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The US is a pretty wealthy place. I lived in Italy for something like 15 years, and people there eat a lot of fish too, of varying kinds. By and large, they do not have as much money as people do in the US

The US is a wealthy place, but a lot of individual families aren't wealthy at all. Cheap, mass-produced, pre-prepared food (either frozen or in cans/boxes) are the cheapest things to eat. Where I lived - a few hours flight to a coast or many hours of driving - fish was one of the more expensive protein options if one doesn't want to eat fish sticks or the like. Chicken and pork were usually cheaper, followed by beef.

If it were only about efficiency, you'd probably just eat beans and rice, day in and day out, with a bit of this and that thrown in

This misses part of the equation - the stuff folks are eating are time efficient as well. Plus a good amount of folks wouldn't know what to do with lentils and rice: Cooking isn't a focus of schools. I had 6-9 weeks of cooking instruction, and we only cooked (in groups of 4-5) once every week or two and that included things like baking sweets. It is amazing how many folks don't just look this stuff up.
> the convenience of Apple Pay seems to be moving backward as I'm forced to use my PIN and sign in all sorts of places I used to be able to just wave my phone at.

This is a rant against how you imagine things work, instead of how they actually work. I put my watch on in the morning and it is automatically unlocked the next time I unlock my phone with touch id. From this point on, the pin is never required. Apple Pay is just a double click on the long button, no pin entry as you've imagined if the watch is unlocked, which is true unless you've only just put on the watch.

waiting for the face to light up however, is a legit complaint. It really sucks that there's not even an option for "always on" that you could use while working out, as it's a pain in the ass to be running and want to check your current pace and find that wrist-flick detection failed so you're staring at an off instead of getting the data you wanted and getting back to looking where you're going quickly again.
I was not referring here about the "activity" per se, I was talking about quotas and percentages of use. No matter for what kind of activity you are going to use the service, I would like to have clear from the beginning what limits of use I have.

Another thing completely different is the permissibility about certain illegal activities or loopholes in their servers. That's not my concern, that's only a question of moral/ethics/legal between the client, the provider and the authorities.
Just my own personal feedback here: I've really enjoyed the site, but the Nathan Barry interview decreased my interest in the site a bit.

It's because, for me personally, the thing that makes IH special is the stories of people who didn't have degrees from elite schools, family wealth or VC funding and still successfully built something sufficient to cover their living expenses or even start hiring employees. Stories about people who do a lot with a little are a blueprint that can be applied by people of just about any background. Stories of parlaying medium-sized fortunes into large ones are most useful to people who already have medium-sized fortunes.

To be clear, I don't dislike interviews with founders of large companies. I sometimes watch them on youtube and have read books about many of the largest tech companies. It's just more useful for me to learn about how people went from 0 to 60 rather than from 60 to 200.

IH is still my favorite place on the internet for that, which is why I care about how well it serves that role. You'd have to dilute it quite a bit before it fell behind the next best alternative, though.
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Pledge 1 and 2 seem strangely distinct. It's odd to request someone to commit to both. Pledge #1 seems like basic ethics of technical practice, but pledge #2 is a specific position on a specific current political issue.
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The average person doesn't use ctrl+f/cmd+f; but still, for the ones who do, having to press it twice breaks muscle memory, it draws attention that something is broken or doesn't work quite like everything else.
If the laws only protect the profits of the company, where will all the people go for justice?
You must have a fairly techie and older audience. I have to say as harsh as I've been on Discourse in this thread, I'd still take it over listserv.
I think the point is that those namespaces are rather recent themselves, whereas e.g. FreeBSD has had jails since 2000.
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The main problems they're talking about are PR problems, not ethical problems (if you assume that advertising itself is ethical, which I don't necessarily think is true). Specific types of targeting are then bad because of the optics, not because of their efficacy.

Put another way, there's no ethical problem with recommending that people who follow Jay-Z should follow Obama, but there's a PR problem there.
It's still 25% in a day. Yes, it shows disappointment and large correction from all the hype. Not that clickbaity.
Misleading title - since when did FB product managers become executives?

Though completely believe FB will use their data in any way possible to make money, ethical or not.
It's the same way we've done exams for the last 100 or so years.
There's a metric ton of other regulations, at least in the US, mandating how any human level research is done. Depending on what one is doing, it's not necessarily less annoying
This isn't controversial? We know this based on the testimonies of the Jewish survivors they forced to do it.
The problem is that he still has to target that platform as a developer, meaning avoiding dependencies like new libstdc++ versions.

Although one can always link statically...
My software engineering professor had us read the ACM [0] and IEEE [1] ethics codes. I vastly prefer the IEEE code (they both read like they were written by committees, but IEEE seems like it was addressed to a professional engineer, and ACM seems like it was written to a corporate drone.) Either one of the codes is significantly more thorough than the pledge, which seems focused on a few current issues, making it eventually irrelevant independent of whether its goals are achieved.

[0] http://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-co...
[1] http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html
SQL Server is excellent, truly excellent. You have a bunch of excellent tools there with the profiler, query analyser and management studio in general.

SQLite is good fun for embedded stuff.

C# being slow with a DB sounds like someone was doing a load of processing in the application instead of in the database? eg. grabbing a load of data with a simple SQL query and then doing all the processing in C#?? I have come across that before with someone who knew very little SQL and it's embarrassing to see.

For the pure SQL, get the guy to add comments and put it in TFS (or whatever your version control system is). That might help.

If it is super cryptic to most programmers, get them to educate themselves! All code looks cryptic if you're not used to it.
My link was a direct response to your second link.

I do not believe cloudflare on your first link (that they treat tor ips like any ips).

I can tell you from experience that I have never connected to a cloudflare backed site with tor that didn't require multiple captchas. So every tor ip is hostile to cloudflare sites? If so, how is that practically different than just blocking tor?

I think that if you read the response at your first link again, you can see that they are implying what you are saying, but that are not saying what you are saying. I think they are blocking tor, but explaining it in a diplomatic way.
Despite academic/political/military/banking/corporate alignment against fundamental morals,
"right" appears to be in agreement with nature/natural selection. The States had a more "right" society founded om constitutional and civil rights that was a big part of its climb from an English colony to the world power in less than 150 years after the constitution was written.

The reason people probably have strong convictions about right or wrong is most likely because of nature, not despite it. Groups that had this genetic trait built tribes, societies that had greater success in the long term.

In the short term, individuals, or even groups of individuals, can be successful by acting amorally, but this comes as a cost to their group's long term success--the cancer analogy.

Right now there is limited competition between groups in the world. Most of what we should be competing against is the coming extinction event when something else out there gets a whiff of all the artificial elctromagnetic radiation. Probably the reason we hear so little in the cosmos is because it is not a very competitive strategy.
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As was having the system not well suited to running on shared hosting accounts. That's because (for good or bad) the vast majority of websites are hosted on fairly cheap shared hosting accounts on large webhosts, where access to the server is heavily restricted and language choices are often limited to PHP/MySQL.

WordPress (and most traditional forum scripts like phpBB) work fine in these situations. Just upload a few files, set up a database and run the installer to get the thing working.

Discourse doesn't. It also generally isn't integrated into one click install software like Softaculous or Fantastico. This means that the audience using a typical shared host like Hostgator and clicking a button in their CPanel to set up their site can't easily use Discourse like they could WordPress.

So yeah, that's an issue here too. Discourse just requires too much control over your server for most shared hosting accounts and can't easily be integrated into one click install setups/setup by merely uploading a bunch of files. So the mass market won't ever touch it.
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DDoS over Tor is absurd.
yep same. Brooklyn here. I order grocery delivery from a local independent grocer via an app once a week or so. I value my time and don't want to spend it standing it line at a grocery store.
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Yeah, I agree, that would be nice, but as I automate the creation of those tables and cut/paste them every time that I run a set of new tests, to do that would require a lot of manual job to me. That's the reason why I don't do that, to keep it manageable.
It's a reaction to the NeverAgain.tech pledge, which is employee-centered, not company-centered.
Funnily enough, the phpBB (old, static, boring but predictable) vs Discourse (new, fancy, JS-laden) debate is literally going on on Reddit right now as they told the mods they're going to take away custom subreddit CSS for the new design since it's a fundamental rewrite (and replace it with theming tools which they have denied are going to be as limited as colour pickers, but we'll see), which judging by the mobile site will be a card-based, infinite scrolling, React app.
He's talking about having to enter the PIN for his debit card into the POS keypad.
So wait, remind me why we should believe Antonio Garcia Martinez?

The guy trumpeted the fact that he lied to his investors as a point of pride:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5b4tqe/i_am_antonio_g...

"Trust me, they're lying, I know because I'm a liar" doesn't seem terribly convincing.
Rolland's advice was neutral (neither buy nor sell) but his price target was higher than it is currently, so it might be good to buy. On the other hand, Chin's rating is "sell" and his target price is quite a bit below where it is now. I guess it depends on how you think they will do with Vega.
>Big narrative violations:

Could you rephrase that? It's interesting but I don't understand the words you introduce it with (that I just quoted). What does that mean?
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So the issue is that you can't get an invariant TSC without Ring-0 access? I assumed AMD already had invariant TSC before Ryzen that was accessible from userspace. Certainly Intel has had that since Nehalem if I recall. It just seems an odd thing to be hard considering how important it is.

I never thought about it being a cycle count since I usually access via a wrapper. I guess the wrappers are converting from cycles to nanoseconds.
Historically and in practice at many schools the CompSci program came out of the EE school. To say it's not a subset is simply wrong. You think math professors were the ones wiring up early experimental computer hardware?

Sounds like a strange computer science track at your school. And subpar, to be honest.
The Pixel line was impressive apart from the abysmal onboard storage. I would have considered one for a Linux laptop but the less-than-desktop-functionality OS (thereby reducing your expensive device to a glorified web browser) paired with the joke storage meant it was never going to get far?
This is all true.

The flip side of this, however, is that "trial phase failure" does not conclude "ineffective biologic." There are many other variables to Clinical Trials, including flaws in trial design, time spent and difficulty in operations, and biased reporting:

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/clinical-trials-fl...

http://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Preclinical-Research/Parki...

https://www.iths.org/blog/news/avoid-common-biostatistical-f...
Have you ever been to Shanghai? Or any major chinese city? This is such an uninformed comment - you can find fresh salads in the 100s of Wagas around town, in supermarkets, etcetc.

And I don't know what you call chinese food culture, maybe the traditional one 100s of years ago, but nowadays raw beef in hotpot restaurants as appetizers is very popular and sushi/sashimi even moreso, even if you go down to t2 cities. This is chinese food culture right? What chinese people like to eat nowadays in 2017, not like 1850 food culture
"The Tech Pledge" is way too generic of a name for what this is. Be specific enough that it piques people's interest. Otherwise it is just poor branding. (And branding does matter on grass roots efforts, not just corporate efforts.)
I guess I should make the top banner be a link to the home page, so that people on mobile (who can't see the sidebar very easily) can just mash the screen.

EDIT: done
You seem like one of those guys who simply can't appreciate a vertically integrated, synergistic solution that delivers on the promise of strategic technical innovation with seamless delivery.
Doesn't compute. You're only taxed on the _gain_, which means as long as your selling price is greater than your purchase price then, ignoring inflation, commissions, etc, you're always ahead as long as the tax rate is less than 100%.

Anyhow, the closing price on May 3, 2016 was $3.60. The closing price on May 1, 2016 was $13.30. Even if the entire sale price was taxed, and assuming you're already fairly wealthy, you'd need a marginal tax rate of well over 50%. The top marginal federal income tax rate is %39.6; the top state marginal income tax is 13.3%. Even a 53% tax on the total sale price wouldn't cause you to lose money.
Given neveragain exists and has thousands of signatures (many from employees at YC companies) and prominent media coverage, it's impossible not to conclude that the the glib vagueness of "The" tech pledge is deliberate.
I'd suggest a transparency section. Without companies committing to this it'll be easy for them to sign on publicly but privately act differently.

Something at the end like:

"Transparency: On an ongoing basis, we will offer our employees and our users reports on how we're fulfilling the above commitments."
Placing 'We will provide support to efforts to keep the United States DACA policy in place' under the heading 'Supporting Legal Immigration' is misleading: DACA is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, i.e. it is a policy of tolerance for illegal aliens, not legal immigrants.

Otherwise it seems a reasonably unobjectionable document.
"Eliminates" is a very loaded term in viral therapy. This paper doesn't show elimination of virus, it shows that the integrated viral genome can be excised in -some- cells by administration of adeno-associated virus harboring the CRISPR system.
After working with non-techies for many years in various support roles I am unconvinced. The majority I helped, where they had to show me or ask me something about their web browser, didn't even know what Google was beyond a search box and sometimes an email that a grandson setup for them.

I'm not sure if there are good statistics out there (especially one that proper controls) but I'd bet a good amount of money that most non-technical users either do not care or do not know what the differences are.

(Honestly there isn't much of a difference between Edge and Chrome, Bing and Google. At least from a non-techie user's point of view).
Thanks for the reply. You have me convinced with amortizing the cost of js over multiple visits rather than a single thread.

Regarding the 4mb thing, I pulled it out of 1wd's comment. It would be best if 1wd came back and explained. That said, I believe the discrepancy is probably between the size of compressed javascript in the network and it's uncompressed size. Firefox dev tools show 3.1mb for meta.discourse.org. I don't know how to view the total size in Chrome's dev tools, but if you click the "use large request rows" in the Network tab you will see that application.js by itself takes up 1.5mb.
Ahh the old "so what" argument.

So what if I can target recovering alchoholics with alchohol ads?

So what if I target gambling addicts with my gambling platform?

So what?
Most code review is not that anonymous. You often talk in person or similar about code and your identity is going to come out. These engineering organizations are the size of villages at most, it's hard to avoid.
> Since this exploit is one of the minor ones, I've decided to not try to sell it.

He would try and sell larger vulnerabilities? It only proves the point, but I still consider this a little bit disturbing.
It hasn't been cut to $100 million, the current market cap using the total supply (which is absolutely the number that should be used) is $958 million. Coinmarketcap (and others) is falsely claiming it to be $105 million, and that's dangerous.
Energetic though it may be, and notwithstanding Girard's brilliance, I doubt that I could consider a quirky treatise on proof theory to be a _philosophical_ text.

And one can be rigorous without resorting to formulae.
My point was, I'd rather have the cheaper, more easily replaced device with me, and connect to something more powerful as needed.
Although, in doing the math, I still think you would be better off taking the short term capital gain hit for the extra profit - if long term is taxed at 15%, and lets say you get even 40% hit for short term, you are still better off taking the higher share price:

(13.6 - 3.7) * 0.6 = $5.94 profit per share
(10.32 - 3.7) * 0.85 = $5.63 profit per share

Should sell and take the short term capital gains hit!
"There is huge money in feeding people bland crap that's been processed as heavily as possible."

The point isn't to process it as heavily as possible, it is to process it and flavor it so that it hits a "sweet spot" between the fat/salt/sugar flavors - according to the food science. This makes folks come back and buy more, especially with it seeming to taste better than their home-cooked food. They seriously design it to make your brain happy to have it. Some of it is bland, for sure, but plenty of it isn't.

I'm not so astonished: This sort of thing has been happening throughout history. Lead in makeup, arsenic in dyes, and so on.
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There are alcohol and gambling ads on Facebook? Those two in particular often aren't allowed on ad networks.
I think this is amazing, and the premise of it, which is to recognize the unprecedented power that is pooling in the tech sector and the responsibilities that come with it, is highly laudable.

With that said, the fact that there's no reference to the greatest problem facing our society, income inequality, is highly noticeable.

A pledge by tech companies to respect the rights of workers would actually be something notable and daring.
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Yeah, this has been specifically tailored so that people at companies like Facebook and Google can sign it. Things like... not being able to ad-target depressed youth (ex. Facebook in Australia), not paying to fabricate "independent" academic studies that claim you aren't violating antitrust law (Google's Joshua Wright), or operating software explicitly designed to help your service avoid government regulators from being able to find it (ex. Uber's Greyball), or other similarly immoral actions of Silicon Valley today clearly aren't covered here.

This appears solely based on how tech companies should deal with the government, not themselves.
> this point I just decided to throw the pitcher into the fridge (cold water masks poor taste) and use it for a few weeks to see if there were any changes.

if chlorine was the actual cause of the bad taste, wouldn't the water "aired out" the chlorine after a hour or so?
Unlike Couchsurfing i think these guys are more social focus. Though its only the MVP version i think they have something under their sleeve. I think it has a potential still. Looking forward to see how this will turn out.
I wrote back and asked if they were so serious about that message, why didn't they take the Buy button off their website?

If you can't readily answer that for yourself, I wouldn't have replied to you, either.
It's funny the article should mention Austin, since there was just a mass stabbing there ( https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/05/01/multiple-pe... ).

Rifles are on the order of 20% as likely to be used to commit a murder as knives ( https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-... ).

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Regulating what people can build in their own homes is not a good idea, nor is saying "this set of machine blueprints is legal to possess, while this other is not". The hacking community has known this for a long time ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html ).
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