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In Linux distributions you get it from the distribution repository, and automatic updates are disabled. So at least it's reviewed by a third party.
How many articles are going to be posted that amount to just spreading FUD about the Title II change? The level of fear mongering in this article is ridiculous -- no shit huge corporations aren't going to make commitments 24 hours after a major regulatory change to a random journalist. Sure they could have been planning for a while but you think they're going to break a major announcement to an accusatory journalist looking to whip up a frenzy?

A bunch of low level PR workers at a company not saying something isn't even worth a tweet but here we have an entire article.

At least let ISPs actually do something nefarious before you try to hang them -- thanks to RIFA they at least have to tell when they do it.
So move to a town that has a lot more than a couple tech companies like Austin or Raleigh. It’s not all SV and wastelands in this country.
This website is run by a VC which isn't a coincidence.
This may be a turning point in treating neurodegenerative diseases
Do note however that many times the first author is not the principal investigator (ie the person that has the funding for the study and is often tenure track faculty) but is often a graduate student or a post-doc. The principal investigator may be in the middle or even at the end of the author list. Thus just excluding first author self-citations is probably inadequate. The chances are high that a grad student or post-doc is going to cite their adviser's previous papers.
You could have asked me what I meant.
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'Intentional' event redirects traffic from Apple, Google and others through Russia
Man, it's not like there's 1000 software companies in the Bay Area and 12 in the rest of the country combined. I have a hard time believing you'd be out of a job for too long in Austin or Denver/Boulder or NYC or DC or Seattle?
Completely agree. I miss this capability so much. Now with cell phones we're 'always online' but in a weird way less available (well. way more of my messages get ignored now than did my AIM chats).
You've done a bait and switch on me. I'm talking about personality types. Maybe you can argue that women are less likely to be e.g. introverts, because of culture. But that has nothing to do with the tech industry and they can't change that.

And that was basically Damore's argument. You have personality types like INTP being vastly overrepresented among programmers, yet 4 times less common among women. You have the same percentage of young girls interested in computer science at a young age as work in the tech industry. You have studies trying to raise kids as neutrally as possible and still finding boys prefer trucks and girls prefer dolls. It's definitely not culture.
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> What are the factors preventing real estate developers from buying up land and building larger complexes to meet the demand?

Local property who oppose new development in order to restrict supply, primarily.
Any tinfoil hat expert can claim the recent trends of increase in (fill in illness here) is a direct result of cell phone use.

The problem is no direct correlation can be found that proves this because we live in a world of so many rapid changes and the effects get lost by a host of other factors.

So is there proof of damage? Sure.

Can we isolate it to be from cell phone use? No.

Can we be sure that it is not? No.
So, making underground excavations in one of the most built up pieces of land on Earth. Doing that safely would cost a pretty good penny, so you'd have to sell them as "luxury" condos, but who in their right mind would spend that kind of money on a windowless hole, rather than living a bit further on a regular condo?

I'd bet zoning is not the only thing keeping that from happening.
Here's a good summary:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

Basically, there are a lot of regulations governing what you can build and where. And those regulations have a constituency that benefits from them, namely everyone who already owns a home in the Bay area.

If you bought a nice single-family home twenty years ago, you're sitting pretty. You live in a nice area that probably isn't going to change very much (thanks to the regulations), and the steeply rising value of your real estate (thanks to the regulations) is going to fund your retirement very nicely.
I've personally heard of two separate companies looking to transition away from Windows to Linux desktops for employees (one of whom I spoke with personally).

I think this might be an indicator of a larger trend that's at its tipping point.
Hmm, Have you looked at Crystal? It comes so very close to the sweet spot for me that I don't really know the difference.
Marathon to Athens, I believe is the correct route.
What's the downside to score/range voting? Voters give each candidate a score (say, from 1-10), and the highest average wins.

I've no particular expertise in this area; I know about it from http://rangevoting.org/
Is this the same department that requires the carcinogen label on every product under the sun? I'm probably being pithy, but that alone pushes me to ignore their recommendations. Never mind the dodgy physics...
I grew up outside of California, so "right of way" is a foreign concept for me.

I look both ways (and over my shoulder for any turning cars) to make sure the traffic is actively slowing down before I set foot onto the asphalt. You can't always trust the other person (or computer) to yield.
The biggest benefit I see to KeePass over LastPass is sync/cloud choice. LastPass I file in the category of password managers [1] that are more new-user-friendly than KeePass because they directly handle cross-device sync on their own cloud offerings.

However, I like the flexibility to use any "file sync" tool I want to pass KeePass files around between my devices (or none at all, depending on the threat model of individual password files). That opens up flexibility to use things like Keybase File Share and Resilio Sync Encrypted Shares where you have additional options in in-transfer and at-rest encryption of your files.

[1] In that category some security-minded friends that I trust have done their own research on the subject recommend Dashlane over LastPass.
10X returns are easy -- just put the money in a savings account.

What's your _timescale_ for generating 10X returns? That's where it gets tricky.
Given a dice with an unknown bias, you can generate a stream of unbiased random bits [1].

The method is an extension of von Neumann's trick for un-biasing a biased coin in which you flip it multiple times and take advantage of symmetry (specifically flip it twice and return heads if you got heads then tails, return tails if you got tails then heads, or repeat the procedure if you obtained two heads or two tails).

You can then go from this bit-stream to a number in {1,...,6} using the trick jknz mentions below (take 3 successive bits, and interpret them as a binary number between 0 and 7, add one to get a number between 1 and 8, and start again if the result is 7 or 8).

[The method in the paper is apparently asymptopically optimal (as the number of faces on the dice goes to infinity). However, for small numbers of faces I think it is slightly worse than the method jknz described. Consider the 4-faced dice: the Peres method converts a pair of dice rolls into 1 or zero bits, but jknz's method would sometimes produces two bits (the rolls 1,4/2,3/3,2/4,0 are binary 00,11/01,10/10,01/11,00 resulting in sampled bits 0,0/0,1/1,0/11). Working out all the cases shows this makes the method slighly more efficient.]

[1]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2014.2381223
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This was foreseeable when Bitcoin Core rejected Segwit2x. BitPay's business model simply fails unless the blockchain can scale much more than Segwit alone achieves, very soon.
I find this line of thinking pervasive among criticisms of all kinds of developers. Especially in video game forums!

"If they did it, then our game dev can too!" Like large programs are just some kind of widget you can just move from place to place.
Part of our assurance that the product is good/reliable/secure is releasing the source code for people to determine that themselves.

We have no plans to rescind on this, although we would like people to join our newsletter so that we can reach them. By having a point of contact, we hope to build a product and form a community based on the needs of end-users (eg. how the product is being used and how we can improve upon it)

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Do you actually use it for gaming?
> light can only cause molecular damage if individual photons carry enough energy, which in turn only happens if the radiation is of sufficiently high frequency (like UV light, X-Rays, or gamma radiation.)

Then we can presume you wouldn't mind being microwaved? Or simply heated to 6000 Kelvin? Both would be low frequency options.
I wonder how the self-driving car trend will change things in the Bay Area. Right now, there's a tradeoff between paying $2M+ for a house and having a 2 hr+ commute. When your car can drive you to work, the commute becomes much less annoying. If people can save $1.3M on a house in exchange for a long, but self-driven, commute, the allure of living right in SV will be significantly lower.
Wow, liberal fascism distilled, pretty much a call to arms for the destruction of individual cultures and global imposition of wrongthink. South Park's Death Camp of Tolerance comes to mind. I await the introduction of the reeducation gulags.

Edit: I'm just amazed that people cannot see this guy is blantantly arguing for the exact thing he claims to despise:

'Meanwhile, give the right-of-way to people driving cars with the “Mean people suck” bumper sticker, and remind everyone that we’re in this together against Lord Voldemort and House Slytherin.'

He goes on at length about why us and them is bad and then LITERALLY ARGUES FOR an us and them attitude :|
“The biggest single factor that determines pricing or value of a home is supply and demand,”

It's a bit different from the traditional supply and demand:
There are two kinds of demand: One is the demand for actually using housing, which is not affected by supply and price.
The other is the demand as a financial instrument, which even increases with rising prices.
Tv uses a _lot_ more bandwidth than radio. The analogue tv spectrum gets repurposed for 3g/4g etc, but the frequency of FM radio doesn't provide remotely enough capacity to be able to justify it for this reason (though there are other reasons, such as being able to have to have overlapping transmission towers)
> Maybe there are also some situations where GraphQL fails, I would definitely be interested to hear about that.

I know one, but it will take you a while to realize it. Allowing a lot of flexibility in query types makes it harder to optimize later when you can't predict the code paths your clients will take. In the API world, I have learned the hard way that flexibility is a bad thing especially compared to specific ways to obtain data and very optimizable, well-known "hot" paths to data.
>, we actually have been below target inflation for years

no, we have crafted something called CPI, that charts how much consumer goods cost, and tracked below the target for that. Meanwhile, coastal RE, equities, business valuations and skyrocketed at unprecedented rates...
If you're interested in looking deeply at alternative agricultural practices, I recommend "Restoration Agriculture". [1] It's rooted in permaculture, but more broadly about restoring biomes that are naturally abundant and diverse.

The central hypothesis is that we've become far too invested in annual plants. They require and enormous amount of labor and petrochemicals to sustain. The book presents alternative methods that, like permaculture in general, look to harness natural processes and perennial trees and shrubs to great effect.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16441733-restoration-agr...
That interface is horrible. Forced animation, images, and graphics no matter how I scroll down to get to the actual text? Get Out.
Looks interesting, but the http://www.xeora.org site isn't usable on my Android. The hamburger menu icon just opens a big white square with no text. And videos aren't scaled to fit, so they extend out of the viewport. Normally, I'd ignore minor stuff, but this being a web framework...the issues cause me to lose confidence in how well it works. A bit a copywriter attention on the front page text might help as well.

Not trying to be negative, just saying you might want to polish things up a bit before trying to promote it widely.
>Better Angels Media Network (BAMN)

How ironic that their Network has the same acronym as one of the most violent Anti-Fa groups - By Any Means Necessary (BAMN).

Very nice organization -- I was impressed with their video from Ohio.
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Yes, in the NYC administrative code: Lighting Requirements: All bedrooms must have at least one window that opens to a street, yard, or court on the same lot. The window may also open to a balcony that opens on a street, yard, or court. The total area of the windows in the room must at least be one-tenth the floor area of the room. All required windows must be at least twelve square feet in area.
Smoking wasn't banned until very recently, after tremendous damage was done. Even now, smoking is only banned in places where it harms other people. You can smoke at home as much as you like.
A quarter trillion dollars is at risk when Bitcoin crashes
That seems a little slow. I compile nightly for my own use and it takes around 20 minutes on a haswell i5, using tmpfs for the build directory.
There are so many symbols from different languages that resemble each other. If I use a smiley face, that doesn't mean I used a "ü" or a "ツ" from another alphabet just because it looks similar. A backwards R is visually the same as a Cyrillic character, but that doesn't mean I'm writing in Cyrillic, just like a "P" is visually the same as a Cyrillic character but doesn't mean I'm writing in Cyrillic.
Fuck the Bay Area. Just...fuck it. There are other well-paying jobs in nice parts of the country where you can still live like a human being and not spend 4/5 of your income on rent or 2 hours a day in traffic.

Just boycott the whole damn mess and let the companies figure out that they have to stop hiring and expand to other parts in the country.

America cannot do city planning to save its life. Hasn't been able to since the 1920's. It's all single-story homes and strip malls and highways and that shit doesn't scale past a point that most other industrialized societies laugh at, but we just suck at it here and quality of life goes to shit immediately.

Just accept it, there's no easy solution, and move somewhere else. Even NYC is better at this point. DC are has a shit-ton of jobs, so does Texas, so does Washington, so does Colorado.
Not sure how much of this primer on Bay Area politics you need, but here we go:

Mostly local governmental opposition. Local towns want businesses (tax revenue!) but not residential development (costly services!). Local homeowners who vote for said town governments also have an interest in higher home prices.

What makes this possible for them is the lengthy public hearing process involved, allowing local activists to delay construction for years for BS reasons; and the discretion given to elected officials not just to make policy, but also to override it.

In recent years, Bay Area activists (under the slogan of YIMBY - "Yes In My Backyard") have been successful in both pushing housing development through direct local advocacy (especially effective in places with lots of voting renters, like SF proper), and in getting the state to exert its power more over local government. The background to this being that the state has since 1982 had a law trying to combat this phenomenon - the Housing Accountability Act. It requires cities to publish city development plans for public inspection, requires those zoning policies to meet certain requirements in terms of housing quantity, and then to actually make zoning decisions that comply with those policies. However, private individuals or organizations need to bring suits against cities to make it effective, because the US is crazy and prefers lawsuits to actually hiring professional regulators. So activists have funded lawsuits (see the more recent entries at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Housing_Accountabil...) against cities that have obstructed development. They also got the CA state legislature to strengthen the HAA this year, putting more of the burden of proof on the cities to show their justification for development denials, making cities pay attorney's fees when they lose a case, and allowing judges to fine cities for violations.
Justified in their concerns, certainly. But not in their seething, frothing paranoia.

We have people comparing the installation of a near-stub browser add-on by the browser vendor, to full-on home invasions.

The language was a mistake and should have not been pushed out, or maybe even written to begin with. Mozilla ought to remember how skittish their userbase can be.
It's not that extreme, but it's quite a difference. The quality just isn't there, either.
Inflation is responsible for the wage slavery we find ourselves in today. Those peddling inflation and control of the money supply as a necessary component of modern economics are peddling snake oil. Price discovery is hard enough without an invisible handle manipulating the units you’re trying to measure value in.
No, it really will not. My workplace saw that OpenOffice had a security issue, and banned it AND LibreOffice.

Nothing I can do about it. Can’t argue. Trust is very, very easily lost and incredibly hard to regain. And it can hit innocent third parties. It’s very, very wrong to do anything that could destroy trust.
Where does "MSN" and "Passport" fit in this orgy?

Hotmail->Live->Outlook

Hotmail - young rebellious teenager with 2 MB of storage

Live - "experimenting" phase, "monopoly conviction? I do not recall!"

Outlook - Older YUP, approaching middle age, quite cynical, but still might change, albeit with reluctance and complete lack of enthusiasm
Really, you'd enjoy sitting in your car for 2+ hours every weekday? That's incredibly unhealthy.
Because this isn't about truth. This is about diction. You are using "a priori" in a non-standard way.
I wonder what happens if you replace the call with 1-2 noops?
Where the key changes and the API supports it, we will definitely use such a feature.

Concerning Signal though, it does not support bots (officially).
They were both "instant messengers." But their interface was different enough to lead to different behavior.
Imagine you have a flat red piece of card in a photographed scene. If the lighting is just right and the card is matt, you could get all the pixels of the card in the image to be the exact same colour. That would be a single point in the colour space.

Now imagine you rolled the card into a cylinder. The result would depend on the lighting, but most likely you'd be able to see some shading across the object, so that there are some darker and lighter pixels. In, the HSV colour space you'd now have a line - all the H and S values for those pixels would be the same, but there would be a range of values for V.

Now imagine you replaced the matt card with a shiny piece. You might see a whitish specular highlights where the object reflects a light source or the sky. The added whiteness would have made some pixels have a lower saturation (S). So now you have variation in S and V, but not H. That would form a plane in the HSV plot.
> What? Citation needed. I haven't heard of any conservatives getting banned from these services due to their political affiliation.

See: Professor Gad Saad, whose YouTube videos are regularly demonetized. Sometimes they are demonetized while they are processing. Dennis Prager's "Prager University" is currently suing Google for a similar situation with their channel (https://www.prageru.com/press-release-prager-university-prag... and https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/10/14/youtube-rest...)

> Again, what? Has this happened? I've never heard of this, and this seems like fairly extreme hyperbole.

There is this tweet from the npm CEO, which I subjectively find quite disgusting. Not that it affects me, but I care about javascript and node, not the identity or background of the speaker. I would even listen to Pol Pot if he gave a good talk on these subjects. https://twitter.com/izs/status/911105515798720513

Then there was this incident - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868. The link of the submission is no longer relevant, but the first comment is consistent with how I also feel about the subject. It covers what happened as well.

> What is your argument here? Tech companies are against conservative americans? If reading HN has taught me anything, the tech scene is full of conservatives and libertarians.

That does not counter the points made. They exist, but they are censored, so it is not in anyone's interest in terms of job security or career advancement, to express their conservative views. Diversity and multiculturalism is essentially the equivalent of halal or kosher now. If it isn't there, seemingly nothing can be done. In general, conservatives these days don't subscribe to these ideas of classification on the basis of various identity properties, but if you do not think this way, there seems to be no place for you. James Damore is a good example of this as well. You are apparently not allowed to think differently, which is sort of ironic, coming from the birthplace of Apple.
Then we can presume you are afraid of ambient temperature increases of 1 degree? They likely have far more effect on the human body than a cell phone.
It's still cheap as free compared to the cost of accessing the same information/media pre-Internet.

Google used to brag about how using Google was more energy-efficient than going to the local library.
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Corporations are owned by individuals.
Well, sure, that's possible. But then it would be the forcing that's wrong.
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nope..Queens, New York
So you are worried about warmer temperatures causing cancer?
Singapore comes to mind.
Interesting concept, downside is it is only available for Windows 10.
{Press that damn space bar - go ahead and you will see that it fits the description} LOL .. get outta here ..
It's a double standard. Feminists with far more extreme beliefs can talk about their opinions at work. Not only that, but actually have them become official policy. Even policies that intentionally discriminate against men, which is insane.

But if you dare to object to it... Against policies that are actually sexist and actually relevant to your work. Make an actual scientific case for your side. Then somehow you are an evil sexist that wants to discriminate against minorities.
Not statistically significant.
In my lifetime :)
Yeah, I was thinking that couldn't be right either, because I was struggling with the first MIME encoded emails in the mid-90s and being very annoyed at mailers that would BASE64 the text of the email so they could put in those Microsoft proprietary "smart" quotes.
That sixty year time frame is convenient, since anybody making such a prediction will be retired or dead by then.
You don't have to pay $18, you can wait a little for multiple confirmations instead. By the time you're done waiting, volatility in BTC's price may put you $18 ahead. Or $18 in the hole. /s
A Brompton is a superb commuter bike, but it's only one option. Most commuters don't need multimodal capabilities, particularly if they live within Zone 6.
Of course not. I've written nothing to justify such an assumption.

I just don't subscribe to the preposterous belief that only extremely short wavelengths matter.
God, 21st century America is a Dickensian Hellscape.
Ask HN: What do you do now that you'd pay 1000$ for?