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In this era, the whole idea of having many small winner take all districts is the problem. Gerrymandering is small by comparison and removing gerrymandering won’t result in much change.

The solution is to moved to STV and expanding the size of districts to elect 3 to 5 representatives instead.
Doesn't mention forking at all, and that's a big thorny problem.
NoScript's author works on the Mozilla Security Group. As a result, this particular extension was one that was strongly pushed. The author will be releasing a WebExtensions version in time for 57. He maintains the legacy version for the benefit of Tor Browser (based on 52ESR) so there is no chance for breakage before Tor Browser moves to 59ESR.
The benefit of building checks into our languages (like static typing, design by contracts, etc.) is that they let you focus on higher level concerns.

If I have a language that will let me say that a Foo is one of {1,2,3} and will never allow any other integer variable's value to be put into a Foo variable (without explicit casting), I can now focus on my use of Foos and not have to add a type invariant test to every function that consumes or produces a Foo. This doesn't make me less disciplined. It shifts the discipline.

The disciplined programmer can spend all day putting in type invariant checks on their code. Or the disciplined programmer can spend 5 minutes determining what types they need to use, and spend the rest of the day writing out the actual business logic instead of a shit ton of boiler plate code and/or unit tests (which are hopefully comprehensive enough to catch these errors).
On examination of the evidence, the motive for a questioning supreme court justice is leaning to supporting the other side.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-justice-kennedys-s...
For the typical personal (non-business) customer, Costco's biggest strengths have always been:

- The ability to get a large bulk of a middle-class family's share of once-every-few-weeks shopping done in one go: bulk sizes, wide span of stock from grocery to home goods, apparel, electronics, entertainment

- Curation: no need to vacillate about which ketchup to pick

- Suprise items you didn't know you needed until you see it; enabled by curation

- Strong store brand offerings; enables curation

In the age of delivery, bulk shopping a filled cart of goods at a physical store is becoming a liability rather than a strength. But Amazon has terrible curation and is much newer at store-brand merchandise. They're just now easing into higher-value items.
Aloho browser for android/ios/pc
well, heuristics are made up of algorithms.
One obvious answer to your question is that they lack affordable access to training, which is what the OP purposes to address. Of course it's entirely possible that providing said training is economically infeasible or that most of these folks (as you seem to presume) aren't a good fit for this type of work.
Flickering in and out instantly as you move the cursor across a page and happen to pass through a bunch of links would be a lot more annoying.

Alternate implementation would be to make sure the cursor has actually stopped, which still needs a frame or two before you act on it.

I could definitely do without the fade-in, that's inconsistent with the rest of the OS and it feels clunky. I wonder if the designers are on a different OS where this is normal for tooltips?
Is there a word for what one might refer to as "institutional/organizational burnout"?

I feel like it's related to the age of leadership and trends in the current cult of personality du jour, and its interaction with promotion, branding and marketing. Shit happens, and the inertia of social groups is tough to steer over time, as sensibilities and fashions change, people get old, and graduating classes of the current generation ascend to power.
Second on the linux client. I have a linux machine with a zfs volume that I've been backing up to crashplan. Since they've announced they're dumping their consumer market I have no cost-effective place to go. Most likely, I'll be more picky about my backups and use S3 life-cycled to Glacier.
IMHO vim for editing remote files it's still far too complex, i prefer nano for editing config files and write some tiny shell scripts.
I do give you the reason when editing long xml files remotely, vim is superior on that but still i prefer to locally edit the xml file with a IDE because i have the possibility to visually collapse entries and automatically show syntax errors.

I know vim/emacs fanboys are going to say that all that it's possible on vim/emacs but still i have to invest time configuring those options and plugins on vim while on almost every IDE or even some simplistic GUI editor like Notepad++ those things come already configured and ready for work.
this has always made a lot of sense to me. in the US we used to have govt cheese (and peanut butter, and butter, etc). it would mean the development of a persistent and more easily recognizable underclass.

the US is already subsidizing foodstuffs to attempt to address the problem from the supply side. it seems politically untenable though to wire that up to the demand side directly without sending it through some for-profit machinery somewhere. its basically communism.
The questions a justice asks can often be an indication of where they stand on an issue. It's a way for them to tell the other justices their beliefs. If Alito is spouting off misleading or incorrect facts, then this person should feel compelled to defend their work.
Yeah, especially if you're rural or inner-city.
> The basics are largely standardized items.

Do you think that if everyone in that story got a $2k BI check that the huts they live in would continue to rent for $300? Doubtful - very doubtful.
that's because the FCC didn't deregulate the last mile LLU would promote more competition
Telegram requires a phone number even for the desktop app - that's just mind-boggling and a turnoff for me trying to move to a new service.
More discussion in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417019
So if you're at 30% disability because you can't stand for long periods or do physical labor, are you still allowed to hold down an office or clerical job where you work 30-50 hours a week? It might mean unique difficulties with things like transportation, but the government isn't paying you a salary under the understanding that you aren't fit to work, they're providing you a stipend to compensate for the unique difficulties of your situation.

Or, if they are paying you a sort of salary under the understanding that you aren't fit to work, why is it below minimum wage when you demonstrably already have more problems than most people?

Edit: Okay, reading the article shines a bit more light on this, but it's still very confusing. I can't imagine having to navigate these systems without any resources. And even then:

>This means recipients receiving the maximum $735 check can earn up $1,555 per month and still be eligible for a disability payment.

The maximum is under $9K/year? That is not a living wage for someone without disabilities.
the tool doing something unexpected is one problem.

the user failing to prepare for disaster is another.

don't blame tool problems on the user. blame the user's problem on the user. blame the tool's problems on the tool.

There are two root problems. One is the user's failure to set up a recovery solution, the other is the tool's cavalier ability to delete 5000 with very little warning.
I miss dedicated IM services like AIM. They had a certain dynamic that Facebook Messenger (or similar) and SMS lack.

On AIM, logging in was an active choice and it signaled that you were up for a conversation. With Facebook Messenger, everyone who has the app is always "online." This means that:

a) I get messages from people I don't want to have a conversation with at the moment and it seems rude if I ignore them, because there are read receipts.

b) If I send a message, I don't know if they're going to engage in a real-time conversation or if we're going to play phone tag. There's no way of signaling which I'm looking for.
I've flipped the bozo bit on the term 'Algorithm'.
AIM was where I first found my passion for development. The first programming language I ever really learned, perl, was because I wanted to be better at making AIM bots.

Nostalgia:

- The TOC protocol and the OSCAR protocol. Net::AIM and Net::OSCAR. Aryeh Goldsmith, you beautiful soul.

- The first $300 I ever made online was in ~2002, when I wrote a chatroom flirt bot for an adult content affiliate. I was 14 or 15 years old.

- The first project I built that ever got traction was a bot that enabled offline messaging. I didn't even write it, it was open source, but I branded it well and it got traction and spread virally across the USA.

- Being part of the AIM scene...exploiting warn functionality (with parallel attacks!), profile vulns, and 3char screen names being the most legit.
that's because everywhere else people will just break them open during an emergency. which i think is probably the more reasonable thing to do for everywhere else.
> I remember one of the political parties crowing about how they saved the auto industry in Michigan during the last major financial crisis. Funny, as I live there, and I remember one of the people who lives in my sub whose business was destroyed by this "saving" thanks to many long held overdue invoices at one of the car company's being zeroed out, coming to my front door, with his son to ask for help. Food specifically.

Yes, "forgiving debt" always sounds like a great idea from the debtors' perspective. Debt holds most people down for some period of their lives..

But the flip side is that for every debtor, there are lenders.

Those lenders give their money with some level of confidence that they'll get it back. When they don't, it's going to be an annoyance for the top few percent of companies and people who can take the loss.. and punish the middle who (in the best case) could have lent it for other investments or (in the worst case) destroy others won't be able to pay their employees and provide for their families.
In my experience the public face of Japanese society is very polite, but that's distinct from what can be said with the language, and what people say with the language in private face contexts. It also varies to some degree by class, but you could say the same thing about English.

Also, loanwords like fakku are a legitimate part of the language. The katakana script is used almost exclusively for them and many sentences have them, spoken and written.
NNVM Compiler: A New Open End-To-End Compiler for AI Frameworks
Having worked on many systems like this, I generally don't really consider it to be better. Most of them just introduced different edge case behavior than Hibernate.

Though, I generally prefer a non-religious approach to ORM mapping anyway. Use Hibernate for the stuff that it is good at. If you find it awkward for some particular service, don't be afraid to grab a DB connection and do a bit of SQL (maybe even using Hibernate's powerful rowmapper functionality) when it is easier.

Any ORM is going to be a little rough in some cases (even ones you write yourself) and none fit all problems perfectly.
> every 6 months

Most people don't want or can't afford to have their computer running 24/7. Especially if they're not using it for more than 11 hours of that day. And if you use more than one OS on one computer, fast startup can save you a lot of time switching between those.

> I'm not sure people realize how much complexity you have to add to make a system boot even a couple of seconds faster.

Not true. I shaved 20 seconds off my boot time recently, by digging around in config files and disabling services that were never used, by backgrounding non-essential services that took a long time to start up, and by reducing the grub bootloader time. Everything I did was trivial, yet it cumulatively brought a large reduction in startup time, it's gone from one minute to ~30ish seconds now.
For the ones interested in an actionable way of dealing with depression (albeit one that does not replace professional help), here is a course in cognitivo-behavioral therapy, a technique that yields good results: https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/step1.htm
It's free by the way.
Definitely seems excessive. We'll look into it.

There are some things that can affect it. We have a "pool" of restore servers that do this task. The oldest ones in the pool are 9 year old computers with slow hard drives. The newest restore servers are built on SSDs and are blazingly fast and have newer processors. So based on which restore server was assigned the task, plus other things like the size of each file can speed or slow the restore.

We are in the middle of a project to speed up all restores. Hilariously we figured out that simply by decommissioning the oldest, saddest restore servers the restores averaged FASTER restore times.
85,900 is a small number of cities? The US has 19,354 "incorporated places", which balloons to around 35,000 if you include unincorporated towns.
You've Got Mail came out in 1998 and it was a box office hit.

People knew what email was for several years before that.
> You can use error diffusion on both

Yes, absolutely right. Just making clear the distinction between dither and diffuse. Dither is always a local operation on a sample, diffuse is the spatial spreading to make the neighborhood more pleasant for humans.

I was reacting to the statement "images and audio usually use dithering in opposite ways". The article here is about error diffusion, but it's pretty hard to say whether adding error diffusion to the dither process is the 'usual' choice, for either images or audio. It's very very common to not use error diffusion in both cases.

Diffuse is more much important when the destination resolution is well above human perceptible just-noticeable differences. For example, going from 8 bits per channel to 1 bit per pixel, or for audio when going from 16 bit samples down to 8 bit samples.
If you are having trouble sorting out where to put your attention in the cryptocurrency space, here's how I would focus:

Most people are treating these things like startups, where the code is the primary asset. That's wrong. The code matters, but the primary asset behind a cryptocurrency is a balanced set of incentives which create an environment that encourages some predictable behavior.

Balancing those incentives is work, and not every project is doing it. Seek out communities where there is focused, ends-oriented discussion about incentives, grounded in recent crypto techniques.

If you find one that is also rallied around a cryptosoftware that does something you care about, and has a "healthy" work culture, whatever that means to you, that's your pot of gold. Not only do you stand a good shot making money investing in that communitity, but you can find a career there, and possibily even make a name for yourself.

Good luck.
Thank you for replying in this thread.

Another question. Why is there no desktop support?
....why? Nearly every server has real, honest to goodness ViM installed on it these days, and nvi is extremely limited in its capabilities by comparison.
> You can scale HANA vertically and horizontally

Nah, with scaling, I‘m more referring to approaches of eg Cassandra instead of „add another read replica“.
How exactly is "commercial" defined?
In this particular case in Wisconsin it was so egregious that the idea that gerrymandering as exploited here wouldn't make a difference is ludicrous.

How would you answer Sotomayor's question?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
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B2 plus rclone works well, but for many it's potentially significantly more expensive than the standard "all you can eat" $5 a month plan. In my case B2 would workout at roughly 4x the monthly cost and that's before factoring in the fact B2 charges for downloads as well as uploads. An official Linux client would be significantly better value.
kosta_self: I think you're hellbanned.

Good point, but that would be a bug in the AI. An intelligent system would see there would be no point in killing humans, so killing the humans would defeat the purpose of making the paperclips, and the humans support the machine, thus killing them would be counter-productive to its purpose.

It's also unrealistic that algorithms would try to exceed the limitations of their system. Imagine if a natural predator tried to "maximize production" of killing its prey: it would run out of prey, starve, and die. An AI would understand that trying to "maximize production" to the detriment of everything else would be counter-productive and create a resource contention war. Humans are the only creature I know of that exhausts natural resources to its own detriment - we are smart enough to exploit our resources, but too stupid to know when to stop. The natural system's response to this behavior seems to be to get us to kill ourselves. Maybe the AI are part of this process?
Yeah, sure, linux has Pledge.

Bullshit.
This is, in a nutshell, both why I love hackernews and what's so frustrating about discussing a topic these days. It's impossible to explore something you may totally disagree with without people generally reducing that exploration to a proxy for your worldview and consequently making character judgements or finding a way to get offended to the point where the identity politics card gets played and you get labeled a bigot for some conclusion you never supported but was obviously present in the undercurrents of your questions. The Supreme Court judges aren't special in that respect. Anyone should be allowed to question and explore a topic without having to issue trigger warnings or generally be expected to manage the "visceral" response their questions might evoke from a bystander observing the discussion or even the participants. The way you handle input into your personal biological process is your responsibility not mine. And society does not exist to protect you from malicious input, although you are free to choose networks where the chances frequency of receiving such input is relatively low.
Maybe you're looking for PhD thesis presentations and not interviews with book authors, then. YouTube will be happy to help.
op hates him! scientists have built a device to find ops penis!

jk this is pretty cool stuff. love seeing quantum posts on here.
Pretty sure that wasn't intentional. It's just what happens in dangerous times -- dangerous people prosper.

It was deliberate and ideologically driven. The people who were imprisoned by the previous repressive system must have been innocent victims of that system.
Perhaps they meant "idiosyncratic"
STV has its uses but larger multi rep constituencies 1 breaks the relationship between voter and politician and 2 allows extremist parties to act as king makers see the DUP in the UK and much more so in Europe
How are these resume lines "proven?"
Project note summary cards bring more context into your boards
I said "invest time and money", nowhere did I say it would be easy or cheap or fast. The only reason I am upper middle class is because I got an enormous amount of investment growing up, from books to nutrition to upper middle family friends/role models to just plain good adv8ce. If you took my talents and plopped them in a working class family in rural wherever, I would be driving truck and getting high until it all apart, just like the people in the article.
This seems well intentioned but poorly thought out. Also, software distributed under this license does not qualify as free software under the GNU _or_ OSI models.
Google Translate: Bias? Sexist? Or this is the way it should be?
The efficiency gap fails to guarantee or even optimize compactness, yet many gerrymandered districts are "thin slices" or strange shapes. (one simple defition of compactness is the ratio of perimeter^2/area)

What the author fails to do is explain why the efficiency gap is better than district compactness. If they are used together, then in what way are the two measures weighted? If not, why should we pick efficiency over compactness?

It should seem obvious that these two methods would result in different districts, but which mwthod to use is more a matter of personal values than objectivity.
You just reminded me of my old driving instructor.

"All accidents are your fault. Got rear-ended? Shouldn't have been driving so slowly, or shouldn't have stopped. Got t-boned? Should have looked more closely at the intersection. Skidded on ice? Shouldn't have been driving so quickly, or turned so sharply. Yes, you avoided the pedestrian, but that isn't an excuse. In extremis, you shouldn't have been driving that day at all, and you do always have that option, so it's your fault regardless."

The line between empowerment and victim blaming is surprisingly thin. ;)
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> Aol and yahoo both use gmail internall

You couldn't be more wrong about Yahoo, unless something changed in the last six months.
Thanks. Good info. I assumed the logistics site was for 'independent contractors'
Re-skilling is a great solution for any one person when their coal job went away. You don't see pictures of those people in articles about American poverty.

Re-skilling the entire mid-west is impossible. Jobs are currently a game of musical chairs. There isn't room in our economy for 15 million engineers, technicians, and shopowners.
Well, half of the population has an IQ of less than 100. Also, if everyone tries to achieve greater education, then what's considered "upper middle" will shift. Just look at the devaluation of associates and bachelors degrees today.

The sad truth is that there will always be lower and lower-middle class jobs, because not everyone is capable of joining the upper-middle class. Should those people continue to experience a declining quality of life just because they haven't been genetically or socioeconomically blessed?
I wasn't defending ORM's.

I was just pointing out that if you use one you do receive protection from injection attacks. Just because only part of the ORM is actually performing the protection doesn't change the fact that you have it as a consequence of using the ORM.

You can also get the same protection by using a SQL library that supports prepared statements. But ORM's still provide that benefit.
> Can anyone explain why O'Reilly thinks nobody knew until recently that companies are biased toward part-time work in order to avoid providing benefits?

How do you know he's thinking that? The way he was talking, I read him as "well it's obvious that nobody has stopped this behavior so it's fair to assume that not enough people noticed". Wouldn't you agree with that?

> And here's one that's more subtle, so I don't blame him quite as much, but he is naive to think "ideas" are what cause corporations to act the way they do. Material and institutional conditions cause their behavior, which is then justified after the fact by appeal to shareholder value.

That was the only part of the interview where I strongly disagreed with him -- and you're right. It's not about ideas; there are a lot of people out there who are extremely good in bean-counting, micro-management, and of course awful at promoting a positive work environment. They will never change. Only regulators can limit them a bit, if even that.
My impression is that the page has been doing reruns for years now, ever since he posted that he would be taking time off.

I notice that they have since stopped labeling reruns with a original post date in the upper right corner.