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I believe this too and my biggest fear about it is, that globalized humanity is a single specimen (at most a single pack).
Yeah. Like the original post, this one made some points of value, but interspersed with pettiness.

"You've just complained about using : for type declarations a couple paragraphs ago."

That was for a totally different use-case. I'm pretty sure he wasn't offended by the literal character ":".
Want to see something crazy? This guy has a huge YouTube following and preaches (through obscene language) long fast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_yUeH8TsG5pxqvkOxBtsFA. He experiments on himself and "coaches" people on dieting.

Along with the posh attitudes of fad diets can also come extremism. Do go too crazy with fasting!
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i actually used to avoid vevo because it would usually give you the censored version of popular songs.
First, RL and causal inference do fundamentally different things. RL is trying to train a controller; causal inference gives you a theory so that you can predict the results of a randomized controlled experiment without running one.

Second, consider this: Classic ML techniques will tell you that you should never go to the doctor because it increases the probability that you have a disease. Causal inference does not have this problem.

How does RL dodge this?
> is not really the one that you should be worrying about.

Not all of us are as privileged as you to live in a safe area.

> Second, how would a handgun help you take on assailants armed with automatic weapons? So then you need an automatic weapon

A handgun is good enough of an equalizer in the situations I am likely to face. For the relatively low cost, effort required, there's no substitute.

> Do you take the same approach to all other, very unlikely, risks that you face in life?

- How is it your place to determine the likelihood that I get into a violent altercation?
- Why does my area now require some standard of "likelihood of violence" before I am allowed to protect myself?

- How is it your place to make these risk-based judgment calls for me and others?

The fact is: carrying a firearm takes ten seconds out of my day (to put on). Some might describe that as "living in fear," but I'll trade the ten seconds for the capabilities having said firearm confers. It's really not a big deal, despite what some might think.

I'll also take the time to test and install fire extinguishers in my home.. or is my home catching fire a "very unlikely risk" I shouldn't be prepared for, too, in one's expert opinion?
Vevo was a partially thought-out venture, executed well but not well enough. It was always hampered by the studios' stubborn direction: licensing limitations that kept it out of lots of markets, not enough cross-promotion through sponsorships, retail channels, or advertising, and intentional lack of scope to avoid cannibalizing music sales. And they were hamstrung by the legacy of their initial decision to syndicate to YouTube: most people probably discovered the name 'Vevo' through seeing their watermark on music videos posted to YouTube, but subsequently had little reason to explore what Vevo is or does. Not that they missed anything: Vevo didn't do anything that YouTube didn't already do.

They wanted the cake both ways: leverage YouTube's audience and discovery, while running a not-at-all-captive, ad-supported competitor just for the sake of perceived control and leverage. That's cute.

If it wasn't such a half-assed venture, Vevo could've become the single most valuable subscription music streaming destination: a captive Spotify for daily use, with music videos on demand. But studios couldn't commit to the serious business decision of withdrawing their licensed content from other platforms that have already built an audience. Instead, now they've abandoned their ambition to have their own digital distribution solution, and have decided that focusing on licensing and revenue sharing is their preferred outcome.

It's interesting to compare this to TV, where the major incumbents are still interested in gating their content to their respective captive distribution portals.
OK. Can you tl;dr for me why that is?

Is it because I've asked Mozilla to show me a web page, and the data collection happens as an automatic result of that?
> For example, proponents of cashless payments often like to claim that paying with cash takes more time than paying with a card, but the opposite is true.

That really depends on the type of cashless payment you are using. EC payment usually takes longer because it involves the process of preparing the reader, having the customer put in his card, wait till the reader is ready, input pin, wait again, done.

But I've also seen contactless card payment with Visa/Mastercard that didn't require any PIN entry/signature, those are surprisingly fast.
Nothing I can link to, but that information has been shared to DOE labs and projects relying on large NERSC allocations.
Shameful. A good reminder too how much bullshit get's passed off as science in police investigations and forensics in general. Add to it homophobia and police eager to mark a case closed and this is what you get.
maybe give it a try. I felt the same way about prettier, but then I realized how much time I save by no longer having to worry about formatting. As I type, I just type it all on one line and then do a keyboard shortcut and it magically gets reformatted and looks pretty.
I think this is excellent advice. From the small amounts I've read, the other thing these books do well is connect what the reader already knows to what's being taught.

My only quibble is that I suspect minimalism is more a matter of taste than a widely applicable principle of solid technical writing. I've learned a lot from minimal books, but I've also learned a lot from books that incorporate screen shots or full-color illustrations. This isn't to say minimalism didn't work well for Kernighan-just that it's not as generalizable as the other principles.

FYI, You can read both the The C Programming Language [0] and The AWK Programming Language [1] at the Internet Archive.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/TheCProgrammingLanguageFirstEdit...

[1]: https://archive.org/details/awkprogrammingla00ahoa
there's also the httpd module https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dav.html

and the tomcat module https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/WebDav

however, each and almost every of them speak its own dialect, so client compatibility will be spotty.
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> Their absolute best option would be to attack global platforms that small businesses rely on to get the platforms to enforce compliance or blacklist those small companies. This is especially potent for Visa and MasterCard. I doubt that will ultimately work though.

Actually, that part is the most plausible way that companies outside the EU with no EU presence could be forced to to comply the the GDPR.
Dont know, but when I used to do index arb trading they had vlans on virtual IPs on bonds and ifconfig simply couldn't show the addresses. 'ip' could
The side-effect is almost always completely intentional.
>I was thinking about getting in to the car market but all these pesky requirements that I sell a car with airbags and seatbelts and fuel efficiency compliance are just there to protect existing incumbents.

I think by going to cars to prove your point proves how ridiculous regulation for websites are. For some reason there exists a group of people that believe that websites like facebook need regulations that are as strict as those required for developing cars.

People die from cars that are badly designed. People don't die from facebook (yes I'm sure you can find some contrived example.)

Unrelated but something that further adds to the irony of using cars as an example is that companies such as VW haven't even been fined for cheating on their emissions test.

I doubt a country like Germany would ever consider allowing the EU to fine 4% of Vws global revenue even though they broke the law in a way that has resulted in people's deaths.
That's your opinion, not a fact.

Car manufacturers are required to put seatbelts in their cars because of regulation. In this case, it's not done to "decrease competition". It's not done to "increase monopoly". It's not done to "create central hubs of systemic risk". It's done to save lives.

Regulations affect profits, yes. Regulations may have unintended consequences. Making regulations that protect people and still allow for a healthy free market is a hard thing to do. It's heavily context- and market-dependent.

It is what it is and we have to live with it, but it's not as black-or-white as you make it sound.
Glad you can tell how regulation affects a market after less than one day of being active law, and zero enforcement actions or cases suggesting how courts/regulators are going to interpret the rules.
It is in general use, just not fully implemented:

https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/964020/china-passe...
Without proof-of-work, what protects consenus from the sybil attack?

As I understood, after quick scan of the paper, consensus is achieved by simple majority vote.

So if I setup 10,000 docker containers running malicious nodes, I could take over the network and forge any blocks I want.

What I am missing?
* The EU/EEA is the largest market in the world*

Define "largest" in this context.
GDPR is significant but not for the reasons you mention. If you want to have European users you have to comply with European laws. That was the case before GDPR as well.
They would never be German companies. We (Germans) would have regulated them bancrupt long time ago :).

You are right. GDPR is a very German thing. We essentially have a two digit party (the greens) which rose because of the rejection of a general census (and nuclear energy). In Europe we are also not alone with that (see pirate party).

Oh and regards sensibility: The EU tried that. Google and friends gave a shit. Then result was creating a regulation more painful to them. These companies apply their US based understanding of right and wrong to the globe. You see China, EU and Russia are reacting and applying their local rules. With different methods, but they do.
Yes, it's tax avoidance, not tax evasion. On the other hand, EU seems to want to make the current arrangement tax evasion in the future.
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Interestingly enough, in obese individuals, usually their adipose tissue cells are packed full of macrophage - it may be possible that keto and intermittent fasting put together are a good strategy for not only preventing the progression of obesity, but also promoting the autophagy of 'sick' fat cells [0]:

• Macrophages play a significant role in regulating adipose tissue functioning during health and disease

• In addition to conventional functions such as clearing cellular debris and participating in tissue immune surveillance, lipid buffering is an important function of ATMs

• Obesity-induced inflammation, characterised by an elevated number of proinflammatory macrophages in adipose tissue, has been suggested to contribute to systemic insulin resistance

> One might hypothesise that the role of macrophages shifts during the progression of obesity from a predominant role in stimulating adipogenesis at the start of adipose tissue expansion to inhibiting adipogenesis once obesity progresses. The observation that adipogenic clusters containing macrophages appear at an early stage of adipose tissue expansion during obesity, yet decline in number upon the progression of obesity, supports this hypothesis. Reduced adipogenesis at later stages of obesity would promote hypertrophy of adipocytes to allow for storage of the excess amounts of lipids entering the adipose tissue, which is in turn linked to metabolic dysfunction such as adipocyte insulin resistance. Indeed, increased adipocyte size has been found to correlate with macrophage presence in obese adipose tissue

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4826424/
Your complaint is the entire reason it's an interesting project: it gives you practically no choice. That's why it's called black, as a reference to the Henry Ford quote: "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

The idea is to toss aside control over nitpicky formatting _configuration_ options in favor of not worrying about formatting configuration and just going with someone else's opinion of what the configuration should be instead.
Are there any publicly traded VPN providers?
Ask HN: Examples of excellent procedural code?
Can anyone suggest projects with procedural code (not OOP or Functional Programming) that is modular, readable and well designed?

The code can be in any language, include old languages no longer in widespread use e.g Modula-2, Basic etc.
They mention 1/3 of the nodes. How much of a weakness is this?
For so it is written.
I find debates over "is language X good or is it bad" to be a particularly subjective topic in programming. Not that there's nothing objective you can say about them, but opinion pieces like these are always rife with personal preferences, and often (like in these two) interspersed with pettiness.

https://twitter.com/computerfact/status/968333338267324417
I don't know if it's true of current slashdot, but one aspect of "golden age" slashdot that I have found lacking in HN was the focus on software in terms of ethics.

This was probably because slashdot used to be very intertwined with the rise of open source and Linux. People were altruistic in discussions of these things. It's a big contrast here to see, for example, that references to someone like Stallman are usually mocking or prefaced with the idea that he's a nut.
Yet you could use them to do that once there is a significantly high amount of customised settings ...
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This is, I think, a great illustration of the problems with a lot of economic reasoning.

Sure, maybe that's exactly what would happen, but changing one variable in a toy model is not proof that it will.

There are successful news sites that do just fine without becoming relentless clickbait optimization mills - and in fact, those are exactly the sites I tend to read. Two examples, so we're talking about something specific: talkingpointsmemo.com and techdirt.com are both daily reads for me.

TPM is, for want of a better term, the more advertiser-friendly of the two, but it intentionally works fine with ad blockers. Techdirt is probably well-known to most folks here.

The other commonality is that both of them work hard to not be enslaved by the adtech surveillance machine - they both have non-ad revenue streams.

And I think that is the real trick missed by overly simple reasoning - even when it is correct (and it is, frequently), it obscures more than it helps. And somewhat more nebulously, I think it trains people into a way of thinking that blinds them to options. After all, if you "know" you can't reduce your surveillance metrics below industry-average intrusiveness, you won't look at possibilities involving doing so. Instead, you'd look at additional non-ad revenue as "more and better" and do both - thereby losing me as a potential customer.

Is that a good tradeoff? I don't know - and that's the point. These are much more complicated questions than econ 101 will guide you through.
It's hardly disputable that regulation creates barriers to entry. Nor it is disputable that barriers to entry limit competition.

See everything from lemonade stands[1] to taxis[2] to banks[3].

What is disputable is whether in total a regulation has a net positive or negative effect.

[1] http://www.newyorkcityfamily.com/2017/08/are-lemonade-stands...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uber-business-model-breaking-...

[3] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/031015/what-barrier...
So how do I run Android Studio on my general purpose phone, without workarounds like connecting to a VM in the cloud, while looking at an usable screen?

Mobile OSes are special purpose, constrained to their phone + apps, developed by on external devices.
For me it was very similar to the early stages of a bad flu. Tired, headaches, body aches, irritable, and mild nausea for about 5 days. I've heard that MCT oil can ease the transition a bit, but be careful because too much can cause stomach cramps and violent diarrhea. (I've never been able to handle more than one tablespoon at a time.)
Not everyone runs PyCharm, and this tool is open source.
I shouldn't have called this a "conspiracy story" and I should have given more respect to the parties involved who experienced this. While I think the issue is similar to a "butt dial", the customer felt violated and more precautions should have been taken to prevent this.

What I should have said is this report makes it difficult to understand what actually happened. It seems clear this article favors click-bait quotes that insinuate a "big brother" vibe such as:

> "'unplug your Alexa devices right now,' she said. 'You're being hacked.'"

If she had instead said "Alexa butt-dialed me!", would you still be interested in this report?
He makes nearly $225k in Utah and is only paying $1.6k/mo on his loans.

EDIT: I understand that there are many examples of individuals taking on substantial student debt without the ability to pay it off. However, it's not clear to me that that is the case for him.
From the same site:

"""
Under the GDPR, you must appoint a DPO if:

you are a public authority (except for courts acting in their judicial capacity);
your core activities require large scale, regular and systematic monitoring of individuals (for example, online behaviour tracking); or
your core activities consist of large scale processing of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences.
"""

So if you're not doing 'large scale behaviour tracking', you would not need one. A simple company that sells a subscription service should not need one, unless they are also selling targeted ads, and maybe if they are doing identifiable tracking of how a given user uses the service. Aggregated metrics with no identifiable data do not count (This feature has been used X times). If you are, then it becomes a question of what is 'large scale' in terms of the GDPR.
Both are speaking to an audience, and the point/retort approach is how most reasoned discussions occur, and how we move forward. Some see them as confrontational, and thus unsavory, which is unfortunate.
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How does this compare to yapf?
They would like to put this in a billion homes no doubt, and suppose that people are home, talking, a couple hours a day. Now we are talking real numbers. A few billion conversation-hours per day, 365 days in a year--suddenly one in a trillion is starting to look like it's gonna happen a couple times a year. Now if Amazon knows these probabilities--which they don't, because they clearly have not done due diligence in understanding their rapidly evolving, inscrutable voice models--they are now knowingly violating eavesdropping laws, probabilistically.

This is part of the problem. People want to handwave away small probabilities when they should be busting their asses to make probabilities actually 0--solutions like not having this crap in their house at all.
> roving armed gangs attacking 90-year-old women and single mothers.

So basically: this woman isn't allowed to defend herself from burglars, is that what you are saying?

> This is fear-mongering, based on wildly unrealistic assertions about the world.

It's great that you are privileged enough to live in an area without any violent crime! That's truly great!

I don't live in a safe area, so I don't believe that you or others have any right nor place to make that decision for me.

> fear-mongering,

Home burglaries are the number one type of crime in my area. Home invasions happen, whether you want to call them "fear-mongering" or not. Should I just not be able to defend my home, my person, my family? Should I trust the good will of the felon who broke in NOT to harm me further or take my things?
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I moved from the Netherlands (one of the most cashless countries in Europe) to Berlin 3 years ago. I invite anyone doubting the convenience of cards, specifically contacless ones, over cash to join me for a regular morning of shopping groceries in Berlin and then in my hometown in NL. You will be cured.
> let's hope this ridiculous practice is stopped soon.

I agree that these are monopolies, but it's interesting to me that the behavior in question is viewed as competitive and healthy when a company is small. The primary thing that makes the practice ridiculous is success; becoming so large that what were competitive behaviors become anti-competitive. The same things that people applauded Apple for when it was underdog 20 years ago, are now criticized.
Thank you for sharing your story, keep up the impressive results!
>> The only thing I wonder about is allowing any given set of hardware to be compared with another set of hardware with anything approaching accuracy.

Just systematically enough to be reminded that a different context may have different relative performance.
They’re likely storing your IP, and collecting data for analytics. Maybe not?

I’m general, yes, I’m OK with Google and Facebook collecting my info. I’m sending it to them voluntarily as a tradeoff for using their services.

Your use of the word “spying” is just propaganda. And the accusations of xenophobia are a cheap shot as well. I love Europe, I lived there for several years, and I’d do so again. I currently visit Europe 1-2x per year.

I’m generally in favor of some of the intent behind the GDPR, and would probably support a more sane version of it here. I’m not in favor of its claims to jurisdiction over any company in the world under the logic that an EU citizen might visit their website. That’s a dangerous precedent.
I've had a similar experience when fasting. It also helped to realise that the "hunger" feeling in my stomach is just my body increasing its acidity in preparation for food at its _expected_ meal time. It goes away after a few hours, especially with less carbs in your diet (as you say, bulking on carbs leads to really bad hunger pangs the next day that are hard to ignore).
There is disagreement about what constitutes an acceptable mathematical proof. E.g., is proof by contradiction a proof?
> Since the site was unusable

I thought it was just me.
On Chrome the site kept on reloading as soon as I scrolled down. Managed to bypass that behavior by hitting the "cancel refresh" button as soon as I scrolled down.

Still, a weird thing to happen, this morning Twitter had a pretty similar issue with their GDPR message: It would keep on reloading and reloading, making the whole thing unusable, until you manually told the browser to stop reloading.

This behavior persists with or without adblocker active, did GDPR break the Internet?
Sure. But let’s not pretend that it is cheap to do. All I’m saying that if you are cheering govt stepping into the equation then let’s have an honest discussion on who it hurts and who it benefits. Let’s take a stock of the impact to garage innovations. That is all.
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It's very early and certainly not production ready, but this is the idea behind Electrino (https://github.com/pojala/electrino)
Why black over yapf?
If fines are impossible to avoid without going out of business or leaving the market, they're taxes by another name.