skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is broadly true, how you sell also depends on the buying persona you are selling to. If you are selling to IT you absolutely need to have a deep relationship. IT people are generally risk-averse and hence relationships matter a lot. On the other hand, if you are selling to some business units like marketing, you can actually pull off a sale by just marketing (not surprising) to them. A lot of marketing folks are young, have budgets and are used to buying things online with CC. And if you are lucky, they might be owning the website and can get things deployed without ever talking to IT.
This is the exercise you need to do. Understand your buyer persona very well. Accordingly, you need to decide to invest in hiring a traditional enterprise sales guy (high touch wine-dine selling) vs a marketing-driven sales process (emails, ads, inside-sales calling etc)
> What? :)

If everyone involved were honest actors, then it would make sense. One problem with any regulatory agency is that the same skillset that makes for a good regulator also makes for a good product designer or engineer. If FAA employees are paid more poorly than their private-sector equivalents, then the regulator will find itself unable to hire competent staff.

Of course, if the companies aren't acting out of good faith, they could recommend inappropriate compensation rates to ensure that the above "problem" is in fact the outcome.
It's not polite.
The problem isn't trucks -- obviously, it's hugely more efficient for a single truck+driver to deliver 100's of packages in a single day than for 100's of individual people to spend an hour each going to/from a store, and even worse for congestion if even more than a few are taking individual vehicles.

The problem is parking. And the solution is obvious: multiple truck-length parking spaces along each and every block, for exclusive use by delivery vehicles, car ride services waiting for pickup, and moving vans. Which, logistically, would be relatively trivial to implement -- just painted lines and signs. Street parking needs to be reprioritized for the needs of 2019, not 1950.

It's insane and irresponsible the article doesn't even suggest street-level fixes like this, and instead seems to imply that the problem is with irresponsible/unconstrained trucking/deliveries.

Most misleading quote of the article: "“What percent of your deliveries are truly urgent — 5 percent or 2 percent?” said Mr. Holguín-Veras, the Rensselaer professor."

What has urgency got to do with it? Whether my package gets delivered in 1 day or 7 days, it doesn't change the number of trucks on the road. And if it's truly urgent, then that's when I'm running to the store, not ordering a package. Sheesh.
> The spoils of innovation seldom accrue with the inventors.

We are British, why change the habit of a lifetime ;)

That said, critical aspects of the design are protected and the private investors (big scary defense contractors etc) would no doubt sic the lawyers on anyone that attempted to rip it off.
The Universal Scalability Law and the Mythical Man Month
Who determines what is culturally relevant?

You’re saying that if I make my own movie with my own funding and time/effort, if enough people like it and the culturally relevant switch gets flipped on they get to take it from me while I’m still alive and I don’t have any say on whether my work is duplicated or screened?

What if I run a SaaS product, people have been using it for 30 years, and they’ve determined it to be culturally relevant. Do they get to copy my source code and run it for themselves?

These are 70s and 80s movies. Many of those who contributed to them are still alive. It’s entirely reasonable for those people to determine how/whether to distribute their own art.

If you believe in that level of public ownership I can respect that you hold that opinion, but I don’t agree with it. At the same time, I do believe that copyrights expiring a lifetime after the creator dies are unreasonable.

To me, the right balance of copyright law is somewhere in between the extremes of Mickey Mouse ownership in perpetuity and complete public ownership.
I always thought of festivals as an escape with like minded people. Privacy should be upheld.
Agreed. Broadly there are three types of Whisky in Scotland:

Highland.
Lowland.
Island.

Varieties from the same region share characteristics, but they're distinct from each other.
Disclaimer: I don’t think it’s _flawed_. It’s simple and useful But it has some flaws in some situations - I would describe it as “less than ideal”. Rich Hickey describes some problems here: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...
I don't know what it's like in NY, but in my state you can take a driver safety course and cut your fees down considerably.
The same happens with pharmaceutical, financial or probably all companies and people with enough money . Often it’s very expensive to prosecute them so they get let off the hook or pay a settlement. That’s how we end up with a two class society where some participants are above the law because they have money for lawyers.
>> Offer assistance to the lead and do your best to make your team successful. A rising tide lifts all ships.

It doesn't work like that in practice. If you're much more skilled than the tech lead and the CEO/CTO is not promoting you. You need to leave ASAP because they will never promote you and you're wasting your time; if that situation ever happens in a company, it means that the company doesn't value talent. Maybe the CEO/CTO is friends with the tech lead or there is some other reason but whatever that reason is, there should be no substitute for talent.

If you're truly talented, then find another company which follows this philosophy.
> Well, apparently through Facebook ads they did...

Where did you get that idea? We know from the Mueller report that they indeed paid to try to influence the election, but the sums were tiny compared to what the actual candidates paid. Also, please remember that Cambridge Analytica was hired by Trump ('s people) , not the Russians.
None. Music by it's very nature is designed to draw you into it's world. If you want background nose, use background noise.
I am talking about incubators for children not the company.
For one, because you want to display existing, page-divided documents (e.g. books), and keep the same frame of reference (the page).

Second, because you want to print -- in which case, your artifact ends up in a page.

Third, because a screenful, even if dynamic (based on resolution, etc) is still a kind of a "page" (in HTML parlance, a "viewport"), and you might want to design to take advantage of what fits in one.
I have no experience with it, but Apache Tapestry[0] is supposed to have some commonalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tapestry
Because the computer might say you are someone else.

Do not underestimate the power of "computer said so"
That is pretty interesting because it's unexpected to be that way around regarding Europe and USA. I suppose it varies by the kind of product in any case.
Sure there is, there's a lot wrong with it.

Would you be so sanguine about promoting businesses because they are not women owned? Why can't you see that it's just discrimination against men?

Because you believe it's fine to discriminate against men, which is offensive and wrong.
For the same reason you can't invent a new kind of pain killer and tell doctors and patients that it's less addictive than the existing alternatives, when you know for a fact that it is far more addictive.
From the CVE:

> Solution

> On October 24, PHP 7.3.11 (current stable) and PHP 7.2.24 (old stable) were released to address this vulnerability along with other scheduled bug fixes. Those using nginx with PHP-FPM are encouraged to upgrade to a patched version as soon as possible.

> If patching is not feasible, the suggested workaround is to include checks to verify whether or not a file exists. This is achieved either by including the try_files directive or using an if statement, such as if (-f $uri).
Is this similar to Android repo tool?
Norilsk: One of the worlds most isolated and polluted cities
That part of the complaint is referring to ExxonMobil's greenwashing efforts in Massachusetts. The fairly vague wording of 687 follows dozens of pages including full color reproduction of the ads which make the case that Exxon sought to convince customers that using their whiz-bang petroleum product (motor oil) can meaningfully "clean" engines and will result in decreased environmental impact from fossil fuels.

>645. ExxonMobil’s misleading statements and omissions are deceptive because, even if it is technically true that Synergy™ and Mobil 1™ improve internal combustion engine performance and/or efficiency relative to prior or other products, ExxonMobil’s claims that these products help reduce greenhouse gas emissions convey a false impression that using the products results in environmental benefits. To the contrary, the development, production, refining, and consumer use of ExxonMobil fossil fuel products (even products that may yield relatively more efficient engine performance) increase greenhouse gas emissions.
I was responding to a point in the other comment.

Now if you are asking why a company shouldn’t be able to lie and decieve the whole world about how their product will upset the entire global ecosystem then I don’t have the legalese answer for you (although this case should be helpful if you are interested).

The simple answer however is because it is wrong, unjust, irresponsible, causing harm, etc.
Sorry, but you have no clue how many undocumented immigrants are all around you. Just because most of them are white you don't notice them in streets and they work shitty and hard jobs so you don't meet them either... I personally know like a dozen guys from Serbia and Bosnia who live in Austria and Germany illegally, and that's a dime a dozen. Us, Albanians and Turks are for EU what Mexicans are for US...
You're missing the nuance.

Your contention amounts to basic civics.

The legislation mandates an executive implemented direct feedback loop which can be used by industry to essentially attempt to crack down on problematic regulators.

While the intent is that it should remain neutral, and only used for purposes of streamlining and "making things more efficient", providing a means through which industry could say "this works" vs. "this doesn't", it won't end up being used that way.
Facial recognition is just math. Why are people trying to classify certain matrices as illegal?

It seems this was a convincing argument for a lot of people in regards to encryption. Facial recognition is math just as much as encryption is.
The FTC fosters fake reviews, its own commissioners say
Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace
Why didn't they give WebObjects away for free? Since it's just software, it has no marginal cost to NeXT, and any NeXT workstations it sold would be profit.

Put differently, any platform needs a critical mass to survive, and if they price it so high, it won't have that critical mass, causing it to die, in which case the development cost would be wasted.

Surely people in the 80s weren't so dumb as to not understand network effects, so what am I missing?
Right - effective regulation needs to be somewhat antagonistic and distrustful even when it's not necessary, because otherwise it will become necessary.
If you prefer reading it on Twitter, this is the original thread : https://twitter.com/tacertain/status/1166039929354240002
>Surveillance aside, since when has it been a human right to attend a festival in a country you are not allowed to reside in?

Forgetting about illegal immigrants for a moment, are you saying that visitors to some country shouldn't be allowed at festivals? What have you got against tourism?

There's no right to visit attractions, but there ought to be a right to privacy, and I'd personally prefer a few illegals get to unjustly enjoy themselves over the invasive panopticon required to prevent that.
City tax payers are ultimately paying the price for “2-day shipping” in the form of more congestion and pollution, and compromised safety.

Shouldn’t the companies causing these problems pay for enhancing the infrastructure (roads, parking) they use to make their $$$? I imagine it’s a much more costlier option since you have to work with the city but it should be a net positive gain (packages delivered more efficiently).

Or maybe the city should tax companies that abuse the public infrastructure? This may cause smaller companies/independent contractors to close up shop, but should increase the push towards cleaner delivery options (drone delivery?)

Albeit, this wouldn’t be a problem if people would order less from Amazon and meal ready companies (Hellofresh, blueapron ...)
I’ve always used the number of Spanish speaking radio stations on the dial as a litmus test for how much illegal immigration exists in my city. First generation and second generation don’t typically listen to to the Spanish speaking stations, so the demand is being driven by the initial immigrants, the majority of whom are illegal (in my city).

No matter how much I hear about illegal immigration being cracked down upon, the Spanish speaking radio stations aren’t being converted to another format, so there’s still enough advertiser demand to pay for the station. That can only happen if the advertisers are finding a large enough customer base to justify their costs.

If these radio stations then sponsor concerts, it’s likely that the attendees will have a high illegal immigrant percentage.

Should the government be able to mass survey the Spanish speaking population attending these concerts, looking for immigrants who have not turned up to their deportation hearings?

I applaud the government for being that efficient with my tax dollars (I expect this method is much cheaper than others), but should they be doing it? Probably not.

Now what about facial recognition for known terrorists at large sporting events in order to prevent an attack? Maybe?? At music festivals? I can see the argument there too.
> You live in Japan.

Nope, but have traveled there multiple times.

> In the respect of your privacy, I will not share your exact location here

1) if you knew my exact location, you wouldn’t have made the claim I live in Japan.

2) the tone definitely feels creepy, even if you were trying to cover yourself by implying you were doing the honorable thing.
Facial recognition is “just math” in the same sense as being punched in the face is “just physics.” It’s not the natural properties that concern people; it’s the societal effects, political effects, and impacts on liberty that concern people.
I think if you have to cherry pick something numbered in at 687 you've already fucking lost mate.

But I'll bite, that statement isn't vague, it's well explained in the document with references to the same tactics used in cigarette campaigns showing nice posters and pointing out exactly the same bullshit marketing used in Exxon's campaigns.

Just following that document goes into your second point. About three pages detailing the way Exxon used advertising and YouTube videos to target kids and explain how you shouldn't worry about seeing polar bears covered in green algae on tv because it's fine and totally natural. Oh and that Exxon is leading the way with biofuel to reduce their carbon footprint.
Banksy doesn’t want anyone to be profiting from his own work and he has every right to do so if copyright is used. Why would that mean he should accept their royalty offer? They can just stick to nature photos on their cards. How rich Banksy is nothing to do with this.

What the card company is doing is to take advantage of his desire to be anonymous and make money from his work.
If semantic won out, there'd be less need for sophisticated search engines to make sense of all this stuff.

In fact, I'd go one further: If gopher had taken up multimedia quicker and then beat out the web, there would be no Google today.

These sort of things are not inherent to the web. People and entities want to transmit data in the format(s) that are easiest for them. It's up to the aggregators to make sense of it all.
Can you explain the problem in more detail?
That’s not how it sounds to me. It’s entirely possible that someone less competent is in a position higher than yours.

Also modesty won’t get you anywhere in your career.
Unshort.link: Self-hostable GPLv3 shortlink-resolver
It's not the math that is illegal, but the application of it.

And even in some cases math itself can be illegal. For example digital images can be written as large integers, and we know that in some jurisdictions, it is illegal to have some types of images in one's possession.
Should probably have specified in the title that it's a PHP-FPM bug, had me worried there.
Wait wait.

Transfinite induction uses ordinals ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_countable_ordinal )

To get large cardinals (beyond ZFC) you need large cardinal axioms. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_cardinal_propert... )
You speak as if the design has not changed over time. To be precise, the history dates back to American studies in the 50s and 60s which were not taken forward but that were picked up by Alan Bond in the UK and evolved, then later developed into the HOTOL design, and still later into Skylon/SABRE - with significant work undertaken throughout this history.

I think that there are some factors to give one faith that this won't just become another sad episode of unrealised promise to add to the history: the engine design has had significant verification along the way by authorities of the very highest credentials, is furthermore thought to be of sufficient promise to have attracted significant external funding, and finally has resulted in working hardware on the test stand that has not yet indicated that the expectations of success are ill-founded; it's getting to the point where the glaring flaw that some seem to want to be uncovered is increasingly unlikely to be found (I'd add personally I find it a little sad that amongst tech/space enthusiasts many seem so sceptical about SABRE when the facts suggests otherwise, and I wonder whether it would be a different story if it were an American project - I'm enthusiastic for anything that gets the human race off this rock, no matter where it comes from).

That said, I think it is important to separate SABRE and Skylon. The former as I've said is thought by many well credentialled people to have genuine promise, whereas the latter seems far more of a PR exercise to illustrate potential application of the technology. Nobody's actually building parts of Skylon yet as far as I'm aware, wheres they are building bits of SABRE and getting them signed off as workable.
> My bet is whoever figures out a carbon capture -> green oil solution is in for big wins.

Otherwise known as a tree
Yeah, a few bits of plastic, and some energy to power it. I got that.
When I first started out I was using free web hosts that didn't support server-side includes or PHP, so I ended up building my own JavaScript front end framework. Unfortunately, I didn't actually know any JavaScript, so I wrapped every line of my HTML header template in document.write() and included it in a script tag. There were some performance issues.
also great desire by infrastructure investors since they often also have to deal with what comes out of the architecture company as design concepts
He uses the term to describe using gold and silver as currency instead of notes issued by a central bank. The ideological point is that people are fallible (or in his view manipulate) and some seemingly independent metric is superior.

This ignores the empirical, historical evidence of the inflationary/deflationary boom/bust whipsaw of the gold standard eras (19th century in particular) which were hugely destructive and ruinous.

More distressingly it also ignores the fact that money is a signaling mechanism and when the amount in circulation is out of relation to economic activity the economy breaks down. Yes, humans have a hard time figuring out what the level of economic activity is, but I am quite sure that gold strikes are not correlated with the production costs of iPhones and t shirts.
> what do we really stand to lose by switching to renewable sources and just polluting less?

Except that if we really knew about climate change in the 1980’s we should have been building Nuclear Power Plants at a massive rate. However, a lot of environmental groups were against that, and actively were anti-nuclear. In fact, some countries and states are decommissioning active working nuclear power plants. There is no room for anti-nuclear sentiment if you really believe that climate change is the biggest threat to civilization.
I've never understood what the creator's death has to do with copyright anyway. You've already written the work; why should it matter to copyright law if you were young or old when you did so, or whether or not you got really unlucky immediately afterwards in getting run over by a bus?
I'm not asking for embellishments.

I just want to understand if I will have the sun shining in my eye on summer mornings when I'm lying in bed, how the hallway will look at night, what the view will be from the kitchen and into the living space, etc. Just trying to place _myself_ in the house and see what I should fix before it's built.

You wouldn't buy a car after merely looking at its 2D projections and a sketchy looking rendering, so I don't think that asking to see how a house would look and feel before committing to building it is such an unreasonable thing to do.
Very interesting article but it seems so strange that a third party library does a more beautiful job (and it seem it does) than a cohort of well paid engineers designing a new API...
Same in Germany. There is usually no problem at all with picking up parcels.
I very much agree with this. I started out (and remained for years) in the camp of "a rising tide lifts all boats," but after repeated sessions in the school of life I see that it really isn't the case. There are political reasons for the current structure, and it would take a mountain of technical evidence to overturn it, assuming even that would get it done.

The best thing to do is find a new company, and get hired into the role you actually want.
The jury is still out on that one, no? As far as I know, the Sacklers et al remain free to walk the earth, and rich as ever.
This is desperation time. Given that CO2 pollution results promise from moderate to extreme environmental disaster world wide, some portion of people are quite worried and, people being people, another portion of people are doing everything they can to keep business as usual going.

A US state suing an oil company might not be the best venue to force action but courts have been used repeated to force societal change and so it's not impossible Ma could get a result

Exxon being punished isn't an important end-goal but actually forcing the oil industry to acknowledge CO2 pollution might be useful in forcing regulation stopping it (and yes, believe that the state directly forcing a decrease in CO2 is the only way that we can put a dent in greenhouse gas production. Carbon credit and even a CO2 tax are insufficient).
> If anyone constructed a PDF, which was itself blank but, via embedded JavaScript, loaded parts of itself from a remote server, people would rightly balk and wonder what on earth the creator of this PDF was thinking — yet this is precisely the design of many “websites”.

Unfortunately, this is also the case for many PDFs amongst some of the more niche use-cases. Like NDA-bound many-thousand paged specifications. The PDF standard lets you do it, so some do. Not all readers actually support embedded JS, but most do in some limited capacity.
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