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You're right.

I think the personal data aspect of it really angers some of us, but in reality the sheer volume and annoyance of ads these days is more of a slap in the face than anything else. Perhaps privacy concerns have helped to push us over a tipping point.
Is Dropbox profitable?
Ofcourse it doesn't mean they are looking into it continuously. but it's way better than not looking at all.

All I'm saying is atleast a pair of eyes are looking into the app before it's reaching their users.
Even with a lack of formal proof, a reproducible, and therefore thoroughly testable black-box AI is still much safer than a diverse human drivers population which include drink-drivers, partially blind, psychopaths and so on.
Aside: I hate this "Oh this file is really popular BS" on docs.google.com. Doesn't inspire much confidence for their Cloud offerings...
Everyone loses union dues.

High performers lose high compensation relative to the mean engineer.

There are plenty more arguable things you can say engineers lose (stock option value with lost company competitiveness, etc) but I'm not going to bother with those. The top two are not arguable, which is enough to invalidate a simplistic clickbait title.
Sean started a discussion on the dev-identity list (https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-identity). I really think this is the best way to do it for both developers as well as provide a better user experience.

It is really not fun trying to integrate 3rd party APIs to handle sign ins.

However, I would love to hear about the possible shortfalls of this approach.
Having visited Europe recently another thing I noticed is that the car wasn't nearly as ubiquitous there. I don't think people there specifically ate less, they are just less sedentary.

I've also noted folks who spend significant time on both in big cities with public transport, and also significant time in car-centric cities, their weight fluctuates appropriately (about 15% less weight when decent public transport is available).
You can enjoy wonderful, flavorful food (including fats, etc) and be healthy and look like a model.

Just ask the French.

I visit France every year and I am always amazed how well they eat while staying slim. They don't obsess over health as much, they obsess over food quality.

As a result they are ranked 8th in life expectancy vs the US 34th.
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I don't think Google would particularly care if they only needed to censor French connections . They're clearly understanding it as a global demand. See http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2015/07/implementing-...

>We believe that no one country should have the authority to control what content someone in a second country can access.

Additionally, if this was all a misunderstanding, I believe it would have been cleared up by now, so the fact that nothing like that has come out in the last ten days tells me that they did understand correctly.
Because France can't have its cake and eat it too. It participates in international commerce, so that information makes it across borders (e.g. French newspapers will be sold in the US), at that point France loses the ability to censor information outside their borders, as it's in a different legal jurisdiction.
Yes, you can do a descending turn, with <= 1G. However, you will then come out of it going down, and unless you want to fly into the cumulogranite you will need to pull > 1G in order to level out again.
It depends, as always, if you access it sequentially, iterating two separate arrays vs one is similar in performance, the prefetcher will help with both. If it's random access, then you really want things to fit into 64 bits.
If I remember correctly, ad blocking software overlays the ad with blank HTML right? So blocking ads doesn't actually reduce data usage, since the browser still downloads everything, Adblock just has to parse it and get rid of the junk.

I believe because of this download-then-parse model, webpages actually load slower. I remember an HN article on the front page about it.

Nonetheless, I still use Adblock. The sites worth supporting I normally pay money for in some way, such as premium on a forum.
Time is your friend. Just wait and watch. It's ticking, one second by one... but in a friendly way it does it's "ticking job" or... maybe better "tickling job" ? You choose, what fits best for your case.

btw, seems that the open core CPP project is available through site's Download section... under title with big letters named "Crypto for Hackers: The Workshop"

as is denoted here: https://github.com/eijah/demonsaw/issues/2
My bad, on a phone and recalled the link from a while back to share it.
Its not just emberjs. It is almost with any framework you pick. AngularJS has been doing same. Angular 2.0 even without migration plan is the worst.
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if your a good programmer why not land a job and let the company you work for take care of the visa we employ many chinese workers at our company and they all stay here visa paid for by the company, there is some real world infactuality in your premise, any company who "would" want you to work for them for free, as a skilled worker, should also want to pay you and pay for your via.
Eh, I was thinking more along the lines of The Double with the world around me making less and less sense, whilst living under a crushing bureaucracy.
Ok that's impressive. I'd definitely pay extra for my Ryanair holiday flight to do that once or twice!
It's actually worse than that. Here's an article from 2 years ago describing how the biggest employers of H1Bs use the program to bring low-paid immigrants into the country, train them, and ship them back home to pay them even less while doing the same work: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/04/03/176...

Companies like these use up most of the H1B slots such that truly skilled high tech jobs that pay well, and would accept H1B if they could, are going unfilled. This is why you see so many U.S. companies setting up branches in Europe and Canada.
That seems like a really good idea, might try it next time
The blockchain offers many possible uses. What you describe is one. As for bitcoin, it's meant to replace fiat. It's not controlled or manipulated by any authority. What you describe sounds more like Ripple.

The blockchain is one part of the Bitcoin (with a capital B) protocol. The digital currency part (bitcoin with a small b) is what makes the blockchain run. The two are inseparable. That's my understanding.

EDIT: Ripple is an extremely revolutionary project in its own right. If anything, it's too far ahead of its time. Or maybe not.
It just means collaborative editing is turned off, as it logically can't scale to very large numbers.
Yeah, Dropbox would be a good alternative for sharing screenshots, but it takes so incredibly long that it's pretty much unusable.
Agreed. However, I would argue that this is older than science itself. Before it was governments and religions who claimed to know better than science. Its about control, and hijacking science is a way to get "credibility". But I've got hope that real science will always win out eventually. It just takes time.
> Our intuition is so poor

Even better example, "Heavy things fall faster". Or "The sun revolves around the earth".

As a greater cultural trend there is often a bit of quantum-whitewashing that everything in physics is obvious and straightforward except quantum mechanics because I suffered thru the annoying math and need to show off superiority at being one of the few humans (on a percentage of entire population) who understand a good chunk of QM. Relativity gets the same treatment.

However its important to note that none of physics is very intuitive. Heavy things don't fall faster. The sun doesn't orbit the earth. The general public has some peculiar ideas about the laws of thermodynamics. Orbits in space are not perfect circles. Atomic structure is not a fractally small solar system. QM is typical and normal for physics in having non-intuitive dark corners, that's the norm for all of physics not a peculiarity of QM.

There is shibboleth value in that you define a physicist or a dude who knows physics as a guy who walks around saying QM is the only non-intuitive component of physics. Not because its true, but because that's one of the official physicist mating calls or whatever you want to call it, shibboleth I guess.

There is also the deus ex machina aspect that in all forms of non-technical drama (aka all of it) people who like to write magical fantasy have decided to fool us into thinking its new by copy-and-replace word processing "quantum" in for "Tolkienish magic", see also the multiverse people.
That's great news! However, if you just took those calories and displaced them elsewhere in your diet, you likely won't notice anything (unless the calories are protein-based instead).

Best thing to do is start using an app like LoseIt or MyFitnessPal like a total maniac and start observing your exact dietary intake. Use a food scale!!!

You'll start to notice where you're going wrong each day, and can spot trends after a few months. It's worth the hassle.

At the end of the day, calories are still most linked to your weight, which is your first and foremost problem. Your body composition can then be further aided by a proper macronutrient ratio (ie more protein), and of course general health with proper fruit and vegetable intake.

That's the trifecta of dieting:

* Caloric monitoring / maintenance / sub-maintenance

* High Protein

* High Veggie and Fruit

After that, let the carbs and fats fall where they may, whatever works best for you. Just note that it's easiest to do one or the other (low-fat or low-carb), but not impossible to be balanced if you're tracking well.
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Hulu basically blocks it's main content if you use an ad blocker.
I was zero alcohol for years and every single time I said "no thanks, I don't drink", it generated incredulous faces and multiple questions about whether it was a health / religious / whatever thing.

Admittedly, this is "Boozy Britain" though.
I thought that yuppies had disappeared along with hippies, beatniks, Teddies, etc. etc.
You'll do just fine. It's a great salary.
There is something ironic in Drexler's invocation of biology to defend the plausibility of his vision, as it also suggests that biochemical and biologically-inspired methods might well be more appropriate than his approach of attempting to scale down human-scale machinery to a size where molecular forces and quantum effects are significant. So far, it is the former, and only the former, that has demonstrated progress.

Drexler's approach seems akin to building a computer by using micro-fabrication techniques to create a network of tiny relays.
The author's 1999 paper proposes a quantum mechanic to explain adaptive mutation.

They assert that E. Coli mutates to develop lactase in a lactose enviroment, it does this quickly and seemingly without adverse mutations - randomness fails to explain this.

McFadden and Khalili propose that adaptive DNA mutation is a quantum computation.

The many possible mutations are explored simultaneously and the quantum state collapses to one highly correlated to the enviroment.

Their 1999 paper A quantum mechanical explanation for adaptive mutation goes in depth.

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Johnjoe_Mcfadden/publica...

This has led to a new scientific discipline Quantum Biology
http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/quantumbiology/
https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

Unions can fight this alot more effectively than engineers can.

The simple fact is the large companies willingly and with full knowledge of the illegality, abuse their position, even when it comes to software engineers. Pretending you are protected when you can't afford a 6 figure lawsuit, isn't really true.
Another reason might be security: There are already attacks known, that are using the CPU cache and/or instruction pipeline to break the boundaries of virtualization. With today's virtualizable processors, it becomes more and more important, that the users can not access to much of the processors implementation details.
Mobile architectures are typically only a tock away from desktop architectures, who aren't really guzzling energy with these optimizations (the deep pentium 4 pipelines are behind us!). So if technology marches forward, there isn't some mobile version that is frozen in time just because of energy efficiency (indeed, good branch prediction saves energy also). There are no 386 or 486 CPUs to care about now, while P5s are limited to that Phi HPC product.
Or like the machine; I knew about them well before Wargames.
Companies that produce junk foods tell us the dietary information we need to ensure we consume responsibly is printed on the packet or bottle.

They don't explain how their products and accompanying advertising are designed to subvert our logical minds by appealing to our biological desires.

Their techniques have been honed over time and have become rather powerful. Over-consuming may not be a problem for you but not everyone is so resilient.
No, definitely not a barrel roll. Watch the video and it's clearly obvious that it's not a barrel roll. Also, a barrel roll isn't a 1g maneouver.
Isn't that what already happens? I've done it a few times in my life.
I drink primarily Zero, I switched to it at the same time I ditched sugar in favour of artificial sweeteners (I tried to drink tea without any sweetening but gave up after few weeks, I just can't stand it). It's wonderful where I live (Poland), and I grew to like it even more than plain Cola. I've also seen numerous attempts to promote Zero over the original flavour; one time they even gave away cans of Zero disguised as ordinary Coke to make a point (you had to remove the can from a cardboard overlay it was in to discover it's Zero). I don't know how successful were those campaigns though.
Neither is open source though, as far as I know.
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Does uBlock have a mechanism for allowing non-intrusive ads in?

I resisted ad-blockers for years because I believe in giving up my eyeballs to ads for free content, but finally gave up when my son started downloading minecraft mods, and he'd have trouble discerning between real download links and ads which installed malware. So I really don't mind some basic advertising, I just don't want (subjectively) "obnoxious" ads (and, yeah, the subjective part makes it hard).

I see that uBlock allows you to configure lists - are there lists that only contain the worst violators? (Forgive my ignorance, as I said I'm new to ad-blockers as I resisted for so long).
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Failing that, we can always study the hijacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology - a field with a future!
For several years I've had a pet theory about "what made YC different". In MBA speak, you'ld stuff it in the company culture box, but I think it's more like the industry culture upon which YC adopted to frame its B2B relationships grafted onto the startup work ethic.

Before ViaWeb, PG wrote books [he wrote one afterwards too], and to me, YC has always been loosely modelled on how I imagine good book publishers work: experienced editors helping promising authors write interesting works on one side and a sausage factory facilitating printing and distribution on the other. Instead of books, YC publishes companies, but the structure of the founder-partner relationship seems grounded in the founder being the expert in their company and an acknowledgement of fallibility on the part of YC staff...there seems to be a belief in treating companies as a creative works [-1].

My impression from both distant and near contact is other accelerators [0] are missing that layer of abstraction [1]. There are many that get the startup industry mechanics, but few that seem to go through the really hard and non-obvious work of creating better policies. Part of the reason that I think YC was able to create a place with generative policies is that it started when its first partners felt ready. It could because it was early if not first. Other accelerators have been reactive...they raced to get into a fast moving industry and consequently tend to use the policies traditionally associated with the mechanism [2] at best and with small business in the middle case and flat out scams at worst.

If there's one last piece of the puzzle, it's that YC's early partners have tended to eschew celebrity to a reasonable degree...if not giving TED talks every year when you could is some measure of reasonableness. It might be called the "Robert Morris effect."

[-1]: PG's before YC was Hackers and Painters. In my mind not uncoincidentally.

[0]: Sorry, but that's the name of the industry you YC folks created

[1]: and some appear to miss the whole startup idea that taking a cut of each startup's funding as a fee reduces returns over the long run. Their policies are more akin to those of real-estate development where there can be underlying assets at liquidation or businesses where ROI comes from dividends and companies can be optimized around income tax as LLC's and S-corps.

[2]: The other day I wondered how Marc Andreesen would evaluate a company with a Netscapesque equity split among founders, these days.
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i agree that there is a small business community but i've noticed that most of the companies that are successful in that region are sold to bigger companies. I'm not sure what stops them from going all the way and achieve world domination. They have excellent ingredients for success (lower costs , incredibly driven smart people)but is it a lack of vision or lack of good advice as talked here?
How does this address either of my points? I do not want to get in a wider debate about unionization, I am stating that the title is clickbait and obviously false.
Anecdotally, I don't know anybody under the age of 30 that regularly drinks soft drinks anymore. They aren't terribly good and they are about the worst thing you can put into your body—a can of coke has more than 40gs of sugar.

Alcohol might be a tough one to kick. It's so intertwined with social life I don't see it going away anytime soon.
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When anyone uses "Everyone", "Always", "Never" etc it creates strong signaling that the writer is an idealist and not looking at the issue at hand pragmatically. I would find it unlikely that "Everyone" loses. I'm not saying that you are, but wanted to let you know that when you use terms like that many people will discredit the rest of your message.
If you're not running a rooted device, uBlock works excellent in Firefox for Android. You get all the same filtering power in a mobile browser.
This is the same as a friend of mine. He drink Cranberry juice. It's too strong to just drink, so you sip it. Because of that, it makes it seem like you have drink on you.

Or people could just stop being so nosey and judgemental. Option 1 is easier though.
> 20 years ago there were 10oz bottle in vending machines, then 12oz cans, now also 20oz bottles, thus, those consuming a bottle a day today now consume 52 lbs of sugar per year compared with 26 lbs 20 or so years ago.

Portion sizes for everything are so incredibly out of whack; it's ridiculous. If you convince people people that a 3 gallon smoothie is "regular" size, you move more product and make more money - who cares if everyone gets fat as a side effect.
The thesis is that, through a process similar to gentrification of ethnic neighborhoods, the term "hacker" and the culture it represents has been replaced with a shallow facsimile that's more palatable to moneyed interests. Not sure how you missed it.
What do you do if you don't like the taste of water? Fruit juice is pretty high in sugar as well.
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Everyone can't all go work on the LHC. Even the lowly work of refining measurements of known phenomena is important and necessary.
There was a period in which I couldn't launch instances. Meaning the instance state did not ever reach "running" according to the console and were not responsive to initial ssh attempts. (knife timed out after 5 minutes and the machines were still unavailable after several more)
The GCS command line tool, gsutil, can talk to both S3 and GCS. That might be a nice place to start.
I've had that reaction on occasion. More often lately, however, I get a look of shame and the response, "I wish I didn't drink". I suspect people probably do not need a whole lot more prompting than "have you really never regretted getting drunk?" to realize your choice is wise.
See, there lies a small problem: I can't measure caloric burn usefully. I can measure what little exercise I do, I can measure a rough amount of what it costs to merely be alive, but I can't measure beyond simple observations like that (I imagine such things can be measured, it is just invasive and expensive).

Intake really hasn't changed, I ate 1500-2000 calories a day then, I eat 1500-2000 calories a day now. I didn't log it, but I did a lot of rough estimates based on things I regularly ate then, and regularly ate now. The only difference I've found is I feel like I'm eating more food now than I did then; but it's because carb-rich food is rather energy compact.

Also, thanks. I only tell my story when someone has gone off the rails quoting the FDA party line of "caloric intake is 100% why you're fat", when it's a massively complex issue; and even with my lengthy reply, I feel I did a disservice in how complex the issue is.

I tried reducing caloric intake, eating lots of "whole grains", limiting meat intake, all the stuff the FDA has recommended for decades: I only kept getting fatter. Caloric intake alone cannot explain why the world is getting fatter: what we're eating clearly does when my diet has worked for so many people, me included.
"Losing" union dues and receiving legal protection in return that likely won't take anywhere near as long to resolve as that court case did isn't "losing" given we know for a fact that these companies are willing to abuse their position to the point of engaging in illegal activity. We pay the police too, is that really "losing"?

Similarly, "high performers" aren't immune as they are the ones most affected since the various companies are going to try to recruit them from the others the most.

A union that provides legal representation and a standardized process for appealing various issues that are clearly illegal [e.g. The link I posted] before it goes to court is possible without you having to negotiate specific salary tiers and the like.
Yep, lime and soda is common in UK pubs for people who don't want alcohol but also don't want a sugar overdose.
Maybe they don't call them "yuppies" much anymore but, no, I don't think so.
You might be throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Science, as a method, works. Science, as a field, has areas where it doesn't work very well. Diet, in particular, is probably one of the worst. The good thing with Science, the method, is that it is predicated on improvement by iteration. Dietology itself is getting a bit better (though there's a lot more to do), so unfortunately, until we find a better method, we have to work on human time. No need to discard every reasonable scientist's work just because of some (many?) bad apples. They are nowhere near the majority.
Hint: the phrase 'to suffer fools gladly' comes to mind.
Can you explain how it is mandatory for wages to be part of the collective bargaining agreement? It is my understanding that bargaining agreements can have nothing at all to do with compensation and instead on worker treatment or any other issues the workers may prioritize.