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> claim by CenturyLink that this particularly intrusive, access blocking method is mandated is simply false

Agreed - also not the point I was making.

> it's not any lawmaker’s fault that CenturyLink chose to implement pretty much the most user-hostile method imaginable

Oh but it is the lawmaker's fault. It is the lawmaker's fault by writing a law that was so broadly worded as to allow Century Link to be able to perform this "user-hostile method" under cover of being within the wording of the law.

If the law maker had written a more narrow law, and written what he actually intended, then CL using this method would have been in clear violation of the law, rather than being able to hide behind "we are permitted this method by the law".
I think some small towns become retirement targets because outside of California the spots that fit multiple dimensions of quality like (1) good schools, (2) good incomes, (3) good weather, (4) affordable living, (5) decent commercial activity, etc., you end up with a narrowing space of options.

Some of those towns grow enough to attract a tech company, and will continue to attract growth because it's just harder and harder to get the nice balance of factors.
True, true. But with a megacorp like Vanguard backing it, I'm personally not too concerned...
We just defunded the College of Midwives in Ontario. $800,000 a year to support a professional organization of 900 people.

Somehow, the midwifery profession was able to exist for thousands of years before this professional organization existed. I am sure it will be fine without it. The administration, on the other hand....
Exactly. When I plowed into a tree trunk, I had my board broken in half and speed wasn't even close to 60. Scary to think that it might have been my spine
I still have the code (old and ugly, so not on GitHub; but it still builds and works) and examples. Let me know where I should send it.
Yet it's being marketed as SIPC insured _today_.
Your question misses the point. With Sketch you _can_ subscribe to updates, which is entirely optional. The software is yours to use forever. Whereas with Adobe you _must_ subscribe and pay rent. If you fail to pay your regular fee, the mob will enter your workshop and drag out the tools you‘re dependent on (virtually speaking).
I don't know, specifically, but I do know that I once lived in an area (not Utah) where I had to have CenturyLink as my ISP and they were terrible in just about every respect. This action seems within their normal range of behavior.
Imagine...you buy a respected brand name baby powder and your precious child is exposed to asbestos. Shouldn't the people that knew this be charged with (at least) manslaughter for the deaths /cancers tied to this?
Makes sense, "One is the loneliest number"
I have no idea why you think that any of this might be persuasive. Do you really do what random people on the Internet tell you, with no evidence, just because they say it's a good idea? And were I to accept this proposal, there are no conditions for success or failure: a willing mind would make for any number of post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies.

Empiricism is a much more reliable way to know things than hearsay: this is the general reason for the push towards evidence-based medicine. There is every reason to reject unproven therapies, and what you are offering can not be distinguished from fiction. If you want to make a convincing case for this, you have no alternative but empirical evidence.

Personally, if programming, playing an instrument, drawing, learning languages, and studying mathematics, physics, and history aren't enough to keep my mind sharp, I'm probably not going to worry too much about it.
RMBDS systems are very good at pruning results. They can perform complex multi step operations without round trips. Etc
No, the reason is that incomes have not increased meaningfully in decades, while literally every major cost (housing, food, power) has.

This is not hard arithmetic.
Think about the energy demanded by Ownership. Do you think the majority of people would be able to sustain their property? Owning a house, for example, is demanding work and if you, as an individual dont have the time, motivation, commitment or know-how to sustain the property then it becomes a losing investment and a mental and physical burden. Ultimately, it's kind of wasteful. In an owenshipless society people can spend less time and energy dealing with the baggage that comes with owning something and can instead invest that time and energy into other, more productive or leisurely things. I think it's great!

edit: specifically I think it's great because I believe overall quality of life will increase due to this shift.
Marcus by Goldman Sachs has 2.05% interest with.. effectively no minimum? (https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings/high-yield-savings)
Of course it does. That is the whole point of the article. By clicking on a targeted ad, the info used to target you can be and also is very much transferred. Just imagine a string attached to the ad URL containing the characteristics of the targeted group:

&woman=1&age=24&location=Seattle&sexor=bi&interested=[cars,skiing,succulents]&relstatus=single&...
> I don't know about you, but if one of my coworkers were calling for people like me to get the death penalty for doing something that was legal, I too would feel uncomfortable being around them.

The entirety of your root comment and the first paragraph of your comment afterwards seems to be ad hominem, while the above quote is not.

I think your argument would be stronger if you had just commented with this sentence; it's a very fair position to have. While I'm empathetic to those who disagree with anything, and I think that we should try and increase the size of the Overton window wherever possible, advocating for the death penalty for an action that would apply to coworkers can absolutely, and understandably, create discomfort. Maybe enough to warrant the removal of that individual.
I'd love the idea of living in a quiet, small community, were it not for a number of practicalities:

Schools -- We're trying to provide the highest possible quality education for our daughter, which means living in the best public school district we can find or within range of the best private school we can afford. And while I'm sure there are exceptions, this means living in a city.

Jobs -- Even though in theory I could work remotely, my wife (a lawyer) couldn't. Wherever we live has to be able to provide employment opportunities for two disparate professions.

Arts/Culture/Etc... -- I take my daughter to the Thinkery (a neat kid's museum here in Austin) monthly. She takes ballet and swim lessons, perhaps music lessons soon. It's important for our family to be in proximity to a vibrant art/music scene.

None of this is meant to denigrate small towns or rural areas, and perhaps there are some areas that provide the above (I'd be curious to hear about them if there were, actually...) I merely mention this to indicate how difficult the project is.
there is little he can do, as cash in brokerage account is obviously protected by SIPC.

Downvoters: you are confused. When you move cash to a brokerage account, it's protected by SIPC. It's a loophole, because this protection was not intended to be for permanent cash parking in an account - but there is nothing that can stop that protection from taking effect. SIPC statute is clear, cash in account is protected. You don't have to invest it, you just have to move it there with the intent of at some point maybe investing it, which is impossible to verify.
In theory all you need to make it work is good internet connection. Especially if its remote.

If there was a serious offer from some company where for the same amount of rent in SF, I could have a mortgage on literal acres of land, thats attractive.

Less attractive is the crumbling infrastructure, opioid wildfires, actual wildfires, and aggressively conservative culture.

Gotta try something though, right?
I really want to know who came up with the idea and which manager signed off on it.
clause (B) of the statute specifically authorized "notice with the invoice" - which if the invoice were physical postal mailed, would have then included "sending a physical letter".
XD has a free plan (which just limits the number of simultaneous prototypes you can share).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_left
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There is a difference between wondering is something would have an effect, and avocation for that idea. In my second paragraph I talked about a valid reason we should go out of our way to preserve small towns. I'm sorry if my comment gave the impression that I am some type of Nazi who wants to eliminate everyone living in a small town.

I have deep empathy for people living in areas where there economic futures and opportunities are consistently getting worse.

We can either find a way a fix that, so that it is possible to continue to live in rural areas AND have employment opportunities.... OR everyone will end up living in cities regardless.

Much of our political differences come from one group being on an upward financial trajectory and the other group being on a downward trajectory. If our outlooks for the future were aligned of course we would have less differences in regards to political policies on taxation, immigration, the environment or issues like government spending on scientific research.
The Wiki article is helpful[1], I think of it as a shorthand for "that's what they said, whether or not it's correct/comprehensible".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
In applying Hanlon's Razor[0], I think the conversation went:

A: Are our customers accounts insured?

B: Yes, through SIPC, which is like FDIC for brokerages.

A: Great! Let's create this product.

No more questions were asked.

[0] http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/Hanlons-Razor.html
>six in 10 Americans ate dinner out at least once in last week

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that most of the 40% who didn't eat out are lower income, and income has some correlation with obesity. Eating cheap, processed food is going to make you gain more weight than occasionally eating out. Sure, there are lots of wealthy people who eat out frequently and don't exercise, but there are a lot more poor people who can't afford to buy healthy food and don't have time to exercise.
For those of you looking for a great place to park your money, try this one: www.mysavingsdirect.com

it's now up to 2.4% for a online savings account, that is FDIC insured. i've been using them for 2 years now, and it's been awesome. As far as i know, 2.4% is the highest there is for online accounts. i'm surprised they don't top the list on nerdwallet.com
They claim that, though, and that's the joke GGP was making.
Here's something nasty. The firewall where I am working (provided by Palo Alto Networks) can decrypt https and other "secure" traffic passing through it. I believe it auto-negotiates down to TLS 1.1 at which point it can decrypt everything to plain-text and can examine it to its hearts content.

They are supposed to whitelist financial addresses (such as banking details) but would you trust that to be happening?
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I think customer willing to pay to not to be tracked is not a customer for them anyway. For example, I myself have adblockers installed, use Firefox with tracking protection, use Duckduckgo as search and Outlook as email (this can be debated). It's true that not everyone can go that far in protecting themselves from tracking, but adblockers are quite common.

Web ad-platforms are different from traditional ad-platforms, like television, because in latter you don't really have an option to skip/ignore ads.
This analogy does work. Boeing's software caused a plane to crash:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-crash-boeing/bo...
1. Great question! You're correct that standard NF isn't efficiently invertible. CNF is, and we wanted a fair comparison. So for this experiment, we reversed the direction that NF transforms the data, so that it goes from the data to the latent space. Training this way means that you can't use the resulting model as a generator, but it at least let us compare likelihoods with CNF for this paper.

2. We had to set the error tolerance relatively small during training to keep the gradients stable. I don't think we used any fancy initialization tricks, but to be honest I have to ask Ricky Chen and Will Grathwohl, who ran all the FFJORD experiments.
Tweaking the value of PI2 is a lot of fun..
If anyone from the dev team there, can you look into integrating the "make the research into production" part into allennlp. Facebook currently has fairseq, this and other nlp repos. Allennlp makes it easier to model most classes of NLP problems with a clean dependency injectable interface with most common tasks abstracted out cleanly.
Please don't come to HN with this garbage.
It looks to me like the use of the word "may" in the actual law lends a degree of flexibility to the implementation.

A service provider *may* provide the notice [...]

That does not seem like a hard requirement. Or is this a case where legalese differs from commonly-understood grammar?
Cleaning services would be a first step to vertical integration, later they may wish to own the properties to collect the profit margin currently collected by the property owners who rent through airbnb.
This comment seems to woefully underimagine ways that public information can be used against you.

Your public photos that are now just one in a large crowd are also subject to having your image deepfaked into revenge porn, used as a spam photo for bot account sign ups, scraped for facial recognition, found instantly by a background check seen by your employer, used to attach demographic info to your name in those shitty phone number / address aggregator sites.

These are just things we know about today. Wait till your public photo is used to trick a self-driving car or biometric scanner. Or hundreds of other things that will be invented between now and forever (since your digital photos are instantly preserved and forever available).

Hope no one analyzes your photo and charges you higher insurance premiums because you were holding a cigarette.
If I were the dictator and could force everybody to do as I say tge world would be so much better.

You live in an utter delusional fantasy world if you believe that public transport and trains can replace cars.

And you can believe about mars whatever you want. Even if collonisation doesnt happen, getting to mars alone is already a huge achievment. Just the tech the have done so far has been a huge achievment.
I tried this road but got nothing but "I know you are, but what am I" in response. I think you also won't have much luck with this tactic.
This isn't necessarily true. E.g. the fourth amendment applies, according to precedent, to communications service providers in at least some capacity.
All of our components are contained in a folder specific to that component, and include the JS (Vanilla ES6), SASS, and template markup.
"researchers"
The buyout was offered to people in management roles.

It's really mostly an operating company, not a technology company.
Is the line a bit fuzzy though because most ISPs in the US are government-sanctioned monopolies?
The law required CenturyLink to notify its customers and intentionally did not mandate a particular means of doing so. This is a feature, not a bug.

Now, shady DNS spoofing may be one means of complying with the law (though it may violate others), but it was CenturyLink that chose this non-standard approach. They could instead have complied by sending an email, a physical letter, a messenger physically knocking on a customer's door etc., a flier hung on the doorknob, etc.
I think if (and that's a big if) our tech sector begins to wholly embrace remote work, even that would probably not be enough. Most likely, most highly educated tech workers who don't like the city would still prefer typical postwar American suburbs where they can occasionally drive into the city for pleasure and still have access to a first rate health care system, education system, and so on.
Why is this so surprising? You pay for your internet from this service provider and this is the trust you're putting in this private company. All your communication that goes down this channel is subject to their rules, and unless you encyrpt it they can do what they like.

I think these kind of crappy implementations just surface a bigger problem underneath. If you don't choose your own DNS servers, if you don't have proper DNS security, https by default everywhere etc. etc. you don't have a secure connection.
The issue is also that people got more and more sensitive over ybrast decades. Political correctness seems to be at a all time high.

Try to say openly in the bay area that you support Trump and you will be shamed like never before.

Shaming is now always in our mind and I find myself thinking more and more about redacting what I say to make it "unshameful" in order to avoid any possibility of shaming.
If you remove the ad hominem from it, there is no point left at all. I could find another phrasing if it contained any substance.
I agree with everything you've stated here. I'm not saying there are no reasons to switch, I'm saying that the typical user has no incentive to switch. The linux desktop is just as capable and IMO superior to a Windows or Mac desktop, but the story for the user is "buy a Windows machine" or "buy a Mac machine" and linux simply never comes into the equation unless they are an atypical tinkerer type or someone technical guides them to using linux.
Depends on their income and other commitments. If someone has a budget, it's presumably for a reason. If eating out is the #1 cause of breaking a budget, then it certainly can be the piece that sends them into other budget problems.
Of course it will impact the job market, but probably not in a particularly noticeable way.
There's a crowd here on HN that hates regulation but this is exactly why regulation exists. Massive, wealthy, powerful industries just aren't held accountable by average consumers or markets. There's no serious competitor that benefits if your data isn't safe at Facebook. And average people not only aren't powerful but have their own lives to look after.

Without regulation massive companies are entirely unchecked, there is virtually never market pressure to fix problems like this.
Haha I think you hit the nail on the head. Maybe this was Centurylink's way of giving a big F U to the politicians making them advertise something they don't want to advertise.
I agree with this assessment; in my family we try to eat in as much as possible but short about of time and the stress was becoming a big problem.

We recently started using one of those ingredient/recipe delivery services and it has drastically reduced the stress. The meals are quite good and my kitchen skills are improving quite a bit. The downside is the cost is greater than shopping for your own meals.
Some lawyer-management meeting resulted in the argument that they didn’t want customers to be able to claim they had never seen the notice, most likely.
The mere existence of the emotion of „shame“ shows that this mechanism is old, probably older than Homo sapiens.

It’s simply a way to get people to behave in a society, without invoking the heavier tools such as the law.
I don't really see this as an example of a "disconnect." It's simply the difference between talking about a law informally, and the actual formal implementation of the law.

The intent of the law is clear: customers should be notified that this content exists. The implementation language reflects that. CenturyLink is simply covering its ass: many people don't use ISP-provided email addresses, so if that's all they did they would be open to criticism that they are not actually trying to achieve effective notice.
It's sad that even ISPs seem to think that WWW = the internet these days. If I were traveling and I couldn't VPN into my home network because of this, I'd be really pissed.
Why is this dated January 2019?
>"In my real estate venture, the dividends are paid exclusively to the investors who are my shareholders. So there are no free riders; the people who don't invest don't get the same benefits as those who do."

The investors don't care if there are free riders as long as they get the expected benefits. The neighboring property values may rise, for example.

>"That's wonderful but how do we limit the benefits to the shareholders of the waste treatment plant, so as to convince people to invest in it?"

I just can't get past this. This is just not something I consider in any way when choosing to make an investment/donation. I simply do not care if other people may benefit, that is not my concern.

I mean lets take a smaller task:

Say I feel like doing the dishes so I can have a clean plate later in the day. Once I get going with doing dishes, its not a hassle to finish them.

Should I be upset if someone else uses one of the dishes I cleaned? Should I not do the dishes, even if I want to, because eventually someone else may do them? If it was likely for someone else to take care of it, why hasn't it already been done?
Elasticsearch quite conveniently makes it so difficult and fucking annoying to do data analytics with their pile of turd custom query un-language shambles that it leaves anyone stuck with it rightly reinventing oblong wheels with diamond bearings lubricated with iron filings in code. Aah, but dev-mis-ops say that it’s easy to deploy and maintain on AWS. It scales too! Well, at least the whole set-up keeps everyone employed.
As someone who grew up in an extremely rural area, I sympathize with those who didn't get to experience the full Pokemon Go launch, it was pretty amazing to partake in. Seeing hundreds of people out for night walks, hearing someone shout "There's one down here!" at the other end of the park, running in crowds with strangers to get in on a capture, it was a lot of fun while it the initial surge lasted. The magic burnt out pretty quick for me, but I do still see people playing the game at least a few times a week.

As someone who left that rural background and now lives in a smaller, but proper city, my response is a lot colder and less sympathetic. Living rurally is a trade off. Cheaper land and housing, more space, less culture, fewer people, and less socialization. The internet _helps_ but it doesn't _cure_ this issue. Until we have teleportation living rurally will always be more isolating.

It's not really surprising that a walking-based game with a social streak that seeks to have 10 to 30 interactions per user per hour (pokes to catch, teams to form, battles to fight, etc) wouldn't work well in areas of the world where there aren't even 10 to 30 _people_ per square mile.
For pictures present on your phone which Facebook uploaded just in case you’d want to post them later. To hide latency essentially
Lots of countries where earning at least 500 euros per month is a dream come true.

Where getting a mac mini might mean an imported device from somewhere else, and three to four months salary.

We are on HN, you can easily find them.
Discussion here is not about the author's (supposed) background, or ulterior motive, it's about the merits of the issues specifically discussed in the article. It's best to focus on that
"When faced with equivalently unhealthy meals, dining out has the advantage of automatic portion control."

Portions in restaurants are way too big. After a while this totally skews your perception of appropriate amounts of food.
I keep telling myself that one day when some company run this way does me wrong enough, I'm going to go score a pile of Adderall, some cell phones and a pack of Depends and patiently battle/harass my way through the entire scripted management hierarchy until the CEO himself gets on the phone, personally apologizes for the mishap and invites me to his birthday party.