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Perhaps in theory people should be free to express themselves how they want, but we should question why on earth people want to express themselves in these ways and work to solve that.

In the meantime, however, we live in an imperfect society where people are terrible, this does have consequences, and there does need to be some counterbalance against that - otherwise we’d be living happily in an anarchist utopia already.
I like Wall Street Journal. It's more business-focused, and definitely has a conservative bend, with occasional editorials that are much more out there (the benefits of prayer in school or something), but since I'm left-leaning, it feels pretty good on balance.
> Discrimination is wrong. Simple as that. The japanese shouldn't discriminate against women. We shouldn't discriminate against asians and whites.

Then why is it okay to have admisisons standards at all? Don't they inherently discriminate amongst people in such a way as to favor rich people who can afford to give their child the necessary nutrition, time and stability to perform all the rituals that college campuses look for?

> We shouldn't discriminate against asians and whites.

We also have to undo the generation's of economic and social harm principle perpetrated by white people against other ethnic minorities in the US. You can't simply wave away the US's obligations.

I do agree that Asian Americans face a lot of issues in the US and it's unfair how they're treated as a managed ethnic minority that schools like Harvard can keep in a separate managed bucket.
No, complete position independence is allowed and encouraged. People can put constraints on well location, like “use this plate”, but general allocation is handled by the compiler. If a well needs to be bearable, for example, that is allocated into a well that satisfies the temperature constraints of the heating operation.
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I did nothing of the sort, thank you very much.
Reading through the docs, looks like they have 1-indexed arrays..?
Tim Holy did say he is looking forward to catching up with upgrading Images.jl to 1.0.
I'm surprised at the outrage too. Your personal profile on Facebook is supposed to be a place to post your holiday photos, pictures of your kids, updates about events in your life etc, not mindless automated stuff like this. Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, but it's certainly more difficult to implement than it is on Facebook).

You'd think the posters in this thread have some kind of business interest in this functionality based on the way they're reacting.
Think about low-budget computing. Maybe all you have is a dumpster-computer, and a new set of DIMMs costs more than your monthly income.
Nor will independent content creators for the most part go to a lot of boring town and city meetings to find out what's going on--or develop relationships with the various low level officials/administrators. A number of years back my town had a local newspaper that was basically someone's labor of love. It no longer has one so I have essentially no source of information about any town issues I might want to be aware of. That doesn't matter to me for the most part but it would be nice to know about happenings/votes/etc. that affect me.
UberAIR to Take Flight with Help from UT Austin and U.S. Army Research Labs
Renal treshold is around 180 mg/dL, at which point glucose level is alerady toxic and if not treated will lead to long-term complications.
Well, for one, there isn't any chlorine in my water. None. 0.

The last time we had chlorine in the water was after a farmer overfertilized and the ancient water system took on some pathogens. After cleaning out the pipes the water system was chlorinated lightly for a week.

Low doses of chlorine aren't deadly, there is such a thing as a LD50 for chlorine.

In low doses, chlorine and asbestos aren't harmful in a significant manner but it should be added that chlorine has much more direct effects than asbestos and asbestos to my knowledge has much lower limits at which prolonged exposure will cause negative medical effects.

Asbestos in nature is not different to background radiation. The obvious conclusion isn't "radiation isn't harmful" or "getting hit with a car is more dangerous than radiation".
The article WAS focused on type 1, though, where there is no cure, from diet or otherwise. It's absolutely revolutionary for those of us with type 1.
Do you use adblock?
I got hired as a developer at a civil engineering company despite knowing absolutely nothing about civil engineering.
Loading an entire mainframe on your small boat to store in a punched card some comments about a random Polaroid selfie.
I believe Hulu actually has 2 tiers: one with ads, and higher paid tier that is ad-free. So they still use a pay model that includes showing ads. From what I have read, Netflix has at least tested showing trailers for their own content. That's still an ad, regardless of whether it's for their own content or not.

Magazines and newspapers may not track you to the extent that websites can and do. But they certainly sell your information to third parties. And they have at least some basic profile information about you (if you're subscribing to Cat Fancier, it's a pretty good bet you love cats). Even an address or zip code provides a likely income range, political leaning, etc.

Billboards.... well that depends what you consider a "billboard" and what you consider "tracking". There has certainly been stories here on HN about eyesight tracking, stores tracking you using cell-phone beacons to see where you are going. These things can and have been used in signage (i.e. "small billboards").

But that's not really the point, anyway. My original point was that it was not "backwards" to pay for a particular service and have it show you ads. It's very, very common. And in most cases it's actually the norm, in almost any type of media. So I stand by my original point: showing ads is not "backwards", it's the norm.
The title should be "GDPR: Not-so-smart Practices by someone who doesn't understand GDPR"
Apps exfiltrating is one problem. Bots posing as real people to rile up racial/political/etc. tensions is another, and this approach helps a bit there.
FWIW, your comment has now made me despise your industry. Just thought you should understand that you aren't convincing. At all. (And to be very clear, before reading your comment I would have just assumed incompetence, but now I am going to go so far as claim active malice.)

Context: I spent five years dating someone who was diabetic and relied on insulin pumps after spending years working closely alongside a good friend who used manual injections. The latter friend is now someone I work with again, and he has since moved through mere pumps to these closed loop systems.

The concept that it is a "conservative" approach to not achieve the "best" result with glucose control is clearly nothing more than an intentional misunderstanding of the long-term side effects of even moderately poor blood glucose control designed to allow you to feel better about the downsides of the specific regulations at play here.

That you also seem to miss that there are serious acute ramifications for lapses of attention is just... it's just evil and calculates is what it is: people with diabetes have a fundamental life-maintenance process on complete manual control, and even minor lapses of attention can have consequences.

Your "conservative" attitude is directly harming people I love, and is only "conservative" from your perspective, not theirs, as it is pushing responsibility that could be taken by a device on to the patient, when even a risky device is almost certainly less risky than their own control.
Isn't construction/architecture nowadays moving more and more to BMI software?

I'd assume that with a BMI model and AR capabilities (even from a phone) where you set a square (or some other shape) with known dimensions on the ground to calibrate and use GPS (or other positioning systems) for determining position/heading, doesn't seem like software for visualisation of models in-site should be that hard. Even on a current phone it should be doable.

What am I missing? Because it feels like there is some complexity I'm not considering.
What the walled garden giveth, it taketh away. Build on someone's platform? Depend on it exclusively? Gonna have a bad time. You would think folks would learn by now.
Yeah, I agree with your comments about error handling. It’s far from ideal in non-interactive contexts. It’s especially disappointing since you could easily imagine something like Julia replicating Python’s success at transitioning code from interaction (e.g. Jupyter notebook) to production.

I initially defended the choice, but I now agree that 1-based indexing now seems like a poor choice since Julia has become something more than the original mission of a better MATLAB or Octave. It’s a, admittedly, minor tragedy of Julia’s success.
That's not because the military technology was intrinsically good though, but rather a side effect of the massive budgets that governments will give towards military R&D.

If the government threw just as much money into civilian research, we'd likely get just as much good, without finding more efficient ways to kill each other.

For instance, Australia has CSIRO [1], which is sort of like DARPA, but without the military bent. They've managed to invent all sorts of cool new stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRO
This is a subtle argument that tech firms who enable the military are profit mongers. That is a serious accusation, completely non-empathetic, coming from someone with experience that merely grants him an overview of the foreign-affairs landscape, and the military's role in that.
You don't need one key per service, so that is as little as 5 keys (3 for active users plus the on-site and off-site spares).

You may choose to have more than one key per person, to reduce the amount of re-registering needed if one key is lost, though remember that this is the second factor so you also already have passwords that vary by service (and if you give people multiple keys they will most likely carry them together to lose them all at the same time rather than individually anyway).
Are chatbots worth real estate agents risking their client relationships?
I don't really get the hate, either - but then again, I was one of the people who was generally annoyed by friends filling their profiles and feeds with all kinds of auto-shared stuff from every other service... I like to imagine everybody would curate a little bit more on their own. Important stuff will still get shared, and if it isn't worth sharing if you have to do it manually instead of using an app or checkbox to "always share to Facebook", well, maybe it wasn't worth sharing to the world in the first place.

(I think in reality, my view of Facebook as a tool for messaging and looking at photos is probably fundamentally different than a lot of the upset people posting here who seemed to use Facebook for promoting their blogs or personal twitter brand or whatever)
Presumably people wanting to post links to their personal blog can still open up Facebook in a new tab and Ctrl-V the link in themselves, which will take them all of about 10 seconds. Seems a small price to pay if it cuts down the ridiculous amount of botspam on the platform.
We merged the 1.0 PR at JuliaCon live, with streaming on YouTube. Some people remarked that this might be a first for a major programming language release.

https://youtu.be/1jN5wKvN-Uk?t=1h3m

It was fun to do this with everyone at JuliaCon and online, and thought it was worthwhile to share here.
And the US has the NSF, while Australia also has DSTO...

(I agree though that public civilian R&D funding is woeful)
My page is about to get a whole lot quieter now lol
As a "reverse engineering hacker" who is a diabetic with one of these pumps (The 670G to be specific) I have black boxed the shit out of it, but because it is doing a good job of keeping me alive and the cost of a new one is high I have yet to disassemble it and do a thorough RE of it. In ~4 years when the warranty is up an insurance is willing to replace it then I will be disassembling it and hacking the shit out of it.
That is correct, mainly due to coming from Fortran and Matlab background. However they also have offset arrays (like in Fortran) if you need arrays that start on a different index.
Sure, why not? They have full visibility and control over both sides of that transaction in a way they don't with other integrations.

Same reason Apple can use private APIs but no one else can.
The problem is, if you go the political (whether national or international) instead of what 'ux-app proposes, you'll be fighting an uphill battle against people who do make money off the status quo, and who stand to lose it if you get things your way.
That's an interesting rule, and it reminds me of the story of Van Halen: For their concerts, they have asked (ask?) for a bowl of M&M's, but no brown ones.
Meh... this should make facebook way less spammy. I approve.
People can still share things organically.
Robotic Teams: what man and machine collaboration means for autonomous systems
Yes. Julia’s mission was (and still includes) providing an alternative to 1-indexed MATLAB.
That seems possible. I'm not so up on my smileys as I might be.
The GIL has been 'addressed' regularly since python 1.4, just no one has come up with an acceptable solution.
Contend addressed documents wouldn't fit directly into what DID is trying to accomplish. A DID is supposed to be a unique id to identify an identity, such as a Person, a company or even your pets. A DID maps to a DID Document that may change overtime, e.g.: the public keys listed in it. If we were using content-addressing for the identifiers, they would be changing over time, which will be hard to use in a variety of systems.

This doesn't mean that we cannot use content-addressing. For instance, in IPFS world, the DID could actually be using IPNS to point to a CID. This allows to have a persistent DID pointing to CIDs at different times. There's actually a DID method called IPID (based on IPFS), that uses a strategy similar to this.
By "one side of the political divide" I'm not referring to Trump specifically, but the online subcultures that dovetailed into the alt-right, which most certainly existed before Jeong's tweets.

EDIT: To further clarify, I'm not saying "they did it first" is a defence. I'm explaining that this is the context that Vox article going around is saying is missing when people want to condemn those tweets -- the tone and vocabulary of a certain part of Twitter. Jeong's mistake was posting those tweets with a particular audience in mind - one that understood the touchstones of these conversations (e.g. "kill all men" being obviously not a serious rallying cry to murder males) - when, although Twitter can sometimes feel like a clubhouse, it's still a public forum. At the time, I, and many other people situated within that context, understood Jeong's meaning perfectly, and even as a white man I empathise with what she's saying. Others may not be aware of that context, or choose to ignore it, which is where the fraughtness of her comments lay, not the content itself.

I'm certain the response to this will be along the lines of "Then why are white men persecuted for making racist jokes?" and the answer is because young Asian-American women have a lot more to fear from young white men than vice versa, which is the power dynamic at the heart of why Jeong's comments can only be called "racist" in the strictest definition of the term, disregarding the present situation. But this is all getting too complex to outline in a comment unambiguously, so I hesitate to say even that much.
Maybe the problem arises from this different interpretation for "open" that different people have. Look, the Linux source code is open. But doing something meaningful with it takes a huge effort. A one man team can't build Android out of Linux. This doesn't make it less open.

The bar is higher because those companies will literally have access to to all of you financial information and your money. And not just yours, but of all the customers of all the banks. There simply must be some framework in place that sets clear regulation as to what and how things will be done. Otherwise you're flirting with disaster. Lack of proper bank supervision is what triggered the last financial crisis. You think a 3rd party will fare better if left to their devices? All the responsibility the bank has towards you, the client, should be mirrored to the 3rd party. You have high expectations of the bank, why would you accept less from the middle man?

As for the "do what I want with my own account", you can to a degree. All banks provide you with internet banking, an app, a website, a person behind a desk. You have access to all of your data, just not how you want it. And the how is sensitive enough to require regulation.

P.S. The requirements are in no way unachievable for a small startup. It takes a bit of effort, I agree. But if those requirements are what stop you then you're in the wrong business. The bar in fintech is set a bit higher than other industries as it should be.
Wow.

That's pretty amazing. You're accusing me of active malice for explaining the (entirely reasonable) thought process behind the government's legal system for regulation that pharma must comply with to operate.

I think when you move from the realm of anecdote to dealing with statistics, products with 100 million users, and historical cases (Therac-25), you gain a perspective that regulation is probably the simplest and most effective mechanism for keeping deaths at a minimum while allowing new products to reach the market.
That doesn't solve it. It ensures you have people calling themselves journalists who get paid, but journalism is in decline because (a) trust in journalism is in decline and (b) a lot of it is duplicated.

The BBC specifically has a trust issue in the UK. Even one of its own long term journalists wrote a book called "Can we trust the BBC?" (spoiler warning: the given answer is no).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Can-Trust-BBC-Robin-Aitken/dp/08264...

Tax-funded institutions that are not accountable to the people paying the tax is corrosive. Resentment builds and has nowhere to go. For now at least if you're willing to disconnect from broadcast television entirely, you can avoid paying the license fee. But similar license fees in other countries have been adapted to include the internet; it's hard to know if the same will happen in the UK.

My favourite recent example of ridiculous tabloid-level BBC journalism is "Brexit threat to sandwiches":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44960293

Staying in the EU for a bit longer would keep the chiller cabinet full of sandwiches - but it would doubtless raise the political temperature.

The story literally argues that the UK would not have sandwiches anymore if no deal with the EU is reached. The sandwich was invented in the UK.

This is hardly an isolated example. Consider what sort of journalistic process led to this story being written, edited, reviewed and approved for publication. Is it one citizens should be forced to fund? What does that sort of thing do long term? Is it any wonder that trust in the press is in long term decline in the UK?
I have high hopes for Julia becoming the defacto open-source scientific language. Despite Python and R both having a massive head start, I'm willing to bet that talented engineers and scientists will be drawn to Julia to implement their next-generation frameworks owing to the powerful features that it offers.

For example, the fact that an array of unions such as Array{Union{Missing,T}} is represented in memory as a much more efficient union of arrays is a perfect example of where a clever compiler can make the logical thing to do also the efficient thing to do!
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Yes, but you still need insulin on keto. In fact, starting keto can be dangerous for a T1D at first until you find out what your new, lower, requirements are. You put yourself at risk of hypoglycemia, so you have to be extra careful with dosing while you're figuring it out. Because of that, a closed loop artificial pancreas could be incredibly helpful for a T1D going on keto as well.
There's no such thing as a free Hulu.

If your ISP is taking a share of your subscription fee and giving it to Hulu, your subscription will cost more.
In the long run of a decade, it's risky to bet on sustainable growth after the Trump era ends. Doubly so if he doesn't get re-elected.
Yes, this is what I meant.

Thanks for being generous.
But we can do things even they're small things. If enough people do small things together we can make a change. And if we keep making small changes over time maybe our attitudes, habits, and social norms will change too.

Commit to two days a week as a vegetarian (if you normally consume meat). If everyone did that it would be huge. Industrial agriculture is a large source of pollution that affects not only the health of our ecosystems but our health directly as well.

Little things make a difference.
So does Matlab/Octave and R, so Julia's choice is unsurprising to many people in the target demographic.
Rich made some interesting points on developing libraries in such a manner that it doesn't introduce breaking changes (for the calling code). Does anyone here agree (or have counterpoints) to his suggested approach?
Marine energy: fighting the headwind
> Music ultimately requires analog sounds and the interplay between musicians. Software can never truly replicate that.

This is nonsense. First of all, there's no such thing as a digital sound. Once it's sent to the speaker, it's analog, regardless of whether it originated inside your laptop or from a guitar. I would bet that you can't tell the difference between a top-end VST emulating an analog synth and a real analog synth, or a Kemper Profiling Amp and the real tube amp it's modeling.

I enjoy the interplay between musicians as well but you can make a great album tracking all of the parts yourself and there are entire genres of electronic music where it's standard to not have more than one musician.
It depends on the DID method. The DID is a string with the following pattern: did:<method>:<method-specific-id>. There's a variety of DID methods with different underlying public ledgers, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The <method-specific-id> depends on the <method>. For instance, there's DID methods that use the underlying wallet address as the id and others use the smart contract deployed.
I trust it more than unencrypted SMS or Facebook Messenger.

I trust it less than p2p chat over an encrypted network I control with layered defense in depth.

Security is not a boolean.
Cirrhosis, ophthalmology, and paediatrics are all derived from Classical Greek. English, Russian, Portuguese, and Turkish all have the option of borrowing technical vocabulary from Greek (or other languages), but because of its syllabic structure, borrowing into Chinese is more problematic as it's difficult or impossible to render foreign words phonetically.
Apart from being close to MATLAB, a goal of Julia is to make it easy to just type mathematical formulas straight off the page and into your code. 1-based indexing makes this so much easier, even if it seems somewhat depraved to a computer scientist.