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> I find that for many things in life where there are similar but not exact variants, one tends to prefer the variant one first tried despite both variants being potentially equivalent.

I grew up with pasteurized milk. As an adult, I tried unpasteurized milk. The taste is different, was a bit weird at first. After a couple of glasses, I much preferred it over the kind I grew up with (it's just so much better), and it's all I drink now. Normal pasteurized milk tastes like low-fat now (i.e., it tastes like drinking water from a glass that had a little milk in it already).

So I don't think it's quite so simple that everyone always prefers what they grew up with. But you're right that we often need to get used to new kinds of food before we accept it.
This tone is what you get when your CEO hasn't slept in 3 days because of anxiety.
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Users game the system all the time. Call an Uber then get in a taxi which drives by before the Uber comes. That's what the cancellation fee is about.

A policy you dislike is not an argument for regulation. It's an argument for you to use Lyft, gett or yellow cabs.
Slightly off-topic, but how far are we from producing artificial milk? It would seem like a relatively easy thing to do (at least compared to meat), and with high payoff (vegetarian diet without the ethical and ecological problems of animal dairy).
Yeah, if you think about it companies like Apple have very little reason to pull out from a licensing deal unless they have a very good reason to (aka non-infringing tech on the way). They're not going to pull out and come back and say "We're sorry. Can you give us the same rate you offered before?"
> I also don't get people buying the low fat variety either.

Ask the people. I'm one of them. It tastes nicer.
Not just bullshit, but also psychological manipulation in a highly specific and targeted way.
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Hey, it's how I pick stocks!
Wow, I'd never heard of that. Looks really interesting!
Nah, man. It's nothing like an advertising for an agency. It's a personal story of a man who developed a language agency 6 years ago in China and lessons he learned from it! And I don't know why would that be known in Cuba.
It's almost like our understanding of cancer is incomplete.
I didn't know this existed. I have a weird fascination with replacement foods - not so much of the nutrition shake variety, but things just like this. I don't mind drinking cows milk, but if I saw this in the store I'd have to try it. Thanks muchly.
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Sure you can. When it comes to discussions of the complexity of Soviet politology, the standard protocol is to just throw out a link about extermination and oppression, sputter some Cold War platitudes, drop the mic and walk away.
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I have a few in front of me.

From a US passport: "Nationality: United States of America"

From an Australian passport: "Nationality: Australian"

I have not seen an EU passport, but as far as I know EU does not claim ideological erasure of any national identity in favour of some ideal "European".

[Edit: No accusation of racism had been made, whether I believe it to exist or not. The point is that it is difficult to claim ethnic identity does not exist, while explicitly highlighting it at every opportunity. The two countries I single out above make a point of being "melting pots", and are much more consistent in applying that.]
note that every half decent mutex implementation will not enter the kernel (in neither lock or unlock) unless the mutex is contended.
> That's stupid and wrong, just like you are.

I think your inability to have a civil discussion without needlessly throwing insults around speaks for itself.

> Users have a desire to get from point a to
> point b. There's no incentive to cancel.
> People don't do that.

There are trivial no-brainer cases where the potential for free cancellations allows you to offload costs on someone else.

E.g. you and your 4 friends need to get from A->B together, you each order an Uber for the ride, but you only intend to use one car. The ETAs are in the range of 15-25 minutes, you all have the "Fake Battery Status" app installed & cancel 3 of the cars when the first one has an ETA of < 2 minutes.

Now you're able to get where you need to go 5-10 minutes earlier than you otherwise would have, at no extra cost, but you've incurred a cost on Uber & lost opportunity (& real fuel costs) on the driver.
The real questions are therefore: how can we educate those people or how can we remove them from the voting pool?
"carefully-placed log statements are a tool for cutting the search space!

Indeed, inevitably serious problems tend to be where there is no or poor logging :-)
> The discussion between Apple and these guys must've really gone south for a nasty and desperate press release like this

That's what I found most intriguing. Why go public with this? (Especially with ongoing litigation)
What are talking about? Entire concentration camps are preserved as memorials to their prisoners with museums and tons of memorabilia. Of course there would also be memorials to heroic Soviet liberators. Let's also not forget how many Soviet citizens were in the camps.
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We tried this out years ago, the issue that we discovered was that humans are pretty good at working out when their efforts could be better directed at earning money rather than points.

People will work to support a community, because they gain self actualisation from helping others and getting status from others. Some more "karma" can be generated from early access programs and expert feedback status on new products. That's all though - there is not an endless well of good will out there to be exploited by social media and bot infrastructures. People like real gold!
And less research and innovation
Ubuntu Unity Developer Here...

I'm mostly replying at the point 1., as it's closed to what I do...

I know we should offer an UI for that, but waiting for that you can just workaround this.

Well, as said unity supports scaling, although it's not possible to scale toolkits per monitor.

However... There's actually a good workaround for this, that works fine for multiple monitors.

The idea is that you scale everything up to 2x / or your maximum scaling (including window contents), then you scale the non-HiDPI monitors down using xrandr --scale

For example, if you want to use normal resolution there, you just have to do something like:

xrandr --output <OUTPUT> --scale 2x2

In this way it will be scaled down, and everything will be readable and almost 1x1.

You can test this in normal resolution monitor as well, and you'll see things should be pretty good.

I should find some time to implement this directly inside UCC / USD, so that users will get this for free...

Notice that there's also a bug in X causing some mouse trapping, so you'd probably also need X to be patched as explained in this bug: https://pad.lv/1580123 (we'd like to include this upstream, but we're waiting for X upstream approval for that)
Well, not really so odd if your stock drops 77% to a 8-years low in a single morning.
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Damage property?! How's that not righteous exaggeration?
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Cool design! Keep on. Singed up! Don't disappoint me!
I imagine the new GPU will support the same Metal API. As this is probably something that Apple has been working on for a while now I'd assume that Metal was designed with this new GPU architecture in mind. How much of those tools would need to be updated to a new GPU assuming the current API was specifically written for it ?
If I'm on the mark here, it's kind of related to being able to play devil's advocate. There are topics where the same person can decide to make a strong case for or a strong case against something, just by focusing on a different set of pros and cons, a different set of values, a different perspective, or focusing on different facts. "Belief" in this context is which of these sets of arguments you find most convincing. One can even make a strong argument for something one doesn't believe in (although I can't recommend it[1]) - I'd call this a "Strong opinion, not held".

Instead assuming good faith - you and I are no oracles. Even our strongest arguments will have gaps, things we hadn't considered. Our arguments will sometimes have flaws - incorrect assumptions or other faulty basis we hadn't realized we'd made. It's the cost of being human.

It's not so much certainty of belief, but being able to move forward with confidence, and argue for, the best path you can discern - yet aware that even the best of us will be wrong at least some of the time. It's about being able to recognize and turn on a dime - to course correct - when that stronger argument is made for a different path, even if you were damn sure about the one you were on not a moment before.

[1] EDIT: Err, arguing only for the side you don't believe in at any rate. Arguing for both sides or explicitly playing devil's advocate if the other party seems to be arguing your own viewpoint sufficiently seems perfectly fine though.
it's :)
Reminds me of a Gaelic word I found in a dictionary - somehow this is the second time I've got the chance to roll this out on HN:

Teurmnasg (lit. thumb binding). a bandage on the toes and thumbs of a dead person, to prevent his ghost from hurting foes.

I couldn't find anything to indicate the origin of this practice but it seems like what you've said here would pretty much make sense. Cool!
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Then again, if you are writing simple straightforward code you shouldn't be mucking around with thread priorities. In fact probably you shouldn't be dealing with raw threads and mutices in the first place but using some higher level abstraction.
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I've lived in China, even did a bit of English teaching on the side from time to time. My experience was that the bar for English teachers was very low, people with no skills other than speaking english as a first language could move there and have a comfortable life.

The chinese government perceives this import of low skilled workers as a problem. Working illegally (on a non valid visa) in china is quite common as an expat, but it was pretty much the only industry I saw that deportation was strongly enfoced.

Reading between the lines, this doesn't strike me as a story of pushing yourself to achieve your goals, but instead one about a person who lacked focus, moved to china and settled into the easy ex-pat lifestyle of teaching english. I would be hesitent to take any advice he gives.
Matching typefaces, careful blanking (and I'll bet the kerning he couldn't correct remains annoying) - that's a lot more clever and classy than mere "damaging property".
You've made three posts that are clearly just hype for something that isn't yet available. I've flagged this, and your other two submissions.

Feel free to come back when you actually have something.
That's a grim religion you got there.
Thanks for the love guys. If you have any questions about China, entrepreneurship, saas or crm. You can ask it here and we'll answer asap. Thanks again!
Sounds like your site has poor navigability. I would be irate if all those things weren't available.
They drop your packets, both for ingoing and outgoing overflow.
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Like I said, blunt, sloppy instrument with many unintended consequences, and the one you're pointing out is a big concern. That's why replacing quotas with many smaller gentler "nudges" may be preferable.
Hold up. I thought AMD was actively courting third parties to partner with to do mixed IP development (wrt graphics and GP GPU compute) and that licensing restrictions that they had were almost entirely related to the x86 side of their business.
So basically what it comes down to is the argument for building it in Rust is there are some excited people.

And is funny you talk about community, since as the guys on slashdot and others pointed out, the community of people who can use and work in C effectively is orders of magnitudes more than Rust. Have you any idea how many Linux Kernel developers there are alone?

http://m.slashdot.org/story/324469

Building API's specific to the use case is part of our jobs as professional developers.

Abstracting a few things things isn't "rewriting libc", that is just general practice for most decent size projects.

Anyway, the decision is made, so the whole thing is moot at this point.
He sets wrongs right in the middle of the night -- he is the hero Bristol deserves.
Probably back when they were focused on disrupting a market, more than on improving their operations in kind-of shady ways ?
Past Futurists where right, but for the wrong reasons, when they said that in the future the most valuable resources will be our garbage.

Facebook has a market cap that dwarfs what it cost to put the Philae lander on comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
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Kaggle has a few datasets, including I believe mammographs and proteomes if you want to do breast cancer specifically.

If you're not in it for the money, or if just fame is enough, I'd suggest to go upriver: individual diagnostic data is rare because of medical privacy and market forces, but there is boundless open data in, for example genomics and proteomics. If you search for [bioinformatics competition], you should find a nice selection of opportunities with good data availability and clearly defined objectives. ML is slowly revolutionising this field, although it's a good idea to pay attention to what happened before–there were some seriously smart people working on these problems for a long time, and they found some rather ways to extract the most value from data with the tools available at the time.
Signalling a potential lawsuit so that Apple enters into a patent licensing agreement.
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I have considered the same thing. I've never really liked milk. Chocolate milk was always worse - it tasted like someone mixed something rotten with a chocolate flavor. I always think milk smells like it has gone off. I've never had an upset stomach or other gastric symptoms from dairy like my sister, who is lactose intolerant. I always kinda figured I wasn't.

Then I tried some lactose free chocolate milk, with no sugar added. I think this was the first time I've actually enjoyed milk. I still do not drink milk often, but now I will actually drink it.
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Thanks so much for adding your 2 cents here. I appreciate it. For me, it was more of a story of searching for his passion and path in life. But, you read it like that and it's probably our fault to not communicate it right. Once again thanks for adding value.
Adtech, I'd say, is less slimy than traditional advertising. With traditional ads, you pay for the product (newspaper, TV, etc.), and then you _also_ see ads on top of that, and significantly more than you'd see nowadays at that. As the cost of running an entertainment service have decreased, ads have become noticeably better. That said, adtech still fucking sucks, but I'd rather that than TV's alternative of almost as much ads as there is content.
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You assess the facts and make your (informed) opinion. You defend that opinion because it's the best possible opinion, i.e. the most truthful. If the facts change, you re-assess and re-form your opinion. You are loyal to the "truth", not a belief. Or your ego.

As somebody slightly on the autistic spectrum, I find it hard to understand why a lot of people don't operate like this.

There is of course a difference between factual information and emotional response or differences in taste; I assume this discussion is only about empirical facts and not personal preference.
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Thanks for that I actually missed his description of them and only saw where he said they were less interesting than what Trump was saying himself.
When was the last time anyone had anything positive to say about Uber?
I don't like milk, but will eat in cereal - though I won't drink any leftover milk in the bowl. It isn't just that cereal changes the taste of the milk, but the way you smell it is different. In a glass, you have a concentrated smelling tube you put to your mouth, and cereal you have a dribble on the spoon. You simply can't smell or taste as much of it.
Yes, that's a particularly insidious form of bullshit.

I could have said "fnords", but that's become rather dated.
I remember rumblings about that some years ago (circa 2010~2012), but I don't remember anything ever coming of it.
Taxis cost a lot more, but to make up for it, they provide a much shittier service.
I too read that paper, but magnetico crawls Mainline DHT (which is the de facto standard) whilst the paper is on Vuze DHT, though the idea is more or less the same.

This project uses only one instance of crawler running at the same time, so one IP and one port for crawling the DHT. Whenever it receives a `GET_PEERS` query from another peer in the network, it forges itself a new ID that has the first 15 bytes in common with the info hash in the query, so that the querying node would think that it found the closest (or a close enough) node to announce. After responding back, most of the times the same querying node sends a `ANNOUNCE_PEER` query to register itself as a peer downloading that particular torrent. Upon receiving `ANNOUNCE_PEER` query, magneticod then connects the peer using BitTorrent (TCP) protocol, receives the complete metadata, and closes the connection.

Keep repeating these and you'll end up with thousands of torrents at the end of each day.

Possibly, utilizing multiple IPs might increase the throughput and prevent IP based bans, but I didn't bother to be honest, as the current solution seems to work well enough.
Its not really decentralized. Readme says:

" magnetico liberates BitTorrent from the yoke of centralised trackers & web-sites and makes it truly decentralised. Finally! "

Source says: ( https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/blob/42b2d64d200e2af... )

BOOTSTRAPPING_NODES = [
("router.bittorrent.com", 6881),
("dht.transmissionbt.com", 6881)
]

Also, i think its going to be very difficult to find anything in the DHT (spam) chaos without some of the pre-filtering that exists by using torrent sites. Fun project though..
I don't think that was around in 1997 though...
>> What's funny is in their financial risk assessment they focus on bullshit like investment shifts and outside IP threats, but gloss over the whole "what if that huge contract our company depends on happens to fall apart?"

Perhaps thats why they've refocused on IP, projects that are actually profitable.
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Did you know that homeschooling your children is illegal in every country in the EU except for the UK (and it is very rare there)?

For Americans, this is shocking (it was to me). "I can't homeschool my own children?!? That isn't freedom!" But in practice, the vast majority of homeschoolers are evangelical christians or other religious extremists. For the good of society, I would gladly take that trade.

Think about this another way: in the US, homeschool parents can impart any view they want on their children. They "win by default" because there are no competing viewpoints. In the EU, parents are still free to try and impart their beliefs on their children. But in this case, they need a stronger argument than what the school is providing. They will not "win by default" like in the US. I can't see anything "unfree" about that.
There's a limit to what we can absorb in real time so slow-motion will tend to also generate more data ingestion. But most of the effect should indeed be from our "intent sensing neural nets" being trained for real time speed and going awry when fed slow motion replays. A big part of figuring out if something is intentional in something as fast paced as sports will always be "was there enough time for a human to react?".
The point is that Uber would rather mitigate shortages in ways less likely to impact revenue. An increase in drivers has less bottom-line impact than a reduction in passengers.
Apple accounts for one half of their revenue.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-imagntn-tchnlgs-apple-idUS...
Perhaps turn it around a bit and give him a goal such as create a small online business and let him/her choose the tools.

So then he gets the full stack technology wise but also a look at the startup stack i.e. Marketing, Traffic, Sales, Saas and customer support.
Software has been used to acquire targets for a long time. This excerpt on the F14 shows the original radar had a "single target track - auto acquisition" mode: https://books.google.com/books?id=knvVwLX6mFMC&pg=PA245&lpg=...
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I'm building a content based service right now and since I don't have a big team, I'm thinking about using a BaaS or something.

I have a few professionals who create the content, upload it and manage the restrictions, but besides filming they aren't very technical people.

I need a mix of WordPress and Parse.

On the one side a CMS with a nice, pre-existing admin UI, for not-so-technical people to upload and manage the the content and users.

On the other side just a HTTP-API I can use within my App to deliver the content and eventually save some user data with.
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Certified Ethical Hacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_Ethical_Hacker is useful not just in the pentest field.
If you consider yourself not to be one of "those people", you're being very optimistic.
I made my first Medium comment, this article kind of doesn't make a ton of sense and made me a bit mad. Here is what I wrote: https://medium.com/@dillondoyle/first-medium-comment-hope-im...

Specifically in response the the author saying "Real advertising doesn’t do any of those things, because it’s not personal."

That's the opposite of my work/goal in marketing, I do everything I can to make advertising personal, at the individual level. Using deterministic data and 'ad tech' to speak to voters/consumers 1:1 if possible.

And also I hate the way the author kind of just lumps 'ad tech' together without really seaming to understand the current ads ecosystem. I guess talking about anything that's not an IO at a print newspaper or something similar seems to be his idea of not 'ad tech' - but even a 'simple' PMP deal or even an IO involves a lot of ad tech, to find the audience, to match audiences, to plan and execute.

I do think there should be more conversation about ad tech bloat - please don't load 100 http requests for one 300x250 banner, and the amount of 1st party cookies/session data and other data the publishers don't even realize is leaked is insane.

Fuck 'Add This' has made an entire ads data company because publishers are too fucking lazy to paste in their own FB share buttons. I buy addThis audience data all the time. So stupid, why would big publishers need to use this tool - and why don't publishers realize this is a revenue stream they seem to badly need but are mostly not getting.