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> according to one CEO, several of his peers are now dabbling in mind-boosting drugs such as Modafinil and Ritalin ... a habit they may continue in their subsequent careers.

Even painkillers are being abused by executives.

Julie Hamp, Toyota's global communications chief, was arrested in Japan and forced to resign after authorities discovered oxycodone pills in a package she shipped to herself.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/07/01/top-toyo...

From this article:

> Oxycodone is a widely prescribed painkiller in the United States. But possession is illegal in Japan without a prescription and special permission is required to bring it into the country.
100dB isn't 10* louder in terms of perception, 10dB will be heard as a doubling in volume to a human listener (despite being 10 the energy as you correctly state)
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There are, in Mexico, 3,277 people employed by the federal government who earn more than 2 million pesos a year. That is well over $100K USD a year. This might not sound like that much in the U.S., but, for comparison, a teacher makes $7,812 USD in average for the whole year in Mexico, and someone making minimum wage would get $1,400 USD or so. We also have the fifth most expensive legislating body in the world.

In the absence of any negative repercussion for being caught, and in a culture that normalizes corruption, higher salaries don't make the majority of these people non-corrupt.

Economic inequality is both a cause and an effect of corruption. But it is not true that high wages for public servants are a vaccine against corruption.
Honestly, how often do you need any deeply nested arithmetic expressions in your code? I very rarely use anything beyond an increment by one. Any time you are invoking nested logic you are already summoning a complexity problem. Luckily, it can be avoided in most of the real world cases.
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We ship voice recording and conferencing appliances based on Supermicro hardware, a RAID controller and 4x disks on RAID 10.

We tried to mitigate the failure interval on the drives by mixing brands. Our Supermicro distributor tried to really dissuade us from using mixed batches and brands of SAS drives in our servers. Really had to dig in our heels to get them to listen.

Even when you buy a NAS fully loaded like a Synology it comes with the same brand, model and batch of drives. In one case we saw 6 drive failures in two months for the same Synology NAS.

Wonder whether NetApp or EMC try mixing brands or at least batches on the appliances they ship?
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If my cat is anything to go by, the options are: a daily pill, radioactive iodine, surgery or a new type of very expensive cat food.
Some Uber/lyft services where shut down too in various countries by courts. Sometimes they are in a gray area, sometimes they are against the local law, sometimes they are fine. The question is, is the current law what the majority of the public wants? (if not, maybe consider to change it) (The definition of law from Merriam-Webster: "Law is a binding custom or practice of a community; ...", see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law#Definition ) At least in the taxi business, Uber/Lyft lowered the price, increased the convience and the available options for the end user.

There is already a gray market of small airplane sightseeing tours. Many are neighbours who want to see their house from above. And some want to fly with exciting loopings in aerobatic monoplane above their home ('Extra' planes are loud). What is more annoying to the public: Low-altitude flights of Cessna's around the block? Or higher-altitude flights from airport A to airport B?
4. The publishing model is optimized for human peer review, not machine peer review. Publishing machine-friendly experimental evidence is intrinsically the same thing as improving reproducibility.
> Actually Matt's stuff DOESN'T use CGI.pm

Yes. That's the point I was making.
ADHD medication used as 'study drug' - San Jose Mercury News (2005)

http://www.kaleo.org/adhd-medication-used-as-study-drug/arti...

http://www.parentingbanter.com/showthread.php?t=49062
I admit my hastily written example is clumsy, but the general idea still holds in your rendering of it.

Nesting with commas is just as confusing as nesting with parenthesis. It forces your reader to operate with more than one contexts at a time, and this is exactly what pushes up the complexity level.

Even in Lisp, I realised that I always tend to build flat DSLs instead of the nested, using the non-parenthesised punctuation wherever possible. And I am not alone, take a look at the LOOP macro for example.
I suppose that would be the "monad" part.
Nice. I've read four of those. I have some book buying to do.
Nesting with commas is still nesting, increasing a number of contexts to deal with simultaneously.
What is happening here is an extension of what social media is doing to us. To compete with each other for attention, executives have to find new ways to do social signaling.
I didn't ever think i'd seen the wind. It's not an idiom I'm familiar with, either.
What if JavaScript had persistent globals?
Everyone has to make noise sometimes, and it's not just distasteful bass. Good luck succeeding in a noise complaint about a crying infant. I'd rather make it illegal to build paper-thin walls.
Going to his employer, instead of talking to him direct was just petty.
Perhaps the New Zealander reviewer wouldn't have invested so much time and preparation into one meal if he didn't have high expectations? Sure it's bad if they didn't respect his reservation, but you don't reserve a seat at McDonalds that far in advance so you don't have the opportunity to suffer that problem.
Much of what I read about Hitler in the mainstream media seems kinda black and white. This paragraph of the Economist article, for example "Woven into the prose are crude Social Darwinism and anti-Semitism that resonated even beyond Germany, as well as hints of the author’s murderous potential. Having been gassed by the British in the first world war, Hitler writes: if some of the “Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain.”"

It is of course not mentioned that initially the Nazis simply wanted the Jews to leave Germany. Hitler himself said that if some other country would accept them, he would send them on luxury cruise ships. But of course, countries like the UK or US did not want lots of Jews to immigrate to them.
The WinAPI's closest analog in Unix-land is POSIX, which is just as horrifying. Gtk+ vs. WinAPI is apples to oranges. IMO, even WinForms and Visual Studio's form designer are infinitely better than the mess that is Gtk+ and Glade. I haven't tried Qt too seriously, but my impression of it is that its object model combines the disadvantages of C# (less than adequate support for generic programming) with those of C++ (manual memory management, not even aided by smart pointers).
Doesn't that already exist, called NetJets?
The goal is to weaken security and open a breach. Even a boolean would have been satisfying as a password.
J1 is a decent Forth CPU and it is below 120loc in Verilog.
Do you mind writing something a bit more substantial? I don't mind criticism, but I'd rather you explain how I did that.

I'm not sure how to measure this, but I feel that I dealt with the substance of a large percentage of the article (as shown in its title), and that I did it very fairly with how the article was written. But if you think otherwise, please - tell me what I've missed!
Parloff spent years publishing pro SCO Group articles and pushing the undisclosed-Microsoft-patents-in-Linux meme. Do we spot a pattern here?
Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier" is his study of working class life. A modern version is "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America", by Barbara Page. That predates the "sharing" economy, on which the definitive book has not yet been written. "What's Yours Is Mine", by Tom Slee, may be helpful.
Fair point - but I'm thinking that a company like Juniper, which has critical branding and revenue on the lines, can afford to hire the 100 top-of-the-line pen testers for 90 days to scrub through their code (with various members have different areas of speciality - which would be important in a situation like ScreenOS which has so much breadth). Figure a top-end pen tester goes for around $300-$400K/year + 50% consulting Markup - $600K/year works out to $150K/90 days * 100 pen testers = $15mm.

The level of performance out of a $400k/year pen tester is pretty good. 100 of them can really scrub a code base pretty well.

$15mm might sounds like a lot of money to you and I - but you would be amazed to see how quickly the money flows when there is a security issue at stake. Also - since the Target CEO (http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tony-fisher-fired-as-target-...) got axed as a result of a security event, budgeting for security responses has strong CxO level support.

In addition to the consulting workforce you can pull in for this type of project, you also presumably have a highly motivated internal workforce that will be pulling long hours, and working hard to support the pen testers as well.
Considering that there's a very large segment of the HN population that lives in a country (the US) that (ostensibly) believes that not to be the case, I would give good odds they were seriously asking that.

The First Amendment is a hill I would personally die on, but I think it's very useful to discuss with people from other countries' their beliefs and laws of freedom of expression, if only for Americans to learn that intelligent people can hold informed opinions on the rights to expression that are in some ways fundamentally incompatible with our own. I personally find it fascinating given how almost axiomatic I think of it...that's ideology for you, I guess :)
Somewhat ironic that a "creative professional" doesn't know how to leave a proper critique given that it's a valuable part of the role.
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It is proprierary, but yet pretty cheap and it comes with a comprehensive datasheet without an NDA: http://pdglive.lbl.gov/Particle.action?node=S003
But we need to be carrefull, the amount of sleep you need is mostly genetic(apparently). Here is a link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3kj669/science_ama...
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And also, why does Theranos need such a sleazy board chock full of senators, military generals and other political players? They're a freaking biotech company without scientists and physicians on the board, wtf. The whole Theranos scam really reminds me of Palantir.

Government contractors masquerading as tech companies. So sketchy.
Yes for travelling with a business jet. They also follow the regulations.
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There are some interesting lessons to be learned on how Apple employees communicate. The use of hyperboles, the emphasis on positive words or how every sentence works as a one liner.

I liked the moment when the interviewer is trying to steer the conversation and Tim Cook firmly responds by mentioning the interviewer's name which promptly gave Tim Cook the upper hand in the rest of the interview.

Anyone reading some good books about this? I could surely use some of these techniques in meeting rooms or at client presentations.
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It's not only a simple 250h flight time requirement - you also need further theoretical tests to pass, another flight check and most importantly, even then you still need to fly for a company which holds an active airworthyness certificate.
doesn't quantum mechanics mean everything has a lowest resolution of discrete steps, ie. Plank-time and Plank-length. In that sense, calculus over finite terms is enough.

The paradox is illogical anyhow, it fails to equate simple v*t=s.
> nortel networks. no bugs in the last few years.

One week ago we could say this of Juniper as well.
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Palantir was a scam ??
All because she put on Steve Jobs drag, affected a surfer dude accent and bleached her hair blonde? Here she is prior to her tech wunderkind makeover:

https://tribwxin.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/elizabeth-holme...
Not sure what the penalties for disclosing an NSL are, but companies sometimes use warrant canaries[1] for this purpose.

Notably the one used by Apple disappeared some time last year.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
A useful macro is a good way to prevent detection of these hacks.
I'd argue that it's purer than most because measurements interfer less with the measurenent space. The equipment and local setup are at odds, though.
Previously on HN, Rob Pike's opinion of this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4784555
Your POV reflects your status as an intelligent, educated person capable of, and presumably accustomed to, doing free and open research. It's wildly inaccurate to assume that even a small fraction of the population is in the same boat. Indeed, if you think I'm being unfair or elitist, I recommend a few semesters teaching at a state university in the US -- your doubts will surely be erased after that.

What most people will infer from such laws is the simplest conclusion: that they reflect reality, and that denying the Holocaust is what stupid people do. Most people absorb the majority of their views from what they commonly hear and see as being acceptable. If they see enough people discussing something, no matter how objectively wrong or stupid, they will put it into the category of "subjective things that might be true," and be done with it.

Ironically, many intelligent people are blind to this, because it is so far from how they operate themselves.
Ptacek claims that "all" messages are stored in the clear. It's a rather big statement. I'm still waiting for moxie and tqbf to backup their claim somehow. That one finds in an API a string object called "message" does not mean that end to end encryption is not in place. pocogtfo
They're incredibly shady.

$750k in lobbying helps

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00005517...

Their VC firm was the CIA:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125200842406984303

Cashing fat the .gov to "fight terrorism" doesn't help make US citizens any safer, but does the founder wealthy enough to buy castles & fly his Stanford undergrad floozy around the world on private jets. Nice work if you can get it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-unde...
> I've never seen anyone actually using HATEOAS yet

Github AFAIK
You aren't paying attention, by "inputs" I meant "inputs from retina to the nervous system", not "inputs to the eye".

Most metamerism can be trivially explained by different combinations of light stimulating cones in the same way. But it looks like red+blue and violet are different and there is just no reason for them to be perceived the same, except that apparently there is also no reason to distinguish between them.
It certainly is off-topic. But I didn't know that off-topic discussion, that goes as off-topic as a polite conversation between real people often can, is discouraged by HN.
this is really the key line

However strenuous the workout, it is often combined with other tasks.

If you can combine it with other tasks, it isn't strenuous at all. I mean really, is the person on the other end of that phone call just listening to someone breathe hard or pant? If not, he or she isn't exercising even moderately hard.

I think many of these stories are akin to Pat Robertson, televangelist, bragging that he could leg press 2000 pounds. http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/pat_robertson_can_leg_pres... For those of you who don't spend much time in a gym, Ronnie Coleman brags about leg pressing 2300 lbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vWgSTdkc2A One of those two men is a noted bodybuilder who got his start powerlifting, weighed probably 350 lbs in that video, and is on a teeny little bit of celltech =P.
One should read "Atlas Shrugged". That way, you can avoid seeing the appallingly bad 3-part low budget movie version. The book is preachy, and the movie is faithful to the book, which means long monologues.

"The Fountainhead" was made into a movie in 1949. It's a decent movie, and Amazon has the DVD. It's amusing today because the protagonist, who is an architect, designs buildings that he insists are insanely great, but are just slab-sided office blocks. (His hatred of decorative spires has something going for it. There used to be a thing for putting useless pointy spires on top of office buildings, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building being the classic examples. That's mostly died out in the US, although it still has a following in Dubai and some Asian cities.)

Taking Ayn Rand seriously is not good for you.
Depends a lot on a person. There are people who are perfectly regenerated after 5-6 hours of sleep. How the heck do they manage to sleep that efficiently?
Yep, i was expecting OP's code to be the PHP implementation of that, but a quick look at index.php shows its not. Streaming gif frames, now thats what i call a live gif.
This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. People can get caught up in the process including all sorts of possible use cases and lose sight of what really matters.

After the dust settles you can see what it's actually used for. And sure, its not like the other use cases were bad or wrong, its just not how it ended up.

It's possible that the other use cases never got traction because of some longest yard effort required on the client's end to implement a workflow. But even that low of a bar ended up being too high.
Interesting perspective! I hadn't made that connection before.

Having followed Farnam Street for quite some time I must say that the quality of content is quite variable. In the beginning I always read the Sunday newsletter and most of the content was really good and thoughtful. As the site/newsletter has gained traction I feel like the quality have declined a bit unfortunately. I do not read all Sunday newsletters anymore and the ones I do only confirm my suspicion. Of course it's free and I can unsubscribe anytime - so no complaint - just a comment.

This post however is really good!
Which is exactly exvivalent as saying "those who believe in creationism are liars on a massive scale". Again, how is that hate speech?
> So when people are heaping hate on one of my projects, I am now starting to think of it as a failure of messaging on my behalf.

I tried that, but I got really burned out.

Someone writes a one-liner "I hate byuu's idea for X", and I write up an article explaining my motivations and rationale, spending three hours on it, listing a dozen cases where I explain why what I am doing is essential, and not just whimsical fancy. They ignore my response. And two weeks later, I see the same person with the same one-liner posting it somewhere else.

I find most people don't want to understand your reasoning. They simply want things exactly as they want it, or they're not happy. I never get anyone willing to have an open dialogue where they're actually open to trying new things, even though I am open to hearing any true criticisms that go beyond appeal to tradition (we'd all be using DOS if that were a valid argument.)

Very thankfully, in my case, I'm not selling a product, and I'm not funded by advertisements. And as such, I can get away with choosing to ignore certain types of criticism. I'm very empathetic to those who can't.
It's possibly a safety concern. With paragliding, which is largely self-regulated by the USHPA (FAA airspace use regulations notwithstanding), I don't believe you can technically take payment for a tandem flight unless the passenger is a student pilot, at least on paper.[1] IIRC, this is to discourage pilots with a tandem rating taking undue flight risks to make money on giving rides.

[1]: https://www.ushpa.aero/4721.asp
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I was in Mendoza, Argentina a while back and met some guys who worked with these high rollers who were climbing the seven summits. They were of course climbing Acongagua in Argentina, one of the easier summits, from a technical perspective. Apparently, they were going to spend $25,000 PER PERSON to fly into a staging area near Vincent Mastiff, the highest mountain in Antarctica. It's so expensive because you've got to find some guy crazy enough to land a big plane on ice in the middle of nowhere Antarctica. There is no town there, nobody, nothing, for 100s of miles, completely desolate and uninhabited, yet these guys want to go there. I still don't get why they do that crap.
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Thanks! Continuum has been on my to-watch list before, I'll push it back up.

I wish I had a relevant series to give you back, but good tech series are few and far between, so I'll just recommend Six Feet Under. ;)
Does it? Is that a hypothesis or a fact? I.e. did it, when it was still legal, lead to "incompatible political discourse"?

Btw, I don't think that any political discourse is necessarily incompatible with democracy, as long as it's just discourse (and not e.g. violence).
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I think new NSLs have been limited to 3 years now, but I doubt Juniper will ever say it was the NSA, or even that the backdoor that others used was because of an NSA algorithm (which would make both them and the NSA look bad). So in the end it will be more about Juniper's reluctance to say than it being gagged.

Companies that sell a lot to the US government have a tendency to make more "compromises" to protect the government, too, or do what the government says. See BlackBerry and its new found (or maybe older than we think) "anti-privacy"/pro-lawful intercept stance.
Aaron Swartz's jottit.com is very similar to this.
… and I always thought it was just the canon marketing department, but thinking about it, that actually makes a lot of sense!
> Holocaust denial has been refuted again and again

So has been the "flat Earth" theory. Yet we don't ban it.

I think the reason it keeps resurfacing is precisely the fact it is banned - unbanning it would make it much less interesting.

Also, although you and other commenters keep repeating how "dangerous" it is, noone has been able to actually articulate as to why it's dangerous.
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Right. Even in normal js world, I have seen people using + for converting their types to Number.