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What makes OpenStreetMap shine really is their desire to map every man-made and natural object.

I'm talking about things like trees, garbage bins and industrial buildings.

Commercial maps has areas where they care deeply, and areas where there's zero care. OpenSteetMap cares about everything. If you are a hobbyst (of practically anything), sooner or later you'll find better representation of your narrow interests on OSM than on Google or Apple maps.

Google has awesome maps of shopping centers. OSM has awesome maps of tracks in woods and parks. You've got to choose your life style here.
While some of these figures might actually be due to faulty data or divergent definitions in other nations, there is another factor that neither you nor your friend seem to be acknowledging - how the high cost of health care in this country is impacting the way women seek care during, before, and after childbirth.

Giving birth in this country is extremely expensive (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/16/why-does-it-...) and we have a ton of people who are uninsured, underinsured, have high deductible plans, or simply aren't in stable enough financial situations to risk going to the doctor for prenatal/postnatal care when the $40 copayment or $300+ tests the doctor runs could delay their rent check that month.

When you talk about people coming into the hospital with comorbitieis, it's an easy next step to say "eh not our fault, that's on the patient, not on the medical system," but it kind of is on the medical system (or the insurance system, if you choose to differentiate the two) if the inability to afford healthcare is causing so many people to die of secondary causes when something serious enough to warrant it (in this case, pregnancy) forces them to go to a hospital.
I'm upvoting this because I think there's an interesting discussion to be had.

But I disagree with both the crux and the primary reasons for the argument. A few reasons.

- If we're hiding past indiscretions, that only further de-normalizes having indiscretions. We're already so past-the-fold as far as I'm concerned in terms of how harshly we judge people for history long past. I'm not a believer of "everything should be public" by any means, but the authors examples were unconvincing. I certainly have some silly posts on old gaming forums where if someone doxed me they could find them, and I'd probably cringe a little and shake my head. But that's part of who I was, and I feel mental dissonance at anything past simply accepting that in stride.

- He worries about his son reading his tweets. As a son who never saw past his father's "I'm a professional adult" facade, I have a perpetual sadness that we never connected as _people_, that he never let me see past the veil at the flawed and very human man behind the curtain. I can't speak authoritatively on how some other father/son relationship should work, but I can say that for me, a twitter history would have done a lot to humanize and bring me closer together with mine.
The only meaningful example of this I can think of is Larry Wall and Perl...but his mistake was in loosening his grip instead of tightening it. Perl6 started off as a utopia wherein Larry was only considered slightly more powerful than any other contributor. This resulted in a revolving door of clowns taking the reigns and rapidly resigning as Larry looked on.

Fortunately Perl5 still does the Pumpking thing which is effectively a rotating BDFL.
Good point! Quick googling shows that Google’s IPs were also targeted, not only Amazon’s (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/18/russia-blocks-google-amazon-...).
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Lithuania. Our beloved Trafi does wonders. But it doesn't cover obscure little towns :(
Agree with you on your main point, but the conclusion you draw is strange. Yes, they are driven towards monopolistic practices and if something is legal, it will be done. Totally agree. But that's precisely why Title 15 exists. The government/society sets the rules of what is deemed acceptable and allowed to be done in pursuit of profit. If you violate those rules - rules which everyone else follows and is expected to follow, you have committed a serious offense according to the law. Why would/should that not result in prosecution? Because it's an "organism" that acts as a separate entity from a regular person? Fine, Title 15 allows for the prosecution of the entity itself so you can charge the entity but it also includes the ability to charge the individuals within the entity that acted in violation of the law". Make no mistake, in basically every one of these examples I have ever seen, there is most definitely a person or group of people that discussed the company's action/policy and decided to break the law. You think the decision at Google to promote their own products and put competitors on page 4 just magically happened? No. A person (i.e. product manager) or a group of people sat in a room and discussed how to increase profits and actively made that decision. They deserve to be individually charged for their actions and the company should be charged because they were all acting on behalf of the firm. The lawyers for these companies aren't stupid. But they know these laws are not being enforced...from the article:
"Some were investigated, but only superficially, the government just really isn't enforcing our antitrust laws." That quote from the article was in reference to challenging the mergers, but the same larger body of law includes Title 15. And if they aren't even challenging these mergers properly, you know for damn sure they aren't enforcing the rest of Title 15 properly because that takes much more work on their part. These laws exist for a very, very good reason. As soon as you start strongly enforcing these laws, this problem will go away. These aren't obscure laws we're talking about. These are part of the bedrock of our laws regarding competition and fair practices.

EDIT: It is precisely because the rule of law barely exists regarding Title 15 for certain companies that we have this problem. The issue isn't that we are approaching the problem incorrectly - it's that this is a consequence of lawlessness and a lack of enforcement. All the tools to properly address this exist already and don't really require adjustment, just enforcement.
To be fair, several people actually have tried to reform English spelling [1]. Perhaps the most famous of these, at least in America, was Noah Webster (of Webster's Dictionary fame) in the 1800s. He's actually the reason Americans use 'color' over 'colour' and 'center' over 'centre'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo...
I believe Luna Trim is quite an effective product
You still can't really.

If I have a canonical import path of "mydomain.io/foo", and I host html there pointing to github or whatever, I now have a different single point of failure: the domain. If I lose control of the domain or the

Most package management systems have one additional layer of resolution: a centralized pluggable repository location which can be configured to some default, and then lookups are made against that instead of against a url specified in the source code.

For example, with cargo, I can open my ".cargo/config" file and specify "registry.index = whatever-url.com", and then for package "foo" it'll look it up on that registry.

If I forget to renew the domain, I don't have to change a bunch of import comments in my source code to update the registry location; I have to update one cargo config file.
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There are lots of small differences, but I would say there are two major:

* Semantic Import Versioning. A package is identified by some name. I think vgo calls it an "import path", but I have also seen "package path" used. Every version of that package must remain compatible with previous versions. You may not break compatibility (i.e. increment the major semver number) without also renaming the package. There is some syntactic sugar that makes it clear that a version 2 is closely related to the original version 1, but from the point of view of vgo, the two versions are completely distinct packages. This also means a program may depend on several major versions of the same package (which Russ claims is necessary when doing gradual migrations of large programs).

* Minimal Version Selection. In contrast to pretty much every other package manager, vgo tries to install the oldest version of a packages that still satisfies any lower bounds specified anywhere in the dependency tree. Upper bounds are not supported. This both makes the solving algorithm trivial (which probably doesn't matter much), but also gives you reproducible builds without using a lockfile (which is nice), and it gives you a very simple operational model for what the package manager is doing (which I think is crucial).

All package managers suck and all package managers break, but I think when vgo breaks, it will be more obvious what is wrong. Time will tell whether it works in practice!

(And I'm not even a Go programmer; I just like the thoughtfulness that goes into the tooling.)
I've thought about it more, and it's a tough question. If Facebook did allow Facebook users to see and interact with ActivityPub posts, but didn't allow other ActivityPub instances to see Facebook posts, there would be three types of instances.

There would be FB itself, of course. Then there'd be AP instances, short for ActivityPub instances that don't block Facebook. And finally, there'd be AP-FB (AP minus FB) instances, short for ActivityPub instances that do block Facebook.

FB accounts can interact with AP but not AP-FB. AP-FB can interact with AP but not FB. AP can interact with AP-FB, and only partially with FB.

If there aren't many people on AP-FB instances, then the incentive for people on AP is to jump straight to FB, because that's where you have the most reach.

If there are a lot of people on AP-FB instances, then there's some incentive to jump to AP accounts, because then you can interact with AP-FB and Facebook people can see your posts, even though you can't see theirs. It's not clear how strong this incentive would be, though, because people being able to see your posts might not matter if you can't see theirs.

If every instance is AP, they lose users to FB, so they have an incentive to coordinate to make a strong AP-FB block. But if there's a strong AP-FB block, AP-FB people would have incentive to jump to AP. This is likely to stabilize with FB winning, if the incentive is strong enough, so we could have a Bad End.

This means the correct game-theoretic solution, as far as I can tell from my armchair, would be for the AP-FB block to coordinate and block not only FB, but also AP instances, so that there'd be no incentive to jump to AP.

So it would all depend on how well instance owners can coordinate, and how willing they'd be to block AP instances, who could be framed as "defecting". I have no idea how that would turn out; humans have been known to coordinate, but also been known to fail to coordinate. It's something we'll see in the future, if Facebook ever partially implements ActivityPub.
Was the user name 100% compliant with Microsoft's TOS?
I‘d be delighted with a Windows 10 kernel and technology stack sporting a Windows 2000 GUI. That represents the nostalgic apex for me. XP’s default ”Fisher Price” skin was when things turned sour.
The most-recycled material in the US presently is a battery electrolyte: lead.

Reuse rate is only 68%.

That's a 32% reduction in stock per generation.

High rates of recycling are possible in theory, yes, but have not been demonstrated in practice. The loss rate over n generations for a recovery rate r (percent/100) is r^n. At a 90% recovery rate, you've lost 50% of initial stock in 7 generations.

https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/recycle/

https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/recycle/my...
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I'm not sure I understand you. You're saying that we will solve lack of knowledge with stopping the pursuit of knowledge?
After Pearl Harbor, some wanted to get rid of early-warning radar systems. The military created the ROC to screen for operators who might misidentify enemy planes. The radar did fine, the interpretation was wrong.
For what it's worth, I analyzed as many Gopkg.{lock,toml} files I could find in the wild, and found that vgo's algorithms would service all of them. I've done similar analysis for a smaller number of Rust projects using Cargo and had the same findings. I've found it hard to find projects in the wild that actually do any non-trivial version selection. I think this is some good evidence that it will work out in practice.

I think it's less that Go has significantly different needs, but it's more that people overestimate what their actual needs are.

https://github.com/zeebo/dep-analysis
My spectrum bill rocketed after the 1st year and after numerous unpleasant long calls with their representatives, I haven't been given any viable option. They keep forcing me to take their cable connection which would 'lower' my rates for the internet connection but I would end up paying them more than for just an internet connection.

The saddest revelation through all this is that I couldn't find any other provider in my area (DTLA) which can promise me 100Mbps. I'm stuck with them and I'm not a happy customer! I so wish there were other competing ISPs in this area..
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Vancouver is going to cap Uber at the outset. The taxi industry here is highly concentrated within eight key electoral ridings that you have to win in order to take a majority in provincial political. It’s the most powerful taxi industry in the world.

NYC: we feel your pain, but spare us a thought as we suffer without any Uber at all, and only the dimmest prospect of ever having Uber, let alone an adequate number of cabs.
Open Source is absolutely chock full of examples of this.
Repology, the packaging hub
For speaking, sure, but if you are writing then Spanish will take longer because you have to physically type out more characters.
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So what you're saying is...the kids were the real criminals all along.
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My apologies. I meant Oracle or Salesforce acquiring Slack.
The article laments the loss of oral languages as if this was a modern phenomenon. Oral languages were always being lost, for the simple reason that they drift. It's doubtful an oral language would be intelligible to its descendants after only a century or two.

Writing slows this down a lot, but what really slowed it down was the advent of the printing press.

It's still drifting. New words like "sexting" appear, and just read some Shakespeare for lost words.
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It is hard to not notice the ideological spin on every news piece, so I will just not talk about Chinese companies.
He's likely referring to this: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org/

I can't remember if this was discontinued or not, but there's been varying levels of outcry about it.

(Disclosure: I work at Google)
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>well, maybe it is their fault, but it's not a bad thing

I'd argue that having a single entity have such power over something so critical as being bad by nature. Concentrated power is the root of evil.
> Or wait, are you saying that they don't realize that there's anything except Facebook?

Something like that. Maybe they realise but they don't care. Want to read the news? You check out CNN's Facebook page for latest posts. Want to sell something? Use the marketplace.

For whatever website most of them would like to visit for information there is a Facebook page available.
You're right; I'm definitely guilty of using it myself like that quite often (as above). It's mentioned in Collin's Dictionary [1] as well as in Wiktionary [2] as a replacement for 'in fairness' [3].

[1]https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/to-b...

[2]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_fairness#English

[3]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_fairness#English
Imagine you run a website. Some day, for whatever reason, Google is blacklisting you. Are you going to say "eh, no big deal, I'll just have my customers use Bing instead"?
They also had Dave Cutler and loads of other high profile people over the years.

Dozens have companies have benefited from the diaspora of DEC, and now Sun.
Twitter has become more and more useful to me over time. It is, for me, an indispensable tool for keeping up with what's happening in ML and in contact with people who I would otherwise never meet. Through careful curation of my feed I get a constant supply of interesting and useful information. (And some pictures of cute dogs).
This is only happening to charter because it was a clause written into their recent large merger with TWC. I don't think the state would have such broad latitude to revoke any other ISPs license to operate.

Verizon was at least smarter about being technically correct, they apparently ran fiber "past every household in the city". The joke probably being, good fucking luck getting your building hooked up to it. If they'd even do it, it'd probably cost you thousands
I'm afraid those charts mean nothing unless I see the Y-Axis labelled.
This feels like the Intellectual Property/Patent mindset creeping into the cultural sphere of ordinary memetic transmission. Which hilariously of course is also a case of memetic transmission.
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Amazon has pretty much always been margin positive even after shipping so not a good comparison.
These are not iPads.
Cool stuff, I've had similar ideas but can never figure out the best approach to go about it. Just coming up with an approach that makes some kind of sense is an achievement in itself!

How do you go about syncing the subtitles? For huge films it's generally not a bother as the top subtitles will often be from the same source (and therefore follow similar formatting rules, if nothing else) but you can get pretty wide deviations when you get down to things with fewer subtitle options available.
Which is a right pain, as excel formulas written in say the French version of excel can’t be interpreted by the English version
The author dedicates a full section to a possible attempt at suicide. However, he doesn't even try to correlate that with the physical examinations.

How does one go braindead in a suicide attempt while locked up, without leaving physical evidence of other injuries?

Certainly, none of the other suicide attempts the author listed would qualify.

Later in the article:
"Upon learning that this article did not support claims that Otto was beaten, and included the theory that he may have attempted suicide—a possibility that the family, through their lawyer, dismissed categorically—the Warmbiers withdrew a statement that they had previously provided."

The "theory" that he attempted suicide is definitely on shakier ground than the "theories" his injuries were intentionally inflicted on him by the North Koreans.
"Science and Method" (1908, "Science et méthode" -original title in French-) is Poincaré's book the blog post author is speaking about. In my opinion, Poincaré's book is very valuable, and useful for anyone dealing with non trivial problems, no matter if there is "unconscious though" or not.
That used to be true for me but I've used ddg as my main search engine for a couple of years and I find myself using "!g" less and less. Actually you made me realize that I haven't used it in a while, probably weeks (and I've had a very busy couple of weeks with tons of opportunities to look for stuff online).

It's not because duckduckgo finds everything I want, it's because I've noticed that when ddg doesn't find something usually google doesn't either. Also whenever I end up on google now (generally because I forgot to change the search engine after a fresh install) I find the website cluttered which is a shame because it used to be in Google's DNA to keep the search page simple.

For instance I just made a completely random search on Google just to see what it would look like: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20180727-235325_tou.png

What the hell is all of that stuff? If I wanted to browse the stock exchange or google maps I would. "People also search for" well good for them I guess.
i'm not a fan of Yelp's business practices or strategic web decisions, yet, i think Stoppelman may have a point even if Yelp is guilty of the same type of shady practices itself.

IOW, just like i wonder if i'm missing an excellent restaurant when i search for restaurants in Yelp, i also wonder if i'm missing an excellent review website when i search for "restaurant reviews" on Google.
You're forgetting Webster, responsible for American spellings like colour vs color, centre vs center, gaol vs jail.
At least you're getting 100Mbps. I'm one of the original TWC customers who refuse to switch over to their new "no contract" plans because I don't want them to jump my rates like they did yours. Their retaliation? I get 10Mbps down, 1Mbps up. No speed upgrade for me.

Nothing else in my area gets even close to 100Mbps either. I hope NYS can work something out or I'm going to have to move.
I guess I'm mostly thinking of using threads?
Except for the breaking changes every edition, of course.
IMO liquid or solid fuel at normal pressure and temperature is much cheaper and easier and safer to store than hydrogen.

Besides:

http://carbonengineering.com

http://www.climeworks.com

From https://lustysociety.org/ethics.html#climate:

Annual global fossil fuel subsidies amounting to $5.3 trillion in 2015 (6.5% of global GDP).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X1...

According to the Global Carbon Atlas:
36 183 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2016.

According to estimates in 2018 by Carbon Engineering and Climeworks:
The cost of capturing 1 metric ton CO2 from the air costs $ 600 in 2018 and could fall under $ 100 in 5 - 10 years.
A plant could make a liter fuel for a dollar.

At a cost of $ 600 per metric ton of CO2, the capture of the emissions of 2016 (36 183 million metric tons) costs $ 21 710 billion or $ 21.7 trillion.

At a cost of $ 100 per metric ton of CO2, the capture of the emissions of 2016 (36 183 million metric tons) costs $ 3 618 billion or $ 3.6 trillion.

The organic fuel should be used with batteries and fuel cells and not with combustion engines.

In order to decrease the CO2 concentration in the environment, the waste products must be contained and recycled later without release into the atmosphere.
Its an (anti) pattern for those that don't really know SQL: https://www.slideshare.net/billkarwin/sql-antipatterns-strik...
Please don't post fluff. A good HN story needs to gratify intellectual curiosity. Pop culture stories can do that, but this isn't one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A situation that exists in Magento and causes numerous performance issues.
I went through a three month-long interview process with them... then they said I did very well and they would be extending me an offer.

THen next day, they called and said I would not receive an offer and would not give a reason.

THey invited me to interview for that position multiple times over the next couple of years and I finally had to ask them to stop recruiting me for that position... they stopped. :-(
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