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I disagree and tbh, your tone is not better.

The things I pointed out in my first post are not that off.

But I don't want to discuss these ridiculous cruises further, I find this topic and the article, yes I have to admit, super boring and on something like HN so off-topic. We all know why this cruise article was posted here (read on).

Re HN and depression, suicide and related topics. Just check HN's search and you will see what I mean. Compared to any other forum HN has a quite large share of such posts. This annoys me, HN is full of great people, great topics, content at the cutting edge. This stuff is not why I drop by. Hence my aggression against this article posted here.

Btw, till now I got four downvotes for my second comment in it has not been flagged yet. This is why I assumed earlier that HN or some of their mods helped. We know why this might have happened and we know that this should not happen.

Happy to hear now your, hopefully more balanced, view.
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In my university I took a data science course and we needed to do jupyter notebooks in groups, and merging was horrible. And then we expressed some concern to the course team, they recommend that we use google drive. I still think that jupyter notebook file format wasn't done for collaboration.
Or does seeking collective benefits enable empathy?
“Be Human To Your Machines” — Scott Ganz at TedXSanFrancisco 2018.

https://youtu.be/Y6eNSf4br5Y

Emmy-winning TV comedy writer becomes award-winning AI conversation designer, frets about the dismissive way humans interact with computers and the corrosive social effects of badly-designed bots. Explains why conversation interfaces need to stick up for themselves and push back on bad behavior, for the good of human discourse.
> There's a huge difference between bribing a current politician and a former one, in that the current one can meaningfully look the other way or send you kickbacks.

Actually there isn't[0], because the former one can have looked the other way or sent you kickbacks while they were in office, in the knowledge that you would bribe them later, when it no longer officially 'counts' as corruption. This is the standard way that corruption works in the US, since there are laws against just directly bribing a politician the way you would in some other countries.

0: Edit: isn't a huge difference; obviously there is a little difference, just not enough to do more than slow down the development of corruption.
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The catch here is that pathogen has been evolving for billions of years, already.

If something like that fit in the constraints of life on earth it'd most likely be here already.
It’s a field in engineering where optimization is used to optimize a engineering design for a certain purpose (e.g. a beam for stiffness).

Topology optimization is the broader field that allows topological changes to the design (e.g. the addition or removal of nodes). These optimization’s often have a solution that first have to be interpreted by an engineer to turn it into a manufacturable design.

A shape optimization performs optimization only of certain variables of a predefined design. The splines as described here seems to fit well for describing for instance sheet metal parts or cross-sections of beams.
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He is a very controversial figure in both Greece and Europe as a whole.
1. I am Serverless adtech coder.

2. I only do machine learning geared towards adtech

3. I can't be hired for php wordpress development because i charge way too much for it $500/hr

3. I won't bill for building Electron app either.

4. If someone wants to build ad tech platform in C# or Java, i will pass. I only code in Go, JavaScript and Rust. I'll not learn any other language!

In the adtech area, there are only 20-30 guys capable of building whole ad tech platform A to Z from scratch.

They don't have any shortage of jobs.

But some guy doing wordpress thing can't be hired to for adtech. Got it?

Obviously, i always keep complaining that there are just not enough coders in adtech who know adtech well!
The money my company pays Slack each year could buy a house in most US states.

Slack makes good money.
This article made me look at the iron content of various foods that I eat often. Surprisingly, dark chocolate has a lot of iron -- a 100g bar has 100% of DV.
I see. I couldn't quite follow which parts you were saying to insulate, and your mention of "half the temperature of the sun" lead me to misinterpret. That's fine then, I think. Not an expert on wavelength filters.
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>HTTP was initially designed for transfering static files and static data over potentially unauthenticated connections.

It may be more useful to view "transfering static files and static data over potentially unauthenticated connections" as the first application of HTTP. While there are parts of HTTP that are useful for static data transfer (e.g., Cache-Control), there are parts of HTTP that would have no relevance if that were the only use case (e.g., 409 Conflict).

>it's not suitable for handling complex dynamic data

I would agree that HTTP was not designed to support applications pushing data from server to client, but that is a communication directionality issue separate from the issue of whether the data itself is complex or dynamic.
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The sad truth is that the guy was ALREADY a dick. The management job just enabled that tendency to come out. There are tons of people who would have been able to work that job without being dicks — the Stanford prison experiment has been debunked, authority alone does not create dickish behavior.
The A student wants the highest grade possible and will maneuver in a way where the C student will do actual work without affecting quality. In the event the C student is beyond useless, the A student decides between doing all the work or throwing the C student under the bus.

The C student will take any grade C and up and strives to do as little as possible whilst not pissing off the A student to go ballistic and report you to the professor.
In the Gatwick case it appears the drone was remotely operated rather than autonomously visiting a series of GPS way points.

I figured the authorities could pretty quickly triangulate the signal to locate the operator. But Gatwick is a bucket of suck so maybe they're just unprepared?

Also, I understood that drones are geofenced out of restricted airspace such that they disobey commands to fly where they're not allowed.

Geofencing drones: https://www.heliguy.com/blog/2017/02/16/heliguys-guide-to-ge...
Everyone does this, training data needs labels.
It is not only consumerism and money or things. A women in consumerist countries has a lot to loose by having child - you won't be fully same and equal as before. In non consumerist the loss is not the same.
I did not know that their was a changing of the guard.

That explains more
US Naval Observatory website root cert is for pharmaceutical company?
It’s missing that one can use Hydrogen and avoid this problem: https://nteract.io/.

Export isn’t great atm but can be combined with pweave: http://mpastell.com/pweave/docs.html

I think VSCode has something similar.

This gives another advantage of using a proper editor and its entire ecosystem.
What if they used the same idea for a watch screen? Would that be "rounding"?
I had a 1996 Ford Mondeo that showed 10% more. Then I had 2004 Ford Mondeo and it was 5% more. I sold that one and bought a 2008 Ford Mondeo and it is 5% more. My other car - 1998 Ford Fiesta - is 10% more. I also drove a 2011 Ford Mondeo and it showed more but I hadn't had it long enough to care to calculate how much exactly.

I tested all the cars except the Fiesta up to 230 km/h and the 2008 one up to 260 km/h (it's the 2.5T).

All the cars are/were German except for the Fiesta, that one is Czech.
Why is this a good reason to prefer decentralized networks? Slack is a tool for employees at a company to communicate with each other. At some point those communications need to arrive back at a server that lives inside the boundaries of a nation state that is one of the world's major economies. Most of the major governments of the world work together to regulate the worlds networks. But even if that wasn't true, what would you get by trying to leave the networks? Are you trying to evade the law? If so, why? If you don't like the law, you can always lobby to change it, but there will always be laws. You can and should work to make the laws better, but still there will be laws, and we all gain some benefit from living in a society with laws. Or if you disagree, what do you think the alternative is?
> Which is odd, because it feels like it is totally against the spirit of the free software movement.

And yet, it is completely within the original intended spirit. It is not about "giving source code away for free", it is about the user (who may very well have paid for the right to use the software) being "free" to do whatever they want with it...up to and including modifying the source code for their own benefit. With traditional proprietary (aka "non-free") software, even if you had access to the source code, you are not legally allowed to modify it. And then GPL goes a step further and allows you to redistribute your modifications! That's freedom.

The idea that "open source" means "give everything away" is imho one of the primary mistakes of the "free software" movement. and why RMS now encourages the term "libre software" instead.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
What is the reason for Unicode escapes? It is something legacy from when Unicode was not universally accepted in all systems? Do other programming languages have this?
USB pass through support to drive hardware debuggers here.
It's like if you had a version of C that replaced all compilation errors with undefined behavior.
And the Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria doesn't work for chancellor Kurz. I get what you're saying, but the US is not that special.
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I've seen it happen multiple times
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Does anyone know of an inexpensive sensor that measures other things than particulate matter?

Once I got a PurpleAir, I started to want to measure ozone and other pollutants, but I haven’t found a sensor (or even sensor component) that measures that.
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The American government is in a budget crisis, even so, it’s not a major story in the printed version of Weekendavisen, Børsen or Information this weekend.

I’ll agree that the more populist papers, like Berlinske, are very US focused and so are a lot of the free internet news.

I was not trying to say that we aren’t US centric. The very first thing I wrote was literally that I agreed that we are, but the US hasn’t owned our news cycle every month of 2018, far from it. Obviously is an important part of our news cycle, but so is every G8 country, and in my social circles people follow those countries as closely as we follow the US.
It would seem the line between marketing and lying is completely arbitrary and essentially means nothing. Take a look at any fast food commercial for an easy example.

I think the perception is that 90% of marketing is straight up propaganda (which includes lying, obviously). And I think this perception is correct. If there is a difference between marketing and lying, it sure is difficult for the average user to distinguish, hence the perception.

"The Power of Home Depot" - The POWER? Really? Its also the most expensive even though they always claim to have the best deals.
"JD Power best in class" - even though the company paid JD power for the "award"
Fast food commercials - never mind how the photographs are essentially straight up propaganda, "I'm Lovin' It!"

There are so many examples of this I couldn't list them all if I even tried to.

> normalizing the idea that lying == marketing

I hate to tell you this, but its already been normalized because for the most part that is the truth!
I imagine his comments have been downvoted because he's cherrypicking information from the article to defend the man across multiple comments. See the parent comment to your comment where he ignores that he did access and download files he had no right to access and instead states exactly the opposite according to the facts (in point 2).
> There exist plenty of curve primitives more like what you are suggesting here.

The only thing difference I suggest is the control. Its the difference between:

effect = control_angle mod PI ,or

effect = control_angle / 2

When a full turn of the control produces a full cycle of effect a better ergonomic relationship might result.
There is one odd one out here.
But the light coming from the moon is a combination of diffuse and specular reflection... and again (just like for the black body argument) the fraction of light which is specular is most important. The fact that the moon subtends 0.5deg out of 180, while reflecting more than 10% of light (12% bond albedo) suggests to me that what we see is not only lambertian (or cos2) diffuse reflection, but it depends on absorption so I don't know enough to calculate.
This person (yostrovs) is very clearly partisan. I have interacted with them in past threads and they have made bold claims such as people who oppose Trump's policies solely do so because they hate Trump and not because they could dislike Trump's policies. I wouldn't bother arguing with them.
I argue that pie menus are much easier for users to operate, understand how they work (selection base purely on the direction between clicks, not the path), and predict how they will respond, and thus trust, than general gesture recognition (often implemented with a black box based on machine learning). Because the pie menu gesture recognition algorithm is obvious, transparent, and Fitts' Law friendly.

Pie menus completely saturate all of "gesture space" with valid easy to distinguish gestures of uniform and high area. But gesture recognition systems like Palm's Graffiti only uses a small subset of all possible gestures, each with different areas and distances from each other (i.e. how easy is it to make each gesture and how distinct each gesture is varies), and most gestures are invalid. There are no possible invalid pie menus gestures -- they all map to well defined selections, so no gesture space is wasted.

Ideally each gesture should have a large area in "gesture space" so it's easy to make, and be as distinct (well separated) from other gestures as possible, so it's harder to make mistakes (like confusing an "n" with a "u"). Pie menus optimize for those ideals. It's also extremely useful that you can correct mistakes in-flight (i.e. reselection, browsing, moving out further to get more "leverage"), so no matter how much you mess up the gesture, you can always correct your mistake and refine your selection.

Once you start writing a sloppy "n" and realize that it may think you're writing a "u", there's no way to correct your mistake, and all you can do is scribble to make sure you input an invalid gesture that's ignored (and hope it isn't mistaken for the "delete all" gesture!), then try again.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/gesture-space-842e3cdc7102
Anki, it's a flash card space repetition software. You can use it for learning almost everything. Other than that I search the web for study guides on the topic, some open courses and books also.
The equivocation to programming language is misleading, it implies the “language” is context free or context sensitive when dna is probably on the order of natural language complexity (posits I).
- Sharepoint access logs (the server side)
- Corp IT has access to your machine, and can activate keyloggers to see what you are doing with the downloaded files. (the client side)
On be the agent of chaos:

Generally this is referred to as brinksmanship. The philosophy of brinksmanship is basically that when a situation is stable it is difficult to change. Takeing it to the the brink with chaos means you may be able to settle the chaos more in your favor.

The problem with it is that it's an awful long term strategy. In terms of game theory it's essentially the "defection" strategy, and negative sum.

In fact much of this blog posting seems to me like it could just as well be titled "a sociopath's guide"
Seconded. Had no idea what it was going to be about and thought it might have been the most interesting talk I've ever seen.
I thought this was one of the notably bad talks this year. The whole premise that a function of Maybe a should be a function of a without an API change is neither intuitive to me nor really justified by Hickey. Different things are different. It's sad to see someone build such a wall around himself when faced by something (type theory) that he doesn't understand.
> "Why do people still die as a result of them, despite the fact that technology exists to detect falls? And, after a person is swallowed by the ocean, what power do their loved ones have to find out what happened, hold any guilty parties responsible, or demand reform?"

This line about safety encapsulates that point. There's so much safety and rules all around us that people come to expect safety provided for them, so there is less emphasis on maintaining one's own personal safety. This is a problem in itself that people decide they could let their guard down because someone else will take care of them. There's no 100% guarantee behind that, and the randomness of the cosmos ensures it won't always happen.

There's less "free will" and more "supervised will". Of course not everything can be totally free, but if people want to preserve a notion of independence and self-autonomy, then the thinking surrounding personal safety, awareness, and responsibility should change.

Like in the quote from the article above, the immediate reaction (from the author's POV) is to blame someone/something else. Sometimes, the reality is that nothing could be done. Welcome to world: there's pitfalls, and obstacles, and things that are not safe. People fall out of hotel balconies, off of train platforms, into manholes, off of bridges, into rivers, etc. There's an infinite number of ways to die that not all of them could be safeguarded or fenced off. That's the inherent risk of being alive that every living creature deals with.

Overall, this article is basically creating a problem out of a non-problem, and the real story is that someone was served/drank too much alcohol at a bar. The article says: "Since 2000, 284 people have fallen off cruise ships..." followed by "Most of the nearly 30 million passengers who travel on a cruise each year...". Therefore, this means 1.3 people/mo fall off cruise ships... out of 2 500 000 passengers/mo. So there is a significantly greater chance of being struck by lightning (at 1:700 000 odds) than falling off a cruise ship each year [1].

[1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/flash-facts...
Yeah, that line of thinking is absurd. He probably got nervous right before he left the company and gave them the USB after hastily trying to delete the files. In which case, the parent commenter would seem to imply that he should be let go because he got nervous after stealing things he shouldn't have access to.
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Some people take the ferengi viewpoint - if you made a profit and got away with it, you are successful HARD STOP.
> minimum railing heights of one meter (39 inches)

I'm surprised by how low this is. For comparison, the OSHA requirement is 42 inches -- for sober professionals on stable ground. At the cruise ship minimum, I'd need to wear fall protection to work on that deck.

I found an article [1] about a law proposing 42 inch rails for cruise ships, and apparently that was already part of USCG inspections as of 2015, but it's not clear what level of enforcement there is.

[1]: http://www.professionalmariner.com/May-2015/Coast-Guard-prop...
Have you tried DigitalOcean Ocean or Joyent to see how they compare in complexity to AWS Fargate?
Odds are that their reporting and content moderation services are outsourced to companies that are given guidelines and follow them strictly, with no room for interpretation or nuance.

No one in that support org is going to go cross-reference your account details and look that stuff up because (1) they hopefully don't have access to it and (2) no offence, you're not important enough to get some kind of special treatment.

Your expectations that a company with millions of customers should "get the joke" or spend time triple-checking whether you were serious or not are unrealistic.

That's just the reality of moderation services at scale in today's Internet. No one does it in-house anymore, so it's all very very black-and-white when it comes to enforcement.
The upcoming "chaos communication congress" always has a few gems https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events...
I agree with you. I venture this has always been the case with a lot of leaders/kings and governments. The problem we face in the current age is that things have been automated and so much power is vested in a few individuals. A few individuals working for the Energy utility of country or the rail governing body can do massive damage by being corrupt. I really worry Africa will never develop because we have very few individuals making such bad decisions that the whole country gets affected. South Africa is reeling with power cuts because of the decisions of a few individuals[0][1].

Just to make my point clear, a few decades ago (in Africa), we didn't have electricity (quite a lot still don't) we used candles and lamps. Apart from shutting down a candle factory, there wasn't much an individual could do to affect the whole country (other factories can open and candles can be imported). Now we use electricity for lighting and it is provided by one government-owned entity. It makes the head of the entity very powerful giving him/her access to billions and billions of dollars. They also able to screw the whole country up.

[0]http://www.702.co.za/articles/329758/sorry-south-africa-for-...
[1]https://mg.co.za/article/2018-01-12-00-eskom-has-a-problem-a...
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This. I was at Deconstruct too, and Nabil's talk got a standing ovation. It ran way over time, and I didn't notice. Tech people need to hear this. Tom's talk is also amazing in its own right.

Let's Program a Banjo Grammar was also one of my favorites. :D

https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/ryan-herr-lets-program-...

Edit: I just looked at your username...that you, Ryan? :)
> I find their interpretation of the story to be far more believable

I don't think the Malaysian prosecutors are disputing that the (previous) Malaysian government was corrupt. They arrested Najib Razak (the PM during the 1MDB project), as well as other officials. But they're also saying that GS has a partial responsibility. And given the numbers provided in the news article I don't find it hard to believe.
Unfortunately monads aren’t in base scala (as an explicit class at least), so often you need to do some ad-hoc pattern matching on tuples or data structures and pattern matching really helps in de-structuring and binding relevant variables.

I probably use monadic operations (map, fold, etc) at least 5-10 times a day in my job (I’m a scala dev), and match expressions at least 3-5 times a day.

So pretty useful I’d say. Though then again I’m dealing with some pretty baroque case classes that contain dozens of values of financial information.