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When I've gone to Barnes and Noble recently, I've found editions of books in prominent places that were poorly printed. For instance, one hardcover with a fancy binding had very thin/transparent pages to the extent that the text was less legible. Don't get me started about the trade paperbacks that I suspect will have the binding break immediately.

I wonder if Barnes and Noble sells reduced quality books the same way that Wal*Mart gets brands to make cheaper but reduced quality versions of their products for their stores.

Either way it turns me off. They are pretty good at getting me into the store to use my laptop at the Starbucks or for when my son is doing a group project and the other students are meeting there -- only to immediately turn me off with inferior products.

As in the story above, bad experiences don't just cost a sale immediately, but they might cost all future sales from that customer.
I wonder if this article will cause additional heckling in the future - can the OP comment as to whether there's been an increase in trolling today from this?
They should start with a barely acceptable performance mode.
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Another, much more common example: Tylenol.

To date, it is still not fully understood how paracetamol/acetaminophen works. Due to the fact that it was sold long before understanding the mechanism of action was required by the FDA, and there are little adverse effects in the history of the drug, it's permitted to be sold today.
imo social media is all about spreading your thoughts/opinions, if you have a public fb profile or tweet something you ostensibly want it spread and just because the medium it spreads further on is different to the one you started on it is ridiculous for the creator or twitter to bring legal action over that.
I tested it and this doesn't seem to happen. Maybe it's only for small images or is on a best effort basis.
> WM is the place where I want to configure the appearance and behavior of window decorations. So that's expected and positive. Point to me.

The appearance won't match with GtkHeaderBar apps then.

> No, it's done by every toolkit separately regardless of the WM. You have one WM, and you have many toolkits.

You have one WM running at a time, but multiple to choose from. And as I said: The idea is to have only one toolkit: Gtk+.

> But yeah, most do. Point to me anyway.

...

> Taking a look at Windows apps is the best point against CSD :)

That's your opinion, not a fact.
The prior post called it out. It's people in the decision making chairs who are choosing short-term stability over long -term trust.

>You know that people won't work as much. Will disengage.
Will cause trouble and cost you money, time, efforts.

It may be jaded of me but I believe it's rare to see a company with management that actually has the courage to be transparent and fully honest with its employees. I find that a good smoke test to see what type of management your own company has is probing what people in your company think about "transparent salaries" where everyone knows what everyone else makes. You'll see some enlightening responses if you're privy to the conversations.
I think its a delicate balance of one wants to be cocky and trashtalk before a game in a fun way, and vs being an obnoxious troll.

I see quite a lot of the latter, but I try to play on well moderated servers and servers with votebans.
> If we assume that all mistreatment has the same source.

What I said doesn't require that, and I didn't assume that.

Actually I think it would be more reasonable if the people who are certain misogyny (again, just so we don't forget what this word actually means: "hatred of women") rules the world would provide evidence of the widespread hatred of women. If anything, I think the evidence is much stronger that people hate men.
The same could be said about the post they replied to though, somebody made a valid point and is met with a sarcastic reply that implicitly equates criticism of a study with trying to invalidate the entire problem the study tries to underline. Let's be honest, be it here on HN, on reddit, or on twitter, this isn't a topic that you can have a conversation about without people on either side getting emotional and somewhat aggressive.
A couple of days ago I attempted to pay for snacks at a convenience store with cash. The clerk sheepishly directed me to answer a series of questions about discount cards via the pinpad! When I asked if this seemed like a good idea, she could only sigh and glance skyward.

Apparently the corporate morons have figured out how to pester the customer even against the better judgment of clerks. Fortunately I have a choice in which convenience store enjoys my custom.
If you're using mypy, there's also the Union type https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kinds_of_types.html#un...
I plugged French Orange's GPON FTTH ONT into my Debian router's RJ-45 port, added a VLAN interface, added a couple of lines to my DHCP client configuration to pretend my router is some Sagem device and pass authentication to the server... And that's all - sweet 500/200 Mb/s throughput, no ISP CPE in sight (well, technically the ONT...) and Orange even waived the 3€/month CPE rental fee !

Former provider offered FTTB and I used the coaxial cable CPE as a bridge - and even when I do not have that option, I insist on having a router of my own as my network's demarcation: it is basic hygiene.

Other option for GPON would have been to plug a GPON SFP module into one of my switches - the friendly guy who laid the fiber to my apartment even left me one in case I changed my mind... But going through the switch to the router and back to the switch on a different VLAN is unnecessarily complicated in my case. Anyone wants a free GPON SFP module ?
First off, you're right: any metric can be gamed. Even so, Google is already using performance to factor into its algorithm, so some level of reasonable accuracy must have already been agreed upon.

Ensuring a certain level of performance is not a very easy problem to solve. But it's doable.

Myself and a few others sat down with the AMP team awhile back and chatted about what that would look like and there were definitely a few different layers that would be needed to get it to work.

The first is already in progress. There's a spec for something called "Feature Policy" (https://wicg.github.io/feature-policy/). Feature Policy would let you tell the browser you don't need certain features which would in turn let browsers take shortcuts (so to speak).

For example, you could declare that you will not be allowing document.write. Enough features being declared could serve as a way for Google (and others) to say "Ok, this is going to be reasonably fast."

There's more needed of course: we had discussions about a standard related to declaring a limit on asset sizes, etc. But it's a start. And while it will always be a little fuzzy, the same is true of AMP. It's completely possible to build a slow AMP page.

The best Google can do is say "if they're doing X, then the odds are good that it's performant".
Just what does “code as data” mean anyway? (2014)
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That is about as fair an argument as that gag where someone shouts "Hey asshole" loudly in your direction, and makes fun of everyone that turns around, implying that the people that react are assholes.
100% it will.
A central claim in modern network science is that real-world networks are typically "scale free," meaning that the fraction of nodes with degree k follows a power law, decaying like k−α, often with 2<α<3. However, empirical evidence for this belief derives from a relatively small number of real-world networks. We test the universality of scale-free structure by applying state-of-the-art statistical tools to a large corpus of nearly 1000 network data sets drawn from social, biological, technological, and informational sources. We fit the power-law model to each degree distribution, test its statistical plausibility, and compare it via a likelihood ratio test to alternative, non-scale-free models, e.g., the log-normal. Across domains, we find that scale-free networks are rare, with only 4% exhibiting the strongest-possible evidence of scale-free structure and 52% exhibiting the weakest-possible evidence. Furthermore, evidence of scale-free structure is not uniformly distributed across sources: social networks are at best weakly scale free, while a handful of technological and biological networks can be called strongly scale free. These results undermine the universality of scale-free networks and reveal that real-world networks exhibit a rich structural diversity that will likely require new ideas and mechanisms to explain.

Paper referred: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03400
Yep, sorry for the edit. I did the arrays example but then noticed it was not really an answer to your question, since it can be done with sum types in almost the same way.
Yes, parroting debunked anti-Semitic conspiracy theories is anti-Semitic.
I'd love to understand what you expect to find (given that you might have some special insight into credit scoring). I'd guess that the "algorithm" could be an embarrassingly simple sum of thumbs up/down for a handful of items. Like: If a person lives in a thumbsup/thumbsdown/nothumbs neighborhood etc.
Maybe. Maybe not. Sissoko landed in a mansion in Mali. He no longer has his playboy lifestyle, but he's still way better off than most people. He was trying to get legit through his airline, but made a mistake.

Putting wealthy people in jail doesn't normally happen. And even when it does happen, their stays usually aren't half as bad.
I don't know what did it but something changed inside me a number of years ago where now I have this uncontrollable reaction of disgust whenever I see graphs and charts like this. Maybe I've viewed too many "reports" from places like the Heartland Institute and Fox News.

Seeing charts with missing information or misleading/inaccurate heights for things kicks off my bullshit detector and throws me in defensive mode thinking, "what agenda are they pushing here?" There's an instant assumption of nefarious intent.

I can't be the only one, can I?
Sure, but almost all games have the possibility to turn off voice chat for example so you can stop people from simply screaming in the microphone.
> Only if you want to avoid rude/sexist messages.

Who wouldn't?!
Right, but if we are going to call union types as sum types, why aren’t interesection types called as product types? Anyways, this is why the whole sum type thing breaks down and Union is more apt, since we can describe A|B and A&B using the same terminology family.
It might be that on the wave of rage against SCHUFA someone wants to crowdsource huge library of personal data:)
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Details:

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aufenthv/__3.html
Hey this is Julia, the post’s author. Sorry there’s no legend; I kind of included it in the title of the graph but orange was “Rude or trolling messages” and blue was “Sexual harassment or heckling”
I think describing what happens to inflation is very, very difficult, because it's difficult to predict what happens to wages.

At a guess, low/medium skilled labour becomes more expensive, because it's no longer required for subsistence, so the labour becomes more about luxury goods, than basic living costs
> that's cheaper than ~10 software devs in America (at least two of which are specialists - iOS/Android devs), a manager, an office, their equipment and their benefits packages that takes a year to 18-months to produce anything at all)

Really? It would take 10 people 18 months to produce some type of ecommerce app that would

a) allow people to bar code scan something

b) pay for it on their phone

??

Yes, certainly there would be more tie ins to do - tie the same in to existing POS system for inventory purposes (real time or nightly), for one.

But... 18 months? $4M?

Walmart and apparently target are working on or piloting same day pickup. I can order online and go pick up at the store right afterwards. Saves walking around the store (which might cut down impulse purchases, but hey... we'll get bombarded with upsells on the future purchases, no doubt). I might not actually want something on my doorstep the next day, but want it in my hand or car 90 minutes from now, while I'm passing the store on the way home, etc.
> In abstract nonsense we usually write

> A ⊕ B = (A × {0}) ∪ (B × {1})

Hardly nonsense! This makes clear the connection to sets in a way that words weren't doing for me.
The one in Bethesda, Maryland, is closing. Whenever I have looked in--usually because I'm in Bethesda to see a movie or to take my car to the dealership--it has been busy.
I had to put my coke in a small bag in my key pocket to be taken seriously.
Why couldn't they be implemented in hardware? Through the whole Robot series he describes them as "potentials" summing to force a decision, and even the self-conceived 0th law takes precedence, though not for G.R. It's obvious the positronic brain isn't based on logic, rather an analog brain with trillions of "pathways" that can be "frozen" and never re-started (as you would a program). There isn't even a concept of finite data storage. D.O. doesn't know how long it will take to fill up his brain, though he records everything and can't forget it. SPOILER: Though in the end of the Foundation series, we have some clues.
> The user's age on HN is in the ballpark of 25-40 years old, as it's a tech website.

Exactly the target audience when we are discussing <topic> in tech, isn't it?

Edit: I misread / didn't read. My broader point is there is a lot of talk about how bad tech is, and yet here we are on a very technical and at the same time reasonably civil forum.
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Thanks, an interesting perspective, but I am very much unpersuaded by the argument. At one point they say "we favor Huxley's analogy which regarded “consciousness” as being like a steam whistle on a train—accompanying the work of the engine but having no intrinsic influence or control over it". If consciousness has no impact on cognition, how are we even having this discussion? Our experience of consciousness is driving our arguments about how we are perceiving it. There must be some influence at the very least.
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If part of the fun for you is acting like a jerk to other people online, then it means you enjoy acting like a jerk to other people.

Context is interesting, but it just means that overall, you’re only sometimes acting like a jerk.

You might just be a jerk.
So doxing kids is your idea of doing "some good"...seems a bit weird to me tbh.
* 2017 Walmart revenue was $485B

* 2017 Amazon revenue was $178B

Profit would be a different story, of course, but you can go dig for that if you want. Certainly Walmart still has markedly higher revenue.
> modifications can make them safer too.

Very much this! I have a large agricultural tractor that has a transmission controlled by software. While it works great most of the time, there is a bug where it will occasionally not disengage the clutch for about a minute when this condition occurs. One time, due to the tractor showing no signs of going anywhere, I accidentally left the tractor in gear and left the cab. Everything seemed fine until about a minute later when it finally kicked into gear and started moving with me standing beside it.

Fortunately, I happened to be in a low gear and was just creeping along when it started moving. I was able to get back in it and get it stopped. If it had been going faster, who knows how bad the outcome could have been. This is something I would be fixing if I had access to the code.
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I think the US government should just directly pay for the studies/tests. If (as would be assumed), the drug meets the current requirements after this testing, all drug companies can continue selling them. If not, then great we can take a dangerous and/or ineffective drug off the market. And if the government isn't willing to pay, they should just continue leaving it grandfathered.

The Unapproved Drugs Initiative sounds much worse.
Definitely depends on where you are. In cities or in California in general they are terrible compared to the rural Midwest (where they started and land/labor is much cheaper).
Well I guess that means I'm just gonna keep committing logical fallacies then if that means pointing out when the author of a study has a pattern of lying and deception.

Hacker news will have to suffer for it.
I think the term "sexist" is being used very lightly here. Sexism implies some sort of discrimination based on sex. Same goes for "sexual harassment"; harassment implies some degree of persistence, not just a single action. I think "indecent" behaviour is the most fitting word for this kind of problem.
As far as I'm concerned, there are only three books: the original trilogy that he wrote in the 1940s. The sequels he wrote in the 80s have no where near the charm or interest. They were written to capture the money from those who fondly remember the original. I started reading Foundation's Edge and quickly gave it up. I never bothered with the others.
Been writing a toy project like that. App on PC listen to pushbullet stream and when url matches given criteria, it will then send the url to chromecast. Not finished, not even working yet :)
Not only are they ordered to do it but corporate puts requirements on the store as to how many joins they are expected to get each day, and cashiers have their own individual quotas and they get chewed out if they don’t meet them by managers who get chewed out for not meeting them. The fact that this behavior reduces sales throughput, employee productivity, and customer satisfaction are not worked into the analysis that comes up with these programs or their growth targets. Upper management comes up with a target and they push their stores to meet it, because their CMO went to a conference where he was wined and dined by the company that sells the software to run the loyalty card system and believes their stats about how it saved company X and now that they’ve spent the money the ROI has to meet internal targets or risk embarrassing the CMO.
I'm actually not entirely sure how I learned how to program (I'm self-taught); I doubt it was just "one magic thing", but I am a big believer in the "learning-by-doing" approach for this kind of stuff.

If I recall, I think the thing that made everything stick was me reading through one of those "Sams: Teach Yourself C in blah days", then downloading Code::Blocks and making a very simple OpenGL application involving bouncing boxes (which happened to coincide with the physics class I was taking). I remember using that book for reference for when my code wasn't compiling, but I found it difficult to derive "some example where I calculate a Fibonacci sequence" to "making cool stuff like a game" without just ditching the book and trying it.

tl;dr, I somewhat agree with this article. You have to figure this stuff out for yourself to really "understand" it and become a good programmer. It's a language, after all. You don't just learn French by reading one intro-to-french book.
Pretty much the only non-logically-tortured argument you can make about "Intellectual Property".

Nobody will believe this entity because (a) he/she is a furry, (b) he/she is not a corporate spoxperson, (c) it goes against the prevailing corporate ethos.
Is it something akin to a crippled socat?

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socat unix-recv:foo.sock tcp-listen:1234

Which socket type does it use? Can it listen on AF_UNIX socket of any type?
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They eliminated anonymity in large chunks of South Korea’s social media. People didn’t behave better.

(With that said, there are certain behaviours e.g. support for fascism that seem to be associated with having large numbers of anon accounts.)
You're being way too light on these people. This is how they'd act if allowed IRL. The anonymity just gives them more protection than they'd enjoy IRL. These are, at best, sick people, who need need.
Sorry to disappoint you, but everyone is on the WebAssembly race, all plugins will be back, like it or not.

https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs

https://github.com/mbasso/awesome-wasm

As for Microsoft, they just announced the Blazor project.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/06/blazor-ex...

Thank browser developers for opening the pandora box.
Given that the title says "Rude or trolling messages (per week) and Heckling or sexual messages (per week)", I think that clearly means the left (orange bars) are rude or trolling, and right (blue bars) are heckling or sexual harassment. In other words, the title are the labels.
It's interesting that in my various travels California was the only state where (at the time) as a military service member, occasional pistol instructor, and qualifying officer for use of deadly force; I did not find it (edit:relatively) trivial to obtain a concealed carry permit, and professional friends told me it might be safer to leave my firearms collection in storage in another state, (I did). In fact it was the one place where the common knowledge confirmed by my experience was I'd have to be law enforcement, or a professional bodyguard, instead of a service-member to get one.

Edit: Trivial here being fingerprints, background check, lots of paperwork, show proof of safety training or spend a a good part of the weekend and ~$100 total on paperwork training ect.
> His answer was that they would quietly take over the world and keep us as pets

That wasn't Asimov's answer, outside a few atypical robots-as-a-menace stories. Even the Zeroth Law cannot be misconstrued as "keeping humans as pets" :)
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At the upper end of that age range, the Chronicles of Chaos (https://smile.amazon.com/Orphans-Chaos-Chronicles-John-Wrigh...) is an excellent trilogy. One of my favorite parts about the series is that each of the main characters has a very distinct way of looking at the world (logic, spirits, etc) that helps start conversations about understanding other peoples' point of view.
Well, the physical universe is turing complete, so it is obviously at least possible to build a mechanical mpeg2 encoder. Should it be patentable?
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That is an impressive strawman you've built. Yes, if you assume that people you disagree with take the most extreme position possible ("are certain that misogyny rules the world") then yes, you can always be right! Good luck, I'm sure you can just make up some words of mine to argue against if needed.
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