skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Packets can be dropped and TCP will retry (among other things; packet loss is a hueristic.) It won't just cut the session on some amount of packet loss, that would lead to constant failures.
> Some people will base their decisions on which software to try/use, based on the general sentiment of discussions on Hacker News [...] If all people ever see is criticism, that is likely to drive people away from Firefox

By that measure, they will completely turn off their computer because every single product is primarily criticism here. I also think substanceless praise is mostly useless in this forum (not in life) and I appreciate everyone here that points to specific points and issues instead of needless bloviation. I think encouragement, praise, etc can/should occur elsewhere and we can get to the meat of the product. It's like complaining that your QA team never opens JIRA issues saying you did a good job...that's not the best use of that communication platform.
The main thing they're hated for is patenting GMO seed varieties in support of their roundup pesticide product line.
Roundup works by making seed varieties that work just like normal plants but are immune to the roundup pesticides. So a farmer can place pesticide on a field, and it will only kill weeds, not their crops.

The "hate evil Monsanto for destroying nature" bandwagon ignores that:

1) 99% of anti-gmo stuff is anti-science fear mongering. There are very few good general anti-GMO arguments.

2) Farmers love roundup because it increases crop productivity per acre sustainably.

3) Using roundup greatly decreases the amount of pesticide needed per acre of crops, since it can be targeted so much more precisely. So it makes the world's water supplies and crops cleaner overall.

4) Because round-up seeds are so great, farmers sometimes try to grow it without paying licensing fees (because why would you if you can get away with it?).

5) Monsanto is very legally aggressive defending its seed patents, since why would anyone pay to license their seeds if you can just steal it? Monsanto spent a lot of money developing the science for roundup seeds.

6) Monsanto has never sued someone for accidentally having round-up seeds (cross contamination). They have an amazing win rates on their lawsuits specifically because they only target cut and dry cases.

7) But the bandwagon is against the evil Monsanto, so people are overly credulous on the farmer side.

The vast majority of things Monsanto is criticized for play out just like the above.

As a separate example, check out this Quora answer for, "Is Monsanto evil?": https://www.quora.com/Is-Monsanto-evil. And let me know which side seems more reasonable to you.

Documentaries are an awful way to disseminate accurate knowledge. It's 90% emotion driven, and almost always has a narrative to tell that they're not going to want pesky facts to get in the way of.
Which one, Stitch Fix? Because I'd disagree that a publicly-traded company worth over $4 billion that was started by two people in an apartment doesn't belong in the conversation of successful startups that used the development of the internet as the basis for their success.
I'm not sure how I feel about the commoditization of my career path.
Of course it's a subsidy. If employees are only able to work for my company because they get food stamps, those food stamps make my business model viable. Without them, I would not be able to find employees, so either I'd have to increase salaries or go out of business.

All the companies mentioned in the document make profits way higher than the "subsidies" they receive. They could easily increase wages or pay this tax.
If you eat only candy you will probably lose weight after a while....
And both show quite a bit of content made elsewhere in the EU.
What you describe already happened, it's just that the new boss moved into the old boss' office before people could object. We had an accountable system, and now we no longer do.

With mass surveillance I get the idea they know they get 99% of what they ask for, and even more, they mock us because they know they can circumvent the remaining 1% easily through parallel construction.

Remember those NSA slides where they mock the public for willingly buying smartphones that can be tracked everywhere? Yeah, we're the morons, not them who openly lie to the public and redefine language itself to make what they're doing not a crime against humanity.

It's as if they installed cameras on every street and mock people for driving, except of course, that too is now practically normalized under the guise of "safety".
All of us are the market.

The market just means that you personally decide what you watch, by choosing what to spend your own money on.

You'd rather have that decision made by someone else, instead of by you?
I developed Centask to address the chaos you are describing including Gmail.
The idea is to organize and schedule Gmails, todos, links, ideas, etc. in one master outline/todo list.
The tools you are describing are online tool so each of their tasks has a unique link which you can add to Centask with a click on a bookmarklet which adds it to Centask Inbox. you can then schedule it, add subtask to it, drag it as a subtask to other tasks, add notes to it etc.
The key is that all items including links and gmail are treated equal and have exactly the same set of features
As I understand it, Chrome and Firefox are both operating under the same policies with about the same timetables. Full distrust doesn't come until Firefox 63 / Chrome 70 - neither of which are stable releases yet.

The limited distrust (for older certs issued prior to June 2016) was activated in Firefox 60 and Chrome 66 much earlier this year.
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I don't know why you got downvoted with no explanation. My observation is the same: this is just about measuring the efficiency of one's Huffman tables given actual probability distribution after the fact.
Chrome and Firefox have only distrusted Symantec certs in their pre-release versions. The Chrome 70 and Firefox 63 releases in mid-October are when the hammer will fall.

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/03/distrust-of-symantec...
hah we did that in our old office. IN this space, the fixtures make it more difficult to do that.
>No, it's a problem of target audience. If you produce films for a Dutch audience, you have two options: either appeal to a sense of Dutch pride or history, or go for something so generic that a decent swath of the population will like it; otherwise you won't have enough of an audience to make a profit. This is what they do, so Dutch films are generally about about our navy in the 16th to 18th century, about WWII, a romcom or some adaptation of a Dutch Children's book. You cannot locally produce a film about something which lies outside of the realm of interest of most Dutch people; Hollywood can, since they have a larger audience, and therefore do have the ability to target niche markets.

Well, EU has 400 million people. One can very well create a movie that appeals to EU audiences. We have lots of shared sensibility and modern problems and history (and it doesn't have to be BS like "16th century dutch navy" or "17th century french villagers").

Movies like Blow Up or Dolce Vita or For a Fistful of Dollars etc where shown successfully all over Europe at one time (and we still have films by people like Lars Von Trier, Almodovar, and so on).

Just because you make something that has a Dutch or Swedish or French etc sensibility, it doesn't mean it can't have pan-European (or even global) appeal. Trainspotting is as British as it gets, for example, but hit Europe big, as did La Haine, La vita e bella, Amelie, and others.

Besides, not all movies have to be blockbusters and multi 100 million dollar productions. Even from the US, I'd rather have the chance to watch some Hal Hartley or Jarmusch, or Cronneburg, that barely pushed 5-10 million dollars in the box office than the nth repeatitive formulaic shit from Hollywood.
> ...but I wish it had linked out to a serious exploration of why the consumer harm standard isn’t sufficient...

Because being a monopoly isn't illegal and (from TFA) companies like Amazon benefit consumers through lower prices.

Basically they have to invent a crime to fit the deed.
> If there's anyone who's been trying to do that in the past few years, it's Bernie Sanders. That's where the "$15 minimum wage" idea came from.

No, it's not; Sanders was the first major national politician to jump on the grassroots Fight for $15 movement, but he didn't start it. (Heck, Black Lives Matter was involved before Sanders, but they didn't start it, either.)
yikes what do you do when both parties start talking about your industry.
How many Linux users disable telemetry collection vs windows users (who are most certainly used to spewing telemetry to external parties)? I definitely disable it on all of my (Linux) systems where I run Firefox. I suspect I am not alone.
Nothing about "I, Claudius"...?
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They might be working on games that are very dark (mostly black screens) so that is the only way to see any contrast. P.S. I hate those games, my room is not going to be midnight dark to play a game.
That reminds me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Shredder_Challenge_2011

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-really-happened-a...

which was thought to be almost impossible to solve.

> DARPA, The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, created 5 coded-documents of increasing complexity, ran them through an industrial paper-shredder, scanned the pieces, and posted them online for anyone to attempt to solve. Each document had a certain amount of 'intel', every piece of which was given a point value. The competition, which launched October 27 and would expire December 4, was offering a prize of $50,000 to the first individual or team to find all the intel (first to 50 points).

> The competition gained popularity quickly, with over 9000 official entrants and 50,000 folks downloading the first of the five puzzles. But skeptics had already begun to question the contest after only 67 entrants could score any points at all. "Lots of experts were skeptical that a solution could be produced at all, let alone within the short time frame," said Dan Kaufman, director, DARPA Information Innovation Office. But, with just 2 days remaining before the competition was closed (only 33 days after it began) one of the entrants had solved all 5 levels completely.
That’s what I like about SimpleNote. It’s done. It is just text, tags, and search. It works on any device. It’s rock solid.
I think you're mixing some things. To me, entrepreneurs are people starting new businesses. Some new businesses are trying out new business models or other major innovations; we call those startups.

I agree that somebody making another burger joint or corner store is an entrepreneur, but is not doing a startup. But that doesn't mean that solo entrepreneurs can't do something new. It doesn't have to be big, just exploratory.
> Who you are is almost entirely contained within your genes, with a minority contribution from enviroment and parents and schooling

So I would have still become a computer programmer with multiple graduate degrees had I been born to a tribe in the Amazon jungle? The power of the genetic code is truly amazing.

I think your position is at least as unreasonable as the "blank slate" position.
1. Creating value (AWS, Prime etc)
2. Capturing that value from the new market they created.
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Denisovians meet Neanderthals
Would you then bring some light on how the such thing happens actually. That was really breakthrough product - the ultimate one, combined with Microsoft technologies like Tablet PC, and handwriting recognition - and now, after the 15 years since Microsoft invented all that, they are chasing after Apple with their iPad Pro?

edit - after twenty years!

> In 1999, original equipment manufacturers released the first tablet PCs designed to the Microsoft Tablet PC specification
They got big and fat, too. The air-cooled cars had wheelbases similar to your Miata, but they were really pretty small compared to the modern Porsche stuff.

The new stuff is technologically stunning, of course.
I really feel computer science isn’t a subject as much as it is a medium.

Once we learn to write, we don’t take writing classes, we take grammar classes. Meanwhile, we write to participate in the rest of our classes.

Similarly, computer science should become the medium of participation for STEM classes.

For example, math and physics, would be easy classes to transition to only be taught with Python.

Instead of using a graphing calculator to solve word problems, what if the class was about building a graphing calculator?

You would still learn how mathematical functions translate to graphs, but you would also learn to write software that accurately simulates math, and later physics.
This is the side of the EU that foreigners usually don't see. This is the reason there are movements for quitting in every member state (with varying levels of success).

The isolationism EU is beginning to display is starting to worry even me and the alternative is a bunch of UKIP-like nationalist which I am not really a big fan of.
Probably going to need a license to pirate soon. That way they can ensure that all illegally downloaded content is culturally appropriate. I am only half joking with this comment, I could see it happening
Can you attest to that personally? I looked into them for treating SAD and none of the Amazon top-reviewed ones seemed consistent, and I couldn't find much well-regarded literature either.
I think the GP is talking about saturation of the frequency band. "Build more towers" doesn't solve this problem.
Vancouver Island isn't far from Seattle, and I had no sun at all all winter, be sure to check it out in the winter before you move there.
> We're not talking about a C grade Person being chosen over an A+ Person, but if you have an A+ grade Person and an A- grade Person, and the latter is from an underrepresented group, then taking into consideration the context of the latter entering an industry that's seen as "not for them" based on the demographic of those inside of it already, can imply they have greater potential for success.

Honestly, we are even talking about making way for someone of equal, or even higher, raw talent but of a different background. To say otherwise takes the (in my opinion obviously not justified) premise that without any intervention hiring functions as a perfect meritocracy.
This is an interesting point - if we passed Medicare for All tomorrow, what would that mean in the context of this act?
That is fine if I don't get exactly what I want, but companies should not be allowed to blatantly lie and over promise. Do I get to violate the contract for the service I was unable to utilize? Companies need to stop over promising and under delivering and hiding behind a 20 page one sided contract.
Wages are as low as employers can get away with. The problem would disappear if all workers had 10 employers to choose from. Lack of demand for labour is due to not enough market competition. We need to push corporations into a innovation race toward better products. Elon Musk is disrupting the auto industry, same thing needs to happen for every industry with entrenched rent-seeking players who drag their feet.
>This is why I refuse to use GoFundMe

I've always wondered how https://www.gofundme.com/searchinternethistory turned out...
Maaaaaaaaayyyyybbbbbeeee. Empirical studies of this sort of effect are mixed at best.

It's telling that Sander's proposed bill would only require "large employers" to pay up here. If local businesses were all paying higher salaries already they wouldn't need this exemption in the first place.
How expensive are germanium wafers?

Wikipedia states that historically cuprous oxide is one of the most studied semiconductors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper(I)_oxide#Semiconducting...

Do you know of any comprehensive reviews of cuprous oxide, referencing the most important theory and applications, and (lab or commercial) devices constructed?

Do you think it is possible to make cuprous oxide transistors?
Everyone is going to be wearing those pesky American blue jeans soon
> My understanding is that they are moving towards it, but raising the price of human labor shift the frontier where changing to automation makes sense.

Human labor is so far behind machine labor, that raising its cost by a little bit won't make much of a difference.

When it comes to manual labor, machines are so much cheaper, more efficient, cheaper, less risky (medically, legally, criminally), stable, and reliable, that there's no comparison really.

Big companies like Amazon therefore automate wherever they can already.

Based on articles about their fulfillment centers, the only jobs remaining there are those robots don't do very well right now. These will eventually disappear regardless of the passage of provocatively-titled PR-focused laws (which probably won't pass anyway in current congress).

I'm not sure I understand your second point, especially how relevant it is to the current discussion. This is about Amazon compensating employees with such minimal and pay and benefits that they must seek welfare assistance and thus effectively are paid by the taxpayer. Working conditions have nothing to do with that, although (obviously) the same weak employees (or "contractors") who receive so little pay will receive little consideration in these and other regards as well.
It would be nice to have the date reflected in the title of this post (March 2018). It's relevant and a nice reminder because the full-distrust is coming soon, but there isn't anything new here AFAICT.
Another example is Elsevier's Data Search project

- https://datasearch.elsevier.com/
> After all, if you can research and understand the implications of application and messaging security, you can probably make a better living working at an IT desk somewhere than you can from stealing cars

I doubt that. I think the main thing keeping cars safe from the 1% or so who don’t care about the law or ethics of theft is that it’s almost impossible to get away with it. Those with the relevant skill and the willingness to be criminals probably just take an easier approach, like card skimming.

This belief is based on how much second hand cars are worth and therefore how few cars a thief would need to steal each month for a very big salary.
A better approach is that taken by the Bootstrap World curriculum (http://www.bootstrapworld.org/). They align their curriculum around algebra. That way you don't have to find time to make a CS class in an already busy schedule. Bootstrap trains Math teachers to use the curriculum. Again, the school doesn't have to hire a CS teacher. The program is entirely online, so the district IT departments don't have to approve/install any software. They are also moving into physics and data science to expand student exposure to programming.

Bottom line, putting pressure on schools to find time and money for a discrete CS offering is challenging. I tend to think of programming as a tool; don't teach programming for the sake of programming, but as a tool to enhance other subjects.
> I agree the logic of calling market wages a "subsidy" doesn't hang together.

That's not what is being called a subsidy.

Federal benefits to low-wage workers are being called a subsidy that reduces wage demands in the market. Other than EITC (which actually does act as a wage subsidy in a certain range), that's a problematic claim, too, but it's a different claim than that market wages are a subsidy.
Facebook, Twitter execs defend non-censorship of WikiLeaks
A much better article than the verge one

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
There most certainly are a bunch of Europeans who act holier than thou. That's silly on their part. But you most certainly can compare the countries.

Their relative differences are factors in the comparison. The US also has smaller administrative units you can compare with other countries with appropriate caveats.
That's the old argument "why do you need privacy if you're not doing anything wrong?"

The problem is there are grey lines everywhere and people are usually more judgemental of others than themselves even if they knowingly or unknowingly participate in the same behavior.
Exactly my thoughts. Had a chance to experience it first-hand recently (as explained in my other comment).

Edit:

> It’s fashionable to throw huge teams, hardware and middleware at problems these days.

My theory is that it comes down to :

- Clients and managers thinking that the UX/visual look has something to do with the front-end framework, forgetting that in the end any web app is just HTML, CSS and JS, and frameworks having more to do with maintenance.

- Shops lacking seniors, and young engineers (legitimately) more interested by the tech than solving the business problem in a boring way.

So here we are with the "fashion" that any business app must be done as a SPA "because it needs to look modern". You can see the opportunity.
From the link:

> Under this legislation, large employers are defined as employers who have more than 500 employees, including part
-time workers, independent contractors and franchise workers.

I'm not an expert in legalese (and this isn't the legislation itself), but the last two words imply that McDonald Corporate would be on the hook for franchisee's employee's food stamps.
https://data.gov.ie —- this is a repository of a bunch of the open data produced in the Irish public sector.

(Disclosure, I work on this)
This is pretty promising, decentralisation is always good
I thought the meme was that Americans were fiercely individualistic and that Europeans were outcome-egalitarians? Of course the picture is more nuanced than that, but I've never heard the reverse before.
> Do you give him a refund if AMZN drops, then?

I hope you're aware that investors already get to write off their losses.
A step beyond Cloud 101
> A very concerning attitude, to assume people have no rights at a workplace. Ironically and disappointingly this attitude seems prevalent among Americans.

I'm an American, and it seems many of my countrymen think property rights should trump all other rights.
Interesting. What are you thoughts on DIEM 25?
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That holds true in comparison in that regard very well, if not better.
Firefox bug 1484006 has a list of some sites that are still using distrusted Symantec certs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1484006
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similarly, learning by individual character (thousands) is much harder than learning by radical (dozens - ~250 total)
When he died, somebody quoted a statement of his to the effect that the novels were show dogs he bred to support his cat, poetry.
Maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but I don't argue on these grounds because it's not the reason I think what I think and it would not change my opinion if the research broke the other way.
Also the EU wants Netflix to offer the same content anywhere, so 30% of it will have to be from Germany, 30% from France, 30% from Belgium, 30% from Spain etc.

EU, ‘this one goes to 360%’
And the intro to the article sensationalizes in the other way: "A new study showing that sugar is definitely 'toxic'".