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> OOXML is not an open format by the normal usage of the word

It's a poor standard (including, iirc, normative references to behavior of particular proprietary software), but it's standardized and free to use.
As a reminder? Those Marine "amphibious assault ships" are larger than the carriers operated by most other navies. (Russia, China, and India each have one carrier that's larger than an America-class; the UK has two. The USMC, in contrast, has nine (Wasp class and America class), to the USN's 11 regular CATOBAR-equipped carriers.

Seriously, the world's second-largest carrier fleet, after the USN, is operated by the USMC, and it's bigger than everyone else's carrier fleet combined. (Speaking as a Brit, this is just crazy stuff.)
I actually have to disagree. I think it really depends on who you follow. For a long time I didn't use twitter at all, but I've recently become active.

The hardware hacker community (think Hackaday types) on Twitter is pretty awesome and a lot of fun to follow.

Stuff like the below comes through all the time, and the discussions with people making things are great.

https://twitter.com/MrRobotBadge/status/1212038632246251520
https://twitter.com/johndmcmaster/status/1211923709910376449
https://twitter.com/mifune/status/1168604582748073986
Sure, I have no problem with having a automated process, but things like reviewing dependencies have to be manual when code has changed, how can you otherwise ensure there is nothing nasty hidden there?

With the dawn of these automated services, it becomes easier to do what you can essentially call propagation-hacks, where one compromised module would trigger bunch of other packages to auto-update, which triggers more and which eventually gets run in your production environment.

Also, not sure "security tends to get better over time". When a library is small and unused, no one really cares about reviewing the security as either it's not used by many to warrant it, or it's surface is so small it's not worth for people to try to find holes.

As the software grows, it gets more users, and more reviews, which also finds more issues.

Probably the security is the same as in the beginning, and depends more on the maintainers, then depending how long it existed. One example could be OpenSSL which everyone been assuming for a long time was totally fine.
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Relevant: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
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> it's overpriced for the hardware you get.

That's only a problem when you view a product as just a bunch of discrete parts' summed value. A MacBook Pro is a macOS dongle that also happens to be one of the - if not the - best ultrabooks you can get.
No idea if it's a Japanese company, but I'm pretty sure that's Hangul (Korean) script.
Another suggestion: add toggle option to rotate tables 90 degrees for conventional horizontal view.
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There’s a whole Evidence and outcomes section in the Wikipedia article.
It was explicitly, intentionally legal. Ireland enacted these laws so companies like google would move IP and high paying jobs to Ireland. And the Irish economy benefitted from it.

You can’t have a fair discussion of the ethics of this scenario without considering the “tax havens” themselves. Shouldn’t a sovereign country like Ireland have the right to enact laws that benefit its economy? For small jurisdictions like the caymans, what looks like a “tax haven” to outsiders is actually a huge boon to their economy and objectively good for their citizens.
Hey all. I challenged myself to build an alpha of a product over the Holiday break and here it is! Upload a csv with data you want to make a machine learning model out of and Byodata will build a model using the best algorithm it can and makes the model available using an online form and an API

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There will be bugs :) and I will fix them as they come up. I'm pretty dedicated to enhancing this product in the coming weeks/months.

Right now it can only do classification but I will be adding regression next week and clustering later in January.

If you think you have data that byodata can't support, let me know on the slack and we can figure it out!

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The real problem is getting rid of single room occupancy units, IMO. It's the cheapest minimally acceptable living unit: room enough for a bed and a desk, with a door only you have a key to, and access to shared bathrooms and kitchens.
True, but it doesn’t organize it further. And over time, the screenshots accumulate. I needed a way for it to self organize. And I found this to be the perfect compromise.
Of course they do.

The entire Gig Economy is based around paying the workers as little as possible, while the companies take as much as they can.
In the fine tradition of debunking click-bait headlines, I would like to make a somewhat unusual entry. All parts of this headline are true. The fires are big. They generate clouds/storms. I only call attention to a mere connecting phrase: "So Big (That)." Pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus clouds are not unique to these fires, or even to fires this size. They've been generated by wildfires smaller than these. That is all.
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The difference between necessity and sufficiency, particularly in regard to causality. This series of questions:

Assuming A actually causes B:

Can A alone cause/explain B? (sufficiency)

Can anything else also cause/explain B other than A? (necessity)

There's a lot more than that, but those are the basics and they'll get you far with critical thinking. Pretty much any logical fallacy in those never-ending "lists of logical fallacies" can be rephrased in terms of causality, necessity, and sufficiency.
Thank goodness – you've brought up David Seah! I used to use his stationery religiously, but forgot his name. I appreciate it!
Barrett Brown, author of the linked article, is a journalist who spent 2010-2016 in Federal prisons and was fined $900,000 for digging into Austin intel operation Stratfor. (His mother got 6 months of probation for 'obstruction'.) Brown spent 6 months of his time in 'the hole'.

Makes sense that he's interested in a Federal prisoner who is being held incommunicado. Makes sense that we'd be interested in knowing about stuff like that. Mess with the wrong people, and ... justice is in the eyes of the beholders.

Another article on Gottesfeld, by a CIA whistleblower:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/marty-gottesfeld-another-whist...
It's only a problem if the planes are both fermions.
The total contribution limit is ~$56k/yr. $19k is the limit on what you, the employee (or LLC owner or partnership member) can contribute, which is exactly what I'm talking about—most of the money has to come from your employer if you want the maximum possible benefit. It's pretty rad if your "employer" is your (or your rich parents') C corp, or you're an owning member of an S corp that's rolling in money, though.
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One should hope most rules in Ireland are in touch with reality. You might ahve just given an example of that. The Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich is/was certainly not one of those...

There is no basis in reality for this entire construction. No OECD rules based arm's length, no proper transfer pricing, to defend this siphoning off billions of profits to offshore shells.
The government loses power when it lies, unless it can convert its lie into the truth.
Food for thought:
- How would you explain Warren’s (Berkshire Hathaway’s) recent investment in OXY? (Occidental Petroleum) Bad business/ investing strategy?

- What do people who claim to know things about the environment know about investing?
People need humility when the operate outside their domains. I think programmers and HN community are guilty of this, specifically on the climate issue. “I can build a system with users so I know the correct action for government to take to solve climate change.”

Side note: It’s so funny that you mention the adjective “leading”. Who decides that? That language always triggers the BS filter.
- Has that leading economist ever thought about oil and gas as a national security issue?

Younger generations overwhelmingly support climate change because there are incentives to develop support for the issue. Our public schools in the US do this. Why not target a malleable mind? Greta thinks we should stop using airplanes. Leonardho Dicaprio flys his private jet to French parties or whatever hollywood types enjoy doing, yet lectures others on how they should behave regarding the climate. Let’s hold back human progress because I know what is best for all.

One thing that bothers me is climate activists frequent reach for the government as a tool to disincentivize business. I don’t disagree that humans have materially changed the constituents of the earth. I disagree on the solution of using government to create more regulation. People don’t seem to understand the value in trade offs with energy.

Any comments on Elon creating a rocket company? How are rockets propelled? Following Greta’s logic, she thinks we shouldn’t launch rockets because it isn’t carbon neutral.
For sure, for any kind of skill, there are always going to be people who are better than you at it. It's just that I'm not sure that better is what matters anyways. It seems to me that what's fazing you is not exactly people's skill, but how they apply themselves: you're impressed by the stuff they output into the world.
And the point is that you too have a unique perspective. Even if you don't believe it, I do. Because all this learning that you go through is filtered through your own experience, so you're bound to end up with viewpoints that differ to others', even if you study the exact same thing.

Which is why I'd say, stop reading and start writing. Of course it's not going to sound great at first: One, you're just starting; Two, the real work that goes into writing well is in fact editing. But stick at it (like that guy - hundreds of articles!), and sure enough, you'll find your voice.

At school, grades are the thing that pushes you further, and it's little wonder we get stuck in this pattern of comparing and benchmarking. But in the real world, a much better motivator is helping others. Somewhere out there is someone who's struggling on stuff you've long filed away as obvious. Think of the choices you've made over the years, about what works vs what doesn't. These are your thoughts, and - written down - someone else might find them extremely on point.

The articles and projects you see are nothing more that that - a manifestation of a viewpoint. Benjamin Franklin said: "There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

It's probably not that so many people are technically better, but that you've not quite found what your schtick is. But everyone has it, it's just about finding it.
Fusion is never going to work at all. The only fusion reactor we’ll ever have is 93 million miles away.
If it is, they decided to make their name unintelligible to Japanese speakers for some reason. Maybe it's trendy.
I had a similar experience with Spacemacs. I currently use regular Emacs with some packages (evil-mode) and find it much easier to deal with and configure than Spacemacs. Emacs does take some additional configuration after install in order to get it how you want it, so you still might dislike it, but I thought I'd throw in my two cents
Society is made up of human beings, most of whom are affected by emotions like guilt and empathy. Society works best when we are able to assume good faith from all participants. It breaks down when free riders (those unbound by empathy or mores) reach some critical threshold and then everyone loses trust in the system.

Have you ever been in a group of friends and played a board game where everyone was playing casually to have a good time, except for that one guy? MtG fans call this type of player Spike [1]. Other gaming circles refer to these players as munchkins and they’ve been immortalized in the card game Munchkin [2]. I think most people have played with someone like this before. Their obsession with winning at all costs ruins the game for everyone else.

This is what big corporations are like! They put mom & pop out of business. They drive down wages and destroy the environment. They play one government against the other in order to minimize their taxes while maximizing their subsidies. They are the Spikes of society. We try to fight them with legislation but our laws are always one step behind.

If Google is making an announcement like this, you can be sure they’ve found something else that works even better for them. You can’t expect them to give anything away without a fight.

[1] https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Player_type#Spike

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchkin_(card_game)
I think the answer, as always, is to measure on your own workloads. I’ve seen real-world production code get significant speed ups by switching to spinlocks from mutexes.

Very interesting post though. I’ve never considered the idle latency before.
> The criticism towards Google, Apple etc. for minimizing their tax burdens has always been misplaced...

I strongly disagree. There is nothing wrong with expecting people to behave ethically. Hiding behind "maximizing profits" because "corporation" is nothing but a weak excuse for greedy people.
Wolfram, where are you?
How are the developers compensated? Are you all doing this for free? Love the project but interested in the practicalities behind it.
The most common health concern I hear about is claims or turbines causing headaches. It seems likely to just be misattribution, much like the fabled wifi headaches.
Kind of ironic when these type of articles inevitably show up on these heavy, slow, ad-ridden websites such as this one..
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BBC has nice info-graphic comparing different Australian fires. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50951043

direct link to image: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/ECEF/production/...
>Surely we can see that there's a bit of a difference between killing someone in the heat of the moment vs. using investigators to find them, lying in wait, and then stabbing them to death in front of their children.

Enough of a difference to matter in judgments of the behavior?

For example, the entire 'heat of the moment' is the recognition that a person can be in a mental state where their actions are abnormal. In general we recognize this mindset lasts a short time (exactly how long is legally allowed and how long is socially allowed differs, but I can't think of any case that allows for more than an hour).

But, in doing so, we have now acknowledged such mental states do exist and and given them some level of justification (enough so to be different than murder without the mental state).

So, is it possible that a person who loses their spouse and children cannot be put into a similar long term mental state? If you read the wikipedia article, the man seemed to not have been in a normal mental state at all, to the point even the Switzerland courts recognized it after the murder.

>On 8 November 2007, Kaloyev was released from prison, because his mental condition was not sufficiently considered in the initial sentence.

So, while the mental states do have some difference (one lasting minutes to an hour, the other lasting years), they also seem to not be so different in the view of the courts.

So is the difference enough to counter the other poster's comment? I don't think that has been established enough to dismiss their post outright.
The point is not that the information is useless. The point is that I firmly believe you can get the education (and consequently, all the information) for free, on your own.

Getting a degree is nothing but formalization of that process that'll set you back a pretty penny.
Yes, I was a bit sloppy. It's the flowing energy, not the flow of energy. The point of my comment was to distinguish heat from stored thermal energy so the distinction isn't so important in that context.
I can't help thinking of Peter Watts' Echopraxia.
Kilo base pairs among other things.
Thank you!

Is that even linked from somewhere on the ImageOptim site?
>> The entire Gig Economy is based around ... the companies tak[ing] as much as they can.

This isn't true. Almost all these high flying gig economy companies are running huge losses because they're not charging customers enough.

Also, it's unclear whether AB5 will result in workers getting paid more. Uber/Lyft may simply lower their hourly wage even more to make up for the required taxes and benefits. The only clear winner here is the government since they'll be collecting employment-related taxes. The most worker friendly solution is to create a new class of contractor that requires a livable wage and benefits, but doesn't require companies to pay employment related taxes.
Yes, there are a number of good online degrees, OMSCS [1] being probably the most popular one.

[1] http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/
Don't forget externalizing risk and fixed costs to "non-employee" workers.
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I suspect you've never written Lisp code that was peer-reviewed or maintained by anyone other than yourself.
>I'm betting formal methods will become more wildly used in the 2020s. It'd be interesting to see e.g. reinforcement learning used to automate proof discovery.

Even though I think formal methods in programming would be a great thing, If anything I see evidence for it not happening. I got hired into a new job last year and I mentioned it as one of my interests and the guy literally laughed in my face commenting at how pointless it is proving a program to be correct.

What is it that makes you think formal methods will become more popular?
The title could more descriptively read "Corporate overlords sue to avoid paying workers a living wage because it threatens to topple their unsustainable business model"

Edit: This is getting down voted, but the fact remains that it would literally tank these companies to pay good wages/provide benefits to their drivers. The business model is flawed from the start and yes, many companies besides Uber/Lyft/Postmates do this. Google, FB, Microsoft (to name a few) all employee a contingent or expendable workforce without the same comp/benefits and opportunities of their corporate employees.
when you put it that way, i'm not too sure it's specific to the gig economy..
Ask HN: Is there a relation between age and learning style?
Has your learning style changed over the years? Or do you continue the same way? What works and what doesn't?
Nuclear Ramjet are also a pretty decent Quebecois psytrance band, not active recently as far as I can tell:

https://nuclearramjet.bandcamp.com/
Can imaging differentiate between people who have plaques with and without impairment?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180817093810.h...
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Isn't it that article? In the previous paragraph:

"After hitting 40,000 miles, the Raptor began complaining with a noisy, ill-shifting transfer case. The dealer replaced a damaged shift fork, the clutch assembly, and a handful of other worn internal parts under warranty—a fix that took a week."
For those looking for automated dependency updates for php (composer), but with gitlab (self hosted or with gitlab.com) or bitbucket, there is also violinist.io.

Full disclosure: I am the founder
No, this mentality causes over regulation.
You'll be hard pressed to draft laws that take all consequences into account. When players are activly searching for loop holes instead of trying to follow the intended spirit of the law, they cause more regulations. More regulations which consequences are hard to predict.
We should use social norms to punish people/companies who try to find "cheats" that bypass the spirit of the law, not praise them as clever, or just say, well, "they are supposed to maximize profits".
This only causes stupid downward spirals.
Freedom has a price, it's called responsibility and respect.
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I used to do this too but I started using the form designer and uic + uiloader and it was a nice boost to productivity for creating lame but necessary dialogs.
> I think the last 60 years has proven Milton Friedman was inarguably wrong.

The last 60 years have proven exactly the opposite. Almost every Western country that flirted with socialism in the 1960s and 1970s has move back towards free markets and deregulation. Canada's government spending as a percentage of GDP has dropped from over 50% in the early 1990s to about the same as the U.S. today. Sweden's has dropped from over 65% to under 50% since 1995. The EU has become a powerful pro-markets, pro-deregulation force. The sort of practices Friedman criticized, such as the government deciding how much airlines could charge for tickets, were routinely accepted even in the United States 60 years ago, but today are unthinkable even in Denmark or Germany.

At the same time, countries in the third world have liberalized their economies, including China and Vietnam. Today, 95% of Vietnamese and 76% of Chinese agree that "most people are better off in a free market economy, even though some people are richer and some people are poorer." https://www.vox.com/2015/5/3/8539365/vietnam-capitalism-pew

Simultaneously, we have seen the greatest burst of prosperity in the developing world in recorded history. Since my family moved to the United States from Bangladesh in 1989, per-capita GDP (adjusted for purchasing power) has tripled. The infant mortality rate has been cut by 75%. Life expectancy has increased by 15 years. This is a story that has played out all over the developing world, thanks to free markets and the investment and economic growth they enable.

You'd have to be blind to deny that Milton Friedman was generally right (if not about all things, certainly about general principles).
The script is Korean. Judging by Google Translate, the name of the company is actually in English.

For reference, the famous Korean MMO MapleStory (and the Korean company that operates it, Nexon) are actually, technically, headquartered in Japan. There's no particular reason to expect a Japanese company to operate in Japan or target Japanese customers.

Is Uber a Delawarian company or a Californian company?
I believe it's a capable language and I hope to use it more like that in the future.

Right now there are things like:

-vapor: https://vapor.codes/ to do server things

-tensorflow swift: https://www.tensorflow.org/swift for machine learning at a lower level than python, meant to replace a lot of the work that ends up being done in c++

One of the biggest problems is that it isn't as cross platform as we want it to be yet (it kinda works on windows now: https://swiftforwindows.github.io/ - but not for 5.0 yet), some of the more recent changes to the language are setting it up to be more cross platform as well, but I've forgotten the specific term. Also a lot of libraries on linux don't work quite the same as MacOS or are incomplete/missing. The biggest hold-back though that and the public opinion seems to be that swift == IOS dev.

The only way I can think to change that opinion is to build something incredible first and then let everyone react with "you can do that? I didn't think you could do that, wow".
> Pretty much any logical fallacy in those never-ending "lists of logical fallacies" can be rephrased in terms of causality, necessity, and sufficiency.

Most are unrelated to causality, because they are based on logical implication not causality. Sufficiency and necessity are relevant, but logical sufficiency and necessity, not causal sufficiency and necessity.
How could you ever know that a country is not performing mass surveillance?

It just takes one leak to show that one does, but confirming the opposite seems impossible to me. You'd have to know everything about every detail of the whole government.