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These very threats pretty much sum up the type of officers that Tarantino spoke against in the first place. The irony here is strong. I don't like the way the Police Union is going about this. The police are supposed to be the impartial protectors of the law here. If valuable resources are being wasted exacting some kind of childish revenge on Tarantino instead of catching criminals, this is going to backfire on them quite badly.

What does the police union expect to achieve? Do they want Tarantino to publicly retract his statements and say, "The police should have the right to kill unarmed citizens if they want" - I don't see what the point of this is.

Also Tarantino is not the only person to speak out against police brutality, why are they singling him out, because he has a following and they're scared people will listen to what he has to say? This whole situation is appalling.

Maybe if the police union encouraged its members to be better at their jobs, to apprehend criminals using minimal force (unless otherwise required) maybe Tarantino wouldn't have said we he said. Maybe people would trust the police more and we wouldn't be in this situation.
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> western-style

The holes in the ground are actually fairly common in Italy.
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It depends on the gig.

When we hire at Spotify, we look for people who are good at Machine Learning. Can code, design systems well. We get people who are at both ends of the spectrum; prefer hiring people somewhere in the middle.

ML at school is very different from ML at work. At work, you have to do a lot of data cleaning; where the C.S. education can help. Furthermore, you need to do be able to think out of the box; pull disparate data sources together. Sometimes even design and pull out specific data.
One reason is because Detroit has 24x7 winter -- in the Bay Area it's a 4 hour drive to winter so you only experience it when (and if) you want to.
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Or, it could have folded and made something else. Or any number of other scenarios. But debating SR&ED being good or bad is too theoretical and everyone can point to examples on all sides. This is why I chose a very specific issue with SR&ED and proposals on how to fix it.

I'm not stating that SR&ED does not have its benefits, but there are some glaring flaws that need fixing. Others include the SR&ED process itself, evaluation of SR&ED claims and more. However this is the first one I could concretely back up with examples and math and give real solutions to.
Making tty formatting very close to dom/css semantics, interesting.
Just to cross the beams of pedantry here for a moment, a widespread and well known --- if less than serious or systemic --- cultural/social bias against red haired people, probably first coming into public consciousness in North America due to the infamous South Park 'Ginger' episode, has in fact primed you to select "redheads" as a non-contentious example of a plausibly ethnic group that might be discriminated against, something that every red-haired person knows, although you apparently do not. This means that the choice is statistically insensitive and the social methodology is poor.

Actually, choosing an identifiable group at random would be both socially and statistically unwise, as, following Patero distribution, there are vastly more minority/extreme minority distinguishable groups of people than there are majority/significant minority ones; this means, firstly, that any group randomly selected with equal biasing between all groups has a high probability of being subject to actual discrimination, mooting any social benefit of choosing a group at random; secondly, that the generalizable qualities of the group chosen would therefore have a distribution with very little deviation (if I'm using my terms correctly) and would be highly predictable, thereby obviating any possible statistical benefit of doing so.
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Would love to have access to anonymized SR&ED claims data. I'll also bet that while 75% of the claimant's are small businesses, they only get < 10% of the $4B (remind you of anything)?

It's why I advocate for a lower hard cap as well. With a hard cap, it's likely that the total amount paid out is well under $4B, which means we can then go on and address how we can better distribute funding and change the evaluation process to not be as restrictive.
I like it! It even works in MobaXTerm. Although two tests failed.
There's an awful lot of hype in this article.

Tunable peak/notch tone control circuits had been around since the early valve days, and the effect was well known to recording engineers and synthesiser experimenters.

When the sound became popular, there were dozens of circuits published in the electronics hobby magazines, particularly in England where it was known as a "Wow pedal".

Ref: Someone who was there.
There's always RSS and mailing lists :D

Joking aside, I wish there were some meaningful numbers around how many people (as a percentage of active user base) use it that way (live events) vs just seeing what their friends and/or favorite celebrities have to say.
Even I kinda feel like this, they make effort to make their name out in the market, but that doesn't mean that their advice is BS, some parts of them obviously will be a little bit too far fetched because they want to serve their purpose, but it is amazing to have free startup advice like the stanford lecture that YC took. Truly amazing content.
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By legitimate, I meant "not off topic" as defined in the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The guidelines also state clearly that flagging should only be used for something that is spam or off topic, not for expressing disagreement. And I think users who consistently flag stories about climate change (if such users do in fact exist) are clearly using flags for the latter purpose which it was not intended for, and deserve to be penalized.
This is a timely comparison to how we could imagine Alphabet/Google in the future. Provide a shield from the market to allow long term thinking.
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The term's been used to describe high-displacement iron block engines, exemplified by those in mid-20th century american muscle cars. They produce lots of noise and torque, and aren't very fuel efficient. Like a mainframe.

The other sort of big iron makes a lot of heat and flattens out big wrinkles, and ruins delicate fabrics-- also like a mainframe.
I've wondered why a company like this needs to be present in the bay area paying bay area salaries and bay area office space prices.
And I think it's a shame that anyone thinks they deserve "recognition" based on who their ancestors were.
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The dictionary definition cited in the article confirms that the term "Big Iron" usually refers to High Performance Computing ("supercomputers" as opposed to database servers): "Used generally of number-crunching supercomputers such as Crays"

The question is still interesting, why does Big Iron still exist in High Performance Computing? I'm not completely up to speed, but I think the reason has a lot to do with specialized network interconnects, such as three-dimensional toroidal interconnects [1] ... These specialized interconnects differentiate "Big Iron" from commodity clusters. Another differentiating feature relates to memory, such as very large memory capacities and unique memory hierarchies using NVM, SSDs, etc. A third possibility is very large CPU socket capacities, going beyond the standard dual-socket or quad-socket configurations. This type of technology can certainly play a role in databases and it sheds some light on the "database appliance" trend (integrated hardware/software solutions).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_interconnect
That's ridiculous. You're talking about the kind of money I paid in mortgage repayments for a 2 bedroom house 12km outside of Canberra, Australia.
For values, laziness means there is a tag bit for whether a value is a thunk or evaluated. Sum types use tags to determine which variant is active.

For functions, because a function that takes two arguments and returns a value (a -> a -> a) has the same type as a function that takes one argument and returns a function that takes another argument that returns a value (a -> a -> a), the arity of functions is stored in the tag.

Some of these tags are eliminated by inlining but if you sit down and read some typical Haskell output you'll see a _whole lot_ of tag checks.

Source: spent a lot of time reading GHC output and writing high-performance Haskell code.
Yes, been waiting for this for quite awhile. Great job guys. Msft is definitely building exciting stuff these days. Hope it's converting into revenue at some point.
Maybe here: https://goo.gl/maps/CAC6NxkE8LN2

It seems his studio was very close to the above location: http://www.midley.co.uk/diorama/Diorama_Wood_2.htm
I disagree. As someone who knows how to use my system's package manager, it saves me from having to figure out the name of the package and whether or not I need to enable a 3rd party repository. Also, I know at least two people who use Octave that aren't comfortable with their system's package manager. Both of them use Ubuntu for their research because it's easier to get compilers (Fortran and C++) working properly, but they use Windows for general (non-research) computing. One of them is a biophysics graduate student and the other is a chemistry undergraduate.
I know for me, there are times and projects where I really do love my job. The other day I got to code in C for the first time in a long time; I mean, it was something that would have been far more efficiently done in a regex against the output of a shell program, but the boss wanted it done using the API, so C it was. and... there's something really satisfying about writing something that works in C. That, and the novelty of writing something in C. Novelty is big for me.

There are other times where, as they say, "that's why they call it work" where I have to visualize that paycheck to get me through the day. Hell, today I had to reboot like ten servers and change bios settings by hand. Oh my god, it's like the attention deficit disorder tests the shrink gives you. "Press Delete or F12 when the screen tells you to press delete or F12, but not before it tells you, or else you have to start over and wait an additional 180 seconds." - and ten is so few that it didn't justify busting out expect and writing a script. (I mean, if I was feeling my oats, that's what I would have done, and it would have been really fun, but I haven't touched expect in years and it would have taken rather longer to come back up to speed than to just do it.)

Now, obviously, if I have too much of the latter, I start thinking about changing things, but I think it's not realistic to think that you'll love your job all the time.

In general, I think how much I enjoy it has as much to do with me and how I think about it as it has to do with the work. - Certainly, I'm not saying it's got nothing to do with the work, the work is part of it; but how you approach that work, how long you've been doing that work, and what your perceived alternatives are all have a big part to play in your level of satisfaction, in my experience.

You can mostly ignore the people who crow too much about "passion" - Most of the time, if the job ad talks more about passion than about qualifications, that actually means they want to pay you intern salary and just don't want to tell you up front. If that's your thing, go for it... but the big corporate jobs that actually let you operate at scale and/or actually pay decently are going to be more concerned with qualifications than with "passion"

I'll show up and do the job. And yes, sometimes I will enjoy it. but I'm not in sales; I don't have to pretend like I'm always happy- and if that's what you want out of your employees? I thank you for letting me know ahead of time so that we don't waste oneanother's time.
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Warezing Win2K server as a router was where I cut my networking teeth. It was so easy to configure - it autopopulated 192.168.0.1 in the network sharing menus. It suggested other necessary settings.

After Blaster, and 4 roomates wiping our gaming PCs, I stole a copy of RHEL and used that instead. It was a lot harder to configure; you had to know what you were doing. I managed to squeak by with settings remembered from Win2K, but others may not have fared so well.
I'm not sure about Quicken (which, incidentally, is being divested, so it won't be part of Intuit soon enough), but Mint uses the same internal service for communicating with financial institutions as Quickbooks and TurboTax.

By tokenizing each account, it ensures that if a breach of any of those products were to happen, the bank authentication credentials won't be leaked.
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Yes I get that. The crux of his argument is:

>Unfortunately, using the mean as a test statistic is flawed - it only works when the pre-selection distribution of A and B is identical, at least beyond C

His argument is based the proposition that different sexes/races have different market value profiles. He needs to demonstrate why that is the case before proceeding to heavy math.
To take your example one step further, the redhead performance would be held up under pg's rubric as evidence that non-redheads are biased against and so redheads may fall into a vicious circle of deepening discrimination.
Why cynical? Apple specifically added a carve out for JavaScript. A big update is fine as long as you arent changing the purpose of the app.
PG: I have always found your essays (and books) extremely easy to read and reading them feels like having a conversation with you. (Unfortunately I have never had a conversation with you)

Thanks for your tips and I will use them to better my writing and make it easier for people to read my stuff.
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Maybe it's because I've seen the photo before, but not corrected, but I had the opposite reaction.
You weren't allowed to update over the wire until last year. The JavaScript carve out is particularly important.
How do you learn about their diagnosis? That's confidential medical info you don't get access to.
Not on iOS until can you install from something other than the App Store. You still have to get a cert and you can still lose it.
We changed the title from "TPP makes copy left licences illegal". The HN guidelines ask you to please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait, so making a title more misleading and linkbait is right out.
Visual studio is pretty awesome these days. Try it out
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Explain then why Canada isn't producing more aluminum? They have vast untapped hydro power resources.
True that ;)
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Not snark, not sarcasm, not nitpicking, actual genuine curiosity (because that'd be really encouraging if it were true!).....How do you know how diverse this community is?
I have no personal experience of working in Taiwan, but anecdotally, it has a Japan-esque work culture. Full-time employment at a traditionally managed Japanese company -- i.e. being a salaryman -- is, largely, not an experience I would recommend to someone I loved. There exist some startups or e.g. foreign-owned firms which would be far less odious options.

Living in Japan is wonderful. A++ would totally immigrate again. A substantial portion of my present happiness is having created a job which means that I am 99.8% insulated from Japanese megacorps.
Most fast food places don't accept it

Perhaps adoption varies by region, or perhaps you haven't tried many places. In the Portland Oregon area, McDonalds, Panera, Subway, and Jamba Juice accept Apple Pay.[1]

signatures are still being retained as "authentication"

Yeah, that's way beyond stupid.

[1] Edit: couldn't resist, thought of this too late. Googling seems non-definitive about whether a certain other fast food place accepts Apple Pay. So I'll steal a line from Vincent Vega and say: "I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King."
Yeah, but you may feel that framing because hacker koans are derived from actual buddhist zen koans, which take the format you find so familiar and reference as the hacker koan format.
Oh yeah, supermicro has been selling dual-socket xeon boards with 1.5tb ram capacity for a while.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10...

that thing takes Xeon e5-26xx v3 CPUs which are pretty middle of the road server chips; Nothing fancy. If you want to go quad-socket with E7 xeons or something, you can get even more ram in one box, but the E5 Xeons are dramatically more economical than the E7 xeons.

I mean, the linked motherboard would be money, sure, but it would be the sort of cash that my company would be able to come up with.
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I was bouncing between firefox and chrome, using them both more-or-less equally. The day the "hello" thing appeared, I uninstalled firefox. Too many useless and annoying things being added to firefox as core components where they do not belong. The fact that anybody can pay Mozilla to have their crappy addon forced onto all users is a problem.
I would say I love my job. However, I'm not enthusiastic about it. From what I am able to infer, it seems similar to most long term marriages/relationships and the way spouses/partners feel about each other.

Meanwhile, I am passionate about being my best self. I get great satisfaction when I know I've done my best at something. In that regard work, whatever it is, definitely gives me tasks to accomplish, and be my best at. Outside of video games (and maybe religion?), its the only place in life that gives you both a task to do and motivation(money) to actually complete it.

I also know what I hate, I hate doing the same thing over and over. I definitely avoid that. I am very fortunate though. My job doesn't involve a lot of repetitive tasks. I think that would get on my nerves. I don't think I'm psychologically built for that.
Wow that's a really nicely rendered page.

TIL about https://www.mathjax.org/.
Thanks for indication of interest; many things to get done before I can take on a new project. (Selling AR, getting Starfighter started, and delivering a conversion optimization course first off.)
Agreed. The lack of standards around this makes it very challenging and the implementation will be against a constantly moving target. We all know how this ends. :)

But it can also open the door further(not that it cannot now) to have 1password team become central password store for your production environment. I can envision a 1password agent (with hsm support maybe) running on a machine to provide processes with required passwords/keys as a way to eliminate the need to store passwords on disk. If the box gets compromised, changing the password in one central location so that others pick it up can be convenient.

food for thought. :)
No, he's not asserting any such thing. Again, it's a hypothetical. A counterexample that means, yes, the "mean" test is flawed. Because it doesn't work in all scenarios.
Anxiety and panic disorder can be so crippling. This stuff is so powerful and amazing (Exposure Therapy). Thanks for posting this, I hope it helps someone.
Here's a link to my story: http://discusr.com/post/12/Fear-and-Hope-with-Spacephobia
> JS performs well

As compared to what? Compared to other interpreted languages, sure, but you're looking at least an order of magnitude compared to other VMs.
I'm just one data point, but I'm from South Carolina, and one side of my family had a Cherokee ancestor myth when I was growing up. And, after having my DNA tested by 23andme, I found it was exactly that: A myth. I have no Cherokee (or otherwise Native American) ancestors, despite there being a belief in my family that there was a Cherokee ancestor.

I always suspected it was bogus; I actually kinda figured it was racist white folks' way to explain away dark skin and broad noses in our family tree without acknowledging black relatives. (But, it turns out my theory was also bogus. My family tree is Scottish, Irish, English, and Dutch.)
This is why I love bootstrapping [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)
Dropping outliers is common in statistical analysis.
> Have you never worked in a company that's on those lists?

Yes, twice. And I can clearly see why they stood out. (Never participated myself in such surveys).

True, does not mean your job is awesome, but it means that you are usually not treated like shit as an employee.
I disagree. Even if they are gamed, you never get companies at the top who treat employees like crap.
The prices go down 12km outside of SF too. (Not to that level, but still)
Former Gumroad employee here. Since we didn't write about this, here's a response from the other side-- we weren't blindsided by this. We knew there was a chance we wouldn't get our series B, yet we believed in the product. The numbers looked great (the best they had ever looked). And we wanted to see this work, whether or not it meant being part of it in a few months.

This isn't some photo sharing app; many creators earn their living from Gumroad. When the time came to make a decision whether to be acquired and have the product die, or to downsize and have the product live on, this choice involved a lot more than our 20 person team. It involved the thousands of creators that rely on Gumroad. With or without me, I still believe in Gumroad.
I find this conversation fascinating, even though I know nothing about whiskey.
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Re "hacker-free", Pirate Bay's anakata was jailed for breaking into mainframes. See http://insecurety.net/?p=877 (the doc link there is broken, try https://wikileaks.org/gottfrid-docs/)
and a sleek black outer finish
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That's not a startup playbook. That's an app playbook.
> It's all nonsense. As far as I know, there hasn't been a single, actual scientific study to determine "happiest/best company"

Believe what you want. There's not scientific study for about everything that matters in life, yet there's stuff that is common sense enough it does not need to be demonstrated.

The companies who apply for this kind of surveys are confident in the first place that they are not treating their employees poorly, and that fact alone makes it more relevant than all these other companies that don't even both measuring how they are doing.

Back on the subject, Kyocera is a very traditional company, and if you want scientific demonstration that they are not saying bullshit, when you don't have it either, so what is your point exactly ?