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There is no moving of goalposts. Data collection was part of my argument from the start.

It seems like you have a problem with basic comprehension.

You say “Same is true of google source code“ as a retort to my first paragraph. Can you not see that I am actually saying that? Notice that the first two paragraphs are actually connected as part of an argument.

The argument is that although a competitor can potentially produce code that competes with Google’s code, a competitor cannot collect historical information about the web and searches.

Why do I say they can not collect this information?

Because it’s historical - i.e. it was available in the past, but is no longer available.

Google has the advantage of having not only a huge head start, but all the data available up to how about the structure of the web and user searches.

Patents are a separate issue, I did mention them in my original post, but it doesn’t matter whether we agree or disagree on that, since there it only takes one barrier to entry for you to be wrong.

Google isn’t just an algorithm.

It is also data. Data which is not available to competitors because it isn’t present anymore.

Your statement that we should ban user tracking is another example of you creating an absurd remedy as a strawman.

Nobody is proposing that remedy.

That doesn’t mean we have to deceive ourselves into believing that there are no barriers to entry to compete with Google.
Google is finally saying goodbye to Allo today
The future where human spaceflight to other worlds is common, and not relegated to a few specific optimal times because it is so costly?

Basically, the future where the distance is a calculation on the cost of the trip like prevailing wind direction and speed is for airlines. We may never get there, but it's a nice thought.
WannaCry demonstrated an incredible ability to use a single vulnerable PC to elevate itself and gain access to an entire network of PCs that were not, themselves, vulnerable. The way that WannaCry spread from PC to PC is largely still not mitigated against in most environments: Using the shared admin credentials from one to access others. (The solution is called LAPS, but it's use is much less widespread than it should be.)

Which is to say, having a single PC on your network vulnerable to it put your entire network at risk. While a fully patched Windows 7 machine today can't be infected by WannaCry, after January, it will be vulnerable to new malware. And malware that spreads similarly to WannaCry is certainly possible.

Considering that you could start an infection from a malicious file brought to the vulnerable PC from another one on your network (which was itself, immune), firewalling a Windows 7 PC from accessing public networks is inadequate: You need to unplug Windows 7 PCs from all networks altogether.

Note that from personal experience, I've managed a fully Windows 10 environment using multiple pieces of software written solely for Windows XP environments. The number of devices which truly can't be upgraded is much lower than people claim, likely due to a skills gap of some sort. For the most part, the only thing truly locked to a given Windows version tends to be unsupported hardware drivers for very obscure hardware items.
> No, diabetics have an elevated insulin levels for hours after a meal. Like, after 4 hours it's still at the level a non-diabetic peaks at after 0.5-1 hour. Eating many meals will keep your insulin levels high all-day.

I have repeatedly said in this thread this doesn't apply to diabetics, who do have an insulin pathology. Diabetics do need to worry about insulin, non-diabetics do not.

> Your body is very bad at burning fat in the presence of insulin. Meal time is only important as to not keep your insulin level elevated all the time.

There is no science that disambiguates between large spikes followed by zero food in take (IF), and small spikes continually at the same calorie levels. Please feel free to send any study you think does.

> It's reversible by either supplementing more food

Again this is only relevant to the post-prandial window. If you are overweight, and have a slow metabolism, and respond by eating a lot of food, you will not successfully "speed up" your metabolism outside of the prandial window. If you are overweight and start dieting, your metabolism with slow down, but the evidence overwhelmingly shows exercise counteracts this, and that the slowdown is reversible when your body fat percentage lowers.

> If you are eating all the time, the short term situation becomes the long term situation, not barely on 24 hour periods but for years on end. This is especially true for diabetics and pre-diabetics, as their insulin level will lower way slower.

No, this is only true if you are eating all the time and also eating too many calories. . Again, please send a link to a study you think says otherwise.

> While I'm not a fan of isocaloric studys, this should work, yes.

Why are you not a fan of the only kind of study that could possibly prove your point? And why hasn't this study ever been successfully completed? Why have studies that attempted to do this been unable to show any difference in outcomes?

> I'm genuinely interested as to what your understanding of insulins / glucagons effect on your body's ability to access fat is.

I don't really know what you're implying here, but I suspect you are still getting hamstrung by the prandial window. Yes, insulin can block your ability to access fat in the short term, no it will not in the long term, and it does not do so entirely either. If you are eating the same number of calories and thus constantly releasing insulin you are blocking some, but not all, lipolysis. Lipolysis is not a binary, nor is insulin release. You can have both of them happening at the same time, even though insulin is blocking some of the lipolysis.
This may be one of the better HN comments I've ever read. I would just like to add that all jobs, all experiences, aspirations, goals, boil down to other people. Focus on them and help them; it's likely you already know people who have the capacity to point you in the direction that you want to take your life.
Rather than posting the same comment on every story, I recommend you rather flag the link. Having links that are inaccessible from large parts of the world only hurts HN, making it annoying and frustrating to many users.
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Fishbrain is great. Used it a few years ago and being able to see where people fish and what they catch with what lure saves me a lot of time since I seldom get out to the water.

Also friendly comments on catches =)
Hamsterdam is a great example of holding police commanders accountable. "The Wire"

https://youtu.be/n4j_oSeWZyU
I highly doubt this is the case. I can't tell the difference between my gaming desktop and my laptop with integrated graphics.

From what I've seen on the chromium bug tracker, Google has been on a ~5 year crusade to improve Mac performance. Around half the issues Ive seen include something like "We don't know what Mac does here, let's ask some people at the next conference" (these were core rendering performance bugs). I totally get why Firefox can't compete with that. It's fast on the platforms that don't seem to be hell-bent on making custom rendering slow.
Yes and no, depending on your threat scenario.

I would assume Signal to have a proper signing infrastructure in place, so that the keys used to sign new releases are not available to the server hosting/deploying the actual update files (or providing them to Google/Apple for that matter). So simply taking over that server would not be enough, as malicious updates could not be installed.

Assuming Moxie goes over to the dark side, however, you are screwed. There's nothing stopping your Signal app from bundling all your plaintext messages once you've entered your password and sending them off to China, save maybe a firewall you have in place. Google or Apple might stop such an update during their reviews, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Why should they care how they want to look appear? It seems we lack people willing to behave on principal.

What is the downside to not grounding planes that have killed 300 people until April when the fix is ready and we can get pilots training? Where in the constitution does it say we must protect shareholders of airlines and save them 3 weeks of lost revenue from ...(checks notes)... 30 planes ...(Southwest)?

If something happens between now and then on this airplane, and it may not even be related to the issue, how much trust is lost in the United States of America and its aviation industry. it just seems quite short sighted.
We're about to see if that's true in Hacker Noon 2.0 :-)
> I wonder what future the writer is imagining where average distance matters

Interplanetary communication.
What might be detrimental is expecting unconditional and eternal love/trust from someone. If you enter the game with realistic expectations it's a smooth sail.
Imported cheese tariffs are an international trade issue.

CETA was intended to help with this, but grocers et al aren't choosing to import European cheeses. :(

https://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/buyer-beware...
Since Uber is about to ipo I have been hearing people question, "How can people highly value a company that is losing so much money???"

The reason is (the potential for) self driving cars. Once/if there is mature self driving tech, they can eliminate the cost of having to pay human drivers. When you consider Uber in that light, as long as they don't run out of money before self driving maturity, then their high valuation makes sense.

This may seem obvious to some but this fact has been entirely absent from every conversation I have heard about the valuation of uber's IPO ( looking at you Marketplace's "Make Me Smart" ;). It seems like it is taboo to point out that Uber needs to eventually eliminate all their human drivers from the equation.
There are strategic considerations in terms of food production, which are real, and also softer, cultural concerns such as the centralization of controls, loss of local autonomy and other things.

They're all externalized in the calculations and first-order thinking, which is why the farmers are essentially under thread.

I live in a supply-managed area (Quebec) and Milk is a lot more expensive. Maybe a little too expensive.

That said - I don't mind one bit paying 'a little bit more' to have locally sourced products.

I suggest most people would feel the same way!

Ergo, paradoxically, the 'market is inefficient' here! If consumers were able to make reliable choices with respect to the locality of their milk and produce, I would bet they'd make rational choices according to their own motivations to 'pay a little more'.

It's just the way information is transmitted ... it's too onerous on consumers to have to make complex decisions with respect to every purchase!

'Free Trade' proponents actually try to stop things such as labelling like 'made in Michigan' or 'made in Quebec' because this runs counter to their economic arguments (and interests!) ... but hey, if consumers value something for whatever reason, more than others, that's their choice!

I'll bet that a coherent, well communicated effort to label foods in a manner that enables consumers to make quick and easy decisions on this stuff may actually work.

Environmental issues related to 'mass farming' aside - I wish governments or organized bodies would do this.

Hint: we already do this in terms of categories. People chose to eat vegan/vegetarian for whatever reasons based on their own criteria, but it's fairly easy for them to do that: just don't buy the meat. So imagine if they could make such informed decisions as well with their Milk.

Even without this, if I had to chose between 'supply management' and 'cheaper prices' I think I would chose the supply management system, at least for foods.

I'm not sure the Canadian version is perfectly well suited, but the reality of globalism just has too many indirect consequences not on the balance sheet.
Was this not the thesis of the dot-com bubble?
I guess that's why Lars thinks Death Magnetic sounds just fine and can't hear all the horrible clipping.
At that point it becomes about the nuance of defining what is really best for open source. Is it long term maintenance of ElasticSearch as it exists today, in which case I agree Elastic has the best incentive to keep it going, or is it net new open source code in which case Amazon is bringing new plugins to the table. I suspect in practice this is more of a spectrum than an obvious either/or.
>Cloudflare doesn't distribute hls segments they will just route everything to LAX

HLS segments?
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> Beeing GDPR compliant is not rocket science.

Its also not free. Rational companies will apply a cost benefit analysis to GDPR compliance and some of them will determine it is better to block EU visitors than to do the GDPR work.
> It's far too simplistic to argue that it's the average insulin intake that matters.

I agree, I'm trying to more accurately state what we confidently know based on the available science, rather than what might be true based on our hunches. Insulin spikes being bad are 100% in hunch land.

> The complex kinetics depends both on rate as well as average / basal dosages.

I agree but, again, very little science that disambiguates effectively.

> Spikes can trigger different biological responses that respond to thresholds and equilibria.

Right, this is what the basic science has shown, but what we don't know is what difference this makes within a 24 hour window, or epidemiologically over time.

> It's a differential problem, and the answer isn't easy.

Definitely agree.
Well US media hates GDPR. Its all a circular reference
I wonder if truly autonomous vehicles turn out to be another "so near but so far" experiences like nuclear fusion - when I was a kid, electricity courtesy of nuclear fusion reactors would be "too cheap to meter". Seems like ever since the industry keeps saying "We're nearly there - we just need to build a bigger one". I truly wonder if self-driving cars might turn out to be the same kind of thing.
This is a remarkably balanced and powerful piece of journalism. Kudos to the reporter and The NY Times here.
I'm sure Google appreciates the protection of their advertising revenue.
Closest average orbit radius is what everyone means when they say closest.
No, thats exactly my point, a person carrying out computations by pen and paper on a massive ledger could emerge self-aware intelligent consciousness, and if such a thing were to occur, than any unethical things that the computer (as in the person writing on the ledger) created in this consciousness would be just as unethical as anywhere else, and such a person should be tried for crimes.

It's argued that this is absurd because how could a persons activities on a private ledger be examined as a crime? But this absurd sort of crime investigation is not absurd at all in the context of someone able to simulate consciousness on a ledger.

If a couple has a child and somehow does it all secluded, at home, they are just rearranging atoms until consciousness emerges. Then they lock the child up. How could such private activity that both parties consent to, be considered a crime? Because we have solid reason to believe a new "soul" exists which requires ethical treatment. It no longer is entirely private.

I'm happy to continue discussion, its good to challenge views and while I think there is this error in your conclusion, you do a good job of defending and explaining your position.
An additional problem is that if it fails (the MCAS) the airplane is low, in full thrust during take-off and the pilots have zero room for error as the airplane is trying to dive into the ground (as in the LionAir flight).
Hi! I'm well aware of Malmo -- it's a project I'm fond of, but not quite the same thing. I wouldn't quite consider Minecraft an MMO -- it doesn't really scale with the player base as nicely as, say, Runescape or WoW. There's a 2-pager on the high level objective and approach in the Github repo if you're interested.
Because some people just don't recognize a Web address if it does not start with www. I see that all the time with our subdomains.
They are working on that actually, planned to be in Chrome 74 and then enabled by default in Chrome 76.
My take is for truly wealthy people, there is where you live for tax purposes and where you spend your time. Those people usually also have a lot of control how they register their income. And so being wealthy really just means that paying more or less taxes is a discretionary expense. Like a lot of other discretionary life style expenses they pay.

Two examples I know of. One guy who had a $200,000 RV parked in a warehouse in SF. With his office upstairs. But he didn't 'live there'. And another whose llc owns a condo by the Marina. That guy doesn't 'live there' either. Both those guys probably paying $100k/year for 'convenience'

Things change radically when you where you live for tax purposes and where you spend your time are the same place. And you can't decide how you are paid. Some friends of mine, high paid working for a fortune 500 wanted to relocate them to Waco Texas. $200k goes a lot farther in Waco TX. And yeah fuck no.
Likewise a lot of us in the US are not willing to play the GDPR game. Ultimately this is a Dallas-based news organization that caters to a metropolitan area of one state in the US... European readers are not even on their radar.
> "Mislead how? By not offering permalinks?"

By failing to make it clear to him that their privacy invading browser extension is the only way to view their data. Why did they fail to effectively communicate this to him?
Yes, but most people are online 24/7 anyway, and that number approaches 100 percent for "two people who need to move a file from one to the other right now". Hosted upload file sharing services are a dime a dozen now. How is this better than slapping something on Dropbox or Mega to send someone?
Ask HN: Personal sites with interesting content?
I'm looking for interesting personal sites (they can be ugly and old school). Do you know any?
I agree with everything you are saying and have mostly come to the same conclusions you have except:

It’s obviously not true that for any given set of calories consumed the body has only one option of what to do with them. It can build muscle, store fat, repair heart walls, excrete it, and so forth.

This is determined by a bunch of factors including hormones. So if hormonal balance or other metabolic behavior is modulated by macro (or micro) nutrient intake, then the calorie emphasis might be overly simplistic.
Yep, how many times have you seen a web page say tell you not to refresh the page to avoid losing your progress.
It's also a very useful statistical lesson. As averages or nearest is not always representative of the day-to-day reality which decisions and intuitions might be based on.
You can't fill yourself with that much and if you managed to it won't be absorbed before coming out the other end.
>There is a lot of heavily patent/trade secret encumbered IP in both graphics and compute drivers, making open source extremely difficult. Above that layer I've found Nvidia extremely open.
>Intel is far worse to deal with

Huh? Nvidia is by far the worst option when it comes to GPUs if you want to run Linux. Both Intel and AMD manage to have excellent open source drivers, while Nvidia's is a proprietary mess that everyone complains about and doesn't work all that great with typical distro update mechanisms.
The Industrial Revolution of Shame
The companies I worked with never paid placement fees. You don't really need incentives when housing supply is tight.
You're right that it's 2d, but that's beside the point. You could say the same of Runescape -- the internal state is basically 2D and tile based. This is actually quite a nice feature, as it makes the environment very efficient to simulate.
Uber's self-driving car killed a person because its driver was playing on his phone rather than doing his job.
There are two alpha vanes on 737s, including the MAX 8, that measure angle of attack. Also we don't know the exact source of the error (in the Lion Air case; in the Egyptian Airlines case we don't know at all). The vane itself could be the source or some other part of the system.
I need to give this a good read.

My dad is diabetic and his doctor told him that cinnamon is good for blood sugar levels. It's not in this study though.

He was also told to avoid rice and potatoes. He manages quite well and the doctors are astonished at his low blood sugar measurements every day.
The GP shows both avc1 and av01, the latter of which is AV1.
Yes. Recalls with autos happen more often with a lot less. Consider the amount of cars out there. It only takes a few to put one in play.
I meant in round numbers ;). It's been pretty close to two full years now, so I wrote "a couple years" instead of 22 months.
US Pressures Germany to Ditch Huawei for Its 5G Build-Out
I used to like Baltimore. I'd take out-of-town company there. I'd take dates to the comedy clubs, pubs, eateries. Years later I worked in Baltimore, also at T. Rowe Price. 4 blocks up from the Inner Harbor, my friend was mugged at an ATM two times in two weeks. I had friends who starting keeping guns in their cars. We'd walk to the Harbor during the day. It felt safe then. Evenings, not so much. The squeegee boyz started harassing you if you stopped at a traffic light. "Give us money to wash your windows" they demanded. You'd nod "no" and they'd start anyway. Soon you figured to pay them Not to wash your windows. If they did wash them, they worse than bad. My friends and I stopped going to any of the bars or restaurants downtown, venturing out only in groups. Same with going to Orioles games, only in groups. My one friend is selling the townhouse he's owned for 25 yrs. He lived elsewhere, kept it rented, but had to renovate every 2 years when deadbeat tenants were finally evicted. He figures he lost $95k in lost rent, legal fees, and renovation. Thats doing the work himself. He figures he should have abandoned it 15yrs ago. I only go to Baltimore now when absolutely necessary, like a visit to Hopkins or such. I feel bad for the residents. And I feel bad for the police. Regarding the extra protection the Inner Harbor and maybe the casino gets, the taxes they pay are a huge part of what supports the city. One more thing - not trying to start a political fight. Baltimore has only had 4 Republican mayors in the last 100 years. Maybe something isn't working ideologically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Baltimore
Wow that's really neat. Downside is it only works while the page stays open on the uploader's machine, while send.firefox.org uploads the file for a limited time to a central server so you can close the tab before the recipient downloads it.
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The secret life of the washing machine (1988 documentary)
Is this a valid use case for the blockchain? A shared ledger of salary info folks post to that isn’t easy to munge.