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Consider what used to be the poster-boy for the lawyers blaming the insurance system here:

$6 million verdict that was still being fought in the courts many years later rather than simply paid.

Oops, the reality: Trial #1: The woman was determined to be 90% at fault for her baby's problems, the law here doesn't let you collect if you're found more than 50% at fault. Trial #2, this time filed in the name of the baby. Still 90% to the woman. However, the jury assigned 5% to one doctor who examined her once several hours before the birth. He's the only one with anything, the whole $6 million verdict landed on him.

If that's what the lawyers consider a good case...
If I were developing a new protocol, and I thought more than just web browsers might want to use it, I would develop it as a new standard internet transport protocol. None of this trying to avoid getting industry adoption. Talk to Cisco, Juniper, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Broadcom, TP-Link, Huawei, Foundry, Avaya, Marvell, Foxconn, etc. Get it adopted in silicon and software, and get the industry actually excited about an upgraded protocol. They get to use it to push sales of new devices, so it's great for them. You get to use it to work around stupid intermediary networking issues.
I'm sorry, but if you have IoT devices controlling your home and they are connected to the Internet, your "smart home" is open to attack by design. And since IoT devices are optimized for convenience and sales rather than security, those attacks are likely to succeed and your devices co-opted for other purposes.
I tend to put on opposite ends of the spectrum being strategic and authentic. Authentic interactions with people at work generally are better for everybody if you are in an environment that is compatible with that. Many environments are not so you have to be more reserved and strategic about what you say and how you interact with people. Being authentic with people outside of work is not terrible advice. Allowing people to know you are having some emotion such as happiness or fear or sadness allows people become closer to you and you to them. Mr Rogers talked a lot about that—expressing how you feel about things. I think many people misconstrue mr Rogers to be all about the “you are special” thing. But his target demographic was kids who likely were not that well off and had not great family lives. Having somebody who tells you that you are not a piece of trash probably helped a lot of kids.
They do. They're all registered via one email: https://domainbigdata.com/gmail.com/mj/0DnwUjDWo0L7ysS4kB00p...
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Why would they do simple, fast & efficient things like that when they can bring ML and AI to the party? :)
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If you're going to run IoT devices in your house I highly recommend isolating them to their own VLAN+Wifi SSD to limit their exposure to the rest of your network.

Personally I'm a fan of Ubiquiti's Unifi gear for this. Relatively cheap(~$250 depend on what you get), easy to setup and much better Wifi quality as a bonus. Ars did a pretty good write-up a while back that I liked[1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/enter...
It's a cool idea, but unfortunately subtitles are notoriously inaccurate. Even in normal translations, you lose context and meaning due to cultural and structural differences in the language whose intents are difficult or even impossible to preserve. Add in the space and time constraints of subtitles, and you're basically forced to provide a bad translation of what's actually happening. This is especially true for poetry, lyrics, and jokes. And that's of course assuming that the translator is any good at it, or hasn't inserted politically motivated inaccuracies (most commonly with sexuality for translations to English). I've seen some HORRIBLY inaccurate subtitles and dubs, even by professionals (cough Akira cough), even to the point where the "translation" is a complete fabrication in some places.

Movies with subtitles are a nice aide, but to properly learn a language, you must learn it IN the language, WITH the attached culture.
1) it used VLC, called from the command line. arrow keys, space bar and a few letter keys for mode and navigation.

2) I downloaded from various places. If you can post a link I'll check it out, but based on past experience the subtitles for one market only match that release of that market's movie, and go out of sync with any foreign release. For example, if you have a Chinese movie with English subtitles it was probably edited for release in an English speaking market and won't match any Chinese subtitles you might find since they would go with the Chinese release.
I hope all of the Knight Anoles had small toe pads. They are mean and bitey.
I haven't studied this problem, but I suspect reserves of metals (and anything else that gets mined) is technically defined the same way oil reserves are defined, which renders this kind of headline nonsense.

Even in the pessimistic case, we run out of money before we run out of reserves. In other words, price elasticity always brings more reserves online. Reserves are defined as what can be provably economically extracted given proven technology and current economics. And the proven technology is only what has been proven in a particular field (or mine, or battery recycling facility), not proven anywhere in the world.
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Libraries also have people who can help you find the particular information you want, or to understand it because of knowledge or language deficits. They offer a relatively safe and distraction-free place to absorb that information, which many lower-income people might not have at hime. They have works which haven't been made available online and probably never will be, often because of copyright. The list just goes on and on. Maybe the information you want and can use is available "almost literally free and instantly" but not everyone's as super privileged as you.
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Does this address optimizations, as seen in LLVM and JIT compilers?
Your map didn't show ridership either; the purpose of mine was just to show that the European railway is larger than what your map showed. And it certainly is used by passengers all across its length, from Faro to Moscow and beyond.
As mentioned earlier, libraries now serve many other purposes. Delivery of information is not the only one. I recently used my library in an extreme heat wave as a way to get free air conditioning. It had the side benefit of giving my kid a place to practice walking, with many low shelves to use as handholds, and she got to chew on toys and books with other children and swap germs. And then I got to leave, and not bring any of that crap home except the germs, the kid, and a few good books.
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It is taboo in Western culture to make certain priors explicit, especially when they are accurate.
Was the entire play of MoviePass to pay for people's movie tickets until they make it and then jack up the prices + negotiate with cinemas for better deals? What was the "make it" condition?

Is this a common strategy?

It also loosely reminds me of the dotcom era strategy. It doesn't matter if we're not making any real money, we have a lot of users. Surely that can be converted into money somehow. We're worth billions of dollars because we have 300 million users!
>Land is one of the single most limited resources we have.

It sounds romantic but is it really ? Even agricultural land is relatively cheap and there are more scarce resources that are needed for development.
As someone, who in the past life spent some time gathering requirements for enterprise software: no, most users do not know what they want. You will mostly meed McGregor's type X people, who do not even care. If they tell you something, it is the Car built for Homer. Several of them, each different and mutually exclusive with another, in fact.

So your job would be finding those of the few type Y folks and work with them. Even if they are enthusiasts, they still might not see the forest for the trees. Also, that doesn't necessarily mean, that their info you will get you near your objective; you will still have to satisfy many more people, who will not use it, but have their own ideas how it should look and behave, even if it will make life harder to those using it (see also: exactly which programmer wanted open space office?).

There is no perfect answer for these problems.
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Only if I don't have work to do during that time. Otherwise, anything to get the work done is first priority.
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Unfortunately I can't read the article without enabling javascript - anyone care to post a summary? :)
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You would no doubt be surprised. High risk lending is a thing in the Bay Area at least, I attended one of the VC lunches and at my table was a person who did that for a living for hedge fund. Sort of like really really big payday loans, but with worse terms.

He mentioned that one of the most unusual notes they had written was backed by obligations on future projects by the CEO of the company, so if the company folded and the CEO went on to start a new company the hedge fund could convert that defaulted note into a percentage share of the next company. Very creative stuff.
They're not free. They're taxpayer subsidized.
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This video gives a walkthrough of the new version of Dremel that's been running in production for past 3 years (no paper sorry!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueWySREWvk
According to politifact[1], education spending accounts for just 3% of all government spending (mandatory and discretionary). Using libraries as the target for cuts so that we can feed the school-children, and citing logic, is ignoring a lot of other much more 'logical' choices we can make first. Military spending (16%), or Health spending, which is a whopping 28% because of our horse-by-committee system here in the US. We spend $10,348 per person [2], while Canada spends $6,604 per person [3], and the next highest countries reportedly spend $3,000 less per person than we do [4].

[1] - https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug...
[2] - https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
[3] - https://www.cihi.ca/en/health-spending
[4] - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/health-costs-how-the-us-...
Generalizations are a necessary part of communications. Listing the exceptions to every statement made would unnecessarily complicate our speech to the point of incomprehension.

Everyone knows there are some strong women out there. Common knowledge shouldn't need to be repeated at every opportunity in order to prevent imaginary slights.
I took their language to be implying a weakness in women that I did not think was warranted (emphasis, mine)

>WW2 military planes were at the limits of a man's strength.

> Women don't have the lower body strength to do it. Flying a damaged B-17 is just not possible without the leg and upper body strength.

> By the time I worked on the 757 flight controls, the "feel forces" had been dialed back substantially to accommodate female pilots.

The final quote seeming to imply the mechanical feedback from the controls of more modern aircraft were lessened to accommodate female pilots, instead of more likely making it easier for all pilots to operate the aircraft.
Wow, that is really neat!
In general I think it's a good idea. However, once someone has an ongoing medical issue that requires a certain type of specialist that gate should be left open. Keeping having to go back to your primary just to get back to the specialist you actually need is wasteful.
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I agree that the consumption isn't sustainable long term. At the same time, consumption of clothes, food, household goods, etc. in rich countries helped China to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by giving them better paying manufacturing jobs.
What joyless world it would be without libraries. Mine is in the heart of Silicon Valley. I visit nearly every week to exchange read books, videos, and CDs for new material. On Saturday morning, the parking lot is nearly full at opening time. Patronage is multi-cultural, reflecting the demongraphics of my city. The librarians are helpful and friendly. In recent elections, we've approved measures to increase property taxes to pay for extended hours, new materials, and other library activities. I'm sure there are libertarians that may think we're fools who enjoy paying taxes. To that, I give a hearty "fuck off"! A community is more that just low taxes and our library reflects that. I would strongly fight against anyone proposing we replace it with Amazon or any other entity that would never care except as a money-making center.
As far as I'm aware, the only people pretending books are libraries' only real purpose are the people here arguing that the Internet should take their place. Libraries themselves certainly aren't pretending to be only about books; they're just physically built around the stacks because books take up so much more space than the other things they provide.

That said, access to books is still a vital service. Not all printed publications are cheap, and not all books can be replaced by Wikipedia (even if you completely ignore fiction, as that argument does by necessity).
What I found most interesting about this write-up is that most of the speed-up in the CSS parsing came from parallelism and that parallelism was attempted many times on the C++ without success.
Urgent care centers are about keeping people out of the ER--patients with medical issues that shouldn't really wait to get in with their primary, but which don't rise to ER-level issues.
Are you being sarcastic (serious question). Alcohol itself is chemically addictive and there are likely orders or magnitudes more people in the alcohol industry trying to make their alcoholic beverages more attractive (and thus spreading addictive substances further into the population) to consumers. It's an industry that easily tops over 1,000 Billion dollars globally.
I think of Moviepass as the pets.com of 21st century VC madness. That said, they clearly had a great pitch, I'd love to see their series A pitch deck.
Libraries in the US serve an enormous homeless population. "Subsidizing internet for low income people" is easy to say but does not address the practicalities of providing internet to the homeless, for instance.
I'm curious too, not sure if this list has changed but this is what I could find: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2016/announcing-th...
Ah, I see. The special thing here is the `new` keyword. When an object is created using `new myconstructor()`, the following steps occur (among others):

1. create a new empty object; call it `newObj`
2. call the constructor using `newObj` as its `this` context, so that `this.a = 1` is effectively `newObj.a = 1`
3. if the constructor has a `prototype` property defined, invoke `newObj.__proto__ = myconstructor.prototype` to establish the prototype chain on the new object

The critical distinction here is between `constructor.prototype` and `object.__proto__`. For exactly this reason, it bothers me a bit that the article uses `Prototype`, with a capital "P", to mean "the thing that `object.__proto__` points to". This is completely different from the `prototype` (small "p") property of a constructor, which is essentially just a holding place for the `__proto__` property of any objects created by calling this constructor with the `new` keyword.

Hopefully that all made sense!
Because this is literally exactly why Uber came to be.
It wasn't because people didn't like the color of the medallion taxis.

It was because the death by a thousand cuts of incremental regulation left such a gaping hole between the crappy service being provided and the end users' needs that people were open to the idea of using a completely unregulated, clearly illegal service instead.
I wrote a graph renderer in emacs lisp a few years ago [0]. It never got included in magit because my code wasn't very good. I'm not sure it would have been better for complicated graphs than the standard git log one, though. Do you have an example of a complicated graph and how a better renderer deals with it?

[0] https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/495#issuecomment-17480...
Not exactly, but if those previous losses were financed by investors, then it could point to difficulty for investors to get a return in the future.
The internet, at least intermittently and slowly -which is enough for books, is more accessible than public libraries.
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There’s sort of an assumption that the status quo is some how morally superior though. And you have to keep in mind that journalists are a part of that status quo. We have one group of elites and their spokespeople bitching about the newcomer.

Personally I’d take the tech douche over the academic or the bureaucrat.
Yeah, for sure, especially for more modern CPU features like caches and OOO that are very difficult to emulate in software.

But you can't share hardware designs (e.g., FPGA bitstreams) like you can software binaries or software source code. A hardware design will require a specific FPGA, board, and probably even a particular version of the synthesis tools if you want to build from source.
> Most of the people with AIDS are gay men and drug users.

Did you just step out of a time machine or something?

The vast majority of AIDS victims in the world are not gay and never used drugs.

Have some stats:

https://www.avert.org/global-hiv-and-aids-statistics
If I were an ISP and the the network is congested, I would too drop UDP before TCP as UDP likely won't get resent.

Customer service can play dump and say the internet (== WWW) is working fine. And since we customer usually don't have choice anyway.
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C-sections are done when something isn't going right, or when there is some medical issue against natural childbirth. You can't compare the risks with natural childbirth because you're looking at two different populations.

Your argument is like saying doctors make people sick because someone in a doctor's office is more likely to be sick than someone on the street.
I would like to see Mourdoukoutas live by his own principles and eschew his university's library and its no doubt extensive access to paywalled services, and use Amazon exclusively and at his own expense.
It is taboo on HN to state unsupported BS, especially when it is inaccurate.
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Cool man, so you know exactly what happened for that whole time period while he was in NK? He was there for over two years. No way he was beaten at any point, right? No way they tortured him?

The amount of cognitive dissonance it takes to defend North Korea is staggering. To each his own I guess.
Yes and read/write barriers are also sometimes necessary, to prevent re-ordering by the compiler and processor.
Don't forget about their pursuit of the lowest possible standards of employment and working conditions.
They relied on the subway for generations, too.

Does that mean everything is exactly the same as it once as?
I think he means it's hard to prove at an individual employee level, whether they get their food from here or not.
I think your discounting of a romantic notion, or the concept of "essential soul" overlooks the fact that this correlates highly with how the service is perceived, and thus used, as well as how it is run, which is something you can see discussed various other places in the comments. Replacing the library, whose purpose is the best interests of its users, with a business, whose purpose is the best interests of its shareholders, and expecting it to go well, seems like the real pipe dream to me.
Is there discrimination at the average company against 35+ candidates? Yes.

Is it because the candidates don’t know the latest languages and frameworks? Sometimes, not always.

Is it because “fresh grads” have “energy” or something? Almost certainly not. What does that even mean?

Is it negated by the comments here like “oh there are 70-year-olds doing programmig where I work!”? No, that’s just an anecdote, not statistically relevant.
Some biofuels, particularly corn ethanol, are bad for the environment. Given the low return on energy invested for corn ethanol, it's functionally a way to launder fossil fuels (e.g. diesel for tractors, natural gas for fertilizer production, coal or gas for distillation) into "green" fuel. With a nice side effect of further degrading valuable farmland.
>CURRENT OWNERSHIP: 17 percent of medallions are owned by cab fleets; 54 percent are owned by leasing agents, who delegate management to fleets; and 29 percent are owned by independent drivers.

I think 29%, 12,187 * .29 ~ 3500 cab drivers, is not insignificant numbers. I don't know though anyone who owns their own medallions -- a few I knew worked for a company that leased their medallions and they paid something like $1000 per week.
I don't understand exactly how this is low-friction in any possible way...

1. Open browser -> Go to devhints -> search for "dd" -> select doc

2. Open term -> type tldr dd

Another thing that is missing is offline access, localStorage integrates in minutes...

I simply feel like this is someone trying to reinvent the wheel and also that this medium (a website) might not be the best way to do that. Sure it has a pretty frontend and a somewhat decent user experience for a web "app", but I (and probably many more devs) spend about 90% of my day in my terminal...
Would you pay more tax in order to recreate homeless centres or other such so the libraries don't accidentally provide this service?

It would seem a little rough to close libraries because they're forced by circumstance to pick up some of the fallout of other services having been cut already.
>> The only option was Uber/Lyft

> New Yorkers have relied on cabs for generations before Uber and Lyft.

Subway: 2.75
Uber/Lyft Pool: $17
Yellow Cab: $30++ (depends on how round-about a route they decide to take, often just to make more money)

Uber/Lyft Pool hurt. Yellow cab would be a punch to the gut. Perhaps Uber/Lyft Pool isnt the answer, but i'm evaluating options in the context of what my current available options are, not what they might be in a perfect world.

Plus, they disappear as soon as it is raining and a bunch refuse to take you into Brooklyn (i know they are not allowed to refuse, but what do you do if they refuse, call a lawyer?)
That's a severe distortion of the reality. Most of those "errors" are not a healthy patient dies, but cases where the patient was dying, the only question being exactly when.
Despite the sentiment to this article here, has anyone invested in cobalt/copper/nickel futures or mining companies?
Lending $5 million to MoviePass at this point is probably as close as you can get to literally throwing your cash on a burning heap. Must be some term sheet!
read my reply to the other comment.
What are the chances the CEO will disclose those terms to prospective employees of his new companies? Near zero?

That's a serious landmine for employees who get part of their comp as stock options.

Edit: edited to reflect what I actually wanted to say (future companies instead of current company)
The reason is open protocols soon become the single biggest blocker to innovation. Open protocols stagnate and ossify. So some competitor with a proprietary system will come along and eat your lunch. That's why there have only been 2 changes in email clients ever - the move from terminal to desktop GUI and desktop GUI to web 2.0 client. That's why XMPP and IRC clients will never compete with slack (queue the 'what does slack have that IRC doesn't have thread').
98% likely that they do.
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