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I think intent and circumstances matter. If you have a private account and only allow people you know to follow you, and you repost something, that's a lot different from having a public account where your purpose is to amass followers and try to monetize.
There's nothing wrong or confusing about the title...???
I have a practical question about the seeming truism that a highly educated population is a good thing.

Our educational attainment rates have absolutely skyrocketed. The number of people with a bachelor's degree or higher is now comparable to the number that managed a high school degree in the 1950s. What would you say are the clear benefits we've really achieved from this? It's hard to disagree with a highly education population being a good thing, yet in practice I find myself able to list quite a lot of negatives relating to our sharp increases in educational attainment, but I'm not really sure what the positives are except in the most abstract terms.
America lets too much talent of all ages go to waste. Most people I know with graduate degrees never were able to get work with their degree. If they have a job, it is not in their degree, they landed work in "some generalized tech" somewhere and worked their way up.
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> I think that variant is only faster than bubble sort because it stops iterating once the newly inserted item has reached its final resting place,

It's actually faster because of a subtler reason: branch prediction.

In insertion sort, the x[j-1] > x[j] comparison is almost always true. Insertion sort performs that comparison O(n^2) times, and it is false only n-1 times. So the branch predictor quickly identifies that it should just assume the comparison is true.
I briefly worked on an experiment at Fermilab (FNAL) that was trying to measure the birefringence of the vacuum (QED theory states the vacuum is birefringent in presence of magnetic field). Key to the experiment were the final 2 remaining magnets from the SSC (Super Conducting Super Collider). There was much donated equipment, some of it repurposed from experiments at SLAC and elsewhere within FNAL. Gotta say those folks at FNAL really knew how to stretch a dollar.
Unfortunately, we reward bad behavior by not having the hammer be swung down hard and fast.

Look at the ridesharing companies, all of them started by defying local laws. Couple of people get assaulted here and there, doesn't matter as long as Silicon Valley gets it's money.
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I don't hate it out of jealousy.

I hate it because so many good people have been scammed and because it is dreadful for the environment. Wasting power for seemingly no purpose.
if you think like that investing in any technology early enough is gambling and luck. is it now..
Meaningful, as in something beyond I'm only trying to extract money from you, not connecting at a level that makes for great sex. There is a middle ground there where two people can be genuine in being mutually beneficial to one another.
Being in awe of an achievement, past or present, does not necessarily mean you are romanticizing it. You can have strong emotions and positive feelings about something without romanticizing it. Romanticizing means viewing something in an idealized or unrealistic way, ignoring or downplaying anything that does not fit into that "Romantic View" of it.

We can be proud of our accomplishments, past an present, and feel good that in some areas there have been huge advancements. But, we do ourselves a disservice if we romanticize the world and and don't view things in context. We need to understand what it took to make those advancements, accept that some advancements come with consequences, and not ignore those areas where there are still much to be done.
Agree so hard about forced socialization. My work life and my social life should be two very separate things.
And that mostly locks you into a certain constrained career path.

Having being shoved down that path in the UK due to dyslexia it does have its downside lots of bright kids where sent to secondary modern schools and left at 16 to work down the pits etc.
Nice job. As a kid I read all the Redwall books concurrently with LoTR, the delicious food and feasting descriptions throughout them can get kind of obscene... I've tried cooking a few over the years from various fan writeups (e.g. http://friarhugoskitchen.blogspot.com/) but there was an official cookbook too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Redwall_Cookbook).
POTATOES... Biggest complaint about the post is lack of boiled, mashed, and or stewed potatoes.
This did not happen with any of my gmail accounts.
And, hell, if you see your work being reposted without permission, file a DMCA claim against it. Might as well get some good use out of that horrid law.
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So this is the LoTR analogue to "the Empire were teh good guys" ["teh" was a typo, but it fits, so heh].
Interestingly ( to me) I will be deducting losses specifically from Netflix this tax season and will have carryover in 2020.

There are a handful of available carryovers and the concept of NOL is very similar to a private citizen as this discussed concern is to a business.

Innovation and front heavy spending is very much improved do to this issue. It is a sound concept.
In the United States, at least, if you're the original creator of something, copyright to that work gets assigned to you automatically when you create it (see https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#mywork). So if someone uses that work without your permission. you have a theoretical legal complaint against them.

Actually pursuing that complaint can be difficult and expensive, though, which is what serial plagiarists like FJ depend on.
This isn't facebook specific power. Need for validation is deeply rooted in our psychology.

Keep in mind, that you're posting that on a different social network (with different rules, but still - social network), that also has exactly the same system, with upvoting.
What email address do you use for cree ?

This is relevant to my interests...
Isn't it quite difficult to convince online strangers to really help you, for more than an answer in a forum ?
There are no such predictions you can trust. This is an ultra right wing talking point and could not be further from the truth.

What’s really true is that the EU border is being expanded the minute I post this comment: The EU works with authoritarians and terrorists of all kinds to stop people from fleeing their war and poverty ridden countries. Look at every country in Northern Africa and the upcoming budget for the EU’s equivalent of ICE, Frontex.

Your racist talking point does not have merit to it and you should reconsider the way you consume news in general.
Whats wrong with taking large outside investment if the terms are favorable?

As an extreme example, if I thought my company was worth $40m and someone offered $20m in exchange for 10% of my company I would absolutely take that deal whether or not I needed the money.

The problem might not be that the company is taking a deal when they shouldn't. It very well could be that the investors are overpaying. It's also totally possible that this is a good deal if it helps the company get a bigger slice of the market because they can grow quicker.
Covered in https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/nopython3.html .

If I understand the trolling logic, "if it's impossible for Python 3 to support Python 2 then Python 3 cannot be Turing complete." This hinges on 'impossible' being used as a technical objection.

The argument should be that it's economically infeasible for Python 3 to support Python 2, not that it's technically impossible.
No. I believe that I need to pick my battles and I can't win them all.
Is there a way for me to know whether or not an LED bulb will have a proper driver that does not throw away half the current and produce a "strobe" before I buy it? The flickering (in the presence of moving things) drives me crazy.
I'd like to see a solid argument for a new style of management that uses statistics in new ways. For the most part, my experience with the phrase "data driven" has been a negative one. Most of the time, when I have a client that claims to be "data driven", they are using a style of argument to avoid direct, honest conversations. When I wrote "When companies make a fetish of being data driven they reward a passive aggressive style" I did my best to explain what I've seen:

"As far as I know, there has never been a company that said “We want the worst informed people to make the decisions” so in a sense all companies have always valued data. But they didn’t make a fetish out of it. They simply expected people to be well informed, and to make intelligent arguments, based on what they know. That would have been true at General Motors in 1950. That much has probably been true at most companies for centuries. When management says that the company is going to be “data driven” they are implicitly asking for a particular type of interaction to happen in meetings, an elaborate dance where people hide their emotions and quote statistics."

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/when-companies-make-a-f...
So many replies to your comment, but no one seems to be able to answer the question. Articles like these manufacture outrage with no detail whatsoever on why the company paid no income taxes.
I sort of find myself in the same boat, but now I have very few high quality arguments.

Reddit and Facebook and Twitter are chalk full of people ready to have a low quality debate, but there are some rare instances where you'll get some genuine insight from interlocutors.

HN seems to be a good source, but in general on any given subject it's very difficult to find a good faith, intellectually honest, substance-based disagreement on the Internet.

As you say, it seems better for one's IQ and eIQ to lose Reddit and Facebook and Twitter, but it'd still be nice to have a place to sanity-check new ideas.
This is strongly hinted at in the movies. Bilbo's first appearance in Fellowship shows him finishing off The Hobbit (in a big red manuscript), and the ending of RoTK shows Frodo finishing off The Lord of The Rings before handing it to Sam.
Can you create abortificiants/contraceptives from local plants? Most of that knowledge, which used to be widespread among women, was never written down, and with modern pills nobody needs to.
I'm surprised that there is no mention in the article of "filament led" bulbs (and very little mention in the comments): https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/led-filament-bu.... They are based on the simple idea of stacking enough small LED's that they can run on mains voltage. You still need a rectifier to go from AC to DC, and a capacitor for smoothing, but no voltage conversion means there are fewer parts to fail. And multiple smaller LED's makes the heat dissipation much easier, so they tend to run cool.

I've been using them for a couple years, and think they are so much better than the previous generations of CFL's and heat sink LED's that would quickly fail, especially in enclosed fixtures. I'm buying cheap ones from Amazon, and occasionally I get early failures, but lifespan after initial burn in has been excellent. Like others, I often wonder why they haven't taken over the market: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/why-haven_t-filament-led-b...
I think it has more to do with how thoughtless downvoting/upvoting can be in some implementations. But this isn't inherent to the upvote system. Requiring a comment for each vote to explain the user's position, for example, can curb this tendency.
Too late, I've already decided to never use their service because of this.
In the US, "tip" has a legal meaning and tips are subject to specific rules.
Author fails to mention that people for sure not only don't trust banks but also governments. the whole argument that trust is not needed because institutions fails in all failed states that author happens not to live in. I remind you the "chancellor on bring of second bailout". that's the value proposition. Lastly, author can't spell Ethereum
I read about this 10 minutes ago and now the CEO already has a response! Feels really weird. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it's almost like the CEO was prepared for the blowback if this thing ever got out. haha
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As you've identified, a "private blockchain" is just a database. People can't wake up to this soon enough.
As to your last point those variables could be anything, even in the simple examples you list. Size could be a tuple with the shape of some multidimensional thing, it could the the string "Large" temperature could also reasonably be a string "45C".
Thank you. I've been humbled.
Turns out i've already beaten the LOTR challenge mode in a sense. Rainy saturday, all day LOTR marathon on TBS, sack a nugs, plenty of grub to eat while watching the movie all day
That is why I'm more of a fan of DPOS and (EOS) where I can take part in a voting mechanism to establish a set of trust worthy nodes who will validate the network.
This version of statement I can agree with (since its just facts).
The original statement didn't read anything close to this imho :-)
> I think the fact that a gig economy company with fair (for lack of a better term) labor practices hasn't shown up yet (to my knowledge) is an indictment on the lack of vision from VCs and entrepreneurs.

Their vision is likely well aligned. The gig economy metes out little bits of work to a new underclass, while shifting nearly all risk onto them. This improves profit flow. The gig economy bypasses the American Labor Movement. The mandatory binding arbitration bypasses the Rule of Law.

The VC's vision is excellent. They extract work out people who don't have much recourse, except they've figured out slavery isn't needed. You just need them hopeless enough to work for nothing, because they can't get anything else. Since they don't need to be paid minimum wage, they don't get benefits, and you can nickle and dime them because you've bypassed the rule of law, you get a lot of advantages over a normal company that has to play by the classic rules of treating humans with any kind of dignity and the laws they got passed to do so.

The app concept makes things faceless so the company can make profit by making someone else do the hard work and take the risks.
I'm not entirely sure what I'd call it, but competent is not the word. Seattle has a history of attempting to push constitutionally-questionable and ill-thought legislation.

0: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-p...

1: https://q13fox.com/2018/05/08/seattles-proposed-employee-tax...

2: https://patch.com/washington/seattle/seattle-residents-jolte...

3: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-t...

and so on.
LP catalytic heaters also can leak propane and everyone who uses one is recommended to keep an rv propane detector nearby. I haven’t seen these forced air products before, thanks so much for bringing those to my attanetion!
I would expect that reporting them doesn't do all that much, since Instagram doesn't really have an incentive to make that right for you (unless, of course, you're a large content creator with a ton of followers; in that case, I'm sure Instagram does want to keep you happy).

Instead, file a DMCA takedown notice with Instagram referencing the stolen work. They're required by law to comply and take it down. I expect that most content thieves won't see it as worth it to contest the takedown and open themselves up to legal liability.
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Yes it is a damn shame. A rising tide raises all boats, eh?
Economically it’s a disaster but technically Hue lights are a wonder. Every bulb is a Hue @ my house. I can make it a 80’s Miami nightclub or make the rooms feel bigger with bright light. It’s nice.
>There's also the hardware compatibility issue

Seems to be getting better (slowly). I just bought an asus tinkerboard for 50 bucks that supports 265.
>>There are strong consensuses about some aspects of those problems, however, especially regarding the benefits of using government debt to finance stimulus programs as part of a counter-cyclical action against a recession.

There is no consensus that counter-cyclical stimulus is beneficial, outside of those economists already committed to central economic planning of the money supply. Basic economic theory tells us that spending directed by political forces is likely to be less efficient than spending directed by market forces. Counter-cyclical stimulus uses future earnings of the private sector to pay for current government spending, so assuming all other factors remain equal, the price is less market-directed spending.

Moreover, counter-cyclical stimulus interferes with the development of the natural corrective processes of a free market, because it means those who saved cash during the credit bubble have less opportunity to buy up assets when the bubble pops. By reducing the capital allocated to this group, you reduce their future influence on the economy, which would have the effect of reducing the magnitude of bubbles, and with it, economic volatility.
Looks like somebody did start a business based on quicksort back in 1971. https://www.syncsort.com/en/About/Syncsort-Overview
That's anecdotal, and probably more a consequence of the seniority of the engineers who wrote these two code bases than the nature of the type systems.

My point about static type systems is broader and actually backed by science and mathematics. And also, just observing the trend and seeing where the wind blows.
We do not like blockchains because it was something nasty / fraud-y marketers stole from us, and went ahead to make huge sums of money. From something that actually had tech potential, but wasn't ready yet.

It was a quick introduction to 'how the world works' for a lot of us.

Adding insult to injury, some of us joined the marketers for the scraps and gave them undue legitimacy. This was on HN a few weeks ago, explains the whole phenomenon based on three types: Geeks, Mops, Sociopaths. https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths (And we're mostly all 'geeks' here, by his definition.)

And this is not sour grapes — I first heard of Bitcoin in 2010, when it was 3 cents. I didn't make any money out of it, but I've not 'missed out' in any real sense.
Good points. Thanks for explaining
They are used for very specific set of features to reduce costs. Google is trusted a LOT less than Amazon.
A feature of what?

If this guy can convince people to send him their registration codes and somehow monetize it he's in business.
Easy answer: therapists.

They're paid to listen to you and help you figure out your problems.
Especially given how the like button wasn't exactly a novel concept, nor something that wouldn't have otherwise come about. These systems existed prior to Facebook and if it hadn't have introduced it, some other service in the same niche would have done exactly this.

And Facebook's privacy issues and general sociopathic business attitudes predated all of it.
You can individually opt out of the arbitration clause, the problem is finding a critical mass of other people who opted out within the opt-out period.
Official Instacart blog post: https://medium.com/shopper-news/state-of-pay-doing-right-by-...
Thanks, this is a good place to keep in mind. I loved Oregon and Montana the most out of all the Western states I've explored. I have not been to NV or Tahoe yet, but I want to soon. Heard a lot of great things.

After growing up in the Bible Belt and living in Utah for a year, I realized just how much more I value mountains over skyscrapers.
Not what I expected, it seems to me the CEO did the right thing. I'm not a customer of Instacart, my only knowledge of it comes from following the various HN stories about this whole ordeal.

The "right thing" he did:

1) Apologize, explaining that he made a mistake. Self-deprecation is good here.

2) Make it right, not just going forward - they are retroactively paying the delta to the impacted employees.
If i was a wizard I would be smoking that enchanted nug. Pack up a bowl with magic and use your wand to perfectly corner it. Magic!
What do you mean by "farms that potentially devalue the currency every single second"?
IIRC osx still ships python2 only with the OS.
The hammer swings down fast in some cases. Look at Robin Hood's checking account debacle. The SEC, FDIC and SPIC do not play around.

The problem is where regulations are enforced. At state level results may vary. At local level very few jurisdictions can out-battle a company with millions or billions in VC funding. Uber blocked local regulators in Portland from blocking rides: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-portland/portland-pr...
Yes, those were horrible. Filled with some kind of tissue paper or just air.
I think he's alluding to the `like` button being a symptom of the changes that were driven by things like IPO valuation.

I don't think the like button is to blame as such, it's just an indicator of where the purpose of the company started to move in the direction of mining its users for profit.
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it's happened before that the people / community / culture of a thing had more to do with its success / failure than the technology itself.

VHS/betamax, for instance.

imo, blockchain as we know it today can't survive the wilding of these platforms, the stories around the cretins and thieves involved.

it'll have to evolve to something that doesn't resemble "blockchain" as we talk about it today (cloud versus devops versus sysadmins, etc).

a new keystone of this technology will have to carry it far away and make it kind of different for this to be the thing we're still talking about 10 years from now.
And, for that matter, there are quite a few people who I originally met professionally who I stay in touch with for reasons beyond mutual benefit.
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I can't deal with it. I've been a vegetarian since I was 12.
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If your goal is to wow me with linguistic terminology, good job? Whatever. But I think you are trying too hard and don't have the facts on your side.

I continue to believe that the case of say, digest (such as a compilation of summaries) versus digest (such as a creature processing food to extract nutrition from it) is a very similar case compared to 好學 (hǎoxǔe, read as háoxǔe) (of a study topic: easy to learn) versus 好學 (hàoxǔe) (of a person: loves learning).
You can say the same about a debt collector. Thats just too broad of a statement to do anything with it.
Just curious, did you use Instacart or any of their competitors before this?
I was wondering if the previous power issues mentioned had borked the exchange database. Still, thats a day or two to fix, not weeks.
I hope nobody ever forgives you even if you apologise to them.
Haha, okay, I’m easy to convince because I really haven’t thought about the problem and I could never see myself needing to reason it out since it’s just illegal and therefore overridden by the objective to ensure my company doesn’t get sued into oblivion.
> Highly optimized and well defined solutions are by definition inflexible. Because they are the result of removing everthing which is not relevant for the task.

Only if you don't consider flexibility part of the task, which is rather short-sighted in today's world. Maybe postal services could afford to be inflexible once, but those days are long past.
People have been banging on about cross platform frameworks for years now. They are all too much of a compromise. It probably won't get any better than what we have now.
I have to admit that I have used only CFLs for decades (with a few exceptions where the produced heat was a positive side-effect, not a negative) and had not considered there are plenty of households that still use incandescent light bulbs.
The drama kicked off weeks ago though?