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It would be great if you can add a few of those word games you have on the games page to the wars page
Anecdote: For the summer between high school and college, I made am average of $17 per hour busking on the subway (an average of 24 hours a week)
How exactly would that work. modify an instance of bind and check if the client is requesting to resolve 'google.com'? If true, then respond with the rouge IP? First we must make sure the client machine is set up to use our name servers, the ones we have control over.
Whoa thanks for mention this; I've always been "logged in" to LinkedIn that I never knew you had to be logged in to see their content. That's a shame.

Edit: jschmitz28 is a liar; you can access without being logged in just fine.
I feel like trying to convince people to use the term 'automaton', when referring to devices that look similar to humans but are non-biological, is a feeble venture. The term 'robot' is just so ingrained in our society to describe a humanoid-like piece of hardware...
The analogy then is having the bank tell you to take your deposit home and hide it under your mattress. That mental model just doesn't fit into people's world-view.
...in England and Wales. This doesn't hold for Scotland/Northern Ireland.
Still confused. "African" means less than "European", given that of all the myriad genes in Africa, only a small fraction left 40,000 years ago to populate the rest of the planet.

There's no such thing as a single "African" cluster. There are even people with genetics unique to the planet - in Cameroon I think. Without distinguishing which of 100 African clusters each subject belongs to, the study hasn't begun to say anything meaningful?
When there was market discipline causing firms to avoid bad underwriting practices, many of those regulations were not necessary.

But now nearly everything but the actual incentives has been blamed for why the market crashed.

Now, when it crashes again, it will of course have been totally unexpected and impossible to predict, so of course a bailout will be necessary, etc.

My overly simplistic take is that the finance industry effectively practices "risk laundering"...
Presumably somewhat less than 100% of the profits made on those drugs was due to corruption.
Some devs that actually wanted those for good didn't get any because asses like these guys wanted them to get more page views (thus taking slots).
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> Go do some fucking legwork, asshole

We've banned this account. You can't do this here.
Isn't it generally thought that albums are just marketing for live performances, and concerts are where all but the biggest artists make all their money anyway? Since busking is live performance...
I agree with you but what you've described is a kind of idealized depiction of a college student. In real life, there's a lot of partying that may build certain social skills but doesn't really justify the massive cost. The huge amount of substance abuse and generally immature behavior of my fellow 1st and 2nd year peers was ridiculous, as was their inattention to their studies. It was, for many, nothing but a prolonged adolescence as well as a big waste of time and (parents') money.

Grad school was more like a scholarly atmosphere as you described; we'd regularly meet after class at the coffee shop and discuss nearly everything. But we all had our own apartments and private lives.
You can do it by listening in promiscuous mode and injecting packets into the network pretending to be the DNS server.

You can also setup a rouge DHCP server that sends a different DNS address.

There are likewise many other methods.
I don't want to say this is just old news, because we should always be watching for the possibility that this kind of loophole allows this behavior to persist...but things have changed a bit since even a few years ago.

For starters, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finally implemented the law that required healthcare companies to submit records of their payments to doctors:

https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/

This law came about after several massive Justice Dept. settlements around 2008 to 2010. In 2009, at the time Pfizer paid the largest health care fraud settlement in history at $2.3B: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-l...

...and that fine was much less than the profits it made. However, the move towards posting payments online (which happened just last year) has made doctors less enthusiastic about hanging out with sales reps. This is not to say there isn't another way profit motive can push the rules, of course, just that attitudes pre-2012 may be different compared to now.

edit: Just in case I'm getting downvoted for sounding blasé about the issue...I launched this investigative project in 2010: https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/ -- so I've read a lot about the topic and about this particular lawsuit back in the day ...but even before then, scrutiny of pharma ties was gaining momentum and causing doctors and companies to rethink having blatant relationships. In the OP, the 2012 suit is based off of investigations of activities years before...Dr. Pradko receiving $2M, for example, happened in 2001-2003 [1]

This is not to say there won't be corruptive influences ever again...just that it probably won't be so obvious in the fashion described in this 2012 lawsuit. If Dr. Pradko had gotten $2M post-2010...that would be shocking.

[1] http://www.pharmpro.com/news/2012/07/complaint-doctors-were-...
"...the company paid $275,000 to Dr Drew Pinsky, who hosted a popular radio show...Pinsky, who had not declared his GSK income to listeners, said Wellbutrin could give women 60 orgasms a night."
I'm not sure which way the comments went, but there are some that appear both here and there. One doesn't seem to have popped up here, but is so good that I must repeat it (it's not mine!):

> That thing that you are studying… we call it denotational logic.
> - JoshH (https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/i-deduce-you-are-...)
I'm not logged on linkedin and I don't have a problem. I don't even have an account.
1. Unions are not free market. They goal is to create a monopoly (hence have greater bargaining power).
My clipboard often has private stuff in it, unrelated to the site I'm visiting.

I don't like the idea that clicking on a button (like "add comment" on HN) would gives a site potential access to what's in my clipboard, without any indication or affirmation that that's ok.

It feels like something that will be exploited, if only by the curious.
No joke. People are already getting cut to 25 or less hours for health insurance reasons. I was told in a staff meeting that we might be going to a 4-day week with the cut in pay that entails since we will have a budget shortfall and our health insurance is going to do a 3x increase this next year.
In Denver and Boudler I'm seeing SWE postings with salary 100K - 160K. Not really much different then SF and a lot cheaper housing. You are really much better off in Colorado then Norhter California. Don't tell anyone!
No, clipboard support has been in Firefox for months. It was enabled for web pages over the summer.

It's unfair to really ding any browser for not supporting this. It's not yet properly specced ("This spec is incomplete and it is not expected that it will advance beyond draft status.").
I always wonder about how these people will keep getting money as commerce goes increasingly cashless.

I never carry cash so whenever a beggar asks, I say as much. One guy I encountered recently, jokingly said "I take credit cards too!" If he actually did, he would probably clean up.
Sure, they'll find someone more local, eventually. recruiting is a cost and challenge. Self-imposing an additional barrier, one that technology melted away over a decade ago, just baffles.
The new Asana design looks a lot better but still feels like it's lacking hierarchy. Kudos to the Asana team though. Big step forward.

We switched from Asana to https://dapulse.com/ awhile back and have been pretty happy with dapulse. Easy navigation, ability to customize status boards, and really opinionated (in a good way) support videos on how to use time-based project management for teams. Not sure if many people on HN are aware of the product, but worth giving it a spin.
You don't even need to setup the client, if you have control over any number of intermediate routers, you can snag/reroute port 53 tcp/udp traffic any way you like. I tend to setup my home router to do this, so that all open dns traffic goes where I tell it to.

It's also advised to do so for unauthenticated users on shared/public wifi so that you can provide an agreement page/site. Also, so that unauthenticated users can't use DNS as a tunnel method, which is pretty damned cool, but insecure.
Article may be older, but it begs the question - can you trust anything the big pharma produces? How about vaccines which could be safe but aren't, because they simply don't have to? How about a true cancer cure being suppressed? Do you still find it hard to believe?
Well if you control the domain you can easily get an SSL cert (except some clients might pin the CA for google.com).
More interesting: what will a Vegan eat, in an age of artificially grown meat?
> be set to automatically install them and reboot once they are available.

I mean, it isn't the end of the world, but your helpdesk will be getting a few calls because your users are refusing reboots!
I think it depends on what you're doing, and what counts as productivity. I think lines of code per developer per day haven't gone up much, but it's a lot easier to deliver much more complex products now than it was then, in part due to the large volume of readily accessible library code. There's less need to write special-purpose code for everything, because someone probably wrote the generic parts already.

There are some software domains that haven't changed much at all since the 90s or earlier. Systems programming is still done largely in C and C++, and modern kernels work basically the same way they did then with a few minor differences. Scripting has changed dramatically, web frameworks have changed dramatically, business applications have changed quite a bit. C# is noticeably different from Java, which is different from C++ or Cobol or whatever it was people used to write business software in back then.
There's gotta be a busker with a square reader somewhere...

Also, there are a lot of places in NYC where they still take cash only, especially bodegas and dive bars.
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No, just the right edge. It also ignores the page zoom setting and screenshots the element at 100%. (User styles set by Stylish do apply, though.)
I graduated 15 years ago. Still don't get it.
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I've set up my laptop to go to my home internal server (old laptop) for DNS. My quality-of-development-environment has increased because I can associate any internal in development app I want with a hostname tied to my internal DNS prefix. Very useful for setting up nginx for multiple applications.
You can just set up the zones in e.g. Your local network nameserver to say it's authoritative for google.com then send the traffic to wherever you want. Many companies do this on a large scale on their internal networks for the purpose of having easy-to-use names (that can have the nodes behind them changed out without changing anything else) using, mostly for backward-compatibility or legacy reasons, the same domains / zones that may resolve externally to different RRsets. This is known as split-horizon DNS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-horizon_DNS
google.com is under a registry lock, nobody can touch it without going through a security song and dance involving the registry (Verisign) and the registrar (MarkMonotor), so it's unlikely to happen.

This looks like because Google's domain selling tool thought he bought the domain, he was authorized for the domain for all the rest of the Google tools, which is scary, but probably not earth shattering. Kind of depends on what you can do in the tools to send people to another site.

If they actually hijacked the domain, they would probably kill their DNS servers, but they could do a lot of things; including likely get some domain control certificates (but likely not from the registrars Google pins to, and a lot of people have google's certificate pins)
There are a lot of low-speed minor accidents with minimal injuries, sure. There are probably more of those than serious accidents with serious injuries.

However, I don't see how that challenges my assertion that cars make roads more dangerous for everyone who is not in a car. Am I missing something?
The clipboard api only includes 'cut' and 'copy' commands. There is no way (except via extensions) to access the clipboard.
We have a team of about 10 people. Yeah, we use Trello for the whole team.
The other recent negative is that 5-10 years ago, NYC buskers used to make 80% of their money selling CDs... people will pay $10-$15 for a CD, when they'll only give a dollar or two for a live performance. Oops.

(source: several friends who busked a lot)
Isn't the word 'Android' already invented for that class or organism?
That an idea can have ownership is totally insane. The only reason it doesn't sound insane is because we've been told over and over that it's a good thing.

- People will invent no matter what. Money is just one type of reward.

- If you don't want competitors copying immediately, don't announce or demo it before hand and keep it secret until you have all marketing in place. Or limit distribution and offer it in controlled, supervised environments.

The solution can't be "this idea is mine". Nobody must own ideas.
Btw this is a big reason why drugs are more expensive in the US vs other countries: US Doctors essentially demand bribes in the form of CME-credit holidays, post-FDA fake clinical trials as a kick-back, lucrative consulting and speaking gigs etc. Pharma then increases price relative to other countries. Best of all, the US medical community, with specialists making 300K-1M+, gets to blame evil Pharma for higher drug prices, while being one of the primary beneficiaries of the price bump. Hypocrisy at its "best".

My advice is explicitly ask your doc if they receive any incents / cash from any company whose drugs they prescribe you. Get this in writing.
I thought it was a decent enough joke. Tough room.
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Thanks a lot for a detailed post. 20gb of log to not seem like much though? Not really sure of 500px scale. Fully conceding that at my company probably are logging too much, I'm wondering what takes ETL pipeline 4hr to run over that. Is just no need to optimize it since there's no benefit to have these metrics real time? Or am I missing some really data heavy part. Again not trying to be negative just wondering.

Luigi seems cool, can anyone comment on it compared Airflow or Spring XD, or is are those just different products.

Periscope looks like Kibana for relational stores, also cool to see.

Thanks again for great post!
Tierion Founder here. Very cool to see us on Hacker News!

Here's a real world example: We recently won the Coindesk hackathon by building an insurance claims processing application that creates an audit trail for the claims process by recording each step in the bitcoin blockchain. Our solution offered two main benefits. First, Tierion generated a blockchain receipt for the initial claim. This gives both the insurance company and the claimant a verifiable proof of the claim's timestamp and contents. Second, most insurance companies use an outside network of providers (call centers, data processors, etc.) to handle claims. By using Tierion, we created an immutable audit trail for the claims process. This gives the insurance company a record of how the claim was handled without having to integrate all of their external vendors.

An enterprise customer built a prototype that collects data from MRI machines to track its usage and maintenance schedule.

There's a list of use cases at https://tierion.com/features.

We went live on September 1st. In the coming weeks, we'll be showcasing the creative solutions that we're seeing customers build.
In general, banks that break regulations don't result in people going to jail because individuals take action to avoid personal responsibility for anything. There are literally hundreds of thousands of pagers of them, nobody really understands them, and regulators decide which ones to take seriously according to the political winds of the day.

At top banks a major purpose of the regulatory department is to make sure nobody can be blamed for anything. Banks would rather pay billions of fines because no executive is going into engage in a more coherent compliance regime if it means risking jail for something nobody understands. It is common at certain commercial banks to deliberately engage in ignorance, at the risk of being find very large sums, simply to avoid the discovery risk--of regulators being able to pin blame on someone who raised some concern.

Recently the regulators have been hinting executives will be held responsible for systemic failures in their bank. Bankers have been responding by ensuring full compliance with regulations. Just kidding, nobody knows how to fully comply with bank regulations. Bankers have generally responded by ceasing high-risk activity completely. For example, there are tens of thousands of Somali refugees in the US. To my knowledge there is no commercial bank that will help them send money home to their families. Somalia is simply too high risk.
As always, why aren't these crooks in jail?
come on, a fucking paywall?
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I am a Software Engineer with 10+ years experience in low-level middleware frameworks(not kernel or device driver) using C, EC++ (some C++) on Linux based platforms (mobile and desktop). You can see my CV here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5_wVHETBRUKaVI2bUlUTlJuNFE/view?usp=sharing . I have been unemployed since last 3.5 years due to some family reason(details below). But now I am available to take on work. It will be okay if I am not paid for next two-three months(I won't mind if I get paid for my work though) because I will have to take one month leave in January to attend to the family issue again. The obvious question you might ask is, why can't I wait for next two-three months and then apply for jobs and in the mean time do some personal project? Well, if I start a personal project I will get sucked into it and I don't want to do that because I will have to take on paid work by January as I am on the verge of bankruptcy. Another reason is that, if I am anyway going to start paid work, then why not give my future employer an opportunity to try me for two-three months. That way it will help the company understand if I am a match for their requirement. I am ready to work remotely and travel or relocate (but the company will have to bear the cost of travel and/or relocation). And after the trial period(2-3 months) I expect a paid long-term contract or permanent position, obviously only if the employer is happy with my work.

You will be wondering what got me into the situation that I am in today. Well, I wrote the details here but HN submit-form refused to allow more than 2000 chars hence I am writing the rest of the message in the document here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5_wVHETBRUKRlNNQjFEMU9SZk0/view?usp=sharing . Let me know if there is any work available that I can take on now which can be extended after 2-3 months as a contract or permanent position?

Thanks and kind regards,

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I don't know about other people, but I'm paying them $100/year for disk space that costs them under $15. Which is fine by me; I'm paying them for the seamless sync and the reliability.
They could be used interchangeably, 'automaton' predates 'android' by a margin, primarily because an 'automaton' doesn't necessarily have to be an electronic device. It could be a water-powered wooden nutcracker. So yes, 'android' is probably the best candidate to describe the 'robots' that the author is referring to.
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Definitely a bug in Google domains. The real one expires 9/14/2020. https://who.is/whois/google.com/
you might get more traction with more description. as it is, i'm not going to click on the link to see what it is.
The problem with this is that a factory making stuff is useless if people don't want or can't afford the product. The Marxist labor theory of value asserts that value s created when something is made rather than sold, but 1000 pairs of shoes sitting in a warehouse miles away from any consumers who might want to wear them aren't making anyone better off.
so... I just scanned that, and apparently the thesis is that most people would rather not ride a bike at all if it involves, you know, looking like the sort of person who wears a helmet.

Wow. uh, that plays into all my negative stereotypes about "normal people."

I mean, it's your head, and I think you should be able to decide for yourself what an acceptable level of risk is, but don't pretend that a good helmet won't help make injuries in a crash less severe.
Why would you pay them the same? Hire 14% more workers, work them 35h instead of 40h, and pay them 14% less each. Costs the same, doesn't it?
When I busked, donations always came from 40+ year olds anyway, very rarely from young men in professional clothes.
I really appreciate the amount of time - and honesty - that went into this post. The author really sounds like they have their head firmly on their shoulders. Thanks, Samson!
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Since real productive time of programmers is 2 hours daily and probably for managers is 10-20 minutes, we could cut a lot of dead stuff in IT and don't suffer productivity drop. May differ in other situations.
In all honesty, many knowledge worker jobs in the US are already un-clocked. Essentially, the company has an expectation that a job gets done and the employee has an expectation that they'll generally speaking be present at the office roughly during core hours. The unspoken agreement is that this ends up being roughly 40 hours per week, with concessions made on the employee's part when things get tough and on the employer's part to offset the aforementioned extra time.

Ultimately, this serves the employer's purposes more than the employees', but it's better than the bad old days of clock-in, clock-out. Imho, most managers [at least in tech companies, but not just the big name tech companies] operate this "just get your job done" way.

This is especially common in the Bay Area where a fair number of folks have 1.5-2hr each way commutes.
> HEPA Air Filters "There are three modes: circulate with outside air, re-circulate inside air and a bioweapon defense mode that creates positive pressure inside the cabin to protect occupants."
This is immensely useful in Chinese cities!
I enter text, it thinks for a minute, and displays random colors. What is this supposed to be doing exactly?
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Aristotle, Socrates, Plato lived to their 60s, 70s, 80s respectively.

Granted less people are dying young now, it seems like we have been able to extend the time we live. That is to say if you were born 400 BC and lived a proper lifestyle you would have probably lived just as long as the guy who is born today and lives a proper lifestyle.
Except busking (indeed any performance) carries an active component. There's opportunity cost with busking - not so with Spotify.