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>You've asked this question at least seven times in this thread

w/o a proper answer, all I get is "Is not a case" and if I ask wht if there is case? I get people like you, so, do you have answer to the next question?:

What if there is case? why is it bad to use decryption there?
Incorrectly identifies that I have SMTP open...
What company do you hire for? I never want to work there.
Unless you can store, transmit and use it in a way that doesn't radiate energy omnidirectionally. My guess: universe's biggest indoor pot grow.
Specifically, regarding the PM role, I took a TPM role. I like it much more than devops/sre(no pages) or test engineering(not as tedious). To be sure, there is also a non-technical PM on my team, as well as devs who do the product coding. While the role could be abused in the way you are talking about, I suspect that's company dependant, in much the same way the devops role can be abused.

The coding work I'd put in the "internal tools/analysis" category, such as writing some scripts which makes sense of the non-technical PMs' spreadsheets, browser plugins which deal with a favorite but slightly broken tool, log analysis, writing dashboards, or lightweight ETL.

The "knowing how to code" comes in use since a fair amount of the work depends on being able to understand what the devs have actually submitted and if they are flat out BSing or not on status, if a particular pattern/integration/library/tool would be a good fit, or having meaningful conversations about testing, scope, and technical roadblocks. The CS degree is useful for having credibility with the devs(shared culture goes a long way in getting work out of people who don't report to you) and not just being another PM having sprints and scrums and pigs and chickens and swimlanes (oh my!)
The inability to directly compare signals a deliberate attempt to make the offer opaque for consumers and thus bias the market towards inefficiency.
"Bro, point it away from that planet. That place is crawling with cops!"
Perhaps they are bouncing all that energy off-axis. That we cannot see the light doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Perhaps they are reflecting it back on the star for some reason. Or maybe we are seeing a mirror that is pushing some interstellar ship away from the host star. Luckily for us it would be traveling perpendicular to our vantage point, ie not coming here. Perhaps we should be looking for a mobile IR emitter somewhere nearby but accelerating away from this star. (I call dibs on the naming rights!)
You commit several crimes a day, just like the rest of us. Do you want them to use this law to fight those crimes?
Azure/Google is definitely more expensive but that is probably because they don't treat their employees like crap.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065243
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Because its aimed at enterprises that have Microsoft OS's and applications. Those buyers are used to paying a premium and know they don't have to retrain staff.

You need to consider that the bulk of developers are actually using the Microsoft platform. For the most part they aren't interested in the free software community. Linux VMs are not an option for a lot of corporate tasks.

That is of course changing and probably the main driver for Microsoft being more open.
Matthieu Ricard on Buddhism and Happiness
Then better Hetzner vServers, comparable to Linode and DO i guess? The setup is also done in a few minutes and they perform quite nicely.
This is an amazing article, and now my interest is piqued in the author's work :). Kudos to him for undertaking the task of figuring out more details about that period of Indian history.
It says you're also using the MaxMind DB? I assume this is the free, public set? (I still the value of the API.)
What to expect from virtual reality in 2016
O.o this $5 puppy could essentially replace the 1.5K National Instruments DAQ I'm using right now. Even better, I won't have to deal with their horrendous API documentation anymore.

Of course that would require a Linux kernel, so not bare metal anymore, but there might be a way to make this work!

Now I just need to get my hands on one, it's out of stock everywhere within a radius of 300km...
Please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10915862 and marked it off-topic.
The problem is that it takes effort to support both with and without JS, and effort costs money. Just like many developers I like to do things properly and support both, however in a business context it doesn't always make sense to do so. 80/20 rule.
>unless you want to cook yourself inside a gigantic space thermos

Or cook someone else.
No, there are more dimensions than just data efficiency; what I would say is that humans are just about as data efficient as you could possibly hope for _at that wattage_. It's easy to do better than evolution at something it wasn't trying to do, I agree - and this is the point where, as I thought about it, I realized I do actually think there's some concern. But I don't think we'll be able to do it on one gpu, because:

- human evolution has spent quite a while in an adverserial environment - the smarter you are, the more you win
- a recent finding of the neural network research is that local minima are kind of not a problem in very highly dimensional spaces, as long as you have a problem that is smooth and has optima. If it has any optima, then in very high dimensions, there's probably always something you can change that will keep you moving towards the optimum. while evolution may have gotten stuck in a general class of architectures - neural ones - it seems very much like there are many dimensions along which it can change the brain, and that changing the genes for it slightly will change its performance slightly (fsvo slight).
- evolution, in species that have learning systems in the first place, optimizes for intelligence per watt. energy is very costly in the wild, and so finding algorithms that work well with low power is very important. It so happens that algorithms that minimize power usage are theoretically tied to algorithms that compress well, but the key thing is that evolution has had a crapload of optimization time for tuning the brains of mammals in general, and then humans got in this runaway optimization process - which seems to have made us smarter primarily by making our brains use more power for the relevant parts.

I definitely think you could do better, I just don't think you're going to do it with a paradigm that looks vaguely like the brain, because if it looks vaguely like the brain, evolution probably passed it up on the way to the general architecture that mammals use, and the specific one humans use. Possible exception for gradient descent and weight sharing, because those would be difficult to implement in the brain, but that doesn't give you results hundreds of times better, and it's not even clear the brain doesn't do that - hinton has made the argument that it could.

the key thing here: if we make an agi with neural networks (which at this point is almost a for-sure thing), then going beyond human level on one gpu will be a very difficult research task, and take it a lot of learning to figure out how to do. Which means we'll get a chance to control it using less formal mechanisms than miri demands out of their work.

(I don't think miri's stuff will be done in time to be useful to anyone.)
And the certificate is now fixed. Try it, https://congruence.io is working again!
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if you need windows VMs it's alright
Could there be something weird going on with the star itself? For example, could it be producing super large sunspots or something like that?
I believe the term you're looking for is 'product differentiation'.
> I wonder how much [some person] got paid to make his statements

This kind of insinuation isn't allowed on HN without evidence. Someone having an opposing view or taking an opposing approach does not count as evidence. Doing this as a rhetorical device in an argument is a form of personal attack and a breach of the civility that this site depends on.

If you want to read more about our thinking on this, I've posted frequently about it (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20shill&sort=byDat...).
Interesting. Forced-choice is ok if the question is completely clear. In many cases you have to assume information that makes the difference in which choice you pick, I find. Unless that in itself is what is being tested (do you implicitly supply optimistic or pessimistic information? for example). The problem with these questionnaires is that they get a lot of information from people who don't take it seriously so they don't learn anything either. In other words, it's my preference for clarity that is making my responses uninformative for the survey-giver.
I always wondered if perhaps a rocky planet broke apart. Could still be aliens or some kind of massive collision.
When you are hired by a company for your technical expertise, it isn't your technical expertise alone that makes you valuable to the company. It is also your commitment to leveraging your expertise and problem-solving acumen to helping the company/organization accomplish its mission.

Being a contractor is even worse, because it is understood that you don't really care about the organization's mission so you're work is evaluated at a higher bar than everyone else's.

All-in-all technical expertise alone doesn't actually count for much in this world, unless you use it to make other peoples' lives easier in some way.
Guys these are just solar panels. Their race is better at alternative forms of energy than us.
They had a playbook for crushing both small local retailers and regional chains.

A big part of it was selling stuff at a loss and getting around zoning rules by dropping stores in outlying areas outside of towns, extracting tax concessions in the process. As the GP mentioned, they were selective in stocking of books, CDs and other media. Lots of Jesus stuff and "family friendly" fare, which kept the local ministers and conservatives happy.

They also used their distribution as a weapon -- their market power let them cut national deals with big vendors like P&G and actually make them rent space on WalMart trucks.

Walmart would expand by building multiple stores in a region, surrounding denser communities. Doing that and exploiting those national accounts let them flood the region with goods, and kill the regional distributors that traditional discount stores and local stores depended on.

Once the competition is dead, prices float back up. We're all stuck with a shitty shopping experience and high prices. Now they use their dominant position to extract direct and indirect government subsidy on top of everything else. The company may be a triumph of some version of capitalism, but they are a cancer on society.
Because the bailouts were not offered to everyone? Banks should not get special treatment because they are "too big to fail".

Additionally, banks do not actually generate anything tangible of value. They literally use money from others to enrich themselves.

The banking industry is also what was pushed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act into play which is what makes it almost impossible to discharge your student loans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_an...

So yeah, between what I mentioned above and LIBOR manipulation, there's plenty to hate upon banks.
"Please think carefully about what you're saying and try to avoid making unfounded generalizations about large groups of people ("C developers are picky" etc.) "

I did. Over a decade of research, empirical comparisons, non-C-like alternatives to C, C-like alternatives to C, safer subsets of C... literally everything attempted failed to get a huge chunk of C people off C's problems. Even stuff that had most of C's advantages with less of its disadvantages. Tiniest tweaks didn't work. Whereas people on other languages and niches were more likely to experiment and try all kinds of languages for projects. So, I think it's clear the C crowd has some strong, emotional attachment to their language and way of thinking.

So, to get adoption, C++ had to build on that nonsense we were trying to replace. It had to merge very contradictory philosophies. Without the C part, the job would've been easier. We know that's true because it was in a number of safe, system and application languages. Anything with C or C-style at foundation has problems.
http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/ArmA%20III

Usually the top streams in the Arma 3 directory are RP streams.
> If only they didn't have to worry where their next rent check is coming from

Is that really what basic income is all about?

I'm sure there are more ways to look at this but broadly speaking I see two types of arguments for basic income being made:

1) Unconditional provision for basic necessities (food, shelter, clothing, health care, education) in the absence of all other income.

2) Administrative simplification of core assistance programs such that a beneficiary could combine their basic income with the income derived from a basic job (for example, entry level full time position) and be able to provide for their own basic necessities.

In scenario 1) there is assumption that individuals have no responsibility to provide for themselves.

In scenario 2) there is an assumption that individuals do have a responsibility to provide for themselves but that basic assistance will provide a basic level of security and assistance to make things easier.

I find the idea of basic income very interesting from an efficiency point of view (best way to deliver assistance) but I'm wary about the disencentives towards personal responsibility that might arise.
Thanks - I was able to find this. I think it's relevant because someone else in the thread mentioned a CDO:
https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-59.htm

Is that press release representative of the crimes and their magnitude that people would attribute to Goldman Sachs? It says investors lost $1 billion, and GS later settled for $550 million(presumably GS didn't profit the entire $1 billion).
> The first rule of getting hired is never to show any sign of humility or weakness.

I don't think this is true at all. I'm very comfortable saying "I have no idea" in an interview setting (though I think it's generally understood that I'll go find out), I'm generally up-front with weaknesses in that, hey, there are things that I just don't work well with. There are a bajillion jobs out there, and it doesn't make any sense to push a bad fit.
Puzzling to me that CVS, Walgreens and RiteAid can pull off this kind of business, yet WalMart can't.
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>Fourth, this kind of voluntary search by the likes of Google is not unprecedented. Google scans outgoing Gmail messages to see if there are attachments whose hashes — that is, digital fingerprints — match those of known images of child pornography. When this first became widely known to the public, the company explained: “Sadly all Internet companies have to deal with child sexual abuse … It’s why Google actively removes illegal imagery from our services—including search and Gmail—and immediately reports abuse … This evidence is regularly used to convict criminals.”

>To be sure, child pornography filtering — and reporting — may be a place to draw a clear line. Not only is child pornography near-universally reviled and banned, but the matching algorithm for previously-identified images boasts no false positives, and, perhaps most important, possession of the file is not only clear evidence of the crime, but quite typically the crime itself.

I had no idea Gmail did this.
Update: "cryptsy.com" is down. Not even responding to pings. Their blog ("blog.cryptsy.com") is still up, but that's hosted by Tumblr. Other reports indicate that the company's offices are vacant.

It's time to get an arrest warrant out for the CEO, Paul Vernon.
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Two things to note. std::string is pretty much barred from being CoW as of C++11. QString is CoW, but as of Qt4, cross-thread copies are safe to modify just like normal objects.
JS framework to generate a responsive portfolio site from a JSON resume
Google hangout and raspberry pi = automation at your finger tips
A ready to use raspberry pi bootable-image(open source project), lets you keep your raspi connected to the internet. Using google-hangout, issue chat-commands to your raspi to do stuff for you. I kept my GSM-sim card connected to raspi using Huawei-E173, now i can access sms send/receive from anywhere in the world - no need to pay expensive roaming charges.
RBox is a lightweight linux distribution built with buildroot to turn your raspi into xmpp-chat-bot. No matter where you are on the planet, you can control your raspi and its peripherals just by sending chat messages.
Here are the details:
http://albert-david.blogspot.de/2016/01/rbox-remotely-deployed-gsm-sim.html
Many of the seminal writers of what the author calls The American cult of political correctness in universities, like Derrida, Foucault, de Bevoir, Butler, Adorno have all been influenced by Nietzsche.

I haven't read any of those authors nor Nietzsche, and I have no idea whatsoever about the political correctness that goes on in the USA so I'm not trying to make any kind of point.

I just find it funny that conservatives have a certain pop idea of Nietzsche as some kind of more serious Ayn Rand, while actual Nietzsche scholars have actualized his ideas in all kinds of directions.
If you look on glassdoor, that's around the jr/entry level base salary for both positions, mid/senior level PM and test engineers both are more. Since the article's claim you that could get this work for 30k from someone on their way to learning how to code is extremely off for the entry level, I didn't bother with how wrong it is for the mid or senior levels.
jsnell is right—that's excessive. HN threads are supposed to be conversations, not commercials. There's nothing wrong with telling a story or mentioning one's own work in context, but please don't do repetitive promotion.
There's a list of stores closing on their press release. None of them are in Arizona so I think you're fine.

Press release - https://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2016/01/15/walmart-con...

Closure map - https://i.imgur.com/jTgNt21.jpg
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Thanks for your feedback. We're homeschooling, so we are the curriculum :). It seems like our child's hands are just getting big enough to fit on a keyboard, and some of the schooling curriculum we are doing will be much easier if they learn to type, hence the question.
Thank you. I'm looking at docker swarm and fleet. Got a bit of a 'burn' adopting/using IBM Bluemix, so I'll investigate with caution :)
Also, robosigning...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_foreclosure...

The banks literally f*cked you both ways, first, issuing bad subprime loans, then robosigning and foreclosing on your home.
During war they don't hand out sweets.

Love that saying.
Just for curiosity's sake, what specifically would make you not use Rust in production yet?
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Bjarne has been very open over the years about mistakes he thinks affected parts of c++'s development. There is no perfect language but c++ does keep trying to improve.
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The trouble with the old architectures like the 6502 and the Z80 is that they were designed before stack-frame languages like C became popular --- which means they don't have any stack-relative addressing modes, which means that accessing stack frames is horribly expensive.

e.g. on the Z80 most compilers have to keep a copy of the stack pointer in an index register, so that they can address the stack; and even then the absence of 16-bit accesses means that you need eight bytes of code and like a billion cycles to read or write a single 16-bit value. (I do know that the Z80 variant in the Game Boy added a ld hl, (sp+offset) instruction, which helps; shame they didn't add a ld (sp+offset), hl instruction...)

The 6502 is even worse; the stack's limited to 256 bytes and isn't relocatable, let alone addressable. The C compilers I've seen maintain their own stack pointer in zero page. They also generate code which at best is terrible and at worst makes you want to claw your own eyes out to make the pain stop.

So:

(a) I'm curious to know what they wrote the Tamagotchi firmware in --- raw machine code? Forth? C? Fortran? (Fortran's actually a good match for these architectures because all variables, including function parameters, are global --- no stack frames required.)

(b) why was it cheaper to use a 6502 core rather than a more modern architecture --- PIC, AVR, MSP430? Licensing? An in-house team of 6502 experts?
If there's no plausible model that involves aliens and explains the observations, it's not science. "Advanced aliens did it in a way we don't understand" is basically a "Goddidit" argument.
This is of the devil. It needs to be burned with fire and the ashes should be sunk in the Mariana trench and the trench should be filled with dirt that has been cursed by a witch that was formerly dead but was reanimated by Cthulhu and then rekilled, burned with fire, and buried on the opposite side of the earth.

Everything here is usual phishing stuff, but that Chrome-Extension.pw url is disturbing combined with the lastpass API stuff.
Move fast and break things is broken
> For example, Objective C is a better language than C++, also built on top of C.

Somehow I cannot agree that a language that has [] and @ everywhere, relies on the programmer to manually write retain/release, uses dynamic typing and keeps all C defects, has a better design.

Remember Objective-C didn't had ARC in 1983.

> But I guess the evil C designers somehow forced them to do that? At what point do you start taking responsibility for your own mistakes? It's sounding a lot like "never".

Yes, when 100% compatibility with existing code is a design goal.

> Objective-C does, and people are talking about adding one to C++.

Objective-C modules is a work from Apple, relies on clang linker and wasn't part of the original language design.

Likewise, the upcoming C++ modules require the implementation of new linkers.

Both don't work with the UNIX linker model that Bjarne had to use.

Just the C++ compiler was new. The linker had to be the system linker already in place. This is how name mangling came to exist.

Languages that use modules and have their own linkers don't rely on name mangling.
Yea, exactly. Company I'm working with now made the mistake of following the hip. Basically management were crazy about node and microservices.

Went from PHP "monolith" with couple of services to Node.js using microservices. Jesus what a mess, our previous stack was 10x cleaner. Not to mention company now spends thousands of dollars every month for all the new/cool AWS stuff.

But hey, they pay me so I'm not complaining. :)