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This is a pretty stupid McArdle column.

McArdle has decided, on behalf of the entirety of pop culture, than when critics refer to the message behind THT as "timely", they mean "THT is a warning about impending theocracy in North America". In fact, in sampling 3 reviews from the front page of Google that used the word "timely", all of them made the far more obvious connection: between THT and concerns about misogyny and sexism, a huge feature of the 2016 election.

Further, McArdle's attempt to knock back the idea that the overall story of THT is something out of 1992† is incoherent and actually pretty fatuous.

Consider: McArdle goes out of her way to observe that Orwell --- to her the only realistic dystopian fiction writer --- cribbed details from communist dictatorships in the USSR and China. That 1984 doesn't talk about (what she perceives to be) a credible future for the United States is excusable, because she can't write a takedown of George Orwell.

Now consider: Islamic State didn't exist in 1985, and in fact few people in the west appreciated the toll Islamic theocracy took on women in the middle east. But substitute Wahhabism for fundamentalist neo-Puritan Christianity, and a whole lot of THT seems uncannily predictive, right down to the public execution of gay people and members of other Islamic religions. Remember, Winston Smith's story took place in London, not Moscow.

If McArdle was just criticizing a TV show, I wouldn't care. But, by subtext, she's attempting to diminish the potency of the book (the book, by the way, is even more biting than the show, which strips away a lot of the systemic racism of the book's Gilead). McArdle isn't always full of it; sometimes she writes some interesting things. This isn't one of those times.

† Note to McArdle: Suzanne Vega is still recording albums; she didn't stop existing when you stopped listening.
With sandboxes, I had little-to-no trouble developing individually on a single machine. I sometimes ran into issues trying to get the same thing building elsewhere.
I had already taken out a subscription a few days ago after reading the Cormac McCarthy piece. My immediate reaction was to cancel my subscription and explain why (I have been a freelance teacher in the past and had to chivvy for payment) but I am now thinking it over.

Perhaps we should monitor the quality of the articles closely.
Not at all. What I mean to imply is that simply because someone or something aids one in the fight against another doesn't mean that that particular someone or something is friendly towards one. At best, one can infer that, at least for the moment, one isn't that person or thing's most valuable target at the time of aid. It might be a cynical way of looking at things but it helps to distinguish between that which is actually your friend, knowingly sacrificing something of itself for one, and your temporary and unwitting ally ready to turn on one the moment the, by chance or strategy, existing target is eliminated.

To elaborate, the situation described in the article is a case report. In this case, the gamble paid off and the man was cured. However, we rarely hear about the cases in which this gamble was lost and the experimental treatment did not result in a successful return to health. It's human to want to belong and to have others come to our aid. Sadly, it's also human to be thanking the cat for killing mice one day and then cursing it for eating our goldfish the next.
Exploring MongoDB design patterns with Rick Copeland [audio]
Can you name an undergraduate program in an Engineering/computer science related field conducted entirely in English? At TU Darmstadt or any other public school? I very much suspect that this is not an option if your intent is to get a degree. This is only an option for US undergrads on a study abroad supported by their home schools or for Master's students.
Or they aren't charging enough.
Charlie Lee's Vision for SegWit and Lightning Networks on Litecoin and Bitcoin
hmmm, could be I am confusing sociopathy and autism ?
Because you're not arguing facts, by ignoring them if not flat out suggesting they don't exist in the present time, what you've written is worthy of legitimate ad hominem attack. And that's because the problem is with you, the person. You are a deeply ignorant and foolish person - whether it's malice or not I cannot say. But it is damaging to your personal credibility and is damaging to discourse by speaking mistruth.

Jim Crow laws are from 1965, they directly connect to this country's history of slavery. That is not "so old" at all. And variations of Jim Crow laws still persist to this day, hence the Voting Rights Acts. That there are clever derivatives of these practices does not at all mean "they are so old they have no resemblance of". Yes foolish person, they do have resemblance of.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pasadena-texas-voting-ri...

For some book ideas so you can work on your ignorance of this present day relevant history:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/books/review/chris-hayes-...
I think it's satire?
You mean Twitter ads? I tried several times, was very underwhelmed. Curious what made it work for you.
I would imagine that this is a hobby project and you're losing cash on it. But what would be the parameters of a profitable business? At what level of scale (if any) would it have to operate? And is there a lot of competition in this space?
Why 1 is not a prime number expressed with monoids
Two Games with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Well, not precisely, he was a single dad as well. But I take your point, along with another commenter who says "mass pardon program" (which one would expect to have the effect of bringing some fathers home)

Maybe it's a case of yes, and.

I'm certainly a little embarrassed for making it sound like I knew one solution would fix it. I definitely meant "among other things"

Overall the situation is pretty fucked. There will have to be more than one solution all pointing towards the same goal.

I don't agree that there has been 60 years of a failed taxation experiment. In fact from the 30's to the 80's the middle class grew massively​ which was a period of high taxation, while from about '85 to now, under voodoo trickle down, we've seen massive GDP growth but virtually none of those gains going to the middle class.

We really need to increase the amount of support in the social network​.
I've been using RancherOS for a few weeks now and I'm quite delighted with it. A confusion that occurred at first for me was the distinction between Rancher (the project/company), Rancher (the application) which can be used for installation and distribution, and RancherOS, which is the concept of replacing the Init process with Docker. Docker is used in separate instances - one to manage the containers that make the OS, and one for the remaining containers that make your apps.

I think the advent of Docker Swarm probably put a crimp on development and use of Rancher (the app). To me the way forward is Docker's own clustering tools, and the ease of standing up a cluster of Atom processors at www.packet.net where they install (as an option) RancherOS is very attractive.
I graduated from my useless school
>Would you be happy with 'I died laughing ...' when people describe something especially funny? (I would, for the record.)

Then you would already be OK with something analogous to using "literally" as an intensifier.

Since, of course, "died" also means something specific that's unrelated to laughing, and the person uttering the phrase doesn't imply that they actually died.

>If someone said 'I literally died twice from laughter ...' would that be doublepluscompelling?

No, that's why people don't say it. It's the historical evolution of language that dictates what's "doublepluscompelling" or not, not some a priori rules.
The Genius of the Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gifEn61dZBc
linuxkit -> https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit
No, it's written in a funny way, but it's a legit guide.
Cash, check, wire, etc.. you know how we've been banking for hundreds of years.
No, no ads. Twitter meaning start a meaningful account, interact with users, new & old. It's a long term investment, like SEO, but it also pays back relatively soon in terms of signups.
Well, yes. It is definitely not going to make money if I count my time. But I learned an awful lot about machine learning and the present state of computer vision, far more than if I had tried to do that on something abstract. And when I look at the Lego bought-and-sold it seems to work out ok.

As for competition, yes, plenty, but all manual. Scaling up now that I have the software working is definitely an option but I have a good set of very well paying customers and not much can compete with that.
>The cause of economic inequality is several generations of government disrespect...

And who makes up the government that writes and votes on these laws? And who uses their money to influence the people in these positions?

My guess is the upper class of FTE works in the top 1/5 of the population? Although, maybe it's more apt to say the 1% or 0.1% who are not workers?

Does the author include the business owners and elites in their top 1/5 of the population? Or are they a different subset as they are not workers?
Curious: What's the issue with Stripe? Also, in Europe you can look into GoCardless.
There are generic tools for these stuff on linux like perf, powertop, slabtop, lm-sensors, and probably more that idk about.

This PCM looks like it provides information that the tools above can't, like pcm and memory bandwidths (unless i misunderstood what it does). Sucks that it's intel only, i'd like to watch memory bandwidth usage on my amd. Unrelated: this reminds me of mcelog, that collects hardware errors.
I miss-wrote. It sounded like I thought there was ONE solution required. Clearly you have a point and there is far more to the story and there isn't any reason I can think of why you wouldn't be able to do both of these and more.
Those are a lot of different topics that you are attempting to wedge into the same point of view. Even though it should be allowed, abortion is an issue of social morality. So is gun control. Yes, you can draw statistics about these things but I'd be hesitant to call it science and I would be even more hesitant to say that protecting our rights to own weapons is a step backwards.

Denying us the freedom to bear arms (as our governing leaders and peacekeepers do) and further diminishing the power of the citizen to keep his government in check is the step backwards, my friend. We may yet see another revolt in America if things continue to get worse. I don't think we will see anything like that in, say, the UK. And revolt was an inalienable right handed to us by our thoughtful forefathers who knew the government would continue to encroach on its citizens to the point of becoming a threat to them, by its very nature.
In more developer countries, it's easier to make the public ignore them, and if that's too difficult, discredit them or drawn their findings in media noise and Kardasian gossip.
Having the fine people of the peninsula share the cost of transportation with the hoi poloi of the East Bay is unamerican, hence they opted out of it.

Same for the North Bay (original plans had the BART go almost all the way from Petaluma to Gilroy).
Yep. I feel the same about both paper and EU shipping. I would currently have subscriptions to a good 5 English-language magazines that I currently don't have subscriptions to, because the shipping surcharge makes the price unreasonable.

I really hope that this is some obscure tangle that, when solved, will really help some of these publications prosper and make some happy readers here on the continent.
C# has a name for Go's object semantics: Marshal By Reference. This means that when an object features in a call, the GC pointer aka reference is passed (by value) rather than the object value itself. This reference is fundamentally different from the reference concept in C++. So the term reference is semantically overloaded and means different things in different programming languages. However, the phrase "pass by reference" is language independent and the author is correct, it doesn't have those semantics.
I looked at the other Ask HN for 100 users.

Only 1 person mentioned influencers. I'm going to recommend it again, but with more detail.

An influencer has a particular niche/segment in the market that they are passionate about. They may have various channels in which to communicate to their audience, these may be facebook page/groups, youtube channels, instagram.

These influencers have from 100 to 100k audience members. There's nothing you need to do, apart from approach them and to find whether it's a good fit to pitch your product. However, be aware that the influencer will be looking for a % of sales.

What is great about an influencer, is that in some cases they did all the hard work for you. They already created a product that the audience members consumed and are generally happy with it. So if you have an addon product, then you are simply preaching to the choir at this point.

Where to find influencers? Youtube, Facebook Groups, Instagram.
[1] Is a place to go, if you want to be laser targeted and have stats.

[1] http://www.hyprbrands.com

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Now for anecdotal experience. I'm in the affiliate marketing arena. I know many many different influencers. They either have products developed for them or they cross promote each others products.

These guys regularly generate from around $10k to $100k a month. I've met few that have done $1m a month in sales.

Done correctly, you can position yourself to flip a switch and have over 1m unique users read or hear about your product.

I know there is a segment on HN that generally frowns upon affiliate marketing, but many companies such as Netflix, Groupon, AirBNB, Apple, Amazon used them to great effect to grow exponentially.
Inner city kids have as many chances as suburban white kids ? What city is this?
This is a real shame. Nautilus is without a doubt the most consistently interesting and high-quality publication I read. I have just renewed my Prime membership, and hope others do the same. (Or that they get the investment they need and deserve.)
How Gandhi brought changes in himself and his followers
> Karlsruhe, Aachen, Darmstadt are also worth considering albeit less attractive places to live in.

They are also considerably less expensive places to live in.
Tumblr principally.
What's the real cost of losing a talented employee?
I think this is a vast oversimplification. I may not remember the details of every book, but I do remember the main themes and elements. I think the usefulness of rereading ultimately depends on what one’s purpose is in reading a particular book.

If I read a Dan Brown novel, it’s purely for entertainment purposes. I remember what it was about, and to read it a second time would be of little benefit and even less enjoyment. But then I read George Orwell’s 1984, where the enormous insights I gain from it exceed the enjoyment and make it worth revisiting. The second reading is even more gratifying than the first because I’m able to consolidate my understanding and discover nuances I'd missed on my first reading.
Lets see what we can do about that! I think I've heard their name but I don't know anyone that subscribes but I'm interested now, my guess is with the vast amounts of stuff to read out there its hard for quality to shine entirely on its own. Especially when clickbait is so much more appealing to some people. I think it has become more clear to people that quality journalism (science and otherwise) is not going to be free so the glut of free media might be subsiding some (I know I pay for a lot more media than I ever used to). I'll subscribe and hawk it on my various social media outlets.
Perhaps this is the reason that Dungeons and Dragons DM advice is so detailed and exhaustive that it would take hours to prepare each session, while actual D&D games with very little DM prep are usually still fun.

I got the "I must shoot 10,000 free throws to be prepared" attitude about becoming a developer -- must know Linux, concurrency, all interview questions, salary negotiation, and so on. It was daunting but ultimately correct, I got the kind of job I wanted and doubt I could have done it without being neurotic about it.

Or maybe I would have been fine and I'm still being neurotic and overdoing it. This article's perspective is helpful because "Remember that all this advice is coming from neurotics" was not something I took into account.
That kind of problem is now well handled. See ISO 26262.
Very fun! I'll have to spin this up and play around with it. Hopefully, I'll have 1.1.0 TensorFlow/Raspberry Pi binaries compiled and available by the end of the weekend.

One of the side-goals I've been meaning to make time for is training (or porting) a smaller CNN targeted to run closer to real time on the Raspberry Pi- I think a project like this would benefit from that.
No responses yet? They are essentially admitting what we already know - The Russians brainwashed maybe a few million Americans into believing absolute bullshit, and they might've turned the election towards Trump with what we now know was a highly concise and directed effort towards the blue-collar Democrat states.

If you're going to tell me that brainwashing is not a thing, then explain how advertising exists as a billion dollar industry.
I would agree. Well said. I would imagine this would hold true for knowing and using technology frameworks too.
One of the primary reasons I read books is to get a wider perspective on how everything works. It's true that the first read is barely enough to recall any details but it's suffice to grasp the essence. And often, essence is all I want. I can barely recall anything from "The Ascent of Money" but the book enabled me to finally understand the financial system—How money works? Where does it come from? Why does US has $18T of federal debt? All questions became crystal clear because of the book's simplicity.

I don't feel good about re-reading because there are tons of similar books which can explain things in intriguing way to leave a lasting impression. Unless I run out of options in that category, reading more seems a better choice.
Getting a lot of scratchiness/audio artifacts on Chrome, Win 10. Anybody know if that is an app or a platform thing? Idk if it's just harsh frequencies? I'm just using the default tones.
It can scale in distributed fashion. The labor is fine. People working to save people is a completely valid labor, important, meaningful, possible.

It's not like we don't have any free human time. Lots of people need work.

Packaging this into a repeatable, portable process seems worthwhile.

The search for better super antibiotics can continue. If we get lucky, great.

I read there is a group in Poland who will match a phage to an infection in a few days. They need a sample.

Scale that. The world needs it.
> I don't see why it would be different here.

It would not. But then the water-poor would realize its better to be
practicial than idiological. I believe in real life noone is all-poor. One as
an individual or group has always something to offer. The water-poor/everyone
would realize that there is cost of socialism which not everyone can afford.

> How does that make any sense?

Ancap are not happy with current state of inequality which is due to violence.
Inequality due to trading-power is "ok". Though not bundled with ancapism, wars
against current market leaders are heavely encouraged and just occur naturally.

> If you're talking about human life spans, ...

Though I concur this is not what I said. If you restrict the time period ofcourse
you are going to find all sort of anomolies.

> The whole idea of our current system is to prevent that by imposing
restrictions on power.

Current systems do not distinguish between powers who break NAP and who does
not. If current systems just focus on the former and leave latter alone
not only the unpleasent shifts of powers can be avoided but also
libertarianism/ancapism need not exist.
what industries or niches does this strategy work for? which ones do they not work as well?
Sounds very convincing, especially the Spanish girl! I can't wait to play with a piano roll interface for laying down vocal tracks of this quality.
Hopper belt to camera belt is just a speed difference that causes the parts to become nicely spread out (at least, you hope so!), the camera stitches together frames to scan the part so a part larger than a frame can be scanned. Once the end of the part is detected it gets fed into the classifier which returns part id, category and color. Depending on what sort is set up a part then gets pushed into one of 7 bins, these periodically are emptied into larger bins and bags.

If necessary a lot can be pushed through the machine twice for instance to sort parts by length or to pick out sets (that last bit works in theory but in practice there are a lot of problems to overcome because of the limited number of bins to deposit into).

As for the hardware, there is a nifty little camera with a macro lens that connects to the USB port (noname Asian stuff), it has a 10x magnifying lens, a pololu servo/gpio to USB card to drive the relays and a Sainsmart 16 port relay board to drive the solenoids for the air valves.

The software is all in python with a generous amount of help from the people who wrote numpy, opencv, keras and theano.

The error rate is between 3 and 5% depending on how fast I set the machine, there are a number of sources for the errors, obviously classification errors, also sometimes two parts are too close to each other and even if the classifier got them right the airpuff for one pushes the other of the belt as well. To minimize this effect I keep the airpuff super short, on the order of 10 ms, which is about as fast as the solenoids can open and close reliably, but it does mean that if it misses even by a bit there is nothing to be done about it and that part will land in the 'other' bin.

That error rate is still too high but with every run the classification errors go down and that's the main component.

One nasty little problem was that I spaced the puffers too regular in the first iteration which meant that sometimes the parts would line up just so in the order in which they came under the camera so that more than one puffer would be active at once leading to a reduction on pressure and no parts would be pushed off the belt. That was a tricky one!
As does cpufreq-aperf (some of the same stats, at least)
Its been a long time since i've subscribed to a magazine but I have always enjoyed reading Nautilus articles. $29 for print and digital is a steal for the quality of content they produce.
We can just train a model to automatically downvote sarcastic comments. Not sure if I'm being sarcastic here, but I'll probably be downvoted.
For instance, you have a lot of rights here, but I found in my own experience that you only have the rights you know you have and you know how to enforce.

That is definitely true, for foreigners this starts at an even more basic level - all the relevant regulations are written in (bureaucratic) German. So, even if you want to read up on your rights, it can be difficult, unless you have near-native reading comprehension.

Luckily, there seem to be positive changes in this area. E.g. our faculty is now translating the exam regulations for English programs.
I posted this on a similar thread a few days ago. For Standard Notes [0], here's what I did:

1. Comment on privacy related HN posts about a privacy-focused notes app. That would have gotten me 40-50 users.

2. Write articles [1] on encryption/privacy/webdev. Some of them made it to frontpage HN, some didn't. That might have gotten me to 500 users.

3. Repeat. Tirelessly. Painstakingly. Depressingly. Just keep going doing small things every day. Eventually they start to compound.

[0]: https://standardnotes.org

[1]: https://journal.standardnotes.org

Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191161
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