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I can't even really put into words how crazy that is. How long this been going on and why are people putting up with this? Why isn't this a huge controversy? Am I in the minoriy by being completely shocked by this?

I wouldn't let my government do this to me without a court order I could challenge, and there's a children's theme park doing this thousands of times daily with no opposition?

This wouldn't be possible in europe.
The goal of those types of politicians isn't to make the government less awful. Their goal is to make "the government" out to be the enemy so that the citizens don't start thinking that they can use government to actually offset the power that corporations have (through plain capital and through regulatory capture).
General consensus of people who've benefitted from said stealing*

In each of the cases you listed, the person who would've had claims against them has power over the plaintiff
> protections approved just last year

Protections that had been recently removed (FTC regulation), and were originally instated in 1934 (Communications act). I think this is an important detail too easily glossed-over.
The "election" was unambiguously hacked, you can argue that the democrats are blaming it more than is reasonable, but it happened.

Basically the only thing getting a budget increase this year looks to be the military. War isn't started over stern reprimands, increasing military spending and increasing our ties to Russia seem to be the more likely sign of an upcoming war.
Because no man is an island. Your code will never be perfect. There will always be things you miss or do suboptimally -- even for concepts you think you understand.
Agreed. If there is something interesting to learn, they'll hopefully write about it later. That's then something we can have a meaningful discussion about.
I'm inclined to agree with you, but there was a massive thread last time S3 had an outage.
> It had the backing of legislation to do whatever it wanted, leading to instability of regulation.

This makes no sense. It's not true, for one thing--the FCC cannot "do whatever it wants." And independent rulemaking is the entire point of creating an independent federal regulatory agency in the first place.

Calling it a "regulatory overstep" is fine as a means of expressing an opinion about this rule, but the rule was legally promulgated. Again: that's why it took an act of Congress to reverse. Illegal rules get reversed in court.
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If I remember correctly, this salary was offered to Andrej Karpathy, who's easily the top 10 in the world in DL field. So, no, it's not a bubble. Top experts have always been paid well.
Very cool - it's really interesting to see the speed difference between OPs project and the industrial version (thousands of pieces a minute).
>I find this line ironic since the Network Effect (or Metcalfe's Law) was created to describe literal computer networks.

The distinction is that it refers to physical networks (and iirc, referred initially to phone systems, not computer systems per se). At layer 1, the network effect is still very much valid and caused by the capabilities of the physical hardware. This is forgotten because today everyone is plugged into the same network. This was not always the case.

Because Metcalfe's Law exists, people have misunderstood it to apply to cyberspace and incorrectly believed it's simply the way things have to be. This is not so.

The compatibility concern at the core of real network effects, where the hardware buy will be dictated by what the most neighbors have, are not relevant once you have a physical hookup.

In cyberspace, layers 2 and up, there is no physical limitation on compatibility. There are only digits (hence the term "digital") upon which computations are made (hence "computers"). If the correct computations can be performed (i.e., if you possess hardware that can convert the electrical pulses to the expected digits and software (drivers, browsers, etc.) that can decode the digits to match expectations), the desired data can be presented.

Since network effects refer exclusively to physical compatibility, we only see this in the digital realm because it's artificially imposed. The law says that anyone who tries to extricate data from, e.g., Facebook will be severely punished, despite the fact that Facebook does not have a copyright interest in the data, and that as long as such extrication is done responsibly, it would have 0 impact on Facebook's ability to conduct its operations.

That's an artificial barrier that we've concocted, and it's the only mechanism by which network effects can work in cyberspace. Without the legal risk, people would read the data out from Facebook and recast, repopulate, etc. in alternate hypermedia. People would also make writable interfaces available. Facebook would then have to compete on its ability to provide a superior user experience, like most other businesses, not the availability of the data that they've misappropriated from users.

Social networks like Facebook have forced themselves between the open network and the data that used to be exposed to it, insisting that all traffic must be subject to their conditions. There's no reason to allow that!

Once the online marketplace is subject to the same types of competition that exist in the physical marketplace, i.e., once everyone is allowed to compete over the same core of knowledge, things are going to drastically improve.
It's tough to compare the performance of the two systems because linkerd-tcp is not an HTTP proxy currently, it's a TCP proxy. That said, the resource footprint has been much lower than a finagle service. My first prototype, which had no fancy features like load balancing or metrics, was able to proxy a gigabit worth of traffic in less than a core on an older Ivy Bridge machine and used about 10Mb of RSS.

The biggest challenge has been learning to use the ownership system properly. It took me a few frustrating weeks to learn a new set of patterns and techniques for structuring code in a Rust-friendly method. Reading through the tokio code and example projects was really helpful in that regard.
Chase had ads on 400k sites, then on just 5k, with same results
Are you sure the park is not matching your band with photos of you captured by the network of cameras around the park? The band is not biometric, but it enables biometric tracking.
I'd like to suggest a theory here, that a brain's primary function is to study and occasionally override the information processing algorithms contained in the "unconscious" DNA of the organism. Once the brain has discovered the optimal solution through innovative overrides, the best behavioral solutions are recorded and automated in the DNA as hard code, and no longer requires either supervision or further revisions. At that point in the evolutionary history of the species, it no longer needs to invest so much energy in maintaining such a large a brain, now that what amounts to optimal "muscle memory" in the DNA has been established through successful survival and selection of repeating behavior patterns. So what may appear to us be highly intelligent behavior, these functions are coming not from the brain, but from what has been captured in the DNA. This is a theory from a novice, I am not a scientist of any kind, but an entrepreneur. I don't have time or resources to research the validity of this theory, but perhaps someone else does? Thank you.
In India also we get form from employer with information on tax paid in that financial year. You just need to copy paste the values to tax dept. website and submit. So simple.
In the interest of actually getting this out tonight, I have a full 7z archive of my development environment up at https://juliangoldsmith.com/rgbds.7z .

I'll most likely clean up the sources and put them up on Github later.
if so okay, but still i do confuse with the limitation of 100mb.Sometimes facebook apps can update more then 100 mb and some apps cannot update over 100 mb.
No, it's simple - if I don't know what I'm looking at, I don't want anybody who DOES know to get to look at it, either. The person who does know how to program in whatever language has an inherent advantage in that situation. Frankly, they also have no real ethical or legal imperative to prevent using whatever possible weakness they can exploit against me; doubly so if they can profit by it.

Rather than the idea of "happier to have my car stolen, etc.", it's more, I'm happier to be the guy who rides the train rather than the bus. I don't know exactly how the train is operated (even if I know the concepts that make it work) - my knowledge extends only so far that I know that it does what it's supposed to. I'd go so far as to suggest that relatively few rail transit riders do know how to properly operate a train - and add to that, trains can only run on rails; i.e. they do one thing well (generally speaking - let's not discuss the number of issues NJTransit's had recently). The potential for hijacking is significantly reduced by inherent limitation and obscurity of control.

So too do I want software along that same thought process. Relatively few users know how to do more than what they need to know; and even so those that would hijack it are locked into a specific set of operations.
Their website was also down.

Later on the website there was a static message: "I'm sorry, the server your email is on is currently down. We apologise for the inconvenience; any email sent to you during this time is being queued by another server and will be delivered as soon as the server is working again." so their mail servers were also down, not just the interface.

And the Twitter message says "We've just lost network to a couple of racks,"

So to me it's interesting that it seems their whole infrastructure depends on these couple racks in a single place. Many people rely on e-mail for their work, and DNS updates are slow, so it's not easy to quickly start receiving e-mail elsewhere if anything happens to that place.
This puzzles me extremely. There are very insightful statements like

> One does not deduce them like one do in math. The physicists who actually did this stuff apparently knew this, and considered the math more akin to toying with the models to see what happens, to see if they could get better models

Which is absolutely true. Part of the problem with quantum mechanics texts is that they're almost all descended from Oppenheimer's lectures (via Schiff's book) to graduate students who already knew this, and just needed someone to brain dump the latest techniques.

But then it's mixed with really basic misunderstandings, like

> Many physicists like to believe that this makes the underlying model irrelevant; that the matrix behaviour, its eigenvalues, is the only thing that matter. You will encounter lots of this in books about Quantum Mechanics. This however is not science, because it ignores Ockhams Razor; the models shall be the simplest ones. A sparse matrix is simpler than when it is Fourier transformed, or put into atom orbitals. (I thank Eliezer Yudkowski who gave a reminder that Ockhams razor belongs here too.)

Quoting Eliezer Yudkowski is a useful heuristic for not taking someone seriously, but this quote implies that the author missed the whole point of linear algebra. And is falling into the traps described by Theorem IV in van Kampen's [Ten Theorems about Quantum Mechanical Measurements](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=617...).
The goal of all taxing and spending must be related to political goals. They aren't goals in and of themselves. What is the political value of taxing a flat percent instead of a progressive percent (let alone taxing a flat dollar amount)?

The political value of progressive percentages is that it keeps the money supply stable without taking too much spending power away from the lower and middle income people where their spending power relates directly to things like seeing children cared for well with good education, time with parents, and other opportunities etc. There's a huge social value in maximizing the number of people who have spending power enough to live reasonably stable, healthy lives, as long as we avoid perverse incentives and allow healthy market mechanisms to keep the economy running smoothly.

So, what's the policy objective of going the other way (away from progressive percent tax rates)?
can we eventually apply style transfer to speech? I'd like to hear all audio narration in the voice of David Attenborough.
Working on this :)
If drivers were open sourced so much of our tech would still be useful 10 or 20 years on. Manufactured obsolescence is really hurting society.
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A quick shout out that I use explain shell in my teaching kids how unix and piping functions work. Cheers man!
How do Time Crystals not gain energy?
How do Time Crystals not gain any energy whilst in the process of being made. I understand that there MBL plays a part because the particles don't interact with the surroundings. My understanding is basically we have ions, electrons, atoms or whatever in their ground state all with the same spin. Then, after hitting the first particle (let's say electron) with a laser of specific frequency (f), the particle flips its spin, which interacts with the one next to it and so forth. The interactions between these electrons now form a time crystal with a period half of the incident Laser.

If my understanding thus far is correct, how does the electron's spin change if it absorbs no energy from the laser? In addition, if these are done in open systems, how do we get particles in their ground states if this is conducted at room temperature?

Thank you in advance for your help.
I think you have a good point. The whole reason for standards (like SI units) is so that people don't need to guess or interpret. I don't get why this was downvoted.
I'm not a fan of huge groups but thank you for the suggestion. I also recommend watching Sam's response in the details above about Meetup's.
The profile data used could be published.
> When he wanted to convince someone he'd start paging through it and ask the person he was talking to to say "stop", to ensure he wasn't cherry-picking.

Maybe using a standard stage magician's force isn't the best way to convince people that you aren't cherry-picking.
I'm nearing the point of being completely convinced nothing is actually improvable anymore in the US. If you touch anything, even the most broken or inhumane thing, you'll find someone defending it until the death either because of vested interests or ignorance.
Perhaps this is because I am from California, but having lived in Seattle for the last 3 years, the hardest part isn't the rain or cold but the lack of sun.

My previous manager at Amazon told me he recommended everyone who came from California to take a vacation back during the winter lest they get too depressed.
> yet they share in very little of the value they produced.

Those employees are free to start their own companies. If you take the risk of starting a business then you should get the rewards if it succeeds.
Sure, if you happen to be exposed to a wide variety of code as a result of your work, then probably you'll be fine.

But if all you do at work is line of business apps in VB6 for years on end, then I would recommend reading the source code for some games, database servers, your OS kernel, your favorite text editor, or something unrelated to your job. The point is to expand the scope of the projects that you're capable of undertaking.
This is the right math if he's stuck there for 5 years, but his opportunity cost is lower if he can exit the role earlier if the company isn't trending towards the exit he wants.
I'm familiar with the UK system too. It is possible to get closer to it in the US than most people realize. For example you can calculate the correct tax to withhold and instruct your employer's payroll people to do so. Most people seem to not know this or nor care and as a result end up over withholding and the resulting "refund". It is perfectly possible to end up with roughly correct tax withheld although you do of course still need to complete the 1040 form. But software can do that.
See https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-ele...

Overall the media gave Clinton a bit more (by percentage) positive coverage in the general, while Trump got more if you include the primaries. However, Trump got much more coverage overall. The negative coverage of Clinton spiked during the last two weeks of the campaign.
In addition to the good points by the sibling comments, one more I'll add: I frequently take trips in parts of Chicago that I know extremely well, and thus can vet the sanity of the routes posted, as well as sanity-check the route while en route: if something looks fishy to me on the map, I will most likely have noticed it at the time.

While this doesn't cover all rides I may take, repeated experiences with it performing correctly does build my faith that the system is working correctly and is free of guile.

Plus, all this convo overlooks that this would be an incredibly stupid place to try to systematically bilk customers: it would be very easy to spot and plausible deniability would be difficult to establish and believe, especially since it has worked for years with more or less no problems. And it has a very high virality potential when everyone would want to be checking their own trip records to see if they were scammed too.
Hah, yes. CACM selection of research papers is usually very interesting, but the opinion pieces often feel like they were produced just to meet a deadline. (I'm a member as well.)
>...The industry has literally been saying this for more than 50 years.

Yes a breeder reactor was one of the first electricity-generating nuclear power plants, but that doesn't mean we need to rush. We have enough storage capacity for decades before we need to worry about the level of high level waste.

>...Fresh Uranium is just too cheap for reprocessed waste to compete.

At the present time. Even if plans like getting uranium have sea water work out, we might start burning high level at some point just to deal with the high level waste if we run out of room. It makes a lot more sense to burn waste for electricity than to spend millions to bury it in the ground for millennia.
Reproducible builds (which it seems like Nix focuses on) are useful, but they don't address the problem of whether you got the same binary or source as everyone else at all.
I've long thought that the measurement problem is a problem with the interface between consciousness and reality and that it's more of a psychology problem than a physics one.
More VM setup discussion: https://byte-atlas.blogspot.com/2017/02/hardening-vbox-win7x...
What makes you think I'm blaming anybody?
Unless you realize that Social Security and Medicare taxes are actually income taxes: they go up directly the more you make.
ARM supports the stack growing in either direction, but on Windows ARM it grows down.

PE/COFF does have some architectural differences though; for example, the relocation types differ across architectures.
Partly because people have short memories. Google's tracking is old news but the FCC stuff is news.

Partly people want to retain any privacy gain they can get, however small.

Some reports say that ISP, browser, and Web site privacy will be regulated by the FTC in the future so it would be interesting to hear what their policy is going to be.
I wonder what the author would replace LaTex with . . . ?
The flaw is, and as rule of thumb with "education" solutions, is neurology and people.

Education is hard.

Learning is influenced by nutrition levels, base language proficiency, teacher ability, learning style, teacher learning style.

Forget other things like bullying, parental education levels, maternal nutrition levels (which affects fetal development), family stability.

Forget access to water, security, exercise, social stability, cultural and societal norms, and a whole host of other issues.

This is just what affects children.

We can afford to send children to school for the entirety of their working day.

Children have the luxury of time, years upon years of it.

Imagine having to work 2 jobs and get a degree while having to help a family out.

And even if you DID have the time, AND the inclination, you will still likely fail, seeing how MOOCs are free, at your convenience, and still have single digit success rates.

Tldr; solving by invoking education, are like Hollywood hackers who bring down the CIA with exactly 30 key strokes and a pair of glasses.
I was just thinking that Sea World San Diego took finger prints Las summer when we went. I googled it and on the first result there is a comment from 2007 from someone mentioning the same.

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It's a function of sheer numbers. Doing anything for a billion people is hard.
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Which is why the government borrows the SS and Medicare tax payments to use on other stuff and puts IOUs in the SS and Medicare trust funds.
You can also read the Feynman lectures on computation, has some notes on quantum computing.
Ask HN: What would happen if renting/landlording was made illegal?
Would it make home prices reasonable?

The first answer will be: What about lower class who can't afford to rent. Maybe a HUGE increase in quality/quantity of public housing, some of which working class people pay for?
I know that I'll get skewered for this, but here goes: recently I've convinced myself we are on the verge of a very serious Amazon stock correction. Just today I saw three separate articles (without seeking them out) giving umpteen reasons Amazon is going to a trillion, or that Amazon is only getting started. Then I turned on CNBC during lunch and what are they talking about? Amazon.

There's simply too much positive sentiment around this company and it makes me very nervous. It reminds me of 2007 when everyone was making a killing on real estate and the idea was laughable that the market would reverse. The stock is way overbought and the only questions I have are "by how much?" And "when is the reversal coming?"

There are other reasons I'm skeptical about Amazon remaining at its current valuation. One major one is that the meteoric rise in the stock price has coincided nicely with the economic recovery. Amazon's ecommerce business is one that's built for good times. It remains to be seen how they fare in downtimes. What I mean by that is that much of what I see people buy on Amazon (myself included) are largely frivolous gadgets that one simply wouldn't buy in a time of economic fear. Right now people largely feel wealthy and feel comfortable shelling out for prime memberships and willing to pay a premium for convenience. In a down economy that's the first thing to go.

Of course a down economy will weigh heavily on most companies, but I believe especially so on Amazon because it is a stock that is already overbought and relies on people buying shit they don't need for the sake of convenience.

Apart from that I believe they will face increasing competition from Alibaba, Walmart, and others.

Finally, there are the numbers. Despite the $400+ billion valuation, Amazon did less that a billion in profit from their ecommerce business last quarter! The stock shot up because that was higher than analysts predicted!

I have serious doubts about the long term profitability of Amazon's ecommerce business. Physical delivery of goods, particularly last mile delivery is just too expensive. Sure, drones might come but I wouldn't base an investment on that hope.

My prediction is that an economic downturn is going to send this stock into a tailspin.
A flat tax is called regressive because it drastically reduces discretionary income for the poor.
Isn't that the wrong question?

what I'd really like to know is whether banners are a worthwhile investment, not if they get clicked on.