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Agreed.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the gov’t should still play a role in funding “big ideas” that the market won’t. Antibiotic development is a good one.

The other thing to keep in mind are all the failures. By pushing R&D to private companies, the tens of billions spent on Alzheimer’s drugs, of which every single one has failed, didn’t come from the pockets of tax payers, rather they came from private investors.
The government should not be funding media that reports on government. No matter how independent the intent, there is an inherent conflict of interest.

I oppose using my tax dollars to fund reporting about my tax dollars. NPR, for example would never report fairly on debates to eliminate subsidies for NPR. Their reporting will never support going against their own best interests. Would the BBC be trusted to fairly report on any proposal to cut the budget for the BBC? Never. To think otherwise is to live in a dream world.
The court system is not a business, and it takes a lot of work and regulation to keep it relatively independent, and even then it's not foolproof. There are strict rules that apply to judges, lawyers, jurors, and everyone else involved in court proceedings to safeguard against conflicts of interest.

The country's legal foundations have been constructed from the ground up to support and allow for a relatively-independent judiciary. You can't have just hand-wave all that away and act like the same level of independence will apply to private entities that take government subsidies.
Correct! Speech, for example, is a category of sound that we've ascribed meaning to by learned convention. It's a purposeful categorical construction. The sounds of the jungle is another -- it's probably good to know it's a tiger when you hear a tiger :)

I say music is "weird" because it doesn't fit into either of these categories of useful natural or constructed forms. People didn't first make music in order to feel good, but because that music made them feel good. They already had an instinctual response. It's more like those odd visual illusions that are due to the freaky things our brains do to correct for visual blind spots in our eyes: a species-specific thing largely without intrinsic survival value. Audio hallucinatory masterbation, essentially.

(Some things probably are evolutionarily driven. Percussion sounds a lot like a moving herd of animals being hunted. Makes sense this would dump adrenaline into your system to make you run faster and harder. But being moved to tears by a violin concerto or lost in ecstasy at a rock concert is categorically something else.)

Anyway, to the point which started this sub-thread if someone asked me "what music do you like?" I'd interpret that question as "what kinds of things do you like to listen to?" since in my experience that's what most people mean by the question. And indeed, I have noise cancelling headphones I don't even bother plugging into my computer because "silence" is what I prefer to listen to when working, thinking, etc. If you get shocked by the answer.. that's the fault of you and your own assumptions. You asked; I answered: I prefer to NOT listen to music, thank you very much.

And turn the radio down, while you're at it.
How is that a checkmate?
Wpa2 was right before iot, smartphones, smartwatches, etc
nice phone spy tracker with call recording capabilities
Have you used the latest Chrome with the redesign? The tab's X no longer has any hover effects, or doesn't seem to.

After the last few days of wondering about this, I see now that hovering over the X makes is ~5% darker.
Agree, too often we are using drivers licenses #s (which btw, are public record often), address, phone numbers, and worst case SSNs and foolish "security questions" in the US for identity. None of these are appropriate authenticators of a person, and almost all of this data has been leaked in the past.

I think if there is anyone who is well suited to tackle this, it's.. banks. There are so many bank locations, most people have an existing relationship with a local bank.
If we allow tellers in banks responsible for verifying identity of people (the same way a social security office or DMV office verifies a person: birth certs and records checking), they could be be paid to be the hands and feet of something like national ID system.
> She has her own critics now: Several leading scholars have found fault with Ms. Khan’s proposals to revive and expand antitrust, and some have tried to dismiss her paper with the mocking label “Hipster Antitrust.” Unwilling or perhaps unable to accept that a woman wrote a breakthrough legal text, they keep talking about bearded dudes.

So we are just presuming sexism? OK David Streitfeld, I immediately trust you and believe that all critics of her paper are evil dudes who just hate women. Oh look, we are moving on from that point immediately to dive into her back story and not backing it up with anything. Guess I'll just have to take your word for it that her critics disagreed with her instead of her work.
https://msynch.com is correct web address
That may be, but the person to which I responded said that they can tell people need unions when they shop. They wouldn’t be able to tell if people are making their budgets meet at home, just whether they seem to enjoy their jobs.
A few months ago Mercury News [I've heard AKA "The Murky News"] purged some journalists, including the one that had the beat of my local city area of Campbell; if Campbell was a rectangle, North and East and West are against San Jose with South being against Los Gatos.

Now, at least it seams, the only coverage we get from Mercury News is the police blotter. That's it. Nothing more. If I want anything about Campbell I have to subscribe to Twitter, Campbell City specific website, Campbell City specific events website, Campbell City specific paper local newspaper [I'm not kidding], and I'll make an educated guess Facebook. I'd mention Reddit, but that's on questionable life support because of one or two users based on aforementioned sources sourced from myself included.

My point is... the point of the article, if at least the Hacker News title, is correct. And I'm not even including stuff like "Patch" or "NextDoor" or other hyper-local internet-based networks there are. Subscriptions mushroom like a nuclear blast horror in the face of alternatives.
"Open Source" is a development methodology.

It is compatible with various business models. One of the most popular is "open core", where a product is available under an open source license but a company makes add-ons available under proprietary licenses for a fee.

There are also various governance models for open source projects. A company can maintain ultimate control over the direction over a product (e.g. Docker, the Go programming language, ...). Or the project may be governed by its contributors and may have various rules for contributors being offered a governance stake. ("BDFL" or Benevolent Dictator For Life where 1 person has final say, a "PMC" or Project Management Committee where members join by invitation, etc.)
Unfortunately, trains are difficult to build in the US, which is a car-focussed culture.
I found an alternate explaination which hadn't occured to me at the time.

It's not necessarily that most people don't like balanced views. It may be just most people aren't excited by balanced views. Extreme views are more emotion provoking, even if you disagree with them. But if the algorithm actually sends you nothing but extreme views, you may eventually start having doubts and become a new convert. The joke's on you.

It's like the pickup advice (I smell downvotes again) that when it comes to women, it's better to be outrageous than boring.
That's healthy, and we need more of that, especially face-to-face
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Here is Derek’s blog post and reference to the original paper. They were quite explicit on what counts as “discovering” a new drug. It’s whoever first created the drug and identified it as having potential to treat a disease.[1]

[1]http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/11/04/whe...
> Imagine a pile of ash (high entropy) assembling into a copy of Shakespeare (low entropy), compared with the reverse.

Imagine the soil 50 years before Shakespeare forming the food he ate and the trees which became the paper he wrote on. It seems a lot like ash (soil) did organize itself to a lower entropy collection (with a lot of help from an external energy pool).
That whole sentence seemed downright offensive and incongruous to me. Nowhere in the article was any evidence presented that objection to her ideas was based on her gender. But still the author feels the need to project that belief by demeaning the words of men as "bearded dudes".

When we come to a point where one group of people is not allowed to critique the ideas of another group of people because it is socially acceptable to demean those critics based on their gender makes me think we're doing something wrong.

Edit: For people that downvoted me, or a lot of the other comments about this sentence, I would like to know why.
It has its perks :)
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> Here's a specific example. You can be taught to overcome a fear of getting up onstage. You can't be taught to love and relish when you find just the right metaphor to convey an idea to a class.

"to love and relish" ,that's they key phrase here. Why can't I be taught to love and relish _____?

For example,you need a specific personality to be a truck driver. The lifestyle of a driver is extreme and demands that you enjoy some of those extremes. Why can't a person be taught to enjoy sitting in a truck for 8 hours and driving along a boring rural route all day long and waking up in a different state every morning? Why can't a person be taught to enjoy planting ideas in people's minds?

It may fall under "psychological education" as opposed to "academic education",but I don't understand why it can't be taught.
Can anyone think of an article or book that explains how to be a good teacher (in the classroom, military, etc.)?
Exactly- success hides failure. That’s why it’s an interesting question. So what’s the answer?
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The NYT's editorializing is tiresome and distracting. Why the need to mention her husband several times, and the unfounded allegation that she found opponents because of her gender, and the "bearded dudes" reference.

I applaud Khan for starting this conversation, but I'm worried about misguided legislation on these antitrust issues. Internet centralization is inevitable and unstoppable, and regulations are likely to hurt competitors (in the form of increased startup costs) more than the incumbents.
Wait, isn't that just Arial?
US bankruptcy is not a service provided by the judicial system to companies. It's a service provided by the US courts to consumers. Our bankruptcy law is notably among the most liberal and consumer-friendly in the world.

From experience helping family members: you can be hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt before bankruptcy becomes a real option. Entire sectors of the consumer finance market are dedicated to keeping them out of bankruptcy, where they become total writeoffs to creditors. I watched creditors offer to settle mid-5-figure delinquencies for nickels on the dollar simply because that was the best they were going to get with a bankruptcy on the table.

The idea that creditors could simply extend credit uniformly to everyone who hasn't declared bankruptcy in the past is ludicrous.
Weather Channel is owned by IBM. Apple and IBM have a larger business partnership. IBM has a retail analytics business.

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/AABFA5DE-330F-11E...

> Deep Thunder combines big data and machine-learning tools from IBM Research with The Weather Company’s global forecasting model ... the tool will help companies with critical decision making. The data will be able to show how minor changes to weather, such as temperature, might affect things like consumer buying behavior, helping retailers to adjust their supply chains and shelve stock
Their reputation will suffer among who, white supremacists?

Maybe they'll burn their computers in protest like so many Nike shoes.
I also thought it was an incongruous/bizarre sentence (what men are they even referring to?), because the context isn't explained until much further down.

But then it does make sense -- it refers explicitly to this cover [1] and the content within ("Battle of the Beards"), where "bearded dude" really does feel like an appropriate description. So I'd call it bad article organization but not a style problem.

[1] https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/wp-content/up...
So if their funding is so tiny, then calls to eliminate that funding ought not be worrisome? Whenever that federal expenditure is brought up, there are rabid campaigns that government wants to kill Seasame Street. So clearly the funding is significant enough to warrant extreme protectionism of that funding. If NPR has a product people want, the free market should support it just fine.

If the funding amount is so insignificant, then it shouldn’t matter if it is cut right? Yet, propose cutting that spending and we quickly see that government funding is pretty significant in importance, if one listens to the impassioned arguments defending it.

It’s a “low single digit” of their revenue, but apparently that low single digit is so significant that you have near riots over killing Big Bird if it were cut.
I don’t think that government taking drugs through clinical trials would significantly reduce development costs. I think it could reduce all-in costs for drug buyers if some new drugs were “born generic” in terms of IP restrictions. Everybody’s revenue is somebody else’s cost. The idea is to shrink the cost/revenue for new drugs that government takes over the finish line, whereas private investment toward the same goal needs to recover R&D costs plus make a profit.

I don’t think that lower drug prices is a panacea for health care costs in the US! Drug spending is a small slice of an oversized pie. But that pie is so big that even small improvements at the margin could save patients billions - mostly unnoticeable at the individual level, but worthwhile considered at the macro scale.
I plays sports through the UK equivalent of high school, and it never occurred to me that it would get any kind of media coverage.

Even village-level sports rarely got more than a passing mention (if that) in the local paper.

If that is currently happening in America, it doesn't seem like a huge loss.
I am not (yet) a good teacher of others in a formal sense. I am good at teaching myself things I don't know, and that comes from curiosity, persistence, determination, and doing/repetition/practice. If I wanted to become a good teacher, I think that I could maybe I could learn from a good teacher. Thoughts?
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Credit bureaus came to exist because of this murkiness when it comes to contractual obligations. If you provide a grace period around a deadline, it's on you, and not something which should be punished against.

If they broke the contract, it's on you to bring them to court. Apparently companies thought it was to expensive to enforce contracts, so they decided to create this extrajudicial system.

My point is, if you can't physically pay your debts, you can file for bankruptcy. That is the public record.
I know, it's really quite infuriating and some of the dialogues are verging on "dark pattern" behaviour.
Who pays them?
Yup. That "not" was a typo from before I rearranged that sentence. I spotted it too late to edit :-\

You're right that it's good for some parts of society when other parts make sacrifices. But those people are part of society too, and it's bad for them. I personally would rather live in a society where everyone works to live, not lives to work.
Perhaps it's not controversial in your circles. I realize this is anectodal, but I've dated two women pursuing a PhD in a STEM field, both smarter than me in many ways. The second I began to suggest the reason for my greater physical strength might be biological in origin, they both became completely irrational. They somehow believe biology plays no part in the differences between men and women--or maybe that there is no biological difference at all (?). Imagine the intellectual revolt that would occur if I were to bring up this GMVH hypothesis.

There's something about the "girls can do anything" mantra (which I totally agree with!) that seems to translate to "no girl has ever been less capable than anyone at anything as long as they try hard enough." Any theory or evidence contradicting that notion is nonsense.
This is about Google having a fundamental weakness in product management and UX, giving me the equivalent of a Windows Registry setting to change is not helping, practical as it may be.
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The average duration of a contested civil court case is on the order of 2-3 years. The courts are not going to resolve even a significant fraction of delinquencies, and are not a real recourse in the main for creditors.
McCartney demoing: https://youtu.be/TUcfB5Whp4I?t=2m23s
Article, no. Graduate degree programs, yes.
Wondering: why now? Also - there's a couple patents on these bits iirc; but Apache license here?
Our roads are choked. We’re on the verge of carmageddon (2016)
Pi-hole is great and all, but people use their phones on mobile data too and on various other WLANs away from home.
This is some tiger-rock argumentation.
I’ve reverse engineered ssl encrypted iPhone app traffic before using Charles proxy and a self generate ssl cert to decrypt the requests. From there, you can see which endpoints are receiving what data in plain English.

I’ve only done this for apps not using certificate pinning. It gets more complicated from there.
Negligence, incompetence, and apathy.
Here is shorter article describing the issue for a general audience written by Lina Khan herself https://qz.com/282971/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-ama...
Well, three quarters of the way through the article we got our answer.

> The April issue of the journal Antitrust Chronicle, edited by Mr. Medvedovsky, features a drawing of a bearded man on the cover right above the words “Hipster Antitrust.” In the middle of an ... there’s a photograph of a bearded man taking a selfie next to the chapter heading “Battle of the Beards.” It is perhaps relevant that only one of the 12 authors or experts in the issue is female.
> The Hipster issue was sponsored by Facebook, another sign that Big Tech is striving to shape the monopoly-law debate. The company declined to comment.

Interesting. I'm annoyed that the article moved on well enough for me to come post a comment on the comment that stuck out like a sore thumb.
Give me a break. Tesla is working massive backlog of pre-orders generated by the hype associated with the company. Some people have been waiting years. There’s no world where 25,000 people a month are showing up and driving away with a car.

Ford had an F-150 production stoppage due to a fire, and was able to restart production a few weeks later. They had the capital and (invisible, unsexy) team to deploy Russian heavy lift aircraft to move key tools in hours and restore production. It was largely invisible.

With Tesla, you have the constant stream of PR and the apparent need for the CEO to personally assume control of the factory to meet minimum requirements. The process and company is broken.
Why can't you teach someone to care? Why can't you explain to someone why exactly you care and help them to understand and accept your reasoning?

As an example,there are lots of health care workers that get into it for the money and start caring about patients(and vice versa).

I for example care,I would love the process of teaching but I would be terrible at everything else.

To be a good teacher,the biggest requirement imo is to be a good student. Much like how you need to be a good worker before you become a manager and how you need to be a good soldier before you give orders to other soldiers.

I just think "can't" is too strong of a claim that demands a clear and logical rationale to back it up.
I'm not suggesting that we do that, I am saying that not paying a debt outside of a predefined grace period is a contractual and legal issue, which would be a part of a civil dispute, and also a matter of public record.
Agreed but part of the problem with flying is the expected vs actual. Airlines suggest you arrive 2 hours before your flight because if everything goes badly it can take that long to get to your gate, but when it all works well you end up sitting for an hour and a half at that gate.

That said, this is a bay area service and SFO security lines are much worse than say San Jose (SJC) security lines simply because there are more flights out of SFO. If you're regular airport is SJC you might regularly only get to the airport an hour before your flight leaves.
Clinics see surge in gender dysphoria in girls: study creates political tension
I think the availability of digital authentication methods significantly varies by country.

E.g. here in Finland TUPAS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUPAS) is used by both government sites and private companies. It relies on two-factor bank credentials that almost everyone here has. Two-factor has been standard since online banking became a thing in the 90s and all banks are part of the ~10 bank groups so there aren't any small unsupported banks that I'm aware of. Government sites also support ID cards but no-one uses that option.

I believe some other countries have working, but different, digital authentication schemes as well. Maybe Estonia and Belgium?

These don't work over the phone, though, and asking for address and your identity code (or some part thereof) remains a common over-the-phone "verification" method, at least here. So the identity code / social security number issue still exists, at least to some extent.
As journalistic integrity degrades so does general comportment it seems.

I've noticed a lot of juvenile or outright vulgar language choice in reporting lately, as journalists are abandoning any effort to appear professional or dispassionate.
Most of them already are non-profit, involuntary as that may be.
Indeed. This is also one of the selling points of the Shinkansen in Japan. Flights are often cheaper, but getting to (cheaper flights) from Narita/Kansai is a total pain in the backside. With the Shinkansen, the seats offer a lot more room, and you get to move from city center to city center, without the absurd security measures involved in modern day air travel. With the Chuo Shinkansen, Japan will have upped the game to the next level.
> The impacts will be intermittent lightning strikes on random people at random times. To everyone else, business as usual.

And that's acceptable to virtually everyone.
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"Equifax and what they do" replaced a previous informal system without mechanical credit scoring that was far, far more discriminatory than the one we have now. The average HN reader --- and especially the average angry political HN commenter --- would not be happier in a world without credit ratings agencies. The fallacy is that in such a world world, you can get credit (or rent an apartment or whatever) without jumping through hoops. In fact, what really happens is that the hoops get more arbitrary, less standardized, less accountable, and more plentiful.

It is for that reason that we should be especially unhappy about the way the law handles breaches like the one that happened at Equifax. These are companies that have decided to insinuate themselves in a crucial component of the consumer finance industry, and they should be held to a higher standard than we're holding them now.
I agree,the methodology might need to be tailored for the individual,much like a treatment by a psychotherapist.

But if it can be taught,it's worth teaching every teacher.