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This isn't realistic. Many business need outside capital, they just need it without the institutional baggage. For my own business i'm specifically looking for investors that are aligned with the companies goals first. And its proving difficult because so many investors have distorted ideas about the very nature of business. Many believe the point of business is to make money. Which is exactly the wrong mindset from my point of view and highly dangerous to what we are trying to accomplish.
Google has been ordered to do stuff by courts many times -- that's not new. The unusual thing about this case is that Google is being ordered by Canada to do something worldwide, for a bunch of people who have nothing to do with Canada.
Great examples. I was completely ignorant of the great Chinese famine, and didn't realize how high the death tolls of the other events you mentioned were. Thanks for educating me.
Libel and slander laws can only be applied if you know the identity of the person who did it, and have enough money to hire an attorney to go after the person.

Right now if you google my name, there's a forum out there that says I'm a child molester based on zero evidence, and the only reason it's up is because I am following my legal requirements as a website operator per the ToU to not release personally identifying information on one of my users. I've talked to attorneys about it, but the consensus is that I'd need at least $30k to chase the guy down, with no guarantee of a return at the end, and that in the meantime harassment from this guy would get worse.

So maybe people saying damaging untrue things is a necessary cost for freedom of speech, but it's sure as hell a pain in the ass if you're on the wrong side of it.
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From the looks of it, I bet you could make emacs' artist mode do it. https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/228/how-can-i-draw...
I don't think it's ethical, but it's not legally fraud. Fraud requires, among other things, a misstatement (or an omission of some fact the party is bound to disclose) that is material, and that the other party actually relied on and which reliance proximately caused the other party harm.

He's not under any legal duty to disclose to his employer how he does the work. The original post suggests that he might have misstated when he completed each batch of work (though, even there, he could have phrased it in a way that simply omitted that information). And the incorrect entries might count as misstatements. But neither of those facts is likely material. And even if they are, there's no harm to the employer arising out of those misstatements. The harm has to be traceable in some more or less direct fashion to the material misstatement. Any misstatement about when the author did the work, or the errors the author introduced did not cause the employer any harm. Any harm that occurred to the employer--say, paying the author for a job that was automated--arose from the employer not knowing about the automation, not from a false statement the author made. Finally, even if the author flat out said "I'm doing this by hand, not using a script," it's not clear any causation would be sufficiently direct. The scenario in which the company saves money by firing the author is a speculative outcome, not a certain one.
This is basically a non-story. And also a horrible click bait headline. There was extremely minimal chafing during the brief ban on alcohol in the office. Prior to the Walmart purchase I very rarely saw anyone drinking in the office when it wasn't a company sponsored happy hour, and NEVER saw anyone drinking before 5PM (still haven't). People were a little miffed because no one likes having privileges taken away, even if they aren't using them.

I also think that people were barely aware of the no-swearing rule...I didn't even know it existed until I read this article! Seriously, how is it even enforceable?

Edit: Last thing. Even if either of these things had been strictly enforced, it wouldn't have changed things much around here. We don't have a culture of heavy drinking/swearing. We DO have a culture of trusting people though, which is what bothered some employees.

Source: I am a Jet employee.
Can you help me understand something. Why do they have to cite laws this ruling is in contravention of instead of citing laws that Google is in convention with to prevent worldwide dissemination? One would think that you don't have to prove what the government proposes you do in region X to be illegal there, but rather prove that what you are already doing in region X to be legal there.
everyone knows that quote but I doubt you've read WofN - about 1 paragraph later he says that this will drive the worker insane and may literally lead to the collapse of society:

"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgement concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life... But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it."
"Blockchain interoperability" sounds a lot like sidechains (http://media.rsk.co/sidechains-drivechains-and-rsk-2-way-peg...).

I agree that there will be lots of 'blockchains', but there will still be some hierarchical topology based on the tradeoffs that have to be made regarding trust/risk and liquidity of when & where your tokens are 'located'.

The internet isn't possible without address space administration (even in the case of IPv6?). It appears to live at the edges, but there's still a hierarchy. And I can't imagine, at least with today's tech, how expensive it would be to have to speculate on N tokens across N blockchains to form a transaction, so I expect to keep things relatively useful, there will still have to be a singular source of truth for a given token.
> is there a soft curse word?

i believe the common parlance is "alternative curse words"
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I'd like to see a specific citation here, please.
Right, which means the real question is 'how much should those taxes be?'
It's not bad for the employer to get 8x as much out; it's bad for the employer to pay 8x as much, when they could pay (say) 3x as much and keep the other 5x as profit.
Depends where you were in the world.

In 2007, GWP was ~50Trn USD.

In 2017, GWP is ~80Trn USD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
Raiden is an implementation of the payment/state channel network he refers to.
Not having scalability keeps the hype going. If current cryptocoin technology could support VISA-scale volumes, it would be obvious that the need for high transaction capacity wasn't there. With transaction volumes limited to a few transactions per second worldwide, it's possible to claim that there's pent-up demand waiting to be unleashed, justifying excessive valuation.
It may be true that parser generators are superior from a technical point of view (I can't comment), but parser combinators sure can be nice to use. I very recently used nom to implement a parser for a structured text format, it feels wonderfully expressive and you can knock together a reasonably sophisticated parser in a matter of hours. Performance-wise, it is zero-copy and chomps through a 100MB file in less than half a second on my crappy laptop, so plenty fast enough for most situations.
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It's simply not on the same level as today. Germany during WW1 didn't have any trade by sea for example.
http://www.r-word.org/
Why is a review from January on the front page?
is it really irrelevant? It's a well understood benchmark for tech growth rate is it not?
And they didn't attempt to exploit an information asymmetry when hiring them?
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We use Xamarin. For most code changes the iOS testing is absolutely trivial, since it uses the exact same code running against other platforms. All I want is to compile, it's understandable that they want to keep their IDEs mac-only.
Thanks, 'despite the existence of' fits better with the point I was trying to make. The 1st amendment would definitely be regarded in a libel lawsuit.
Google Product Listing Ads are the advertisements for specific products that show up in a carousel at the top of search results that include product pictures, titles, and prices.

Product Listing Ads are like AdWords (text ads) in that they are advertisements placed by a particular merchant for a price. They are graphical ads in that they include a picture, but the picture must show a specific product that's available for sale.

Any merchant can sign up and place Product Listing Ads at the top of search results, just like how merchants can sign up to buy AdWords.

Can you clarify what you think is problematic about Product Listing Ads? Can you clarify your stance on AdWords? What do you think Google should do differently?

Product Listing Ads are already open to all merchants, just like AdWords. They show up at the top because they are advertisements, and showing up at the top is precisely what the merchant is buying. Why should product ads be treated any differently than AdWords? I don't see why one should be allowed and the other prohibited.

Or are you just saying that you don't think Google should be allowed to offer any advertising whatsoever alongside their free search?

I'm asking these questions because the criticism of Google's actions in this space does not seem sensible or consistent to me. If you agree that Google should be allowed to show advertisements in its free search, then I don't see what objection there can be to Product Listing Ads, or why someone would object to PLAs and not AdWords, given that both ad platforms are open to everyone. If they were specifically prohibiting their competitors from placing ads, or raking their ads poorly, that would be one thing, but what they seem to be accused of is, as best as I can understand it, offering ads at all. The logic is tortured.

(This current behavior seems to be what the EU investigation objects to; I didn't see a mention in the press release about Google having already stopped the practices they objected to, so I assume they object to the current search behavior. It may have worked differently in the past, like pre 2012.)
> So I'm not sure what the point is of the title of the article.

The rest of the paper elaborates on the title.
> Libel and slander laws can only be applied if you know the identity of the person who did it, and have enough money to hire an attorney to go after the person.

The latter part is true, the former part is less so; you can use John/Jane Doe lawsuits and then subpoena third parties to discover the specific identities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_subpoena
Thank you for the reference. I look forward to reading this.
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+1 I would buy this!
Wasn't the point of the web to be a replacement for this? Nobody's done the meta level work of making reviews of URLs easy to access in a relevant way, I think.

But that would be the best replacement, right?
One indicator I use is the bullshit level and its derivatives. You can define bullshit any way you like; my definition is "activity that adds no value to the company, or (worse) actively impedes people who are adding value to the company."

If the bullshit level is high, I think about leaving. If the first derivative of the bullshit level is also positive (bullshit is increasing) I lean heavily toward leaving. (If the first derivative is negative, the company might be healthy and pivoting after a setback.)

If both the first and the second derivatives of bullshit are positive (bullshit is not only increasing but accelerating) it's time to leave immediately.
I've had Dell XPS 13 DE for about a month now. Overall I'm very happy with it. It's great to have the power of linux right on the computer, not a SSH-session away. I got the 1080p version cause the battery will last longer. Too bad it also ment I only got 8 gigs or ram.

There's also some rough edges, some of them I could solve.

Touchpad is supersensitive. If you're typing a longer sentence suddenly you could jump out of the input/text-field cause your thumbs touched it. Tweakable, got better with "syndaemon -t -k -i 1.0 -d".

I think the keyboard backlight turned off too quick, tweakable with "echo 5m > /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/stop_timeout"

The WLAN doesn't come online as fast as I would like it to after closed screen and sleepmode. Way quicker on my MacBook Pro (2015). Also feels like I have more net-problems when the WLAN-signal is weak when compared to my MacBook Pro. Mosh in a terminal is great for keeping connections from a laptop to servers though.

Bluetooth syncing to wireless speakers and similar isn't as fluid and automatic as from Win 10.

The worst part is a constant lowlevel hissing when using headphones. I haven't been able to solve that yet :/.

But overall I really like the keyboard, the screen, the formfactor and Ubuntu 16.
It could be relevant if there is some fixed refresh cycle of servers. That is, newer servers can serve more end users because of the faster cpu, drives, etc. The author seems to have skipped the concept though.
Are tasteless jokes really something that needs to be protected? Sure, if he was making a joke about the government being corrupt , or the over-reach of courts (ironic), I would be on your side. But are you really gonna die on this hill? You will fight for the right of comedians to insult the personal appearance of disabled people? I don't think it contributes much to the democratic discourse. And don't give me any of those "slippery slope" arguments.
A sufficient number of people upvoted it.

I submitted it again after reading this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14654124 . I thought it was fairly well known that there are now good, works-out-of-the-box Linux laptops, but apparently it isn't true.

I use OS X (or I guess MacOS now—https://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/01/5k-retina-imac-and-mac-os...) but think diversity and freedom are important.
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The blockchain to me is fundamentally flawed way to look at distributed computation. It really isn't distributed computing because there is a shared agreed and singular "truth". Truly distributed systems must deal with inconsistency instead of trying to keep a consistent transactional view of the world. I'm not sure I want it to scale.

The innovation of the blockchain is that it allows people to lend their computers to what looks like a singular system. However, as oulined by this document, the cost is huge in both time and burning the CPU oil.

I also don't believe in the transactional spot trade view of the world. It is a narrow way of viewing cooperation and markets. Unbreakable contracts are frightening. Everyone who deals with contracts between peers knows that contracts could be broken and are always negotiable. Unbreakable contracts just seems like a viscous tool for people who have move power over those with less. Because among equals, contracts are meant to be broken, changed, re-negotiated.
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Do you also choose doctors, grocers, utilities, planes, and cities that are not Internet enabled?
this is basically "capitalism 101."

I would, well, did, actually, argue that's precisely the point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659043
The same motivation driving Southeast Asians to work in Qatar drives Mexicans and Central Americans to the United States to work as legal or illegal migrant workers ... some of the latter working independently, most working for a series of established companies.

The big difference between Qatar/middle-east and the U.S. is that in the U.S. the business culture does not have as much recent history of indentured servitude, and has ever-diminishing use of unsafe practices (e.g., dangerous pesticides applied by farm workers without adequate protection). My father-in-law saw over the past 20 or 30 years many such Latin American workers come through furniture and manufacturing plants in North Carolina where he managed H.R. ... and they were paid very fairly and worked very hard, conscientiously, thoroughly. A fair number were found to have registered with false Social Security numbers and had to move on, but my father-in-law says it always was a loss for the plant. Those in the U.S. illegally still had to hazard the trip, and face deportation always ... but they mostly can leave any employment situation, or go back home, at any time.

Those workers stuck in Qatar / middle-east are unfortunate suckers reeled in by bastards and an uncaring system both in their countries of origin and in Qatar.

So ... on to the interesting part ... what are those Latin American workers in the U.S. doing with the majority of their wages? >>> They're by-and-large remitting that money back home to plow into joint RENT-SEEKING ventures with family / friends back home. They endure the hazardous journey, sub-standard housing, time away from family and their own comfortable culture, and two or three simultaneous jobs, because they have the initiative and need to build the nest egg so they can escape the "wage slavery". <<<
I can't really call it "significant financial gain" considering the likely outcome of telling their employer is that they get fired. Keeping your existing job doesn't fall under "significant financial gain" to me.
Maybe. I still think saying that nobody is stupid enough to start a war is a recipe for disaster.
But he's valuing his time with his son not the money earned. He's getting 38 hours a week vacation time, that might be worth much more than double or even triple his pay.
Not everyone has this bias. I think it comes down to how logically or emotionally driven the individual is.
What's the solution here? Can you limit d_entry table size per-process? Do you have to limit it globally? Is the answer to just not use containers?
We got Keen 4 bundled with this Gravis joystick: http://mocagh.org/forsale/gravis-back.jpg

I played Keen exclusively with a joystick for years and was pretty good at it. If you sat me down with the exact same joystick I could probably still play pretty well, but the much looser feel of a modern joystick would screw me up. When my brother and I would play Keen, we'd make the plastic on the joystick case creak from the frantic maneuvering!
I don't know, but I was just explaining why they're annoyed, not whether they should be annoyed.
> A glass of water provided at the right time in a desert is invaluable and thus expensive.

If you travel a real desert, you'll realize that water is always offered for free[1] to people in need. As is bread. And that is the very idea of basic income: Provide essentials for free.

[1] Disclaimer: I did about 20k miles by car in Western Sahara and the south of Morocco in the last 4 years.
In many places, unimproved land has a TON of value. In those places, in fact, many people buy a home just to tear it down and rebuild on the lot. They would pay MORE if the house wasn't there. There is a reason the saying in real estate is 'location, location, location' and not 'build quality, build quality, build quality'. The reason you can buy much larger homes for less money in other parts of the country isn't because the building materials or labor are cheaper, but because the land itself is cheaper.

Now, I am not saying that the building itself doesn't have value, or that the person who built and owns the building shouldn't be compensated for that investment and work, but it is disingenuous to pretend that the majority of the value is from the building and not the land itself (at least for most places where rent is high)

I am not in any way, shape, or form arguing that we should seize all private property in some kind of communist revolution; I am simply saying we need to think about how we divide up the value of something like real estate to fairly compensate and encourage development without promoting unfair and ineffecient rent seeking.
I absolutely love Adrian's blog. http://www.pyimagesearch.com/

He has articles on solving actual problems with OpenCV, dlib and tensorflow. I subscribe to the blog and try to do some of the tutorials myself.

Udacity is another great resource. Their self driving and robotics nanodegrees are great.

I am on the same path as you trying to pivot my career from full stack engineer and add CV + ML skills to it.

When we have decent robot hardware, I want to be the one programming them, not the one getting replaced by them.
Why are laptop vendors avoiding the Iris GPU? The previous generation XPS 13 had the IRIS gpu and if you skipped the high resolution touch screen the battery life went from a pretty good 12 hours to an amazing 20 hours. Did I mention I had touch screens? Dell also has an annoying habit of restricting the NICE cpu and 16GB ram to the high res touch screen.

Seems really weird to spec such a nice laptop with the HD 620 graphics when $20 or so would get you the iris (with an on chip frame buffer) 640 which approximately doubles the performance. Same TDP even.
I'll admit, that I didn't finish it. I got to the part where he starts going on and on about the proper price of things and the relationship to the price of gold, and "the torpor of my mind rendered me not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgement concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life." WoN is a LONG book!

But I did get past that paragraph, and it seems to have flown out the other ear.
What's illegible about it? I don't even know Racket, and I can see plainly what it does.
I get the theory behind that quiz 'trick question', but does it make any actual legal sense? If the discrimination against a subset happens because of the component of the subset that's protected, then surely it's an attack on a protected category. So if you say "black children are all stupid" the likely implication is that you're saying "unlike white children" (otherwise why would you include black).

Is this even true legally? Could a school discriminate against black children because, hey, they are children? Or a movie theater: "Let's not offer youth discounts to Latinos".

I am not a lawyer, so I don't know the legalistic view, but it seems to be an absurdity.
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Just to point out, the long dominance of the restrictive “Clear and Present Danger” rule in US free speech analysis was ended in favor of the “inciting imminent lawless conduct” rule (which makes mere theoretically dangerous speech still protected) in case in which KKK leader was challenging a conviction for televised advocacy of “revengeance”.

I don't think most people that are happy about the rule would find the particular actor or action sympathetic; you fight for free speech not because the actor is popular or sympathetic, but because you might need it when you and your actions are not popular or sympathetic.
You say he's being unethical and 'stealing', yet then you say in his position you'd lie to your employer and claim you developed the code on weekends instead of on company time in order to charge the employer a monthly subscription fee and also sell it to potential competitors. Really?