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>You've made some very broad claims about society in your discussion.
>You have for instance suggested that some people are ill-informed about this uber situation.
>I wonder who you mean? Is it the wider community, is it the commenters on hackernews?
>I'm only asking for any evidence of those very qualitative claims.

You've suggested there is ill-informed outrage in society. You've also claimed ill-informed outrage is a problem in the uber situation. The evidence you've appealed to so far, google searches and anecdotes, haven't really satisfied me. I've made it clear that I am trying to understand where you are perceiving this uninformed outrage in reference to the uber situation.
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Hello, I'm the person in this piece. Just to be clear, tap water is not safe- it contains many micro-organisms including acanthamoeba which can infect the eye via contact lenses. It is wrong to suggest tap water or saliva are safe. Contact lens solutions are not 100% effective at disinfecting lenses. These risks are real, and it's important to be aware of them so you can wear lenses safely. There's good, clear information here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14691169
Use adblocks and stop paying until they understand.
> didn't that take a shitload of time and effort?

Not really, back when I received the paper copy of the Economist it took me about a minute after receiving it on a Saturday morning to flip through and rip-out the double-sided ad pages. Also gave me an idea of the main stories in the issue.

Put a 30cm ruler on the page near the binding, grab top, pull. Well worth it for making the magazine thinner, easier to fold into my back pocket, and more readable on the bus. Just turn the page and continue reading, no interruptions.

One time there I remove so many pages ( 20? a lot anyway ) that I actually spent money on postage and sent them back to the Editor with the suggestion that he spend his time reading them for me and provide a summary.
Language is constantly changing in all sorts of ways, and lots of people dislike that fact.

This might be slightly off topic, but I highly recommend the first chapter of R L Trask's Historical Linguistics [0] which is a very entertaining overview of how language changes over time.

He starts with the example of the word "bonk" which after 1986 meant "copulate" but prior to then meant nothing of the kind.

He also discusses the modern [ab]use of the word "hopefully", as in for example: "hopefully we'll be there in time for lunch":

"Here is what Mr Philip Howard, a well-known writer on language, has to say about it: he describes this use of hopefully as 'objectionable', 'ambiguous', 'obscure', 'ugly', 'aberrant', 'pretentious', and 'illiterate'; finally, playing his ace, he asserts that it was 'introduced by sloppy American academics'"

He then goes on to point out that "In spite of the vitriol which hopefully has attracted, then, this word provides us with a neat and elegant way of saying 'I hope and expect that', something that we couldn't say before without using a whole cumbersome string of words."

He goes on:

"Lest you suspect that my example of 'hopefully' might be an atypical case, let's look at something quite different. Consider these examples:

"My car is being repaired
My house is being painted
This problem is being discussed at today's meeting.

"Anything strange here? I doubt it - I don't think there's an English-speaker alive who regards these as other than normal.

"But it wasn't always so. Until the end of the eighteenth century, this particular construction did not exist in standard English, and an English-speaker would have had to say "My car is repairing", "My house is painting", and "This problem is discussing at today's meeting" - forms which are absolutely impossible for us now.

"... when a few innovating speakers began to say things like "My house is being painted", the linguistic conservatives of the day could not contain their fury. Veins bulging purply from their foreheads, the attacked the new construction as 'clumsy', 'illogical', 'confusing', and 'monstrous'.

"But their efforts were in vain. Today all those who objected to the 'illogical' and 'monstrous' new form are long dead, and the traditional form which they defended with such passion is dead with them."

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trasks-Historical-Linguistics-Rober... (this is the second edition - my copy is the first and I don't know if the first chapter is changed)
The word "раб" (slave) certainly has a negative connotation.
Would the success rate be significantly lower if normal police procedures were followed instead? To count as a 'success' fro SWAT they would need to show that SWAT methods were appropriate and necessary.
Probably more to restricted budgets than anything else.

Some novels of "advanced" societies make a point of mentioning that people wear a wide variety of clothes or indeed none at all (e.g. the spectacularly advanced and hedonistic Culture - where pretty much anything goes including widely different body designs).
That's easy to solve by the publisher: serve up the ads directly, ad blocking problem goes away. And that's exactly how this will end.
Police brutalize and bloody a man in process of ejecting him from plane:
outcome > corporation to blame

Police shoot, mutilate and nearly kill man sleeping at home during hoax:
outcome > citizen to blame

I'm sure I could go on for a while. The point is, are we not allowed to hold government accountable for illegitimate use of violence? Isn't that... a really big problem?
Along with several other factors, this is what makes advertising online more valuable, as far as I can tell. Online ads can be far better quantified, in terms of impact, can appeal more to their target audience, can more easily provide a service alongside their advertising content, etc. Advertisers were given a magic wand, but decided to break it over their collective knee and carrying on waving their empty hands about instead.
That level of discipline is definitely beyond me! I'll continue to stick with glasses until I get my ICL surgery, I suppose.
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strictNullChecks errors are easy to fix:

1. Add `| null` or `?` for things that could be null/undefined.

2. Start handling "is this thing null?" cases. In some occasions it could be annoying. E.g. when you are absolutely sure it's not null. E.g. in tests. TypeScript provides `!` operator for that:

interface Baz {
foo?: string;
}

let bar = (t: Baz) =>
// yes, I'm sure
t.foo!.length;

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/What's-new-in-T...
Putting profits ahead of anything else is what causes so much problems in the U.S. these days.

If only one company decided to overbook, then sure, I agree with you. But if it were a law, and every airline was forced not to overbook, then it simply means the ticket prices would be a little higher. And if because of those slightly higher ticket prices, the airline might have to retire a plane or two, then so be it, but no airline would go bankrupt because of it.

We have all sorts of laws that protect consumers and employees that "hurt" the absolute maximization of profit. This wouldn't be any different. When it's a law, it just means everyone plays at a higher standard and prices are a little higher than they would be without those protections.

Also, Canada is likely going to pass such a law soon:

http://globalnews.ca/news/3370381/canada-overbooked-flights-...
This turned out to be a lot less interesting than it would be in my head.

Was expecting it to maybe use the data from the other drawing experiment to dream up new creations. Not just search a limited library of glyphs
That's a lot of nice sounding platitudes, but it doesn't really tell me anything concrete beyond "TeMPOraL dislikes Uber".
To be honest the machine is turned off most of the time, as I have very little time to play with it.
Hello, I'm the person in this piece. I can confirm I was definitely only wearing dailies for single day then throwing them away. I didn't swim in them but I am not sure about showering. Just to be really clear- acanthamoeba is not a bacterium, it is a single celled organism - a type of amoeba. The infection can take hold in just a few hours, after a single exposure to water. I am happy to answer any other questions you have on this.
Windows is plural so it should be Windows' Subsystem for Linux.
"4/10 found nothing" means that success rate is 60%
These fake incidents are from a certain perspective quite good as they highlight the issue of making dangerous decisions based on non grounded fear.
Video evidence of several black people being arbitrarily and unnecessarily gunned down, and that's just the ones I've seen in the last year or so without actually going looking.
…unless your library exposes classes/templates, which is probably what the majority of C++ libraries do (e.g., wxWidgets, Qt, Boost, etc.). In this case, creating C bindings is a real pain.
Funny that the only serialization format that beat MessagePack in their benchmark was FlatBuffs.

I happen to know the maintainer of the Golang FlatBuff project, and he is an absolute master at tuning Golang. It's good to see that vindicated.
London is shit though. Last night I booked an Uber, if I'd been asked to imagine a reasonable price for the trip I would have come up with something a lot like the price I was charged. If it was a normal taxi I'd have been charged at least £20. I don't have any sympathy.
Did you remove less than 50% of the paper? I guess the equivalent to online publishers' attempts to prevent ad-blocking would be simply to stop printing adverts on both sides of a page. Presumably, publishers had no incentive to do that because, as far as they were concerned, they still got paid for the adverts. And the number of people ripping ads out of magazines must be a tiny percentage, of course.
I accidentally scratched my eye with a fingernail once.

Severe pain, eye constantly watering for a couple weeks.
We are pattern recognizing feedback loops with memory. How is that not like a computer?
I think that's a little overboard. If you just wash your hands with soap and water and dry them with a non-bacteria infected towel I'm guessing you shouldn't be at risk.
No. That's why he was shot with non-lethal rounds. He suffered serious injuries certainly, and the whole case is deplorable, but it was a fairly reasonable response to his actions at that moment.
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IF we did those things, sure. However there is significant pressure from various interests to stop us from doing those things on the basis that climate change won't really be a problem or that we'll fix it somehow if it is.
> The fact that SWATing is a thing shows just how broken the current model is

Hard to think of a better model though; you never know what call is going to be real. Additionally getting local police involved does make a lot of sense, as they should have invaluable knowledge of the area and the people.
In classical physics there are 2 types of mass considered (and measured to be equal):

1. gravitational mass used in Newton's Law of Gravity

2. intertial mass used in Newton's Second Law

Measurements show that these two kinds of mass properties of an object are equal (are in linear proportion) to a very high precision. This was suspected and even Newton has considered and measured this, but the first really high precision measurements were done by baron Loránd Eötvös[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s_experiment
There are other comments (including one by me) discussing this. I'm totally fine with it. Others have said that most advertisers won't pay for these ads due to an inability to audit and track users.
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> Adtech needs a quality revolution

Sure, but it has needed one for circa 20 years. And quality has continuously declined over that time. To me, that indicates that generally the next increment of profit gain is not in making things slightly better, but slightly worse.

It seems like a classic tragedy of the commons to me. But good management of a commons requires people perceiving and acting on a common interest with a long-term focus. That's an attitude so far removed from what I see of the culture of advertising and adtech that I expect we'll need a major disaster to change that.

> Users need to welcome such experiments with a modicum of goodwill and good faith

That sounds like a reach to me. In a financial sense, and I think perhaps also in the casual sense, goodwill is what you get when you've spent a long time working hard to make sure your customers like you. For the whole of the consumer internet, advertisers and adtech have been pushing the line of what people will put up with. With the possible exception of search advertising, I think internet ads have earned enormous negative goodwill.

If publishers and advertisers want new experiments to be evaluated separate from the last 20 years of history, I think they're going to have either a) spend a long time undoing the damage, or b) find some way to declare brand bankruptcy for the whole notion of advertising.

And even if they try, I'm not sure how well it will work. The point of the sort of ads that publishers run is to distract you from what you're trying to read and manipulate you into buying whatever the advertiser wants you to buy, without regard to the actual utility or quality of the thing purchased. No matter how much you experiment, there will be a moral conflict at the root of advertising. New tech won't fix that.
Different countries have different laws. What might be seen as "pass through" under US law can sometimes be seen as opaque in an EU country, for example. Sometimes the situation or the double taxation treaty (if there is one) offers no clear solution.

Most western countries also have CFC laws you need to be aware of. CFC laws are essentially "see through" taxation laws to combat tax avoidance, looking through certain corporate structures you would use to avoid tax, e.g. by somehow siphoning off money (legally, through IP payments, interest payments, etc) to a zero or low tax entity somewhere.

I've had some tax disputes before and I can tell you: most of these civil servants are unaware of the international context they're operating in. They mainly audit local restaurants, bookstores, etc. Nothing "exotic". Talking to them, before you meet with some people higher up, can literally be a crapshoot. Some countries, for example, might try to tax your US LLC income as dividend income, before applying corporate (or personal income) tax to it again.

This is obviously often incorrect, but given most people set up US entities because they're cheap / etc (or at least some of the people using Atlas do), you should be aware that a dispute with your local tax authority can follow. Because they are the ones losing current and future revenue. Those can have nasty consequences if you don't have the funds available to hire, say, a good tax lawyer.

That said, totally agree Atlas (or setting up a US LLC) can be super valuable. Just make sure your tax situation is looked at, at home.
The police have a long history of making things up to justify their violence after the fact. Don't get me wrong, they're an important part of our society, but it's a shame we can't seem to get our police to stop acting like this (especially toward black people like Mr. Dobbs).
Yeah, they do it by giving the Swat team medals for valour
It wouldn't work for very long.
If you're site is even moderately popular, the self hosted ads will be blocked by a specific rule.

There also aren't any good self hosted ad servers, among other reasons.
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design requires intent.
Unbait yourself:

>Based on a test set of fifty 4-digit PINs
From the autodraw page:

>Built by Dan Motzenbecker and Kyle Phillips with friends at Google Creative Lab.

Are Dan Motzenbecker and Kyle Phillips responsible for Google Inbox development? If not it seems a bit silly to criticise a project made by <10 people in a company with 72,053 in total
It's named like this because it is a subsytem of the NT kernel (hence the Windows subsystem part) that implements Linux system calls to run Linux applications (hence the for Linux part).

Naming it the other way around ie Linux for Windows would imply that the Linux kernel is involved which is actually not the case at all.
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This is a bit of misinformation that is currently still on the packaging for gas permeable lenses- not the same as soft lenses. I personally know a number of hard lens wearers who contracted AK after following these instructions to rinse their lenses in tap water. I am campaigning to get this advice changed as soon as possible. Would love some support.
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> Legally I have no idea.

Duly noted.

> But ethically/morally, I'd argue you don't.

That has to be a first: arguing for the morality of the advertising eco system. I've seen quite a bit of it from the inside and let's just say that if there is an argument for morality it lies with the consumers, emphatically not with publishers (who have conditioned their audience first that everything should be free) or with advertisers (and that's even before we get into the content of the ads, see TFA).

> By visiting the site, you're entering into an agreement to exchange your ad views for content and you're breaking that agreement.

That sounds like a legal argument to me, about which you earlier said you have no idea. Let me summarize my answer: you're wrong. By visiting a site you do not 'enter into an agreement to exchange your adviews for content'.

> Doesn't feel right to me.

That's ok, you are entitled to your own feelings.

So you don't get to install an adblocker. Have fun with spyware, malware and being tracked from here to kingdom come.

If it was just ads, on the page itself and without any further trickery the ads would work just fine.
Yes, hoaxes especially like this one that end badly should be punished accordingly. At the same time the SWAT team is also responsible. After all, it was them who fired the bullets.

Note that in this case it was multiple bullets not just one as SWAT shot the innocent guy multiple times. It is not just a 'oopsie, we pulled the trigger by mistake, our bad' kind of a situation on their part either.
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>the guy "fell into" a shot intended for the torso. I really don't know how they said that with a straight face.

Oh this sort of thing happens all the time. Haven't you seen the documentary, The Matrix?

It is like when Gary Webb exposed a CIA drug running scheme. Died of 2 gunshot wounds to the head. The universe opens itself up to interesting probabilities when police accountability is on the line.
Of course police ignored that; if they'd listened they'd have lost their chance to play 007 or soldier or whatever else they like to think of themselves as.
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Sure; debating is definitely a bad idea.

Even if most of us think our needs (/convenience) is more important than everyone else, most of us also appreciate the role that doctors & nurses play.

Plus, airlines have rules about literally everything-including wearing leggings. From both a business and a public safety perspective, it would hardly be shocking if an airline mandated that doctors and nurses should be either exempt from removal or the last to be removed. Not sure if you've ever been on a plane where someone has had a serious medical issue when there hasn't been a doctor or nurse on board, but its hardly uncommon. Having a doctor on board decreases risk for an airline--keeping doctors & nurses aboard certainly makes more senses than random choice does or choosing whomever paid the least.
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From the point of view of purely individual achievement, it indeed is an accidental circumstance.

I would be in favor of capped inheritance -- for example, $1 million USD or 1% of the net worth of the deceased, whichever is higher. For inheritances below that limit, a progressive tax.

I don't see why anyone would need more than a million as a "nest egg", especially considering how lifespans are extending and the inheritor might be 70 years old at the time of the parent's death. Also, less hoarding would lead to more investment and more economic growth.

I have no idea how this plan could actually be implemented for private corporations whose stock can't be easily liquidated to pay for taxes. So this is not a real political suggestion, rather a random vague idea of what would feel "just" to me.
>When did the police start using them as direct ammunition?

In Northern Ireland.
Reminds a lot of shapecatcher (shapecatcher.com): Unicode character recognition by drawing.
Maybe we could try one of the many models used successfully in other countries?
I recently tried contact lenses for the first time...rethinking it now.
At worst the officers will get a paid vacation then will be back to work after the police investigate if the police did anything wrong.
I'm sure the other 60% who had their property destroyed and fully automatic weapons shoved in their faces while being forced to the ground and handcuffed will be pleased to hear this news.
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We use seq2seq frequently, I think it is quite popular so won't exactly call it lesser known !!
Yeah, this is the way I see it too.

I saw a campaign once from a parent who's child was injured at a park trying to get monkey bars banned claiming they were deadly. Life's full of small risks and tradeoffs, you have to just accept the small ones for the greater good.

Sometimes bad stuff happens, and that sucks, but it doesn't always mean something is wrong or needs to change.
> The only option you'll have will be to crack Facebook's client and modify its behavior, which will be copyright infringement.

It wouldn't be. You have the right to do whatever you want with the bits on your computer, you just don't have the right to redistribute all of those bits.

Copyright is about distribution, not about modification (well, it is in part, such a modified work would be classed as a 'derived work' and that is why you can't redistribute it, just like you can't redistribute the original).

> courts starting to rule ad blocking in browsers as being copyright infringement.

That's utterly wrong. Copyright infringement is about distributing content, not about forced consumption of content that was freely given to you by the rights holders or their agents and associates (the ad networks).

And rights holders have plenty of options here:

- sell ads directly rather than through networks
(and serve them up from the same server)

- charge for their content

- deny you access if you use an adblocker

No court will ever rule this as copyright infringement.
And an extra personal thank you for making Byobu work so well!
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Depends very much on the audience. LWN's paywall seems to be working for them!
I think you are missing the point I am trying to make. It's not about the nostalgia effect but about the physical particularities of a real book: building a mental map that has anchors in the book. Think of the memory palace technique.
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If you mean bootstrapping a webservice-project, I don't believe it's hard in any way. With offerings like Lets Encrypts, it's incredibly easy and takes no more than 20 minutes.
What often happens is that if there is sufficient negative attention, the officer will be placed on paid leave pending an administrative review. Then after the public moves on to something else, the administrative review finds that the officer did nothing wrong and that it was the unarmed victim's fault for being shot.
So. Where is the html5 of electron apps ?