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Hi, as Per that wrote this is a developer while I do the sales that come out of this, I'll answer this:

Mis-identifying a lead as a non-lead is potentially loosing out on a big deal that can make or break your company. You never know what email will lead to a quickly closed $30k ARR sale, which are golden for any SaaS startup.

The reverse has almost no consequences unless you're really going to town with the emailing and end up being flagged for spam. Usually people just ignore you (not so smart) or write back that it's not relevant.
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Uhh, how about some forms ask for too much information, or are too long!
If you want to increase your output as a developer, you can start by learning the Dvorak layout.
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JPEG doesn't ruin art any more than MP3 ruins music. I'd never send a compressed JPEG to a printer, just like I wouldn't send an MP3 to be mastered. But most users won't be able to tell the image quality difference if you fine tune the compression level, but they will notice a slow loading page.
Oh! I did something a little like this with a leapmotion for a hackathon once.

https://github.com/AlexChesser/SpacePiano

There was also some on page visualization (basically copy and pasted from mr-doob)

We managed to make the hand tracking work in 2 dimensions, left and right would travel along the scale (like a piano) while up and down would modulate your volume.

Not sure the code would work if you checked it out and tried to run it today, but it definitely ran on the day.
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The title sounds like an ad for local news. Please change the title to what it is.
Actually it wouldn't be. You are buying an asset for 50% off which will continue to go up in price. And you get to pay a rentor a cheap rent to take care of your asset their entire lives.

It's a great deal if you can get it. The only time this will get problematic is if housing prices drop and continue to drop.
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A. I am fairly certain you are being downvoted not for your overall comment but for the last sentence, which is irrelevant and needlessly judgmental.

B. "iPhone 6" says nothing about what browser or iOS version you are using.
It sounds pretty great to have thermostats, light bulbs, ovens, and security systems that anticipate our every move.

Not to anyone using modern phones and computers. What do all these devices have in common? Bugs, glitches, hangs. Those aren't features I'm looking for in my home.

We've been talking about the software crises since at least the 80's. Even if we've been able to reduce the number of defects by over an order of magnitude that progress is overshadowed by the fact software deployments have increased by several orders of magnitude and now software defects can touch every aspect of our lives. We still have a lot of work to do.
So I agree with you in general and also wish to un-pack a little of what you mention based on my personal growing up alongside internet access. As in, I can do the 2400 baud modem handshake from memory, ran a server on a cable modem, and now consider myself more a user/consumer of technology than a creator/in the field.

Traditionally access to the WWW had a pretty high threshold of combined factors: Cost for hardware and communications, time and effort to understand how things worked, and a still pretty basic group of sites and such. Lee is wrong in that the Web used to be 'more open' from a general social sense - it was AOL chat rooms before Snapchat, it was GeoCities before Facebook, and on and on and on. Large organizations like Dropbox have made it competitive and a more intelligent decision than trying to set up a personal server and jump through all sorts of intellectual and digital hoops to make it work.

Or, in other words, the easier something is to use, the more idiots are going to get their hands on it and use it. The Web is simply a reflection of the human species. Both stunningly beautiful and tragically ugly, it's certainly evidence to me that Utopia is, fundamentally, irrational and likely impossible without exlcusion and selection bias.
The United States taxes its citizens' income worldwide, at least above a certain income threshold, and from my understanding requires yearly filing regardless. IMO it's unlikely that simply moving to a different country would allow you to dodge a federal mandatory pension (provided it happened in the US).
Not an expert, but from reading what an LVAD is and reading the article, these are two very different things. He had a full heart replacement device strapped to his back. As in, the blood ran out one tube, into the pack, then back into his body. An LVAD is an internal pump for the left side of the heart and you just provide it power externally. Not to discount your girlfriends experience at all, but that seem quite different.

EDIT:
Actually, watching a video, it looks like the tubes are for air maybe? Weird device in any case.
Not really, I think I agree with the GP. This is a pretty easy project, and even though the author spun it well, it's still nowhere near PhD level for even unrelated fields.
Explain to me how punching me in the face while standing in a public space to make me shut up is a legal right on private property? With police standing nearby to witness the whole thing and yet do nothing. You keep going back to private property to deflect from what I'm saying.

I've already agreed to your premise around private property, why don't you consider my premise which is different?

I shall read up again on the UN's declarations. I admit it's been quite a few years for me.

Since the local police are an arm of local government, police corruption is the same as government support. When the next level of police hierarchy at the state government level also decides not to respond, then that's government support at the state level. As I said elsewhere, look into the complaints of the civil right's era and how state government's ignored crimes on the black communities.
> Medicare is somehow socialism

Medicare is literally a tool for redistribution of wealth from wealthy to the less-wealthy. Some of that is in association with risk smoothing (typical insurance), but a huge chunk of that redistribution happens without any smoothing of risk.

You can argue that "wealth redistribution from wealthy to poor" is not technically the definition of socialism, but colloquially, that's certainly how the word is used, so it's not wrong in that sense to say that Medicare is a socialist program.
Yes, reference counting is one of those things that keeps coming up everywhere.
No offense, but this is very very basic stuff (PhD in Statistics)...
Most languages are more similar than they are different. If you can't do this yet, don't sweat it.

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

Is a great little resource for how to do things in different languages.
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Which requires a camera being pointed at you, whereas bluetooth isn't based on line-of-sight.
> It seems like ammonium nitrate is more unstable

Bloomberg, I think, used the word 'stable' incorrectly in the excerpt. It's not unstable — i.e., it doesn't just go off without being ignited — it's unpredictable. I.e., what should be a relatively slow explosion instead is a very fast one, increasing pressure & thus brisance, leading to shrapnel.
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STNS allows you to easily manage Linux users with TOML-based configuration
Where do you come from?
Couldn't this whole scheme be developed in totally decentralized fashion using bitcoin, ethereum or similar? Would be quite a good idea.
I looked at the thread to see what you were talking about, and the feedback you got there is correct. You're trying to define socialism extremely narrowly; far more narrowly than most people would. Most people, in the US at least, who identify as socialist are not in favor of communism and consider social programs such as medicare and social security to be examples of socialism.
So employees should really care about their employer and the companys wellbeing and be loyal because the company is this irreplaceable asset, right? I feel sorry for you.

You should know that your employer has no emotional attachment to you, and you will be immediately replaced by equally skilled labor in a matter of weeks. If you go around caring about your employer, you will be hugely disappointed when you find out how little they actually care about you. You are just a cog in the machine. If you give up a significant portion of your life and more importantly of your work years you might become one of the cogs thats deeply buried in the guts of the machine. Just remember that at the end of the day everyone is replaceable even the CEO. You are not special. You are not unique. Someone else can learn your position and do your job.
> Prove you can prioritise

Of all the PMs I've worked with personally, this has been the single largest problem. A PM that has patience and knows how to pick and stick to the most important thing until it's done is worth their weight in gold. It takes balls, because priorities always seem to change from day to day, management applies pressure to the PMs to get more done than is realistic, and engineers are fickle and perfectionist and usually slower than they predict. I've seen a good PM walk this line, but people who can do it are rare. I'll take someone who really can do the job of prioritizing well over someone who knows a lot any day.
Leave for a two weeks vacation and come back to the ruins of the project. Then, apply for senior position. If rejected, quit and find a better gig. You will not get a senior position nor raise/praise for what you are doing right now.

But generally, your company sounds like a pretty standard fortune500 crap tier outfit (IBM, Citi, Ericsson, Tata, etc). I suggest you find a better company or position within the company. Move teams if possible. If not, just leave. Don't stick to places like these. I did. I wasted my time.
And ubiquitous public surveillance is just as troublesome. Even more so with face/movement pattern recognition or paired with other information such as MAC broadcasting.
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Also, the hundred years of overt discrimination and decades of covert discrimination that followed that.
Tangentially, this reminded me of an official way to do this in ancient Rome: damnatio memoriae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
Please explain in another way how it lacks entirely of meaning, because your current explanation is essentially lacking entirely of meaning.

How does my right to free expression require a state entity? That implies that right is provided for by the state entity. That's not how it works.

Here's an example of how a non-state entity can violate your right to free expression with the state's approval; you start to say something I don't like, I punch you in the face to shut you up. You try again and I punch you again. Now imagine a police officer standing right next to me watching me do it.
I wonder if you read the linked post?
I don't see either of those as being against self-interest. It's just a broader outlook on things.

If you think paying taxes is anti-self, you haven't thought much about what would happen if nobody paid taxes.

If you think equality is anti-self, you haven't thought much about the future when you might very well become a minority.

And that's ignoring the piece of mind you get from knowing you're doing the right and just thing, instead of being selfish.
This is not about demographics or whether there is a factual basis for the stereotype...

If I contrasted super-wealthy-nations with African nations, would this be hurtful towards Africans or is it just a reflection of economic statistics?

In fact, it is both. Even if we can agree that African countries are on the whole poorer than those on other continents, it is not typically such facts that cause offence, no matter how ugly or inconvenient they are.

What is hurtful is the gratuitous use of a racial/national stereotype to enforce a negative association.

African nations did not have to be singled out to make the point. There are many other countries struggling with poverty. And it was more accurate for me to say something like "low-income-nations". Yet I chose to single out Africans for the association with poverty rather than use a more general term.

This is what many people find insulting about such use of stereotypes.
Thanks for Russinovich link. I hadn't read it and it was extremely interesting.
A lot of people also don't understand annuities. They don't understand how their bank (or whoever) can guarantee them a paycheck every year at a certain amount. It seems it's often not explained as a form of insurance.
Software is the result of business models. Business models are the result of risk management around desired outcomes. Making more money, for example. Making more money is the reason we've had bubbles and new business layers appear. MSPs were the precursor to SaaS, for example.

Software sucks because business models must frequently be addressed before customer's needs are addressed. Of course this is a simplification of the process, but no company continues writing software if their business models for that software fail and they run out of money or is threatened with shutdown if they don't comply with the government.

To "reinvent" the "web" (or what I call the Intercloud), business models must be removed from the equation. New models of work storage and exchange must be created to allow developers to write code for the people who need it. When a user relies on a feature, there should always be a clear path for them to a) continue using that feature for as long as they see fit and b) enter into a contractual agreements with a developers to develop new features they need. This should be able to be done without a corporation or business model getting in the way.

It also implies all the software down the stack is reinvented in the same way to support this new methodology. Deployments/installs, for example, will need to be done differently moving forward.

This is obviously bad news for the "startup" scene, but good news for humanity. Things are getting complicated and clearly don't scale well doing it the old way. It's time for a change.
> aggressive twitter accounts,

There appears to be some false flags in those accounts, as the main site with the rape allegations has claimed that they do not endorse the threats uttered in those accounts.
If you end up blocked by a popup blocker, or just don't feel like reading fluff, or like me you've got the browser locked down too tightly for their integrated video player to work, the paper is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.01868v1.pdf and the video mentioned is (probably, since I didn't see the original) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yI2wJ6F8r0 .
This was a huge thing for me to get used to when moving to the US from Europe. "Socialism" in the US has a much less specific meaning than in Europe. It just means that there are done welfare programs in place and as Bernie Sanders keeps saying by that definition we already have socialism in the US. What I used to understand as socialism when living in Germany would probably best expressed as "lower stage communism". At least that's what I get from having had many arguments about this and Wikipedia.
+1 to author and to top comment on the, uh, article.
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Beautiful README.
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Don't just think about it, but act on it! :)
> let's be frank, the site that went up on May 27th is slander in its purest form

I don't see why this is so immediately obviously slander. Why is it obvious to you?
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Well nuda proprietà is actually a bit more general a concept: it just means that one person has ownership and the other has all the other benefits. Remember when Berlusconi touted that as the solution to his conflict of interest?
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first of all, oh come off it, when I said everybody else, I meant "everybody else here on HN who is downvoting me and not balanced by upvoters in my corner, and since anybody can upvote and only a small faction can downvote, we are talking a serious tilt". (In a microcosm of the larger gerrymander debate, your studied obtuseness on this issue is forcing me to spill a lot of words to explain a notion that should be obvious to you, but I apparently am the only one amongst you and me who is thinking about that.)

But to your point(less), considering the world population, I've looked, I've googled the gerrymander topic hard; and I've tried to engage the wikipedia "talk" community in hopes of finding birds of a feather, people actively interested in the issue. (You give it a try, I am the only one saying it... Oh wait, it's much easier for you to avoid learning anything and just to drop a tart comment.)

I am certain that many others (still a tiny minority of the planet) have noticed that when you draw district boundaries that you must inherently advantage some and disadvantage others; a subset of those notice more sophisticated political things about it, and a tiny subset probably notice that it is a deeper d(N-color geographic map projection onto a hyperdimensional Venn diagram problem)/dt.

But that notion does not filter out. The concept of a "gerrymander" is very dear to the hearts of relatively sophisticated people (unsophisticated people don't know the word). I imagine it's not taught properly in political science curricula.

My claim is, there is no way to draw legislative districts that is not a gerrymander (unless you adopt the non-standard definition that a gerrymander is any drawing that is not geometrically compact/convex)

The original Gerrymander political cartoon: it was a clever rhetorical point, I'm in favor of cleverness and rhetorical flourish.

Further noticing that all districting is political, ideological, or doomed to be rejected by an outraged populatce, I don't know how clever that is, but I can't find anybody other than me who has noticed it and stands up and says it.
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You could also open up a lot of new farm land in rocky and mountainous areas.
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Pandora signs up with rights admin company as it plots on-demand service
Social security has an awful lot in common with a federal mandatory pension. If anything, it would probably be easier to opt out of a pension system (where pension implies that the individual benefit is more fully funded by the individual payments).

People that can show they are making payments into a similar program elsewhere often don't have to make social security payments.

https://www.ssa.gov/international/agreements_overview.html
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This definition so broad that it is effectively meaningless.

Every government action that is funded by taxes, from Medicare to road building to national defense, can be considered wealth distribution, and thus socialism.
There's something deeply alarming here, whatever the nature of the claims against Appelbaum.

There's pretty extensive evidence of an attempt to impersonate him here. There's also a lot of stuff that's alarming from a philosophical standpoint for anyone involved with privacy/anonymity - a link to an "ioerrror" (instead of "ioerror") github is a clear attempt to deceive, and it's deeply questionable to do to visitors to the site, independent of any effects on Appelbaum.

It's pretty obvious that there's serious character assassination happening here, and it's only going to tar the reputation of everyone involved - alleged victims, Appelbaum, and Tor alike. No matter who you're siding with, this is still an ugly and counterproductive episode.
>by a clearly orchestrated character assassination

What about Nick Farr's story? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11842301
The founding fathers also "understood" that negroes were subhuman and women existed solely to bear children. There is no reason to base modern decisions on 250-year-old morals.
By the way, hashing IDs would be a perfect example of security by obscurity if the hash was not salted. You just have to notice that you were given sha256("1234") instead of "1234".
Good luck keeping up with the adblock-blocker blockers.
You might find this chart interesting for thinking about the uses of discussion outside of courts: https://twitter.com/scriptjunkie1/status/739545814150746113
> No the difference is one has to be written in a shitty language (SQL), whereas the other can be written in an actual programming language.

You must really not understand SQL. SQL is one of the easiest languages to work with sets of data.

Are you one of those people who pull back 100k records from the db in order to get a random 25 using a 'real' programming language?
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I've hired 'random-$whatever-human' many times. Sometimes Indian (1/7) sometimes not even guys! WUT!

Your hiring problem is caused by your lack of time commitment to finding the talent. Your impatience comes through loudly in the post.

That said, Upwork could use some improvements (which I'm working on).

You'll have to get over the idea that you can higher someone perfect , instantly and that some magic group (that you dont actively manage) will ensure that people meet your quality standards
Just to expand:

With a blood pressure cuff, what you are doing is collapsing the arterial wall with outside pressure. You increase the pressure above systolic blood pressure and then gradually reduce it until you hear a sound. This sound isn't the heartbeat, but is instead the result of turbulent flow in the blood vessel. While you are between systolic and diastolic pressure, only spurts of blood can flow through the vessel creating noise. Eventually, you reduce the pressure enough and blood even during diastole (which is lower pressure) can expand the walls of the artery against the blood pressure cuff.

So, in both cases what you are hearing is due to blood pushing open the vascular walls.
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To be fair - the $1 billion bond that was up for a vote the other year was filled with pork. Only about 2/3 of it was transportation-related, and a fair amount of that was for studies, not actual construction (if they don't know where the congestion is, they should monitor Waze to find out)
> Why on earth does the military-industrial complex need to spend money on a duplicate, irrelevant technology?

Why on earth do data centres need to spend money on duplicative, irrelevant RAID-1 disks?
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It's not even a chinese invention. It's a human invention.

We do it in the US. And so do the brits, europeans, etc.

After "historians" were paid to write histories extolling someone and denigrate someone else.

From columbus to everything before and after, "history" depended on who was in charge and who paid to do the writing. History is propaganda.

> In some sense it is just what we choose to remember

No. It's like the thousand swords of aegon. It's a lie we agree to tell each other over and over again until we forget it is a lie.

History is propaganda. It is interpretration. There is no truth to it. Just perspective.
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