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Despite the length of the article, the author has missed an important point - the Golden Gate Bridge had the same problem. After the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge had the greatest length to width ratio of any suspension bridge.

This was a major concern at the time, but wasn't publicized. It was dealt with in 1951, by attaching huge stiffening trusses under the deck.[1][2] If you've seen the underside of the Golden Gate Bridge, you've seen the trusses, which are not original. Prior to that stiffening, the bridge would twist in high winds, on one occasion enough that light poles hit the suspension cables.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=ug9YEcgBYs8C&pg=PA31&lpg=P...
[2] http://goldengatebridge.org/research/majggbimprove.php
Bluntly, it doesn't matter what the investors or managers do. They can piss off their employees, fire them, or do neither; they can cut products and staff or grow or both or neither; they can become two companies or three or 400; they can spend their $5 billion of cash on marketing or salaries or lawyers. Nothing is going to bring back "Yahoo's core business". Ever. It's dead. Dead dead dead. We're not even beating its bloody corpse because its corpse rotted into dust years ago.

Yahoo's investors should be focused on how they get as much as possible of the current market value of Yahoo's:

- Yahoo Japan shares
- Alibabi shares
- cash

Period. That's how they maximize total return. Not fretting over whether they pay for employees' phones and coffee. You're right that it isn't the problem. But neither is any of that other stuff you talked about.

It's dead, Jim. Move on.
I've never really had a need for them in ~10 years. Mostly dealing with in-house clients though. That's why I was wondering.
> Woz: Don had come to the garage and I ran the Apple II through its paces and he said, “What is the market?” I said, “A million units.” He asked me why that was and I sad, “There’s a million ham radio operators and computers are bigger than ham radio.”

http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2011/10/11/a-conversation-w...
http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Windows_Compatibility might be your best bet. I don't really run windows boxes, so I don't know unfortunately.
> I look at it the other way: companies "pushing"[1] antidepressants not just on pregnant women, but on all of us, for years on end, should be putting out a very clear message that you should not take these medicines unless absolutely recommended by your doctor, and other, generally more efficacious methods -- such as talk therapy and lifestyle changes -- have been at least explored, and found to be ineffective (or depending on the severity of your case, not immediately effective).

I'm in complete agreement with you here - the majority of people prescribed SSRIs probably should not have been. I don't even recommend them to other people, despite the fact that they worked incredibly well for me.

> With all due respect to your situation -- and not intended in the least to belittle either your suffering, or the thought you put into the decisions you made -- perhaps the bigger mistake was not going off SSRIs (at which point the die may have been more or less cast for you, in the short- to medium-term) -- but agreeing to go on them in the first place.

It wasn't a mistake. The mental illnesses I suffered started early in childhood, and nearly all my relatives on one side of my family experience some form of it. I resisted medication for a while because I was brought up by parents who considered psych meds to be against the natural order of things, and prohibited me from so much as asking my doctor about them.

In college, the panic attacks had become so severe I was beginning to lose touch with reality. My psychiatrist convinced me to give SSRIs a shot, so I reluctantly agreed, and they turned my life around. Within 6 months, friends and family (both those who knew I was taking a med and those who didn't) remarked that I seemed to be a completely different (and better) person.

Obviously, they don't work this well for most people. But likely the psychiatrist, in the absence of a mature scientific understanding of these disorders, had learned to recognize patterns that predicted a successful response to SSRIs.

My only point was that the discontinuation of an antidepressant should not be taken lightly when you have already had a successful response to it.
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Oh, gotcha. Yeah. My favorite part is being able to customize/script those commands in the config.
I observed similar experience making similar move for my blog (idreamcatcher.com -> presentlove.com)

The reason I think is there is some sort of "grandfathered" organic ranking component that belongs to old domain but is not being transferred to new domain, no matter what recommended practices are followed and no matter what Google says.
520,000 lines of code per year! :)
It is time to reclaim agility
Very weird! I've always heard it used to refer to English soccer club coaches
> The justification they told me was that they weren't going to give me a 20K raise if I wasn't making that much right now

Even after 20+ years in the labor force, I've never understood that justification. "I'm a nosy bastard" at least has a ring of truth to it.
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I think the standard of care should be that, if you make an agreement to remove the decal before reselling, you have to remove the decal before reselling.

That seems like fairly basic contract law to me?
Yes, but right-to-work is generally a reaction to involuntary unionization, as in it came after the involuntary unionization phase.
It's easy to interpret the "after" in your headline as "because". But the real "because" is because the dealer didn't remove the decal, not because it ended up in Syria.
> And if the union has enough power and its members care enough, they can say "stop doing that or we'll all quit, good luck replacing us"

How would the union know what the boss tells his new hires? Unions don't get to monitor the hiring process of every communication between a worker and his employee.
Here's a different idea:

Don't judge people's reasons for donating money. I'm happy to accept people's donations, regardless of their reason for giving it, because who am I to judge what they do with their money?

Telling people who are trying to donate money that their money is no good because their intentions are wrong seems like the most effective way to stop everyone donating money in their tracks immediately.

>at the expense of others.

Maybe we're talking about different things here, but how is it that a net $70MM donation is coming at the expense of taxpayers?
WebSockets are for fast, low-overhead connections. If you end up making a new HTTP connection for every update, and there are a lot of updates happening, you should be using WebSockets instead.

Otherwise, HTTP works best. It has better tooling and will soon be even faster due to HTTP/2.
Did your kids use it? what was your experience? I took a look and it looks damn complicated - so many parts, how do kids manage to assemble this; Me as a kid would have lost interest fast ...
Couple that with pay and just tell them to pay you $1 per line of code written.
To paraphrase from "Jurassic Park": this is Heidegger. I know this.

Although it doesn't ruin his short essay, "instinct" is unfortunate. Executive knowledge about the kind of nascent industry the article (and HN typically) discusses isn't "natural", or a mere knack like playing music by ear. It's tacit knowledge: it can't be codified.

In Heidegger-speak: market potential can't be reduced to a stockpile of "presence", of something that's stared at and analyzed like a tool on a shelf. Rather, it's always already operational, "ready-at-hand": what's needed is neither in the tool nor in my theory of the tool, but in the operational-skill-in-action.

Moreover: the skill to size a market doesn't live in any particular brain. "Sizing a market" can't be disentangled from the general problem of capitalism -- capital allocation in order to yield more capital. It's not like hammering a nail, it's like building a house. No single person can build a house: house-building, as nascent industry-building, lives in a community of practices. This is the crux of processes like YC "schools" and focal points like the Silicon Valley.
It makes me a bit sad reading comments like this. I don't doubt that this is what you experienced, but it's pretty much basic science 101 that personal anecdotes aren't evidence.
You experienced that you got worse when you stopped taking SSRIs and you got better when you took them again. There are many explanations for this. That SSRIs were the reason is only one of them. Maybe it was a placebo effect, maybe there were other circumstances that made you feel better, maybe it was pure chance.

The only way to find out whether a drug works are properly designed trials. Unfortunately the situation with trials regarding antidepressants is rather murky, with trials results being hidden in the past etc., and from the best I can tell there is no consensus on how well SSRIs work among experts. But the solution to that is not to refer to anecdotes, it is better science.
Providing a paid service to help people retain a high search position is basically selling ads, which Google definitely does.
According to Wikipedia, Yahoo!'s 2014 net income was $7.52 billion. Do they get income from their stake in Alibaba?
The iRobot Create is a cheap, robust knock-about platform that has ROS drivers available. It's based on the Roomba, so it's unusually well made for a hobby robot.

http://store.irobot.com/education-research-robots/irobot-cre...
"The Philips Hue system can be easily integrated with other ZigBee-based systems for additional home automation."

http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/about-hue/what-hue-is/

Edit: Found a post about this block from Philips:
http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/friends-hue-...
Investors are the millions of individual share holders, not just the bunch of wall street hedge funds and holding companies.
My own experience in Thailand is similar to the author's in India: see a doctor on short notice, prices quoted in advance, short wait time for surgery, prices low enough to pay out-of-pocket. The icing on the cake is how friendly and warm the medical care is. My biggest fear when I visit the US is that I will get sick or injured and be subject to that awful system. I lived in the US most of my life, had excellent insurance, and had routinely poor experiences with healthcare.
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Why not just keep both domains?
Why would I purchase a device specifically designed to rate limit my chocolate consumption? Advent calendars are the Internet data caps of dessert.
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The new site would be marked as duplicate content and the original would rank higher.
The latter.

Suppose that someone wants to donate their money to their friend, or to Walmart then. Why should they be penalized while somebody person who donates their salary to the Ku Klux Klan (a 501c3 organization) pays no taxes?
Companies (or similar things) are probably doing this since they exist. But people used to expect them to behave and even reasonably recently (like the end of the XX century) people (normal people, even on government) used to display outrage when companies made defective products to push their bottom-line.

Nowadays that seems to be the expected behavior. But in a second thought, that looks like one of those cyclic features in society, that get worse only until people react, then get better until people get complacent.
Because Google does not like duplicate content.
Ha, I guess the developers they are hiring used to be sci-fi writers! But don't most writers say the hardest part is cutting words out of their book and cleaning up language?

P.S. I don't remember exactly what she put down as my "line-count" I was pretty annoyed at that point, it might have been a much more reasonable 5000. :-)
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I am a lawyer -- or used to be one -- and your understanding is consistent with mine. I think some people are confused and think there's something shady going on, because they think Zuckerberg is getting some tax benefit from gifting to a non-charitable organization. But what you say is actually what's happening: no tax benefit to Zuckerberg on the gift to the LLC, although the LLC itself will be able to claim tax benefits by making subsequent gifts to non-profits.
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Ack. If you need bindings in iOS, just use libsodium?

As far as I am concerned, everything about this is a little scary. Some guy like tptacek will come in here and school me (please do, senpai), but even a crypto novice* like me can see there are a thousand ways an API this low-level can go wrong. Some off the top of my head:

1. ECB mode might as well not be implemented. It sucks in a thousand ways, only one of which is the one displayed in the talk. ECB is half of the time the first crypto mode a novice implements (IV? What's an IV?) and using it over the wire is an instant replay attack vulnerability.

2. There is no sane default to AEAD of any sort, and modes like GCM do not even appear to be supported, per this talk. CBC is malleable [1]. Both BEAST and POODLE attacks were on TLS CBC.

3. DES? Seriously? Can we not deprecate this in new libraries, or at least make it a forced add-on to the library vs. an easy to choose built in?

Way too much is left to the developer, all of which are easy ways to shoot one's own foot. I hope you get your KDF right. I hope you get your cipher mode right. I hope you generate IVs from a proper, cryptographically secure random source and don't reuse them.

Low level crypto libraries like this are danger and death, and what someone with half the ability to implement a Swift-only library like libsodium should roll in here real fast, and save the Swift community from this mess before people start mucking around with all of these primitives in their production code. It's only a matter of time if this gets a lot of airtime without an easier solution. Instead, we'll probably end up with a few "secret messengers" that use "industry-standard Apple CommonCrypto library" and a string of primitive names.

These things are effectively an insecure default to publish these as the standard library. Wrappers on this stuff should probably be the default and the best practice from those writing language standard libraries should probably develop those the moment they have primitives available. To use a non-crypto analogy, think of using SimpleHTTPServer instead of socket in Python. We should have SimpleCrypto, with sane, secure defaults and standard primitives. It's a damn shame only a few people are pretty much qualified to audit and write this type of thing these days.

[1] http://cryptopals.com/sets/2/challenges/16/

* The entirety of my cryptographic knowledge comes from Katz, Schneier, reading a bunch of IACR papers, watching the Crypto conferences, and doing all the crypto challenges I can find online to solve. I believe that I know enough to be dangerous, and that is enough to know I wouldn't fucking touch this in a production app.
We saw a similar traffic dip moving openlistings.co -> openlistings.com. Really thought that the domain mover tool in google webmaster tools would have taken care of it but we were unpleasantly surprised that it didn't. Luckily for us, we pulled the band-aid off pretty early and only saw like a 2 week dip before we were beating the previous numbers.

Slightly unrelated but on the topic of SEO in JS SPAs, Google did a really good job with it's latest iteration of the JS crawler [0]. When we made the switch from sending pre-rendered HTML to treating the crawler like a regular user, our rankings actually improved because initial pageload time went from a few seconds to sub 300ms.

[0]: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/10/deprecati...
I made absolutely no claim that my experience provided any sort of scientific evidence for the efficacy of antidepressants. I merely stated that if you're on antidepressants, and are in remission, you probably shouldn't quit because of some FUD you read on the internet as I, quite stupidly, did.
> I think this needs to be changed. I can't think of any good reason why in a case like this, where it has both patent and copyright claims, that the appeals need to go to the same court.

Economy of justice concerns are the biggest reason, though there are other reasons to keep the case together (e.g., because it is one case between the same parties and different issues will rely on intersecting sets of determinations, so splitting it by the domain of the ultimate issues will open up the possibility of conflicting rulings on the same intermediate issues, which is not only ugly in and of itself, but especially ugly if the various parts of the split case are both appealed from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court.)

> Why not have the copyright issues appealed to the Ninth Circuit and the patent issues appealed to the CAFC?

I know the theory but has practice actually born out the supposed benefits of the CAFC as the single Court of Appeals for patent cases? Why not just send the whole thing to the Circuit Courts whether or not there are patent issues?

> At trial court it makes sense to join issues that would normally be heard in separate courts together when they involve the same underlying facts, because there will be a lot of overlap in witnesses and evidence, and a trial court is both a trier of fact and a trier of law. Holding separate trials in different courts would be wasteful, annoying, and could get complicated and troubling if different courts found different facts.

You really get all the same issues with splitting questions of law, since the ultimate legal decision on a patent question may depend on legal decisions on evidentiary and other questions also raised on appeal, on which ultimate non-patent counts in the same case may also rely. A clean separation is not realistic.

> The appeals court does not determine facts.

Yes, it does, though the standard of review for fact questions is usually one of "clear error".
I was a little ticked off when the media was talking about the Paris attacks recently as the highest casualty event in Paris since WWII. I wondered if all those Algerians in 1961 didn't count as people....
It's simple, they are evil, so what they do has to be evil. They are evil because ... we are good ... and they obviously separate themselves by observing others, while hiding in secrecy. It's more complex than that, but here we go.
It's this same grandfathered organic ranking that motivates domain squatters to jump on expired domains.
Did anyone else click on this thinking it was at paulgraham.com?
What's not captured in this writeup is SERP rank (if for equivalent terms the new site is ranking better or worse than previously), it's only showing the resulting traffic.

I wonder what affect people seeing the domain "PainScience" instead of "SaveYourself" in the results caused.

However, it's a near certainty that you're going to lose rank and traffic with a domain name move. Estimates vary but 10-20% isn't an unreasonable guesstimate even if everything goes right.

I can also confirm the deep weirdness of GWT and how it treats sites (seriously, it considered http://domain.com and https://domain.com as two entirely separate sites).
TLDR: Never change a url, ever
And by the way, did the Serbs just sprout from the ground there in Kosovo? Surely they displaced the Illyrians around the time of Christianization?
Just do it like Uber, it's illegal in most places but hey if you "disrupt" the market it's alright.
When you get paid by the word....
If the FAA could write a FAR that kept birds out of the airspace, it would happen.
Man, I feel really bad for the truck. Probably was looking forward to a new life being driven by some 19-year-old kid who scrounged up to save it and treat it with love....nope, got turned into the terrorist rapemobile instead.
Hi, I am the author of Rapidoid, thanks!

The performance optimization is based on:
- using off-heap input and output buffers,
- minimizing the number of objects that are created when parsing the input and generating the output,
- using object pools to reuse the objects that must be created,
- using thread-local helper data structures on the I/O threads to avoid synchronization and object instantiation.
So what?

This sounds like a twisted, reversed version of Widow's Mite[0], in which the rich guy is being hated for giving a lot of money for good purposes. Yes, the average person (or the poor person) is giving up much more personally. But even the Bible story doesn't deny that the rich guy giving lots of money is doing much more for the cause. If you care about actual effect, as opposed to judging someone's moral state (to which Jesus is entitled, you're not), you should be happy that a rich person can single-handedly give more good than most other donors taken together, and you should encourage more rich people to drop their money, instead of scaring them off.

It's results that matters.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite
Related or not, this is certainly against the "rules": https://www.painscience.com/donate-by-linking.php
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

edit: why the downvote?
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Surowiecki did a horrible job of making a case for his conclusion. After reading that, I'm left wondering why his critics are wrong. Perhaps he should have avoided the click-bait title and tried to actually explain something reasonably rather than arguing from the position of "Zuckerberg and I are right, and you're wrong. Now I'm going to write some paragraphs".
Philips statement about the block:

http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/friends-hue-...
Have u had success coding for this? I bought one and it is on my shelf .. Didn't find any high level language bindings. The docs didn't seem friendly. Would love it to hear cases of success.