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One of the most important jobs in a hospital, is the cleaner. To help prevent the spread of infections like MRSI, to help keep outbreaks of vomiting virus under control, and help reduce the number of admitted and post procedure patients dying as a direct result of infection acquired in the hospital itself.

And yet, they are treated as the lowest employees there, well, most are not even employees, outsourced three or four levels removed as a cost to be cut to the cheapest provider, damn the consequences.

Society has some warped views sometimes.
Re. your '2', that was my position all along on this scandal.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/volkswagen-and-the-blame-the-engi...

For me the proof was that Winterkorn stepped down long before there was anybody even suggesting that he knew about it, classic distancing behavior.
I was not even aware that safari is a exception here. I just did not use prefixes since about beginning 2015.
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It depends who you are, and what your definition of "a problem" is. If an angry crowd of people protesting against your oppressive government policies is a problem, these robots are a great solution. The robot never questions the order to fire on the crowd no matter how offensive, illegal, or unconstitutional the issue being protested is. How many of these semi-autonomous robots can be controlled by one person or a small group of people? At some point dictators, despots, and other out of control governments won't even need the consent of the military and the police to rule by force.
Your calculation is a bit off, it's around INR500,000(USD $7500)/year.
No doubt it's still a lot of money for a lot of people in India, but after adjusted for prices, it's really very little. Even cheap takeaway food would cost at least ¥300 ish.
This is just so great!! I'm happy to the bones
Translation for those who care:

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This time round I got into carpentry for my project. Something that became both expensive and trickier than I had thought when I started. My carpentry knowledge is limited to (high-)school lessons, so take it easy on the results.

The project became more expensive than expected. Some 6000 SEK [~$740] including a whole bunch of tools (mill, jig saw, circular saw). Made do with 'Biltema' tools [the IKEA of tools] and returned the first mill after 1 hour of use. The other stopped after around 2 hours so then I fixed that one myself (took apart the start-button and modified it a bit).

The project consists of:

- 10/100 Mbps switch

- Nexus 7

- 10A 6 port USB charger

- 4 x Raspberry pi 3

- 4 x 8GB SD card

- TP cables + USB cables

- Oak

- Plexiglass

Anyway, you'd all probably rather see pictures than words.

- Nexus 7 with realtime data for all nodes.

- 'Economically' bought 8GB, not class 10, but thinking of running a 2.5" HDD for the controller node.

- Sleeved all the cables, then realised that they didn't fit with the sleeving. Could only strip them and do again.

- First test with 2 x USB hubs that didn't deliver enough current at start-up.

- Flip-up "chassis"

- My modified netdata page showing real-time data for all nodes, including the temperature.

- Running Docker with Kubernetes on the cluster.

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[Any errors/omissions are my own]
Lovely to see you outside the Google Black Hole, Raph. (And using Rust!)
Being poor relative to your peers sounds benign, but it's not a great feeling when you are much worse off than your parents were at the same age, and you realize that your kids will likely be worse off still.

There's a reason this study focused on households with kids. As a single person without kids asking what's the minimal liveable income is, is not the heartbreaking question it is when you have kids.

Moving is also a different beast if you have kids. (If you're divorced and have kids, God help you.)
Hm, seems my solution ticks all checkboxes except multi-platform availability (python in e.g. Windows is… not fun). I'll keep that in mind for the inevitable rewrite, thanks for the feedback.
Yes, because all those tens of thousands of employees that work at VW were complicit.

/s

Dissolution is definitely not the way to handle this.

What should be done in my opinion is criminal proceedings against the management at the time of VW up to and including Winterkorn.

That would clear the air. Destroying VW for this makes no sense, it would leave 100's of millions of vehicles out there without support and it would cause job losses and economic damages to Germany that are dis-proportional.
Even in Tokyo you see a lot of humans doing that, not only robots.

These jobs are everywhere.

* vertical parking where a guy is there just to wave a flag and press a button

* private parking where another guy just tells cars exiting when to stop

* people handing out fliers and shouting advertisements

It's very clear for an outside observer that these are just filler jobs...
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Geez, that's a weak excuse not to build them. The government did a deal with VW, I think their deal should've been to produce and sell electric cars with a certain price, as well as (or...) to provide the charging infrastructure for them. Obviously not throughout the whole country, maybe e.g. in big cities. There were talks of 18 billion dollar fines, how many charging ports would that build.
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IE9 is the highest available on Vista, and Vista is still in extended support until April 11, 2017.

I'm planning a party for that date.
If they ever start losing money couldn't they just move the same amount in from overseas? It wouldn't be profit so it wouldn't be taxed, no?
Yeah. If they stuck to old-fashioned 3.5mm jack, they couldn't charge a licensing fee on every headphone manufactured.
I'd love to get included in the beta. We're in the process of splitting up a monolith into separate applications. Docker for Mac/Windows would ease this transition immensely!

Docker ID: joelcox
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This is shocking. Let's all donate to the above addresses to try and get this fella back on track
Any experience with distros on usual Acer Laptops (sample space size - 5 different Acers)?

I always run into tedious issues with Ubuntu and Mint regarding to Atheros Wifi and NVIDIA cards.

Is there a distro with good chances of running out of the box?
Hey, from what I can tell, Auckland is still not a great place to work as a software developer. I would probably recommend looking at some companies in Wellington or Christchurch, or becoming a freelancer for clients in the US.
It's one thing to trick the tests by 2x, maybe even 3x, if the tests are too strict for the real world. But not by 40x like VW did...And I believe they said only to gain a 10% performance boost. That's just stupid on VW's part.

Anyway, the emissions scandal + the rise of EVs, will finally make all manufacturers try and push as many EVs on the market by 2022, when the new Euro 7 standard is official. They will need to lower their "fleet's" emissions, and the only effective way to do that is to push as many EVS into the market as possible.

So in the end these regulations served their purpose. I'm happy for it.
In line with your JSON bullet point, I think this project should adopt a smaller/binary data transfer format. Having something that's human readable isn't of that much value in this case, where maximising speed seems to be the goal.
btw, Raph: Have you seen Neil Brown's edlib? Might be an interesting datapoint if nothing else. (It's written in C, Neil being a kernel hacker and all.)

http://blog.neil.brown.name/category/edlib/
https://github.com/neilbrown/edlib
Amusingly Cadence Design Systems also uses Lisp from what I heard from people who worked there on a Lisp meetup.
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If you removed "The author is stupid." from your post, I (and other "adults", assumedly) would be much more receptive to the rest of your post.

(If you remove that line, I'll delete this post.)
Isn't it that `>=6` would gladly accept `7.0`, but `>=6.0.0` wouldn't?
I think free trade has benefited mankind hugely and is largely responsible for lifting China out of poverty. However, I don't find the standard model of comparative advantage to be a convincing argument in favour of free trade.

The problem is that the basic model is heavily oversimplified, and more complex models get very complex very quickly. With a model, it's hard to be sure you've captured all the effects and calibrated it correctly (especially in a world with changing demographics and changing technology).

I think most intelligent people hear the basic idea, and then come up with criticisms like the following:

1/ It appears to assume that comparative advantage is fixed. But couldn't a country deliberately specialise in something it's not innately good at, thus retraining its workers and eventually shifting its comparative advantage over time?

2/ All the textbook examples concentrate on manufacturing. It's not a giant leap to see the same effect in services, but I don't think it's completely clear-cut either.

3/ It assumes labour is immobile. Otherwise why wouldn't the specialist weavers from England move to France and the specialist masons from France move to England?

4/ How can a country know what its comparative advantages are? Comparative advantage is not observable in the real world, so producers have to resort to guesswork. How can we know they guess correctly?

Now if you ditch some of the basic assumptions it's not at all clear how the conclusions change. So I think it's perfectly reasonable for laymen not to be convinced by the basic model.
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Since it was written in 1971, well before the Chernobyl disaster, it's not surprising that the Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic doesn't appear in the article. The book's theme and narrative are so redolent of Chernobyl, however - telling about perilous journeys into the Zone, an area infested with inexplicable, often invisible, and frequently deadly remnants of some alien Visitation - that the comparison is almost irresistible. Some of the caretakers of Chernobyl call themselves "Stalkers"[1] after the book's name for those venturing into the Zone (and also the name of Tarkovsky's film adapting the novel) for example.

With this in mind, if you've read Roadside Picnic it's hard not to see a reference to it in the article's closing words:

For 30 years, authors have heaved their imaginations into the Zone, trying to crack the riddle of the sarcophagus—how to make sense of Chernobyl? Their imperfect answers keep the question alive.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_%281979_film%29
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There's also a meta-summary of this and related articles by others, here: http://bruegel.org/2014/02/blogs-review-profits-without-inve...
1a) Fragility - yep that's a fair point, however, you'd have to weigh the opportunity cost of not produce your most efficient good with the size of the predicted crash. I guess this is the notion of the Banana Republic.

1b) Crowding out - On conventional wisdom (if such a thing exists) this is not valid, the economy should automatically target production to whatever is most effective through the profit motive. However, some think that doesn't always work: this is the idea of 'lock-in' or 'path dependency'. As you say, maybe it's hard for a developing country to switch from the garment industry to more sophisticated manufacturing, and they get stuck on a particular course. You'd have to explain why that didn't happen in the West.

2) Comparative advantage says nothing about how many people will be employed. All it's saying is that the sum total of the value of goods will be greater. However, in theory, even if the US had very low employment rates, the few remaining high earners could redistribute that wealth and make everyone richer. Politics may come into play here!
Besides being unsafe, C is one of the few mainstream languages that doesn't have any form of overloading or non-alphanumeric identifiers.

I never understood why it is so had to look at a + b and see it as a.+(b).

I also need to look at the documentation or source code to see if sum(a,b) does what I think it does.

Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, Ada, Lisp, Scheme, C#, C++, Swift, Rust, D, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, JavaScript(ES7), ML .... developers seem to be able to cope with it, just C, Go and Java devs not.
Totally agreed. In my experience, engineering improvements are always a bottom-up thing.
It's a joke indeed!
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Even though there are several open issues in github, how can someone with little development experience or newbie can start contributing.

On asking this question, many may suggest that first we should use the particular piece of code in own project and contribute on that project by raising issues or fixing them. As a beginner, people may start using very popular frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Node.js. Considering it's complexity or maturity, it's extremely difficult if not impossible to start contributing.

I am thinking, somewhere down the line, there is some form of hand holding or mentor ship needed. Where mentor give small task, help in giving some tips or advice, review the first pull request etc. This will definitely boost contribution to opensource projects.

There may be several people providing mentor ship. But I feel it's not structured, how a newbie knows there exist someone who is willing to help. Only way I can think of now is to spam lot of people randomly by looking at their github profiles.

Please suggest how to encouraging new developer to contribute more to opensource and help closing the open issues.
Like one other responder said: Please don't take it personally. I don't know anybody who says they hate JavaScript means that they hate JavaScript programmers or think less of them in any way.

> and I've learned that no languages are better or worse than others

This is decidedly untrue. Even if languages which are Turing Complete are strictly speaking equivalent, you should be easily disabused of this notion by simply trying to implement any algorithm of your choice in JavaScript and then trying the same in Brainfuck.

(Yes, Brainfuck is obfuscated on purpose, but I'm just trying to make the point crystal clear. The same thing applies to other comparisons, just to a lesser degree.)

Think of "Language X is better than Language Y" as a comparison operator for a partially ordered set.
"Closed, works for me"
¥900,000 is almost exactly what I spent on average over a 5 year period from 2007-2012 living in rural Japan (Shizuoka prefecture). A couple of caveats: I was single at the time. I had subsidized housing (worth about ¥250,000 yen a year). I didn't have a car. That was the money I spent, and I made considerably more than that so was able to save quite a lot. However, I was very comfortable with that level of expenditure and I can't think of anything basic that I lacked.

I think you would have to budget fairly tightly and it would be pretty easy to get into trouble. Especially in the north where you have to pay for heating it might be dicey. But it's not impossible to live relatively comfortably. I ate out a lot and drank expensive beer a lot. If I cooked more at home, ate more fish and drank shochu I could have saved more money. Getting rid of the TV (and thus the monthly NHK bill) would be fairly substantial.

I have a lot of single friends in the area who make ~¥2,000,000 a year and they are absolutely fine on that salary. It's a different lifestyle from what people in the west are used to, but I wouldn't say they are less happy.
"For an in-person data extraction process, Apple requires that the law enforcement agent bring a FireWire hard drive with a storage capacity of at least two times the memory capacity for the iOS device."

FireWire hard drive? In 2016?
'“the cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death.” Of these defendants, 14 have already been executed or died in prison.'
But is it? How's the shareholder value now? Was the risk really worth the gain? Did they expect that nobody would ever independently test the cars?

To me, it sounds like reckless behaviour even from that POV.
nice woodworking project/nightstand clock.

If you double the rpi number you will get close to used $300 laptop level of performance.
Trying to change job here to avoid taking part in this buffoonery.

I can't. Nowadays so much jobs are regulated per diploma/certifications that it is hard beginning again and regain while "older" the momentum for credibility.

The funny part I see breadmakers, cooks, construction is also suffering the same problem. I am currently in France, restaurants for average people are so bad, they do stuff that intoxicate people. I can do bread, cooking, fixing bikes and I do better than "pro" nowadays" without a diploma in their field.

Something systemic seems to be going on. Like people are just taught to execute and required to obey, and bosses don't know the craft of the people they should lead.

Basically being a boss boils down to the capital you can have, and competition seems rigged in favour of people being born wealthy.

I don't think that birth merit outweight a sane competition.

I find the Figaro monolog that inspired French and US revolution about the old monarchic regimes to be very actual.

Weirdly enough author's right says it should be in public domain, but it is impossible to find a link to this essay that is very actual.
Hi, thanks for offering to fast-track! My Docker ID is rowanmanning
The software claims to be usable without private repositories¹. If it can't do that, it is a serious bug.

¹ From the readme: "it assumes your remote git repository may be malicious"
Thanks, but the comment you linked to is just a list of disagreements without explanations (whose author even admits it later by stating that "simple ridicule is both easier to write and more entertaining to read" (!)).

I was hoping for something more tangible. Searching wikipedia doesn't support the author's claims about FP ( things like "FP is about higher-order abstraction facilities, not immutability").
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Not very interesting, unless one thinks that the only goal in life is to make money.
I've been using Dropbox with Linux for a long time. It's THE reason for why I'm paying for Dropbox, because none of the other mainstream alternatives are supporting Linux. Which is preposterous given that Linux is the most popular choice for servers, including home servers. But then companies like Google or Microsoft don't give a shit, since for them cloud storage is just a complementary to lure you in to their other stuff and Linux users are not really their target.

So if Dropbox doesn't keep supporting Linux, I'll drop them like they are a hot potato. I do hope they won't make that mistake, because their continued Linux support has been the main sign that they care about me, their customer. And I don't want half-baked support either. I want it to be a first class citizen. Because I'm paying 14 EUR per month for my Dropbox account, amounting to 168 EURs per year, which isn't cheap at all. Yeah, yeah, it's the price of 5 coffees, but if I'd pay that price for everything I use, I'd be broke.

> Electron and nw.js

These would take care just for the UI, which for the purpose of doing file synchronization amounts next to nothing.
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A simple left pad function is a module. One is simply a container for the other. It honestly sounds like you haven't used npm.
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I mainly use press down on the screen's left side to invoke the app switcher, so that I can switch apps without using the home button. It's nicer for one-handed use. Apart from that I haven't seen a compelling reason to use it -- even within first-party apps for example.

EDIT -- I also use the keyboard trackpad thing. Not often though.
Where there's muck there's brass
Dropbox has some pretty creative marketing people making some interesting claims about their service, for sure.
> Just like C had to add things like arrays to the Turing machine?

Care to elaborate on that?
A strike of HFT traders would actually make some news. HFT is in a fragile balance. Markets disturbance would be enormous.
> Still wish more people knew about this dashboard view into Issues

I only discovered the dashboard recently after using github for years!

Having the overview was actually the missing piece in getting control of my workload & priorities. -- So Thank you!
I think you're right about these points, except they miss the surprising aspect of the theory.

Imagine there were two countries in the world, say France and England, and France was better at making every kind of product. Most people would conclude that England would need to protect itself from France by limiting trade. Comparative advantage tells this is not true - England will always be richer if it trades, no mater how good France is at manufacturing. That is the key insight.

Yes - England could train its weavers, or entice weavers from France, or develop wine growing regions, or focus on services. But no matter what it does, it will always benefit from trade. Comparative advantage isn't telling you about training, labour mobility, or the difference between goods and services. It's telling you about trade in general.

Of course it's a model, but many economists find it compelling.
Doctors are also important. And nurses. And the admin team. And the cleaners....
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When I was in 9th grade, I frequented an IRC channel full of misfits and rejects from all over the world. One of them was a notorious drunkard whose inebriated jokes were all over the top of the quote tracker.

He was studying computer science at the University of Illinois, and at one point he asked me in private message if I was interested in OCaml. I said sure, I've been playing around with it. Then he said he was on a bender and asked if I wanted to do his homework for him... due in a few days...

The assignment was to implement the Hindley-Milner type inference algorithm in OCaml. And that's how I got started with learning about type theory and language implementation. Thanks, guy, whereever you are. Last I heard you were in the military.
I'm Australian too, you know. But my politics often lead to me being mistaken for an American Libertarian. Flattering, I guess :)

You're conflating several issues here though. Kleck was simply looking at one scenario: attempted rape by a stranger, when the victim had a firearm and used it. The stats on that are very, very firmly supportive of the idea that handguns are a good defence.

I'm actually agreeing with you on the other social costs of an armed society, mind you. I don't think you read my post very clearly, and attributed to me a bunch of common positions (for Americans) that I don't actually hold.
That looks more like an IP (range?) blacklist than a bug, doesn't it?
As a Go developer, I'm curious. Why is it that whenever a project built in Go is submitted to HN, the title mentions that it's built in Go? What makes the language special that it's worth mentioning?
Seafile supports Linux and works phenomenally well. I've been using it for a couple years now. Don't trust its encryption (just like you should not trust Dropbox's encryption claims), but from a utilitarian point of view, Seafile is great!
Thanks! The link is missing a trailing `y`.
i thought nature shifted to open access a while back??
From the context, malicious means either "tampers with your data" or "will attempt to decrypt your data", not "may find your outdated MySpace profile"

In that sense it certainly is usable without private repositories.
You plug it into the USB port.
What job did you have during that time? Living in rural Japan sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me.