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No. The judge announced that courts of law do not apply, only arbitration psuedocourts apply.

Arbitration is no longer thrown out almost ever, because of ATT Mobility LLC v. Concepcion. An unconscionable contract with arbitration is not an exception to arbitration anymore and state laws no longer apply to arbitration compelled agreements. The arbiter will decide what, if any, laws to follow. The arbiter will decide if the contract is fair. The arbiter will decide if they even want to rule based on the dispute at hand or something arbitrary.

You are behind the times on the sheer power of mandatory binding arbitration.
Wfor political purposes this doesn't matter...

Ancient civilizations rarely had a clue of how a desert came to be. Certainly, we today understand the environmental impact we have.

Furthermore, we posses many tools to combat the problem: resource taxation; development of sustainable technology; reduction of waste and consumption.
It looks like Epics work on Fortnite is paying dividends with Unreal Engine - access to 1st-party data from running one of the most successful multiplayer games in history is a gold mine of optimization opportunity. Fantastic that everyone else (developers that license the engine + all the gamers) get to benefit from all of this.
I'd be surprised if the engineers working on this project approved the release of this video, even as a fake for the working product. Anyone who has worked with electric motors can hear the device losing power and then getting a 'second wind' multiple times. I replayed the video the first time I saw it myself thinking that doesn't sound right.
Why Node rather than Rails if you were already using Catalyst? Node's async everything isn't everyone's cup of tea.
No, it occurs at the whim of the people. I don't know the etymology of it, but I suspect that the "make-out" meaning of "embracer" in French was not a result of "powerful people/organizations" pushing it.
Hmm... maybe it only looks smooth from space, like Venus or Uranus? An impenetrable cloud layer (like in The Matrix) would explain the cold on the surface and the endless night.
> you are dead wrong

So you're equating Beijing to Washington?
Its crazy in this day and age its considered OK to call perfectly healthy people "maladapted" because they don't conform to societies view of a normal sleep schedule. Treating people this way causes real damage to actual humans.

Second sleeps used to be very common with people getting useful work and liesure done during the time between. Activity at night is normal.
How is ebay not making money? They are a glorified e-commerce site that does a huge amount of business, taking a cut of each transaction with very low per-transaction cost.
JS is not "yesterday's option", quite the contrary. The same for HTML and CSS. If you want to be proficient fast, you should focus on a good foundation on all three.

But if you are past that, I would suggest Vue. I have not used it myself, but lots of colleagues tell wonders about how easy, comfortable and fast it is to built things on it.

There are doubts about it being production-ready for larger companies and projects, but it seems to be the king of productivity nowadays.
From my understanding, we could go around and take apart specifics, but it's more the overarching philosophy of the center, and Cowan as its latest directory to systematically disassemble the power of government. I think the best assembly of linkages between Koch and various foundations and entities and how they're linked the that philosophy is the book "Democracy in Chains", by Nancy MacLean.

This book is not without controversy, but much of the criticism is generated from the very same network of entities that is criticized by the book.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-New-History-of-the-Right...

If the book is too long, I might at least listen to this interview of the author.

https://www.blubrry.com/jacobin/34546244/the-dig-democracy-i...
Yup, I hope you and others who share your way introspect as to why it seems that way, other than just because that's the social conditioning we receive.

Here are some (strawman?) arguments that support your view, but are they actually justified/true/not-true-for-staying-up-instead?

- it takes effort to build a habit of waking up early, therefore it's good

- the hardest workers i know wake up early, it must be integral to why they're productive

- college kids stay up late, and college kids lack discipline

- being out when the sun is up is healthy for you, so sleeping through sunlight is bad for you

I feel like if businesses operated from 12pm-12am instead of 9am-9pm, all these would be flipped in favor of staying up late =/
For reference Gumtree was only challenging eBay before 2005, when they were bought by eBay.

Shpock (mobile only I think) seems to be the nearest thing to a competitor at the local level, in Europe at least.
I don’t make a distinction between the two, as the benefits provided by either system should be at parity with each other. We’re just haggling over the overhead involved (wrt employer provided vs single payer).
I don't know your location, but call local colleges that offers a degree program for an MFCC license.

The student are in their last year of training. The conversations are recorded, and listened to by a licensed therapist.

I found the $350 hr. "Doctor" to be just as effective as the $15 hr. student therapist. (The sessions are 50 minutes)

In all honestly, I didn't find therapy helpful, but you need to go through it in order to realize yourself if it has any value.

Oh yea, in order to see most Psychiatrists, they want you to see a MFCC first.

Then they usually put you on a drug that takes six weeks to work. They never worked on myself. I must have tried 10 different tricyclics/heterocyclic anti-depressants. Nothing helped. I'm now on two very addictive medications, and trying to taper off them. I just have a feeling my Psychiatrist is getting ready to retire.

I'll apologies in advance to the Psychology students. I know the profession means well.

You sound like a caring husband. That's Huge. Having an emphatic person in your life is so important.

In my case, my problem was debilitating anxiety, and when my life fell apart because I went from the most capable guy in a room to a trembling mess. That's when the depression hit. When the depression hit, I was kinda relieved, but it just stayed there.

I ended up seeing a a few Psychistrists. It's so much of an art, even though they had so much science in school. And yes--most medicine relies on placebo too. I know.

I've probally said too much now?
I wish that Armed Bear Common Lisp supported Android — that'd be awesome.
These guys continue to do a great job. If you're looking for a nice cross-platform C++ IDE that supports multiple build systems this is it. I'm looking forward to upcoming meson integration (GSoC project IIRC).
It's actually not firm at all! Very squishy. You do sink in slightly. You wouldn't be worried about back issues with something made entirely of soft foam? FWIW it's very comfortable night after night and I don't run into any back pain, but I'm still young, so maybe that'll take time to manifest itself? Back issues are my main worry.

And yes, boats are generally more humid than most homes - especially when left alone, they get extremely humid.

And yes, I am Dutch, I guess you could tell by my username :) I'll have to check out a Hastens sometime.
Epic can only speak for Fortnite since it's developed in-house, and it makes sense to point this relationship out considering it was the foundation for all these improvements. Also keep in mind that Fortnite has environmental destruction properties that PUBG doesn't, introducing interesting opportunities for solutions external dev teams may not have the domain expertise to pull off.
There are a ton of posts that correctly point out that networking is by far your best bet. Getting someone on the inside to advocate for your product is going to be your best return on time investment.

Outside of that:

You need to be able to quantify what your product can do for the organization. It might be a cool concept, but you need to transfer that into real dollars, lives, or customers to get anyone's attention. Do the research to tell them what they need to hear to consider your product. "Right now you are spending $20 million on disease prevention studies in rural counties in Virginia. With our software, you can get the same actionable data, faster, and more reliable for $2 million."

Also, these organizations are like huge tankers. Don't assume that just because they haven't implemented a system yet doesn't mean someone in the organization hasn't considered it yet. They take forever to change course. They are all probably using some piece of infrastructure that could be upgraded but hasn't because "it just sort of still works." Breaking through that can be impossible.
That is certainly not the equivalent as it still occupies storage.

Also, you could actually uninstall IE. That only uninstalled the shell, not the libraries (as there were dependencies) but it was gone in terms of the application.
Arbitration is a net loss for the human. The rulings are secret. The impersonal corporation knows which arbiters favor it and which do not, and can blacklist based on that. Arbiters only get work if they continue to rule for corporations. The corporation knows which arguments worked for it in the past with arbiters, but the judgements are secret and the human cannot research as a corporation can.

Arbitration is a biased loss for a human up against a corporation in mandatory binding arbitration via a contract of adhesion.
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Not OP, but for me, it's the jarring-ness of the alarm. A year or so ago, I noticed it's easier to wake up at 6:30am during the summer, when the sun rises and I'm waking up to sunlight. During the summer, I'd usually wake up on my own anywhere from 5-20 minutes before my alarm went off, and it was a comfortable waking up. However, in the winter, I'd be jarred awake by an alarm to a pitch-black room, often smack in the middle of a sleep cycle, leaving me groggy and sluggish.

Once I realized that, I bought a $30 light alarm. It starts to glow softly about half an hour before my desired wake-up time, and except for once or twice when I was too buried under the covers to see the light, it consistently wakes me much more smoothly and pleasantly than getting jarred awake by a jangling alarm. (It has a back-up audio alarm that plays at your normal wake-up time, which shuts off when you turn off the light part.)
I did, my mistake :) Not that it should matter at all.

FWIW I've had older accounts on HN but abandoned them a while ago.
My dismal results predicting Kasparov chess moves with scikit-learn
Repository 40 minutes old. The code itself is a placeholder (parser returns whatever it received unchanged). It doesn't do anything described in the Readme file so I wonder why a npm package was even created.

"If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Re. 1/2. If you send me a Form 2 for a few months or a discount code I'll be happy to give you detailed feedback. Otherwise, at USD$5000+postage it will take a good while outsourcing production for this to make sense. (Typical third party fabrication cost for us is around USD$30-100 per part or part-set delivered via courier.)

Re. 3. We typically use 3D printing to prototype for injection molding. We don't use it as a production process.

Re. 4/5. Your comment makes the false assumption that iterating rapidly on a single component is the sole bottleneck for product design iteration, and thus that failing to optimize iteration speed amounts to bad management. While this is occasionally a requirement, in fact we mostly find there is substantial parallelization potential per module, meaning that even within a single assembly mechanical engineers can place an order and then move on to another part or concern. Also, nobody selling printers ever calculates for support removal and finishing time/space/tools/chemicals, noise, smell/indoor air pollution, human presence requirement in order to transfer parts to automated washing/curing units, or additional overhead and loss due to slack materials stock.
I use React and TypeScript.

I'm very productive with React, but I've also had a lot of practice with the React style of thinking (data passed down from parents, state management, JSX syntax). There are tools that make your life easier, like create-react-app[0], that let you focus on learning the framework and not worry about the process (webpack, babel, etc.).

When learning something new, especially when there are so many ever-changing tools for front end work, I'm a fan of limiting the scope of new material to just the thing I'm focused on understanding. Similarly, you'll see React and Redux as a unit nearly everywhere, but it's worth it to work with and learn React on its own before adding the additional learning curve of Redux. I find it's important to understand the problem a tool is solving before adopting that tool. Kind of like building a web app without a framework to understand why it's helpful!

I also use TypeScript, but not to make me more productive in the short-term. It actually takes a little more time for the initial development, but I view it as a worthy investment that benefits the next person to work with the code, be it another developer or me in a few months.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
I had a problem with this too. But actually the problem can be stated as an NP problem: Compute a round-trip shorter than k. If you have an algorithm to solve the NP version then you can use it to find the shortest round-trip by repeadly applying it to different k-parameters.
I would agree with you. I would not go to my priest or my parents for business advice.

That being said, I think that calls into importance the civil organizations I mentioned before. How many young people are in any kind of community organization? I'd venture not many. The advantage of these kinds of community organizations is that they contain many kinds of people, united by being in the same place, rather than any common interest. The advent of social media has kind of decimated these organizations, but they're hugely important.

As a point of fact, my wife and I have met many friends through simply being in our local diocesan youth group. While we are both software engineers, most of the people we meet through the group are not. We know plumbers, teachers, entrepreneurs, video techs, etc. If we want perspective outside those of people just like us, we would just go here. If I wanted to start a business, for example, I'd just go to my men's club, and ask one of the older guys who own a business, instead of my parents or my friends. Why hire a therapist, when these guys are perfectly happy to help? All I have to do to get their advice and pick their brains is to take one evening off every month to have snacks, drink beer, and be their friend. I can not tell you how many old people in these organizations are happy to have some young blood show up and participate.

Don't get me wrong... if you don't have any of these in your life, then it makes sense for some situations to pay for it. But I do think it's sad we have all but eliminated these groups.
You know, the last few times I've read this, I've focused on the wonder of making an unauthorized project happen inside a large organization on the strength of personal vision and a generally untapped reserve of goodwill towards something that had clear value (and a little extra caché).

But this time, I noticed the commentary about how good software isn't just about the primary developers:

"we couldn't get it done alone. Creating sophisticated software requires a team effort.... Making software that is simultaneously easy to learn, easy to use, friendly, useful, and powerful takes people with an incredible combination of skills, talent, and artistry working together with intensity and patience. Greg and I could do the core engineering, but that was a far cry from creating a finished product.

"Among other things, we needed ...[1]... professional quality assurance (QA), the difficult and time-consuming testing that would show us the design flaws and implementation bugs we couldn't see in our own work ...[2]... help writing software to draw the three-dimensional images that our software produced.

"My skunkworks project was beginning to look real with help from these professionals as well as others in graphic design, documentation, programming, mathematics, and user interface. The secret to programming is not intelligence, though of course that helps. It is not hard work or experience, though they help, too.

"The secret to programming is having smart friends."

(heavily edited for emphasis)
In parabolic flight you are only weightless for 20-30 seconds at a time. You then experience high g forces going back up and repeat.

Consider, people can also feel weightless by jumping yet extending that to 20-30 seconds is worth 5k.
Lawsuit alleges fabricated results at graphics/machine learning startup
Theoretically it could evaporate but is there any necessity of that? Is exploding a theoretical possibility or once a stellar mass black hole forms is it thereafter in such a small circumference that it is stuck in that form until it evaporates?
The fact that Shopfy is crushing it in an era where Ebay and Amazon should be able to take that space is really interesting.

One interesting thing is the crazy UI complexity of both Ebay and Amazon interfaces. I wanted to find something that provided fairly quick shipping, I couldn't figure that out. Text and presentation seem to be half-hazard - and this is not even getting into the softer issues such as brand/image/placement, my god man, I wouldn't want my 'upmarket' product jammed into those byzantine pages.

Instead of trying to be 'everything' it may make sense for EBay to focus very narrowly on their differentiating factor, and instead use their process and infrastructure to attack other opportunities under a different brand.
"Under the new rules, Facebook has said it will create partnerships with local civil society groups to identify misinformation for removal." - how do these "civil society groups" determine what is information vs misinformation?
yes its just decriminalized

I was in Lisbon a few years ago, and on basically every (major/touristy) street corner there are people trying to sell you drugs

If they spot a tourist, they'll even go so far as to follow you down the street heckling you to buy some

In a legalized country it would be sold by regulated stores, where the supply is known where it originates from (i.e. Head Shops in CA as of the 1st of this year)
> We don't talk about providing value in academia

I am not surprised. The requirement to provide value in academia would go very much against getting any funding for it.
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And of course, if it didn't punish non-cheaters, then cheaters could simply cheat the items in on one account, invade/summon another of their own accounts, (or passworded summon in the remaster) and then give the new account the items.

There's no winning against cheaters as long as you trust the client. (And it's possible to do it on consoles too, just more rare as the tools are readily available on PC.)
How do 5 DotA players coordinate? They share information via voice?

How does a deep learning algorithm coordinate between 5 heros? I assume it's not 5 bots communicating over some channel but one bot acting on 5 heros?
Think of it this way:

The laws of physics don't form a complete (fully connected) graph. Not every force (edge) affects every particle (vertex). Electrons and photons (obviously) affect each other, electrons and protons do the same (through the electromagnetic field, for example), but photons and neutrinos do not.

Why should we assume that the overall graph has only a single connected component?
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> Android got market share because it was free, not because it was good.

If free was all that mattered then one of the other smattering of "free" open source mobile OSes would have taken off. You can perhaps say that free is a necessary condition but it clearly isn't sufficient. Something else matters and to a first approximation that can be thought of as "goodness".
That sounds horrible. It gets to one of the main problems with finding a therapist where you do some research and find someone that you think you will connect with, then reach out and risk rejection because they are full or don't have availability when you need it. Even if they offer you a referral it isn't the person who you were excited (on some level) about.

My wife is a therapist and tries to prevent this by being as transparent as possible. She posts her rates, her calendar, and makes it very clear that she is private pay only on her website. By the time someone reaches out to her, they usually know that it is going to work because they have had the opportunity to see all of that information.
Didn't he also plot to kill someone? Thought I remembered something like that
While I agree with you that exceptions exist in both of those cases, I also believe that in the vast majority of the time anti-union and anti-regulation is pro-corporation - in particular when you look at Koch Industries predominantly natural resource extraction activities.
No offence taken as I am actually a pretty handy person. When I choose what to build myself however, I decide, or at least I hope I do, based on what my skills are and how expensive bought or ordered things are. Beds and mattresses are not in the expensive category. Things like isolating your attic or redoing your bathroom are expensive to get done, so I do those things myself. This week I am replacing the shower, sink and cupboards in the bathroom, which saves me between 2000 and 3000 euros. For beds and mattresses you can just go to IKEA and making them yourself would probably save you a few hundred at most.

"how his bed works and can do any repair he wishes". How beds work is not hard and mattresses are not for repairing.

The most important thing though, is that you have fun building things, so who am I to judge.

p.s. There must be a name for the linguistic construction: "Not to criticize, but".
How was the recovery?
Go out tonight!
How could you possibly use bayesian updates to calculate the true priors based on only one sample? That's like saying "I have calculated that the sun will never rise again" after seeing it set for the first time in your life.
This except I just manually log timer statements because I haven’t found a profiler I like so far.
It's also got a quite usable Vim mode.
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It is a controversial idea, and most people can only imagine a future for humanity where things look pretty much as they do now, but with slightly better technology (cf Star Trek, where meat bags are flying among the stars, mostly unchanged from present humanity).

I'm fairly certain we're looking at the end of human civilization one way or the other within the next 100 years max. The Global Pollution Epidemic, robot uprising, and nuclear war are the more likely bad scenarios for the end of civilization.

We might instead be able to develop technology which solves all present problems (like pollution and energy production) and then use it wisely to bring wealth and enlightenment to everyone.

I wouldn't care to estimate what outcome is more likely.
Not if the “waste” represents maybe 5% of their spending but accounts for 100% of their income.
> Why even bother with the difficulty of relationships and love when you can get your carnal needs met so easily?

Because relationships are far more than just a path to satisfying the carnal need to have sex.

When I was single, I had a friend-with-benefits. Any time I wanted sex, I could just give her a call.

But that kind of relationship doesn't satisfy the desire for companionship. I had no interest in dating her because our personalities don't really work together.