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That's not the point really. The criteria are: If a company is demonstrably (ie. open financial books) having financial difficulties, then I think the default reaction should be "what can we do to get ourselves through this without layoffs". The current environment seems to condone a "fire as first reaction to save the company" behavior. I would argue the default reaction should be "fire as last ditch effort to save the company". Before firing anyone the first reaction should be to find a compromise everyone is comfortable with so that everyone can find a way to help the cause.

Also I think there is merit to the point that if someone is not willing to sacrifice in times of scarcity, they are only thinking about themselves and thus are not mentally in a state conducive to helping the company to get out of its financial difficulties.

I've lived this situation. At one point in my career I had people on my team who I thought were truly brilliant, and I vouched to ensure their happiness and comfort in spite of difficult times. They simply took that gesture of goodwill as a sign of weakness and feasted like vultures without any real uptick in output in return.

In the end the lesson is that no matter how brilliant or gifted you are, a true sign of loyalty or dedication to a company's cause in the form of sacrifice is far more valuable than a self-absorbed employee who can churn out good code, but only as long as everything is going in their favor.

EDIT: And that's not to say a company shouldn't find ways to sacrifice as well. For example additional equity should certainly be on the table as an option. You can't expect people to give without expecting anything in return should things turn around and the company should eventually get back on its feet financially.
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If it's true, as a matter of national pride, let's hope other countries join the race to have the top ranked engineering university. We could use a dozen more MIT's in the world.
The best description I've seen is that insurance is peace of mind.

from an individual perspective, insurance means you don't have to worry about unexpected expenses from things beyond your control (ie, peace of mind).

Now, the mechanism by which this is achieved may be described as a pool in that it's a single company with a pool of money that everyone pays into and the input into that pool necessarily must be greater than the output.

But from the "customers" perspective, insurance is peace of mind. ie, it smooths their total risk over time.
Same way people get addicted to gambling.
Indeed. If there is one thing Facebook has taught us more than anything else, it is probably that technology and trivial banter are no substitute for meaningful personal relationships.
Err, "with low-bandwidth/high-latency tasks".
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I'm not from KC either, so I may be off base there. I do live somewhere with a higher average salary than nationally though.

Certainly there are places (SF in particular) where you're in a pretty bad place if you're making the national median, but I think anyone making the local median in those places is doing all right. The median is by definition not going to be a good place for keeping up worth the joneses. But if you opt out of the competitive things and just spend on what you need, I really think $52k is a pretty good place to be, and if you're struggling at that level (and aren't tied to a job in an expensive city) you should seriously look at downsizing your house/car/whatever your biggest expense is, because I have to wonder where all that money's going.

Of course plenty of people really are struggling - half of the country is on less than $52k after all. Below about $40k I'd definitely say "it's not you, it's your income" or something on those lines.
That's nice, but if I'm Turing Pharmaceuticals or Microsoft, I probably don't care about all of that, and I only care about my immediate gain and exploitation of the patent system.
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They also decrease the incentive for people to do research and development (e.g: as derivative works from existing inventions).

Which effect is stronger? It is very plausible that overall, the decrease is far stronger than the increase, as the vast majority of inventions are derivative.
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Yep, I'm a Google employee. ampproject.org has the full list of partners working together. One example is https://blog.twitter.com/2015/introducing-accelerated-mobile...
An IDE would be also ideal (or at least a current tutorial for emacs mode installation)
Wonder if now is the time to look at alternatives, before the service potentially changes.

I hear a lot of good things about 1Password, which seems to work for my iPhone/MacBook. Anyone know if there's a reasonable option for using it on Windows?
As someone who has never used LogMeIn, could you explain what the problems are? I use LastPass pretty extensively (and was thinking of buying a subscription later this month), but have never used LogMeIn.
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No, it doesn't. Because I don't get insurance coverage for a nominal fee like $1 per month. I pay a non-trivial amount of money every month. So in my mind, 90% of that is going towards the possibility that I'll eventually make a rare claim (float), 5% is going towards administration, and 5% is profit.

I know those numbers aren't right, but lets say that they are. In that case, paying $100/mo for insurance and not making a claim for 10 years there's over $10,000 worth of loose money (more once you factor in interest!) sitting around that's just for me because according to your analysis insurance isn't risk pooling but risk smoothing. So then I make a claim for the whole car, $20k. Fine, half of that comes out of the money I already paid to them for risk smoothing, the other half should come from the future payments I'll make to them for risk smoothing. My rates should double in this case.

But most people don't total their cars every 10 years, many people go their whole lives without ever making a claim. So at the end, they might have paid $50k in self-insurance risk smoothing premiums that the company gets to just keep, that's not right is it? Clearly no.

So what people actually think is supposed to happen is that everyone pays about the same amount and some people get unlucky and make claims and that doesn't get counted against them. They're all wrong, but that's how insurance is sold so it's understandable.

In reality I suspect that the breakdown of float, administration and profit is more like 30%, 30% and 40% which is why premiums can go up so much after you make a claim; you're actually making almost no real contribution towards the float at "regular risk" insurance rates. Of course this also neglects the risk pooling aspect.
Awesome, thanks for making this! Any plans to update the URL hash so a current view can be shared with a link? I would think it wouldn't be too difficult since there are only a handful of variables. I (and HN) would be glad to contribute if desired.
In practice, whether memory lookup is constant time or log time depends on your access pattern. The TLB makes random lookups more expensive. See for example

https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~tojot/papers/TowardBetterComp...
You forgot a bullet point

- not buy a house that's next door to a homeowner who rents the home to a person who is willing to drink and drive.

In case you didn't pick up on it, I'm calling your bullet points bullshit.

It's kind of like arguing over code, there's always going to be something you can nitpick as not optimal. There will always be something a person could possibly have done to prevent the issue (like committing suicide that morning), but it's a question of what's reasonable, and it is not unreasonable to expect a vehicle parked correctly in a parking spot to not be hit by another vehicle.
I do quite a bit of running, some lifting and I've never personally experienced this with either. However, I also do a lot of mountain biking and experience this during and after each ride. As best I can describe it, it really becomes of a sense of "flow" and you feel connected to what you are doing while a wave of good feelings hits you. The only similar expression of this that I've been able to come across is how surfers often describe their feelings after catching a good wave.
Its a joined project by many partners. See other comment in thread for details.
Going to try make this into a alfred workshop if anyone is interested
They usually know how to jump the wall or get direct lines out for erm research purposes. ChinaSys, an acedemic/industry systems conference, is taking registrations in... Google docs.

I hope this is not a wake up call: what we don't need in academia is more gaming of the publication and citation system! This is a wake up call to not take usnews too seriously.
So perhaps the innovation could be in the process, not the result?
Wow, -10 assembler. Now that brought back a flood of memories of TOPS-20 systems hacking...
Apt considers everything under /etc as a "config file", or any file mentioned in the special CONFFILES package file.
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Since the NSA is by default monitoring calls, I wonder why they cant do anything about this? (:p)
I used to work for a financial news service. The Fed's interest rate announcements were automated; they hit the wire service, which had an automated template to push out headlines on the news (human oversight but not much intervention); and the high-speed traders had NLP to interpret the headlines, place a bet and move the market, generating more news for automated headlines. The circle was complete.
These acquisition announcements are always the same, and always get the same sort of comments.

They tell of good fortune for the owners of the thing that has been sold, but never tell the users what's in it for them. And that's usually because there is nothing in it for them.

What am I supposed to be happy about?
Medium-term I guess. I've got 2 years left on the fix, then it floats.

Everyone says rates have to rise eventually. But so far we've gone 7 years of near-zero rates. If there were a dramatic shift I could take a payment holiday and put it all into savings, but I doubt I would. As for inflation, it affects any form of saving equally - nominal 4% interest is better than nominal 3% whatever that is in real terms.
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Germany main source of energy is still, by far, coal (lignite to be precise), and it's not going down yet. The expansion of renewable energy, which is very real, is being done at the expense of nuclear energy.

I wish they would be doing it the other way around: closing coal power plants before the nuclear ones. But Germany has lignite, and doesn't have much of a nuclear industry, so economically it makes much more sense that way...

EDIT: typo
That would be awesome, I am interested :)
And it has been gamed for at least the last century. Nothing new here.
But Ted Stevens got the mental model right. The internet is supposed to be a series of tubes, the tube is supposed not to care what flows through it. This approach has been very good for innovation, very much unlike the walled gardens we are seeing today.
You might get it :)
There isn't that much to it. AMP is as much about technology as finally getttig that tech adopted. Since AMP is built on web tech there is nothing in it that you cannot chose to do yourself

The problem we are solving is that many sites don't.
As a former Hamachi user and LastPass user/advocate, I had the exact same reaction when I saw this.
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You presume that all sites want a community around them. Some site just want an audience, which is not at all the same thing.
This really rubs me the wrong way. Do not like the idea of my password manager bouncing around owners. Or infrastructure changes that new owners often push on the acquired company.

If there's one business I REALLY do not want to be moving about, and I want as little churn as possible for, it's a password manager.

The thing I liked about LastPass was that it seemed like the highly geeky, less startupy approach to password managers, more likely to be run for the long-term, less likely to be at risk of an acquisition.

Going to look into Dashlane.
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They will all take cash at retail locations, the only thing is you want to double check that they won't ask from an ID.It's not a requirement but it seems like some will ask. I was asked for my passport when I was in states couple of years ago. Maybe somebody can chime in.
It's starting to seem to me that none of this is real. That we are unable to see how things really work because we are a part of that thing.

I'm not saying that we are in a simulation. But imagine if we were. A simulation that calculated the state of every cell based on various rules. But these cells are NOT layed out in a grid that somehow maps to reality at all. That gravity and even spacial dimensions are just artifacts of how we interact with all of this. That in no sense does gravity cause anything fundemental to be attracted, it's just that when certain configurations of state interact they cause other effect that we perceive as gravity.

I'm not saying we are in a simulation, just that reality might be so different from what we are looking at that, the effects like gravity and matter and movement and dimensions don't really have any physical meaning at all except as how we perceive the interaction of states.

That abstract math might be the only way to every analyse this, and that at some level gravity and so on are meaningless, we have to find some way to model the abstract system states. And in some way investigating the physics that we perceive is meaningless.

Ok.. Enough. Does this make any sense?
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491, which has more comments.
Most of the checks affect compile time performance in a minor way, but also have no runtime overhead. The borrow checker is an entirely compile-time thing, for example.
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Breathing the fumes for an extended period of time? That's exactly what we would have had without the remediation.
"How about totally free speech?"

But we've seen the result of that. It's not some sort of blindingly beautiful laboratory of democracy, it's a whole bunch of barely-literate people chanting slogans at each other between the trolls.

There's a fundamental structural problem here. Imagine a full stadium of people all trying to talk to each other about the same thing, on the same topic, through the same pipe. What do you expect to happen? No real-world conversations work like that. The Internet can scale conversations up to real-world-absurd sizes, like the one we're having here, but there's still limits, and sites like CNN blast right through them. Not through any fault of their own, they're just too large to host any sort of reasonable conversation.

To have reasonable conversations, you need something else, some sort of segmentation, by interests, by personalities, by who happened to show up at some obscure website, something to make it not just a few thousand people trying to shout into the same tin can.

This has little-to-nothing to do with "free speech" or ideological issues of any kind... it's an engineering problem. I'd call it social engineering, but that has the entirely wrong connotation for this problem. But it's still some sort of community engineering problem more than anything else. I've had the hobby of watching those sorts of things for about 15 years now and I've never seen even a hint of technology that a site as large as CNN could use to have some sort of robust, interesting debate. The incentives are all wrong, for all the participants, including CNN. Even the best tech I've seen breaks down at what is easily one order of magnitude below what CNN gets, if not two.
Isn't the problem that the government, which is supposed to uphold justice, let's it go on?
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Exactly. AMP is very much about addressing that issue.
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I agree with your view that Monsanto is unlikely affected, but the article is quite misleadingly named. With "gene patent" I immediately think of Monsanto. But this ruling seems to only affect those who claim exclusive right to discovering properties of existing genes - not those who create organisms with unique genetic properties, like Monsanto.
My first reaction to reading the title was "why?"

After reading the article (and then reading it again) I'm not left feeling confident that this is in any way positive for me as a LastPass Premium and Xmarks customer.

In particular the vague line about, "As we become part of the LogMeIn family over the next several months, we’ll be releasing updates to LastPass, introducing new features..." To me, LastPass is feature complete. So either I'm going to have a mind blowing, I never knew I needed that, moment, or more likely some sort of bloated crap is going to get shoe horned into LastPass.
/bin and friends are for binaries only. For a full package you also want libraries, man pages, configuration files etc... Those are usually bundled as a .tar.gz which would ideally be the best way to bundle and distribute a program.
Yeah, 3d printing is still a solution in search of a mass market problem. Quality isn't good enough to make "consumer" parts yet and still too fiddly, and not 10% of the country needs to prototype, much less the whole country.

Eventually someone's going to figure out exactly what they're perfect for and things will really go bananas. Until then they're fun but only useful to a pretty limited set of people.
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Wind may be cheap, but here in the UK a hostile government and NIMBYs have made it hard to open new wind-farms.
Allowing totally unmoderated comments could lead to the worst aspects of the interent - bullying, harrassment, doxing - as well as open the organisation hosting the comments to legal issues. Free speech may be protected (in the US anyway - most western countries don't have anything like the free speech protection laws that you do, and that's not always a bad thing), but that doesn't give anyone the right to post their speech anywhere.

People may enjoy participating in flame wars, but they don't bring much value to the reader. Judging by the number of upvotes, comments tend to be read by far more people than participate. Often insightful and well thought out comments are a pleasure to read. Flame wars? Less so.

Maybe I'm coming from a very different point of view though. By far my favourite discussion websites are the ones with agressive moderation policies and a financial barrier to entry. That seems to do wonders to encourage thoughtful and interesting comments.
All the EEs I know think 1000 lines of code is "a lot". I've never met any EEs that used source control. I've never met any that tracked issues beyond forwarding emails back and forth. Their idea of documentation is separate PDFs for electrical properties and programming APIs.

So if us software engineers don't know the hardware side well enough to design hardware, I'm not really sure electrical engineers understand the software side well enough to design hardware, either.

Not saying there aren't EEs that understand software. Just saying I've never met any.

EDIT: wait, I know one EE who uses source control. I finally got my wife to start using Git. She kept looking over my shoulder at home, asking me "what is that?" pointing at my changelog in SourceTree. "Oh, you know, it's just an annotated record of every change every member of the project has ever made, including when they did it, in such a way that we can share these changes with each other without having to have long discussions about which particular folder on which particular network drive is the 'latest' code. Oh, you think that would be helpful in your work? Who would have thought?"
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That sounds like you're using some disgusting city block as a treadmill. Check out Trailporn for some alternative venues: http://www.trailporn.com/
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In the future you might want say 'misattributed' or 'wrongly attributed' for this case.

The term 'attributed to X' can mean "is widely but wrongly attributed to X", but can also mean "I heard it somewhere and it sounds true so I'll go with my gut feeling instead of verifying it" or "I hear there are doubts, so while I have no opinion, I'll keep my bases covered."

Personally, rather than be stuck in that mire, I would suggest quoting Prof. Frink from Simpsons:

> 'I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.'

This in turn came from the quote widely but wrongly attributed to Thomas J. Watson of IBM:

> 'I think there is a world market for maybe five computers'

Quoting from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson :

> Often dated to 1943. Thorough research of Watson's writings and statements have produced no example of him saying this. It appears to be a corruption of a remark by Howard Aiken that four or five computers could meet all of the United Kingdom's computing needs. See Ralph Keyes (2006), The Quote Verifier.

Of these, only the Frink version has an accurate attribution. I think the other two come with some malice. By repeating the urban legend as if it's relevant, I think you are forwarding that malice, even if unintentionally.
Wow, thanks for that, I've never read the Wikipedia article on Heroin and I didn't know:

"The head of Bayer's research department reputedly coined the drug's new name, "heroin," based on the German heroisch, which means "heroic, strong.""
Are there any real alternatives to Lastpass, that has working browser plugins and also work on Android devices?
I think that's a misleading question. I don't think anyone is arguing that all innovation would go away if the patent system was removed. However, it seems possible that innovations that require high initial investment and low ongoing costs (medications, gene patents, etc.) would be produced at a lower rate if the incentives the current system provides were removed.
We had to prepay before they would do the work, $2.5k at a time. They've probably been burned before by people who can't pay, and I can see why they would avoid that.

We live well below our means so we can donate more, so we did have some savings.
You know what? That's a pretty reasonable argument, and I agree with it.
Why is Everett (many worlds) interpretation so unpopular?

Frequently is not even mentioned, as it was not so plausible, or so implausible, as Copenhagen.
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iOS/OSX only :(
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I personally choose to block ubiquitous 3rd parties by default[1], to fight both bloat AND privacy exposure.

This AMP project reduces the bloat but at the cost of increased privacy exposure. If I globally block `ampproject.org` when visiting a AMP-enabled web pages, the pages do not render at all.

My understanding is that now all "Google and its partners" have foiled the ability of visitors to protect their privacy with this AMP project -- and all these partners are given access to my browsing history.

This goes completely counter to "The Internet is for End Users"[2]. I hope people will boycott by blocking wholesale `ampproject.org` as 3rd party -- this needs to fail.

[1] Examples: `twitter.com`, `facebook.[com|net]`, `gravatar.com`, `fonts.googleapis.com`, etc.

[2] http://mnot.github.io/I-D/for-the-users/