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Yeah, I've got three of the little buggers. Thanks for keeping it civil, I could have been less blunt in my initial response.

I'm a little sensitive to this one because my wife and several of my friends are teachers and I gather it's really, really common for even fairly well-off kids' breakfast, every day, to be a couple pop-tarts. Which is a dessert, and isn't even on the healthier end of that category. As long as that continues to be as normal as it is, our obesity epidemic's going no-where.

Definitely don't blame low-income folks for doing what they need to do to get through the day, and yeah, food waste can really suck when you're not handing your kids hyper-palatable food for every meal, with the extra kick in the teeth that the hyper-palatable stuff's often easier to prepare. I mostly just weep for the future when I hear about the clearly-middle-class-or-higher folks doing that, or see them feeding their kids snacks (almost always crackers or similar) in the store to keep them docile, or whatever.

> If I ever have children, this is my plan. But I have also heard that plans don't survive contact with the enemy...

It's for sure harder to do it right. Snacks do shut them up, and in that weeks-to-months period when they just won't STFU at the store damn it, you do wanna just shove some crackers in their face so they'll quit making a scene. But if you do you'll have to keep doing it and then you're the parent with the six-year-old still snacking in the store. They will eat crap for any meal at all, or between meals, because it's crap and tastes freakin' amazing. That's the point of it. You just gotta suppress fear of judgement and keep in mind that the (medical) pros say skipping or picking at 50-60% of meals is totally normal for kids, and they will not starve themselves into ill health just because green beans don't trigger the same primal OMG-I-need-more-of-this responses as Doritos do.

The only place this is hard for us is with the grandparents. OMG there's no stopping them short of just cutting them off, which is too harsh for us to stomach. So much junk food. But that's how they eat too—they just don't get it, and that kind of deep cultural difficulty with food is why it's such a pain to do things right on an individual level. And school-provided lunches are pretty bad. The ones around here, at least, are clearly designed to shove as many calories as possible into the poorer kids, damn the nutrition and good eating habits.
Well, I don't really worry much about trying to avoid it. I do stuff somewhere along the lines of your "best bang for the minute" guidelines (aside from running my own mail server).

However, it does concern me that it exists. They use this data to manipulate people. To drive "engagement", which means addiction. I could spend too long describing the evil in it, but at the end of the day, why do they care so much about the data? It all only really comes down to a way to manipulate people... into buying goods, into believing things... without hyperbole, just to try to avoid listing out so many points and examples, their desire for data stands in opposition to the popular conception of free will and democracy. I will always take a strong dislike to people and organizations attempting to manipulate me by means other than simply providing value in my life and getting some value back in exchange.

At this point, it concerns me less how much data they collect on me, and that we as a society haven't dropped some kind of regulatory hammer on them before they almost literally brainwash us out of the notion that we would even want something like it.
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What about the problem that retail investors necessarily don't have good insights about individual companies (or stock pickers) but still want to benefit from economic growth?
People who use debit cards like credit cards can be seriously inconvenienced by having their checking account drained.
Perhaps we should get past the proof stage before we promote it on national television to hundreds of millions of people.
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Hey, a quick thanks for making this! I think I can use it as a replacement for some code at work.

Also, thank you for the React compatibility and component, as well as the permissive license!
As a first rough approximation, this figure includes everyone on HN.

It appears to include everyone who's ever stayed in a room at a Marriott, St. Regis, Ritz-Carlton, Bulgari, W Hotel, JW Marriott, The Luxury Collection, Le Meridien, Renaissance, Westin, Tribute Portfolio, Sheraton, Autograph Collection, Design Hotel, Marriott Executive Apartments, Delta Hotels & Resorts, AC Hotels, Element, Gaylord, SpringHill Suites, Courtyard, Residence Inn, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Moxy Hotels, Protea Hotels, TownePlace Suites, Aloft, Four Points by Sheraton, or Marriott Vacation Club property.

For reference, there are under 130M households in the US and around 200M households in the entire EU.
> but that their popularity is leading toward a handful of financial institutions holding controlling interests in most of the largest companies.

Which allows for them to do things like demand publicly traded recruit women to their boards. Which is a useful talent when you are focused on economic growth, and your holdings are focused on extreme paper-meritocracy that fails to result in actually addressing additional portions of a market because their talent pool can't perceive it.

https://newsroom.statestreet.com/press-release/corporate/sta...

oh no the potential.
Rash only forks to launch processes, and it's all behind Racket's `subprocess` function. So there is no notion of eg. a forked subshell. But the `subprocess` function lets you get the subprocess file descriptors (as a special kind of port) or redirect subprocess IO to the ports of your choice. While pipeline segments that use Racket functions can pass each other arbitrary objects rather than just doing byte-level IO, pipeline segments that are just subprocesses do traditional Unix-style pipeline IO. And you can redirect a pipeline's input/output/error streams to arbitrary ports.

You can run pipelines in the background with Rash, but I haven't implemented job control yet, so I don't have proper handling for eg. auto-suspending a background TUI process and terminal control. (This ends up not being that big of a deal for most use, I find, though I intend to write better job control eventually.) I don't remember what Vim does off the top of my head, but I think running processes blocks Vim. Background pipelines don't block Rash, but if you don't specify to run one in the background the default behavior is to cause the current thread to wait for it to finish.
How does that square with not even spending your time or eyeballs or money on a particular site till they support micropayments? That was half of my point.

Do the contents of your letters read “I like your website but I cannot in good conscience support you till you support this specific business model in which I might give you a penny, or perhaps as much as a nickel every time I read an article to support your operations and salaries?”

This particular idea has been kicking around for at least a decade that I know of, and since I don’t tend to hear about most ideas when they’re new, most likely much much longer than that. At this point I’ve been forced to conclude the industry as a whole has probably looked into it and come to the conclusion it just isn’t worthwhile. Understandably, they would need some critical mass of readers and enough papers that matter supporting it and a particularly friendly credit card processing agreement in which the processor would need to be happy with a micropayment of a micropayment. Services like Spotify have somewhat paved the way as well and are demonstrating what the long tail of micropayments actually looks like.
I've head this comment before, but from my own speech I don't find this to be true at all. It usually means I'm saying something I perceive to be more vulnerable or direct than any party to the conversation has been to that point - not at all that I was being deceptive before that point or after.
Hm, running iperf3 stream is pretty synthetic benchmark, what about real-life workloads? iptables should be pretty damn slow the more rules are added as they are walked linearly, I doubt this has been properly evaluated in the blog post above.
Not a physicist, but the idea makes sense to me.
> AFAIK the only advantage of UTF-16 is that it's a little more efficient when encoding text written in certain scripts.

and IIRC east Asian languages (which benefit the most) almost only use UTF-8
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I am a JS newbie and I learned a decent amount about js using tabulator for a project. Really enjoyed it.

My only issue now is struggling with CSS to make it look nice :p
foundationdb is just a KV store that doesn't even authenticate clients connecting to it. the idea is you put layers in front of it to take nice structured requests (of some sort) and turn them into transactional KV manipulations, while also doing things like authentication, access control, logging, whatever else you need.

so you could (hypothetically, if such software existed), have this mongo layer, and then another layer off to the side which took SQL queries, and figured out how to turn them into KV queries against the data that the mongo layer has stored.

more realistically, you could have your SQL clients know how to talk to foundationdb directly (making them into the layer; presumably they're a web backend or something already), and they could know how to execute the high level operation they want to perform against the KV data stored by the mongo layer. conveniently skipping all of the SQL translation that there isn't software for.
In my experience social insects have much more individuality than most people believe. I kept ants for a while and it was shocking to me how each of them has it's own, unique patterns of behavior. Some like to wander far outside, some prefer to stay close to the entrance. Some are more aggressive, some less. They react to danger and feeding differently, some are easily crazed out, some stay calm. It's hard to see this because they all look very similar and there's a lot of them, but with time you learn to recognize some, and then it becomes obvious that they totally have their own personalities.
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> The crisis for journalism is already eating at the foundations of democracy

Haha this is exactly why it was pulled, some leftist idiot like you who thinks Trump is Hitler and the MSM are the Angels themselves got butthurt that somebody dares to take more money from an already dead medium.
when i was younger i was interviewing at SomeStartup(tm) in Austin TX. I had a really good conversation with their VP of Engineering, a genuinely nice guy who cared about his people. The last step in the interview was an assignment to write a fairly specific caching system. I hacked on it for a couple hours and got it working per their requirements, demo'd it, handed back the laptop, and everyone liked my work. After that, radio silence. I wonder if I got fooled into solving a problem for them. Granted, that particular problem has been solved a hundred times over so i doubt it. Regardless, i've always wondered what the real story was there. Maybe they were just being polite.
isn't neurology more to do with the physiological aspect? Neuroscience is a bit more like behavioural psychology.
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I hope that after several GDPR fines companies will start considering gathered data as a liability, not an asset and collect less to begin with.
DDG is the shit. I find the user experience of bangs an absolute pleasure and the engine is my primary interface to nearly every site I frequent. I care about privacy, but I have a Google account and enjoy their services as much as the next pleb, privacy isn't even the primary reason I use DDG. I feel like the combination of Firefox, DDG, VPN, and ublock affords privacy with no compromise.
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I keep copies of these papers in a safe in case I never need to re-develop the Internet from scratch. No seriously, the Tor papers are amazing and even hint at the means by which Tor might be manipulated to, say, track down someone like Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road, who is currently serving a double life sentence, plus forty years, without the possibility of parole.
That is a totally different issue. One thing is reviewing what's on your store. The other is restricting people to only installing what's on their store.

One is happening on their property. The other is happening on the user's property. They also want to exert control over the latter, which is causing these problems.
The Tree Style Tabs add-on supports this behavior with Firefox's containers, it is awesome.
Technically. Alas, I have seen too many cases where this meant "20 bytes of ASCII is this amount."
You can install unsigned or foreign-signed addons, you simply need either the developer editino or you use a unbranded version of Firefox (ie, any Firefox binary that isn't branded for Mozilla). It's a compile option.
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You can install it if you use the developer edition or unbranded version, this is fairly well documented.
Filing a patent application for an idea you stole from another person is illegal (because you’re not the actual inventor, and the inventor oath you sign would be a lie).
Flow batteries, where charged electrolyte can be stockpiled, are under heavy development. These would allow us to finally make the grid 100% fossil fuel free.

Also, I firmly believe that we can figure out how to make things like methane and oil from biological processes; it's just that extracting it from the ground is cheaper.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I think we're quickly getting to a point where this is a political problem instead of a technology problem.
Disclaimer: I am a Google employee, who isn't listed as inventor on any patents here. I don't speak for Google and all the usual blah blah.

In my experience outside of Google, typically how this works is that you will get a visit from product counsel asking if you have any patent-able work. It's not your job to ask if it's novel enough; that's the patent lawyers job.

So they bug you for months while you are trying to get work done asking about what you are working on and how it works, and then file something on your behalf. I can't recall if I even needed to sign anything before a provisional application was filed.

The way that this is pitched is that it's a necessary evil. One needs a huge patent portfolio to protect your tech inventions, because when you are sued, you can leverage your portfolio to protect yourself. I hate this system and how it works, but it is a business reality.

I don't know Regina, but I think Hanlon's razor applies. It less likely that she woke up one day and said, "well, I want to steal other people's inventions today!", than, "oh I have a bunch of work to do and need to get counsel off my back."

It doesn't make what happened here right, but I think it's unfair to assume malice.
STEM and humanities sit hand in hand nowadays. STEM to turn needs into realities, humanities to effectively manage relationships/expectations across every level of stakeholders.
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Agreed, ray tracing will make SSAO less necessary. One of the goals of ray tracing is to be able to unify all the ad-hoc techniques like SSAO into one easier to use framework.

Ray traced games might still have over-darkening though, at least initially. A lot of ray tracing code I’m seeing is using very short max distances for AO rays. This helps with both tracing performance and with noise. But I think looking at too small of a local neighborhood is a big part of what’s responsible for the over-darkening the author is pointing out. To get realistic corner darkening, you really need path tracing or some other global illumination rendering.
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Not to mention the attributes of the VM itself will then be used for tracking.
Haskell has Unicode synonyms for many of it's constructs (enabled by a compiler flag), so you can write eg. → instead of `->` and ∀ instead of `forall`.
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I agree that documentation is not that great but the with few examples you will be ready to go very easily.
Do you have much experience using the tor browser? I think it’s a good example of why it’s impossible.
One option might be to use a hash of one's DNA sequence and be done with it. The name identifier can then just be an image with any markings made by the person. This would then move name / id search from a character set problem to an image recognition problem. Works for me :-)
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Is that really an argument in favor of it being a science? Isn't behavioral psych going through a "replication crisis"?
From the article:

"The hotel chain said the guest reservation database of its Starwood division had been compromised by an unauthorised party."

"Starwood's hotel brands include W Hotels, Sheraton, Le Méridien and Four Points by Sheraton. Marriott-branded hotels use a separate reservation system on a different network."

edit: the Marriott website itself confirms as much that this is limited to Starwood properties.

http://news.marriott.com/2018/11/marriott-announces-starwood...

" guest information relating to reservations at Starwood properties* on or before September 10, 2018.'"

"* Starwood brands include: W Hotels, St. Regis, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Element Hotels, Aloft Hotels, The Luxury Collection, Tribute Portfolio, Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, Four Points by Sheraton and Design Hotels. Starwood branded timeshare properties are also included."

Do you have other information?
In my early days, I had to write a payment processor and it pass a PCI "inspection."

TL;DR - PCI compliance was a joke in my experience.

The payment page didn't log requests (made figuring some things out hard), it submitted the encrypted card data (public key) to another server through the firewall with only a single non-standard port open, to the data store with write only access. There was then a trigger on insert that would launch a small console app that passed the decrypted (private key stored locally) card and charge information to Authorize.Net, if successful it would then write a success to the charges database, and send that charge identifier to the application's data store.

Only access to the payment server was from behind the firewall over RDP and MSSQL over non standard ports.

Just the description of this satisfied the PCI guy, and no physical inspection of the hardware was ever done. I'm not sure if what I did was best practice, and I was always so scared it would get hacked. Thankfully after so many fraud charges that my boss couldn't handle the $15 chargebacks we switched to paypal and I no longer had sleepless nights.
Right, because when shadowy groups get unimaginable leverage and power the first thing they do is apply affirmative action pressure to address gender imbalances.
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Just found this today while I was responding to a responding to a comment on one of my answers on StackOverflow [0].

I'm currently trying to figure out how many SO questions are closed as off topic which would be valid on this site.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/33118733/2723675
> * Starwood brands include: W Hotels, St. Regis, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Element Hotels, Aloft Hotels, The Luxury Collection, Tribute Portfolio, Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, Four Points by Sheraton and Design Hotels. Starwood branded timeshare properties are also included.
Blackrock have a history of rubber-stamping executive pay packages. In the past, they've voted in favour of proposed CEO pay packages in something like 99% of cases. Some people have argued that doing so benefits Blackrock execs themselves because high pay then becomes the norm.

https://www.pionline.com/article/20170418/ONLINE/170419868/b...
While I guess it is pretty commonplace for the paradox of tolerance to be invoked these days as a way to turn intolerance into a virtue by declaring the people we dislike the intolerant ones and claiming we're somehow improving tolerance by hating them, and while taking the most shocking-sounding op-ed any of the uncountable smaller papers on the planet is willing to publish, squeezing any nuance and inconvenient details out of it, juicing it up, and blasting that idea to a global audience it wouldn't otherwise have reached is basically what social media is used for nowadays, I'm still not convinced either of those is a good or moral thing.
Interesting, thanks for the links!
Out of curiosity, under what circumstances would you consider distributing an extension bundle to be leaking its code? Unless I'm misunderstanding, isn't this the same file you'll be distributing to your users? At first bluff it seems similar to worrying about leaking your website's frontend (I've got news for you...).
You are right that Kumbha is Aquarius but the kumbha in kumbha mela is from its’ primary meaning of pot. Specifically the pot of amrta (the nectar of immortality) that the Devas and Asuras got together to churn and then fought over. In the ensuing tussle, four drops fell at the various places on Earth where the kumbha mela is celebrated.

The zodiacal sign is also associated with this story though probably both the Greeks and Indians got the zodiacal concept from the Babylonians and added their own interpretations afterwards.

Your point about the Saraswati is a bit nit picky. Yes there was a real Saraswati (that dried up by the end of the Vedic age) but the mystical Saraswati that flows at Prayag is not related to that
It's not a transient condition, like an infection, it develops over time as the brain matures. To call it transient implies that it's fleeting/ephemeral, and having met people diagnosed in their 60's crying because they finally understand why the struggled in life, I saw first-hand that it is not transient.

So, developmental means that it's not present at age 1, but by age 7, it must have become present. Otherwise, we're looking at anxiety or depression or something else. Even those diagnosed with ADHD as adults, one of the stipulations is that they MUST have had symptoms before age 7, though admittedly the DSM versions have changed regarding this point (side note: this is part of the reason the diagnosis is seen as trendy/over-done recently, because subsequent DSM versions have changed it up quite a bit, from what was called minimal brain dysfunction in the 50's to ADD to ADHD these days).

Anyway, the gold standard diagnosis in children is about functional deficits in multiple settings. It's the following: can you remember the items you need every day, can you focus on school, do you lose things, are you disruptive in class, can you keep your seat, are you hyperactive w.r.t. your motor activity? If you have enough deficits, you are diagnosed. These deficits are observed in school, at home, and in as many settings/by as many people as is practical. It's not about expensive scans, which would be impractical and costly. It's all about functional deficits, problems in life. I merely bring up the neurology because it's important for skeptics to understand there is a real, scientifically proven difference in the brains of those with ADHD.
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