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Sounds like, if true (I was under the impression that a big % of medical cost is due to artificial cost inflation due to the existence of insurance companies), the people costing the system the most amount of money are the least able to move, because they're, you know, dying. Or have some other debilitating condition that requires them to stay with the doctors that know what's going on.
> Tax reform means my organically growing startup gets to keep 33% more of our profit to reinvest back into the company, which has meaningfully impacted our annual budget and growth trajectory.

There's no doubt that we get better tax solutions in the short term. Long term, it makes government services we rely upon to sustain our business untenable. This is the problem with an "economic self-interest" argument: scale matters.

There's also the point that in the grand scheme of things, our companies don't matter and their short term windfalls shouldn't come at the cost of funding for education and social services that make it possible to sustain a healthy economy in the future. I certainly don't think my nascent company is more important than funding public education for the next generation in my country.
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"California, an extremely liberal state, voted in a 72% majority referendum for the three strikes policy."

Incorrect. In 1994, when the three strikes legislation passed, CA was a purple state with a moderate Republican governor.

It is the anti-immigrant rhetoric around Prop 208 in 1996 that undermined the GOP in the state, by driving the majority of the young and non-white into the arms of the Democrats.
Ask HN: What's your current side project?
...looking for inspiration how to spend a free time during next few months.
They're not idiots, they just don't give a crap about waste until it affects their bottom line. (Most humans seem to operate on this principle)

A lot of the business-related bullshit is a response to advertising and sales. But a lot is also lazy tech people slapping pieces together until it does a thing, and they don't care that it loads 100x more data than it needs to, because again, doesn't affect their bottom line.

Traffic costs must be pretty low, or nobody's watching that line on the AWS budget, or the CDN is eating the cost.
Amazon has that feature.
I don't think it ever got enough recognition for handling UI designs and everyone just gravitated towards Photoshop or Illustrator.

I think its heyday was when HTML table layouts were still how you had to layout websites and it's slicing capabilities were really convenient. I suspect that was the killer feature for a lot of people but once CSS layouts took over, Fireworks really fell out of favor and Adobe never bothered to reposition it as a UI tool.

I still use it to this day for my limited editing/mockup needs. The new workflow seems to be mockup tool (like Balsamiq) -> Photoshop design -> HTML/CSS, but for my needs, I can get reasonably close enough in both layout and design in Fireworks just do Fireworks -> HTML/CSS.

I don't know if a tool that is close enough to Fireworks to be a good replacement has come around, but I know it's definitely not Photoshop, which I find far too complicated for the basic tasks I need.
That's not fear it's excitement.
TBH though, for the most part, authors of tech books don't really make meaningful money either. Writing is something you do for some combination of personal satisfaction, extension to day job, or personal brand building. And tech reviewers of those books (and reviewers of proposals) may be paid, but it isn't much.

None of this should be taken to suggest that there aren't issues with the scientific journal model but lack of author payments is probably not one of them.
There are lots of different ways to pay for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
They also don't pay reviewers. The costs for a journal are only the cost of sending a webpage (which they charge what, $30 for?), the paper journal itself (for some absurd amount each year).

They do not pay the authors for the content, they do not pay the reviewers (who are the "added value" they harp on about).

They're basically a tool that converts tax payer money (the vast majority of those people writing papers are paid in part or entirely by tax payer funds) into private money for the publisher.
Be sure to read this comment [0] alongside it. My feeling is this sort of document is fine to dip into it as a guide, and select what makes sense to you, but it feels very 'depth first'. It goes to extreme lengths to stop people using a computer, and neglects that fact people will simply bypass this and do their own thing anyway. The typical IT-first 'enterprise' solution to that is disciplinarys etc. Very few companies are (or should be) run by enterprise IT departments.

If you have to implement half the suggestions they make, you're probably doing it wrong. If you're that paranoid about giving a user access to a computer, you shouldn't give them access, not jump around locking down their access to bash once they are on there.

While the attitude of people who believe these documents still exists (in a few companies), people will simply avoid enterprise IT. A far better solution would be "sure, use ubuntu, just ensure that you install this package (which does a few sensible things -- syslog, package version reporting, etc)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654658
As others have noted, it’s more of a fox wrapped around a globe — the icon made at a time when the competition (IE) had a circular icon which was an “e” with a ring around it.

I did think it harked back well to the old Gecko icon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software)
the federal government should send real intelligence officials to police this effort at this point. isn't this literally what the national security letters were for?

and don't get started on that slippery slope stuff, we are deeeeep in the mariana's trench with regard to NSL and what the intelligence community does to private companies.
Better idea: A camp where they have to struggle as the working poor for two months and get shit on by cops, bureaucrats, banks and angry customers.
Yes. We can send papers to whomever we want. At one point, when you published a paper in a journal you’d get a stack of printed copies of your paper in the mail from the publisher that you were free to share with anyone. I think I have a few of those stacks around from papers I published 20 years or so ago.

Even if you technically aren’t allowed to share, that has NEVER stopped someone from sharing in my career. The only time I’ve had trouble with people sharing is if I ask for code to reproduce what they published. That usually is met with silence.
I don't care if they are Brazilians or Norwegian. If you leave an open hole for someone to fall down you are being negligent.

The whole crux of my argument is to remove the concept of culture from the discussion unless it is absolutely necessary.

Sorry to bow out but I think you are barking up the wrong tree trying to get me to say something unique about Brazil. Human laziness and general awfulness is universal.
Things are different now.

When I was on a modem... pictures, almost any, were bullshit as far as being big and annoying to download. A lot of the time I hated them.

Nobody thinks about pictures that way anymore. I suspect that goes for a lot of the bullshit listed in that article.

I'm no fan of tracking or auto play videos, but web applications are a thing now and the people visiting sites, building them, and paying for them want more than just a page... they want a whole application. All three of those (viewer, builder, dude who pays / host) aren't on the same page, but they also are largely happy to go down the road of bigger pages.

I'm all for efficiency and kicking some stuff to the curb, but as for size, it is not on the mind of most people.

I'd be all for a class of retro / minimal sites or something, but it is clear for a lot of things web apps is where we're going.
Facebook should definitely remove stuff from foreign actors trying to impact some political outcome (like Russia messing with Brexit or American elections) and any promotion by groups to incite violence (like gangs, ISIS propaganda, hate groups, etc.).

But political and partisan stuff is a slippery slope. For example, I wouldn't touch Alex Jones stuff. Maybe derank his content and posts promoting his content, but banning him all together is a step too far. Like it or not, were in a weird place in American politics where conspiracy theorists not only have influence in political parties, but also get elected President. Facebook banning figures, and to be more specific, conservative figures when conservatives already believe Facebook is biased against them is just a bad idea.

If Congress wants Facebook and Twitter to silence speech, they need to pass a law. That law needs to be clear about what is inbounds and what is out. If not, Facebook is opening itself up to legal challenges from the Right and is only going to erode trust from half the population.

We are in a weird place in American politics and Facebook should tread lightly. Also, Congress should do it's damn job and not rely on companies to use discretion. If Facebook bans something that the left deems is biased against them then Facebook, once again, will be in big trouble with half the country.
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The submission requirements explicitly require authors to not make any papers they submit available elsewhere.
> Also I read a lot of bad experiences here on HN with the XPS line every time it comes up. Personally I know at least two people who had a bad experience with it and ended up replacing the machine with something else. Is Dell improving on that part or has it stabilized?

Haha, yes, I'm one of the unfortunate people that use XPS 13 9350 and have had a lot of issues with it. On the other hand I installed Arch recently and everything works out of the box, including touch screen, that really surprised me.

Personally I would blame Intel for their crappy hardware (all issues were with Intel peripherals), but that's me.
Yeah, I think this is what I'm looking to focus on. We're a small startup, so interns are a new thing. So I'm going to focus a lot on how it felt settling in, getting up to speed. What can we do better to get people comfortable faster? What were their biggest pain points in the summer.

It's just interesting framing these to someone who may not have much experience to compare it to.
I think I heard this on Hacker News, but I don't recall who from. Whenever I see a popup begging me to sign up for a spam list, I put in postmaster@that-domain.com now.
Note that the latest editions of that book are now named Windows Internals, if you want to read about more recent developments.
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Popular conspiracy theory pushed by Russian state media is that MH370 [1] disappeared in March 2014 was then used for false flag operation as MH17 [2] in July 2014.

Both are Boeing 777-200ER.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
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The book "Trust me, I'm Lying" was eye opening to me - it described intrinsic human behaviors that has made FB into such a devastating agent (genocides in Burma, attacks on democracy, etc.) Helped me kill my FB account quickly.
Yes, we should definitely go back to the days where there was only one stylesheet per page and the web wasn't accessible to those with visual impairments. Being blind is clearly just a lifestyle choice, and we shouldn't be catering to the blind agenda. /s

In all seriousness, most of the problem with bloat is on the mobile side. But in another ~1.25 years iPhones will have enough advanced LTE functionality that they will be basically the same speed as desktop computers. To whatever extent this is a real problem, it's not going to be nearly as big of an issue after another two or three years.
Financial Times. The WSJ is mostly accurate but you have to watch out for some things (ignore the entire editorial section, for instance).
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conceptually simple, perhaps, but in practice they are far from it. HTML, CSS, JS, and web server tools are complex because web pages are extremely parameterized over different content, client sizes and types, user preferences, and data. From being a long time web developer, the graphical layout tools are basically only useful for graphic design, because they output code that only works for the exact layout and content initially created, which is typically useless for anything but static content.

I think the difficulty of making tools for abstracting web content are related to the difficulties of creating more intuitive programming tools.
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I can do all of this outside of a one-on-one/exit interview type conversation though. We really focused on iterative feedback during their internship.
Did they move there with an already-diagnosed kid?

There was a professor in the news for leaving New Zealand (I think) recently for exactly this reason. Because his kid was autistic (or something) the authorities were highly reluctant to grant him residency & hence lifelong care.

Edit: here's the story, 13-year-old stepson in fact:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/prestigious-ac...
Love it. The super rich are so drastically removed in their experiences from the 99 percent of the population from birth how can they ever have empathy or understanding for the rest of humanity?

Combine that with the massive power and political influence that comes with money and the chances are they're not looking out for the best interests of society as a whole and humanity ends up having revolution after revolution...nothing changes with our primitive human monkey brains.
If you have the money, learn to fly. Find an instructor willing to work with you in spite of your fears. Sometimes the best way to overcome something is to face it with the right person at your side.
I'd forgotten that sort of clever craziness with Fireworks PNG files! For a while after discovering the program I thought, "Wow, PNG does a whole lot of neat stuff I didn't think it could." Later I learned, no, Fireworks was just stuffing a whole lot of Fireworks-specific data into private chunks. :)
> This is something that should be a "law", the more accomplished a person is the most it can "afford" to be modest. So for example Einstein was more modest than say Feynman, and Edward Witten is way way more modest than your typical string theorist.

Your examples seem different from your law. Your law says that a more accomplished person can afford to be more modest, whereas your examples suggest that a more accomplished person automatically is more modest. While it would be nice if there were some such causative effect, I think that your examples in evidence of one are very cherry picked (and speculative: do you really know whether or not Einstein was a modest person?).
I received the same spam.
I don't care as long as Waterfox doesn't change its logo.
I don't think we'll ever see Win32 retired. .NET and UWP aren't distinct subsystems; they run atop Win32.
Most author publishing agreements allow stipulate this. In my experience, the author retains copyright, but grants a license to distribute the typeset, proofread document. You generally have the right to distribute an un-typeset copy on your own website, and on platforms (arXiv), sometimes after an embargo period (6 months to 2 years). I think personal communication attachments are not really considered distribution, so I have not seen the published/preprint version stipulated either way.
Interestingly if you pay them, and thus are logged in when you view an article, then they can better track you.

In contrast if you never sign up, disable JS, and periodically clear your cookies, then the entire site works fine and none of the third party trackers work. At best they can link your browser user agent and IP to a hit on the server side.
I had a look and the first thing I found was him calling for an academic boycott against New Zealand - presumably for NZs support of the UN resolution against Israel’s Palestinian settlements. This is an interesting approach to dealing with criticism.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=247
Strange that the partner needs to be pay, with most payment gateways is the other way around. The developer works to bring more customers and a higher sales volume and the payment gateway in return does revenue sharing.
Depending on how you define 52x, CAV, and the mechanical limits of a CD.

Some drives max at an advertised 48x, because early CDs still exploded at 52.
The Federal Government should not be in the business of censorship.
What they are is what they are making most of their money at. Everything else is a hobby or supporting that business. Apple is selling iphones, google and facebook selling ads, amazon a retailer and a cloud provider. Microsoft selling software licences to businesses and cloud provider.

One thing that should be worth looking at given where we are in the economic cycle is how procyclical these businesses are. They didn't suffer much in the 2008 crisis as they were in full expension mode, but now these businesses are starting to be mature. Ads and retail are certainly very procyclical. $1000 smartphone too I presume. Cloud should be more stable, depending on how much of their income is VC funded loss making startups. Business license should be fairly stable.
Which designer wants an unmovable header that takes 1/3rd of the screen and makes me feel like I'm looking at it through blinds, as I typically see on mobile?
If you need to downlink data every minute, stations must be spaced around the earth such that every satellite passes over a groundstation every minute.
LEO orbital period is about 100 minutes, so with a circumference of 25000 miles, ground stations would have to be spaced about every 250 miles over the surface of the earth. The earth has a surface area of about 200 million square miles, so divided into 250x250 mile chunks, one would only need about 3200 groundstation sites, but each would have to be able to communicate with ~20-30 satellites at any given moment.

Because the satellites are small and relatively low power, the ground stations used to communicate with a high speed link probably use a 3-5 meter dish.
So each groundstation site needs either a large array of rapid-slew tracking antennas or a big ol' phased array with some seriously hardcore software on board.
A bank of ~20-30 3-5 meter antennae capable of slew and pitch to track a LEO target is a pretty serious investment. Each tracking antenna probably costs more than 100k... they'll have to have chilled antennae for low noise, and some heavy duty mechanisms to move them around. so 3200 sites * 30 dishes per site * 100k per dish is about 10 billion dollars - not including the cost of land or humans.

A phased array capable of directing a tight beam to 30 individual targets simultaneously all with different movement parameters is a many 10's of million dollar piece of equipment, and will only inflate the above number.

If one builds 50,000 satellites similar to what Planet has already built, the cost comes down into the single digit thousands of dollars per unit. Call it 10k. At that point, launch costs dominate the economics. Each sat has a mass of (say) 5 KG. The falcon heavy can launch 50,000 kg, but for cubesats some significant fraction of the mass will be in the deployment mechanism, so call it 7500 satellites per launch. That's 7 launches, at ~100 million each, so call it a round billion dollars to build and launch the satellites.
It's a SCADA system coordinating thousands of centrifuges, if it's not networked you may as well turn it off!
I spent all day thinking that my raspberry pi zero was faulty, trying to figure out why it’s not booting(FYI, very hard to obtain).

Yes, I’m unhappy. A happy purchase is not one where you get a refund for low quality product, a happy purchase is a purchase that you end up spending your money on a product that satisfies you.

I don’t care about 7gbp, that’s not the issue.
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* Wins war
Damage during delivery can be part of the product. I recently bought a window A/C unit, for which about 30% of the reviews claimed damage during delivery due to poor packaging (it is delivered in the manufacturer's packaging, not repackaged).

Since it was otherwise well-reviewed and cheap, I took my chances. Sure enough it was minorly-damaged when I received it, but worked out ok.
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California is the 5th fastest growing state economy. This is despite already being the largest state economy by far. That is simply remarkable and to call such a state of affairs "verge of bankruptcy" is just stupid.

Further the noise around pension obligations is mostly meaningless alarmism from people who don't know any better. If California is on the verge of bankruptcy why is California's bond rating at AA-? Why is New York's bond rating is AA+? Why are investors all over the world, particularly sovereign wealth funds, in fact standing in line to loan money to these high-tax, high-growth US states? Ex-real estate and ex-China, these economies are in fact the engines of growth for pretty much the Western hemisphere.

We'll see how long it lasts though. The thesis here is that when you combine the nonsense alarmism around debt and the cherished American belief that governments can do no right you get a recipe for enormous underinvestment and malinvestment. And Americans are so disconnected from reality that they probably will vote for any idiot who starts crying about "fiscal responsibility" and cuts public investment in these economies.
The book, "The Intelligent Investor". Highly recommended by Warren Buffet and me.
Your first move when trying to find a free version of a paper is to look up the lab webpage of the corresponding author's lab.

9 times out of 10 they have a mirror of the PDF.
One thing I really cherish about Taleb’s writing is his disdain for nerds and skewering of their epistemic arrogance. That really clicked with me, working as an engineer and feeling surrounded by the phenomenon he describes, when I read Black Swan.
Serious question: When does having 10,000 full time FB employee "moderators" to content expressed via their platform cross into the literal definition of Thought Police?

How far are we from when actual laws-with-consequences are passed and enforced via the continual monitoring and moderation of said FB's army of moderators?

When will be the first time a person is (if not having happened already) killed for their postings to FB?

https://www.ranker.com/list/the-13-craziest-deaths-caused-by...
What a racket!
I didn't down-vote you, but I should mention that your first post's phrasing led me to assume you were making a snarky critique of current culture, rather than sincerely answering the question.