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A bit of that, a bit of new people realizing the potential and giving it their best shot. I've spoken to a lot of people who say that Freenet was fun, but just too damn slow to be usable.
for the scenarios you are thinking about you are better off holding lead instead of gold. you can always acquire gold if you have lead.

jokes aside IMO there is a lot of very short term thinking even for the richest because majority of wealth today sits in stock market and real estate and they depend very strongly on civilization status quo continuing. the root cause IMHO is dysfunction at the congressional level which is basically our prefrontal cortex as nation.
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Yeah, I don't understand why he's contradicting himself.
'He' and 'she' switching confuses me, and while in some cases I do feel that it's a result of actual ambiguity, a big part of it might just be unfamiliarity.

Either way, even in Dutch I find myself to be a bit more sensitive to these things and it's not something I'd argue against. Although in Dutch there's not even a 'they' we can use, practically.
Of course maps change with time, that is the point of my comment.
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What do you guys do to improve training data set labels to get better success rate? Are you using some framework or doing it manually after some time?

We have been working on topic modeling stuff, and managing everything manually is quite hectic, so looking for some better solutions.

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Carrefour is a big chain. About 12,000 stores. About 20x as many stores as Whole Foods. Most of them are convenience stores. That would give Amazon a very visible brick-and-mortar presence in Europe, approaching 7-11 in the US.

A chain of convenience stores is useful to Amazon. They'll all get Amazon Lockers, of course. You'll be able to get everything Amazon sells at those stores, if you just order ahead. They'll probably have same-day delivery to their own stores.

Small scale retail in France is going to take a big hit from this.
and maybe cryptocurrencies if internet survives in any form.
While some exercise is probably better than none, doing only push-ups can end up being harmful. I was thinking of postural issues[1] like Upper Cross Syndrome[2], very common among people who sit at a computer all day and don't exercise. Focusing on already-strong/tight muscles like the pecs will be unhelpful for correcting these issues, and can certainly exacerbate them. That said, I may have overreacted due to conflating bench presses with push-ups.

1. http://exrx.net/Kinesiology/Posture.html

2. https://www.theptdc.com/2014/07/upper-crossed-syndrome/

As for programming languages, I've sent "pull requests" for AutoHotKey programs via Reddit PM before. If it's the right tool (or a decent one) for the job...
Despite the attractiveness of a distributed web - which we already have it (you do know how it works don't you?)
And it is incredibly difficult to upgrade and patch; leaving it incredibly insecure. How many of those distributed web servers are still vulnerable to Heartbleed as just one example? We need better ideas...
Seems like a good way to end up dead right.
They really aren't all that different from shopping malls in other countries. Or, at least, Europe + Mexico
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The full quote was "The US has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."

The word "if" was probably the key factor here. Since his threat was conditional, that most likely puts it into a different category than outright threats.
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Developing economies with outside technologies they can copy should do better by ignoring patents, while economies at the bleeding edge should encourage more invention and disclosure through having them respected.

Didn't the US ignore patents when it was England that was the superpower? I wasn't there, but:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130228/01324622146/yes-u...

If you can get all the advantages of well-documented and reduced-to-practice inventions disclosed publicly without much disadvantage from your own citizens failing to disclose their own inventions, then ignoring patents seems like a great idea.

This isn't to say that I think the US patent system actually works, I think it's all a terrifically counterproductive mess 95% of the time. But there's historical evidence that whether your country benefits from patent adherence depends on how advanced your economy is relative to others.

Once China starts generating lots of good new inventions, now that they're bleeding-edge-adjacent, they're going to see increasing value in enforcing IP rights. It will protect their industry from competing with infringing imports from other countries with lower manufacturing costs, same as here, which is a bigger deal as their domestic consumption increases.
On a conceptual level, USPTO is operating on the same procedures that was initial created more than 200 years ago. Practically every other form of government administrative operations has change, but the patent process has not.

Following 19th century government standard, USPTO is only really responsible to take in a patent request and check its own records to see if a patented idea is new or not, and then allow the skill government clerk who took the request to make a judgment based binary decision. The assumption in 19th century government process is that anything not in the records are not something for which the government can be held responsible to make a judgment on. Anything beyond this is assumed to be the courts and juries responsibility.

And in the past they did also have a few safeguards. A working model had to be added in order to make sure that function and copy of the idea is guarantied. The scope of patentable ideas was also narrowed down to a few areas for which a skilled government employee with a massive record could make a relative good guess if something was novel or not. Both was removed about 50 years ago, and a explosion of "new" patents has been requested ever since.
Didn't Walmart once try to have stores in Germany but then gave up?
American business culture/ethic writ large is not really very compatible (or welcoming) of others' practices. Hegemony sucks when you're under it.
You are correct! DMT isn't really effective orally without an MAO inhibitor.
>No, that is not what is happening. Spain is a state where the majority of the people wants to belong to the state. Catalonia would be a state where half of the people wouldn't want to belong to it.

Current Catalonia vs future Catalonia is the proper comparison. The one you made is just manipulative crap.

Should the people in Hungary have asked the Habsburg government or the population of the rest of the empire whether they can have their own country? Should the Slovenians, Czechs, Poles or anyone else?

Should the Irish have asked people in Britain to kindly let them have their own country?

>Besides, not voting is also democracy. Most of the Spanish people don't want to allow these kind of referendums in Spain. Therefore, Spain is doing what the majority wants (== democracy).

Self determination, ever heard of it?
Well, now that I think about it, Arcelor was bought in 2006, despite public hostility.

But really, Carrefour is a big name in France. If Amazon buys it and the government either does nothing or fails to prevent it, the French left-wing will go nuts.
This is because the start argument defaults to 0. It doesn't make sense to add a list and 0.

The same thing does not work for a sequence of strings and an empty string.

sum(["abc","def"], "")

Throws TypeError: sum() can't sum strings [use ''.join(seq) instead]
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Although this is interesting, we should perhaps not hold a high degree of confidence in the results, because the methodology relies on the content of commit messages and the number of commits (if I read this correctly).

- The content of commit messages varies widely in expressiveness and meaningfulness, from 'Fix bug' to a detailed explanation. This confounds the classification of a commit.

- The number of commits can be very misleading depending on the committer's workflow. Some committers merge topic branches to include all their intermediate work in progress commits, which could overrepresent commits flagged as errors. Other committers rebase their topic branches into fewer, or even single, commits before merging. Or, some commits may fix multiple defects.

This kind of analysis is conceptually a worthy endeavor; it would be more meaningful if the metrics it employed were more strongly correlated with the attributes it was trying to analyze.
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I really love and prefer the way grocery shopping is done in Europe, but it's fairly contingent on the ubiquity of those small grocers.

In the US, a much larger / lower population density country, physically getting to a grocery on a daily basis isn't practical.

I don't see this as being about "healthier alternatives" or "saving a few bucks." I can't do European-style grocery shopping in the US /despite/ my preference for it.
The Video Toaster add-on board did this, but it was a custom piece of hardware. The video data never went through the CPU bus or memory.
Of course it was a hard sell! The cost/benefit wasn't right for that business in 1990...
Actually, perhaps worth noting that the parent comment is talking about a correlation between robust economic growth and patent enforcement.

The causality could be reversed -- once economic growth is large enough that the country is at the bleeding edge of technology, then it cares about enforcing patents because it's lobbied to by its companies.
You don’t have to buy from an American company. But you have no moral authority to force someone, in this case the owners of Carrefour, to do what you want them to do with their business. You’re not entitled to someone else’s labor or service. You’re arguing for socialism, and socialism is evil for the reason I mentioned above.
Correlation does not imply causation.

A patent in a strong economy is worth more than a patent in a weak one, therefore it seems very likely they're pursued more, and probably also more lobbied-for. It also seems very likely that the same invention will grow more quickly in a strong economy than a weak one.

I certainly don't disagree that patents profit the inventor and attract investment, but to call that investment greater than the sum otherwise invested in competitors plainly denies that capitalism works.

Here's a thought: keep patents, but force a public license for a reasonable fee. It's the withholding of patents that walls-off progress, not reasonable rent-seeking. So keep the money, keep the incentive, but lose the ability to prevent competition.

On a moral note: do you really not think it twisted to punish somebody for building on the shoulders of who came before him? Is there anything more human than the ability to learn from and build on the work of your predecessors? I absolutely refuse to feel guilty for learning from what I see, and therefore to support the punishment of anybody else for it.
They're already nuts.
What’s the basis for your presumption?
I got you, you're right, compared to dailymotion, Carrefour is a national monument and I wouldn't bet a dollar that Amazon will be able to touch one hair of it.

ps: that said, I despise large retail stores
The website dailymotion.com is falling apart, but the company is still doing alright by focusing on hosting videos for third party websites.

And it's good to remember that getting acquired by yahoo has been a death sentence for a few sites.
You would like to be seen like regular people, but you all, Catalans and Castilian, are and have been the plague of Europe.

Every European knows that.

It's so funny to watch you kill each other over stupid arguments of "independence" dating back 1700

Grow up
It's 2017

Still you managed to be the last western country to free yourself from fascism

Even Greece did better

And you still are fascists and are fighting among brothers for no real reason

Meanwhile we think we live in Europe and don't care about you being so childish

Franco is so proud of what's happening in Spain right now.
He's smiling in hell watching his legacy unfold
I’m also interested in hearing how willing the French government is to prevent the acquisition of a French private company. I’d think this should be up to the owners of the company in question, but the people of France may disagree with me.
Wired did an article on this topic: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/
Carrefour is a state of crisis both internally (the newly appointed ceo is quoted as having "vowed to clean the mess", several high ranking executives have been shown the door or been effectively demoted) and externally (shares have been tumbling for quite a while).

Anything is possible but, to me, an attempt to raise valuation is the most likely explanation. Sources are always "analysts" who seem to have skin in the game.
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There is a huge competition in Germany, when Aldi lowers prices for e.g. for milk, everyone else follows.
Yup, but the german groceries market is about the fiercest on the planet, price is king and the populace isn't easily wooed by additional service if it comes at a premium. Walmart couldn't compete with neither Aldi nor Rewe or anything in between.
What I meant isn't that someone would have decided to start the process again, rather than that's what the law established. The choice presented to the people in the referendum wasn't "accept this or go back to a dictatorship", as the parent commenter believed. I don't intend to say the politicians involved had an easy job coming up with the appropriate compromises; far from it. But the fact that the support the Constitution got in Catalonia was so overwhelming is definitely not because "it was either that or Franco".
The thing that really worries me, as a EU citizen (Italian), is Amazon cheating on taxes through Luxembourg. If we continue this way, Luxembourg and Ireland will end up stealing all corporate taxes from all of the rest of the EU.

EDIT: I thought it was Ireland, in this case it was Luxembourg.
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Technology and exposure. Product Search is quite big, if just hasn't been capitalized on enough (other than by Amazon)
Why do you believe journals are the correct place to apply pressure?
I'm sure many of them have done interesting things.

But the area I write software on in broadcast has a large number of these engineers holding back progress, most of whom are close to retirement age and now have heavy influence in standards bodies. For uncompressed video over IP for example they propose insanely tight standards such as packets must arrive within ~40us (that's us, not ms) of their allotted time, something very difficult to reach in software. (I will be talking about this at demuxed next week...)

They also insist that legacy artefacts from the analogue era must remain such as VBI stay for another generation to save around 1ms of latency (and of course their precious line buffers).

They are one reason the broadcast industry isn't able to move fast enough compared to the web. As I've explained to them, some of us will have to deal with the mess they have created in 40 years time.
Costco is amazing and extremely efficient. Whats not appealing?
What a huge loss :(

I have been dreaming that one day we will have a fully developed type system for programming languages based on HoTT and I can develop a new language based on that.
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To me (Unix guy since 1980) the & character has always been "submit this command .. AND .. <the next thing I type>" .. so yeah, it seems like it actually did fulfil what you consider its 'original intention' - which was to allow you to submit a command, AND .. another one ..
In New Zealand, there’s a government agency with a role to subsidise medication and decide which products to subsidise.

It is pretty successful at driving down costs.

Unsurprisingly, it was targeted in the thankfully now failed TPPA, because god forbid a government flex its muscle and keep the market competitive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmac
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Carrefour has also stores in Asia (e.g. a honking big branch in Shenyang, near the financial center).

Edit: Google maps finds eleven Carrefour stores in Shenyang alone.
My understanding is that the reason math is considered unpatentable is that mathematical statements are considered facts. This is somewhat motivated by a "religious" idea that math is discovered; there is a very ancient philosophical debate about math as a "discovery" versus as an "invention." I am squarely on the "discovery" side, but there is a legitimate question of "where" the math is prior to its being "discovered." It is kind of hard to think about "discovering" something by applying your imagination; of course, "inventing" math is a bit odd as well since truth cannot be "invented."

Anyhow, glad we agree :)
That's a fair point --- I'm certainly stretching to try to extend 'configurable' into 'stored programs'. I do still think that the shift to storing instructions in electronic memory (once said memories became available) was less revolutionary than evolutionary. Von Neumann's innovation (or at least the idea he was first to systematically describe) of treating instructions and data as the same type of thing was probably a little more of a leap, but I think all the implications of that weren't realized until later.
the shaman in order to learn from the plant what his patient illness is and how to go about healing it.

And how was that working out for them, from what you could see? Did patients there prefer the "traditional" or the "western" medicine?
Oh come on, put a proper spoiler tag around that, people aren't ready for that kind of truth.

Here: https://pastebin.com/4FAB8Fuy
I'm curious as to why you feel copyright is too weak. It's pretty effective at preventing competitors from ripping you off and although customers are often a different story it already has hit the limits of enforcement ability on that front.
Then of course there's Nelson Mandela. He started with peaceful means, came to the conclusion it was ineffective in his case and turned to violence. Later he refused opportunities to leave prison that would have required him to renounce violence. Ultimately, he didn't need to fire a shot after he was released but he would have done so with a clear conscience. Non-violence can be a moral choice, but so can violence in the face of great, violent injustice.

Of course, we're assuming asymmetric warfare here. No-one honestly believes FDR was wrong to declare war on Japan.
Comments from the members of Homotopy Type Theory - Google Groups.

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> The government in the U.S. has already regulated ISPs to the point that an enormous artificial barrier has arisen to market entry.

At the behest of telco lobbying.

> We need deregulation. Approval for the major carriers in the U.S. is low enough[0] that someone could probably disrupt the entire industry, except it is next to impossible to enter.

Small carriers are starting up, I just read an article chronicling several successful municipal broadband carriers in isolated pockets, and in each of their stories they are essentially boxed in by .... guess.... lobbying from larger telcos. (I think it may have been on HN, but if not just google 'successful municipal broadband')

Every step of the way it is the large telcos that prevent their growth. Perhaps if there were no incumbents in the ISP space deregulation might actually see improvements, but as it is the last thing we need is AT&T/Comcast/et al given free reign. The more we staple their balls to the chair the closer we get to a truly shared internet commons.
Why do you think software is more "a kind of math" than e.g. mechanical engineering?
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Recently I decided to log back into my HN account and posted a few articles I wanted to share with the HN community; I do this exclusively for the conversation that can happen.

Today I posted "I wanted to understand why racists hated me. So I befriended Klansmen" and it was getting good traction with plenty of excellent comments. I went to lunch, came back and checked the comments and noticed they suddenly stopped.

I then went page by page until the bottom of the homepage list searching for 'befriended Klansmen' and my user name. I never found the article, or my username other than the top bar.

So explain to me oh mighty censoring HN Mods why my post was removed? It wasn't flagged, it's just gone. Also, it isn't political, it was about a human trying a new approach at understanding racisim, and how he overcame our differences - which is the bulk of the comments thread focus too. But the article is gone... so am I to assume the mods of HN are racists jerks that don't want to spread knowledge that can make the world a better place? Or perhaps the reason is more petty and personal? Either way you guys look bad and I guess the message is received again - I am no wanted or welcome around here anymore. Got it. I guess thanks for the reminder... cya.
Agreed, but failure containment is another of its purposes, at least on contemporary turbofan engines.
This is a story about a newspaper reporting a rumor. That's way too flimsy to be on topic.

On HN, we wait until a thing actually happens. There's no harm in doing so, and then there's substance to discuss.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
The underlying morality is respect for people regardless of their views.
There is a rich legal background surrounding mergers and acquisitions in financial markets, not to mention the antitrust laws.

The French government can even write new laws if need be. France is only theoretically capitalistic, in practice the weight of the government is heavy on companies.