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> The problem I see with charity is that (1) they can't provide comprehensive solutions, (2) vulnerable to the free rider problem, (3) inefficient as much resources needs to be spent collecting donations.

The problem I see with government solutions is that (1) they can't provide comprehensive solutions, (2) vulnerable to the free rider problem, (3) inefficient as many resources need to be spent collecting and distributing taxes.
At least a state investment fund is in for the long term. This is better for the company than a bunch of short-term hedge funds which only seek to bleed the company dry.
Not refrigerating it, perhaps? Unopened UHT doesn't need to be refrigerated.
This is exactly my point, and relates nicely to the original article's point that stigmatizing non-violent drug offenders for much of their professional lives really serves no purpose beside driving people away from wanting to work.

Why has US society adopted this meme that felony possession of, say, cocaine at age 25 should brand you unhireable for much of your professional life?

Obviously, your examples of Portugal and the Netherlands show that there is no overarching societal need for this branding.
Huge variations in jitter that occurs randomly is a hard thing to reliably simulate. For example simulating a US/48-states consumer grade Ku or Ka-band VSAT service ($85-115/mo) which is a highly oversubscribed TDMA network.

When capacity in your particular spot beam is good, latency could be 550 to 600 ms end to end. When it's bad it could be 1300 or 1700ms and will jitter around randomly anywhere in between those two figures.
I think ams... is talking about masking about whatever parts of the header are not the MAC address.

Although whether even that requires AND gates depends on the details of the hardware. Maybe the appropriate bits in the buffer are just directly wired to a comparison unit.
As a women, I don't understand the whole "Men and women can and should fulfill the same roles in society, a perfect society is one where we have a 50/50 ratio in everything."

My only prerequisite is that no one should assume what my role should me. Lady wants to be a housewife? Awesome. I want to be an engineer? Awesome. All we need is to reduce barriers to that opportunity which I agree to close to complete in America.

I've never heard anyone advocate for a 50/50 split.
You only need to google "Malaysia internet sharia law" to understand why it would be a very poor idea to invest in datacenter/telecom infrastructure in Malaysia, domestically. The government is going the same direction as Turkey recently.

https://www.google.com/search?q=malaysia+internet+sharia+law...

In my opinion it's ethically the same as deciding to operate a datacenter in mainland China and sign up for all the government laws, regulations and oversight that goes with it: You can do it from a technical perspective, but many US based companies have explicitly chosen not to do so based on their own ethical standards.
broken link , losers
Young couple both earning a lot, and saving/investing most of it - a turbocharged retirement plan.
I think you're using the term "marketing" to refer to promotion, which is just one of the traditional "four P's" of marketing. This is pretty common usage, but it's important to point out that there's a lot more to marketing than promotion, and most of it isn't as questionably valuable or ethical as advertising.
UHT milk is not popular at all in Australia, except in motel room mini-fridges.

I find the taste to be almost, but not quite, entirely unlike milk. Particularly when used to make a flat white coffee.

I would put up with a long walk to a shop everyday to not have to taste UHT milk :)

Also, regular pasteurized milk is very cheap in Australia already. As low as $1/Lt in a supermarket as the result of some dubious market practices [0].

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-30/dairy-farmers-milk-pri...
What if you'll be required to join a non-profit organization, with goals approved by the government(and possibly financed by it)?

Hopefully choosing such organization would lead to less exploitation and more community value, since there's less profit motive. Also less work on bullshit jobs and commercial crap.

And often, there can be some sort of competition between non-profits, which is helpful too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar

http://remember.org/witness/babiyar
Some of these trades do have apprenticeship program's in their unions and at least in my city in the licensing requirements. To be a journeyman electrician you are first an apprentice for 4 or five years, and at least in union shops your pay reflects your (theoretical) ability.

So a fifth year apprentice make something like 80% of a journeyman as they should be capable of 80% of his tasks; while a first year apprentice pulls in less than half as he likely knows little of the trade.
Same thoughts on AI + data. Well, as a dream. In reality programming seems to be one of the last areas AI is applied to despite the potential benefits.
On the Turing Completeness of PowerPoint
Scientists Have Detected an Unexplained Explosion 10.7B Light-Years Away
Just to throw out the obvious: it should be trivial to get some old Node code up and running, particularly if you don't mind using an old runtime version. If you've run npm shrinkwrap you have a log of the exact versions of each package used. You don't have to use ES6 or Typescript, you can keep on trucking the same as you ever did.

It sounds like the author was an ASP.NET developer, dabbled a little in Node, then worked with Xamarin (also .NET) then moved to ASP.NET Core. Nothing wrong with any of that, but it only stands to reason you'll find ASP.NET easier to work with than Node when you've used it extensively and Node not very much at all.
Refrigerated pasteurised milk keeps at least three weeks, normally only 3-4 days of that are gone by the time it's sold.

If it only lasted days your refrigerator is failing and needs replacing.
Sorry, I have no idea what you are looking for. What is confusing you about my explanation? It seems very clear to me.
For people using C or C++ I can recommend using decimal floating point (which may be added to C++20 in the standard).

Contrary to the "default" floating point, which are base 2 and do not support precise presentations of certain numbers, you can use a decimal floating point system which uses base 10 and therefore allows exact and precise presentation and solves the problem mentioned on the page.

Also important: since 2008 this is standardized in IEEE 754-2008 which added support for decimals.

Explanation of decimal floating points: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point

Libraries:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-decimal-floa...

http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/

http://speleotrove.com/decimal/

C++ Standard Proposals:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n340...

http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2014/n3871.ht...
A few days? Fresh milk should last a couple of weeks at least unless you're doing something horribly wrong to it...
I sometimes get that, if I was looking something up on a shopping site earlier in the day, from that same computer. It's almost always the thing that I was looking up for someone else, or the thing that I bought the week before. There's rarely something that seems particularly thoughtfully targeted.

Then again, I have a policy of not "liking" any kind of brand, group, or anything, don't post links to outside sites, and I randomly mark ads as offensive.
How is Scott Adams a charlatan?
Milk actually has a few places in UK's cultural history, one bit of which is very relevant to the inconvenience of buying milk regularly.

Traditionally, "milk floats" (a vehicle) would be driven by "milkmen", doing early -morning deliveries of milk in glass bottles, and they would collect the previous day's empty bottles at the same time. Wiki page has photo examples of what milk floats look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float

This service is actually still available in some places. For example, I just checked my postcode with https://www.milkandmore.co.uk and they told me my milkman's name and that he delivers on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. But when I was a kid, say 20 years ago, we'd get it delivered Monday to Saturday, and seeing milkmen doing their rounds was incredibly common, with many customers everywhere. Now it's a bit of a quirky thing you don't see or hear much of, mainly because most people decided that the inconvenience of picking up from a shop was outweighed by the flexibility it offered.
Why weren't they using nvm? Did they have a build server? I'm confused how it suddenly stopped working, but TBH I got a bit confused and bored.
If you have a sufficiently large number of employees (in the tens of thousands), basic laws of statistics say that eventually you will see nearly all of the types of medical emergencies that are experienced by people going about their ordinary day to day lives everywhere. Heart attacks, strokes, grand mal seizures, etc. It's unfortunate and sad but I don't think trying to equate "Google = Bad Thing that Stresses Employees Until they Break" is fair.

In fact I bet if you had access to the aggregated private medical data of 10,000 google employees and compared it to 10,000 randomly chosen people from the population at large, the google people experience less medical emergencies. To put it crassly, because they have higher salaries and better access to preventative medical care than 10,000 randomly chosen American citizens from all socioeconomic classes.
I built a super simple system a while ago that simply kept up the conversation as long as it was 'on track', the first time it would deviate it would engage a human on the back-end and record the answer extending the track just a little bit further.

After a couple of months of training it it could keep up a conversation for a few minutes along most of the tracks that it had learned. To make it look more life-like I added random delays in answering and sometimes splitting an answer across two messages. Spelling errors were retained as well instead of being corrected.

Of course that's not a 'bot', merely a recorder and replay but it was at least as effective as long as the conversation was kept relatively short.
I've noticed a few sites seem to have dedicated sponsors, which are in line with what they talk about.

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com seems you use "OWC" other world computing as its primary sponsor

http://strobist.blogspot.com/
(a flash lighting site) seems to have ads from a few flash companies and the 'midwest photo exchange' and a few flash copies.

I'm not sure how those relationships were built.

In college the newspaper had a dedicated team of people going out to sell ads for the paper. They had a "cut sheet" with information about how many papers where printed and how they were distributed..
Rather lacking in details on what actually went wrong. Then, instead of figuring it out the best solution is just to switch stacks? Seems a bit.. lazy to me.

Tons of breaking changes between 2 years ago node and current stable node.. that's like.. 0.12.x to 6.x? Is it a package issue? I've not had a problem as long as my package config was the same.
> one of the fundamental considerations is that if things are very sensitive, they need to be on their own air gapped network.

Or maybe consider not using an information-dispersal machine for "very sensitive things".
Traditional dwarfs our online budget. That said, online is still significant. We're bidding on 3 of the top 10 most expensive google keywords.
That's not exclusive to the US. Every country has citizens that do that.

Furthermore - since we have such a well-tuned two party system, there's always about 50% of people that feel at least a little disenfranchised.

We've had good presidents on both sides and terrible presidents on both sides. Either way, you can rarely tell until you look back through the prism of history. Our media amplifies the divisiveness because it plays off of psychology and works for them.
> Mormons try harder to keep on the straight and narrow because their religion is less authentic - it's made up by a couple of PT Barnum types

This would be outrageous to day about Jews, Lutherans, Muslims ... Mormons are not a special case. At the least, if criticizing other people's religion, offer something that demonstrates thought and contributes value, not just a cheap insult, and show some respect.

Mormon's origin stories are no more unbelievable than other religions', full of angels, the voice of God, ascensions to heaven, reincarnation, etc. People just give more the other stories more leeway because they are the status quo.

> Whiter, higher social trust, more Christian, neighborly, higher work ethic, higher rates of marriage, more kids, fewer illegitimate kids, no grievance industry etc. Many of these factors are looked down on by people of a certain political outlook.

This is a great example of a common problem of political dialog and ideas. It's not real.

Which "people" does this refer to, specifically? Can you name one? Can you cite specific statements by a popular group that corroborates what you are saying? These "people" created in the mind of the commenter, who then criticizes figments of his/her own imagination.

I'm not saying that to pick on the commenter, but to point out that everyone has the tendency of creating somewhat paranoid, imaginary representations of the "other" - 100% dogmatic adherents to political ideologies, hyperbolic, incorporating all the bad things we hear about these other people. Real people are complex (and not even internally consistent), generally good willed toward you, and don't object to things like high marriage rates and kids with parents.
Probably because you'll be undercut by a company that doesn't need to invest in training because they will outsource or hire an immigrant.

And most people don't have the access to capital to start a business.
It's fascinating to learn about the transitional period of the Scientific Revolution and just how all these various advances and changes in thinking actually happened. It's usually a lot more complex than we think of now.

The article's mention of optical problems in early telescopes is actually quite an important one when it comes to the history of geocentrism vs heliocentrism and the Galileo affair. One of the objections to heliocentrism is that if the Earth moved then we should expect to see stellar parallax, which was not observed (certainly not with the observation technology at the time). The Copernicans responded by positing that the stars were extremely far away, but you can imagine how such an evidence-lacking response would seem like trying to explain away one hypothesis by adding a new one. But in addition, the geocentrists seemed to have solid observational evidence on their side: the apparent diameter of stars when viewed through the telescope either implied that the stars were close enough that we should be seeing parallax with 1600s-era instruments, or that the stars are far away and all absurdly giant in size.

It turned out that the manufacture of the telescopes themselves created an optical illusion now known as an Airy disk ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk ), which makes the stars look like disks and thus have a misleading apparent diameter. It wasn't until 1835 that this phenomenon was understood!

For anyone interested in the long and complex history of geocentrism, helicentrism, Galileo and his contemporaries, I have to strongly recommend reading the nine-part series of posts "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown" by SF author Michael Flynn. It makes for a wonderful bit of weekend reading, and you'll come out of it with a great appreciation for the slow, methodical process of scientific understanding:

Part 1: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...

Table of Contents: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...
I can't figure out the circle jerk around Node. Debugging sucks A LOT, JS syntax sucks, single thread sucks, NPM is filled with 95% junk.

Python, Java, golang, C#, and maybe even PHP have more mature and reasonable stacks.
Also given the provenance of Louis Pasteur.
Seems pretty good in the charts.
Indeed, the US could use thousands of workers to fix our roads and bridges. Or to build renewable energy infrastructure. Problem is getting any of that funded, especially in today's political climate.
Plain fresh milk will start to taste a bit sour after a few days and will turn after no more than a week or so; or it could turn in a day if it's left out at room temperature.

What you want to get is micro-filtered milk. Cravendale is the main supplier I know of, but some of the supermarkets' own brand have micro-filtered versions, with markup.

Micro-filtered milk will last a few weeks, up to a month, without curdling.
If you're getting paid to write a post about it, you could have at least made an effort to make this story more credible. SAD!
The other day, (French) Siri replied to "What are you doing this evening?" with "I'm playing hide-and-seek with Markov models".
Incorrect, the rates are rising among young people: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/well/live/colon-and-recta...

Why do some people insist on rationalizing these trends away?
You must be buying micro-filtered milk then. Fresh milk will not last weeks.
I personally find the title could better be worded "Moving my blog from Node.js to ASP.NET" or "I just found out that ASP.NET got much better than it used to be"

When I first read the title I thought it was a node.js dev moving to ASP.NET.

TL;DR The poster of the blog found out that ASP.NET fits his needs better, since he seems more capable on that bit etc and he wants to highlight that ASP.NET has improved a lot towards supporting other platforms than Windows and other capabilities other than webforms etc.
Definitely quantitative. And just like everything with advertising, you run experiments constantly.

We also have this fun problem where nobody's actually been verifying that TV ads actually run when they're supposed to. We have physical offices in all of the locations we advertise for the most part, so we're talking about setting up slingboxes and programmatically verifying that our ads actually run.
Cool, compiles and runs in Turbo 7 under DOSBox.

http://imgur.com/a/V7BAD
Viet Cong, French Indian War, George Washington, County Jones, and Benjamin Martin are just a few times in American History where a lack of arms or training did not result as you're expecting.
Really? Normal, non-uht milk bought here in the UK will start smelling off and go lumpy after about a week or so in the fridge. Month after opening? I imagine it would be fully soured at that point?
When working in locations with really terrible net connections, one of the things I have resorted to is a VNC session that is a 1920x1200 desktop (256 color) tunneled inside SSH. In this setup the workstation's VNC client connects to a port on localhost that is SSH forwarded to the remote host. With the right SSH settings for timeout and keepalive it can be surprisingly usable. Then open up whatever application you have that is terrible on high-jitter/high-latency connections inside Chrome or Firefox, or as a native desktop app on the machine that is hosting the VNC session.
The realization you might be called on to kill your fellow man or have another human kill you over imaginary lines and ideals might be enough to get the point across....
First, this is the sort of shallow dismissal we need less of on HN.

Second, please don't routinely create throwaway accounts to post with here. It's fine if there's some specific purpose, e.g. something personally sensitive, but we ban users who do it routinely. Hacker News is a community. Anonymity is fine, but users should have some consistent identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be an entirely different forum.
I agree about Malaysia: it is extremely corrupt and abuses of power are the norm rather than the exception. That said, US and UK government interventionism and surveillance is really not that different to China. The UK is actually worse in many ways. For example, the UK is reported to record all internet traffic and have the most concurrent media gag orders in operation of any nation.
See also http://englishrussia.com/2017/03/23/spy-photos-of-moscow-in-...
tell that to the people who run siprnet/jwics... they're not going to go back to pencil and paper.
> A 1Gb/s NIC is detecting a billion wiggles in voltage per second.

Well technically :) ... 1000BASE-T - regular gigabit ethernet - uses a five-level modulation and four pairs in parallel (which reduces high frequency components, making gigabit over old cables possible).
If you want to be a successful bank robber, probably. Pirate, yeah, probably that too. If you want to be a successful hit man, smuggler, or drug dealer, you're going to have to bend some rules.

I think if you tell a different sort of story about what you're doing, that it's something worthwhile, and that success involves being a person that people can rely on... well, I don't think being unethical will help you much.

I suppose if you have enough power, people won't give a damn about your ethics. But I think if you can get to the middle without hurting a lot of people, you're going to be identified as one of the people the rest of the middle would like to have at the top.
RFC 8135 Complex Addressing in IPv6
That's what many people are trying to do, and why they are such a maudlin medium so far. IMHO, most are trying to shoehorn their UI into chat for no good reason.

Conversational UIs are good for two things really - dealing with massively selection, and providing an interface for entirely naive users.

Ultimately, I see them as much an extension of search interfaces as they are of messenger apps, insofar as given a potentially open-ended number of buttons (like restaurants in your area) it's easier to ask for them in english, despite the fact that the interface has anticipate all the issues that brings (you might not get it right, your request may be ambiguous etc)

And, sometimes it's easier to use english to make a selection - particularly if you don't know how to do something that should be relatively simple, and is consequently relatively simple to describe in english ("Hotel room, turn on the lights." "I want to order a pizza."). Unfortunately, this takes both advanced natural language parsing, and equally advanced response generation. The later is much harder, and I feel generally neglected, by most chatbots and platforms, IMHO.

This makes a lot more sense when using voice rather than text, but ultimately, hybrid voice/gui chat displays are what chatbots are going to evolve to. You will ask for something via voice and in addition to receiving audio responses, you will receive a stream of UI widgets in a chat window containing supplemental information and finer grained controls, such as sliders for the color/brightness of your hotel room light, or an options menu for your pizza order.

Amazon Alexa and Google Now are already quietly doing this, for the most part, but it's going to become a much prominent part of the interaction over time.
And don't think it should be overlooked, the feeling that one needs to take meth for cognitive enhancement in order to be useful enough to society to feed themselves, is a problem.
I don't drink much milk so I mostly keep the little packages around for occasional baking and other recipes. Something missed in the article is package inflation has not caught up to UHT like it has for most every other product in the supermarket, a cup sized package continues to hold exactly 1 cup or 8 oz like it has for a couple decades. Most processed foods in the supermarket have dramatically shrunk over time making UHT something of a novelty.
>People straight up don't want to see ads. Ad blockers, Netflix, etc. are a natural response to this.

Is Netflix totally ad free? I've gotten the impression they were paid for product placement a few times. (Ex: Frank Underwood plugging Sony)