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> I don't have any better analogy than saying that's like talking about female on male rape or white people being also subject to police violence when talking about black life matters.

That second analogy isn’t what you probably want; White people are very much subject to police violence; BLM is about the lack of accountability for (not just police; the impetus was actually the Trayvon Martin killing, which was not by police) violence against black people and not about the idea that black people are uniquely the target of police violence.
adding space merchants and Zanzibar to my reading list

The article's discussion of corporations also reminds me of Snow Crash, which is not so old and also pretty light hearted but full of good food for thought nonetheless
None of that is remotely true.

Even discounting local and state governments, which use tax dollars to fund themselves and can't print money like you describe, even the federal government doesn't work like that.
> I need you to state your limitations up front. How many products can you handle, what is the size of data you can handle?

We're not in production yet, so we're still testing with some friendly merchants, but the largest dataset we've encountered is 1.3M rows (approx 900MiB of CSV). That's for a mobile phone retailer, and it's essentially the cross product of all the variables in their deals. To answer your other question, for that reason a longer-term goal is to introduce a format for aggregating multiple product options. That requires buy-in, though.

> What platforms do you integrate with? This wasn’t obvious to me after quickly scanning the site

After talking to some of our potential customers, most of them seem to be lacking in very technical staff. One of the larger ones has a brand new GBP 20M web site that they have no internal control over. For that reason, we've developed a couple of solutions that can be implemented in the web layer instead of the inventory layer. We'd be happy to work with any merchant who wants us to integrate with their e-commerce backend, though; in fact, it makes things a lot easier for us.

> Do you let me dedupe, aggregate, or create new data attributes in your platform?

We don't do deduping yet (no one has asked for it so far), but we allow you to create new data attributes in your product schema. The primary motivation for this is to generate product IDs for feeds that don't have an explicit ID column, but do have one in, say, the product URL. We'll be extending it as use cases come along, for things like extracting attributes from product titles or descriptions, and fixing up data to meet the requirements of particular ad networks.
Mozilla stomps IE
Okay, I already know that most people about to comment on this post will complain about "yet another css framework", "not again", and "isn't this just Skeleton?".

This was originally based off of Skeleton, with the intent being how small I could get the source. I looked online for CSS code golf, but I was unable to find any article, or even examples. The only thing I was able to find was CSS shorthand.

This is my code golf experiment. My goal is sub 500 bytes, anything lower probably will not be possible (then again, I said that about sub 700 bytes). My rules are pretty much full feature parity with Skeleton, and looking similar to the way lit looks right now.

The main way I was able to make lit this small was by optimizing for the gzip algorithm. I learned a ton by doing that, including some counter intuitive things when compressing files.

I would love for people to join me and help out, because I am running out of ideas to make the source smaller.
>I believe those being asked to leave should sue the US for repayment of Social security and Medicare taxes paid

In addition to all these, one has to also pay taxes for income they earn in India.

>Most of all, if this is squarely an anti-India policy, India should return the favor in kind and add tariffs to American businesses & individuals benefiting from trading with India.

How many Indian companies operate in US vs how many American companies operate in India? Indian companies stand to benefit a lot if they don't have to compete with the likes of Amazon, Dell, HP, Whirlpool, GM etc. So, US's anti India policies will help in creating more jobs in India so at least our kids won't have to deal with these type of situations being accused of stealing others jobs.

US blocked cryogenics to India, India ended up making their own [1]. They supposedly blocked GPS, India launched its own[2]. For this also, we will eventually figure out something.

[1]http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/us-blocks-critical-cryoge...

[2]https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/How-Kargil-...
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As an ISP there's no way I can correlate an IP address to a person. I can only correlate it to one or more pieces of equipment.
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They ought to fix the issues with Xcode first.
Thanks for the heads up. I've worked with Intercooler before and while it is a really nice framework, I've always felt it was missing a few critical things. Unpoly looks cool. Do you know if it has a dependency on jQuery still, like Intercooler does? Or does it run independently?
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The journalist did not invent the physics use of the term 'bootstrap method'. As the article makes clear, it came from some Berkeley physicists in the 1960s.
Maybe you're a victim of exactly what he is describing. No? Of course not. Help yourself to another steaming hot dollop of outrage from wherever you get it.
The average person might be a little better off than a decade ago, but the gap between rich and poor keeps getting wider, and even worse, the poor are actually getting poorer. If the rich get even richer, the average keeps going up, well done!
The claim in the headline isn't that it is the worst thing ever, just the worst thing produced by nerd culture.

The Ayn Rand comparison seems off the mark, because while they may have been embraced by a segment of nerd culture, they are not products of that culture.
They're portraits, not wide angle crowd shots (and yes, the law distinguishes between the two, for privacy and copyright purposes). And the people reacting are the ones you told that you were taking sneaky photos, not the subjects of the photos (although if they did pick it, they also might not be pleased - FTFA: "This is physics professor Kristian Birkeland - the only one of Størmer's subjects to rumble him. Apparently he got quite cross!").

Try taking a bunch of covert photos then showing your friends: "Hey look at these photos I took of people with my spy cam!" I guarantee the reaction won't be entirely positive.
> Imagine an app with 100.015 rows

i can imagine an app like this. and such an app would have been designed with 0 thought given to the actual usability by humans. the proper solution is to provide sorting, grouping, filtering and pagination. your UIs should be small enough to remain fast without insane optimization tricks. mobile and even desktop browsers are plenty slow at rendering/reflowing 100k DOM nodes; the fastest way to render this is simply not to.

it's not as if suddenly you don't have to worry about the shitty UX and performance of your app's architecture "because fiber".
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OK, thank you for the enlightenment :)
Which are owned by a person. That's like saying you can only correlate a licence plate to a car, not to the owner of a car. Don't be ridiculous.
I would have thought that at this point with so many music streaming services all the legal stuff would have been figured out by now.
Because a group of flying drones painted black and then we'll have a murder of drones.
> violence against black people and not about the idea that black people are uniquely the target of police violence.

I guess we will have to disagree on this. My perspective is that they are. The frequency, the magnitude and ubiquity of said violence makes it a distinct experience than most other racial group.

Another analogy, both I and a poor child in Somalia experience hunger from time to time, but i think his/her experience is distinctively worst than mine.
> Seabed Constructor is the most advanced civilian survey vessel on the planet today. If its array of technology cannot find MH370, then it is likely that nothing will

That sentence seemed gushing and overstated. Presumably a large metal plane isn't really going anywhere and if these 8 underwater drones don't find it then if people keep trying they will in the future.
That some bugs are deliberate has no bearing on the non-deliberate ones.
That doesn't really prove anything. You may or may not have first mover advantage if you sit for two years.
You can avoid fruits and still get your nutrition from vegetables, which are more nutrient dense in general (especially leafy greens).

Of course, fruits are more tasty.
It's in the current release candidate, so on track to be in the next release in a few weeks.
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Allow me: I think just about all companies engaged in the business of technology and marketing to the same market segments Bay Area technology companies market to ought to pay the same as their Bay Area counterparts.
Based on the fact that kernel patches are going in it's reasonable to assume this means it can't be fixed with a microcode update. Otherwise, Intel would issue a microcode update and the Linux kernel wouldn't be accepting this patch set as a mitigation for this issue (which is all this patch set is, it has no other benefit to the end user than fixing this bug).
I think disposable income is great! I like having it as much as the next person, but gosh do I waste it! If I saved all the cash I’ve “donated” in tips and excessive spending I’m certain I’d have a couple $1000 more in the bank and would be much closer to building that track car I’ve been fantasising about.
Why should a bonus be dependent on cost of living?
I think you're looking a bit too manically for holes in what is a pretty informal term that's useful in everyday discussions. It's not a mathematical proof that you're a genius for finding a gap in.
NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg
Well, ISPs did not build their systems with equal upload and download in mind. There is no pure technical reason they couldn't have, but it was what they did. To replace all of that would be difficult, and the large players in the existing system will have economic motivations for fighting any change.

There is a pretty good write up here: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/10/03/why-up-is-slower-...
This is pretty similar to what exists (yes I know you know that), but the source is pretty interesting. You used unicode to escape numbers in your class name.

One of the things that always irritated me about Skeleton was having to type out the number in English. You killed two birds with one stone: I don't have to remember how to spell, and that makes the file size much smaller.
No matter how much money in lobbying anthem might have spent, the ultimate responsiblity for the law as written is of government.

Government should fix the current problems it has before asking for more responsibility.
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> Loopholes exist, because language is imprecise and imperfect.

That's one way for loopholes to exist. Another way is for companies to pay/lobby politicians to write loopholes into tax laws.

> Laws have loopholes like code has bugs.

Sure. And software also has backdoors placed there intentionally by developers.
> Nothing will happen since this patch will speed up AMD hardware, but leave Intel the same as before.

It doesn't speed up AMD hardware. Intel incurs a performance penalty (so it doesn't leave Intel the same as before), but that penalty doesn't make your AMD CPU magically go faster.
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I like reading opinions and ideas on programming from the past and contrasting them to the current state of things. I wonder how the author sees things 10 years later.
You wouldn't need nuclear. It could surface for solar/wave generation as needed. That wouldn't necessarily slow it down because the reduced cost would allow you to have more of them operating simultaneously.
I wasn’t clear — this was 5 years ago, and she resigned. Her employer provided 6-8 months of leave, mostly paid.
Really glad to see some more useful benchmarks here from Phoronix!

Anyone who has done a lot of storage, or NFS, etc.. knows that the du usecase is pathological and likely the worst case.

Staying tuned for additional updates, for example he could use the boot flags to disable/enable the support for this in order to eliminate other changes within the kernel.
GP implies that EFX was purchased sometime after the fall and before the present day, which would have yielded an apparent profit.
See, the "an unjust law should not be obeyed" rhetoric works better when the principle being upheld isn't "I want to be entertained for free".

I can get behind the "the information wants to be free, man" line when we're talking about overpriced textbooks and academic journals and bytecode for tractors, but when it comes to entertainment, I have a hard time caring. I don't think producers have a fundamental right to control recording, performance and distribution, as granted by the gub'mint, but I also don't think the consumers have a fundamental right to consume any cultural artifact for free.

But I do think that people should obey most laws, even ones they disagree with, until some ethereal line has been crossed, simply because it is the law, and I think "I want to be entertained for free" is way too low a bar, so I get kind of disgusted when pirates try to take a high-and-mighty stance.
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Options are much better for playing these short-term, news related swings. This has the potential of being a good one, as INTC is at the peak of a bull run and this news doesn't seem to have hit mainstream sources yet.
>if the government tried to legislate this, it would screw it up

Agreed.

>Rather, [the government] should try to open the way for the private industry ...

Disagree, at least in part.

One source of personal frustration is the perception that rich techies who made their fortunes by writing programs without explicit government approval/legislation seem to spend a lot of time begging for government solutions (like UBI) or approvals for these problems without first attempting to use their money, brains, and tech with a little creativity to generate extra-governmental solutions.
Not so, unfortunately.

For example, while Mapbox use open source (OSM) tiles, other services - e.g. their search API - aren't open, as Mapzen's is(/was). Yet they are listed on that page by Mapzen as an alternative for Search.

There may be other such examples in that list.
Legal dispute: a Statement by Hyperion and an open letter from two developers
I fail to see how wealth inequality is a problem worse than poverty. I also fail to see why we can't try to fix both poverty and inequality at the same time.
I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to have my own suspicions, so thanks for speaking up. If you're not trolling, really do consider writing under your real name and naming others involved. If it's too much of a risk to anyone's career or personal safety right now, you could always wait to publish until you're retired and/or old.
I believe people have a very rational reason not to support this because of the extremely dangerous slippery slope precedent it would cause. This would dramatically increase costs on consumers (they will have to pay for the risk of total anhilation of a company by being online), hamper innovation, create incentives for rogue nations to cripple our legal system by targeting large companies and watching them get fed to the American public. Who wants that?
If you are into coding, I would say give it a go. You can learn in your spare time and see if you really like it and want to make a career out of it.

Stacks, huh, it is a tough one. It is really individual, I personally have started with C, but didn't like it, than moved to Java and now JavaScript and Node.

You can maybe try with this https://javascript30.com/ and see how it goes.

Best of luck!
> Again, that's not really how the internet has traditionally worked, and I'm not sure we really want content-based prioritization, outside of existing QoS standards that aren't guaranteed across public internet connections. There's no reason QoS definitions couldn't be reviewed to re-prioritize specific IoT or autonomy protocols, but I don't see how the FCC should be making content decisions for consumers of internet bandwidth.

I read this over and over but I don't understand. We have content-based prioritization with QoS and if the Title 1 classification went ahead wouldn't the FCC be in the position of regulating those QoS standards which as you point out, are managed privately at the moment.

Maybe im confused but I believed based on the arguments made by the FCC under Obama that the FCC was looking to regulate QoS rules set by ISP's and potentially other network providers.
Apple, for example, have most of their cash offshore and can’t bring it home without being subject to a large tax bill. There is a great write up about it here https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2017/12/12/the-end-to-appl...
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I've found that this doesn't have to be the case.

Continuous deployment is a good example where this doesn't hold. You roll out things more quickly... and you experience less issues!

When issues happen, the cause is easier to isolate. After all, you only had one day's worth of changes (and not one year's worth). The previous state is more knowable. Testing is more concentrated.

Apple's new OS releases are the opposite of this. They release 30 different major changes at once, they all collide, and we end up just assuming that .0 releases will be broken.

In an alternate universe, Apple just releases updates to parts of software when it's ready. They don't pin Safari to the OS (because there's not much of a technical reason to). They could pinpoint _when_ "Month 13" started showing up everywhere beyond "when everyone downloaded that 7 gig update".

It takes some effort and tooling, but if you're expecting to make changes, a lot of times making the changes piecemeal will mean that post-release stability will increase in many cases.
This could also be used to analyze some material used as the diffuser.

The 'shape' of the caustics captured by the sensor with a given electromagnetic 'lightsource' can probably yield some interesting information regarding the diffuser. Kinda like an spectrograph works.
I love that this highly opinionated article about the correct way to write css is styled just hideously.
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I’m assuming that you’re targeting a technical audience since you’re posting here. I don’t want to sew any bias into the thread, but I’d be surprised if most people didn’t say that they prefer markdown.

That being said, I’ve been using dropbox paper for note taking which supports markdown and I’ve been loving it. The other tool I use for quick notes is jrnl.sh

Good luck building the project! Definitely do a Show HN thread when it’s finished.
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