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> Lockheed Martin is actually incredible in the scope that it influences government. The reason the F-35 continued to have such strong support even after numerous reports of design flaws and massive cost overruns: Lockheed spread the development of the F-35 over 46 states, so almost any Congressman who acts against the F-35 program acts against jobs in his or her own state.

That's not something special about the F-35, except maybe in execution details; the strategy has been well-known and frequently practiced by many defense contractors (and commented on by critics of defense procurement) for many years before the F-35 project.
Absolutely. I considered going that route, but went with Let’s Encrypt on principle, rather than practicality.
Unpleasant as the flame war version is, it does cut to the heart of the matter rather than tiptoeing around it, which can perpetuate a problem. Both approaches have their place.
Almost half of tech workers worry about losing their jobs because of ageism
I'm going to concur with the observations that the title is sensationalist, though there is some really interesting thought fodder in this. A key thing that doesn't come through in the title is:

> After I tweeted out the pay-to-play screenshot (Fig 1), Uber wrote to me to explain that the screenshot refers to a study in Houston that is part of a research collaboration between Uber and two MIT economists. They added that, “Further, drivers have to opt-in to the offer and there is a disclaimer explaining that if they opt-in they will be part of an academic research project.”

In some ways, the questions that are raised are more about the underlying research ethics (did the authors get IRB review? One presumes, but it's not stated either way in tfa), than about Uber's actual behavior. Or perhaps the question is whether Uber should be participating -- or what conditions Uber is imposing on the study to ensure that the drivers that accept are not going to be harmed substantially.
I'm 30, but I have been riding the same 1983 Motobecane since high school as my main commuter bike (~50 miles a week). Down tube friction shifters make maintenance on the road very easy.

That said I can't vouch for the biopace rings...
Absolute Taxi and Airport Transportation
Fair enough. I don't see this "masking" as an issue, though. I'm curious too about signs of dyslexia in adulthood. I would bet that adult SVS dyslexics exist but are better adapted around the issue.
> the results were widely touted and are still being raised to public acceptance even as they fall apart. The challenges to stereotype threat, priming, and the IAT are even scarier

They're in the same boat. It is maddening how much stereotype threat gets brought up to defend certain ideas, or how it has worked its way into corporate diversity policy, and it appears to be built on a foundation of sand [1]. The worst part is, if you question it publicly, you stand a change of being treated like James Damore.

[1] - https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201512/is...
"You do know the offer is optional right?"

You do know that such an offer is illegal, right? It is literally "If you pay us, we'll pay you more later on." It's the actual beginning of a Ponzi Scheme.
How do you 'survive' climate change when it results in over 2 billion refugees, resulting ineluctably in wars? How do you survive topsoil and fresh water disappearance? How do you survive the death of the oceans? How well do you think we will manage as nearly every ecosystem around us collapses due to the multiplicity of stressors that fake 'economic growth' imposes (very well-attested worldwide).

They're rhetorical questions of course. I hardly expect you to come up with a solution for the globe's ills (hats off to you if you can; I certainly don't have a clue). But the exclusive focus on climate change is itself one of the biggest dangers we face. It tempts with the prospect of a narrow technical fix while leaving current ideologies and institutions intact. We know where that road leads, with or without further climate change (in addition to that already locked in).
"Jaxa believes the cave, located from a few dozen metres to 200 metres beneath an area of volcanic domes known as the Marius Hills on the moon’s near side, is a lava tube created during volcanic activity about 3.5bn years ago."
Wouldn't that take collusion between insurance companies? If I'm Google and United says "you're premium went up 20% this year", but Aetna is only 10%, Google is going to change insurance companies.
Also see this comment https://medium.com/@sarawinge/i-remember-that-night-17f5bf2a...

And this tweet from Tim O'Reilly https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/921124414418182144
I have a few Busch & Mueller lights I like. To my knowledge only Peter White Cycles sells them in US.
The largest two components in 3D acceleration are the userspace shader compiler/GL library, and the display configuration code. The latter is in (usually) the kernel these days. They should have no particular issue forward porting the kernel side of the equation, but if they want full open source 3D acceleration, they are going to need to write the userspace part of the driver (or more likely, port Mesa to it).

As for WiFi, not sure. The drivers could be crappy in ways which don't cause problems on Android; or (rarely) could rely on a userspace component. Otherwise they just haven't gotten around to it.

Also, both of these problems would be specific to a given device (or at least a given chipset). Which device are you talking about that they are having these problems with?

As for Replicant specifically, they are only satisfied with free software, right? I don't think they would even want to forward port the graphics drivers, since unless there's already enough development on an open source driver to warrant upstreaming, there's probably not a workable open source userspace to match the driver anyway, so they wouldn't distribute it either way.
Anyone have tricks to boost their memory?

Lately, I've felt my memory has been a little off. I feel like I'm not remembering things I would normally easily remember.

Like the other day, I was trying to remember what they speak in Iran (Farsi) or who the head coach of the Boston Celtics or what was the name of the Scorsese movie with Wahlberg/Damon/Nicholson. These are all subjects I'm very familiar with so it bothered me that I couldn't remember the answers immediately.
The author is not telling the whole story. Uber still gets their cut of each ride, the initial $115 is simply used as a hedge or insurance. If a driver doesn't make above the $349 for the week than the $115 is returned to the driver. Uber doesn't simply pocket it. If a driver makes over $349 for the week, they get the %33 surge, and Uber will keep the initial $115.
> We say this, but I haven't heard any particularly good ideas on how to build such a system that isn't also easy to game. How do you ensure the failed studies were actually worth doing? Is peer review of study design feasible?

Are you aware of Registered Reports?
https://cos.io/rr/
We need to see this in a deeper historical pendulum that swings (in the U.S.) between extreme tolerance of monopolies (railroad barons, etc, way back when) to extreme intolerance of them - the nadir of tolerance being the 1970's when Xerox was killed off for buying patents it was already using, and had been founded on! (Because that gave it now-exclusive rights to the tech.) We notice the change in how Silicon Valley is viewed because the good press was so very, very good; even when their conduct was not.
Emotion and memory are connected. And emotion is connected with perception and pleausure of senses.
All this connections was knows from many centuries in the yoga and meditation practice
No. Almost every functional language forces you to follow these "calisthenics." These look more like guidelines to follow if you want to execute the functional style in an imperative language.
Bicycle-building has replaced my obsession with building PCs. Unlike PCs, bike performance doesn't follow Moore's Law -- bikes make forty years ago, if kept in decent condition, are still going to be better bikes than a new bike purchased at Walmart or Target.

I'm old-fashioned, but I generally want able-bodied folks to get on the saddle if they can, whether it's an old clunker or a new e-bike. Shimano makes amazing electronic components, but what about the cheap competitors that start flooding the market with integrated parts that break? Will bikes be salvageable and maintainable beyond that point? Are we going to get into a planned obsolescence situation here?
> there are now a "glut" of PhD's that are far outpacing the very limited # of academic positions.

Professors have very little incentive to practice academic `birth control`.
But that isn't what I said. I said I get 50% of my clients from the network, not that I need the network to get 50% of my clients. They are drastically different things. It's client acquisition cost. Why pay to go apple picking when I have an orchard in my back yard?
Well, I guess you don't have kids yet. Lifestyles need to be sustainable. For many, machines in the gym downstairs is the only thing that fits (many don't have that).
Being drunk doesn't absolve you of your crimes, it means you should stay sober if you don't live alone on the moon. Especially if you know you will act a certain way.

I hadn't heard of Scoble for years so I googled "scoble abuse", and the first result is something he supposedly wrote about being groomed and abused by his coach while he was a kid (http://archive.is/AN19H). Can't find the Facebook post this suggests was written by Robert and I don't know anything about the website it was posted on. But if it's true, then it gives you a way to trace back how Robert Scoble became an abuser. It also reflects on his substance abuse issues and if true shows that society fails to help victims and puts them on a path to become future perpetrators.
This is bikeshedding at its finest
The use of Roman numerals for centuries in this paper is obnoxious. I already have to mentally subtract 1... now I have to translate number systems too?!
Those rules were unconstitutional and revoked.
They are also on top ... with our huge phones, it is a pain to reach.

Anecdotally, resources wise it makes me happy to do not have sliding so I don't need to maintain 3 pages in memory
The students and professors tend to be in favor, but they aren't the university. It's the administration that tends to hate the idea.

EDIT: speaking from my limited experience with the unionization effort at Brown. My main point is that faculty are not the university.
Hacker News has been on a closed-source "fork" (it's really the upstream) since the day news.arc was published.
How This All-Female-Run Publisher Is Using Tech to Bring News to Rural India
The Devil’s Advocate
I'm not sure how this addresses the resource load of Web Workers. What about their alternative makes it inherently lighter?

I agree that there is an issue here, but this feels like making another thing with bits added. To genuinely make it lighter weight, would it not need to be a subset of capability. Otherwise why couldn't the efficiency just be added to Workers?

The problem seems to be that Workers can only really applied to fairly substantial workloads. Trivial tasks (x=y+1) can be done on the main JavaScript Thread. There needs to be something for the middle ground.

At a minimum I would have thought that such a solution should enable a parallel form of map, filter, and reduce style operations. These are operations that are intrinsically designed for non-trivial tasks.

I feel that there might need to be a way to distinguish some sort of function purity before such parallelism is allowed, lest JavaScript turn into a soup of races and conflicts. A way to declare (or ideally automatically identify) functions that do not mutate global state and return a value created from inside the function.

Workers handle persistent parallel processing with async communication. I suspect maintaining that complete persistent state is why the resource load is so high. The lightweight middle-ground should offer non-persistent parallelism.
Terraform backend
Is there any sense of if/when nvidia's proprietary drivers will work with Wayland? I built a new machine with an Nvidia 1080Ti less than 4 weeks ago. I'd rather not have to switch...
I hate the tiny key travel, flat keycaps, removal of pgup/down/ins/del, and putting the function keys as secondary functions of media keys I never use.

> We have no mechanical challenges now, but still using misaligned, less usable keyboards, why?

Inertia. And I have trouble finding an intuitive reason why an aligned grid would make typing easier; just sounds like something slightly different for my muscle memory to adjust to. I can imagine something like the combination of aligned keys spread into a slight arc shape being nicer, just because of the angles involved.
I wouldn't even call these things calisthenics. These are requirements for the programming style to be called "functional."

Really if you aren't following <Edit> Most <Edit> of these rules you are not doing functional programming.

The best way to learn about functional is not to follow these rules but to use a functional language that basically enforces these rules. Javascript is not a good language to learn about functional programming.
You might want to look at your comment history in an incognito browser window.

Are you posting via proxies?
I wish I could read the article, but there was just too many ads.
Due to the wording of

"As long as your weekly earnings exceed $349 you'll come out ahead!"

I believe you're incorrect or trying to mislead. That sentence implies that there's a strong possibility people can come out "not ahead" or, specifically, lose potential income on the arrangement.
The fantasyland that ESR lives in is such a wildly inaccurate representation of reality that it borders on offensive.
It's baffling to me that academia, which is predominantly progressive, would treat its workers so poorly.
It's not immediately clear to me how this proposal differs from "a nicer JavaScript wrapper around Web Workers."

Don't get me wrong, I'm hugely in favor of that being added to the language, but I feel like the readme somewhat overstates what this actually is. I may have misunderstood something.
I'm not opposed, but where will the higher wages come from? You make it sound like someone is making a killing off their labor, but I understand universities to be perpetually strapped. These aren't meant to be challenges to your point; I just don't understand university economics.
Indeed. Plenty of architects, solicitors, whatever else. It just makes life easy.
They have a strong perverse incentive to glut the PhD market since their control of grads then becomes nearly absolute - the graduate students' futures depend on their profs letters of recommendation. Not just wage slavery but "Weinberg benefits" and "pump and dump" (steal the graduate students ideas and then kill their careers and publish those ideas) results. One helluvan incentive.
This seems to contradict the criteria in a child post, citing. [1]

Is there any citation for your claims?

From the cited list, it seems that anyone who got paid on a regular basis by the university over the past two years could vote.

[1] http://knowthefacts.uchicago.edu/
I also attended a unionized school (UMich) and I also appreciated the union. Our union frequently pushed for wage increases and other benefits, and our healthcare was absolutely stellar (basically full and free coverage for most common things, no co-pay even). Obviously not ALL of that can be attributed to the union, but I really appreciated knowing that an organization had my back.
Making desperate people less desperate can be pro-social. UBI could drive down the crime rate.

Also you're assuming all paid jobs are pro-social. Is coal mining? Advertising? SEO for MLM firms? Lobbying for kleptocratic foreign governments? Some of these may have some positive effects but may be net negative in their effect on society.

Finally, I disagree that charity isn't a legitimate role for government. Since neither of us is the arbiter of government legitimacy I think we can agree to disagree here.
How the “two-sigma problem” accidentally got solved
well it likely is too late to matter, with the ever connected world people will get their education from anywhere for the best price.

the end result is the many US colleges will have to reign in costs and this could put a lot of pressure on all positions.
Alternate working either opposing or totally unconnected muscle groups and there's no reason to rest any in between sets, which has the added benefit of turning it into a pretty incredible cardio workout at the same time.
Yes, they all work pretty similarly and the Git repo is fairly self contained. You (mostly) just point the generator software at the repo which includes your content, config and theme and it compiles it into HTML files.
And autoplay video, without easy way to stop it. Ugh.
Tezos Development Update
I guess we'll see how that turns out with Equifax.
They're renting space though. An uber/lyft driver isn't renting a medallion or a barber seat.
To experience that, you’d need to be so close to some very extreme event (neutron star merger for example) that you’d already be in desperate trouble, and a planet wouldn’t hold together. You could hypothetically experience something less impressive than an earthquake, but less impressive than having your atoms strung out like spaghetti.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/338912/how-would...
I think there are a few Web sites made with this use in mind.
Assuming with blockchain you mean blockchain+PoW, I fail to see how it solves your problem. The gist of PoW is that so many people contribute work that it's difficult for any party to do more work than the other parties combined. PoW is essentially useless if three parties are involved.
Universities have vastly expanded the percentage of their budget that goes towards administrative and brand building roles. Redistributing it towards teachers and grad students would be a good start. In addition, public universities could receive greater public funding.
Most of these "news" outlets are becoming more and more aggressive with advertising.
1blocker on iOS, uMatrix elsewhere.
> I think the author is painting this in the worst possible light.

That happens with Uber consistently. The cab companies hate them with a white hot fire and there are plenty of media outlets who are happy to take a story from a PR flack, especially when it generates page views.

When people complain about surge pricing and then complain about things that mitigate surge pricing, that is pretty good evidence that they just want to complain about something.

> What makes this potentially unethical (in my mind) is where the price is set. If it's set at a point where Uber's models predict the average benefit to a driver is $0 then this is essentially shifting the risk to their employees.

But in that case why would anyone take the deal?

If they did that then the drivers would pay $115 to make back $116 (or $110) and then never do it again because it's not worth the risk.
Hmm, that's true, but not if it all rots before you think of something else to do with it. But honestly it's basically canceled out between the cost and environmental impact of the packaging.
YC video interview tomorrow
Doing a YC video interview tomorrow, has anyone ever done these before?
> a UBI recipient need not provide any value to his community as a condition of this benefit

A person working for a paycheck doesn't provide value to a community, only to their employer. Chronic unemployment, however, does harm a community. The explicit physical need for food, shelter and access to medical care outweighs the implicit value in the dignity of labor.

> Charity is not a legitimate role for government.

Don't consider it charity, then, consider it insurance, or just another public service like the police or fire department.
Unity8 is practically dead right now. The funding withdrawal ensured it.

But, some of Mir's utility carried over into Canonical's IOT stuff.

No one I've spoken seems to know why Mir still has an active team after the big changes.

There's some speculation of MATE adopting when Mir hits 1.0, but it really is speculative.

I don't know why, but Mir marches on. I doubt we'll see it on desktop anytime soon.
I know very little about rockets and 3D printing, so maybe someone can answer two things for me:

1. Does 3D printing make sense for large projects like rockets, which will be used in extreme conditions? I thought it was more for prototypes.

2. How does this compare to SpaceX, which is attempting to reuse rockets? How important is this fixed cost if you use a rocket 100 times?
But I'm not a web developer and I don't want to build my own anything if there's a professional plug-n-play solution already available.

Bootstrap just works, so I stay with it. I don't even want to learn the new one because BS3 already solves my problems.
That kind of makes sense, thanks! It has puzzled me for years. It was very convincing dream Spanish, like fluency in technical verbiage and speaking about higher order mathematics - all in Spanish when I still had a hard time asking for a room for the night.
Based on where they advertise I'd say that's not their entire target audience at all.
A Catfishing with a Happy Ending
The Libor fraud was done by a fairly new London office that was created to join in the fast high finance world in London, and that office operated mostly outside the view of the central office in Netherland. From what I read, they seem to have learned not to do that anymore. It was stupid and greedy and blew up in their face.
While these are valid issues, there are big differences between the concerns of Masters and PhD students in the US that I think you conflating together.

Doctoral students at major research universities rarely pay tuition, particularly at a place as highly ranked as UChicago, and usually are given a large enough stipend to live off of (1). Relative to the amount of work, however, the pay is low and the number of faculty jobs on the other end of this is shrinking. Masters students on the other hand typically do not engage in their own independent research nor do they teach their own classes. They are basically treated like undergraduates with a harder course load. The tuitions for Masters degrees (for which few scholarships are available), on the other hand, are outrageously high.

(1) [https://grad.uchicago.edu/admissions/funding/doctoral](https...
With such a power disparity, I wonder how long before the stories of professors sexually abusing their positions start coming out. The situation sounds like a breeding ground for that sort of exploitation.
Why don't landlords ask you for your salary now and charge that amount for your rent?
Camouflage. I well remember a real Chinese Marxist dropped into a supposedly Marxist-dominated academic department here a few decades ago who was astounded. How they could reconcile all being wine collectors and snobs with their trumpeted socialist views he asked me? The answer is that their progressive views masked very regressive and antisocial behavior in general, and that was quite purposeful.
>who controls the rest of the money? Could be the same people, just indirectly, via friends or shell companies incorporated in Switzerland

you're absolutely right :

" The idea, according to documents on the Tezos website, was that the foundation would raise money via the ICO, then acquire DLS, the Breitman-controlled company that has been developing Tezos. "

So it seems that the plan was that Breitmans would take as much money as they want (can we say "all the money"? :), and probably the foundation guy that Breitmans are fighting now did bait-and-switch reneging on the agreement to buy the company (as it would be hard to believe that even in Switzerland such agreement can exist in a legally binding form) and chose instead to have all this money to himself. $400M of free money can do that to people :)