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I think the argument runs something like this:

P1. Infra A exists.
P2. Infra A has been abused.
C1. If we build infra A, it can be abused.

P3. Abuse is bad.
P4. This proposal proposes that we build infra A.
P5. A proposal to build something that can be abused is bad.
C2. A proposal to build infra A is bad.

That's all fine. It's all fine, except P1 still stands even at the time we reach C2. The infrastructure already exists. So the argument sounds funny. Not unsound, but somewhat unconvincing.

It's a much better argument for the proposition that we should dismantle the infrastructure, than that we shouldn't make additional legitimate use of the infrastructure.
The asymmetry of FATCA is unbelievable. The US is bullying the banks of European countries by forcing them to report to US agencies the bank accounts of US citizens or US residents. Either the foreign banks comply, or they ask the US person to close his/her account.

Some EuropeanS with a link to the US have to move their bank accounts or investments accounts to the US because the European banks literally kick them out of fear of not being able to comply with FATCA.
Sure. Which subjects are you interested in?
Except in the article when the author's Dad forgot is keys he was mostly screwing himself.
The prices you quote are pretty expensive for 2 layer boards at least. I should ordered 3 Arduino sized boards from OSHPark (US fabricated) for 40USD. From China I would probably get 10 for about 20USD.

CNC Mills kind of suck. The main issue is alignment of the top and bottom layers, the lack of vias, and that even with the additional pain (and cost) the quality isn't great (no solder mask is the main pain point).

A nice, simple, PCB printer would actually be useful. But they've a long way to come and I think it's quite a niche product. They'd need to produce at least 2 layer boards with vias for me to consider using one. Ideally they'd also have solder mask.

I think it's quite a niche play though. There are many differences between 3D printing and PCB printing, which make 3D printing more interesting/viable.
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I see no specific phenomena referenced in the relation to the 50 cent party. It is an overtly broad reference with no examples that have clear comparisons to the paper and it’s topic. This is a definite text book example of thinly disguised whataboutism
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Of interest this is the guy that developed American Fuzzy Lop[1], and the Guerrilla guide to CNC machining[2] (which is similarly well written).

[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/

[2] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
But why does this mean they have power?

The hiring committee at their next job has real power. The administrators who could fire them have some power too (although failing to impress the former is almost as bad as being expelled by the latter). This power doesn't seem to explain who's sloppy very well.

The hot-shit lawyer has loads of power, right? And is never forgetful. But his life revolves around impressing people right there in the same room. He's been both selected and trained to be be good at impressing them.
> Apple's Xserve cluster was an interesting experiment but it never really went anywhere.

A pity Apple does not manufacture real servers any more. With the old cheesegrater-mac-pros, which were the last thing available after the Xserve death, you at least have the option to put in 4 disks and do a RAID setup, but no remote power/console management or a serial port...
Nice subreddit, I agree with a lot of what you write. In particular I wish more people were looser, as you seem to be, with the assumption that actors within an economy act rationally. It's impossible to act rationally given the huge amount of information asymmetry in the economy, and especially given that others' information asymmetry will cause the economy to not behave rationally regardless of whether you can make rational decisions on it.

It's also impossible to rationally determine whether an arbitrary law / policy change will pass at arbitrary point in the future. So with housing, because we aren't guaranteed that interest rates/zoning/taxes will behave predictably, we can't really rationally determine a "true" price for a house in a market where those may change
No, sorry, I probably wasn't clear. I didn't mean to say that 1Password does not provide updates.

I was just talking about the hypothetical situation for iOS apps (and thus their users) _if_ the apps don't get updates.
Getting rid of the GIL is a big change. In py2.7 CPU-heavy threads are useless -- they lock up the process and starve other threads. py2.7 threads are only good for I/O heavy work.

You can use multiprocessing in py2.7 but with a lot of caveats if you want to share state and file descriptors.

IMO the GIL removal is the one thing "that's not easily available via back ports in 2.7".
So what if my thoughts run counter to some UN document? It's interesting that you evoke it in such a religious manner, as if that alone should shut out any discussion.
China is a historic nation reaching back thousands of years, inventor of mass foreign policy, bureaucracy, and more. She has no need to learn governance, nor the art of influence from the United States
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Charity donations are driven by lots of things that are inefficient but provide a better story. The inefficiency is, in effect, part of the cost of marketing a charity.

Charity fundraising is about maximizing net donations, not maximizing donation efficiency. There may be some causes where the potential donor pool is such that the latter is important to the former, but, irrational as it may be, it's generally not.
Can Atom be the twitch for coding with view only teletype?
> The Xerox Alto, widely recognized as the first modern personal computer

It it wasn't available for personal use, this is a delusional claim. Maybe the first prototype of a personal computer. But that's all it was - a (impressive) technical prototype.
Switched to Nightly about a month ago and haven’t looked back. Orders of magnitude better since I ditched FF a few years back.
To clarify, you recognize the existence and significance of other dynamics in human relations, but you just find them far less interesting? This seems alright, as I can't fault you too much for what you find interesting.

But this does directly contradict your earlier statement:

"Basically every personal behavior is a manifestation of power dynamics."

It would probably save you some trouble if you would have said the other thing from the outset :)

Edit: Regarding complaints, I think by definition they are going to be about some form of human conflict! Textbook selection bias. It doesn't directly tell us anything about other human interactions.
Maybe but as long as they leave the mainstream porn sites alone I don't think it'll speed it up that much.
I'm switching over today. Performance was my only gripe with Firefox previously, and I really dislike the idea of feeding Google my usage information.
I realize you are joking to some extent, but if we are to demand net neutrality, we must be willing to enforce it even against our own motives. Facebook as a website shouldn't be treated any different than any other website. Of course we can legally attack Facebook from other angles like its nefarious business practices.
I guess the next step would be something along the lines of Google Wave where you could playback the "conversations" and see the learning process develop.
That's the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” not “UN Declaration of Human Rights”.
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What would a git commit look like when two distinct programmers have inputted characters into the file?
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Pro Tip: The GRU is a much simpler unit (easier to explain) and usually works better than the LSTM.
Twitter announce verification change, white tick is now literally an endorsement
It stands against all reason and intuition that this would be the case. There is no evidence to support the theory.
an opened document inside an editor is absolutely aware of this, and this is what you're collaborating on. almost all IDEs support EditorConfig, which makes standardizing on things like that across teams trivial.
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"Investor accreditation makes sense (for now.)"

No it doesn't. It's pure nanny statism. The government has no business telling people what they can and can't invest in or spend their money on. Yes startups are risky. So are lots of things. Why should the wealthy have no restrictions on them, but the poor do? This is literally "class warfare".
Credit to https://twitter.com/44/status/930934240228675584 who observes:

"Twitter's action on verification is puzzling. They're admitting they've wrongfully conflated the program with endorsement and then proceed to remove badges from people violating rules. This entrenches exactly what they said they want to get away from!"

"instead of making verification about identity, now begins an endless, unresolvable series of editorial decisions that they'll be forced to defend"

(and yes, it is a white tick...!)
It also encourages the tiering of IoT such that insecure-and-cheap remains on the market and is pushed towards people who can least afford to be pwned.

Regulation is not blind, but it does raise the floor.
Also a good point, but how would you propose that we measure 'security'? Is an Android phone that hasn't received a carrier update in 8 months "secure"? How about a home server running an ancient distro which long since stopped receiving package updates?

The phone is probably a bigger concern at scale, but I have seen plenty of families with dusty "photo storage/backup" boxes that their family's resident IT person set up and networked when they were in high school.
I feel like this is a misunderstanding how strict Mendelian genetics is.

Most evolutionary theorists think more like physicists and do realize every trait is selectable.
The current evidence is inconclusive, but many obvious alternatives have been ruled out.
Where does that put Minix if the supercomputers have the ME chip? Based on the findings this past month, Minix is on the most computers.
Can't legislate security into existence...at least not very safely
I hear this kind of stuff from folks who don't really understand why offshore entities are useful in any number of scenarios for perfectly legitimate reasons.

I also hear it from folks who have never had to deal with the heavy handed tactics of a government that unabashedly tries to extort money from pockets it considers "deep enough" to pick.

You might think those tax dollars find their way to useful social programs. You'd be wrong. More often than not, they're used to prop up favored industries or enrich politically connected individuals.

I don't condone tax cheating. But I absolutely condone jurisdiction shopping if it helps to keep funds in the hands of those that earned it. I know that'll make me unpopular with a certain vocal minority but those folks haven't ever bought me so much as a cup of coffee so I think I'll live.
This isn't a scientific article. It's a press release. If you want to read the journal paper, they link to it:

https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/e...

I think these sort of artists conceptions really help the public visualize, understand, and get inspired by the research. I imagine it would be a lot harder to get funding for the research without them.
Did they rule out the possibility that the mutant gene they put in the male mice caused the sperm to be bad at sperming?
I guess if the nit-picking is to stand my work computer isn't a PC either.
But your own company doesn't capture all of that value.

That will never happen as long as we pay wages. Look at all that value going out the door as payroll.

The benifit of on the job training is to hire a $X dev at <=$X and turn them into $Y devs at even less than a $Y would cost to hire.
You don't have freedom of speech in the workplace.
> I think the amount of Python 2 source code existing in the world is too large for Python 2.7.x to stop working.

Exactly. And that is the major fuup that Python 3 brought. There was no fundamental reason to make most of the Python 2 code incompatible with the "better" and "newer" version. The really good Python 3 would have accepted most of the Python 2 code and execute it, while allowing the new 3 "goodies."

Only a year ago, I've installed "just" Python 3 on my main computer -- "Python 3 is mature enough" I've thought. Then I wanted to solve some problem X. Found the code that does 90% on the web. Try to run -- doesn't work on Python 3. Adjusting it. It runs after my changes, but I've lost time for something unnecessary. Then I've tried to solve some problem Y. The story repeats. The third time, I've just decided that it's not worth. I've installed 2 again and I can't be happier.

And all that was for my non-Numpy related work. There were some years where the libraries using Numpy were only Python 2, even after Numpy got its own 3 version.

So Python 3 was so very wrong for too long. The worst upgrade path I've lived through. And completely unnecessary. It was absolutely technically possible to make it much much easier to move.
> it's a shame that Linus is not a billionaire

I mean $150m is a LOT of money. $10m/yr is a lot too. Just to put that into perspective, you could put that in a very safe ETF and make over $1m/yr. You could easily make $10m/yr just off interest.

That's A LOT of money. And a lot of people would be perfectly content with that, let alone know what to do with it. I mean if you can rent the entire country of Lichtenstein for over 12 years, I'm sure you're pretty comfortable. I don't think Torvalds is in it for the money. Measuring success by somebody's net worth is a really poor metric.
What do you mean by "works better"? Do you mean something beyond having fewer parameters to store/calculate?
I'm a Single-Page-App developer that runs noscript and selectively enables javascript.

We know. No one listens to us though.
> What reasonable case is there for making them not liable for the damages caused?

After what period of time? Microsoft updated Windows XP after the official end-of-life of the OS for consumers with the patch to the Samba protocol to prevent WannaCry, but if they hadn't bothered, would they still be liable? Should they?

Are they obligated to update pirated versions of their OS?

Is the manufacturer liable if they release a software patch but the product owner doesn't apply the upgrade? What share of the liability should each party take?

Software is largely immune to liability litigation in the USA because the current legal status of it is not legally "a product". Converting it to "a product" for the purposes of liability is a major sea change for our understanding of what business models can be applied to software, licensing, ownership, etc.

Also, does the average product programmer carry some sort of programming insurance? Are we going to force every web developer and every open source programmer to carry insurance, to be licensed to program, and to live up to specific ethical standards?

I'm not saying these are undesirable changes, just that they are changes and there are a ton of issues programmers don't foresee that should be discussed before making
Er, no, bitcoin going up is nice if you hold bitcoin like gold, and irrelevant if you imagine actually using bitcoin as a way to do transactions. Bitcoin going up or down in value relative to other cryptocurrencies is orthogonal to the problem that it is inconvenient and expensive as a way to move money.
Is there a good way to display these in a terminal? The result is a little ugly because it ends up vertically stretched.
> A better solution IMO would be to set up a trust/charity that provides bail money

Um, been done. Its called “The Bail Project”. [0]

This crypto-mining project is just a fundraising project (not the only one) for the Bail Project.

> I just don't think this is a particularly good solution.

It's not a solution to the bail problem, it's just an added funding channel for something that aims to be (part of) that solution.

[0] https://bailproject.org
> basically the same as giving them over-the-counter access to scheduled drugs.

Something that also should be legal (with reasonable discrimination). I would choose a different metaphor because this one doesn't work in your favor.
It appears they've removed the "Import" button, or hidden it away somewhere. In the meantime, if you're looking to make the switch and can't find it - it looks like you can drag and drop from Chrome bookmarks one at a time.

EDIT: It appears to be completely removed from 57. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.places.importBookmarksHTML no longer exists. It makes sense given they've heavily moved away from the HTML storage.

It was nice however, being able to quickly and easily share my workstation setup with new hires.
I made a site that lets you visualise sorting algorithms with sound
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13612938

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12960989
It's more like a piano played through a tube amplifier. It can add character, if you're into that, and it can't be reproduced well with digital effects.
Yeah, good point, I guess there are already tons of existing solutions for that which wouldn't eat up the author's bandwidth; the modern web really has spoiled us with so many 1-click conveniences, huh?
Belgian gambling commission investigates Star Wars Battlefront
article (https://nieuws.vtm.be/binnenland/onderzoek-naar-nieuw-star-wars-spel) in dutch, translated:

The commission is opening an investigation into the new Star Wars: Battlefront 2 game. In that game you can pay to improve your character or vehicle. The mechanism is based on chance; you don't know up front what you'll get. Overwatch is also under investigation.

The game will be in store next Friday and is seen as one of the largest releases this year. In the game, you can improve your character and obtain things like weapons or vehicles.

Those without time to play can buy the improvements also with "Loot Crates". those are virtual boxes that are bought without knowing up front what's inside.

And that's the problem, claims the Gambling Commission. Because you want certain items but don't know what you'll be getting when bought, it's a form of gambling. Such activities are under the purview of the Commission, according to Naessens, director of the Commission.

The Commission claims it's a danger especially to the underage, who may feel socially pressured to spend a lot of money. That's why they're starting the investigation. "Games of chance are regulated by the commission", explains Naessens.

In worst case, EA may have to pay 100k fines or the game may be banned. EA has not responded so far.
There's no problem with someone having a billion dollars, the problem comes from those billion dollars being diverted into rent producing assets
The government isn't telling people what they can invest in; it's telling companies whether they can take people's money. It's not illegal to hand money to a private company (you will not be charged with a crime); it's illegal to, as the company, accept that money.

Private companies are a very specific kind of company—they're supposed to be a temporary condition, a way for companies to not have to go through the effort of going through disclosure, underwriting, etc. right away, because they're still just two guys in a garage and don't have the resources to do so. Private companies, as a special case, don't get to participate in all the things public (i.e. "normal") companies do. Private companies are to public companies as minors are to adults.

In your phrasing, you could say that government also "tells people what they can and can't" eat, in the form of the FDA. But, just like this case, it should be clear that the FDA never goes after someone for eating a poisoned cucumber; it just goes after the company for selling poisoned cucumbers.

(The DEA, on the other hand, is pure nanny-state-ism.)
Odds are good that we are the lone source of intelligent life in our galaxy. In the universe? Not so much. The question really comes down to FTL travel. No FTL and we are likely to turn inward and look to artificial environments and virtual realities. If there is FTL then its possible that we could continue to look to the stars for a good long while.
Usually it requires fewer epochs to train the GRU than the LSTM.

The learning capacity of the LSTM and GRU is proportional to the number of weights, so you need more GRUs to do the job of a given number of LSTMs.

It drives me nuts to see so many tutorials where people do the LSTM because they saw other people do the LSTM when doing the same with the GRU is simpler and better!
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Bits and pieces of the UI look like Visual Studio Code. If they took them from VScode, that's actually great, why reinvent the wheel when you can take advantage of the open source community you're a part of?

EDIT: Lol I just noticed this is also microsoft
Well, we just did a recall where the airbag was replaced in a more-than-ten-years-old car. I'm pretty sure they did that because, yes, they were still liable.
> You're right, it's not hard. But can you imagine regular users doing that? Anti-viruses, Microsoft, Apple, Google and all major browsers had to automate and force updates on users to keep devices secure.

If you've already got a database of router versions, it's not hard to include how to submit a new firmware version in that database, whether it be a POST URL, any params and the expected payload(s) or a TFTP upload. At that point, the same device that generated the report could give you a management page that listed some options and semi-automated the process. Want to update fridge with out of date/exploitable firmware with community fridge firmware X? Click here. Want to update with community firmware Y? Click here. Want to update to newer/latest proprietary firmware? Click here.

I do agree it's not a solution to the problem. But it might help. It would also allow your techie friend to run an app on their phone or laptop when they come over and let you know, or handle it for you with a minimum of fuss.

This problem won't ever get better until someone starts being held accountable for exploitable network attached devices. I think part of the reason that doesn't happen is because it's not feasible with current norms of behavior to expect producers nor consumers to do so with any level of confidence. Providing tools for this may take us one step closer.

Personally I think a blend of regulations will be required. If devices sold are required to be updatable in one of a few ways, and workable firmware open sourced if obsoleted (or clearly marked or all labeling as may be entirely unsupported after 20XX), then it becomes feasible to require users to have some level of accountability over what they put on their local networks. I think it's the same as cars and the public road system. Cars have to adhere to certain standards to be street legal, and car makers must adhere to certain standard to sell their cars as street legal.

> Heck, when was the last time you checked for firmware updates for your home router?

Every 6-12 months, generally when I'm checking why performance is bad at the moment. But I'm not getting a report, so I only check when it's on my mind.