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> The cell reacts to a chemical reaction/ absorbtion in the photopigment, thus dependent of the energy of the photon, which is directly related to the frequency of the wave duality of that photon.

This is what we call "seeing" :)

This is like saying the atoms in your fingertip never "touch" the elevator button's atoms. Instead, a strong oppositional force develops when the atoms in your skin get close to the atoms in the button. While true, that's exactly what we call "touching"
Is this doing the same thing as www.wakatime.com?
thats one of the best apps I have on my phone. use it all the time.

we recently had an election here and the amount of spam calls from candidate campaigners and election polls was crazy. truecaller saved me! (I also go to report the ones that fell through)
They have the legal right, but it would be politically awkward, and I'm not sure Trudeau is looking to annoy his base in Quebec to serve the interests of British Columbians, who have never been a part of the LPC's base and only recently elected more than a couple Liberal MPs.

Similarly, it's well within the Federal Govt's rights to mandate free trade within Canada, but they only had the political willpower to suggest provinces work together to reduce barriers.
> Java is faster than (or certainly as fast as) C already for a similar development effort

Last I heard, this only applies if you write C in Java (i.e., no object composition through references, basic arrays instead of ArrayList, avoid GC wherever possible). I remember a project some years back where a git client (?) was to be written in Java, and even with these techniques they only got to within 2x C performance.

> for a similar development effort

Well, then that defeats the main reason for using Java, doesn't it? The gist of that claim was that you could write idiomatic Java (with GC, small objects, etc.) and the JIT would use the information gathered during runtime to optimize the program on-the-fly to be faster than C.

> Today, projects like Truffle/Graal can run pretty much any dynamic language within 3-5x slower than C.

Do you have a source for that? Not doubting you, geniunely curious.
This seems to be a spammy re-post of what a different user said many hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12161852
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You can also see it this way:

There exist (∃) some detectors which are also human males. These three males have been statistically proven to detect single hit photons at a rate greater than chance. Yes, you are right, this doesn't suggest all humans or even most humans (discounting the blind and individuals with poor sight) can detect single photons, but they certainly have characterized these three individuals.
What about the Japanese invasion of Alaska? Nearly 1500 Allied soldiers lost their lives.
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I am Dutch and tall too. Way taller than my parents. However, I always suspected it has to do with things like growth hormone in meat instead of fresh food.
More than programming, often a lot of time goes in discussions and meetings. I feel the best thing that can happen is, if you hire a programmer who does end-to-end and releases a product all by himself/herself. This whole job of parallelizing, scheduling and managing looks so artificial and thrust upon unnecessarily just because we were not able to slice and dice the problems in a way they can be addressed completely individually.
You don't need a phone at all with TOTP. Just a TOTP client, which could even run on the same machine.

Fun story about this: When Blizzard introduced TOTP, I wrote a Blizzard Auth library and client so that I could use their 2fa on my desktop (https://github.com/jleclanche/python-bna). Why? Because I was sharing my Blizzard account with someone else, but still wanted to use 2fa. And people kept telling me "2fa must be on a different machine otherwise it's not secure", so I was using 2fa wrong and shouldn't use it at all.

Well that's bollocks. Same-machine 2fa is more secure than no 2fa at all. There's another comment below that talks about "perfect being the enemy of good" and that's exactly it.

So we absolutely should start promoting the fact that you can use TOTP on desktop, even if it's less secure. A lot of users don't use 2fa because they either don't have a phone, or don't have their phone constantly with them.
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I switched to xmonad (http://xmonad.org/), since you can change the layout per workspace and it doesn't include a bar. (Sure, you can turn it off in dwm, but where's the minimalism in that?)
In fact, Lucene (the library behind Solr and Elasticsearch) is basically a special-purpose inverted-index-as-LSM-tree database engine.
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short-term crunch can sometimes make sense

It makes sense when all your employees are singles without a family or any other obligations outside work. You might want to take into account that your employees who are not, may have to pick up their kids from kindergarten/school, etc. They may not be able to work long hours without letting down their children or damaging their marriage.

You could make crunch optional, but there is some peer pressure ('Look, Johnny is not committed to our project').

These are waters to thread carefully if you want to have healthy/happy employees. Make clear rules ahead of times of what is expected, pay extra compensation for overtime.

(Sorry if I set up a straw man.)
Look, I'm in laser plasma physics, and people conflate photons and monochromatic plane waves in my field all the fucking time. Even worse, they conflate plasma waves with phonons * shudder * . There is similar mathematics that describe both but conceptually they are different things.
I think it's ridiculous you have to have a Nexus phone to get this capability. Anyone with a Google account and Android should be able to get this functionality. Right now with Google Voice I get a dozen hang up calls per day, it's always from a different number. When I don't answer, Ive got a dozen 2 second long voice mails. I used to spend a lot of time setting these to spam or being blocked, but between Google Voice and Hangouts simply asinine and beyond incompetent integration where some calls show up in Google Voice but not Hangouts and vice versa, I'm losing interest. So recently I just decided to make the default behavior for the Google Voice number not ring any of my phones or Hangouts, but set up contact groups where friends and family should ring through. Well that's not working, I'm still getting spam and hangup calls, and some friends ring through, others don't, and client calls don't. It's really craptastic.
>slice and dice the problems in a way they can be addressed completely individually.

So microservices.. err.. "microdevelopment"? Yeah screw teamwork, that never worked. Goodluck with that.
In my startup (voicerepublic.com) everyone works part time. Technical and operational side are incredibly complex, yet with a part-time team we managed easily.
In fact, I could have been a 100% CTO (which of course means 180%^^), yet I chose to bring in a good friend and split the workload. In my experience 2 * 50% of good programmers that know each other and their stacks well, is much more than 1 * 100%. The rationale being that you can do architecture and reviews together, teach new traits and go on vacation at different times so that someone is always available.
We are still a smallish team of about 12, but work from Switzerland and Germany and so far this methodology scaled very well for 2 years.
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Related - this was on HN just the other day. Birds have a "hyperuniform" distribution of rods and cones which is superior to our own.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160712-hyperuniformity-foun...
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Equally, there are many athletes that play at amateur/semi-professional level and suddenly they are top level starts (e.g. Chris Smalling, Jamie Vardy). So yes, it's possible. It's just that the odds are not in your favor :) should you keep chasing your childhood athlete dream because someone did it? Probably not :)

Same rules apply to your example.
What's wrong with SMS to virtual number? I mean how it's less secure than regular number?
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When I lived in Santa Barbara 15+ years ago one of the local barbers I went to claimed that he and a friend, I believe they were eight or nine at the time, were playing at a secluded section of the beach one day when all of a sudden a naked Japanese man ran past them. They immediately ran home and told their parents. Of course no one believed them. A few days later this attack occurred.

The guy had clippings from all the local newspapers of the event posted on the mirror by his chair. True or not it made for interesting conversation.
I will never ever use 2FA if it's not via SMS. I just don't care enough to be bothered.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I recently had to explain to a friend working on immigration papers that "full time" doesn't necessarily mean 40h/week in the software world.

The person I was talking to was like "they are trying to abuse this foreign worker with 60h work weeks" and I was like "no everyone gets abused like that"...

Here in Quebec we have a clear policy that any work over 40h/week is overtime (paid at 1.5x), but somehow this doesn't seem to apply to software jobs.
I find these sorts of posts more useful than blog posts about web scale technology. They're more relevant to a much wider group of people. For example, while it's interesting that Netflix are migrating their billing system to AWS, and the way they solve their problems is fascinating, the actual technology stuff is only useful if you're likely to face a similar problem, and the chances are you aren't. In fact, if you're reading their blog posts to learn things, you're probably going to massively over-engineer your next web app.
Happiness, defined as self-deluded positive attitude maintained by confirmation bias and caffeine, is a mild form of stupidity.

Seeing things as they are, ideally without differentiating for "good" and "bad", and calling things by its proper names is beginning of intelligence.

Joy, contrary to happiness, is a natural state (that's what makes children so different), which has nothing to do with social and environmental conditioning.
I would bet on the team who has the best marketing plan and support package because quality at point of sale is rarely the differentiator in a company's success.

I think that usually in these discussions, the money saved (the 20%) is intended to be used on other things than development.
I am both a Tesla and an Apple fan, but I really hope this does not happen. We need all the competition in the electric car market we can get. So I want Tesla and Apple to compete who makes the best car. And considering, that Tesla invested perhaps 1-2 billion into the creation of their cars, I don't think that buying Tesla would save Apple any money.
Here is a list of studies from the nih with the same conclusion:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071721/

The research is clear - controlled for other factors, shorter people live longer.
(This was supposed to be an "Ask HN", but I apparently clicked the wrong link for that.)
Your arguments are compelling. I hope others will embrace them more.
Really you want the Canadian government to act as an agent of the PRC? That's about as bad as the FATCA injustice foisted upon Americans overseas by Democrats. That is a horrible idea. "If they are legitimate, then there should be nothing to fear.." That's the same logic used by supporters of NSA domestic spying.

Only the guilty should care about privacy right? Innocent people have no need for it because they aren't doing anything wrong?
Why? We're just used to it being the other way around, where the initiator always pays. However, in an alternate universe, that could just as well be the norm.
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Likewise similar, "cosmic ray visual phenomena": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena
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I always refuse to use the "scan QR code" thing, and everybody I've tried that with (at least Google, Amazon, Github, Dropbox, Linode) give you a TFA secret to type in as an alternative - I then store these in 1Password and can back that up and use them to key Google Authenticator on additional devices. (I've never tried to extract or backup.reuse secrets from Authenticator.)
I agree, there probably are specific foodstuffs in our diet now (such as dairy & meat) that cause growth above other foodstuffs, but these have become more affordable across the board due to "early-access" availability in the distribution chain (with a major component of that being the port)
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I'm French and I notice the exact same thing in France with the second and third generation of immigrants from North Africa. You see the older guys that first immigrated to France in the 60's hovering around 5'2 or so and the sons and grandsons are all around 6'2" / 6'3".
I'm somewhat surprised NIST is using github (a private company) rather than self-hosting.
Discussions on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4ukefq

https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/comments/4ujo7e
When my Origin account was hacked, I found out that hackers used a very basic vulnerability in Gmail - they've logged into my Origin account, changed the language to Russian, and then changed the password - I received the "your password has been changed" email, but because it was in russian, gmail automatically put it in Spam folder and I never saw it(when I eventually found it the message shown by gmail was "this email is in a different language than used normally for this email address so we've automatically marked it as spam".). Obviously by the time I realized, the "I didn't do this!" link in the email has expired and I had to call EA to recover my account(surprisingly, I did!).

So yeah, now I have 2FA enabled on my origin account, but I still wish I received a text message telling me my password was changed.
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Software development should be remote. Zero reason for me to drive X hours to look at a computer screen and use Slack when I can do that exact same thing from my house. Companies can save huge on office space and employees can save the commute as wel as improving the environment by not commuting each day. Sitting around a whiteboard once per sprint isn't very good justification for working on site.
i think this is the right idea

increasing housing supply sounds like the best straightforward solution but the outcome you want to avoid is one where the government rapidly increases housing supply to match demand in order to keep apartment prices stable, but when the cycle reverses and all the foreign non-occupier owners pull out of the market the local occupier owners face a collapse in their home value.

a lot of people feel that their apartment is the key to their wealth, so falling prices hurts (even though it also means they can move out into cheaper apartments because housing as a whole has fallen) and the government will want to avoid that scenario.

this seems to be slightly different from the issue in SF where housing is driven by industry growth and poor public transport (reducing residents' mobility increases desirability of specific areas) in addition to foreign buyers.

if one can easily separate non-occupier owners from local occupier owners and then apply a tax in order to discourage non-occupier ownership and that kind of behaviour (because it masks actual housing need which in turn makes urban planning difficult) then it will help a lot, i think.

the other solution is to create zones that are available to foreign buyers, encourage high-value developments for tax revenue, and then make the balance of the housing stock restricted to owner occupiers - the new sale restrictions imposed on existing stock will reduce the price of existing housing stock but will buffet foreign money driven fluctuations on essential residential stock, but still provide a pressure release value for increasing foreign demand in the city.
There was an update to the GA app a year or two back that screwed up the saved data and lost a lot of people access to their stuff... Google's answer was "Sorry, our bad. We'll have a new version of the app out that doesn't do this in a few weeks or whenever we get around to it, but all your lost stuff is gone. Soz..."

Protip: Don't allow your TFA app/hardware to be a single point of failure. Don't upgrade your reserve TFA device/apps until you're 100% sure the upgrade on your primary TFA device/app has worked smoothly.
Interesting distincion. Can you please also elaborate on the distinction between joy and happiness?

Possibly relevant: there are languages [1] where you have two verbs to express states of being, a long-term being (e.g., traits of character) and a short-term being (e.g., when describing a behavior or a situation).

Is this aspect relevant for your distinction between sadness vs misery or joy vs happiness?

Finally, are native speakers of languages with 2 states of being happier because they learned to distinguish better those emotional states?

[1] e.g., google for "ser vs estar <language>" where <language> in {Portuguese, Spanish}
Sadly, ideology often defeats reason
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For international travellers, I imagine its a problem. Within a country - it is less a problem. In india at least, we have number portability between providers, so there is little reason to change your number.
"numbers", so I'm guessing it wasn't random.
@pedalpete sure, it's not that in the exact sense. But surely an 'email client killer' in another sense.

Yes there are teams working in this direction notably Front (https://frontapp.com/ - they raised an investment from Slack's founder) and Fleep (https://fleep.io/). But we have taken a different approach to it, according to the problems we faced.

Taking the views of community specifically on this particular approach.
The two do feed into each other. If you use OSX, there's a huge benefit to getting an iPhone or iPad as Apple software will mesh across those platforms.

If you don't use OSX though... then you may think Android is a good bet instead.
You've never had anybody try to seriously take over the email account you manage domains names with, have you?

(Try owning a domain name with the word "anonymous" in it, and watch the skript-kiddies descend en-mass...)
> Here come the down votes.

Nobody is impressed by your edgy downvote invitation.
I saw a senior Rails contract job in Toronto that was paying $40 per hour and a mid-level Rails Dev at $15 per hour. I find that rather hilarious as well.
Everyone benefits from additional vitamin D. Nearly everyone is deficient. I take ~3 times the 'suggested' daily dose in supplements, because the suggestion is weirdly low. It reduces the risk of cancer, among other things. You can actually safely take 10 times the suggested daily dose every day without risks, but there aren't any known benefits above ~4 times (100 mcg a day)
Why dont they suspect an IT person with some conscience?
In which the author informs reality that it is incorrect: "Even a slight change in the risk-return balance — say, the 3.8% which Obamacare quietly laid on top of the current capital-gains — kills companies, as investors and entrepreneurs see the potential upside finally shaved past the tipping point."
When I'm in a call and there's a discussion that's that long, I have to take notes anyway to remember everything. So you're just transferring the typing burden onto the receiver.
The BS-factor is high on this one..

"An ideal single-photon source has yet to be created."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-photon_source

Still, detection of single particles has been hinted to during the Apollo program; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena
"Weaponized Wikileaks"? What does that even mean?
If telcos can't do it, senders can switch to Whatsapp when possible. And everybody is able to understand Whatsapp (although the delivery isn't reliable). And that may even give them more information about the profile of the user, and that could be billed by Whatsapp as a service to senders.
It's even worst than that.

How about media abuse of the word "terrorism". I can imagine any decent professor at any decent university of politics to choke a little when he hears about "another terror attack".

While the definition is not agreed upon globally, in order for it to be a terrorism, the attacker needs to be sending or demanding a political message to be heard or implemented by a country he or she used violence against.

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

But they are pushing envelope for a well known reasons. The government has different set of rules and tools to fight "terrorism" than for example, a domestic abuse case. If things will continue the way they do, pretty soon your drunk neighbor that hit his wife will be called a "terrorist".