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> Unfortunately, European politicians apply precautionary principle also to cases where an overwhelming majority of scientist think that, for example, GMO crops are safe.

I seriously would like to see that majority of scientists live patching binaries in a networked environment (say, microservices) with ossified protocols and see how well their _improved_ applications run.

Hint: they will crash within seconds or create unexpected problems to the network much later.

(That is the software analogue to GMO.)
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Mechanical engineers make things, industrial engineers make things better. The discipline started in the 1900s mostly concerned with improving manufacturing efficiency and cost. Now it has grown to improve all facets of product quality and business process (physical and digital). It is one of the best disciplines to use applied math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering
They both likely have IQs of at least 145, it seems, which is in the top 0.13% or higher. Just like the rest of us, indeed.

https://www.quora.com/Who-is-smarter-Elon-Musk-or-Jeff-Bezos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation#Rules_for_n...
"Processing radar and lidar data, construction of 3d representations"

these are all 4th year/masters level electrical (or mechatronic) engineering topics at my university (except Lidar although that might come under photonics, which again is an EE subject).

And the way they are taught doesn't emphasize math (well... the hardcore math is mentioned in lectures but not assessed), but rather MATLAB or domain specific software.
Stop using the Internet for starters, then. Billions of dollars of tax money went into developing it.
Oh. I can program. I've done two university courses using C++. I've taught myself haskell using Haskell Book and for my numerical analysis course I reimplemented all the matlab that we had to do in Julia and Python. A different poster mentioned C/C++ so I am currently considering going through the numerical analysis again and doing it in C++.

I didn't mention programming because I don't see myself being a developer, which I knew would get a lot of attention. I like solving problems with programming, but I don't see myself writing a webapp to collect information for someone to steal.

Computer Science is my secret lover. I initially studied that, but my university focused on producing java devs for industry and didn't do the "science" of computer science. I still work through books when I have time though. About half-way with TAOCP V1.
How? you only get the ballot sat the poling station and tampering with the boxes is hard as all parties have observers and the boxes are sealed before transport.
Um, that's not quite true: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/sharing.html#pub...

The limits imposed by phase are not going anywhere; you still cannot edit published history.
Again, you need to find a way to network with the people in those companies, go to meets, submit a paper and speak at conferences, etc... this is the only way...
It is not that they are taking advantage of existing loopholes. They actively lobby to create new loopholes that will enable more "legal" tax evasion.
ouch, downvoted for sourcing a claim? thanks hacker news
> This is pushing the idea that the facts don't matter

Yes, but you seem to have confused the author's positive statement as a normative statement.

The author of that quote is not saying that's how the world should ideally be. He's saying that's how the real world really fucking works. In other words,

"The distinguished representative from Texas doesn't give a shit about science; he's made up his mind on climate change because there's a shitload of money at stake. If he can discredit good study X to weaken his opponent's point, or marshall shitty study Y to strengthen his own point, he'll do so. Because winning the political battle is more important than being 'correct'. So you're not going to convince him to change his mind by throwing science in his face."

The author is NOT defending the not-so-hypothetical distinguished representative from Texas. He's just observing the fact that this is how certain people process scientific claims. Not as scientists, but as motivated reasoners and political operatives with a priori agendas.

See also the discussion of the precautionary principle above for a less cut-and-dry example -- what's happening, in that case, is basically that two groups with different values are making different default assumptions about the level of confidence necessary to justify a decision. I.e., they have different values, and those values color the way in which they interpret the confidence intervals in studies on e.g. GMOs.

You're confusing a description of the status quo for a defense of the status quo. This is a ridiculous straw-man.

> What matters is "values" and emotions

Again, the claim is not "values/emotions are objectively more important than science".

The claim is "voters/lawmakers are more likely to be swayed by values/emotions than by science".

Those are two very different claims.

> It's an elaborate setup to push a view from certain segments of the humanities and social sciences to dismiss the epistemology of science and an "objective reality" entirely

That's quite the conspiracy theory, given that the overall tenor of the piece is decidedly pulling in the other direction.
You are wrong. You shouldn't put legal terms or policies on your site if you don't understand the legal ramifications of doing so, and how it will influence your business.
What do you think of the last line? should I nix it ?
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So the US money supply is about $3.5 trillion. If you had 21 million BTC worth the same, your exchange rate would be about $170,000 / BTC.

Now I'll admit that I never expected BTC to break 5 figures, but even if your argument is "BTC should be worth as much as USD", 7 figures is still absurd.
Good to know that at least Google is very concerned with MacOS security ;-)
There are going to be a lot of lawyers made wealthy by an inability of two tech giants to come to a working arrangement to benefit the consumer.
Don't forget that this is a metaphor.

You are right that the problem is a lack of competition.

The biggest problem with internet companies right now is that there are services like Facebook that people use so prolifically that they are very difficult to compete with. If ISPs began prioritizing Facebook, as they have tried to do before, it will be even more difficult to compete.

The other problem is that ISPs aren't the only ones fighting competition between internet services. There is a long history with media corporations using copyright to fight competition. Most innovative music streaming services have been considered illegal (turntable.fm, Grooveshark, What.CD), unless their business can pay rightsholders (Spotify, ). and adding features to existing services like Netflix involves breaking DRM, which is also illegal.

All of these issues are related in some way, especially since many of the biggest media corporations are the same businesses as the biggest ISPs. These corporations have accrued so much capital that no one can compete with them or their lobbying.
Yep... installed the Sierra security update this morning.
Do they vote for as many electoral offices and ballot propositions at the same time as is typical in American elections? Comparing American and European election mechanisms is like comparing a truck with a bicycle.
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in the UK That's part of the fun staying up to watch the returns come in even more so if your actually working I got home after dawn one time
Or maybe more entrepreneurs are starting sustainable businesses and monetizing earlier therefore not needing to raise money.
Long time mac user, versed in Linux but have been using Mac for its "convenience" for years: Upgraded to high sierra, and my power modes started working totally irrationally with seemingly no explanation. When I closed the lid it suddenly started going crazy and nearly burnt a hole in my desk. I think it burnt out the logic board in this way, the GPU and kernel started panicking after 2 minutes running. When turned off it would turn itself on and go into this crazy hyper swap mode, the box when I was shipping it to applecare seemed like it would catch on fire. Had to keep using SMC shutdown to get it to turn off. I dont know if the issue was High Sierra, macbook pro 2016 (which are total crap in my opinion why in the world would you hardwire the hard drive into the logic board??), or both, but it suffices to say I'm buying a Thinkpad, and Im only using Ubuntu on it.
Rubbish.

Structure it as 1 year, 2 year, 10 year whatever the hell deal you want. If you are a $50BN company ( you aren't ) you simply fire that customer.
You would think that an initial pass of SELECT could be made only to note any aliases. It would be a much appreciated nod to usability.
You can create a scarce token with all the qualities you desire in like 5 minutes. Creating 'internet money' with a stable value and network of potential transactees probably looks exactly like Bitcoin's development though.
True, the code escrow needs to be written correctly. Done correctly it only kicks in if the code goes unsupported. You can be acquired so long as the company buying you continues to support it at a "reasonable price". If they don't support the code for a "reasonable price" they didn't buy you for the code anyway so it won't matter. If they do support it, then the escrow doesn't come into play.
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Ask your attorney.
"Fair" is so subjective in the context of taxation it's virtually meaningless. You can't assume other people share the same assumptions rolled up into the word.
Votes may be secret, but there is an identity issue for one-man-one-vote, as well as an authorization issue for minors and convicted felons.

How would you attack those with a blockchain?
I'll offer a different pov from many other comments.

I work for a fortune 50 basically doing web server stuff. Right now our security team would like to run some startups code synchronously as a module in our web server.

Their code could easily cost us millions off dollars (if the outage was small). I need to make sure their sdk is free of race conditions, and has proper timeouts and throttling and has proper metrics.

If your product can interrupt billions of dollars in revenue, I'm going to need some assurances and "we're really careful" doesn't count.

Of course they are free to say "no", and we can go our separate ways.

Because we're public we can't always tell vendors how much money they've cost us so when they accidentally point their prod to Dev and cost us millions of dollars all we can do is try and get a credit on this months bill.

I've services described a pretty specific use case, but there are other more generic possibilities. It's great that you have magic data science sauce for scoring customers, but when I get sued for racial profiling "I didn't know they used race as a factor" might not save my ass in court.
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To be fair. Here are the good things: good idea to talk about what is the company and how the service could be used. Great idea to mention the previous success. "Your input will be … " - very good!
That is also a common way to do it. I know of farmers who own all their own equipment. I know of farmers who hire everything done. Both are very valid and correct ways to do things. There are different tradeoffs involved in both.
It used to be the basis for personal web pages, and deployable to via iWeb, the “easy” web authoring tool that baked text into images...

Also, the server variants ran most services (calendars, etc.) behind it.

Edit: premature posting.
Of course, but then you've now got $30,000 in depreciation toward next year's taxes!
You keep regurgitating this line of reasoning like it's some sort of profound "gotcha" logical trap. We worry because we do not wish for things to escalate. And I can assure you, they will escalate, as armed separatism would be inevitable.
The last line is the only one I really liked. LOL
Do you understand the math of climate modeling? Have you checked the equations, data, and made your own measurements? If not, why do you believe climate change is happening? And why do you believe the scientists that say it is happening versus the ones that say it is not happening?
Yes it's critical for democracy that the mechanism can be
not only understood by a layman but verified by a layman. I'm sure we can make a system that experts believe is safe. But it's the voter that has to believe and it's unreasonable to ask them to be experts. If you lose the voter, democracy cannot function.
It's funny seeing this. I work in one of those big corporates and maybe I can share a little about how they work. From what I've seen this could be completely normal or a huge red flag.

We recently looked at partnering with an analytics company for a credit scoring solution. The idea was to use their SaaS and have a contract in place regarding use, pricing, up-time etc (Corporates will want that). When we kicked off the procurement process internally an army of people got involved. Their was a project manager, a number of lawyers. I believe their were audit and compliance people their too. They ended up creating a project just to figure out what needed to be figured out. Here's where it get's helpful. We couldn't even share what we needed to know with the SaaS team or product owner because that could compromise the investigation. In this case, the corporate's concerns were genuine, numerous and required rigorous answers.

In another case I watched an exec try to figure out how a KYC solution provider has achieved the level of accuracy in identifying ad-hoc documents in the hope of solving the problem with internal resources.

If I were you I would not send them your code.
Rather say would not be closed to them asking questions and you answering by showing code as long as it's not the secret-sauce.

Just know that for our scoring problem we actually had to see how the decision was being made because we're subject to a ton of legislation around that.
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Not many people will deliberately throw away money just to avoid taxes that would have been cheaper.

Farmers aren't stupid. They're doing what makes them the most money in the long run.
>> Softlayer is also the only platform that allows the provisioning of bare metal servers amongst the 3 cloud service providers

Amazon recently announced bare-metal servers

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-i...
> are created functions replicated/updated to everything else as well?

Yes.

Note if those functions have an implementation compiled from C, you do need to install the .so on the standbys though.
Surely this is what trade secrets laws are for.

Probably if you get then to sign some kind of non-compete non-copy contract and hand over the source then if they do decide to cut you out, you can just sue them and make more money than you would have as a startup anyway.

Get it legalled and then just hope they overstep.
I agree, although if the company asking is not engaging with an aforementioned auditing company (Mitre is the one I've dealt with the most), then that would be a red flag to me.
A sizable percentage of their employees use macs, so it's not surprising.
Don't bother feeding the trolls, r00fus it's a lego developer, if their framework doesn't support they will rebuilt everything from the scratch or mark it was wont-fix, for devs like him is that we can have nice things.
At a quick glance, a few remarks about the onboarding :

- the "I'm feeling lucky" button you mention in the comments here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861489) is nowhere to be found, maybe not on the home page ? I did a ctrl-F to be sure but nothing.

- You ask me to choose 5 of my favorites composers, but you only show me the top N most popular ones ... it feels very rude, you basically ask me to lie, imagine if on a regular music site I could only like something in the current top 40. Also consider that the probability that the 5 favorites composers of a given person are all in the top 40 is very low. I feel like presenting them that way is only going to make the most popular artificially even more popular which I don't think is something that you want.

- It seems even worse for the "favorite pieces" list. The probability that a person's favorite pieces are all in the top N you selected is very very low. The majority of the pieces in that list were composed by composers I didn't choose just before.

- The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni) was in the list 4 times, and The Rite Of Spring twice, as well as Chopin's Nocturnes (which is several pieces, by the way).

Apart from that I like the high-density layout, a welcome departure from the usual sites composed mostly of empty space.
There is no software license where that isn't true. I don't even know how such a license could be enforced anyway so it's a bit silly. Neat fact though.
> Maybe we are not doing a good enough job of promoting civic duty, including payment of taxes?

If you're a strict old-school limited govt jeffersonian type, as many farmers are, fighting income taxes and avoiding paying into federally mandated systems is your civic duty..

not saying I agree with either side - but pointing out that notions of 'civic duty' are not so cut-and-dried
>Yes, but at the same time Visa requires you to hand over your payment information to each and every merchant you transact with, and they are able to pull as much money from your card as they want, and they are able to charge you multiple times at any point in the future.

Sure but that is Visa's problem not mine.
> You'll never get them all to stop calling you so it's easier to deal with the one that you know.

Actually there is a way. I've posted this here before, but can't find it now. Basically you call the police and file a report saying you're getting harassing calls. They'll give you a case number and tell you to call your phone company. You then call the phone company and give them the information from the police. They'll give you a phone number. Every time you get a call from the harasser, you call the number they gave you and it makes a note of where the call came from. (It's not clear if they have information that caller ID doesn't - like whether they can track down spoofed calls. I'm not sure.) After 3 or 4 calls, the phone company calls the police and gives them the information about the harasser. The police call the harasser and tell them to stop or there will be consequences. In my experience, the harasser then stops.
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Wasn’t me, FWIW. Seems I got downvoted too.
>since you can afford fewer and smaller recurring costs if you don't want to be eaten alive in late fees, interest, hits to credit, etc. because you get paid tomorrow but the bill is due today—the bane of my particular existence, living the dream.

What on earth are you doing, not maintaining a buffer?
I guess reasonable people can disagree. It's a business risk calculation not a point of law.
We just recently upgraded our large Rails app from Rails 5.0 to Rails 5.1. I wanted to come back to this discussion because I'm actually astonished how easy it was to upgrade. Our project has 1,156 Ruby files consisting of 55,396 lines of actual code (per cloc, rspec and app code). Want to guess how many lines had to be updated to upgrade to Rails 5.1? 24 or 0.04%.

Rails is quite stable.
Finally! This was caused by my complains, I paid $32 for a $25 dollar game, and I it didn't go through since txn fees were not right 4 cents less. And BitPay refunded me just $17.

I am so thankful Steam did it right, meanwhile BitPay still blames the customer!

Here are the different threads of where the complain went viral. The internet wins at the end, removing the shady business of BitPay.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15768303
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3183345176714...
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7e7wsq/shad...
This might be the most offensive website with regards to layout and ad density. At least five ads, including one massive top-bar wanted to sell me on some TV show called "Happy". This website is terrible.
It's not about the quantity, it's the quality.
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> They stated their intent was "to see how your algorithms made decisions" that sounds like its your secret sauce.

It's not the secret sauce though. The models are the output.

The secret sauce is the engine that builds it and companies aren't asking for the source for that.
Before Mountain Lion, a personal web server was available under System Preferences > Sharing > Web Sharing.

They removed the UI to enable it in Mountain Lion, but the functionality is still built in and can be enabled if you install Apple's MacOS Server app from the app store. Or you can just enable it from the command line.
That's certainly a major factor, that I neglected to mention, but not the only reason.
In any case, blocking web site access is an act of control that should only be expected in N. Korea or China. It's a shame and there should be legal case no matter what the reason that drives it.

Choosing what to sell on their merchant store is entirely a right of Amazon. Denied of access is not.
Thanks. That makes it sound like this is all yet another victim of budget failures. Good intentions, but never enough money for basic programs, and a government always hungry for more revenue.
Oh - I thought it would actually order stuff, not just put it on a list.

But if its just making a list, then what's the point? I can write on the slip of paper on the fridge anyway.
Are they worried about license compliance and afraid that they may get sued for AGPL/propitiatory license violation?

Are they afraid of malware, security holes in the third party libraries you might be using?

Ask if running the source code through well known license compliance or vulnerability scanner and then sharing the reports from such scans with them be enough.

How many total paying customers do you hope to sign? If the count is 100, you have negotiation room, if the count is 2, then you don't have much choice.

Ask if they would be open to signing three to five year license agreement up front, that gives them access to do source code audits. Ask if the would be open to buying your IP outright with two years of guaranteed employment with them (You won't leave them for two years, rendering their investment useless).

>Are there any legal protections we can put in place to prevent them from not just copy-pasting our code, but also from "learning from it" or so?

A 50+bn dollar business can't hire people that can't "learn" what you have on their own, without looking at your source code? Forget about it. Let's say that they take your feature set and put it in front of their PhD ML crew, do you think you have something that the PhDs can't produce? How about they put it as a requirement in front of their ML interns fresh out of college? US doesn't allow process patents, as far as I know, you can try patents. But I don't know if suing your customers would get you more future customers.
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Here's a question: if a single bitcoin can be infinitely divided, does the price of a single bitcoin actually mean anything? If I spend $13 on .001 of a Bitcoin, I've, in essence, bought a $13k BTC, have I not, but without any real skin in that figure...