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> Many times, when this latter tack happens, developers grouse about the other browser makers who are “holding the web back.” But there is a fundamental problem in this way of looking at things: Chrome isn’t the standard. The fact that Chrome proposes something, and even the fact that a bunch of developers like it, does not a standard make.

WHATWG taking over the "standard" certainly muddies the waters. It's theoretically not just what a single browser vendor proposes or implements... but it is whatever the browser-dominated WHATWG says it is... on any given day... and effectively is whatever the most powerful browser vendors implement or propose (ie, Chrome).
If you live on the web, maybe this is your perspective. There's a whole 'nother world out there than just the web.
iOS and OSX isn't modern software ?

I am curious about the qualities an operating system needs to be deemed "modern".
> Also if you're working at a high pressure finance job

If you're working that type of job, you're almost certainly getting very well-paid for your efforts; more than you would be paid in London or elsewhere
> That's the thing though, you're calling someone being forced out because they hold a bigoted position 'lynching'.

Yes, because in both cases, it's a large group of people reacting emotionally as a group to harm another person.

> You're equivocating what has historically been an act of racially provoked murder with the removal of a bigot

No I'm not. It's an analogy, not an equivocation.

You need to stop using the word "bigot" over and over again. You're framing everything as matter of bigot/not-a-bigot. It's tribal, caveman thinking. "Me not a bigot, they bigot. They bad."

> Political opponents ought to (and are, in most cases) barred from effectively participating in the political process when they hold oppressive and bigoted view points.

That is literally authoritarianism and oppression. 200 years ago, blacks were barred. 100 years ago, women were barred. Today, "bigots" are barred. Keep this up, and someday, you will be barred.

There are only two options here:

a) You think you are morally superior to everyone else in the world, therefore everyone who disagrees with you should be barred from participating in the political process. You are therefore a fascistic authoritarian.

b) You are unable to reason abstractly, because you are unable to understand how your reasoning applies against your own position.
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Hey, I’m Lee the founder of Gingr. Happy to answer any questions!

Special shout out to Philip at Moonlight. He’s a great guy with a great business.
I have a suspicion that the TSAs unreasonable behaviour (unreasonable adherance to protocol) is due to them being subject to random performance tests where they actually do send through enlderly women in wheelchairs with contraband straped to their butt and automatically flag them for extra search. Failing to detect the contraband in this case is probably punished in some way so the agents are forced to throw all common sense out the window when handling people[0] that have been flagged for additional screening.

[0] People like me. I get flagged every single time I enter the United States.
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>Yeah, the single threaded model + async can be nice and resolve problems with race conditions etc. making one headache go away.

What often astounds me in these kinds of discussion: People just seem to assume that's not possible with the JVM.

So, just for the record (not neccesarily directed to you :) ):
You can totally do node.js style (event-driven, async, nonblocking, no-shared-state - "single-threaded", if you will) with the jvm, and it works great (e.g. vertx, netty, play and many others).

And as you said: Contrary to node, with the JVM there's no danger of it being a limiting factor you're stuck with.
Internal US propaganda channels have been working up the hatred against internal threats, too.
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Using facial recognition tech is just common sense. Why would you not use the technology available to you to enforce the law?

Does having a machine analyze your face invade your privacy any more than having humans analyze your face?
Was just thinking the other day, it'd be super interesting if YC ran some YC Equity/YC UBI experiments within its own network. Basically in joining YC, each YC member would be granted a percentage of YC's 7% stake in all of the YC companies which would reduce their need to fundraise. In theory, YC members should all be highly motivated achievers and use that percentage stake to move their diverse set of businesses forward.

Since there is such a high barrier to entry into YC, it might not prove shared equity/UBI would 100% work in the real world. However, coming at it from the other side, it could provide some early clues as to whether a shared equity/UBI could ever work at all. For example:

- Would YC companies cheer each other on with positive peer pressure/be more motivated to knowledge share or would low achieving YC companies de-motivate high achieving YC companies? Would YC companies who fold be allowed to retain their percentage of the YC stake?

- Would high achieving startups bypass YC or be attracted to YC?

- Would every set of new annual entrants into YC be seen as diluting the value of the existing YC equity or additive? Would existing YC companies want more say in the selection process? Would Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe receive the same percentage of YC stake as new entrants?

- How do you socialize the concept with existing stakeholders (i.e. existing YC partners) who would be diluted?

- Is it better to implement it as a single monolithic YC group or divide it by YC Class?

Assuming ~1500 YC companies with ~10 employees each, that'd be about 15,000 participants, which would be a pretty good dogfooding [0] experiment!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
>The best way to do that is to tell people what they want to hear.

It's about providing validation and reassurance.

Which doesn't always require telling people what they want to hear, but it certainly helps.

Rush and Fox and Breitbart exist because there is a need -- millions of people who are seeking emotional validation that their worldviews are correct.

It's the same reason left-leaning publications exist. Emotional validation disguised as news.
Why wouldn't you be able to do that with hill climbing?
Every browser has never implemented exactly the same things in exactly the same ways, and never will. There will always, at least, be bugs.

A "de facto standard" of "what browsers implement" is no standard at all. This is why standards matter. "What the actually existing software implements" is what you have when you _don't have standards_.

The vendor-dominated, standard-changes-every-day WHATWG "living standard" is relevant to the situation here, I think, even if you'd rather it not be. If it's a living standard that's always changing, and it's specifically changing based on _what software does_... then Chrome doing something seems like as much of a standard as anything. It may or may not be added to the standard the next day, but the standard seems to encourage people to use things that aren't in it yet.

The WHATWG process, if I understand it right, specifically requires (at least) two browser vendors to implement a thing _before_ it's added to the standard. Yes, two is more than one. But not a lot more. :)
It is complete baloney and has nothing to do with crypto.
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> I don't think it's fair to call it anything but "easily-replaceable."

Yeah? Well that is peculiar. Here [1] [2] it says: "Difficulty: Moderate". I guess someone is wrong on the Internet, and I don't think its iFixit.

You see, the battery in my phone can be replaced in literally under half a minute. Without any special tools. Without any guide. The only thing is, I gotta buy the battery from the vendor, for 20 EUR.

That is, according to my reference point, "easily-replaceable" indeed (I could even do it whilst I'm hiking without any special tools), while the circus act you're going to have to put up (which includes all kind of non-standard tools (with additional price tag) which you can read about at [1] and [2]), clearly -without the shed of a doubt- makes it a lot more difficult to replace the bloody thing.

And let us be honest: that is entirely intended. Because else, Apple would use standard screws, and wouldn't use all kind of acts to use more obscure screws.

Fun fact: my mother, in her 60s, has changed oil numerous upon numerous times in her life. She's never replaced a battery in a phone though. Some people are scared opening up hardware. Heck, I bet she was scared refreshing oil the first time as well but my father guided her (he became blind, so couldn't do it anymore). Another one: the other day I was replacing a battery and reapplying thermal paste on my partner's MBP and my partner's sister complimented that I was doing that, even though it was my first time doing that and I was just using iFixit's guide. (I still managed to kill the iSight camera, even though the guide said I shouldn't worry about that connector. GG). That guide said Moderate difficulty as well IIRC. And I screwed it up. So... easy? Give me a break. Its tedious. And that, too, is way more difficult than opening up a ThinkPad T61.

Ergo, my point is that calling it "easily-replaceable" completely and utterly ignores how easy it used to be to replace your cellphone's battery. Call it a reality distortion field if you must.

So your reference point is yours, and mine is mine. We can call it there. I won't though; I want other people to take iFixit's reference point more serious than randomers because they are experts at defining the difficulty and their guides have been proofread and used. By many eyes.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+6+Battery+Replacement/29...

[2] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+6+Plus+Battery+Replaceme...
I don't think that is illegal or tax evasion anywhere in the world. Depending on the amount and the jurisdiction and whether the son gains ownership of the funds (rather than just the power to invest them), the firm might have to report this transaction and the son might have to pay for taxes.
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You can transfer money to whoever you want. All you need todo is to write a check.
You're not supposed to bail out the failures in capitalism (i.e. so-called "crony capitalism").

Of course the companies getting billions in government support will win big and easily pay back their loans. If they didn't get TARP bailout, they would fail and better competitors would replace them.
I read that as moving to the son's control, not literally gifting the money to him.
The flu like symptoms are mostly electrolyte imbalance in my experience. You lose a lot of water weight and salt.
To hell with the DMCA anyways. People who care will still reverse engineer the games they love and host the servers. There's probably zero chance of any legal avenue being opened up. As it should be, it's more fun that way.
You think because it has mainstream acceptance and has spiked in value that the illegal activities all just cashed out and left? I'd say the opposite is more likely.
AWS does have solutions to many of these: SAM Local, X-Ray, Codestar, for instance.
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It makes sense from his perspective, yolo, plus it might be his son's inheritance anyway so what does the 80-year-old care?
or it could be because the character is based on bill clinton
> It may be, in some cases, unjustified by he facts, but what makes a lynching a lynching has nothing to do with whether the accusations made are unjustified.

I agree with this statement. A lynching is a lynching regardless of why it is done.

> I don't think you understand what a lynching is, because none of what you have described resembles one in any meaningful way.

I don't think you understand what a lynching is, otherwise you would recognize that a mob of people reacting emotionally to harm another person is exactly that. e.g. Webster, 1913: "To inflict punishment upon without the forms of law." That is literally what happened.
Given that prop trading has been severely curtailed at investment banks, yes.
I am a founder of this company and wrote the article. We got started with tutoring high schoolers over Messenger two months ago (we're doing something related but different before) and have already tutored hundreds. It's amazing to see how a tool like Messenger can be used to help and teach students.

The most frequent subject we get is math and I thought it might be interesting to go through our data and compile a list of the most common things students struggle with.

I was genuinely surprised that there is this pattern (already with a few hundred students) and am convinced that the biggest reason why students fall behind in math are bad teachers.

What are your experiences with this kind of pitfalls? Do you have ideas how to best help students in these situations?
I've recently made a contribution to a well-known project (DBeaver, a database management software). It started with a feature request and somehow I was able to implement it myself. It sure makes you nervous when it's the first time contributing, especially because your code/issue will be read by many other people. But, once your PR is merged, you will feel you've accomplished something great and want to contribute more.
It seems like a simplistic explanation, but I wonder if some people simply forget or overlook how multidimensional and complicated life is when discussing such matters. It is extremely common when reading political discussions, even among intelligent people, to see opinions with absolute certainty on matters they know very little about. It's easy for "smart" people to see this in (let's be honest) dumb people, but very few can see it in themselves, or others sharing their political stripes.

EDIT: Wow, I didn't even criticize one side or the other, but simply pointed out a fact of human nature, and here we go with the downvotes as usual. Another excellent illustration of the "either you're with us or against us" philosophy. At least people can agree with ole George on one thing.
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Unless I am mistaken, literally all YC companies raise money. They do it from YC itself.

There are lots of ways you could spin it, but how can Sam justify such a statement when they've invested in all of these companies too?
I don't understand your analogy. Are you trying to draw an equivalence between tax resistance and rape?
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Fiction (Sci-fi): The Three-body Problem by Liu Cixin

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Any resource on the range of dapps that may suite this space that isn’t hand wavy?
Yes, this can absolutely be the case.

Consider a child who grows up with multiple older siblings in a bad neighborhood with an unreliable single parent. If promises are seldom upheld, possessions are stolen without recourse, and there is persistent scarcity to begin with... how likely will this child be able to delay gratification for a greater reward (in an isolated research center) when the totality of their life experience has trained them that doing so will most likely result in losing what they already have?

This is also explicitly called out in the article

> In other words, the child's ability to delay gratification and display self-control was not a predetermined trait, but rather was impacted by the experiences and environment that surrounded them. In fact, the effects of the environment were almost instantaneous. Just a few minutes of reliable or unreliable experiences were enough to push the actions of each child in one direction or another.
Undoubtedly. My comment was only meant to frame that he may have a vested interested in lambasting one implementation of the tech while promoting his own, and that he wasn't merely acting as informed commentator.

He can't be merely a skeptic when he's selling his own version to some of the largest banks in the world.
I said that it was explained there. That you can also find people who get things wrong only reinforces my point about this being a common misunderstanding of the DNS. All of those not-very-choice-at-all quotes were debunked in that discussion, including the bunkum that this is a systemd thing, disproven by the fact that these sorts of assertions had to be debunked years before systemd was even invented.
> on super exotic browsers we didn’t even know existed.

they do not work well with jQuery or even jQuery mobile.
consider ANTGalio a browser that was used in a lot of embedded stuff could not work with anything above emcascript 3 and even than had some pretty wierd behavior.
jquery did not work on it.
I'm ok with Disney keeping copyright on their works; I just wish that wasn't tied together with so many other works that have been abandoned by their authors (like old games, books, media, etc).
my point was that people don't know the full scope and nature of what google does, so suggesting they're 'better' is comical.
Also, these old code bases can now be fairly easily and optionally retrofitted using modern Python's support for type hints and tools like mypy and now MonkeyType. So people can continue using their existing code base and the vast Python ecosystem, with the added benefit of type checking where appropriate.
Although I had not heard that reasoning before, I was told to increase water and salt consumption, which I did. Possibly this could have prevented any flu-like symptoms.
I am not aware that the oral mucosa are particularly permeable in this regard.
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I don't think 12 days is nearly enough time to deplete your protein, especially if you have weight to lose.

Fasting/ketosis is protein sparing in and of itself, and if you have extra weight to lose, you have extra skin surrounding that fat which can be recycled.
The paper looks really solid, but the title had me gasp “Bingo!” for a second.

More seriously, thinking about metaheuristic, which approaches at which scale, i.e. machine learning architecture, that's the future.
Why do so many US articles sound like a story frim Grandpa Simpson?

"It was a cold Wednesday, with the wind blowing from the north..."

I'm curious if this is commonplace, and if its native audience find it irksome in the online medium. I can understand this style in print, but very often I click an HN link, and hit back before finishing the first paragraph as it becomes clear the article is not written in the pyramid style.
The actual reason they'd do this is a follow up to this thread from @taviso: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/939634523137966080
I still think the answer here is 'never', communities should be as self contained as possible and not try and take over personal lives. To do otherwise reminds of those schools that try and punish students (and sometimes teachers) for actions done in their free time; an absolutely ridiculous overreach that makes things worse rather than better.

And I stick by that for communities I run. On every site I'm an admin/founder, the rule is that (legal issues excepting), we won't punish you for things done outside of the community. It's not our place to do so, and we have no interest in witch hunting or trying to find reasons to deplatform people for things they do in their free time elsewhere.
Where there is money to be had , you best believe their will be Goldman Sachs!
Yes. A machine can record that data, and others can look at it later. The issue is not what we can readily see, but storing recordings and and information gleaned from those recordings.

This is the same issue when you replace a person with a surveillance camera that records video.
Cool, I always wanted our sexual culture to revert back to the puritan 1600's.
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Wow, those seem like great resources! Thank you so much!
Hello all. I am one of the paper's coauthors. Thank you for your interest in this work! We hope you enjoy it. Just an FYI, this paper is part of a cluster of five papers released on Tuesday morning, detailed in this blog post: https://eng.uber.com/deep-neuroevolution
I think just the shortened renewal period alone would be worthwhile, even without the exponentially increasing fees. Any truly abandoned media isn't going to have anyone trying to renew it. If Disney wants to charge me $20 for a copy of the 75 year old Bambi, well... at least it's available. The insultingly long term their lobbyists have bought is a valid topic, but a topic for another thread.
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You need to read the full comments on that thread. Or this counter-argument: https://startupsventurecapital.com/you-fired-your-top-talent...

There is a lot wrong with that article and it should not be used as a reference for this subject.
That's highly unlikely as we've recently learned from "Internet Chemotherapy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15946095

ISPs are unfortunately the problem, not the solution.
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How's the O'Reilly book so far? I made it through the second edition of the rust book but found it a bit lacking as a novice. I think a second time through the Rust book after writing a few programs will be really useful, but I wouldn't mind trying the O'Reilly one as well.
> I think there’s sort of this halo around being a Y Combinator company, where companies raise money that perhaps shouldn’t.

This is such a strange sentiment. YC has invested in all of these companies, then they pooh pooh others that follow their lead?
Could you (or anyone else) upload the certificate file for inspection?
In 2005 I took a sub-symbolic AI course where one of the homework assignments was to evolve a neural network using genetic algorithms. So that in itself is nothing new. The novelty of the paper seems to be the scale of the solution. Personally, I hope we'll see a little bit of revival of genetic algorithms/programming -- I think it's promosing in design (cars, aeroplanes, architecture, etc.), since it's good at finding novel solutions to optimization problems.
I absolutely believe in extra-terrestrial intelligence. The fact that recurring themes (oval shape, weather disturbences and seemingly instant movements) dating back even before a long haired dude who claimed to have defied the laws of biology and physics (every religious prophet ever).

This suggests the following three scenarios:

- They don't necessarily care about being seen but will not interact with us.

- Whatever it is they think we have, they keep coming back.

- Just because we decide to pour billions, they aren't going to suddenly change their minds.

To me this is a typical behavior of a civilization that exceeds us technologically and their behavior suggests they are here to observe or gather data somehow.

So is it colonial ambitions or just fascination with what they found--tiny parasites with inferior intelligence and technology but entertaining to watch.

It would be like finding worms on some random planet. Not very useful to attempt communication or establish trade. Maybe they come back every once in a while to check if there has been any progress....

We could be many such "worms" find throughout the universe that these guys are just cataloging, to figure out and understand it better.

edit: One final crazy out there theory is that these UFOs are just time traveling machines operated by future versions of us. But if they interact or spend too much time beyond being "UFOs", they might cause some type of catastrophic failure in the fabric of time and space triggering another big bang.

edit2: okay one really even more crazy but plausible idea is that we diverged from a common intelligent being, and the OG smart guys are now discovering a much more stupid version of them running around thinking they are smart.