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Respecting borders has been an "unimpeachable norm" for how long, though? Since 1945, at most. That's not even 80 years - just long enough for us to forget why we made it verboten in the first place.

I fear that Crimea and the Golan Heights will turn out to be the first drops in a devastating torrent.
Because there are a litany of counterexamples to the myth that earnings equate to economic value. Teachers, police officers, and social workers immediately come to mind.
>There should be high end burger chain which give you an eighth of a pound real meat burger patty for taste reasons and an eighth of a pound vegetarian patty for health and environment reasons.

I do this at tasty burger in boston. (order one meat burger and one veggie burger.) Shake Shack has a Shake Stack which is their meat burger topped with a deep fried mushroom burger. I'm not sure either of these is much healthier than eating pure beef, but the combo of the two patties is quite good (and presumably more eco-friendly).

The idea came to me when my takeout order was mixed up and I got a veggie burger. On my third bite, I thought, not bad, but this could use a little beef flavor.. (Shake shack came up with it independently)

We have a vegetarian restaurant in town that deep fries everything, leaving me wondering about the health value..
I am rather ignorant of US system, but do you mean the federal government doesn't control tuition, or can't? Can't the federal government just pass law to start to control it? I seem to recall it can regulate interstate commerce?
> Students loans must be dischargeable via bankruptcy.

How many fresh graduates would not be bankrupt immediately upon graduation?
Would be curious to see this as well. Bookmarking your profile in case I miss it
Yes but having an educated citizenry pays dividends in a multitude of non-economic contexts.
It needs to be converted to whatever error type the function returns. That can be anything.
Nice, look forward to that one too. Also, not being familiar with !!Con, have queued up the videos of the talks.
...That is, has any researcher postulated a relationship between prime numbers in Math and each Element, in Chemistry, and written any papers or performed any experiments to try to show that relationship? If so, how close is that relationship to being established, and are there any gaps in matches which might indicate places where other, as-of-yet undiscovered elements might occur?
I fail to see how it is fair to everyone that has paid for their tuitions and loans. Can I get paid back for mine? For mt two sons' tuitions?
Long-term pescatarian here: the beyond burger is to me the most delicious of all "i'm not meat and never will be" fake meat products. The impossible burger on the other hand disturbed me: I tried it twice at 2 different locations in NYC to make sure, and both times I felt like I had meat. I still remember the smell of the blood-like heme. I did not enjoy it. I'm not sure the impossible burger is a good idea for vegans/vegetarians. I welcome it for healthier options for meat eaters however.
All societies have governments, even if it's as simple as a tribal leader or elder.
To the extent that college serves as a signaling mechanism, people may want to go to private colleges even more than today.
Copying as a business model is pretty shitty as is copying legitimate IP. But if Company B can execute a similar concept faster and better than Company A, that's ultimately better for society.

This situation looks very egregious though.
They deserve to be paid whatever people are willing to pay. Just as if people rack up debt in order to go on a "useless", those people should be responsible for repaying their debt.
> “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats,”

Does that mean existing Flash content, say old Flash games, will break at said date? Or just that there will be no more updates to Flash to any new content? After reading this, it's not 100% clear.

It goes on to say:

> A number of gaming, education, and video sites still use Flash, and Adobe says it remains committed to supporting the technology until 2020 alongside partners like Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla.

But that seems like that doesn't align with their quoted statement of just stopping updates/distribution?

Can anyone clarify?
lol the chain of tweets and the reaction at the end was pretty funny.
I see two issued US patents for smartcar:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9870656B2/
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10169825B2/
Is there any program like Macromedia Flash that made it so easy and fun to create animations and user-interactive content? I haven't done work like that since it was Macromedia Flash so I have no idea how close other Adobe products come or what other options there are.

But there was something magic about those vector graphics, keyframes and the really fast ways of creating interactive content. Is there like an HTML5 animation/game studio or something?
The "moral of the story" is hidden in a non-linebreaking long paragraph formatted as pseudocode. Most of the content of the essay is there, yet you can't read it unless you think to inspect the source code.

You probably missed or didn't take the time:
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System.out.println (“ It's not easy being an African software developer. Don't give up and always Ask God for directions. Use the right technologies for the right tasks. The future of the African software industry lies in enabling the scattered bunches of individual hobbyist programmers. Those people who would be coding even if it didn't pay because that is what they like doing. People like that should be given a chance, should be given work to do, encouraged to stick it out. When there are enough programmers around and working as a programmer is a viable occupation that can buy a car and build a house, the industry will have grown up. Until then, it is dog eat dog -- monkey go work, baboon go chop... “);

-------

... I really want to find something positive to say.
I'm not familiar with Cloud Haskell, but I can attest that documentation and information availability in general have become a huge priority for me recently after getting burned by lack of it in recent years. This is actually very tricky to nail a sweet spot in, because it almost requires that a technology be currently popular, yet stable. There are long-lived Haskell libraries that have poor documentation and Haskell is rare enough that there aren't often answers to common pitfalls on StackOverflow etc. Ruby on Rails still has ongoing releases, but its popularity has declined and apparently so has its sources of community information beyond the official docs, which only cover so much. And then you have the immature, fast-moving JS ecosystem. Ironically for these reasons I could easily see myself choosing Java for projects in the near future; I don't like the language, but I've learned that the problems I have with Java are not my biggest problems as a professional engineer anymore.
Even the homeless in SF cost the city $40,000 a year.
Just to be clear, decolonisation was already happening in much of the world by 1941.

Your comment seems to be suggesting WW2 was the trigger, but it had been underway for decades, WW2 merely sped it up.
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Besides the blatant copy.

I think Otonomo needs to decide whether they using oauth v1 or v2.

Point being, the quality of work is speaking for itself.

JSON FROM OTONOMO
-------------------
https://consent.otonomo.io/oauth/v1/authorize?response_type=...

curl https://consent.otonomo.io/oauth/v1/token \

Documents Shows
-------------------
response_type

This value must be set to code. OAuth2 outlines multiple authorization types.
I don't understand why this ultrasound scanner needs a user license except for exploitative reasons. It's what crooks would do.
All the things you are saying such as "human nature" or "survival instinct" are just ideological and cultural precepts you simply can't back those assessments up
Prions are more like a persistent toxic chemical than any virus or bacteria.
The opportunity to earn that much is available.

When I went to college only a few years ago the best paying jobs in consulting and banking were largely gated by what school you went to. Now students from “non-prestigious” schools or no formal schooling at all have a good chance at earning that much.
Oh, just that "chat ops" is one of those goofy fads that seemed to flare up everywhere and burn itself out really quickly, so any mention of it immediately triggers my satire meter.

Quite apart from that, the tool described looks like something you'd use in an intensive debugging session, so it's hard for me to imagine how it would fit in with an alerting workflow.
It's not clear to me that on-premises state university education is interstate commerce. (Not that that would necessarily stop it from being tried, but we have, at least in theory per the Tenth Amendment, state supremacy for areas not granted the Feds by the Constitution nor reserved for the people.)
eyeroll

Investor: "Oh I wonder what other IP we can steal from them under the guise of due diligence"
Assuming a traditional college student, declaring bankruptcy at 22, with no credit history to speak of, on the one significant debt you have ever been granted, will destroy your credit for at least a decade.

Also, many loans are co-signed, so it isn't just the student affected by bankruptcy.
That's really interesting, I'd read a blog post about the process.
I'm not a vegetarian but I do care about the environment. So I always try to find meats that are sustainably farmed etc, but sometimes it's hard and sometimes I just only have time for a quick fast food meal.

But if they have an impossible burger, I'll get that every time, even if it costs more.

My hope is that over time their costs come down so much that the impossible burger is actually cheaper, at which point I think we'll see a sea change in meat farming. If getting the meat free burger at McDonalds costs less than the meat one but tastes the same, that right there would be huge for the environment.
Flash as a content-creation platform is still around, albeit now renamed "Adobe Animate". What's being killed is the format and plugin player, the content-creation tools now support open formats like HTML5 Canvas w/ JS/WASM.
This sounds like we need insurance, not subsidy. Some higher education is risky bet; we have good solution to that, insurance. But some higher education is just bad bet.
I can sort of understand the software differentiation - I have no issue with Windows Home and Pro editions having different price points even thought the code on the disc is identical for instance(maybe that's hypocritical of me?). But I do have an issue with paying for hardware(heated seats in this case) and that hardware being disabled until a payment is made. I don't know, it just feels different.
Thanks, but I think you're supporting a different claim by OP. I'm asking about the spread of disinformation to derail the development efforts of clones, not the creation of clones.
>Tech companies, as private businesses, have the right to choose what speech exists on their sites, much as a newspaper can pick which letters to the editor to publish.

This sentiment is a little odd. Tech companies like Facebook and Google are not at all like a newspaper. Someone can copy a copyrighted poem to their front page, and Facebook may spread the link around before being notified and removing the content. If the New York Times were to publish copyrighted material without the appropriate license, it would be obvious just how much they aren't like Facebook. And let's not even talk about the legal weirdness of being able to google The Pirate Bay.

The compromise of the DMCA seems like it hinged on the fact that tech companies are not publishers or editors, and as such do not have the same moral and legal liabilities for things that appear on their platforms. In a sense, OSP's and ISP's are just "tubes".

The demands being placed on tech companies seem to be increasingly reactive and contradictory. As bad as article 11 and 13 are, they seem to at least be consistent in that tech companies are now responsible for everything that appears on their infrastructure, much like the New York Times is responsible for everything they print.
I've been following this thread and it's gotten me curious. I can't help but wonder - do you have some kind of personal connection to this farmer? How does one source a farmer, let alone one that is willing to let you meet the cow, be there on slaughter day, etc. These are all things that are foreign to most people.
We've banned this account for posting mostly unsubstantive comments. We're happy to unban accounts if you email hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start using the site as intended.

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If you'd like to see something that's not "if err != nil", I recommend looking into elixir; there is the option of doing ok/error tuples, and there is a more ergonomic railway programming structure called "with". However, as it is a BEAM language, often the best solution is to "let it fail" as an error handling strategy. Let the process raise and crash, and a supervisor will restart it in a safe state if necessary.
This doesn’t sound like a solution at all.

Some of these $50k loans have over an additional $100k in interest and penalties. So, this would not help.

Make the debt dischargeable under bankruptcy, and the market will correct itself.

Let the borrower’s credit take the hit, not the taxpayers.
I can say from experience that VR absolutely helps dispel cabin fever. I once lived in a fairly small apartment in a dense city. Turning on a big box fan in my VR area and then going out to wide open spaces like the mountains in Skyrim VR made me feel better almost instantly.
Thanks for your feedback :)

Yes, that was weird question and answer, fixed it. Thanks for notice
Apple dominates a lot more in many desirable foreign markets.
Most Japanese people seem very uneducated to me when it comes to politics/history, so I would not be surprised if they don't really have an opinion on the subject. [1]

But I also know quite a few Japanese people in their early thirties, some of them very very very to the right of the political spectrum. Even to them Imperial Japan is sheer terror. Young kids being forced to commit suicide (kamikaze), endless suffering of the population, a crazy mentality, worshiping the emperor as a god, horrific experiments in the Chinese countryside, etc. My sample might be small, but I don't think there's much nostalgia of Imperial Japan anywhere in the Japanese population.

[1] Extra points if you can't even recognize Abe doing giving an interview on TV. And yes, that one has never missed an election. That's the most terrifying part to me. If you want to opt out of caring about politics, it's completely fine by me, but at least do it completely...
For the philosophically rigorous, Christine Korsgaard has a good newer book[1] on animal ethics and their implications that has significant bearing on some of the comments here. (And she's a rather better thinker than Peter Singer.)

[1]: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/fellow-creatures-978...
This doesn't seem wildly inconsistent with my understanding of Elon musk, in that he has a higher level of confidence of his understanding of the world than others would, and in a "you don't know what you don't know " way it seems he didn't know about custom how custom ASICs are much more efficient at specific tasks than a general purpose computer. Doesn't make him a bad person, and in fact something like that is exactly who you want leading a company trying to change the rules of the industry they're in, it's the job of the boots on the ground to exercise due diligence here.
How is this relevant on hacker news?
Advertising based on the type of content is nearly as old as advertising. Some TV commercials air during dramas, others during comedies, others during sporting events. If you want to get more specific, you can elect to have your ad air during a certain show.

The only difference between this and what the NYT is doing is the former requires slightly more research on the part of the advertiser, to learn what the show or article is about.
That is misleading. Simplifying a great deal, the Curry-Howard correspondence asserts the following identities between intuitionistic logic and pure functional programming:

* Types = formulae

* Programs = proofs

* Beta-reduction = cut-elimination

Checking whether a string is a proof in a given logic is a simple computation.
Pretty much the stuff already mentioned elsewhere on HN for this article. I often find Werkzeug's excellent debugger is enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19718869 . pdb/ipdb/pudb et al (pick your fav) can help for really tricky stuff. And sufficient logging, so you know what's going on at all times even without a debugger attached.

(occasionally, the low effort of print-debugging works, but if you keep having to print in more/different locations... it's a blunt tool IMO)
The best part is that park is still closed.
Yes, unless the business API was duplicated as well (and as noted above, there is no indication that they were), it just points to someone being lazy in writing up auth documentation.

Duplicated parameter names would be expected in this case, and preferred actually, so that they conform to the OAuth spec :-) The descriptive text is not an exact copy as well. From what we know, the only damning bit is that parameter values were exactly the same as in smartcar's documentation, which while not condonable, is not as egregious as it would be, had Otonomo cloned the business API as well.
Apparently it gratified someone's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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What the hell does "sperm-to-table" even mean?
Again, if you move to the right bubble with the right education at the right time. Are you arguing that any millenial that wanted could get that education and move to SV and get a job that paid that much? Does FAANG have unlimited room for developers?
The fact that in-car tech is so bad in general is a good indicator that the auto industry is a relationship industry. Its a golf course based business, and building the tech is the "easy" part. See also: the payments and especially credit card space - if you don't start up with the backing of a major player your entire business hinges on bus-dev and exec relationships to convince the incumbents to let you play in the space.
Voice versus exit: this is pretty much an open question, but it's central to really-really discussing political change.

At the very least you need to be aware that those are options and not be surprised when someone argues that exit >> voice.
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So, your application can handle concurrent requests just fine, as long as clients make one request at a time?
France experienced a similar trajectory. The sudden egalitarianism of the French Revolution allowed for a much larger and more dynamic military, which in turn enabled the Napoleonic Wars.

Massive populations and political revolution are the common cause. Japan doesn't have the conditions for either, even if Abe achieved his relatively anodyne constitutional amendments. China is more susceptible to adopting that expansionary role, and it doesn't have a constitution binding its hands.
Would love that! Lots of folks have been asking for a guitar tab version, so if you think there's opportunity then I have a few ideas myself. What's the best way to reach you? jay@themusiciansnotebook.com
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Oh my gosh thank you for that. I will check it out!
Fired NPM staffers were trying to unionize
I'm not a NN expert, but based on what I have found, the point of using RELU instead of other activation functions is what is called the problem of "vanishing gradients".

Basically (IIRC), during backprop the error difference gets ever smaller the further back in layers you go, ultimately getting "lost in the noise", making learning in the earlier layers more difficult to impossible.

I'm not saying RELU is the only option to make this work, or that it's the only activation function that provides a "fix" for the issue; I'm sure there are other ways to deal with vanishing gradients that I don't know about.

I also lack the mathematical knowledge as to why RELU helps in this manner, but I suspect something having to do with the lack of "asymptotic structure" approaching the extremes (I don't know what the proper term would be). Or maybe it allows for some form of "forgetting", in the prevention of multiplying very small numbers (such values just go to zero ultimately)?

Maybe someone else here with the knowledge can explain it better, and we can both learn...?
Agreed. My go-to for debugging is `import epdb;epdb.st()` which is a quick and dirty breakpoint. There may be more elegant solutions but that has served me very well.
>Earth is not a steady-state system but a rather a system of constant flux and adaptation.

I just want to point out that the main mechanism of adaptation is that the creatures less suited to survival die out.
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The obvious solution is to subsidize teacher pay etc, not to subsidize education to be teacher! If teachers are well paid, you wouldn't need to subsidize teacher education.
>automatically generated with a bunch of python scripts

Can you expand on what you mean by this? Seems like straightforward design(s) that you can just keep printing over and over..
Very good prioritization. Focus on providing value rather than deal with trolls in countries outside your target market!
How do you ensure that the proof system you are enumerating over is strong enough to prove that the program witnessing P=NP is indeed polynomial? Prima facie polynomialness of this program can be independent from the ambient logic.
True, it has not been very long. I can see nibbles starting to happen, but I highly doubt countries will start whole-sale take overs like during colonization. The US has shown over the last 70 years willingness to go to war to roll back conquests (like the iraq war in 1991). Even if China or Russia wanted to, the threat of nuclear war would contain all parties, like it did in the cold war.
Seems to work well enough in most OECD countries
See, I don't agree at all. Just like all cars have to pass a pretty strict annual inspection to be on the road, I imagine autonomous cars will have to go through regular assessment too.

More specifically, I'm bothered by the fact that if you get into a crash in a Tesla, Tesla can disable your car and stop it from activating unless you do repairs at their approved dealership. You can't just buy parts from a scrapyard and get it running again, Tesla is the gatekeeper and they don't let anyone else hold the keys(they don't even release service manuals unless absolutely required by law). In contrast I could buy a brand new Mercedes CLS with its very respectable smart cruise control and Mercedes can't do anything to stop me from replacing the engine, the head unit, or fixing the whole thing if it's totalled - they just can't. It's not a freedom I'm willing to lose by buying a Tesla.
Observing physical differences is not imposing an ideology.

The physical differences exist today and are exhibited based on biological genders. That does not preclude that these differences are unduly influenced by environmental issues (including socialization). However denying that they exist (which is what Cahill is objecting to here) on the basis that the cause might be environmental and not "innate" just means that the ability to understand and treat neurological disorders in females decreases.

The reality is that there are differences. The cause of that reality can be complicated and nuanced and not inescapable. but as the change in societal standards is quite slow all that's happening is a disservice to an entire half of the population.