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In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values
Nice find. I thought it was a parody there for a while.

You can tell it's aimed at taking advantage of people that don't have much. "If I invest in this coin I can fly a jet pack around Dubai!"
> How many people that uploaded content want to prevent others from privately enjoying it?

I thought it was possible for uploaded to turn off the monetization, and then ads won't be shown on that video.

Source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/94522?hl=en
Actually, almost by definition TIPS don't, because you're taxed on the inflation adjustment.
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Because the characters are different enough that it causes actual day-to-day problems (I see text all the time on printouts/signs where some incorrect font substitution has taken place and you get Chinese instead of Japanese characters). You can (probably correctly) argue that these are really just deficiencies in text editing/markup tools where you can't mark the language of text but the fact that that's required for correct presentation only in CJK languages seems to indicate that it's a problem with this unification in particular.

How would you like if there was Latin/Greek/Cyrillic unification? I mean they're all just alphabets that make the same sounds they're all basically the same right?
That title is misleading, the article clearly says "The SDK code is so big that it represents about 16% of the total size of all Javascript on the average web page." which is clearly not 16% the total site.
Can you post a link to a job description from Baltimore? Graduate student at Cornell looking to work on some Deep Learning problems!
So I just wanna know if ublock origin blocks all this or not.
Because someone is incompetent?

Oracle is a safe haven for incompetent managers and so called team leads. I know a few ex-colleagues of mine who left Oracle to join other companies and were shocked to see how fast and agile other companies were.

It is not in Oracle's DNA to hold managers accountable or fire them for management blunders or shoddy management. So when some of these managers and team leads from Oracle joined other companies, they found much to their surprise that they were answerable to higher management for the state of the project they were managing. They could not keep up with the pace of development or having concrete responsibility, and returned to Oracle to live a purposeless but relaxed life where one would earn less but otherwise thrive in the company by doing little to no actual work.
RNA naming scheme is consistent in biology: tRNA, miRNA, lncRNA, siRNA, etc. Applies to DNA as well (cDNA) etc. Not sure how this scheme was chosen.
It prompts if you want to install it.

It also doesn't sent data to a privacy abusing company like google.
I hated proofs in geometry, which explains why I got A's in all my college math classes except linear algebra, specifically because of those damn proofs.
Definitely in the data science stack though. For example: how pandas behaves with slicing, and copy vs view semantics are totally different from vanilla python, and are confusing enough coming from vanilla python. God help you if you learn pandas and python at the same time.
I'm slightly confused by the combination of "introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5" and "offers a powerful new way" being written in an article posted on August 28, 2017
More likely due to issues rather than ignorance: "Homebrew installation is not supported. If you have issues with homebrew-installed nvm, please brew uninstall it, and install it using the instructions below, before filing an issue."

https://github.com/creationix/nvm#important-notes
It's exactly the argument I made, even if my rhetoric was silly or not quite precise. Nitpicking is boring.
I feel like we're still only scratching the surface with complex numbers. I didn't learn Euler's Identity nor most of the interesting parts of i until recently on Youtube.

We can use complex numbers to describe a 2-dimensional number-space with a single digit. How do we describe a 3-dimensional number-space with a single digit? What about higher dimensional number-space?
`git grep` works just fine and it also pretty quick. i'm sure it isn't 100% the same use-case, but most of the time i'm looking inside a repo anyway, and for the other times i can just go get a coffee
ripgrep's command line is `rg`, and it's much faster. When I first installed it I aliased `ag` to it to easy the transition.
> Allow all kinds of debt to be discharged via bankrupcy

Credit would dry up overnight and interest rates would go through the roof on many loans.

Also why would anyone ever offer a student loan under these conditions?

>'Single Payer' healthcare (tax everyone for basic healthcare)

We are about to have net neutrality repealed over the objection of everyone except ISPs basically. Medicare isn't even allowed to negotiate drug prices, but our govt run single payer system will definitely be immune from regulatory capture. Right?

Instead of this single payer fake solution I would much rather hear real solutions from the left. Such as, no medical service or prescription can cost more than the average price from a basket of oecd countries. If we could cut through all the bullshit and just implement that one idea it would solve most of our healthcare issues.
In this respect, I think you should look at history as a function of the maximum potential global throughput of wealth transfer as opposed to a function of time. The past few decades look more like several millennia on that scale.
Yep. Though I love the guys behind Stripe and I sincerely hope it succeeds.
What's funny, is that I was just reviewing my custom built kernel's menuconfig, saw TLS, and briefly wondered why I didn't recall seeing that when I first ran the config, then figured I had just missed it. Never thought maybe it had recently been added.
There are literally dozens of "how I setup my machine/tools I use" lists and even setup scripts on GitHub.if you "need" to know what others are doing, refer to those. Or ask.

I'll happily tell you my toolset, but I don't use home brew and I wouldn't allow it to send my usage to google even if I did
> Yet Apple could make a deal with Valve to port SteamOS to their older Intel Macs to make use of them for playing games on them, etc. Give them PowerMac specs as well to make a PowerPC version of SteamOS.

I am unclear why anyone but a fragmentary, fingernail-thin minority would want this.
Python has operator overloading like C#, which, if used in relatively more interesting ways, can cause code using these APIs to look pretty different from "standard" Python. Python also allows overloading (i.e., defining new semantics for) more interesting things like field lookups and class definitions. This is extremely powerful and lets you do various useful things that are impossible in C#, but it also means you can't take much of anything for granted when using someone else's API, as there might be "spooky action at a distance". And so there's a real cost to learnability and maintainability.

There is something of a culture in Python of not being overly clever, which keeps this stuff in check. (Contrast Ruby, which offers equally powerful language facilities without the cultural norm of not using them for crazy things.) But for relatively all-encompassing frameworks, the ergonomic benefits are often too great to ignore, so you start to see things like Django models and class-based views, which tend to look and feel quite different from "regular" Python classes.
I found myself googling 'yarn' and being surprised to find a bunch of pages about... knitting.
It isn't a national problem, it is a local one and almost entirely the result of local zoning and drug addict/mental health outreach strategies. San Diego has a homeless population of 14,000 out of a population of 3.3 million. Even the locals are saying the problem is strategy and leadership, not resources. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/columnists/dan-...
It does more than Bitcoin because it allows the founders to rollback transactions from the ledger if they feel like it.

Sorry, a bit trollish but am I wrong? In theory Ethereum does promise a lot but in practice, we're yet to see much in terms of useful smart contracts. And as we can see from the DAO debacle, they've broken their claims of "Ethereum is a decentralized platform for applications that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference."
FTA: cough OK, obviously it’s 2017 and Internet Explorer 5.5 isn’t relevant anymore. But if you’re a Web developer, this should have given you some pause for thought. The modern Web Components pillars: Templates, Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, and Imports, were all features originally in IE5, released in 1999.
> subscribe to an event that's triggered once the user successfully adds a Like

A.K.A. the "like this page in order to enable the download link below" API. I wish they'd never made it; it has so many evil use-cases and I can't think of a single non-evil one (that wouldn't be better served by just async querying aggregate data.)
Reminds me of one of the best daily WTF stories: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Cracking-your-Fingers
Did you even read the article ?
Is that good or bad?

Listen, I support single payer systems, but how do they figure out how much to pay in each region? Same question for UBI.

I have come to believe that UBI and all other safety nets have to come with immigration requirements. Not just everyone is going to be accepted to live among rich billionaires without concern for running out of money. And so on in every neighborhood.

Thus, UBI needs for each area needs to be tied in with community membership, and be based on the Consumer Price Index in that area.

Communities can open themselves up to more people from time to time.
A friend who works there. But it's quite commonly known.
I imagine a lot of people install it via cargo.

It’s also only very recently that the crown has passed from ag (the silver searcher) to rg.
It is actually entirely fine, from the perspective of getting the job done, if someone is a janitor for forty years. There is no reason that being useful should net out to a bad life.
This is where professional indemnity insurance is invaluable.

It will provide you with cover for mistakes as well as alleged negligence. Sometimes even when you're right, the legal costs to defend yourself are just as high as being guilty.

In Australia, it'll cost around the $1k/year mark for a smaller agency but absolutely worth it.
Any model that involves counterparty risk can be disrupted by the blockchain. Custodians who hold on to stocks while trades are properly settled or the hold on that cheque you deposited in your bank account.
Yes but costs vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. How do you determine how much to pay the doctors and who gets to live where? Obviously not every homeless can move into Beverly Hills tomorrow.
It was a truly great release.
Fidget Spinners?
Pretty click bait.
was there ever a reason give for it?
My, who could have guessed that making user interfaces where text is visually indistinguishable from clickables would make them harder to navigate... Next you're going to tell me the trend of pushing mobile interfaces to the desktop, or using obnoxious amounts of whitespace, is no good either!
No, those are not the claims I'm making. In particular, there's nothing particular about capitalism that predisposed itself to wars, even for-profit wars relative to other economic systems (such wars predate history in many places).

But even if everything you say is true and capitalism is a sort of slow killer, I would still prefer it to communism, which is efficient only in murdering those it governs.
The blog post linked in the GP contains benchmarks, including `git grep`. TL;DR is that for simple queries, `git grep` is going to perform about as well as ripgrep. For more complex queries, ripgrep can be faster.

If you're on Windows, ripgrep will also (seamlessly) search UTF-16.
batch image resizing. batch image conversion. thumbnailing. making a montage of screenshots or graphs.

many, many use-cases. i use it all the time, it's just more convenient than pixelmator/gimp/photoshop for those tasks.
Would love to hear what part of my reasoning rubbed you wrong, silent downvoter! We don't learn if we don't share!
Perfection is a modern heresy
This is awesome to hear! First saw/heard about you guys at the ELEO conference in San Jose a few years back.

Great work!
That's pretty much what happens to de facto monopolies.

I've heard much the same about Microsoft's program managers.
I'm not. That's what I'm referring to as "snippets", though other forms of scaffolding do apply. If your position is that people should use more sophisticated editing/authoring tools on a regular basis, that's not that controversial a statement.

I was just saying that full-blown code generation isn't merely writing in the same language but adopting a DSL as well, so we're not strictly comparing languages at that point.
> why would anyone ever offer a student loan under these conditions?

Are you saying that it's not possible to offer profitable rates on student loans that could be forgiven in bankruptcy like other debts are? If so, how is that not saying the same thing as "to fund the education of the successful requires perpetual funding from the unsuccessful"?
Absolutely. I still stick with Windows 7 as well. I just can't stand the flatness, and the obnoxious amounts of space-wasting whitespace.
Seems really cool. I wish they had systems openings.
Incredible work. So many times you hear people working on this that will "Change the world", but these guys are actually doing it!
The entire Oracle leadership is full of narcissistic and technically incompetent leaders. Take for example, this article that for some reason glorifies profanity in business meetings.

http://www.businessinsider.com/oracles-thomas-kurian-has-int...

The leader here, who is known as TK internally, is known for being abusive and profane to his team. In my 5 years at Oracle, I have not met a single developer who respected TK. He was unanimously hated by all his developers. The general opinion among developers is, "This guy tries to be like Bill Gates, but come on, has he done anything in his life beyond managing supply chain management solutions?"

Yet, this guy is glorified within Oracle, just because Larry Ellison likes him. It is really a situation of one man versus all, where the one man is winning due to an intricately established bureaucracy over decades that cannot be unsettled anymore.
I've been saying this ever since Jony Ive has bastardized my beloved iPhone starting with iOS 7. Apple went from being a leader to a follower - of Microsoft! Sad to say that, today, Google's UIs are far more usable than Apple's. Less hidden tiny icons too.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=234

Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall would have never allowed this travesty.
Would the typical ed-school IRB have a problem with this sort of experiment?

Admittedly that is an indictment more of the IRB than of the experiment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_algebra
The Paris attacks were coordinated by plain text SMS.

This is just propaganda designed to lead to curbs on encryption.

They won't focus on the real reason for modern terrorism, which is a certain abhorrent fascist ideology masquerading as a religion.
Due to an offhand comment from a friend, I started my kid on continuous math, not discrete like they do in school. Went great, until about grade 4 when they actually started to care whether he was aligned with his classmates. Germans are actually pretty intolerant of non-professional pedagogues teaching kids.

But it greatly improved his grasp of elementary math as it matched what he saw in the real world.
> I'm not sure where the copyright angle is coming from. YT doesn't own the copyright of the videos they host. The best YT could hope for is a ToS violation which is pretty toothless.

The developer is displaying copyrighted content. YouTube doesn't own the copyright but it does hold a sublicensable license, which is how the developer could legitimately develop a YouTube app. By violating the developer agreement from YouTube, the developer is breaching any copyright license he may have had. By selling the app commercially, he's also potentially doing so criminally. There's also the CFAA which I forgot at the time.

> So if the app was Free and FOSS would it be okay? Hopefully so since youtube-dl exists.

If the app was free and didn't utilize the API, then yes, it'd be in the same space as youtube-dl.

> It's really no different but without any possiblity of circumventing it. Nothing really changes.

What changes is that as users, we're forced to let invasive technologies into our lives in order to consume content.
Student loans wouldn't be required for an education since the government would be competing with private entities, at least for fields of training that the government felt were useful for society.

For medical care, no, I don't mean the current broken compromise and comparing the regulatory environment in other nations to our own is insanity. I meant what I said in the /government/ providing a market baseline. If we have to start out with massively expanding military medicine and educating doctors that want to serve in the military for a bit (and be paid normal wage for that) for no extra charge then that's where we go.
Thank you, that was a nice read. Could use more examples from outside the apple ecosystem (Google is a goldmine in this regard).
Anyone can help to explain how the hell search engine need to integrate to blockchain platform? ICO purpose only?
We have it ok in comparison to "really bad or bad", but it could be better.
As I do not include Python in my system images I wrote a very reliable youtube download script that uses only sh, sed and an http client, where http client is fetch, ftp, curl, wget, or some similar program. Currently it is at 1205 characters, or 1205 bytes. No "developer API" needed.
This information is similar to debian's popcon: http://popcon.debian.org/, but one advantage popcon has is that it tries to measure actual usage of a tool even after it's installed. This avoids over-counting people who install something and then never or rarely use it. Of course, that's more of a problem with Linux distributions (which tend to install a kitchen sink worth of stuff) than with homebrew (where people probably install a much smaller subset). In any case, it would probably be quite easy for homebrew to collect the same statistic (basically just look at the atimes of installed binaries).

[Disclosure: I'm the original author of popcon so I'm biased :)]
I guess you wouldn't be a good fit for a bank's customer service department then. It was very clear to me.
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Brewster Kahle (of Alexa and Internet Archive fame) went this way: he and his wife decided that school wasn't right for their younger son so the two of them (father and son) worked through Euclid together.
i'm definitely not anti-ripgrep, but OP did say "I'm surprised that ripgrep is so low" - i'm not surprised at all, just trying to point out why.

it's just yet another tool which i'd have to learn, and yet another tool that isn't going to be installed on the remote machine.

is the productivity win worth installing it, let alone learning it compared to going from `grep` to `git grep`? for me probably not, diminishing returns. doesn't mean it isn't great software!

(also, for the sake of stats, homebrew is macOS only, although i appreciate the info)
Automated canned responses can still have typos. :)
Maybe they'll add a dash in their name a la expertsexchange...
I disagree. BeOS was also "built on top of Unix", to the extent that it ran bash and a standard UNIX-like command-line environment. Most Linux programs compiled fine for it (with the notable exception of mmap() which was not implemented yet).

In my opinion BeOS was technically superior in the sense that it was far more pervasively multithreaded, which meant UIs never locked up just because they were waiting on some slow computation or network resource. I still believe it's the case that BeOS on circa-2000 hardware was more responsive than any UI I ever used before or since, including MacOS X on 2017 hardware. Even just resizing a Finder window in 2017 on my MacBook lags the cursor in a way that never happened on BeOS.
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Does this include the case in which the attacker was the US government, facilitated by Yahoo's CEO, and kept secret even from its chief information security officer?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/04/yahoo-sec...
Can concur. I spent 5 years dealing with a German company and the obsession with spreadsheets, processes and plans for the most trivial of projects lead to major overruns.

They're very good at creating big organisations but don't have a clue when it comes to quick and dirty throwaway projects.

Not everything needs to be a BMW.
It depends a lot on what you mean by "Learning Python". Is it "Learning Python as a second or third programming language", or "learning programming using Python"?

Understanding libraries and idiomatic language constructs is important - but only if you're well past the "Hello World!" stage. If you can't get close to a working fizzbuzz yourself - you're probably not ready for BeautifulSoup or Numpy or Django. You _might_ be able to copy paste Stack Overflow examples, but there's some basic "learning programming" that needs to be done before you'll understand what you're doing...
Any product with a large enough userbase will need customer service:

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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Currently, in the US, there is legally no way that I'm aware of for liability to flow upwards. It's all gated and derisked behind "if anything bad happens, the end user is to blame."

In order for this to change, two things need to happen. Things that I think even libertarians would get behind (because of end results).

1) Hold manufacturers of networked consumer devices liable for all damages caused to third parties by their devices (e.g. if they are used in a bother). Reason being that the buyer wilfully choose the device, but a third party did not

2) Create a waiver to this liability if (and only if) the manufacturer includes a standards-compliant, end-user usable firmware upgrade facility AND releases documentation necessary for third parties to build firmware files

Then let the market decide.
Employees take on a lot of risk. They risk being laid off and they have to put all their eggs in one basket. They also risk damage to their career if their company assigns to them work that doesn't look good on resume. In my view investors have less risk.
I work in East Village, have for a few years. I'd say part of the problem is the local gov decided upkeep of the public restrooms they had was too expensive, so they removed them. They kind of shot themselves in the foot it seems. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sdut-portl...
I am sure there are many stories where Oracle sues its employees. Take a look at this one for example.

* http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/cover-story/...

* http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnatak...

TL;DR - An employee found fire safety violations in one of its Bangalore offices. He reported the violations internally. Nobody addressed the violations. He reported the violations to the cops. Oracle sacked and sued the employee.
> Credit would dry up overnight and interest rates would go through the roof on many loans.

That's a silly thing to say. Will the Moon fall down too?

> Also why would anyone ever offer a student loan under these conditions?

Probably profit. Don't you think? Isn't that usually why loans are made? You understand that this is a recent change to the law (1998) and prior to that, student loans still existed and worked fine?