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> His later work in ethics and epistemology (that the article recommends, Philosophical Investigations) is hit or miss

A couple of things about this. Wittgenstein famously did not write much on ethics. A couple of lines in the Tractatus, no passages that I know of in Philosophical Investigations (not saying there are none, I just don't know of them).

He did give a lecture on ethics to the Heretic Society in Cambridge in 1929. It is short, here is the transcript: http://www.geocities.jp/mickindex/wittgenstein/witt_lec_et_e... Well worth the read, I don't think his position evolved from this.

I would rather say that the subject matter of Philosophical Investigations is Philosophy of Language and also Epistemology. To call it "hit or miss" is nowhere near the consensus view among philosophers, in fact one is compelled to say that it is the direct opposite of the view that contemporary philosophers hold. Given that the list in the article is rank-ordered and Philosophical Investigations is #1 should clue you into its status. Easily in the top three most important books in philosophy in the last 100 years.
This may be Southwest's first passenger fatality, ever.

I say "may" because if a person dies on a flight from a heart attack, it doesn't count in the safety statistics. I suspect that it doesn't count even if the heart attack was plausibly brought on by an in-flight safety incident. But if the woman who was partially sucked out is the one who died (unclear at the time I write this), then it's the first one in corporate history for Southwest. That's impressive.

It doesn't make today any less tragic, though...
What on Earth is sucking, if not force induced by a pressure gradient?
Good luck everyone :)

As a solo founder this time around, I built Rap Genius for movies & TV shows: https://www.spoiled.tv
Does it really need to auto scale for a well known and understood usage? If dominos can do it for the super bowl surely the irs can provision for annual fillings
I think you're just misinterpreting what I mean by "failure" or "wrong result". I mean a positive result that is due to chance rather than to the null hypothesis actually being false. On that view, statistics alone guarantee a "failure" rate of at least 1 in 20. That's what choosing a threshold of 0.05 means.

The on top of that baseline rate of false results you also have self-selection and occasional outright cheating that drives the failure rate higher than 1 in 20. 1 in 20 is what you get when you use a 0.05 threshold and everything else in the system works flawlessly.
BBEdit and Atom.
Yes, but my point was that these tricks don't work well with libraries, which don't normally (if ever) expose a public API for chaining signal handlers, often couldn't do so as a practical matter, anyhow--see my example, below.

If you control the entire process and all the code, then sure. But even then one should avoid deviating from idiomatic, modular programming patterns without very good reason. Because signal handlers are process-wide they're global state; sharing global state is not a friendly path when it comes to code maintenance and long-term project management.

Not too long ago both OpenBSD and macOS lacked sigtimedwait(), so for my Lua Unix module I wrote a "portable" implementation by longjmp'ing from a SIGALRM handler. It worked well and was correct but with the caveat that it shouldn't be used from multithreaded programs. I usually try to avoid multithreaded programming myself, but others embrace it. As both a user and author of libraries, caveats like this are a real PITA.
I don't know what it's like in your country, but in my experience, if you just want to get laid, say so up front. It's surprisingly effective and either way, the honesty tends to be appreciated.
And now dropbox owns those datacentres. ;)
Nope (AFAIK). Their best bet is either using a 3rd party filing service (which appear to be working) or getting it in the mail in time for a postmark today.
There are schools in the English-speaking world where Continentals are studied seriously and in-depth, and from a Continental perspective. But they're rare, and getting rarer even in the non-English-speaking world. Like it or not, Analytic philosophy is just winning -- in philosophy departments, at least.
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The author of the PEG script cannot in general know what language it actually describes -- it's just too hard. For more, see https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/indi.... It has references, which you can follow up on.

You're safe if the grammar is LL(1) -- what you sees is what you get. After that it gets mysterious fast.
We changed the URL from the announcement post at https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/announcing-graalvm. Pretty sure the project page will be better for HN.
I get so much SPAM from WHOIS, email, phone, and texts. My hosting service wants to charge me to anonymize it.

Twisting ICANN's arm to hide this information is desperately needed.
Two Koreas Discuss Official End to 68-Year War
A Complete GraphQL in React Tutorial – Build a GitHub App Along the Way
You can publish your own personal data as much as you like.

This is about people who don't like that and are forced to do it if they want to own a domain.

And of course phone books are subject to GPDR as well: in a EU country, if you don't want your phone number to appear in the phone book, just inform your phone provider, and your record will be deleted. (I guess in the future you will even have to give explicit consent to let the number appear there.)
Digital ID Cards are here
You might like this page: http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/differentiating-parsers.h...
Since no players of note went to jail in the Bailout 10 years ago, we can be reasonably sure the corruption is still entrenched. AGs know what side of their bread is buttered.
And that is the reality for a large section of users.
Except neither the president nor his close friends pay any taxes, so how would they know anything is broken? /s
DSE 6: Double the Speed of Apache Cassandra
Love every opportunity to link to this story: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...

The Citigroup building in NYC had a fundamental design flaw that could cause it to collapse.
The famous “Houston Center” radio voice.
WRT #3, the problem seems to be moreso consciously executed covert and overt political censorship/demonetization of undesireable speech rather than the problem of unconscious biases of developers. It's as simple as refraining from censorship
If you're looking for something free, open source, selfhosted, or doesn't require programming knowledge (but allows SQL if needed), there's Metabase: https://metabase.com/

Disclaimer: I work on Metabase
I used to live in some of the burbiest burbs imaginable. I lived a bit out of the way but many of my schoolmates were right in the thick of it: tract homes, manicured lawns, the whole bit.

Back then -- I don't know about today -- going to the store may have been a chore that required a car, but visiting your neighbors was easy. You were bound to see some of them as you went out to get the paper or water the lawn. Car traffic was so light that kids would play in the street -- basketball, hockey, frisbee, racing go-karts or RC cars, whatever. All the kids in a neighborhood all seemed to know one another really well.

There's a lot to dislike about suburbs, but by themselves they're not some sort of dark magic socially isolating force.
That’s nice. But what does that have to do with investigating cryptocurrency fraud?
Not to mention all the AP1 owners who were misled with this tweet.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920
In ~2 years, summon should work anywhere connected by land & not blocked by borders, eg you're in LA and the car is in NY
10 Jan 2016

AP1 owners who purchased Tesla in Q1/Q2'16 are SOL as in Q3'16 they released AP2 since AP1 didn't have full self-driving h/w despite his Jan'16 tweet.
Synonyms! I think he's looking for different words with a similar/same meaning
That last sentence pretty much describes what happened with me and the woman I married.
Karl Marx is a better analogue than Mao to Ayn Rand, and we study him in Philosophy. Both have similar "scientific merit", however relevant you think that is.
I'm very aware of Triplebyte, but what we're building is different. Those startups focus on building recruiting and evaluation tools. The company is their primary customer, and a developer will probably only have a Triplebyte account for a limited period of time.

Fizbuz places the developer first, and we want to build tools for developers that help them manage their career and brand over the course of decades. We will work with companies looking to hire as a byproduct of helping developers accomplish a goal (i.e. getting a job).

Doing the right thing for the developer is our #1 principle. Which is why we will never implement anything like InMail.
Anyone mailing you tax forms in January already has your birthday, so it wouldn't be any more trouble for them to mail you that month.
Nah, the building is (mostly) just as good at the end of that time. It's just a convenience to make the probabilities easier to conceptualize. If we designed buildings such that the design earthquake had a 5e-6 daily chance of occurring, we'd just be confused.
Not OP, but anecdotally— I grew up in a small town (Pop ~5000, now ~6000) in rural Ontario, Canada. I live in the city now.

Whenever I visit home I can taste how much sweeter the air is. The difference is palpable— especially in areas where there is limited medium/heavy industrial production and more agriculture and wilderness.
Love the animated logo.

How are you acquiring user reviews? Paid traffic? Looks like you've got a good amount of views and content already!
> You want to make the NSA an election issue? You can go campaign on it. Setup a party, gather people to your cause. Vote. You can't do anything even remotely similar to influence google or facebook.

This is sort of a bizarro-world comment to me. I'd bet good money that I have more influence on Google and Facebook than I do on the NSA, even ignoring any "I know an employee" personal channels.

I'm confused on several levels.

1. Anything I can apply to the NSA, I can apply to Facebook, probably with greater impact - and the reverse isn't true. For both Facebook and the NSA, I can lobby for regulation or sue them. I can campaign on Facebook just fine; it's not like the government has never acted against specific companies to satisfy the public. But for Facebook, I can also call for a user boycott, or promote lawsuits in other countries.

Meanwhile, I expect that campaigning and voting are better at influencing Facebook than the NSA. The US government will usually act on corporations that provoke enough public outrage, and the US (if perhaps no other government) can powerfully influence American tech companies. Three-letter agencies don't ever seem to stay constrained (the NSA nakedly lied to the Church Committee), and I usually can't even oppose their behavior because I don't know what it is.

I certainly don't see how I have more options for dealing with the NSA.

2. I basically disagree that I can go campaign on the NSA. There hasn't been a credibly anti-surveillance Presidential candidate since... Dukakis? Maybe? And the handful of primary candidates who seriously opposed it have lost badly, often via forces largely independent of actual popular opinion.

I can work for legislative reform, donate to Wyden and Udall, do all the rest. And I do, but it doesn't really go anywhere. Partly from lack of support, but partly because there are regulatory and legislative hurdles at every turn to insulate state surveillance from public influence. And even for that lack of support - the idea that democracy means you have a role in things is on an important level false. Democracy involves many people (>50%, essentially) in government, it doesn't represent everyone. It's better than dictatorship, obviously, but "accept this outcome as representing you" doesn't inherently follow from "you got to vote".

I'm not happy with Facebook, and I do think there are axes on which it's noticeably worse than government action. (Mostly, that any random jackass can start a social media surveillance empire, and that corporations can jurisdiction-hop to avoid regulation.)

But the idea that living in a democracy gives me more power over the NSA than Facebook? I'm struggling to think of a single way that's true.
What writers do you like, who do this well?

Just curious.
No one yet? No one?
Theoretically you could. You could create a political platform with the aim of revoking the corporate charter of Google or Facebook. I doubt you'd get far with it but the possibility exists.
Because AGs are rather selective in who they'll prosecute for fraud.
Individuals can already change their tax year if they specifically request to do so, though it's contingent on IRS approval. I have no idea how likely the IRS is to grant approval, but clearly there are existing rules to handle non-calendar years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year#Tax_year
It is a second similar incident during the last two years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_3472
> Provisioning a VM with over 25GB RAM for an application which requires about 4GB of it is a huge waste of resources.

Like pretty much every JVM-based application ever? For the last 15 years?
Fast re-parsing is tricky. I'm building a JS IDE for a simple language, and it needs to only re-parse the part of the syntax tree that an edit affects (and only update the minimal number of affected DOM nodes).
Writing the (recursive descent) lexer/parser by hand was easy. Being able to stream text diffs to the lexer/parser and have it rebuild only the appropriate part of the AST took... a bit of work. Writing unit tests might kill me.
To be fair "one huge spike" is not as big of a load as a lot of internet services

How big is a tax return? Some XML 10k/100k in size?

What do you need to do: save the file, maybe do some basic sanity checking and store the SSN of a person on a db.

It is complicated, but not impossible.
Modeling & simulation[0] is a very standard way of handling this. It is not that difficult also to rent servers as opposed to having them sit around.

Note: just about every online store must do the same type of thing around specific holidays.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modeling_and_simulation
>Objectively better.

You can't really say that definitively without ignoring the laundry list of negatives that come with spaces. Spaces are not configurable at all. That, in itself, is reason enough that Tabs are "objectively better".
Isn't the entire purpose of reproducability is to eliminate such questions from discussions about science?
No email yet, we had a video call on Sunday! The suspense...
> Flipping 10 heads doesn't guarantee 5 tails

I never said it did. But in the long run, flipping a fair coin will generate pretty close to 50% heads and 50% tails. That's what it means to be a fair coin. Likewise, in the long run, using a p threshold of 0.05 (which many journals do) will generate 5% false positive results (that's that the 0.05 means), i.e. on average 1 false positive result for every 20 experiments you do.
That is a very short sided perspective. People will ask local tour guides for recommendations, and if they say you suck, you have lost business.
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Thanks :D

Traffic-wise, I went viral a few times on reddit. The content I did myself and I paid some UCLA undergraduates to write, but working on programmatically seeding it from IMDB.
C17: a “bugfix release” of the C standard
“Taxpayers would not be penalized because of a technical problem the IRS is having.”
For real. I barely have nails left.
And that is an entirely separate issue that has nothing to do with the fraud ongoing in cryptocurrencies.
what do you use to manage the transaction data? do you go through to categorize them? have a frontend for viewing?
>if only those exchanges were regulated enough to retain data sufficient for such inquiries.

It wouldn't surprise if they do indeed keep all the data. After all, almost all these companies are data driven, and they have data analysis departments [0].

[0] https://www.coinbase.com/careers/797769?locale=en
I do run such a service, one that must scale daily in response to traffic at multiples of off peak traffic and I can state unequivocally that this is false.

I can vaguely recall over the past several years single availability zones having short periods of time where single instance types were unavailable, but never the entire region... The idea that this happens "a lot in the past year" for the entire region isn't my experience at all.
The link changed since I posted my comment :)

The original article on Verge reported "87% accuracy" and 90% what sounded like TNR. The new link points to an FDA page that makes it more likely that ".87" is actually sensitivity:

Dx-DR was able to correctly identify the presence of more than mild diabetic retinopathy 87.4 percent of the time and was able to correctly identify those patients who did not have more than mild diabetic retinopathy 89.5 percent of the time.

So, I guess, something like this:

Predicted + Predicted - Total
Actual + 393 57 450
Actual - 47 403 450
-------------------------------------
Total 440 460 900

Accuracy: 0.8844
Error: 0.1156
True Positive Rate: 0.8733
True Negative Rate: 0.8956
Precision: 0.8932
Recall (TPR): 0.8733
F-Score: 0.8831

Closest I can get with exactly 900 cases :0
Play all the sophistry games you want: over a 20 year period, a poorly armed force beat not one, but two forces that had superior firepower and numbers.
As a philosopher, Ayn Rand was an unspectacular novelist.

As a novelist, Rand was an unspectacular philosopher.
Well you wouldn't have the same tax year for everyone, because you'd have to give everyone the same amount of time to file to be fair.

So, you could give everyone a different tax year. The forms already allow you to have a different tax year, though few people make use of that (I have no idea what qualifies people to have a different fiscal year, it might just be for companies, I don't know).

Of course, this would be a giant mess because all the other entities that are tied to the standard tax year, namely everyone who communicates info to the IRS about you and files 1099-xyz forms about you and sends copies to you: your employer, your bank, your IRA/401k company, etc. I don't see how it'd be workable at all.

Here's what would work much better: simplify the tax code (eliminating a lot of deductions), and make filing automatic for regular W-2 wage-earners, like they do in western European nations, where they just send you a pre-filled form, you make any corrections to it (to account for income they didn't know about), and then send it back if there's changes (otherwise they just go with what they already know about you). We don't do this in the US because we're corrupt: the tax-filing companies have bought off the politicians so they won't let the IRS do this.
There’s a great TV series where they show flight attendant safety training for Virgin Australia and it’s very intense and physically demanding. Had a huge fail rate.

Not sure if every country/airline is the same, but it gave me a great appreciation for their role.
Thanks to AI, These Cameras Will Know What They’re Seeing
Nobody got hurt, so you are allowed to LOL:

"...engaged in a standoff with police, all the while ordering his hostages to make him pizzas."
From the article:

> “If we can’t solve it today, we’ll figure out a solution,” Kautter said. “Taxpayers would not be penalized because of a technical problem the IRS is having.”
For me it's not just the walkability of the suburbs that's the problem, but the lack of places to go... other than stores, bars, and restaurants. It's a cultural wasteland. I'd just much rather stay inside, and often do.

Cities are not much better for me, as most of places there are to go and things to do tend to cater towards the lowest common denominator.
> Diving has pressure differentials of potentially hundreds or thousands of atmospheres.

That's not true.

100 atmospheres is about 1000 meters.

~300 meters (~30 atmospheres) is the world records reached with Scuba equpment.

An ADS got a navy diver down to ~2000 feet (60 atmospheres).

And the deepest a human has gone in a submersible vehicle is 35,858 which only barely clears 1000 atmospheres (~1060).
> Why does the IRS not distribute the tax-filing workload across the whole year?

Because IRS doesn't write the law, that’s Congress's job, and the tax filing deadlines (and the other deadlines that are coordinated relative to them, like the deadline for filing and supplying to taxpayers W-2s, 1099s, etc.) are set in law.

As to why Congress doesn't do it, well, the fact that their are coordinated deadlines for multiple linked processes that different parties have to comply with would produce chaos if 1/12 of taxpayers had a tax deadline each month, and all the linked forms for those taxpayers, and the applicable tax years, had similarly staggered dates. OTOH, if you just gave some taxpayers longer after the availability of forms and end of the (single, consistent) tax year to file, there would be substantial fairness issues.
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But then anyone else who doesn't also use that same number of spaces is SOL. With tabs, each user can set the display to whatever they want.
This is a libertarian fantasy. Large companies can stay solvent by undercutting smaller companies and killing their business. This is what would happen if we were to remove regulations and restrictions. You wouldn't end up with a perfect competition utopia you end up with a dystopian garbage reality where the business elite control even more than they already do.
Hyperbolic title (in the original article, link title just copies that)

They improved upon the enzyme isolated from a Japanese bacteria that was found to degrade PET.

It was interesting to me that plastic bottle “recycling” is just shredding and using for things like carpet :-/
I registered a new domain last month and since have been getting several spam telephone calls a day. The calls come from fake "local" numbers too so they are incredibly hard to screen. Some calls are companies trying to sell me web design services, and some, I think, are just trying to verify if this is "live" number so they can sell it off to other spammers. I can effectively can only trust new calls from numbers I personally know now, and have missed several real calls because I've stopped answering anything else.
Android w/ Chrome will keep playing audio for a website when I lock my phone (I use it here: http://listentothe.cloud/), and the pause / play / skip controls are available on the lock screen. One touch required to pause it, same as any native music apps.

It's super convenient and I'm surprised iOS doesn't offer the same? Seems like a no-brainer no-risk feature to me.
Looks great! I'm a huge fan of content like Alt-Shift-X and Every Frame A Painting, do you hope to move in that direction over time? Not necessarily yourself, but providing tools/space for creators to produce it?
I wouldn't be surprised if they did.

In Toronto, TMX Inc (holders of the Toronto Stock Exchange) along with Paycase and Bank of Montreal have recently organized to establish their own trading desk/brokerage at the TSX for cryptocurrencies. The news of that came about a week or two after Bank of Montreal banned all purchases of cryptocurrency both on their debit and credit cards.

While I'm suspicious of the banks' intentions in some of these cases— I'm with you. There's just been too many outright scams, ponzi schemes, and theft.
Love this idea. I discovered FI(RE) a couple of years ago, and it changed my life. When I think of the number of tools I use to manage my finances and the amount of time I devote to it, it's no wonder more people aren't excited about taking control of their finances. Good luck!
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