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> Show me one conservative-leaning media startup that was saved (or turned profitable!) through "deregulation and tax cuts" without reliance on other streams of revenue

How about two:

https://franklincenterhq.org

https://www.watchdog.org

Notice the complete lack of advertising. It's unlikely that either of these two has much of a revenue stream beyond being funded by the Koch brothers. But Koch industries has made billions being one of the largest polluters in the world. Relaxing EPA guidelines on pollution is a huge business for them. So there's no need for either of those two media outlets to ever make a dime on its own, it just has to provide assistance for Republican politicians who are friendly to their environmental agenda.
Cython deceptively similar to Python with a lot of the pitfalls of C baked in. I personally found their documentation lacking and had to read through tons of Cython projects to discover how it behaved in many scenarios. I've had a much better experience with Rust documentation in comparison.
Amazon could have had a wildly profitable quarter by slightly slowing their expansion. Doing so would not kill the company.

It's not clear if Tesla can do the same.
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If they ban users, those users don't get to vote.
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It's not similar diet to the outside world. But the two Amish groups with and without the mutation have similar diets so the Amish without the mutation act as the control group and have 7% incidence of T2D while the Amish group with the mutation have 0%.

Presumable the p-value for normal Amish 7% vs. rest-of-US 8% is not significant in the numbers they studied, but the 7% vs. 0% was.
Sounds like a sociopath rather than a jerk. I hire sociopaths, fire jerks
Hey,

I cross-posted the question on SO [0] and got an interesting answer!

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47351447/how-to-merge-of...
Attacking SHA-256 won't even do it. If you come up with a more efficient way to generate POW, then the difficulty will just increase until you reach equilibrium again.
Another lesson about the dangers of relying on a separate team to maintain core part of your software. Not that using dependencies is a bad thing, but one should still be aware of what tradeoff they are making.

In terms of a new backend, there's uber's pyro [1] that's based on pytorch, and then there's Edward [2] that's based on tensorflow (and I think recently got integrated into tensorflow repo). Would be interesting to see pyMC adopt MXNet as its backend. I'm sure Amazon will become a heavy user and might sponsor the development. Or at least the authors will be able to get jobs there without a whiteboarding interview phase.

[1] https://github.com/uber/pyro
[2] http://edwardlib.org/
Legacy extensions were not an API:
http://dblohm7.ca/blog/2015/08/30/on-webextensions/

Nor were they userspace:
http://dblohm7.ca/blog/2017/11/16/legacy-firefox-extensions-...
This project seems to be very similar to clangd. It is also similar to YouCompleteMe, though YCM does not support LSP yet. How does Cquery compare to those projects in terms of features?

In particular, should it be considered as an alternative to clangd? Could it make sense to combine efforts between clangd and Cquery?
This is a legal thing: they decided that merely owning one of the affected devices is illegal. So the best way back to legality is to destroy the device and keep a proof of its destruction. Nice and tidy.

A firmware based fix alone does not make the device easily distinguishable from one without it and the fix is not permanent, making it possible to revert the device into its illegal state.
Could the make the whole rear a cooling system as you described, with radiators in aerodynamic flow.

Also guessing that a 300k P4-AWDD will be announced at some point.
I'm 37 and would rather not stick to a niche personally. Being able to quickly adapt and grow keeps the job interesting to me.
Apologies. The 'near absolute' was wrong. And the part about who pays the wages by implication as well.

At least we got a good explanation, but not thanks to me.
The more stuff I see like this, the more I'm convinced the only way to actually help diversity along is a free market solution. Instead of demanding quotas, just have the data available publically.

The reasons are many, but the biggest is that I feel that hiring people that are bad at their job but have some physical characteristic, will make the problem much worse in the long run by "proving the biased people right" about their biases.
I agree with some of the general sentiment here but what I don't understand is why how hard one works or how much toll it takes should have anything to do with taxation.

For instance, suppose you're a happy go lucky guy who doesn't need much sleep and have a happy home life, and I am a grumpy dude who hates everyone around me and hate my co-workers.

Should I pay less in tax?

Tax policy should be based on our collective values regarding such things as what incentives we want and to what extent we want redistribution. It should not be related to punishing people who are enjoying their lives.
>What is the purpose of this article?

Perhaps that those of us who are not your 'we' may also know about it.
Oh, I'd prefer that, too. But there was a time when quality and availability would converge at the time of announcement. Not always, as with the iPhone and iPod Touch. But with the iPhone/iPod I imagine that was due to FCC filing than getting it right. The HomePod probably needs an FCC cert, too, but that wouldn't explain the long time to availability, with another delay on top.

So, yeah, take your time, Apple, and get it right. But that doesn't mean I can't be disappointed.
I know it's cool to hate cryptocurrencies, but the whole "FOMO" part of this article is almost entirely made up.

Even if it's true, the author has no way to know that for sure, and anecdotally I haven't seen it.

Most of the people that I know that are buying right now are doing so because for the first time in a while (unfortunately) Bitcoin is in a fairly stable state. There are no (serious) forks coming up, no massive scandals like a major exchange going under, the mempool is back to a reasonable size, and there are some really cool things on the horizon like lightning network, and even further out possibly schnorr signatures.

Coming from the past months of forks, infighting, contentious upgrades, and lots and lots of FUD, whenever I was asked about bitcoin I'd gladly talk their ear off about it, but would end with a warning that it's a very iffy time to be getting into things with how much was happening. Now it's starting to be in a state where I would feel comfortable introducing people into the space.
I have no specific insight to this patch, but I do have personal experience binary patching a popular Microsoft product.

My patch was to the VC++ compiler nearly 20 years ago. We had source, and my fix was also applied to the source (which I'd imagine is still there today), but a binary patch also made sense in the short term.

The binary that I patched was used to build another important Microsoft product, and this bug was found late in the product cycle where any compiler change was risky.

We weren't 100% confident we had the exact sources used to build that version of the compiler (git would have been handy then), we only knew, plus or minus one day, what the sources where.

After carefully evaluating the binary patch versus the risk of building from uncertain source, the binary patch was taken to reduce risk.

I'm no reverse engineer, but this was a pretty interesting exercise in RE even though I had sources. I had no symbols, and the binary was optimized so that functions were not contiguous, cold paths were moved to the end of the binary. Just finding the code I needed to patch was not easy.

The code review was fun - a dozen or so compiler engineers reviewed the change on paper printouts - the most thorough review I've had in my career, and the only one that used paper.

To the best of my knowledge, this binary was never used to build anything other than that specific version of the product which I won't name - not that it matters really, the product is still in use, but that version is unlikely to be in use anywhere anymore.
My current company, http://mattereum.com, is a smart contract legal services firm which focusses exactly on the problem of making smart contracts which transfer off-chain assets legally enforceable.

Real estate is a hard case, but by no means impossible, particularly if a custodian can hold the assets in the transaction. This approach is well understood.

Tokenization of these assets could make the resulting token a security. Licensing and regulations would then apply. We can help with that maze too.
Find a niche that rewards experience in something other than code. This could be non-technical (e.g. "business"), or it could be something more deeply technical (e.g. scaling, machine learning, search, etc.) To some extent, the older you get, the more this happens, naturally. But you can and should make strategic decisions about where you choose to devote your attention.

The important principle is that you should devote your learning time to things that are more likely to survive. A good way to do this is to pick something that has been around for a long time. Knowing how to write an optimized linux kernel driver is far more long-term-valuable than, say, a Javascript framework. Knowing how to do quantitative marketing is even more valuable than that.

The absolute worst thing you can do is to chase the new shiny every year. If you do that, you will never be more experienced than the most junior member of your team.
AUDUSD: Retains Downside Pressure, Extends Weakness
Defenseone is a good read for this kind of thing. People should also check out Sofrep.com. I don't really always agree with their politics, but they have some great posts/articles from people actually involved in hot spots around the world.
I think what Trump himself did is actually irrelevant to the point I'm making. If Trump did many negative things and few positive things, then all news publications need to do is simply report on what he's doing and leave it at that. No editorializing should be necessary. There shouldn't be any need for him to receive 2-3x as much coverage as Clinton. There shouldn't be a need for major news organizations to officially endorse this or that candidate.

What's so hard about trusting viewers and readers to come to their own conclusions based on honest, simple, accurate, and exhaustive reporting of events and facts?
people from country A can only hide money in country B if the number of people from B hiding money in A is not significant to the government or society of B and vice versa. otherwise A and B would sooner or later have an agreement to avoid this because both will make more money then through taxes. that's what happend with Switzerland and the EU.
I think you would surprise yourself with that comment. Illegal operations do indeed rely heavily on banks.
This works since 2009, but historically interest rates are not zero. It will be interesting to see how things turn out in the future when most of the richest people in the world have huge US dollar loans at low rates borrowed from pension funds and banks backed by hard assets. These people would benefit greatly if there is high inflation/hyperinflation. I don't really know, but I would guess in the recent past the super rich held a lot of US bonds and other dollar denominated assets that would loose value with inflation.
Our team migrated from Theano to Tensorflow more than a year ago and the transition was pretty natural as both frameworks share very similar design philosophies. I never used PyMC myself, but Tensorflow seems like the natural replacement in this case.
> Paper stats are one thing but show me this beating even something like a GT3 in an actual circuit race, or posting a Nurburgring time worthy of the price tag.

An actual race is one thing: you wouldn't expect most "supercars" to finish an actual race without being torn down and rebuilt for the race. I have no idea how you'd prepare something like a Bugatti for an endurance race, but I know the end result wouldn't be worth the expense. GT3 cars are a pretty good example of something bridging the gap. (On the other hand, the Bugatti is said to be a pleasant car to drive on the street, which I wouldn't necessarily expect out of a GT3 car.)

One lap at Nurburgring? I imagine Tesla can swing that. It seems like it would just be function of keeping the battery cool enough. If they found a way to air cool the battery effectively at speed, Nurburgring is a pretty friendly track for that.
What if the creator doesn't retrieve it? How long is it held? Will it be returned to the donors? What if it's a large amount? Will they find the creator and give it to them?
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Yep https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/tree/master/pkg/Microsoft.W...
I think it's murkier when one group commits a disproportionate amount of crime - accurate/percise coverage might look disproportionate even though it's actually representative.

I agree that pointing things out can be bigoted, but to the extent that politics addresses questions between friend and foe, it's natural that political expression is bigoted. Feminism is inherently bigoted to the extent that pointing out male dominance is important to the feminist perspective, but I don't think that feminists should be censored just because their discussions might offend people.
Ah.... I see you are confusing Hacker News with the normal Marine Biology forum you post on.
Java and Spring, or C# and .net. Java is derided as the next cobol, but there is a lot of new development, lots of jobs, and strong demand for senior talent. Source; me, been doing java since 2003. Age 40+.
Are German laws written in English, or did you find a translation somewhere? I've never looked up German laws before, evidently ;)
> blocks adds

Yes, but so does uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus, etc.

> collects money on the behalf of others

Why would they need permission from Google to do that? That's completely unrelated to them.
The high school I went to in the late 1980s was originally the city community college; the campus was pretty large. The woodshop was located in what was termed the "industrial arts" building (the building essentially was a high school "techshop" all on its own; small engine repair, drafting, autoshop, woodshop, metalshop, etc - all under one roof, three stories tall).

Well, the woodshop itself had equipment that was decades old; some of the equipment was quality stuff dating from the 1930s. We had this huge surface planer machine that could take wood 6 inches thick and 8 feet wide; it took a good 10 minutes for it to come to a complete stop after powering it up.

A friend of mine wanted to see if it would plane 1/2" in one pass off a 2x6; the instructor of the class had no problem with trying it, either!

It did. You wouldn't believe the sound it made, but it didn't miss a beat doing it.
If you are in an office, and also undisturbed for 8 hours, that tells me you are not in a 9 to 5 job.
Agreed. In medical applications a tiny "incremental" advance can mean the difference between worse than human and superhuman performance, which could mean revolutionary changes to clinical care.
Income taxes are a 100 year old concept in the western world, capital taxes are an even newer concept.

The moral arguments to support them are even younger.

And these guys are the scandal?

I'm not suggesting there is no abuse happening here, or that its so binary as one side is morally good and the other side is morally bad, I'm just offering perspective to the limitation of your argument.
MS Silverlight. I thought the world needed a better Flash and with MS behind it and IE was still popular enough. I was a corporate C# developer so I saw everything through Microsoft. It turns out iPhone killed Flash. MS could hardly get anyone to adopt Silverlight.
Yeah, niches don’t last in our field. Sure, become an expert in akka, kubernetes, or whatever tech is fashionable now - in 10 years it will be like you were an expert in CORBA.

It’s a little annoying how you have to chase tech fashion to remain employable though. As if simply being a good engineer isn’t enough to pick up these techs and contribute meaningfully. You need to spend your free time learning the tech, or be at the right company, to even be employable. As we get older and have families, this becomes more difficult.
The title is the title of an upcoming book, the caveat being since WWII. The author does not argue that we actually* lost the Revolutionary War.
Unfortunately, the update for Mac doesn't solve the battery usage issue.
Just to clarify, cab-over trucks are still being used today in the US, though most new ones are smaller cargo-sized. From time to time, I've seen existing COE trucks used; but mostly for private farm use (as they're not nearly as popular as they once were here, and are getting long in the tooth).

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/16vmzp/why_are_americ...
I can explain. On stereo you will be hard pressed by most people. The issue is where and how is everything done from recording all the way to mastering.

Technically here is how it works. CDs are at 44.1khz sample rate and you record at 96khz back in 2000s, similar how video recordings are 8k for 4k or 1080p. Then when you exported your mix to be mastered it would get knocked down to 44.1khz not very noticeable in the least unless you listened to stuff all day everyday and had to train your ear to hear everything.

If you compare the two 96khz and 44.1khz there is a distinct difference BUT it is not something that people would care about because their equipment only gives a clarity of less than 44.1khz. My system from recording all the way to audio output and DAC were 96khz and cost my thousands and thousands of dollars.

I do believe that you can tell when you hear the two. Kind of like how FLAC and MP3 sound different on my LG V20 phone.
The "domain expert" is doubting that Tesla consulted with any domain experts, after Tesla showed domain experts and waved at a bunch of launch customers sitting in the audience at the event. No one's looking insightful at the moment.
Oh come on, you know what he meant.

This is getting to a point that even genuinely talking about it, and rightly so, risks backfiring at you because there’s always somebody willing to make 10 extra mental steps to find it offensive.
Why, though? I mean, you’re looking at the best case scenario: developer turning manager boosts productivity of company X.

But what’s in it for the developer? If the developers is happy and well-compensated bad has no managerial/executive ambitions/fantasies, why ruin a good thing (with a gamble, at that)?
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What are the best ways to shrink your carbon footprint?
That's with a megacharger not a supercharger, there are no megachargers deployed anywhere yet. Megachargers are 1600 kilowatts vs 120 kilwoatts for a supercharger.

A charging station with 10 megachargers going at the same time will draw as much power as a small city of say 10,000 homes.
Do they routinely fall of your ears? Seemingly, this was the most common issue or complaint against the adoption of AirPods.
First you have to send your money to your foreign account. If you have earned it as wages and it's in your ordinary bank account, you have already paid quite a lot of taxes. Your employer will probably not be comfortable sending your paycheck to the Virgin Islands.

Maybe if you own a piece of a company, nobody knows about it and you sell it without your tax authority know it, you can get it deposited somewhere. But normally such sales require extensive documentation to IRS.

So what you most likely evade is the capital gains tax on your stock investment profits done from the tax heaven.

If you still want to live in the country you owe money, you can then get an ATM or Visa card that lets you access your foreign account and pay for the minor things, but you may not be able to buy a house and put it on your credit card.

Many countries also have a limit on how much you can pay for with cash, and how much cash you can even transfer across borders without declaring it (10,000 EUR in EU).

The Danish and Swedish tax authorities have been watching both activities in the last 10 years: if you somehow transferred a million dollars to the Cayman Islands, they might ask a few hard questions. If you were using a Visa card to pay for a hotel or restaurant, that came from a tax heaven, they might have found you too through another project that analyzed foreign Visa usage that wasn't consistent with tourists.

No significant high profile arrests came of it though -- they mostly settled without significant penalty. The tax haven money transfer resulted in approx 150 million USD extra tax (which is a good for just 125 man-years spent).

The credit card investigation gave approximately 70 million, but of that just 10% was actual penalties -- in most cases it seems like the money was treated as income adjustment.

Sadly, the Danish tax authorities were then embarrassed by the biggest tax fraud ever, on a far larger scale then factory owners stashing money in Cayman Islands -- a massive 2 billion dollar fraud involving claiming back withheld dividend tax under double-taxation. They've only found 15% of the money so far...
I have a first-gen echo, and I will say, hands down, my iphone 7+ with "hey siri" can hear and understand me better. It's also faster at performing actions on my philips HUE hub.
Most of the recent psychologists who study expert performers all tend to agree that "genius level" just like "innate talent" is a cognitive distortion and discredits the amount of actual effort, practice, and honing of their craft these individuals put into it.

We are all born with the same brain* (edit: see the ted talk on the "After 83,000 brain scans"). Some of us just aren't born in the right environment to curate it and never learn the best ways to use it ("learning how to learn") given the current dominant socio-economic factors. It gets harder as you get older not because of age but because your anxieties, fears, and distortions become more reinforced, so breaking down those thought patterns becomes harder

*: I mean this more or less, not literal. To clarify, I am speaking more specifically to neuroplasticity and neurogenesis. Maybe some things come easier for other people out of the gate, but this wasn't because of some "innate" talent, but rather some factor of their development, both internal and external, provided the acuity and propensity towards excelling that specific thing, but if you molded another brain from scratch this same way, you would more or less get the same result.

edit: With the TED video,I was again referring to the take away: "You are not stuck with the brain you have, you can make it better." So if you were "never born with the ability to be good at math" this is a distortion, just as much as "I am only mediocre at math and will never be great at math" is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPRsT-lmw8&t=599s
Well deep learning is pretty general purpose so ...
I think 14 is a bit old, maybe 10 and under IMO. Though, things are a bit different these days and smartphones are far more capable devices than what I was using at that age (barely-online computer with RAM counted in the megabytes).