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> This is going to make high school PowerPoint users spend more time

This is going to make Senior Architect PowerPoint users spend more time...

When I show my PHB why kubernetes is "the shit" and something we "really need", as I do with all my technical presentations: I get my propaganda directly from the suppliers. Am I gonna spend time visually describing how Oracles product suite hangs together? No, that's the job of someone who works at Oracle.

The sites themselves often have lower res versions in their articles, so 'view image' has repeatedly saved my bacon getting high res, clean, versions for reuse. Google Image search historically cut through the noise and got relevant images out in a highly usable format, while saving oooooodles of time digging out the appropriate graphic.

Boo!
You shouldn't have used UBI in the title
But that is NOT a Getty problem. Getty's iStockPhoto has its own image search, which is under its control and contains only its own images that are for sale. Crippling other image search products is good for Getty.
User testing fast-paced projects
It's not about looking pretty. It's about being composable, extendable, testable, and portable to other languages and architectures.

The fact that you think looking pretty has anything to do with sound software engineering further illustrates my point.

>Bullshit. "Codes" tend to be run against analytical and/or experimental results.

A README that says the author ran it against dataset Y and got X is not a regression test. I'm talking about automated tests run on every proposed patch to ensure the thing is never broken. Real automated tests that cover 90%+ of branches are about as rare as unicorns in scientific computing (much to my annoyance).

Don't get me wrong, I completely understand why people running experiments skip testing (fast iteration). But that leads to the very opposite of "higher standards".
Because gender has an influence on whether they think it's a bot.
Rather sounds like a way to buy people off their benefits and tax reliefs.

I don't see the financial sense in it.
In the same sense that ads "inform you about the existence of useful products".

It's technically true but also completely irrelevant.
Pay you for what? I don’t think many red blooded Americans resent leaders of companies that are kicking ass, reaping the rewards.

What’s eating away the civic fabric are those who put their own self interest above everyone else.

Once you get up into the millions in compensation, I don’t think the concern is that the poor naive CEO is being exploited by working for less than the absolute most they can get. Especially when the level of pay is so high, that it disproportionately impacts the bottom line.

I’m sorry, this primacy of market and money above all is sickening.
You can't really do anything else than suppress symptoms on a chronic illness. ADHD is a chronic illness. You don't use SSRIs to treat ADHD. Full stop. I'm not sure what your point about SSRIs is, it's used to treat entirely different things. Some of your claims tells me that you're just reiterating the same nonsense that people with absolutely no experience in the field keeps saying.

Being diagnosed with ADHD takes years. During these years you are given a number of tools to suppress the symptoms, including dieting, exercise and forming strict routines to live by. The medication helps you to stick to those routines, to help you back when things in $life becomes unpredictable, for reasons outside of your own control. Either one of them alone won't be very helpful, and that is something anyone with ADHD can tell you.

Furthermore, most medication used to treat ADHD has a very short half life, and is typically out of your system anywhere between 1-2 hours to 8 hours. People are not medicated at all times, and most people prefer to be medicated as little as possible, because yes, there are side-effects. And nobody diagnosed with it takes them lightly.

You know what is easy? To sit on the Internet and make statements that have no ground in science and general practice. And some people do have bad luck with their brain chemistry. I hope you never get a chronic depression or something similar and have to meet your own arguments about life choices in the door way.
I'm sure the DWP will come up with many ideas on the "intend to use the money", just like when cutting disability benefits.

Can't walk more the 10 minutes to the shops? No money!
Unlike with taxes , the sovereign wealth fund could invest the money it holds onto to earn some interest

It's the same reason universities have endowments being managed as their own thing.

Also if it's a fund, the money is pre-earmarked for this usage. Taxes -> UBI end up being more easily messed up by politics (see social security vs. your 401(k))
Wow, now that is out of touch. If you think 6000 isnt enough money to do some paperwork then you're exactly the kind of person that shouldnt be allowed to have the money.
Yeah, that's the biggest joke about this. Those who have an actual financial interest in not paying for stock images etc. are generally people who understand computers and basically will just have to do two clicks more than before, which is still absolutely worth doing compared to paying for the image.

People trying to just grab whatever free image off the internet as well as cases of fair use are where this change is going to cause the most hindrance.
Siemens Teams with Airbus to IBM in Cyberattack Defense Plan
I'm not talking about what women want, I'm saying that I know firsthand that many men I know love the women in their lives very much, much more than life itself. That's all.

There certainly are men out there who hate women, but it doesn't seem to me to be very many. Try it, enumerate the men you know and ask yourself, or even ask them directly, if they love the women in their lives. What fraction of women haters do you find? I think you'll find it's very low. And that's my point, that we are not actually facing an epidemic of misogyny ("hatred of women"), that it is actually something else, or at least much more complicated.

Personally I don't find it hard to come up with another explanation: miserable people want other people to be miserable too. And to make people miserable, you do whatever will be effective. Over the internet, mean words work a lot better against women than against men.
The plural of anecdote is not data. We need real stats about this because individuals complaining vastly outweighs the silent remaining ones.

There are enough murders every day to cover the front page of hacker news with a story about each one. It doesn't mean murder is a rampant problem in our society.
> Amazon employs way more people than B&N, the company they put out of business. Maybe those jobs should be better (OK, they definitely should), but that's different from saying there are no jobs, isn't it?

Amazon doesn't employ them, they contract certain services from them. Your first post talks about "getting laid off" but it won't even be that, it'll be not extending their contract.

Most people can still, for the time being, contribute to the economy - but already not at a level where the economy is comfortable hiring them for the long term. The "jobs" Amazon offers are explicitly designed to be automated away.
This is almost meaningless in terms of statistics. It's like saying that 99.99% of the schools had zero murders in them.
"A low-skilled worker might reduce their working hours to attain skills enabling career progression."

It this based on anything? Are we hoping they'll do this, or do we know how people typically use unexpected sources of income? Or, is it: "The more stitches the less riches" ?

Appendix 1 of the paper is a hard-to-read "fictionalised accounts" of how the money can be used. I like #2, Kathryn the government debt collector who already felt a great sense of accomplishment is now able to provide even more help.

(I did a quick google and found some analysis of how IETC is spent. It seems that transportation is the biggest thing, but that might be a US-specific pattern).
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The report says the fund could help people: "A low-skilled worker might reduce their working hours to attain skills enabling career progression.

"The fund could provide the impetus to turn an entrepreneurial idea into a reality. It could be the support that enables a carer to be there for a loved one."
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I'm skeptical of the long term implications of this logic, and this reads as a very neoliberal solution. 416 pounds a month for two years is not a lot of money. Job training and child/elderly care are difficult, time consuming, and expensive. This seems to be why they are prime tasks to be run by the state. Giving people a small cash sum, and telling them to teach themselves new skills so that they're ready for the economy of the future feels ignorant and wasteful.

If you're working a part time retail job that is about to be automated, what type of "job training" can this realistically provide. Or, if you're taking care of an elderly parent, or a young child, this is far from a replacement for more robust social services.

I truly want to believe in a UBI in some form, but I find the language of "entrepreneurial idea[s]" to be a little repulsive. Not everyone can be a successful entrepreneur. Not every poor and middle class citizen can become a successful start up founder and small business owner. UBI could be fantastic but is not a replacement for the once robust social safety nets that are being chipped away at (or decimated) in the US/UK. I am not saying it is the case in this article -- I know little about the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce -- but anytime I see someone advocating for UBI I think it is worthwhile to interrogate their positionality and their imagination of the future. The silicon valley libertarian billionaire dream of a UBI seems different from someone with a genuine commitment to improving the quality of life for everyone.

There are no quick fixes to poverty, skill gap, and the problems wrought by automation. Looking towards UBI as a panacea feels dangerous in that it can prevent addressing the more structural problems at play.
A sidenote in the article, but I'd like to know why people think that Amazon treats books as a loss-leader... Last I checked in tech news, it was the common assumption that Amazon retail in general has razor-thin margins or might even be losing money, but AWS was making money hand over fist.
In such a scenario, if you were worried that the software was modified, you could flash the ROM with the OEMs software.
VLC does not support certain formats. I haven't dug into it, but I don't think it supports transcoding video to a chromecast endpoint either.
TSX to list cryptocurrency mining companies and open them for investors
Was it completely deleted or just restricted from view in Russia?
You might find some interesting answers at https://stackshare.io/stacks
They have to say that, no matter whether they mean it.

What else could they say that wouldn't anger Getty Images?
Maybe someone took umbrage with the idea that Asimov stops being interesting after 14?
The kinds of things that people get outraged over nowadays is amazing, holy cow. I always thought that it was very unfair for people to be able to see your images on google in full quality without even having to visit your website at all.
But more than that.. it's a tiny extra step. 210 upvotes, 126 comments for this? I wouldnt even give this a thought if it wasnt for this weird interest here. I count this a step into the right direction, maybe they'll fix AMP too and make it into a checkmark that gets applied in the search results if your website fulfills certain speed requirements.
> This is a native Linux GUI for casting local files to ChromeCast devices.

Love it, good work.
What's wrong with rationalizing things? Should we just take it for pure truth because a woman said it?
And this is about to change, according to some recent news: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/how-apple...
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Recently I watched Louis Theroux' documentaries about violence in the US. It was mentioned that certain areas (in particular Milwaukee) shooting spiked right after the gun laws loosened.
You can create money, it just exerts an inflationary pressure that is commensurate with the rate at which it is spent (minus the offsetting effect of industrial slack).

Issuing more public debt and spending it is (in a low interest environment) not so very different to printing cash and spending it. The creation of highly liquid assets backed by cash that don't pay interest = might as well be cash.

The "sovereign wealth fund" idea is weird though. I don't see the point of the UK creating one - it's not like it has vast quantities of oil wealth it needs to sequester.
> If the government is saying the cost will be £14.5B then they must think only 1.5M people will sign up

It's not a government proposal. It's not even a proposal of the opposition, or anyone who would potentially be in a position to actually enact it.

The headline isn't wrong, but the prominence the BBC has given it could trick people into thinking its an official (or at least serious unofficial) proposal.
windows 200,
ms access for the backend,
ASP (VB) for the frontend.

we also do java applets
"Julia" isn't being insulted more than "Eric" because of sexism. "Julia" being insulted more than "Eric" is sexism.

The causes of sexism is another subject. But the first step is to acknowledge sexism is going on in the first place.
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Not sure we qualify as a startup anymore but our stack is Kotlin + Gradle + Kubernetes on GKE.

Definitely the best stack I have worked with thus far.
Desktop applications are increasingly moving to the web. Regardless of whether you think this is a good thing, the standard has to take that into account.
Sorry I was actually just talking about people I know...that aren't journalists and that I know don't have jobs. They're my friends.
Arms transfers to Syria: who, what and why?
Since the female photos get a significantly higher level of harrassed, how does this not indicate sexism?
The obvious difference is that the collected taxes aren't just gone when putting them into a souvereign wealth fund. Over the years you'll have significantly more money to put into UBI, because of the compounded interest.
How is it (sexual) abuse if you write dumb shit in a chat box? At most you are wasting their time while being rude...
https://duckduckgo.com/ also had this link as its #1 result. I much prefer DDG - have converted across all my devices now in the past month and I'm really, really liking it. (Sorry off topic, but it's contextual.)

What's that then, I ducked it? :-)
It was ordered by court to block those photos\video while case is in progress. What is censor here?
I tend to agree with you. I'm using my own editor most of the time now. I occasionally fall back to Emacs still, but less and less. An early decision I made was to separate the buffers and almost all the rest of the editor code.

It's slow Ruby. It's storing everything in an Array of String objects. Which means one (Ruby-internal) allocation per line for the String object, and an additional allocation for the rest of the String if it exceeds something like 24 characters (Ruby String objects store characters in the object itself if it's short enough, but otherwise store a pointer to a separate buffer). Every keypress (because I've been lazy and not bothered optimizing away cases where it's not needed), the frontend requests the full set of visible lines from the backend via a TCP connection (using Drb for RPC), and re-applies syntax highlighting and other formatting, and in the process causes a flurry of additional object allocations. It's not optimized at all. It's almost flagrantly wasteful in many areas.

It started that way out of simplicity and a desire to get it to the point where I could use it for most of my editing ASAP. And it has remained that way so far because the lag just isn't noticeable to me, and it's very rare I edit large enough files for it to matter. I might optimize it at some point, but to me this seems like something people tend to worry too much about.
We use PHP. PureScript Haskell Postgres :) all on kubernetes atop AWS.
You mean an image that shows the top X price time series?

If so, I have a few questions:

- On a per-portfolio basis or just for the top 5 coins (+
maybe market cap)?

- update interval should be more like 2 minutes (like the site) or once per day is ok?

- start-time should be how many days back?

From a dev perspective, it would be nice if there were a solution to this that allowed for either A. time series caching (to avoid stressing CMC) or B. image caching (to avoid CPU load, this currently runs on a free gcp instance).
So fast to come up with a workaround! Great
I've worked in the publishing industry in the UK - it is experiencing long term decline. To illustrate this, see the multitude of publishers merging, cutting staff and closing imprints. Very few publishers are making money any more. The story is the same for bookstores - there is one significant UK-wide chain now (Waterstones).

The article you cite doesn't even show healthy figures - it shows a bump in 2015, then fall to almost zero growth in 2016 for the UK, and a dramatic decline in growth for the US from 2015 to 2016. Hardly signs of a healthy industry. This is just the kind of cherry-picked data the industry has been deluding itself with for years. The figures produced by the industry are unreliable, and the interpretation of those is equally suspect, as evidenced by the article you've found. They've tried to manipulate stats by doing things like pricing ebooks higher or just below physical books for example.

Barnes and Noble will close soon (as this article predicts), as will all the other big brick and mortar booksellers, and soon after that mass-market paper books are doomed as Amazon has little incentive to promote them over ebooks, and no interest in sustaining publishers.
I don't normally do this because we aren't Reddit here, after all. But this is stupidly appropriate.

https://www.xkcd.com/1475/
This article is a bit similar to one I wrote a while ago: https://medium.com/@avaq/broken-promises-2ae92780f33
We use Elixir, Go, C++ for backend and JS, Java / Kotlin, C# for frontend. We also use Postgresql, Rabbitmq and Redis.
This article had stats. Several thousand interactions with a statistically significant difference. Exactly how many stats do you need?
We [1] use a Laravel back-end for the main system, hosted on autoscaling EC2 behind a load balancer.
Our front-end web application is built on Angular, running on S3 behind CloudFront.
Since we process a lot of data, we use background jobs (with SQS as a broker) to perform our analyses.
The actual data processing and wrangling is done in Python.

We have released some parts of our systems as open source projects [2], [3], [4].

[1]: https://odysseyattribution.co/
[2]: https://github.com/code-orange/telemachy
[3]: https://github.com/code-orange/jot
[3]: https://github.com/code-orange/statuspage
Elixir (Phoenix) in AWS Fargate.
As another surprised guy I'm aware people post bad things on the internet but I wasn't aware of the degree of difference between having a male and female picture as I haven't tried that.
Female photos, especially the second model photo, look incredibly fake. I guess people use that unwanted box to vent to frustations with what seems to be a bot?
I fully agree, will probably happen within the next few weeks.
The Aziz Ansari story is more a bad date than actual harassement.
uMatrix is your friend.
If you understand what it means, then you'd know that it means that all programming languages are comparable

I think this is where we strongly diverge and I resent, a bit, your implication that because I don't buy into this I somehow 'don't understand what it means'. I understand what it means. I just think it's plainly ridiculous.
You can add my business to GP's.

I'm currently in the market for stock photos. The allotted budget isn't one those folk would miss, but it's more than enough to commission our own.

As a direct response to getty's behavior, I'll be commissioning the photos and making them available under a free license after around a year of use. It's also very unlikely that I'll be doing business with them in the future.

>Voting with one's feet works against local grocery shops, not global corporations.

It isn't as much of vote with my feet as it is adhering to one's own principles.

Also, thank you for mentioning istockphoto relationship with getty. I'll avoid them in the future as well.
Do you have any data to show that PR would be an effective channel?

If you're manpower limited, you could double down on marketing channels that are already effective for you, or spend the time and money testing channels.

Check out the book 'Traction' by Gabriel Weinberg (of DuckDuckGo).
Bezos has created a lot of wealth, made a lot of lives better. I've got a lot of joy out of reading the kind of books that would probably never be published on paper, and certainly never recommended by those with "person-years of experience in a deep topic, literature", because Amazon opens it all up so that virtually anyone can publish and their books sink or swim on their merits, and their algorithms can recommend things to those of us with weirder tastes just as easily as it can recommend the literary establishment line.
>I personally feel that companies should be required to go one step further and be compelled to release their embedded keys and source code for any product that they no longer provide complete support for.

The embedded team where I work struggles with the same thing. Frankly this should be included with the first delivery of any industrial system. Under NDA if they absolutely must, though I don't like it.

I also don't like consumer systems being locked up, but at least it's somewhat defensible. But treating farmers as dumb, inbred "hold my beer and watch this firmware hack" hillbillies and not the educated industry professionals that they are is beyond condescending, disrespectful and is completely indefensible.

Exactly who is deemed qualified to hack farm equipment firmware is something for the farming trade associations and their insurance companies to work out, but as far as John Deere and the regulators are concerned, we're talking about professional embedded developers writing code to run on their equipment to support an industrial process, something that is completely uncontroversial in many other fields. That you're not supposed to intentionally or inadvertently convert your combine into a man-eating killbot is surely already covered by insurance policy clauses, labour laws and public safety laws.
I doubt that every single desktop application will move into the web for a good long while, long enough to have a smooth transition from 32bit to 64bit if necessary, though I doubt applications that need more will use WASM.
I don't have that impression. I do believe we need a coalition that builds towards the ideals promised. The closest we have is the FANG cohort, but even then in only a few verticals (with some "progress" not being particularly helpful long term), with the rest of the economy improving drastically slower than they should. Science is the same - outside of some fields.

What I am saying is that if we do want to achieve impressive results at a massive scale, it's gonna require everyone to up their respective games by an order of magnitude. Globally we need everything to get better, much faster, period.
Linus Torvalds maintains his own version:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git
That's hardly 'universal' then, is it? It seems this is more a way of changing how benefits are paid to low earners, rather than a real attempt at UBI.

Which is a shame; 10k could still make a significant difference to someone earning, for example, £35k (not a high earner by any stretch) - starting a business, paying for childcare etc.
The US had that idea with the "Social Security Trust Fund". Of course, all that money got spent.
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