it. What is the objective of Trump's behavior? I see no pattern or strategy in it, other than a series of PR stunts intended to keep everyone distracted.

>ignoring Russia's rhetoric

What rhetoric are you referring to?

> confronting Russia militarily over election-hacking would have been a strikingly disproportionate response

What is the difference between a missile that takes out a power grid and a computer virus that takes out a power grid? Over the past decade hawks in the US have been honing their propaganda message about cyber "warfare" and cyber "terrorism".

There will be a situation where a hack or computer virus unleashed against US interests triggers retaliation in the form of missiles. I think this is going to happen sooner rather than later. The US would rather this happen sooner to avoid a messy ethical debate and the associated delays.

Just as it took a lot of practice to vilify Saddam to the point where GWB asking that he step down and being refused seemed like justification for missiles and bombs, it will take a while to create enough consent among the US public to allow our leaders to send strikes in retaliation for hacking.

Right now, vague Russian meddling is our "training wheels" phase. We're meant to be indignant, and to align against Russia. The next time there won't be as much vagueness and there will be more obvious harm (not just embarrassment).

Leaders of democracies are shackled by the need to convince the people that war is necessary. The widespread apathy that helps our leaders in most cases turns against them when it comes to warmaking, and a lot of effort must be undertaken to turn us against a foe to the point where we'd sacrifice anything.

Drone wars, and other relatively inexpensive, indirect war methods are a way to maintain apathy while still projecting force, but an adversary like Russia is powerful enough that techniques like this won't work and the public will have to be engaged and will have to consent.

I'm not arguing that this hawkish, war-making stance is against US interests. I'm not making a claim about that.
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My entire life I have had access to only one ISP. I want very clear competition before give up on net neutrality. That's not going to happen though :-/
Sorry, I should have clarified.

I'm not against using QR codes. I just didn't realize that I could close the modal window, and thought that I had to jump through hoops to try out Sketch.

Given the amount of crap that can be found on the internet, I have a very low threshold for losing interest.

A better approach would have been to remind me later than I can scan a QR code to access the page on my mobile device.
This seems like an argument that can be used to argue that shortages cannot exist for anything you can buy. The same rough argument could be used to argue that food shortages cannot exist.

I'm pretty sure the word shortage already implies that there is a shortage at the market price, not at an arbitrary price.
What's wrong with my time series? Error measurement and validation for modeling
Native is just one part. Most of the work is going into managing sourcemap generation through all the various release methods which includes code push. Right now that process is just too manual and some of the sourcemaps that come out of react-native require some extra processing.

We were holding off from targeting this for a while because it feels like with every release of react-native some stuff in the processing pipeline changes which breaks sourcemap generation.
> Similarly, zero-rating isn't usually considered a network neutrality problem as long as the option is open to everyone at the same pricing.

That's still extremely anti-competitive. Incumbents are in an much better position to pay large sums of money to have relatively minor services stream for free. People will flock to those services and a small competitor will have no viable option of paying for the fees and remaining profitable.

You might counter that with "get funding!" But I think the internet is amazing because of it's low barrier to entry. Blocking that might not prevent "disruption" from startups, but it sure as hell will prevent many people from casually trying things.
Time to create a new account.
There is an interview of Snowden by John Oliver where he comes to that conclusion as well, asking people about the usual things that surfaced and people just meh, then translates it into: gov got your d*ck pick and people get upset a whole lot more
The indexing kinda sucks though. I can never seem to find what I'm looking for.
WW3 MORE GERMAN TERRORIST ATTACKS HUSHED UP,WTF
The candle idea is dubious at best and dangerous at worst.

Cars are very poor insulators, being made of single layer glass, steel and aluminum.

Any temperature rise you'll get out of a candle (in reality almost negligible over the T. rise from your body heat) will be gone within minutes of you extinguishing it.
Wait, in the US you don't have to pay the costs incurred on the other party if you lose your case?
How about we be genuine, express good intent and mean it?

When we do that, almost all difficult scenarios are either avoided, or are recoverable.
I got bitten by this on https://about.gitlab.com/contact/

I thought "hey, the Newsletter and Security Notices icons aren't clickable", opened a ticket, and found that the input and submit elements that should be under those icons were being blocked by disconnect.me :)
It's odd how neither this post, nor the spec, nor GitHub's "Mastering Markdown" help page[1], nor the more complete "Basic writing and formatting syntax" page[2], mentions the fact that GitHub treats every newline as a hard break.

CommonMark contains this little sentence to work around its specified behavior, which is left untouched in the GFM spec:

> A renderer may also provide an option to render soft line breaks as hard line breaks.

I'd say whether or not it does this is a rather important thing to mention. When I write Markdown documents for GitHub I have to change my editor settings, only because of this.

[1]: https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/

[2]: https://help.github.com/articles/basic-writing-and-formattin...
Totally agree, and I'm glad you wrote it so that I didn't have to.
Dreams of Their Forefathers
What do you mean by extremism? I view net neutrality as the requirement to treat all bits equally regardless of source, which is kind of a binary one.

I think as long as we are talking about the hardware infrastructure, (2) is a fundamental problem that cannot be fixed by adding competition, because it shares some common features with utilities like water, electricity, etc (making me believe internet access ought to be treated more like a utility). Maybe a better solution is a national commitment to fund and build quality internet access infrastrcture for the entire country, then encourage competition among what flows over those wires. (Disclaimer: not an economist and do not have expertise on this subject.)
That won't work because of water rights.
I guess the NSFW goes without saying.
Ok, going to bleach eyeballs now and leaving this thread for good :)
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What you're describing has actually been the most rewarding thing for me - learning a new language is a window on a different way to think about things.
Skype extension for Google Chrome expands integration in latest update
The Soviet Union fell, among other things.
Feels so good to see a demo using fish as the shell.
If you're looking to be able to consistently hash JSON objects you might want to look at Ben Laurie's objecthash: https://github.com/benlaurie/objecthash

It describes a consistent way to hash an object without defining a new format.
They can, but should they?
Or default service that blocks VPN, tracks everything you're doing and uses it for their benefit; and if you don't like that you can pay extra to opt out.

It's really clear. Democrats: This is the customer's information. Republicans: This is the ISP's equipment, and therefore anything on it is fair game for the equipment owner to use however they want, deny service to whoever they want, for any reason they want.

So distilled down what you end up with is a classist system where privacy in infrastructure isn't a right, it's something you pay for: Rich people are better, they get more rights, because they can afford to buy those rights.
Dumping strace of .apk files
The GraphQL Guide