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Yes, you're missing something pretty big.

It's not just media companies rewriting something significant every few years; everyone in the tech industry does it. There's a very good reason for it: it provides interesting and high-paying work for tech employees.

Who wants to go to a company, set up a great system that doesn't need any more work except maintenance, and then just settle down into maintenance mode? No one who wants a rising career. "Maintained system using $oldTech" doesn't look good on a developer's resume, whereas "migrated critical system to $newTech" does.

And it's not just the developers: managers who oversee big teams of developers working on a big new project have more prestige and are paid more than managers who just oversee some boring already-done project that's in maintenance mode.

Now, in this case, there were probably very good genuine reasons for making a big change (I'm no fan of MongoDB), but many times if you look closely with a critical eye, you'll probably find that people padding their resume and making up a reason for their job to exist is the real reason something is being done.
No, it’s true. This was right after the Susan Fowler event when Uber’s Blind channel blew up in membership. They blocked it, people just laughed and turned off wifi, and then they unblocked it a few weeks later.
>>It is easy to task authorities with intercept and decryption duties; actually doing it successfully is another matter entirely. Mathematics works both ways, friends.

Actually if Apple, Goog, FB etc are forced to surrender the key--at the penalty of being excluded from 1.x billion people in India--math works only one way...
Per their technology explanation video, marine life would swim under or away from the boom.

The impact is indeed not well understood. They are closely observing the first boom with the intention of iterating and improving. It doesn't appear to be destructive like an ocean trawler - the ill effects of which are very well understood and yet people continue to eat harmfully procured fish.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EAeNdTFHU
It really depends on architecture version and profile. Recent application profiles allow it. On microcontrollers misaligned access is still mostly forbidden as far as I know.
Also to request playing Downton Abbey. Although Alexa is sketchy about specific episodes and seasons. And no way can she understand "play the bit where Mary and Matthew are standing outside as it begins to snow"...
Yes, but this would be the only place that a pilot could store such a thing. Cargo is not pressurized, which is why the spruce beer can't be flown normally.

And I doubt he had it in his lap the entire flight. It was likely stored in his personal bag.
I don't know about the sexist behaviour, do you have any references?

Let us not rush to allege that a project is likely to be a scam because the founder is young. The Trillion Trees campaign is also largely by really young people. The Ocean Cleanup folks don't harp so much about the founder's age. There's a whole team working there, and I haven't heard any grumblings from the team of resentment about him getting all the attention.

As for scientific documentation, here is their feasibility study: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/fileadmin/media-archive/Docu...
I'm not sure that something like Vision Plus is very similar to a Blockchain.

Aside from both using cryptography, in the sense, of encryption.

So... if such buzz words are used, it seems like a huge lie.
> FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly said the size of the penalty “is probably not significant enough to deter future behavior, but the negative press coverage is likely to prevent this company and others from attempting to do this again.”

To me, this reads like they're abdicating their responsibility. I'm sure their goal is to punish the company without destroying it. But if even the regulator doesn't believe the fine is going to serve as a deterrent, why do we even have a regulator for this arena?
The Economist should be held up as the pinnacle of quality writing worth paying for. Very few ads (maybe a full pager for lear jets and some classifieds). It may cover some of the same current events as AP or other news services, but their content isn't available anywhere else.
One reason is regulation. Regulation builds waste into the price and reduces accessibility: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18733284
My work email has disabled imap in the name of security. My understanding is it's easier to lock down email entirely than to get doctors not to email patient data around, so I kind of understand, but it's annoying to have to read my email either using the terrible outlook web all or by giving my employer a lot of permissions on my personal phone. For context I'm in the US, where HIPAA fines can be quite high (not that that's a bad thing).
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> The argument isn’t in favor of prohibition

Then you didn’t do a very good job of communicating your argument, as it could easily be assumed you were against it existing.

> the argument is that marijuana has risks.

As does almost everything in the world, especially when misused. I gave one concrete example of this, happy to provide a lot more. Sugar has significant health risks when consumed in excess, there’s a world wide obesity pandemic in fact, should we ban sugar or otherwise inhibit it’s consumption?

> The argument also isn’t, I think, that marijuana, or television, or social media, is “very vital to our health”.

This shows your lack of knowledge on the subject. For those with Crohn’s disease (a debilitating auto-immune disease), CBD is more effective at controlling symptoms than any Rx drug or diet plan. The most commonly prescribed drug is Humira and costs patients / insurance $11,500 per month (assuming weekly injections). The company behind Humira has made more money on Humira sales (it’s closing in on $100B in sales) than any other prescription drug in history (including Viagra). Yet it’s not as effective as taking CBD when it is properly extracted and can be done so at a significantly lower patient cost.

I’m not advocating for the “CBD head shop” explosion we are seeing, as many sell utter crap, and in rare cases crap so bad it could be dangerous. I am advocating instead for us ending a century old racism influenced law and getting proper labs and real scientists working on quality products for all.
Many languages do this as far as I can tell. I speak Indonesian and my girlfriend speaks Hindi, we come across words the languages share every so often. I’ll also catch a word in Tagalog or Dutch that I understand in Indonesian from time to time too.
> But most people do agree that climate change is real and will get worse.

President Trump does not believe that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change. He may not be "most people" (in fact most US voters voted against him) but he is the one setting policy, and his efforts right now are on combating the Democrats, not climate change.
The old one is, iirc, a clone of the PCOL (Possession Claims Online) system - another MoJ project centred around small claims.

PCOL dates from 2006 (I should know, I helped work on it, mostly performance testing using CompuWare to locate & iron out horrible Hibernate-on-Oracle issues...)

All of this was delivered by EDS, completely pre-dates the GDS stuff and shouldn't be considered anything to do with it. :)
I read that as "the financial penalty is not significant enough on a standalone basis to deter future violations, but that perhaps the fine combined with the press coverage may prevent it."

If you're a VC or company backer now, how willing are you to put your money behind some company that's liable to be the second intentional violator of these regulations?
I'm not well-informed on the topic, but why does the FCC regulate who's allowed to launch satellites? Shouldn't there be an international authority for this?
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There is a joke about nuts. I am have started reading the biography of the second greatest scientist of the previous millennium. He would tell jokes to less peons to occupy their time. Sort of like the kid at the $5 poker tournament who keeps asking why? How? When? What? Where? But the turn of action to be competently successful is supposed to be Who, What, When, Where? Why? How?
As an Indian, this is scary. In the name of national security, this can go either way.
Great idea! But the vast majority of people will find that their family name is taken.
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This isn't large enough. The fine should include the cost to remove the satellites from orbit.
I'm having trouble understanding the q factor concept. For example, the article suggests that if you have a low q factor then consider switching, but this seems to conflict with the example of Fenn, who basically stuck through until he made a breakthrough. Am I missing something?
So if Swarm wasn't a US-based company they wouldn't have gotten this fine? They launched the satellites from India and tested them from Georgia (the state in the US or the country? The article isn't clear).

Seems to me that future companies that want to do this sort of testing just need to do it in other countries or from off-shore platforms. Then apply for your FCC license so you can charge US customers without having to worry about getting sanctioned (and losing your ability to process credit cards and bank in the US).

When I started reading the article and read about all these international launches my first thought was, "why does the FCC have a say in any of this?" Now I'm thinking, "perhaps we need a better international framework for this sort of thing."
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FCC slaps satellite startup with $900K fine over unauthorized satellite launch
Of course! Free of people and ideas is a great benefit to each of us. Some folks give into resentment but most of that's caused by the central banks not actual immigration. It's caused by central banks bc they have kept the substitute for labor cheap. Low interest rates, as far as I can see, are one of the principal causes of populism. Populism is the premise most folks would use to argue against exchange visits.
Two events caused 6 deaths in the US (one event is a non-factor if you don't do hurricane reporting). Zero deaths in China, but 60 journalists were detained. If you were a journalist, in which country would you feel safer and more capable of doing your work with integrity? What about Egypt? Still no deaths, fewer detainees.

"Death count" is a fact, "dangerous" is more up for interpretation. NBC used the latter word that the report did not use, and "dangerous" and "deadly" are not interchangeable.
My answer is still the same, and actually assumed that. No one is really "greenfield": everyone is already invested in some technology to some extent. If your organization is already invested in MS technologies, your managers only know MS, and your developers only know MS/.NET/etc., then the choice is pretty obvious: MS SQL Server. Switching to Linux/PostgreSQL would be a sea change for an organization like that (even though, IMO, it would be better in the long run).

Similarly, if your organization is already a Linux-based one, running Linux servers for everything, adopting SQL Server would be a huge PITA and would likely be laughed out of the room if suggested.
I run a similar for my family and deliverability has been the on-going issue. Every year or so I have to make some kind of update because some mail admin or other changes their setup and they start flagging our outbound mail (from foo@sokoloff.com) as junk/spam.

It's a good idea and I wish you the best of luck, but I am curious how you handle the outbound deliverability.
Didn't News Genius run into trouble by copying articles for annotation like this?

https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2016/3/25/citation-appropriatio...
I think there must be enough VCs out there who are willing to intentionally snub regulations, otherwise companies like Uber, Lyft and Lime would never exist.
This is cool but, even with a relatively uncommon last name, every single possible domain shows up as taken.
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Matt Taibbi has just written an entire book on the media called, what else - Hate Inc - taibbi.substack.com - you can easily see how much the media itself is responsible for stirring the pot.
That’s all this “farm bill” did for hemp? What a shame
Perhaps hiding the "serious neurological harm" is the whole point - who are the intended recipients of these vaccines?
Yes, I read this the same way you did, but I came to a different conclusion.

If the regulatory agency will tailor-make your fine to make sure that it's not too stiff, I don't see why any startup would follow the rules the first time around. Compliance has costs.

If you ignore compliance and your project doesn't work, then you spared yourself the time and money needed for compliance, and you won't care about the fine.

If you ignore compliance and your project does work, then the fine will not kill you, and you'll know it's worth coming into compliance.

I don't think I'm more "move fast and break things" than the average HN'er; this just seems like the logical outcome of fines that are intentionally too small. What am I overlooking?
Conversely, do people care if they are eating a cow that has been genetically modified to grow faster and have more fat? Is that really the same as breeding corn for generations so it won't die when drowned with weed killers and pesticides that are still present on the foods consumers eat?

The difference between your examples is not the genetic modification technique applied, but the result that was achieved. Maybe it would be simpler to just label the precise breed that was used, so consumers can check for themselves which properties they want to avoid.
> interesting and high-paying work

Busy-work is never interesting, and if it's "high-paying" someone is getting fleeced (and will do what they can so as not to get fleeced in the future). At some point, the constant rewriting will have to stop. In contrast, maintenance work on a well-engineered critical system can be quite interesting in its own right (and it's not like the "maintenance" doesn't involve writing some new stuff on occasion. Nothing is ever truly "done").
I too was confused by this but it actually makes sense: They did all their testing from the US (and it's a US-based company). Which means they used part of the radio spectrum which is regulated by the FCC which gives the them regulatory authority.

NASA (and other space agencies) are OK with their satellites. The FCC is not OK with their use of controlled spectrum in the US.
At first I thought this was SwarmApp by Foursquare, and they wanted to track the location of every human on earth.
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Hold the belief that everything will work out and the future is bright.

Focus on doing your best regardless of the outcome. Even if you fail, you can handle it and other good opportunities will come up.
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Would not forget this game ever, first time had to install using 5CDs, endless hours spent discovering this amazing world and story these guys have built. Hands down to Black Isle Studios for BG series, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment.
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A binary interface let Scheme use Python, Lua, Ruby etc's Library.

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Very interesting, it's cool how far back it dates in Canada, I'd not heard that before.

Does anyone know about the history of pine ale in Scotland out of interest, was reading this https://www.williamsbrosbrew.com/beer/alba which says 'A traditional Highland recipe, popular in Northern Scotland until the end of the 19th Century. '
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If you're OK with waiting a while, the "removal cost" is zero. Those satellites are in 490km orbits which should decay in 50 years or so.
To me, this reads like “yea we know this is BS, the press coverage is actually likely to just communicate that you can get away with this type of thing with just a slap on the wrist, but our hands are tied in how we can penalize this.”

To the larger point, though, even an imperfect regulator is important. There will always be different types of businesses - those who intend to skirt the law and those who attempt to follow it whatever it may be - and regulators keep the second set from acting like the first set, reducing the quantity of bad behavior. They certainly wish they had the fangs to deter both, but at least this may deter the latter.
Correct, of course. The FCC can’t control what an Indian company does, but this was clearly a US-based company launching out of India because US regulators said “no.”
So effectively, both parties take turns choosing what "atoms" (counties, districts, etc) belong in which districts. They must be contiguous. I'd like to see how this relates to the efficiency gap that was heavily used around gerrymandering in Wisconsin. It's mentioned, but they don't go back to analyze how it would be---at least I didn't see it from a simple search.
If the doctor was doing good work, they should have no issue defending the work in a civil trial. Of course that's costly, but then again we have given a state-granted monopoly to lawyers: private bar associations that grant access to courts.
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I suggest making pricing a bit more obvious.

You arent collecting actionable (ie current email or similar to follow up) information prior to showing the price either, so I am not sure what you gain by hiding it.
>> and the water from Montreal, which Roy claims to have just the right purity level to produce his spruce beer’s unique taste.

Must be the result of this:
https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/americas/canada-montreal-wast...
Yes, I think your interpretation is supported by the next line in the article, too: "O’Rielly said an initial fine negotiated by FCC staff was rejected by some commissioners, which led to reopening settlement talks."
> I now feel naive for thinking that the people working at the big tech companies have a certain base level of "all-round" skills. In no way I expected so much cynicism, narcism and lack of empathy!

Why? These companies are like Wall Street, they pay the most, so they attract people who are predominantly interested in money. These kind of people tend not to be the most upstanding.
It's hard to co-ordinate that kind of thing, so we might see it in the future but I wouldn't hold my breath.

The FCC regulates the radio spectrum usage in the US, which means if you want to talk to your satellite you need to get permission from them. They use that to try and make sure everyone in space gets along and don't crash into each other.

If the company only ever used base stations not falling under FCC jurisdiction they might have been ok, but my guess is that as long as they were operating in the US they'd probably run into issues trying to get around the FCC.
Thanks for the link, this quote is great:

'In response, Kruger said, "What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. I make my work about this kind of sadly foolish farce. I'm waiting for all of them to sue me for copyright infringement."'
Well, yes, you didn’t communicate it in Chinese. But did you make the text easily machine identifiable? Was the source language indicated? That would allow their browser to offer the ability to translate.

You didn’t intend it for a blind audience, but they’re certainly capable of reading the text. Did you avoid making the text actively toxic to screen readers?

Many of the whiz bang features on new sites, ostensibly because “users want features!”, hinder even this functionality. It’s fair to criticize this as a regression.

I use a browser extension that lets me click links and buttons from the keyboard. The more bleeding edge they make the sites, the less I can use this feature. That’s not an improvement.
Yup, definitely a challenge and the reason why I try to suggest lots of different TLDs as well as some simple mutations like name + "family". I'm still trying to figure out how else I can open it up for more useful domain names that don't become completely convoluted.
Following the current government's cutbacks to the state-run police, residents in one part of London (which is incidentally the "one of the safest ... seats in the United Kingdom"[0] for the current government) have funded their own private police force[1]. This is apparently working out well for them. The issue is that it furthers the division between the rich and the poor, with proper protection from crime becoming available only to the wealthy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_and_Chelsea_(UK_Par...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2018/feb/...
Uber's business model is in jeopardy after losing its latest legal battle
TL;DR This is a a decade old directive . This was a 2009 directive, if at all anything that has changed now it is instead of open ended notification in 2009 which said any company can access the data, this directive limits the number of companies to specific 10 agencies that can access that too after getting necassary permission.
Details in
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For small numbers of hyperparameters, sometimes just random search is enough. This is not an absolute rule, sometimes with just 4 parameters random search miserably fails... just my rule of thumb, empirically, is that for hyperparameters in machine learning (this is certainly not the case in general) random search is often enough for 4 to 12 hyperparameters if the budget for hyperparameter search is ~100 trainings.
No. The FCC regulates telecomunications between the sats and ground stations in the US.

For space there are UN agencies that are responsible and there are several international treaties, agreements and conventions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law
"synergy" is pretty timeless...
The weird history of unorthodox sentencing in the U.S
I can see a Sealand 2.0 spring up around the launching of rockets from international waters. It also looks as if the bulk of the regulatory reason here is the use of the radio spectrum and not the actual launch.
Bummer, sorry to hear it. Shoot me an email at jesper@namekin.com with your family name and I'll see if I can manually generate some suggestions for you that work :-)
> It takes out the entire creativity process of cooking, and for people who actually like cooking on a higher level also the process of selecting the right ingredients.

Did you ever try one of these services? Because that's the opposite of our experience. My wife is the cook in our family, and she loved it. She learned by example...seeing the quantities, getting an understanding of how to handle ingredients, practicing different cooking techniques, different variations, different flavors, etc., etc., etc...

Not only that, but we didn't get every meal from the service...she used what she learned to really branch out and make all kinds of things she never would have attempted in the past.

We always knew we were paying a premium for the convenience and variety, but it's a trade-off a lot of busy families are willing to make. It allowed us to prepare something at home instead of getting fast food or going to a restaurant, which would have been even more expensive.
1. I love techno-nostalgic stories, and this is a good one

2. I love how none of the people were technically experienced at video games

3. I wonder if people knew back then that this was going to be such an influential game (after it was famous, but before time had passed)
I believe the Outer Space Treaty is the framework to handle the international part of all this, which India has ratified.
I was reading his posts back in the day, did anyone ever perform any analysis if his predictions were right?