skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've just described thousands of years of history prior to Marx and hundreds of years of history after Marx across every single axis of the political spectrum.

Which is precisely what Marx claims to do, with essentially the model which Marx claims does so.

Well, anything popular taps into some truth

It's pretty obvious that Postmodernism is homomorphic to Marxism. It's also well documented that Postmodernism has intellectual roots in Marxism. Marxism is also outwardly and openly claimed by many in the current day political left in the US, in particular, the part which originates and most vigorously promotes Intersectionality.
>And of course Jesus is that exact same myth of child sacrifice (with a twist: he dies but lives again)

The twist is in fact a different one -- "sacrifices, dies but lives again" is older.

The key is that the victim, normally a scapegoat the city is happy to get rid of, is this time celebrated as to be in the right. This is a turning point in putting the victim as noble (as opposed the punishers as noble), on which most of modern morality is based on (Old Testament-following puritans aside).
Freeman Dyson wrote about this and his feeling was that it would be similar to the London smog after the war. Which was warm - so his conclusion was it wouldn't be a nuclear winter.
There is another persistent exploit, by GeoHot, that earned $150,000: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=351788
Simple example (though not something I think the Gmail team would actually ship): I want to load a .png file that's attached to an email. If I decide to use a build of libpng I control (for example, to work around broken color profile support in browsers), a bug in that libpng build could allow privilege escalation within the tab to get access to my gmail contacts or send emails. Bugs in loaders for image file formats are not unheard of, and people treat image files as innocuous.
Can grad students not deduct their tuition under this provision?

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/3682982-i-received-tuition...

> If the expense was for education required to keep your job, or that improves your skills in your current job

Sounds like it would fit grad school.
I didn't downvote, but I don't see it as well reasoned. It's essentially the "two wrongs make a right" fallacy[1]. In this case, increased media consolidation has nothing to with how fake internet news is.

In fact, I'm of the opinion that further media consolidation will move us further from low-bias information sources and towards more MSNBC / FoxNews extreme partisan news sources. It will likely continue the convergence of entertainment and journalism which only serves to dilute the little media literacy that we still have in the USA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Suppression of opinion implicitly violates the Bill of Rights.
> [several MCM papers with interesting bits and pieces that look worth more than a skim]

Wow you guys roll an awful lot of dice.
While I disagree with a lot of what Pai is doing, this doesn't seem bad and actually seems to reflect reality:

> On Thursday the FCC will vote on Pai’s proposal to eliminate
> the 42-year-old ban on cross-ownership of a newspaper and TV
> station in a major market.

This already exists. Newspapers are all now websites (basically), so CNN is effectively a newspaper/website that owns a TV station (or vice versa)... No significant newspaper is limited to a major market and I'm unsure of the benefit of a 42yo rule that has a limited relevance to our current reality.

Under current regulations, BuzzFeed can buy WNBC in NYC but The NYTimes cannot? Unfortunately, Pai's logic seems to make some sense.

> more than 39 percent of U.S. television households

But the above 39% thing is totally baffling. From the Justice Department:

> The agencies generally consider markets in which the HHI is between 1,500
> and 2,500 points to be moderately concentrated, and consider markets in
> which the HHI is in excess of 2,500 points to be highly concentrated.

A Herfindahl-Hirschman Index including this one company (@ 40%) would be 1,600 (40%^2). That one company causes the market to be "moderately concentrated" and we're removing this limit. That's completely insane.
I think the church would develop a nasty luddistic strain of belief
This problem was inspired by this original tweet by Max Howell

There are many definitions of invert. This is relying on one definition that is jargon, and not widely agreed upon jargon at that.

For a two or more dimensional “object”. Invert means to reorient the top and the bottom, while reverse swaps the left and the right.

The two only might mean the same thing with one dimensional data structures. For instance inverting a line of text might (ambiguously) mean reversing it. Or drawing it upside down. Or upside down and backward. But at least you would expect a clarification.
Postgres 10 is out now, that's what's running when you start a new Citus Cloud cluster. Postgres 11 is in progress, you can always follow the official releases on the main site: https://www.postgresql.org
> women who give birth face a much more physiologically taxing experience than men who do not.

Which is an excellent reason to give the men the same amount of paternity leave so they can look after the newborn while the mother recuperates!

I get your point in general, but that example is a case where giving men more time off is likely to lead better results for women, and a more egalitarian society in general. The argument: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-dad...
That very well could be true.
lol nuclear fallout isn't a hoax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders
My mom doesn't hang out here.
The example I gave in another comment holds here: Let's say I want to load PNGs and I'm fed up with color profile bugs in browsers' image decoders (sigh...) so I decide to compile a known-good build of libpng or stb_image with wasm. Now someone finds a png decoder exploit that works against my build. If I'm not cautious about my imports, they can escalate privilege out of my wasm library and then take control over my gmail.

Ideally wasm libraries will always be narrowly scoped and good about what they import, but there will definitely be broadly scoped libraries that import a ton of dangerous stuff, and there will be some that import a function that is effectively eval because they don't want to declare a thousand imports by hand.

It's certainly possible for JS libraries to have these kinds of vulnerabilities, but it's hard for me to imagine how a JS PNG decoder would end up with the same sort of attack possible on it since it's parsing binary data into pixel buffers. At worst, you'd crash it.
I can confirm that in my case windows installed an update without asking me at the worst possible moment.
It took a while to install and the only visible change (I am sure there were bugfixes as well) was the automatic installation of Edge & Cortana.

I don't know whether it was a bug or planned but it was very agressive.
When I'm feeling contemplative, I really want to read something continental for the evening. But when I have shit to do, I snap into an analytic frame of mind.

I feel the same way about programming languages; the Kierkegaardian crowd (C++, Perl) are great for evening enjoyment, but I'd prefer something from the more analytic tradition to language design when there's work to be done.
Flexport is hiring a VP Engineering to build the future of global trade
Imagine having to hold a seller's license in every state just to sell on eBay. A lot of people who sell on Amazon are also just 1 person businesses. It's a lot of extra paperwork, time, and cost for one person.
I need an extension to replace all those unnecessary '$' with the better suited 's'. But seriously, why would one use Jupyter Notebooks with matlabe when you can use python :D
Grad students need to organize work-stoppages and demand fair pay. Then taxation becomes a secondary, but still important, issue.

Also, America needs to holistically fix the election process and public office accountability to prevent inexperienced, unsuitable, populist cult leaders from becoming fascist kleptoautocrats and forcibly remove the existential threat to humanity that stems from the corruption by the corporate-political-media complex. Then, perhaps Congress will do the people's work, and not just give themselves and their rich buddies additional socialist subsidies while foisting austerity on everyone else.
Should be able to do better than setting 5 of 8 of the colors to be some shade of blue though.
I tried XPS about a year ago. I ordered the top model with Ubuntu.
But had to return it due to high frequency noise from CPU.

It was also super heavy compared to my X1 carbon. And then the noise, the kind of thing not worth trying to get them to repair because it's likely a design flaw.
> the relevant fields are in the middle of a reproducibility crisis largely due to their political confirmation bias.

As someone who works very closely with academics (specifically sociologists), I would love to see some evidence for this baseless mud-slinging. All of science is having a reproducibility crisis

Do you have a knowledge of the field? Or do you just disagree with their conclusions? I would be happy to be proven wrong so I can let my sociologist friends know that they are doing such a thing.

EDIT: There's also this really neat nature article detailing some of the responses to the current reproducibility crisis in all of science. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-016-0021 Based on this article, it looks like the social sciences are actually the ones spearheading the effort for more reproducible science. One of my colleagues is actually investigating how the typical formulation of ideas with the scientific method can implicitly lead to biases and errors in the science actually performed.
Yes, Trump is rich (and powerful, now that he's president), but he doesn't control the media in the sense that the person I was responding to was referring to. I think they had someone like Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, in mind.
Seconds. Intercity trains might close the doors 30 seconds before departure, or 60 in some cases (like the starting station if it's a major one). Otherwise, 15 seconds is about normal, with one final door closed by the guard immediately before departure.

> Although from what I've heard

Don't believe everything you hear. After drinking tea, moaning is Britain's favourite pasttime.

Railways in Britain are very similar to the Netherlands:

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/transportation-travel-...
There's no limitation on the size of the M:tG Stack, so it is infinite. Also, that M:tG uses a Stack as a store doesn't make it a pushdown automaton. For a pushdown automaton you need the stack to control decisions, but that is not the case here- there's still player actions and the effects of cards in the game etc.

The if-statement I quoted is just one example. The following does not end the game:

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control the creature with the greatest toughness or tied for the greatest toughness. [1]

The important thing to note of course is that the above are well-formed sentences in the ability text language. So the language allows if-statements and it doesn't matter how many cards with if-statements are actually printed.

Also, strictly speaking, winning the game doesn't necessarily terminate processing. The ability of the card Shahrazad [2], for instance, creates a sub-game that may end without ending the original game:

Players play a MAGIC subgame, using their libraries as their decks. Each player who doesn't win the subgame loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Like I say, if you can show that the system has the components it needs to be Turing complete, then you've shown that it is Turing complete. Simulating a Turing machine is just another way to show Turing-completeness.

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[1] Abzan Beastmaster, http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...

[2] http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...
I've owned two generations of the Chevy Malibu. I'm pretty sure that's what he meant.
I honestly don't think sales tax as currently structured is worth the complexities (and is also - uninformed armchair lawyering opinion incoming - conceivably a violation of the commerce clause since its taxed rate is not reflective of anything that explicitly occurred within state borders as it would be with a VAT or similar).

I also feel like taxes are something that deserves to be in a the transaction handling layers rather than the buyer/seller layers. Of course this would drive people to cryptocurrency, but imagine if taxes were just added to your credit card bill based on its billing zipcode and merchants didn't have to think about it at all. I mean for all kinds of reasons it's not feasible, but it seems like the least pain point to deal with transaction taxes is at the transaction.
What is the electrical principle behind LightKeeper Pro?
I saw an ad on TV for LightKeeper Pro today.
LightKeeper Pro apparently is a tool that allows the user to fix broken Christmas Tree light strings. Here, you can watch how it works:
https://lightkeeperpro.com/instructional-videos/
You'll notice that the way it works is that you unplug a bulb (any bulb) from your broken/one-bulb shorted set. You plug in your set to Wall AC. Then you plug in LightKeeper Pro into the socket for the bulb you just removed. You pull the trigger (up to 30 times), now the lights come on (with the broken bulb showing itself because it's not on). How is this working?
You see, in Electrical Engineering 101, if you've got a short in the circuit (which you do if your in-series set of Christmas Tree lights is not working), then the whole set shouldn't work. What LightKeeper Pro seems to do then (I'm guessing), is to use a High-Voltage pulse to somehow get current to conduct THROUGH the non-functioning light. The non-functioning light is, after all (in addition to being an incandescent bulb) a Vacuum Tube, and in theory, if you put enough High Voltage through the Vacuum Tube, it will conduct current through it... is that's what's happening here? Is that the secret? If it is, then I don't really have a question -- problem solved... although it's pretty damning evidence that Electrical Engineering 101 / Electronics 101 -- both books and courses -- are well, sort of wrong with what they're saying about short circuits...
Not only that, in some places there is even a second and third departure waiting queue like in Ginza Line in Shibuya.

People do wait there on rush hour not for the next train, but for two trains later (same train). The justification is that it is the beginning of the line, and if you wait 3-5 min longer you'll be able to sit for the whole trip.
Ex-Ziff'er here. That company seems to exist to be sold. Back in late 1990's it was split and sold: Things like Gamespot and TechTV came out of it. Now, what's being sold is a husk of the old media empire. Kinda like Atari: mostly name, and a few remaining properties.
Still affects any responsive layout, or image that is not displayed at their exact original dimensions.
Are you talking about this website:
https://nugget.one
Say you bring a new widget to market, as a small business, and you start selling via FBA. Pick your favorite kickstarter project and imagine it's you.

There are thousands of sales tax jurisdictions in the US, between states, counties, and cities. There is no way you, as a little guy, can manage all that.
Potential applications of machine learning at central banks
Researchers from Microsoft and Google are creating more human AI research
This is awesome! I found a security issue in an Elixir/Erlang project that was a dependency of many other projects and it was manual and complicated to coordinate amongst them. IIRC I suggested this to one of the other parties, although it seems trivial and obvious to other people, but it's good that GH also came upon this independently and shipped it.
Tezos, a cryptocurrency that raised $232M in July, is in crisis
"Blah blah, Ginger. Blah blah blah Ginger blah blah..."
Sorry, this is my personal nitpick but suppression of opinion by facebook does not violate the bill of rights.
I'd be interested in views on fastest to develop with - and not relative to what you are most experienced at
If we restrict filtering to DNS, so that it's easy to take the "sun glasses" off, then I kind of like it :)
Is "pro competitive combination" the new nonsense phrase everyone is going to start repeating? The people who come up with these things sure do have a sense of humor.
The biggest problem I can spot with a solution like that is that it doesn't provide wiggle room for people that need to downscale rapidly. Say I lose my job and have to find something that pays half as much. With the current tax structure I can reduce spending and my income tax will automatically be lowered, so I can continue to afford my house. In an LVT only situation, I'm screwed.
This sort of mythology is NOT helping.

Unfortunately it's partially valid. Job ads in particular are (presumably for a want of some other way to whittle down the pile of incoming resumes) considerably biased towards frameworks and gizmos that have been around 3 years or less.

Yes there are new languages and frameworks we have to learn, but if we apply any effort ...

You'd think a lot of these places assuming we're all utterly incapable of "learning", they way they phrase some of these requirement lists.
It's wild how we can look back in history, identify a time just like this with all the same problems, and pick out the very man perfect for these circumstances. Hell, at this point we just need to locate his spiritual reincarnation and turn him or her loose, knowing they are perfect for the job.

They said history is a circle, but this is just so blatant.
And setup.cfg!

Example: https://github.com/HearthSim/python-hslog/blob/master/setup....
Non-paywall article here: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-media-regulation/u-s-r....

In my view, the media ownership rules were indefensible. First, they were not driven by the sort of legitimate economic concerns that usually drive anti-consolidation efforts. They were not (at least, not primarily) justified, for example, on the basis of media companies being able to exercise market power to charge too much for advertising. Instead, they were justified by the government's desire to influence the content of media. A well meaning desire, perhaps, but still a fundamentally illegitimate exercise of government power.

Second, the broadcasting-license tail was wagging the merger dog. The FCC's purpose is to address the "tragedy of the commons" that might result if people could use public broadcast frequencies freely without concern for others. It's not an antitrust agency, and has no expertise in that area. It has overextended its authority over broadcasting licenses to exercise control over mergers in industries it has no jurisdiction over (in this case, newspapers).
That only existed for television news and only because the FCC required television stations to air after-work news without commercials (making it a cost center) as a condition of their FCC airwaves licenses. Reagan's administration dropped that rule, deregulating television stations, turning news departments in to potential profit centers, and further merging entertainment and journalism.

As far as I can tell, the current administration and Congress are more interested in moving further away from regulations than closer to the pre-Reagan regulation regime.

To be fair, I don't think it will work today even if that regulatory rule was re-implemented. At the time, the vast majority of the US only had a choice of 3 major television networks, which were more or less equally non-partisan. Currently, there are too many channels and people that tune into certain channels do so to avoid being challenged by ideas they don't already believe.
Because frankly Marx was not broadly concerned with discussions of morality and oppression of 'groups' in a general sense as you seem to be implying...Marx's analysis was almost purely an economic one

Your point ascribes to me a sense of morality to me as a sneaky way of putting words in my mouth. "as you seem to be implying." In reality, I need no more than the Marx's subsumed sense of morality/justice in Marx's analysis for my point to stand.

"Cultural Marxism" is kind of a misnomer -- they'd be better off saying "left wing postmodernists" or "liberal cultural relativists" or something

Not a misnomer at all. Many who fall under the banner openly proclaim themselves Marxist, or subscribe to those ideas in their writings. For those who don't, there's still the matter of the homomorphisms between Marxism and Social Construction.
> Which is precisely what Marx claims to do, with essentially the model which Marx claims does so.

Again, no. Marx's characterization is much more concrete than that, and really cannot be separated from notions of class and capital and commodity-form without rendering the term "Marxist" nearly meaningless. Or at least synonymous with much less politically-charged ideas like "materialism" or even just "politics". Separating Marx from those things is like separating Jesus from Christianity.

The next two criticism are more tangential and obvious, but hopefully more illustrative of the problem with the way you're trying to re-define Marxism

1. A capitalist operating as Marx would predict is not himself a Marxist, so your statement is especially confusing for more than one reason.

2. Plenty of non-Marxist -- even conservative economists -- tap into various Marxist ideas. And even more tap into the same ideas that Marx was himself building on (e.g., the effectiveness of providing moral justifications on the basis of oppression... not a Marxist innovation!). So drawing any tangential connection to Marx and labeling anything connected by that tangent as "Marxist" implicates 100% of economists. Which, again, makes the label "Marxist" kind of silly and pointless.

If you strip Marxism of Marx's actual core ideas, then "Marxism" ceases to mean anything. And class is a central component of those ideas.

At some point referring to something as "Just Marxism s/.../class" begins to occupy the "you are an idiot" box in on the PG argument hierarchy.

> It's pretty obvious that Postmodernism is homomorphic to Marxism

This seems mostly off-topic... you'll have to draw out the connection for me. (edit: Obviously, plenty of postmodernists critique closeparen's post and plenty of non-postmodernists would agree with closeparent's post. Are you sure you mean postmodernism?)
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I think blockchain will help us with this. Immutable entry of places the product has been stored that is public. Then taxes can be divided out based on time etc.
That's not "more complex". That's the high school kind of "religion is absurd" reaction, and is a naive literal reading that even the people of the bible era were above.

The key is that there are no "rules that he himself also put in place" etc. (as he doesn't exist and even if he did it wouldn't matter). The rules were formed by people (obviously) and codify societal practices and philosophies towards morality and right. The story of Christ, as such, codifies a different approach contrary to those older practices -- which is why it was the basis on a whole different mentality that shaped Europe and ended in things like the "human rights" and modern ethics.

(Or course this can be difficult to fathom in places were Old Testament beliefs are still championed, along with very crude literal meanings of religion, in the name of "Christianity". But this wasn't the case in later Rome and Europe, not even in the Inquisition era).
Toutiao, a Chinese news app that’s making headlines
I don’t game. Trying to find more info on the “non-gambling”? Not sure what that is.
So if they don't rectify it, it's because there's intent.
New “Quad9” DNS service blocks malicious domains for everyone