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I just visited the wiki page in question … wow, that's an extraordinarily toxic take on a situation.
First of all, thanks for that quote and link. I learned something new and interesting.

But my point about leverage was that Buffet could raise as much money as he believes he can put to good use and since he earns fees as well as interest losing a few years wouldn't mean as much as the article claims, the thing about the specific leverage trick he is famous for is just an anecdote and my point doesn't depend on it... I think?
Well it sounds like that is possible, but is there any way for the VM to indicate to the hypervisor that there is unused memory? Or for that fact, that it needs more? That's the critical missing piece, unless there's an API I'm unaware of.
That's different, OP is asking to just code for equity and suggested finding random clients for it?

Sure, if you believe in the idea, and can find the right partner, then go for it, it's going to be your baby.

But coding for free on someone else's idea... no thanks
Can we “save” your next unplanned Mobile App release?
I don't think I ever saw a Documentation page in a search result. Instead, I saw (and see) dozens of copies of the same SO Q&A content spread across multiple sites. I wonder if they would have had better success if they adjusted their SEO strategies and went after the rehosting sites (more?) aggressively.
You can still write the former and it's just fine.
That sounds awesome. Would make for a good series of blog posts, or a book!
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Very sorry to hear SO is financially in trouble. Also sorry for the people who lost their jobs. SO offers a valuable service. Sad to hear they can't monetize enough.

Edit: Reminds me of the situation of SoundCloud (company offering a service loved by their consumers, still can't monetize enough to satisfy investors, let alone cover the costs (huge headcount))
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Some parts of the law are easier to appreciate if one considers vagueness and ambiguity can be features instead of bugs.
rcc for Windows does this, but the official site appears to have been suspended. I'm surprised how difficult it has been finding other ones.
PE ratios correlate highly to dividends for shareholders. Does holding bitcoin have a way of compensating you when the transaction count increases?
>So, basically this was a reprise of the AF 447 crash at sea, where lack of clear command authority combined with a maddeningly poorly-thought-out UI resulted in a serious accident with loss of life.

I don't want to take this off on a tangent, but this theory of the AF 447 crash keeps getting repeated online despite the fact that the accident report did not conclude that the UI was a factor.

If it's got to the point where the pilots have lost track of who's flying the plane, are ignoring the (audible) "dual control" warning, and are making conflicting control inputs, the plane is probably going to crash anyway. Linking the sticks physically has potential safety downsides in addition to safety upsides (e.g. in the case where one stick gets stuck, or a incapacitated pilot holds it in a particular position).

See e.g. here for further info on sidesticks and safety:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/14027/sidestick...
This is the first thing that came to mind. The second is giving med students more hands on time with ultrasounds. The price is low enough that students could practice on each other in class.
The profanity is in the original post ("Stop gthis f*cking idiocy already!", "bogus SHIT").

From my viewpoint, the problem with the personal attack is the overreaching scope and the hostile wording, not necessarily the critique. It is easy to be firm about laying down the rules of development without getting into the realm of "your entire code and opinion".

There is absolutely nothing wrong with his later post on this in my opinion ( http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1710.3/02487.html ) and I don't think he's any less firm about the development rules here.
Sure. Abortion providers have no incentives to make sure abortion is subsidized and lightly regulated.

Besides, the inability to entertain the thought experiment is basically my point. The result of the skeptical deliberation is beside the point.

Everyone is subject to cognitive dissonance and perverse incentives. Money is just a particularly easy to quantify incentive.
Well, dang. I'd just recently setup an account with Gratipay for our OSS projects. It's not brought in any money, but it seemed like the most transparent and OSS-friendly platform for raising funds.

Sorry to see it go. Funding OSS is a very, very, hard problem.
Except, I need to think the latter?
Must have been due to huge increase in Mac profit margin per unit.
Upton Sinclair said "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

Another way to put it is that it is difficult to get a man to believe something when everyone one he loves and respects does not believe it. I think that was the explication being provided.
Pdfs are suited for printing. That has nothing to do with rigor. You're conflating fashion with intellect.

Example: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt
If banks keep cutting employees why do they still have so many staff?
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Problem is, mimicry involves copying essential properties of the target object: color, texture, shape, movement dynamics and so on. It relies on true ambiguity. Adversarial examples against neural networks (the interesting ones, anyway) involve a combination of insignificant, seemingly random permutations that only work in their totality. That's a very important difference.
In my experience, Prince is great for static HTML + CSS rendering, but its JavaScript engine is pretty lackluster -- I couldn't get it to work with rendering React components, for example. So it depends a lot on your use case and if you can server-side render everything. It's also pretty pricey[1] -- not that I mind paying for quality software but that sticker could be prohibitive for a lot of folks.

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True, I guess if you are up nort' and chopping wood then it is a good source of heat. But in suburban areas where it rarely goes below 40F it's kind of weird how common they are in houses. I guess everyone longs for their own cabin in the woods.
I'm not sure how the quote supports your argument. Adversial examples generalize well accross many different classifiers.

Shallow NN's can be fooled just as well, it seems to be more of a problem of linear models in general. Apparently Geoff Hintons Capsule Networks are more robust due to being "less linear" (Ian Goodfellow mentioned this in a recent talk, don't have the references now to back it up)
I can tell you that most Europe will fix you up for much lower rates than USA -- heard that from people in the Baltic countries, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and a few others.

In my country -- Bulgaria -- I recall somebody on the news saying they pulled their US cousin in here and they got a complex multi-phase operational treatments (not good with medical English, sorry!) with 3 months of hospitalization... for a sum of money that would equal 1 week in hospital in USA plus only the first operation (out of 4-6).

Medical tourism is becoming a thing here in Europe.
Sometimes having too much money is worse than not having enough. With a tighter budget, you have to wonder if such an extravagantly over functional interface would be created.
I see your point, but let's also acknowledge that NPR and many other established media outlets often report on things without linking to the source material even if its freely available, so that they can maintain their audience rather than having them bounce off. Few of their science articles link back to the journal of original publication, for example, or arxiv preprints.

Now as for risk tolerance, I think that should be a two-way conversation. I do think that failing to give people access to the material massively compromises public engagement.
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I dont know why this was downvoted. I heard this exact thing from coursera teacher and some youtubers - that they found making video was significantly less time then equivalent writing.

I would not say it is really easy for everyone, it would not be easy for me. But it is easy for people accustomed to talk a lot.
This is cultural vandalism driven by spite.
Backwards compatibility in C++ means "your existing code still compiles and does the same thing". Can you give an example of a situation where that could be achieved with your proposal?
A CA certificate by itself is not malware? Am I missing something?
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure it would work. An angel investor typically invests only a small sum, and I don't think investing only a little coding time is going to help a startup a lot.

On the other hand, you could set up a firm with a number of people who invest their time in a larger number of startups. Like a VC fund, but for coding.
Hopefully this kind of backlash makes more people disapprove of bad practices and look for crap-free websites.

Hopefully the internet follows the organic food movement. Too many people tired of crap push for a change.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing. The proper strategy would be to sell a percentage at $10.

In fact, if you started in 2011 with 1000 BTC and every year you sold 50% then today you'd have (by my rough calculations):

8 BTC (worth about $50k)

$160k USD

Of course it's not the millions you'd have if you just held each time, but for many that is a life changing amount of money and you would have obtained it in a responsible manner that doesn't just rely on the value of Bitcoin shooting to the moon.
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> I think 1-5 is mostly settled,

Denialist still deny, generally, 3-5, and sometimes 2. Scientifically they may be settled, politically they are not.

6 is also essentially scientifically settled (we can't prevent it, we can probably reduce the rate at which things get worse, and may be able to limit the maximum effect.)

7 is either moot due to six or misphrased (there is a potential trade-off in the balance that goes into mitigating the severity of warming and that devoted to mitigating the severity of the consequences of warming without addressing the warming itself, but these are both forms of mitigation.)

8 is, again, moot because of 6, unless “prevent” is really “mitigate the severity of the warming”.
I don't think that's a, uh, "fly in my plan's ointment". I don't think the satellite needs electronics at all.
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I've thought about this a little too, and ultimately I think it comes down to our culture in the US, and the human individual's tendency to view themselves as inherently good.

Most (all?) other countries seem to have accepted climate change as fact, except the US. The culture and way of life of the US is one driven by extreme consumption, sprawl, waste, and cars--the major drivers of climate change. Baby boomers grew up with that way of life, they passed it along to their kids, and (for example) many don't even know what it means to not drive your car to the grocery store. How else would you get food?

To step back and say to yourself, "my entire way of life, the only way I've ever known of living, is causing massive destruction" is too much. People can't do it. Individuals all see themselves as inherently good, and to acknowledge that one's very way of life (as opposed to an isolated action, like one day being cranky to a cashier) is causing harm is too self-destructive to the psyche. To accept climate change as real means needing to accept that one's entire way of life has been wrong this entire time. It's much easier to rationalize around reality, than to make serious and sweeping lifestyle and cultural changes.

(I can only speak about the US here, though China might possibly have a similar problem; but China acknowledges climate change and their government is taking big steps.)

Ultimately this is why I'm growing increasingly pessimistic about climate change. For climate change to be mitigated, the US has to be on board 100%; but the only way we in the US have known how to live since the 20th century started is with unbelievable waste and naked environmental irresponsibility. Changing a whole culture is too slow a process compared to the increasingly fast feedback loops of climate change.
Joe Stein calls Docker images the “21st century tarball”.
..because admin permissions are just that? Once you've granted superuser that's kind of the end of any further effective gates.
No. Apple stock returns profits to investors. While it's possible to also profit on speculation of future profits, that's not the sole, or even primary reason for investing in it. The primary reason for buying Apple stock is for a share of profits.

> but there are plenty that don't.

Bull. The BTC community as a whole, are evangelists and will point out the multitude of reasons why the price of BTC will trend toward infinity. It's no surprise that, as the financial institutions get more invested into BTC, Bloomberg, et. al. report more on how the price keeps going up! Because the only way to make money on BTC is to find someone willing to pay more than you did for one.

Apple could literally pay a $50/share dividend. BTC could never do that.

I'm not saying a pyramid scheme is a metaphor for BTC, I'm saying it is an instance of pyramid scheme in action. It's just a more modern evolution. The creators were smarter and covered their asses: making it a brand, not a company, hiding their identities, making it pseudo-anonymous.
I have an alternative conspiracy theory. There's a cabal of scientists who want to encourage CO2 emissions because of the endless research projects that global warming will enable. It's a massive global climate experiment. They are only claiming that it's a problem because they know that human society will do the exact opposite to what they recommend.
In my experience analyzing these sorts of things for my skunkworks project, the "source" (client or app) and too-quick-to-be-human retweet brigades are dead giveaways, and I'd imagine they're part of this algorithm. I also started tracking "visual hashes" of avatars (blurred and reduced to a 32x32 grid) in an effort to find re-used or stock profile pics, which has shown some promise as a spammer/bot/brigade signal. As well, existing known signals such as "user with default background color" or "no verified email address" could be part of it.

For example, IFTTT was recently shown to be used by a pro-Trump "retweet brigade" attempting to boost the "Uranium One" campaign with old "RT-style" retweets that look like new tweets but all have the same text. That group wasn't terribly smart, since they all looked the same, and were broadcast in relatively short order by hundreds of accounts.

I know these are guesses; Twitter likely won't ever share their secret sauce recipe.
UI flaws have hit the Navy before, with even worse consequences [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vincennes_(CG-49)#Iran_Air...
News and social media are legitmized gossip that create information overload / Tragedy of the Commons / false equivalency.

This leads to InfoWars, Cambridge Analytica, foreign state actors and anyone with deceptive goals and funding able to manipulate millions to billions of people economically. Heck, there’s an Instagram likes vending machine in Moscow.

Parents and teachers need to teach children and students often using trickery and not thinking for them in order to teach them lessons to not be so gullible. Wrapping them in bubble-wrap, helicopter parenting, dumbed-down education, extended adolescence and sending them to private schools/homeschool is counter-productive. A healthy citizenry needs initiative, leadership, nuance, moral courage, critical thinking and reliable knowledge; otherwise idiocracy.

Like Andy Grove’s book title: ”Only the paranoid survive”
I feel like the increase in devs in general and in business have made them more likely to follow bandwagons and fads more easily than they used to, which just makes our job harder.
Having differential engine control isn't too surprising - it's just another way to maintain a course in addition to the rudder.

Jetliners have gangable throttle controls for their engines, albeit with what is probably a much better interface.
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Is there a similar API around that accepts HTML instead of a URL? I’ve build one for my project, but I would prefer to delegate this to an external service.
Those are called ballistic projectiles, and you cannot place one in a precise orbit. You need upper-stage guidance, admittedly just for the placement of the satellite, but you still need electronics. Though, that being said, I'm now curious how you intend to store large-scale data without any use of electronics.
People do like them: they have a lot stronger emotional impact than text.

They are also (considered as a single or primary channel) a much worse mechanism for actually effectively communicating anything other than emotion (though they can be a useful accompaniment to text.)
Do you have a reference to this law in The Netherlands?
Hearing (one of many) alarms is one thing.

Feeling the control wheel or stick fighting you is far more direct.

AF 447 was absolutely a UX failure.
I just cannot buy this argument. Comparing the Soup Nazi to someone who chose to make content for you, is just ludicrous. For one, the Soup Nazi actively berated people. Someone making videos because they want to make videos is not doing anything close to that to you.

The worst you can claim a video is, is an inconvenience. That's it. Saying it's "hostile" because you'd prefer text is entitlement to the point of craziness.
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I'd call it an interpretation, not a theory. But clearly the conflicting inputs was a UI problem, and while there may be tradeoffs, a better UI could have prevented the AF 447 crash.
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I entertained it. The result is above. I imagine lots of people are capable of entertaining it. That they don’t reach the bizarre conclusion you seem to think they should doesn’t mean they haven’t tried.

It’s true that everyone is subject to these things. That does not mean that facts don’t matter, that every opinion is equally valid, or that every belief is due to them.
There has to be some kind of DNN research on using methods such as these to enhance accuracy of DNNs by using the antagonist examples as input.

You could just take your existing labeled data and add light-medium noise to all your data (easiest with images?) and thereby get a lot more training data less prone to overfitting.

It's so obvious to me so someone must have thought of it already. So my guess is that these kinds of easy antagonist examples won't be a thing for very long.
Maybe it's time for desktop operating systems to adopt permissions systems like smartphones. Permission for network access, permission for non-current user files and registry, permission to install certs.
"...broad unwillingness to have a real discussion for fear of being shamed..."

That's not exactly what I've observed.

I've observed people driven to be contrarian, who use an assortment of tactics:

- cherry-picking evidence for one side (this one study shows ice melting may be smaller than expected in one place, thus, I dismiss the entire AR5 report without ever even reading the executive summary);

- providing contorted arguments they would never accept in a context involving, say, their own home ("the effect is small by historic standards"; "warming will have benefits that have been overlooked");

- dismissing the expertise of others in favor of their own undergrad-level science judgements ("we can't even predict the weather past 14 days, how can we predict climate") -- again, with a degree of skepticism they would never exhibit in relation to, say, their architect ("you need more shear strength there"), gardener ("it's a root fungus"), or car mechanic ("it's your oil pump"), or even Stack Exchange ("change permissions on the file and reboot").

Broadly, HN avoids the worst of the above problems - for which I'm thankful. But you will still see them here in any climate-related discussion thread. I possess some of the same contrarian tendencies, and seeing how easily skepticism turns into ignorant defense of the status quo has been a useful corrective for me.
very interesting, I was thinking about the exact thing. I think it is a great idea!
Happens more often than we like.

I know of a ferry that a local warf built that had two bridges, and a combined throttle and rudder in each.

The thing is that when moving from one bridge to the other, the crew had to flip a switch to indicate what direction was forward. And quite often they forgot.

End result was a long history of damaged because ferry would ram the pier when the crew was actually attempting to move away from it.
It does not have "zero real value" - it definitely competes well against established money transfer services like Western Union. You can send $1000 to your mom in Japan for a $5. That is a good enough value for money transfers that Bitcoin won't ever go completely to $0 value while Western Union can charge $20 for the same service.

And that is at current bitcoin price. Since the fee is paid in bitcoin, if the price drops down to $100/bitcoin then you can send $1000 for pennies.