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>We cause these companies to pollute by creating a market demand for their products or services.

Utterly wrong under multiple criteria.

1. If you read the article you'll see a number of these companies exist in polities that are in no way representative democracies without even the genuine goal (let alone a somewhat decent implementation) of a full market system, making them insulated from even general population pressure let alone market pressure.

2. For the ones that exist in the 1st World under reasonably market-based economies, you are still wrong, because the entire point of a market economy is that the price represents that all costs, ie., no externalities. Consumers can of course factor in non-cost factors at their option, but when it comes to something like pollution everything associated should be built in and it is absolutely not the end consumers fault if some company is committing fraud by failing to deal with externalities.

It's unfortunate modern conservatives in particular have done a full 180 and grown to hate the Free Market and refuse to implement emissions pricing, but that isn't up to individuals in their role as consumers (though in a democracy it is their fault in their role as citizens if they're supporting anti-market politicians). If the price of emitting a ton of CO2 or CH4 was simply set at the price of industrially removing (within a year) a ton, then things would be sorted out from there. The vast majority of humanity needs to be involved with externally produced products and/or services to survive in the modern world, that's not some option or crime. The sticker price should be reflecting all costs so they can make appropriate comparisons and choices.
on ICO vs IPO, how does that work? Are there really non-blockchain companies making cryptocoins for the sole purpose of raising capital to spend on entirely orthogonal concerns?
Well, for one, he's not that kind of entrepreneur. He made his fortune by starting off extremely wealthy, and then expanded it by defrauding people and going deeply into debt, rather than producing anything of value.
What do you do when your neighbor's garage has been unlocked for a while, and a few folks have already taken advantage and stolen a few things?

Nothing, if you're honest.
Well, yes -- but the intent of making this deeper assessment is to get at the root of why the pilot may have made the error.

Let's say we do some deep dive assessment and we find that there's several contributions (all contrived for discussion): (1) during summer, sun sets directly behind runway 28R, (2) lighting system activates at 1 hr before sunset, (3) lighting system was refreshed with LED bulbs this year, (4) taxiway C is 30% wider than median taxiway in US airports of size similar to SFO, (5) the A320 (used by Air Canada 759) has reclining seats in the cockpit and this pilot was shorter than the prior pilot for this plane.

If you had an assessment like that you could reasonably take action on some of these without waiting for a fatal accident. The action wouldn't even necessarily have to be to remove/replace/alter these things, it could even be to commission a study to see the wider impact of LED lighting or reclining seats or something. Changing the runway orientation is a very large expense, but constraining 28R use during the critical sunset period is a little less so.

If this pilot made the error, it stands to reason that other pilots may make the same mistake. If we consider a near miss as seriously as we consider a fatal accident we can still learn great things. A near miss is likely only a failure of (N - 1) elements out of the critical N required for a fatal accident.
Programming needs to be taught alongside Algebra I. Especially in a language like Haskell or Scheme where algebraic refactoring of type signatures looks like normal algebra notation.
It might be good if you had a sound notification or an icon that would appear in the tab when a new message arrives. (with the option to turn it off) That would make it easier to check something in another window without getting really distracted and missing that you have a message.

I like the UI.
> For now it's free ;)
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/botengine#comment-490613
Not sure it's exactly the early years. But I think there's zero point to moving past a topic until you have mastery & can think WITH it (not just, about it, or hack through it on paper). And since the early years are often where that fails, they need to be rethought.
I am fairly convinced at this point that the recent cryptocurrency selloff is an indicator of the start of a tech stock decline.
Even simple objects, like vectors, for example, can very quickly become so abstract (higher dimensions; complex vector spaces) that the physical intuition stops being useful and can even lead to mistakes. This is the point when new kinds of mathematical intuition becomes necessary, and building them is very difficult and takes time.
i get a feeling you're not talking about elementary school. but i agree - both can be taught good or bad. bad is dumb memorization, good is understanding real world phenomena.
What does this have to do with Taibbi's article?
I'm only citing what I've read, so forgive me if I lack the necessary understanding here, but my general interpretation has been that:

1) Money is still super cheap in the private equities, meaning companies that likely could IPO opt instead to stay private and take on more private cash to avoid public market scrutiny as they grow.

2) Because money is so cheap, it's easy for competition to pop up in any industry piquing venture interest. This is requiring companies to take losses to acquire customers. These fickle customers then have plenty of options to move to a competitor once the company tries to increase prices to hit positive margin. As an anecdote, I have absolutely no loyalty to most services I use these days.

3) This seems to create kind of a vicious cycle of VC-subsidized business operations, never allowing a large portion of these businesses to hit metrics that would appease the public, keeping most of them private, in friendly ecosystems in the short term.
We'll have integrations with LiveChat and Slack very soon. I'm adding telegrams and post pigeons to our to-do.
No, the point is: The sphere doesn't care if you can prove if it is a sphere or not, it stays a sphere. If you CAN TELL if it is (or not) is a different matter entirely, so it doesn't work that you say "if and only if it is proven" when you make claims about something having a certain property.

i.e. Just because I can't tell if you have two hands to type this doesn't mean you don't have them.

"You have two hands if and only if there's a formal proof that you have two hands"
> The vendor will also have to be willing to “freeze” the configuration of the laptop for at least one year.

This is one of the most important points. The speed at which laptop vendors are releasing new SKUs is staggering. I know the whole supply chain is to blame, but apart from a few models, the number of different SKUs is way too high.
> the actual person "doing" the pollution is you and me, when we buy a gas-powered car and drive it dozens of miles through suburban gridlock to get to work, or leave the thermostat at 68 on a hot summer day

These examples demonstrate what lies in the power of the consumer and what doesn't pretty well though. Leaving the thermostat at 68 could be argued to be wasteful for the mere convenience of having it 'nice and cool'. However, I think it's in the hands of politicians to see that the energy powering the A/C unit, comes from more environmentally-friendly sources. Such a solution would certainly be a lot more reliable and sustainable than requiring every citizen to just live with the heat even though everybody knows the cool air of the A/C is just one button press away.

Similarly for your other example of driving through the suburban gridlock. I guess nobody wishes for traffic jams and long commutes through concrete deserts. However, people just use the existing infrastructure. What would be the alternative? Live closer to the city center, which probably results in much higher cost of living. Or not going to the city center every day, which would require having a (compared to most) very flexible job.

These are issues that need to be solved on a political level and not by simply expecting everyone to 'do the right thing' (in this case meaning, to behave more environmentally friendly), while at the same time knowing that this often comes with a financial or quality-of-life cost that most people are not willing to bear.

EDIT: typos
Why Silicon Valley Is So Bad at Politics
I wonder if a large part of our math problem is our legacy fixation on Greek letters. Would math be more approachable to English speakers if we just used English?

I like to think about math as language, rather than thought or logic or formulas or numbers. The Greek letters are part of that language, and part of why learning math is learning a completely foreign language, even though so many people who say they can't do math practice mathematical concepts without Greek letters. All of the math we do on computers, symbolic and numeric, analytic and approximations, can be done using a Turing machine that starts with only symbols and no built-in concept of a number.
Wouldn't the word be "near hit" instead of "near Miss"? If you were close too missing, you'd hit something...
I'm curious: if we can solve the "trusting trust" problem - that is identifying compromised compilers, even if the other compiler is compromised - couldn't we potentially solve this problem in a similar way?
I see your point, and I see I misunderstood the OP's point too. Thanks!
The issue with yielding to investors is that investors are primarily interested in making money for themselves, rather than growing the companies they are investing in. An investor will always vote to have large companies take loans in order to purchase the hundreds of millions of dollars worth shares they just purchased back a 25% increase over their current market value, or get a lump sum in the form of the newly issued dividends as it was in Apple's case. And then they take the money they made, reinvest in another large company they can leverage and do it again.

There's absolutely no reason to seek growth based returns which carry risk while this approach is available. Dividends and stock-buybacks represent a no-value-created system of incentives for the richest people in the world, directly extracting the surplus value of laborers at the expense of workers and long-term investors. Only when a company starts to topple does there seem to be any interest in moving into new markets or improving their existing lines of business.
Is there a way to just get the user response and forward it to a webhook ? (and of course send a reply received from the webservice)
I suppose one can learn how to think by doing math, or they can just learn how to follow rules...and perhaps some may want to think about match specifically. However, I think most people would be encouraged to learn math if they are shown that math is just a way to model the world they live in and it can tell them specifically about some of the assumptions they have about it. For instance, I might assume if you put some fuel in a rocket and point it straight up that it will go into space and be somewhere. Math can tell me where it will be and the path it will take to get there...people identify more with those concrete things.
Agreed. I readopted Fedora as my distro of choice around 19 and haven't looked back.
This will help Canadian startups a lot.
The real news here, the part that makes the US government care, is "As many as 200 million [people] may not know [they use Kaspersky]."

Businessweek buried the lede (potentially-compromised firmware in devices you don't realize carry it) behind the blatantly-obvious (AV companies are not government-independent). Well, that and Kaspersky may have been lying about what connections they do have, but frankly that's not surprising either.
Watch disease-carrying mosquitoes invade the U.S
The point of Qubes is not perfection. It instead tries to put in barriers so that compromising one part does not compromise the whole.
"all these notions are so different from what we have to deal with every day that learning them takes a lot of training"

I disagree in the general sense. I think most of mathematics with which "normal people" (by that I mean people who don't get a masters or phd in mathematics) have problems is directly correlated to problems and situations in the real world. The problem is that we teach mathematics as if we were computers - which we are not. Its about formulas, recognizing patterns, precise answers and proofs instead of general understanding and intuitions about things - which is where humans excel and how we work and remember things.

For example, being able to solve quadratic equations is nice but IMHO what's much more important is knowing how the coefficients and their signs shape the plot of the lines and how that might effect the trajectory and hang-time of a projectile. Also being able to look at a projectile and give an approximate quadratic equation is again IMO more important than knowing all the steps in the quadratic equation.

But this is just my opinion.
wow... slavery? really? strawman much?

There is a HUGE difference between forcing someone to work for no money, and expecting an equality of pay and sick leave based on a persons sex.

My whole argument was that in small business where the financial bottom line is tight and every saving makes the difference between success and failure, by introducing discrimination such as this initiative, it actually dis-incentivises the hiring of women. HENCE, in order to establish a balanced workplace it is in your best interests to NOT introduce factors which make hiring men more cost effective. If you believe in equality, then the only solution is "whats good for one is good for all". otherwise you create a situation where you end up incentivising the opposite objective to what you were trying to achieve.
Seconded. I've been on Fedora for the last few months and it's had much less general bullshit and annoyance than recent Ubuntu's. Certainly looking forward to upgrading to Fedora 26.
Probably a lot, but despite the title, that's not what this article is about.
“Hey team, I'm taking today and tomorrow to focus on my mental health.”
I saw some articles saying fedora 26 might land with fractional scaling for Hdpi screen. Any news regarding this? if it lands somewhere is there any way to know about it?
I'll be very keen to switch back to Linux when my main laptop will have good support for this
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BART Withholding Surveillance Videos of Crime to Avoid ‘Stereotypes’
...the original offender.
Probably, but not in the nearest future. We'll have LiveChat (livechatinc.com) in a few weeks (probably even this month). Thanks for the info about the typo!
That will speed up developer time, as will expert systems that automatically account for known failure modes and ever more sophisticated operational environments.

But that person talking to the AI, will need to know best practices about stating intent, experience with when that goes poorly, and an ability to think about the problem and break it up into stateable intentionality. All of that is just a developer doing their job...
Yes, definitely, but I have no expectation that they will be the ones managing or updating it. My pitch is basically "I'll do the site and you can email me .docx, PDF, giant 20MB JPEGs, whatever, and I'll manage it for you".

This is even easier then something like WordPress for them, and much simpler for me. WordPress deserves credit for its ease of use for non-technical people, however I don't view this as a good metric for what to choose for a website.

I deliver the _site folder as a finished product and put it on Cloudfront with HTTPS. That's about as simple and unbreakable as it gets. Customers can then pay a monthly retainer or occasional hourly rates for updates. If they want the source files to run the generator on their own machine that's fine too, but it costs extra.

The model isn't that much different from a wedding photographer.
As mentioned in the article, Buzzstream seems to have that feature (called outreach): http://www.buzzstream.com/tour/research
Speaking as an ex-journalist, I think the battle has already been lost because the distribution platforms will always make more money than the content producers. Even when I was a journalist I rarely bought physical newspapers/magazines or had any subscriptions because I consumed things on story by story basis from different publications.

I worked in local news and I think there's probably more hope for smaller, nimble outfits which combine tech and news well to survive. Depending on your geographical location, I think you can provide enough local value to sustain < 10 staff. But then that requires having access to engineers willing to work in such an operation.
Yes, functional. I wasted a good 15 years in the OO world and wish I'd never seen it.
I actually think they are mediocre at best a lot
of the time, though Buzzstream is the best and is building out a solid database. I usually personally use Mechanical Turk to find the real email addresses, but some human rights group got bothered that I would recommend a service that doesn't provide a living wage and gave me hell for two years. So I took that part out publicly, but it's still in the book version.
Relying on someone else to fix it won't fix it, is essentially what I'm saying, for if everyone had that attitude, then nothing would happen, absolutely nothing.

Politicians are just people too.
IMHO, ICOs seem to have much less due dilligence going on than IPOs and prey on the uninformed that hope to invest in the next Bitcoin. If anything they're even more of a confirmation that money is invested in products without any real perspective.

And for an example of a startup that didn't survive, take Pebble, $15m in VC funding, ended up being sold for $23m. Not sure though how much of that actually went back to the VC. And this was a startup that had a paying customer base, active development community and a product in many big-chain stores.
I would just view pet projects as practice time. Its like getting mad at a musician for playing when the mics are turned off.
The rules of this startup visa never made any sense. They basically ensured that very few potential immigrant founders would qualify and the ones that did were in a place where they probably didn't see the value in that path as opposed to other business related visas.
I spent three years of undergrad working on neurogenesis research - was actually able to show that voluntary exercise could help ameliorate memory deficits caused by a model of a neurodegenerative disease we'd induced in rats.

A Luminosity recruiter contacted me after I left, and I asked for evidence that their research is actually helpful. They were very kind and passed along a number of studies that they'd done. I wasn't super impressed. Among other things, they were marketing their games to the general public, not the populations represented in their small studies. Quite honestly, aerobic exercise causes a huge upregulation of neurogenesis (and many other positive things), so people would be better off going for a light jog 2-3 times a week. It felt like they were taking advantage of families desperate to help a family member with dementia and willing to try anything.
In Putins Russia, westerners use antiquated soviet metaphors in to maintain a false sense of superiority and unipolar status quo

disclaimer: I like soviet russia jokes
Not the first time I heard about RT, but just signed up! RIP Joe.
I am mainly a macOS user, but I keep around a Dell workstation for work that needs a lot of memory or cores. After years of primarily running Debian and Ubuntu, I switched the machine to Fedora 25 and upgraded to Fedora 26 during the beta cycle.

I was surprised how good Fedora is these days. The GNOME desktop is buttery smooth with Wayland and the Nouveau drivers on the relatively old Quadro that the machine has. Audio and suspend/resume worked out-of-the-box without any problems. Upgrades are very fast thanks to DNF and delta RPMs. Software also seems to get minor release updates within a release (e.g., I had some vim updates).

The Fedora installer also put / on a separate btrfs subvolume as it should (Ubuntu didn't do that in 16.04, not sure if they fixed that).

Great work Fedora folks!
How to manage mental health at work
Even before this rule, they weren’t exactly competitive with the US. I don’t see how this time will be any different.
That's assuming that the answer to this question is constant. I'm frequently running into the problem of / being too small on my notebook (I only have /, /home and /boot partitions) since I didn't anticipate my 2017 needs when installing the system in 2012. I really need to set aside some time to reinstall it...
If you want to use an existing toolchain, you could use HPHPc (the predecessor to HHVM, which transpiled PHP to C code) and emscripten to translate from C to Javascript. It would probably require some mucking around at the emscripten layer though to get all the packages linking properly, because HPHPc has a non-trivial number of (non-optional) runtime deps for supporting all of the various php modules. You should just be able to compile them separately with emscripten into a prefix (e.g. don't use emscripten ports, which I've had a terrible time with) but YMMV.

I dockerized a working version of HPHPc (which is quite difficult to set up due to bitrot) at https://github.com/allanlw/hphpc-docker if you want to play around with the compiler. I might try to take a shot at passing it through emscripten later.
I really believe working from home isn't suited for everyone. I find it hard to focus and with limited space in my flat, I don't really enjoy working from home. Whenever I have appointments or different runs. What companies to be is flexible with allowing ad-hoc requests to work from home.
Nah. Programmers who write everything by googling+copy-pasting will eventually be replaced by robots. Which will be created by programmers who can come up with an algorithm on their own.
"Ma'am, you were driving at ninety miles an hour."

"But, sir, I have only traveled twenty miles!"
I think the most important thing here is that we stop to think about the gender normativity of the unidentified person's use of the term "guy" in "where's this guy going."

/sarcasm
Your analogy seems far fetched to me.

Going wired->wifi is like going desktop->laptop. I'll admit to being slow to go to both laptop and wifi years ago, but at least to me they're clearly superior.
The suckless community maintains a page about SystemD's flaws (Why it "sucks"), and what they think an init system should do, and what it shouldn't. It's a relatively concise summary of the position of the people opposed to SystemD: http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd

So far I haven't found a page like this by the SystemD advocates. I haven't really found much of an argument by them, to be quite honest. It would be nice to hear of one, of course.
There's a really scary picture of a power plant leading off the story. There is a huge amount of smoke pouring out of its smoke stacks.

Only, most of the smoke stacks are chillers and most of all that smoke is steam. The chillers looks like the kind most often associated with nuclear power plants.

If you took all those emissions and photoshopped away all the H2O, you'd have a very small wisp of smoke. That smoke would still be a problem. But the photo would not inspire fear and concern.

When an article leads off with that kind of spurious fearmongering, it damages any real value that might exist later in the article. Any real data and real concerns get obscured in all the fake smoke the article is purposely generating.