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Man Charged with Killing Missing Journalist After Crowdfunded Sub Sinks
I'd argue that more than half pure SPAs do not need to be SPAs, and can be written effectively in Rails with someone who knows it well, in less time, with less bugs, and more test coverage.
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Isn'r regulatory capture the status quo in Washington? This isn't out of character with past appointments of any sort.
In China, Facebook Tests the Waters with a Stealth App
AFAIK the uploader has to pay in this type of system; it's basically just S3 but cheaper and "decentralized". You can upload pirated content to a public S3 bucket if you want and I don't think AWS really cares because they're getting paid and they are covered by the DMCA safe harbor.
Welcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access
The full letter is included in the article, and the signatures are from three people (representing at least two VC firms). They claim others will be adding their names to the letter in coming days. From the article:

Who signed the request? Shervin Pishevar (Sherpa Capital, although signed as an individual), Ron Burkle (Yucaipa Cos) and Adam Leber (Maverick).

[Edit] According to Crunchbase [1], Sherpa Capital was involved in Series D and Series E funding for Uber, while Adam Leber was an Angel investor. I couldn't find info on Ron Burkle or Yucaipa Cos.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber/investors
Small-scale test of the general idea. Not even an MVP - test the basic idea as an extreme rough draft. If people respond positively to the general theme, keep testing and building up for that responsive audience. If it's good enough, they'll keep engaging
Some will use Linux or Mac or a cloud based solution where possible (such as for GPGPU), but by far the most popular alternative to the latest and greatest Windows is some older, lesser Windows that doesn't create excitement or lock-in.
I'm not sure this is solvable -- it's like being second place to eBay.

Kinda a funny example, since nowadays I mostly think of eBay as an also-ran to Amazon.
Robotic abuse has a tendency to bring cool projects like this to their knees. Any publicly-accessible, readable/writable service will eventually run into this problem.
I'm sure that is part of the hiring disparity among females and underrepresented minorities. As a black guy myself, I know the same is true among black people who simply aren't interested in engineering but Damon makes weird ability judgements based on the population.

This makes no sense as people with different interests would never bother in the first place no matter how much time and money you threw at them. So again I say why bring up the upstream problem to begin with as it being related to their abilities for engineering?

IMO, the only way his text makes sense is if you are someone looking to back up potentially racist and sexist biases by misusing science. It makes me question their ability to work with people different than themselves.

With that said I'm actually torn on the issue of the firing. Google says its a place for diversity of opinion etc etc...So on some level they should stick by it.

However, I understand why the firing may have needed to be done. The fact that a low level employee made the news for being controversial means you have to be fired. You can't send a memo out like that and expect there to be no career consequences at your company of employment. You will never be able to live it down.
India programming skills report: only 36% of engineers can write compilable code
https://blog.getadmiral.com/dmca-easylist-adblock-copyright-...

so.. mr quality control, are you going to remove it again?
IF he was worried about his job, why did he circulate a memo with highly controversial views around the company?

Hes a little entitled to think that people cared to not only hear his controversial view, but also read his memo about his controversial thoughts on this controversial subject within a private company.

What outcome was he expecting from doing this? Blaming google? Seriously?
Can we have a list of domains that should be excluded from these kinds of lists, so they may not be added again by accident?
I think I could find stuff on Spotify, but I have a feed on SC and the handful of artists (mostly independent) post stuff daily. On Spotify you listen to songs from "official" albums. Its a completely different feel IMO.

And no, for me a lot of the stuff I listen to is not on Spotify.
Fit any HTML element in to container (like bg-size: contain)
For what it's worth, ABP's slogan is "Surf the web without annoying ads" and they've gone to court to defend that. (I stick to ABP for this reason, and disable the "display acceptable ads" option -- assuming that's what your rant is about?)
Eh, we've reached a crossover point already.

Various products and services have shown that DL and other ML techniques are useful and profitable to implement. And corporations can see the benefits of incremental improvements. That alone will continue the momentum, even without amazing breakthroughs.
Failure of pro-vaccination strategies
OK, sure, but - to bring this back on topic - do you disagree that "alt-right" in the original meaning is an appropriate descriptor for Stefan Molyneux, with whom Damore immediately sought an interview with to present his side of the story?

(He doesn't actually seem to self-identify as "alt-right," so I think there is room for disagreement here.)
It's not Github's job to stand up to DMCA notices. The law requires them to forward them to the account publishing the content without any consideration of the merits. Then, easylist has the option to comply or refuse.
We've banned this account for posting trollish flamebait. These threads are toxic enough without people pouring toxins in on purpose.
Why? I'm not the one making strong claims, why should the burden of proof rest on me?

My "opponent" maintains that any "non-social" causes are "neglible". He doesn't have to explain what exact social mechanism causes one split for CS and another split for mathematics. I think that's entirely besides the point anyway.

My point is merely that because even small differences in variance can dramatically change outcomes, the differences can't be disregarded just because they are small.

My point also is not that the social effects are neglible! I'm sure they're quite significant, in fact.
While you are at it, you could hypothetically add rest of the Admiral domains too.

https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/admiral-domains.txt
Good to hear. I sincerely hope this turns into a lawsuit to scare off others who may be watching the outcome of this to decide if they should try the DMCA route, too.
That's an enormous email list, how did you get such a big member list together in the first place?
Exactly. I really can't understand why someone would fail to see this. Unless they have some other definition of equality. But I genuinely would like to hear other definitions and discuss the semantics of that word in the social context.
Centralized orchestration of storage = maybe you can raise $10M.

Decentralized blockchain orchestration of storage = you can raise $200M... in the first hour.
Russia and China come to mind.
What is your #WITBragDay Post? Here is mine. "Over 100 million people have used code I wrote. Me and 5 guys made sure @BlackBerry was secure in 2004. I am on 20+ patents. #WITBragDay"
My grandfather owned and ran a life insurance agency in San Antonio and that was his go-to gift for clients and family for many years.
tell us more about how you are garbage
You can always give your free user's a discount or an extended free period. It's a pretty standard practice.
Some will leave, some will pay. And that's ok.
1) I don't know if that's a wise decision. To me, BS serves as a "base", my custom classes extend and borrow from BS and everything is knitted together.

2) BS 4 added a ton of helper classes, to the point where I find myself using these rather than writing custom CSS.

3) Ultra light font weight, light gray font color, capitalized text might look great, but I prefer better usability. The point with BS (as of my observations that is) has always been to provide a no-bullshit™ style. It doesn't follow trends, it does what's sane.

4) I half-agree. Not sure how useful it is to have "notifications". I personally never needed that and doubt their usability on mostly document oriented websites.

5) BS used to come with icons, but now there are tons of icon sets to choose from. BS is a CSS framework after all.

6) Besides that, what components does UIKit have that BS can't do? Maybe sticky behavior with a delay would be helpful.

BS is 125 KB vs UIKit 256 KB minified though (that's only for CSS), besides all the accessibility issues.
Specifically, for basically the only significant difference in distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc...
What Agile Principles Work for Non-Software Industrie
And don't forget that Middle-Earth was transfomrd from a flat world to a spherical one after the invasion of Valinor by Ar Pharazôn, which may have resulted in some deformation of the surface.
The monument in question is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Great_Fire_of_...
Competition? From the regulators?
wait, how did you get 2 million subscribers in the first place? And what does "haven't opted out" mean? Did you buy this list?
Maybe I should have been clearer, you stated to the parent reply that:

>> I don't understand what you said there, can you elaborate? What is the difference between males being more biologically suitable and females being at a disadvantage? From my perspective, you just contradicted yourself, can you help me understand why it's not a contradiction?

This was in response to the parent that said Damore had not singled out any female google employes. The overweight example was an attempt to clarify that even though statistical averages say something about a group, it does not say something about the individual, i.e the google females should not feel singled out by statistical averages.

As for the nature/nuture point in the memo: yes the memo is making a biological claim backed by sources. It does not suggest that current distributions are correct. No, the memo is not saying that nature is the primary force, only that it might play a part [1]:

"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership."

[1] https://diversitymemo.com/
I remember once watching an interview with Travis talking about pitching Uber to Benchmark, and he talked about how they wouldn't let him leave the office until they agreed on terms.

eerily similar battle going on now
The user obviously quoted it because he or she disagreed with it, and no doubt the upvoters felt the same way.

I think it's fair to add that the maintainer heard the point and (rightly) said he would change that paragraph.
By your separation of "direct vs indirect" power it seems hard to know where the line is. Arguably, my barista has more power over me than any software engineer, because my barista can poison me if they so choose. It seems like any argument can be made that if someone is in a field that can influence other human beings they have power, so it seems hard to pin down. (though i agree some roles are clearly power oriented, like executives and political roles.)

> "And I'd even say us men have at some point collectively decided that housework is rather unattractive, and women do the vast majority of that."

This to me is a pretty huge reach (and seems vaguely sexist) but if you accept this then I don't see how you can not just apply what you said here to other fields. Do you think women seek out housework?
That's great advice and I agree. We actually do purge the list from inactive members and we maintain an even more aggressively purged "segment" of highly engaged readers.

Perhaps worth exploring in reducing further the cutoff for the general list as well. Thanks!
Decentralization is good when it solves actual problems. I think the problem most people here have with FileCoin is that it's a little bit too much like "Bitcoin but with file storage instead of CPU cycles" without really explaining what the problem is. Who is willing to pay for decentralized storage? Besides criminals and enthusiasts, I can't find a good use case.
Would you rather be a salmon? I rather prefer the complexity that comes with having a self.
I don't know but personally I feel it's been overblown and discussed to death. And I don't need to see every single tech blogger's take on the matter.
Yes it's how an expense becomes viewed as an investment with an ROI.

Actually most non-VC startup companies are heavily focused on opportunities to reduce their spending so long as it does not effect their ability to grow revenue
The question is how much of that volume is the same money going back and forth. Taking sizable amounts of money out of the system is different. See 2010 flash crash".[1] There may be less real liquidity than transaction volume indicates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
Does fruit cake get better with a century of age or is it still terrible?
"doesn't want to do business with me" is a bit much. I'm sure they'd love to do business with as many companies as possible, but finance is one of the most regulated industries in most countries; it's not trivial to enter new markets.
He's also on the board for Fender. :)

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/board.asp?...
> We had no option but to remove the filter without putting the Easylist repo in jeopardy.

Or, you know, host your project somewhere that's actually free & open. Yet another reason GitHub is about the worst place to host community software.
Again, I fail to understand your point. How does this show that The Guardian is a far-left newspaper?

The example from Gove was to point out that your statement that The Guardian "publishes the opinion of people on the left and on the far left" but not from the right is incorrect.

Are you going to update all of the Wikipedia pages from "centre-right" to "far right"? Because it looks like to me that you have no idea of what "far left" really means. Perhaps you think that that anything to the left of the US Democratic Party is "far left"?

Also, most of what you mentioned aren't on the left/right spectrum. There are many leftists who hold completely opposing views.
at least we've got another uri to add to the adblock list now.
No doubt, but do they get comparable attention? Are they similarily controversial? I think compared to tech, hell no. Degrees matter and my point is understanding why those different levels of acceptability exist.
Have you considered using Amazon affiliate links to make it easy for your users to buy the books? They get an easy way to buy the recommended book, and you get a cut of the purchase.
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Who writes the material, who reviews the material, who approves the material, who owns these news/media networks, this stuff goes all the way to the top, who is allowing this in their organizations... Question the owners and people in charge, and always follow the money.
They link to a Wired article about the station from 2011: https://www.wired.com/2011/09/ff_uvb76/all/1
The stated reason for his firing was for breaking the existing written rules of the company. That part was his choice and is his fault. I feel like the goal posts are moving. The question you asked was whether it was his fault if doubt occurred as a reaction to his ideas, not whether he was at fault for getting fired.

I guess you're right, it is censorship, so I take it back. I still feel like it applies to government and public speech, more than within companies. It feels like the wrong word when describing the legal consequences that are widely considered acceptable for breaking the rules inside a company. It feels pretty different than public speech suppression, which is, in contrast, widely considered unacceptable.
It might be single sideband, try USB or LSB.
Plenty of business organizations behave exactly the same way, which is one reason for sales cycles in b2b services. Departments are willing to spend money at the end of a budget period on things they otherwise wouldn't have, divisions unwilling to reduce staffing because they may not get approval to hire more people later...
Possibly because once you label one group a victim everyone else naturally goes "what about me?" I think they're right to as well, because pretty much everyone is oppressed to some degree; if you're short you're oppressed, have you seen Tinder? "I'm 5ft8 so tall guys only", if you need glasses you're oppressed, obviously, those things are expensive! If you're homosexual you're oppressed, disabled, poor, have a mental illness, a dietary requirement, if you're ugly, it never ends, and how do you weight that? Who gets to decide?

I'm in part paraphrasing Jordan Peterson here, which might become a cliche soon, but I think he has a great point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XvI6Y5Yq8o
Oshkosh was built because of the lumber industry (they would fill up Lake Winnebago, which has access to Lake Michigan via the Fox River). I think cities scale to the number of natural resources near them, and synergies as well.
Slightly OT: I understand how people feel about SoundCloud. But I am surprised that most of us exactly know what went wrong. They know what mistakes the management did and where the product should have gone. They know for sure how to lead employees, in good times and in bad times. They know when you should hire and when you should fire.

I wonder how many of us who are so fast in judging have really run a mid- or late-stage startup and know what they are talking about.

I know just one thing: Leading and managing people is a super tough job. We are not talking about leading a small team. No, it's leading a corporation and worse, managing investors who are chasing you night and day and playing power politics for years while being the nice daddy VC writing witty blog posts. And don't forget the three labels who blackmail you to death but are shareholders at the same time. Stuff nobody knows. We only know that Alex went to Burning Man and fired 173 people. So he must be a bad CEO having no clue of music, product and leadership. Of course.

It's easy to give good advice from outside. But it's so hard to understand what actually happens inside. All of us who managed just a small company know what I am talking about.

Managing machines, code or even a Kubernetes cluster is easy as pie compared to what the SC founders were going through the last years. Machines are predictable, humans are not. Just read Machiavelli's The Prince and get a notion of what people are willing and able to do to deal with other people. Backstabbing is their daily business and Game of Thrones is not that far away anymore from the life of a venture-backed CEO.

Not that I like Alex and Eric very much or what they did. Honestly, I don't care at all, I find SoundClound's products and the repetoire rather mediocre and I don't believe in online music as a healthy business model.

But I don't know any founders in Europe and in Germany who raised that big funds and could keep control for that long and the product still in an ok shape. Look what Travis is going through right now. For some who have never been in such a position, they just can't imagine how high the pressure and extreme the psychological stress is, how many ultra aggressive sharks are floating around you just waiting for one single mistake. Then, loosing control of everyhing happening in and around your organization happens quicker than you can think.
Mint 18.2 ran like a champ on my work desktop. This is an older Dell XPS 8300. It has a 3.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 8GBs of RAM, and an AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card.

This fellow has a very different idea of what an "older" computer is than I do.
You're asking for a level of consistency that's impossible with HN moderation. I wrote about this here if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14977025.

Nevertheless, as most of our mothers taught us, two wrongs don't make a right, and someone else violating the rules is no excuse. If you do that repeatedly (and you have), you're going to get banned here for obvious reasons.
> they would argue in court it's an implicit admission you "knew it was illegal."

So you'd argue in reply that although you maintain that it's legal, you knew that it'd likely be something that bad actors would file frivolous suit over. Even when you win, being hauled into court is incredibly disruptive.
Not really, I am pretty happy with Ubuntu in what concerns using GNU/Linux.

No longer have any patience to play around with distributions.
Honestly, as an enthusiast of all things callipygian, Sir Mix-A-Lot's treatise (BGB) was groundbreaking.

To your point about being unable to control his own reptile brain, however, I don't know how much I buy that. From the get-go, SMA acknowledges that "[he] cannot lie", which I think is a concession to determinism more so than one to biology.
It's rare to run that sustained, usually it's bursty so the extra bandwidth is very much needed.
The Brutalists kind of screwed themselves by embracing that name. It's essentially a mistranslation; the original French term was beton brut, "raw concrete", so "raw" would make more sense than "brutal".
Essentially, yes. My guess is that it's due to the fact that amateur radio for a long time has been CW and SSB, where there isn't much bandwidth issue. Digital modes are the new kid on the block (especially considering the average age of US hams is probably quite high), so rather than addressing the root issue, they decided just to target that new kid.

There are bandwidth restrictions on the 60m band, where amateur radio is secondary.
Open Source Captures 0.02% of the Value It Creates
Remember, the theme "unexpected and surprising" :-) I would be surprised if we got there in 10 years.

That said, the reasoning on aging/health goes like this:

* We understand cells at a chemical level.
* We can dump out DNA and RNA
* We understand some of the enzyme reactions involved in cellular biology.

When those become;

* We understand cells at a chemical and functional level.
* We can change DNA and RNA precisely of our choosing
* We understand all of the enzyme reactions involved in cellular biology.

Then we would be in a position to tell our cells to do what ever we want. Fight cancer, sure program a t-cell that can identify it and kill it. Cure a cold? sequence the rhino virus and flood the immune system to target all cells with that signature for death. Auto-immune disease? Turn off the triggers that are generating the immune response. Etc, etc.

We cannot do all these things today but we're working on being able to. Just as we cannot maintain a stable fusion reaction with net energy output but we're working on it.
I've never looked at photo.net, now I wish I could see it before it changed.

edit: I just checked it out on the wayback machine, I definitely like the old site better. Not as "pretty", but easier to navigate.
Seconding Tile Tabs, would be a major advantage of FF if they made it a first-class native feature, and would be far more used than 'WebVR' will ever be. The WebExtension 'version' is really a tiling window manager within the browser and not the same animal at all.
Yeah, but our books are either indie books by independent authors or classics in the public domain. They're all free, so there are no affiliate links to use.

We've tried using affiliate links to other Amazon books/products in the past, but it hasn't worked well for us in terms of revenue. Can be a bit hard to sell a book to an NL list expecting free books :)