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Everything old is new again. Just when you thought we where done with all the PHP injection madness...
Recent sociopolitical debates on professional matters have a distinct corporate aura/tone, perhaps by way of most participants working at such corporations.

When those debates leave the world of corporate work and enter the world of voluntary (or ideally-voluntary - see the "you need open source contributions" advice to job seekers) efforts (e.g. open source) they still keep the corporate aura.
I feel excluded by CoCs. Not because they prohibit behavior which I otherwise relish to engage in on a daily basis, more because of fear of coming under some behavioral rule enforcing institution within a community because some behavior could be interpreted as violating the rules when seen under a bad light.

This is mostly a gut reaction, a feeling that CoCs serve more to tighten the overton window and fear that I might find myself on the wrong side of sharp demarcation which should be more of a soft gradient. It's like a wanted poster, being declared a thought criminal.

Of course many things in a CoC are individually sensible rules, but as a larger set they feel like a demand for a flawless human who is always genuinely nice, polite and only makes perfectly inoffensive jokes and never raises their voice while arguing things etc.
I'm quite aware that I am not that perfect human, I have issues with empathy and following what was considered group consensus (it has cost me friends and a job before). Those CoCs just feel a bit like a "only people with A-grade social skills welcome here" sign to me.
Sure. But it can be done right (screening everyone, or using actual randomness), and if it’s not, that’s a problem with the profiling, not with the actual screening of actual potential bomb casings.
With the dearth of positive news coming out of this administration, I'll take this win.

That a boy, Trump.
Are you quoting something or is this your own mini code of conduct?
My interest is that the feudal lord was living off the backs of others. The state taxing land to build hospitals is not the same thing.
A blog post: "Music theory for [non-music] nerds": https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12528144
> Any ideas of what I should do next?

Stop shopping at walmart is an option...

Or you know, pay cash.

Also it could have been worse:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-t...
You go from trump cheating on his Wife to being funded. If we take the first bit away this is basically every single president and politician America has had for god knows how Long and will continue to have for ever. No decision is made because it’s the right decision. They are made cos someone slips an envelope under the table.
I didn't downvote, but it may be that those that did are tired of seeing this same "insight" on every single story about a free service.
> "Are there musicians of today, with popularity similar to Coltrane's in 1960, that study and explore the theory of music at this level?"

Jacob Collier springs to mind, though he's less well known than John Coltrane.

http://youtu.be/DnBr070vcNE
Ticket invalidation.
People play 4-digit and 3-digit as well as the scratch offs that win $10k and smaller prizes
I always found it interesting that somehow the western world solved this problem by outsourcing manufacturing to countries like China. Wonder where China is this outsourcing to?
No one is entitled to a job. They are willing to do the work asked of them in exchange for the pay they receive. They are not victims and Amazon is not mistreating them.

More generally, this idea that paying more is better for the world is misguided and over-simplistic. You can often reduce suffering in the world more by paying 100 very poor people sweat shop wages than 10 middle class people developed world wages, and that is the kind of choice you have to make when deciding how to spend your capital.

We cannot simply increase the wealth at our disposal and pay all 100 people high wages. Scarcity of resources is a reality we have to be mature enough to contend with, and that means looking at more than just the direct and immediate effects, and factoring in opportunity costs, to weigh the trade-offs.
One potential solution is to have an independent third party verify that the winner is legitimate and not linked to the lottery agency. The judge is essentially playing that role here.
I won't say that I thought about the numbers too much, so I'd agree that it's a "horrible" idea, however I want to point out a few things:

> Most people know that on average you will lose money

I don't think most people know this. Perhaps you do. Perhaps most of us here on HN know, but I strongly doubt most people who play do, given that most people who play are poor [1].

> What makes it worth playing...

This isn't true either. Most people who play play it for the smaller winners [1].

Finally, I just want to reiterate that the point of this is exactly what you mentioned. By making the amount small enough such that it wouldn't have a huge effect on your lifestyle, you make it safer to disclose who won.

[1] https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/1/13/10763268/lottery-po...
Your post is so right I don’t understand how it’s not self evident. How could anyone be against the very concept of setting or codifying expectations?

What would Voltaire say after finding we’re still debating perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good? An imperfect document can’t invalidate the entire concept.

A code of conduct is not a solution, it’s just another form of communications and standards that may do some good if you iterate on and refine it enough to be useful.
I'm sorry if this comment is off topic but I've tried searching everywhere. I've called GCP support and now I have not other options. If someone here works at Google please help us out?

Problem: Google Books API has a quota of 1000 requests/24h. To get more, you need to send a form to Google. However, it seems whoever was responsible for checking quota requests has abandoned it. I understand Google Books API is probably a niche department within Google.

If you search through the Google Books API forum, you can see several posts by users who have been waiting weeks and months for requests with no reply from Google. Example: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/books-api/O3-...

Most developers and I are willing to pay for a quota increase, but can someone at Google please help us out?
I did a grocery/food app. Grocery stores buy massive amounts of product data. They need to know what to put on the shelves, what to put on what shelf, what not to put on the shelf, which products are trending. Since they make very low margins, this is one of the main differentiators in income. A single store also has cash flow in the millions, so they're willing to spend a lot.

Another major use is that it builds it as a wall around the product users. It helps to recognize user patterns, build a better product, and keep them from going to similar products, e.g. Netflix.

I think a lot of people look at "big data" as some kind of gold mine, but really it's just a rock mine. You have to know which rocks are in demand by whom before you start mining all of it.
A trust is obviously less transparent, but marginally preferable to full anonymity.
This seems like more of an argument against bad CoCs and against CoCs for all organizations, rather than a CoC always being bad for every organization.

There's also a difference between specifying a CoC and enforcing a CoC. Maybe there needs to be a different name for expectations that aren't going to be enforced, either because they're too imprecise or the people running things are incapable of doing so.
I know someone who did this during college.

I had a friend in college — let's call him Sam — with whom I paired on most CS projects. It was useful to find a partner who was as studious as yourself to avoid having to deal with anyone else's potential BS and end up doing all the work yourself. Sam seemed like a completely normal guy where normal is… we share some of the same interests.

Sam wasn't from money, worked hard on assignments, we shot pool and worked on projects together. I knew Sam was "into" poker but I didn't understand the extent. I was "into" lots of things too.

We're hanging out one day and Sam tells me the "funny story" that happened last week where his parents and girlfriend staged an intervention to demand that he stop playing online poker after he had gone on tilt and lost $200k in a single night.

I about lost my marbles.

He then goes on to explain that while he had agreed to quit playing online poker because he valued his relationships, he was of the opinion that an intervention was a bit much since he was still up over $600k and wasn't on tilt so much as trying out higher stakes tables in an effort to make money more quickly than on the low stakes tables he had already found success grinding.
Reality is that it would drastically reduce comment trolling, if your real identify was viewable and searchable by all you know.

That is not at all clear, especially as a percentage of comments. There are plenty of sociopaths who are perfectly willing to troll under their real name. Meanwhile, more reasonable people may quite rationally be worried that expressing any opinion on a controversial issue will lead to online mobs trying to get them fired from their jobs, kicked out of school, or otherwise ostracized. Not to mention scenarios like being a gay teenager in a very socially conservative environment.
NXP is also the company inside a pretty huge range of smartcard systems (eg travel cards, credit cards, etc)
Most of us solve it by not visiting the political subreddits.
I heard (back in the '90s) Trey Anastasio was heavy into the music theory.

Don't know if it's true since I never got into Phish so YMMV.
Well maintained packages do have that:

npm install
npm run (dev|build|deploy)

Poorly maintained ones don't have these run command set and instead rely on pages upon pages of crap in README.md or do have a subset hacked together from whatever the dev needed for their FUD-driven development workflow.

Edit: as an afterthought: maybe the infrequent developers are to blame for not reading about what npm provides?

Edit2: another, I guess inexperienced, developer type I've seen in the wild is "I did some jQuery 5y ago, React probably is as easy to pick up and spaghetti out". For these: stick to what you know and don't play the hype game.
Blockchain?

- Public source code program used to pick a random winner among public keys.

- Private key holder has access to the winnings.

- Govt takes their taxes before disbursing the funds.

- Everyone can verify funds were disbursed.

- Winner can stay anonymous.
Any gains Germany gets from overly tight money are temporary and transient.

If they want to get a better deal on their loans, they should negotiate the loans better. Running a disastrous monetary policy to indirectly improve their loan terms is an insanely destructive thing to do both to the indebted countries and to the weaker parts of their own economy.

Also, the loans they make are mostly with the countries' governments but as you probably know, euros are used by non government entities too. Germany shouldn't strangulate all of the eurozone's private markets just to manipulate terms of government loans.

On top of this, not allowing people to work and destroying their countries' economies greatly increases the chance these countries are going to default or restructure parts of their debt, again, not to Germany advantage.

Finally, having neighbors with poor economies is bad for your exports and your own businesses.

In the long run Germany has much to gain if people of Europe have functioning investment markets and the tools are available for people to work and produce.
That’s wrong that you feel excluded, I wish you didn’t because that’s a hurtful thing. But the very concept of having any code of conduct is likely not the cause.

Even the exact same document will make people feel more or less comfortable depending on other factors like the culture of an org or the people you commonly run into.
Codes of conduct either do not enough (for people who actually experience harassment or discrimination in groups/conferences), or too much (for people who are convinced that any attempt to rein in bad behavior is a harbinger for the antifa SJW bolshevik jackboots who will take over their programming language conference any day now).

I don't know how you bridge that gap in an inclusive way. Soon some groups may have to make tough choices.
I'm not sure what those two places have to do with China.

If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St..., you'll see the steep drop off in manufacturing jobs started around 2000-ish. There was a peak in the 80s for sure, but its not like it came crashing down that much.
Everyone I know gets an "uber" regardless of whether they're using Lyft, Uber, or any other ride sharing service which is not a taxi.
Interestingly enough ancient Chinese texts like the Tao Te Ching emphasize that the best ruler is one who doesn't seem to exist. Similarly with free markets and letting people do there thing in peace an invisible quality emerges. The Emergence of quality from frictionless interaction is a very interesting thing. Ants seem to have agency. Our brains seem to create consciousness. Markets seem to have an invisible hand.

Hubris creating actions that seek to understand what can't be understood that destroy these sources of quality is a common trope that happens in history.
Are you arguing lottery fraud is rare? Seems pretty common to me and not just in the US.
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This seems inspired by Cantor's infinity proof. I've seen a halting problem proof via Cantor's diagonal as well...

Are there any other significant proofs that use a similar methodology? Why does Cantor's method work well here? ...algorithms / programs are countably infinite, no?

(Finding this more interesting now than I did in school!)
I got offered to write a packt book about a subject I don't know shit about, through LinkedIn, by one of their editors, just because I did an internship in a loosely related field. I feel like they're desperate to churn out books and literally take anyone with anything that could be loosely interpreted as experience in a related field as authors
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Poisoning a conversation is a thing. And if you've participated in online discussions I don't see how you can honestly say it doesn't exist.

You're implying that in every thread where a troll shows up to derail the conversation we all have to stop what we're doing and give thoughtful responses to the troll to show them the error of their ways. But then the only possible conversation is debates with trolls. But that gives too much power to the trolls. Sometimes you just have to shut the trolls up so you can talk about what you want to talk about.
>Disclaimer, I help run an organization that requires CoC's on all events.

>I like this article but it doesn't go into the positives of a CoC. There are many problems but if you don't weigh them against the positive characteristics, you don't see the full picture.

The author mentions this,

"People are trying to force organizations like CCC, or events I am involved with, at a smaller scale (I cannot talk for other events I don't know anything about), to adopt a CoC because they feel like it works for them, and therefore everyone should adopt a CoC regardless of the own culture of each community."

It seems you're doing exactly this and you've ignored large parts of the reasoning in the author's post.
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33 Strategies of War. It's good for dealing with any and all types of conflict, including conflicts with yourself. Half of the book is unconventional techniques most people don't even think of.

Similarly themed is Extreme Ownership, which covers leadership in chaotic situstions.

Militaries are designed to deal with the chaos of war, and a lot of principles apply to the chaos of software engineering too.
If somebody was arrested, it's obviously because they were believed to have committed a crime. There are many crimes available.

Codes of conduct are generally about behavior that isn't criminal, because once you've crossed that line the appropriate response should be obvious.
If you want to try it, there is a Hotel that is part of it.

The whole thing is definitely walkable, but ultimately it just feels like an outdoors shopping mall to me.
Is it possible that the person in question believes that they are being sidelined / pushed out?
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But Broadcom is an American company.

Avago was spun out of HP in 1999 (American). They were acquired by KKR and Silver Lake Partners in 2005 (both American). Listed on the NASDAQ in 2009. Bought CyOptics in 2013 (American). Bought LSI in 2013 (American). Bought PLX in 2014 (American). Bought Emulex in 2015 (American). And finally bought Broadcom in 2015, closing in January 2016 (American). Then they renamed themselves Broadcom. They moved their legal address from Singapore to Delaware in 2017. Sure their current CEO (Tan Hock Eng) was born in Malaysia, but he has been an executive at various American companies for decades.

They are American all the way down.
If you're interested in this but have no background, the best place to start is "Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation" – https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jonlong/long_shelhamer_fcn...

This is a very active field of research. Another thread worth pulling on is Mask R-CNN: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06870

It's not quite as simple as "this one has highest mAP, let's use it"; the tradeoffs are complex. In particular, as you can see in the image here, one thing DeepLab doesn't do is segment instances – so you get a mask of "people", not a mask per person. Mask R-CNN does a better job on that by design, because it predicts both bounding boxes and a mask per bounding box.
The ticket isn't changed though (from the previous coverage, that was suggested and rejected as not being possible). The court just told the lottery that its procedure of handling tickets with a name on them isn't always legal.

Unless there is a specific piece of law that requires the winner being made public, and that hasn't been in any of the reporting I've seen (and would be odd given the trust-workaround), there is no law being broken by this.

Note how in the article it says The state had argued that the names of lottery winners must be disclosed to ensure that prizes are distributed fairly and that winners are not related to lottery employees., not The state argued it is legally required to disclose the names. Even in your first comment, you say the state is in charge of whether or not that name gets revealed, for which it just got a constraint imposed on how to make it's decision.
This is why 4chan always had it right. Anonymous + minimal moderation. Instead of echo chambers you get extreme contrarianism. The upside of this is that non-conformal viewpoints aren't buried and low effort trolling just gets ignored.
Don't Hit On The Students!

But also (and this is my main issue with such points) CoC are a reaction to things that went bad, and an attempt to fix these issues.

I briefly talked for a time with a guy who knew I had life threatening respiratory problems and he tried to talk me into meeting him in person, while swearing my health and welfare were his highest priority and intentionally leaving out the fact that he was a smoker and a toker. When it finally came out in conversation, I had a cow and he pulled this nonsense about "If it is that important, you should have asked."

Um, no.

I was so upset by the whole thing, I briefly considered putting something in my profile on the forum where we met specifying "No smokers, no tokers." Then decided this is about as useful as putting up a dating profile that says "No rapists, no pedophiles."

He knew it was not acceptable. This is why he hid the information. Any BS justification for his behavior after the fact is just part of the headfuckery.

And, unfortunately, a lot of CoCs seem to be along those lines of explicitly forbidding behaviors that we already understand are bad, as if that will somehow stop people who already know what they are doing is not socially acceptable.

The areas where people are oblivious due to entrenched prejudice of some sort will not be fixed by spelling it out in some detailed list.

We are catering to the lowest common denominator by spelling out what is and is not acceptable. This isn't a means to foster a civil environment.
Verifying disbursement doesn't verify the program run actually picked a fair winner. The parts left out of your bullet points are what the other posters are discussing.
Can you be more specific? I’m not an expert on New Hampshire lottery law, but I see no indication in the article that identifying the winner is a legal requirement, merely a strong desire of the lottery agency.
The parent’s point is that a lip prevents this for every shape, by making the hole smaller than the side-length.
I wish I new a better way to market the idea of counting calories, micronutrients and macronutrients for a short period of time. It's something that I think everyone should do from time to time, like take a vacation or see a dentist.
I bought a 2013 mbp (maxed 13 inch) last year. It just had a battery and screen replacement. I think it will last me at least 5 years. At least I hope it will because it is so much better than the new mbps which I had my money ready for initially.
Damn son, talk about dropping the hammer on ‘em.

As a longtime, trained musician with a bit of theory, I’d love to get a breakdown. Would you be willing to explain what is nonsensical about the article?
Maybe they didn't have a green card or something? Honestly, action by law enforcement is unlikely to be due to a Code of Conduct except as a trigger for violent behaviour.
>Education is not indoctrination.

Right, in principle, it's agreed that "education" is "good knowledge" and "indoctrination" is "bad knowledge" and/or "fake news".

As long as you think that the inoculations being administered in the school system are valid, you'll call it education. Once you stop thinking that, you'll call it indoctrination.

So you're not really arguing anything. Every side calls training that biases you toward their preferred narrative "education" and training that biases in the opposite way "indoctrination". Is your point that "sometimes people disagree"?
I'll give you the other ones, but I'll challenge the Amazon example. Sure, there may have been other small sites selling stuff online, but Amazon definitely was a first mover in selling lots of stuff at volume. With all your other examples I can name the companies the later movers overtook (e.g. Google -> Yahoo/Alta Vista, Apple -> Blackberry, Facebook -> Myspace), but I think the first time I bought something online it was a book from Amazon.
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Bach's works can be strangely hypnotic in a way that's rare from other artists. It's not inherently intense or dramatic, but has a way of triggering intensity and drama through secondary means. I compare it to harmonic induction, like pushing somebody on a swing. Each push is gentle pressure, but the end result is high flying. Other artists require a catapult to take you up there, and it makes a big racket. Bach sneaks you up there without you noticing until a cloud sprays you with moisture.
It's disingenuous to say, "…regardless of what affluence he had." The thing about being wealthy isn't that you don't have to work as hard to succeed at something (well, sometimes it is). The thing about being wealthy is that you don't have to do anything, so you have all this time to focus on what you want to do—and you can fail while doing it without any major consequences. Most people can't do that. Hell, half of the people in the US are scared to take a day off of work for fear of getting fired.