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What do mental health services do anyways? Just give kids meth in a pill for not paying attention to boring school topics?

You can be locked up, drugged, shocked, lobotomized. No rights to an attorney, not even a one phone call. I really believe the whole psychiatric industry is a fraud. Leon Eisenberg admitted ADHD being fake when he died.
It is better than OpenID, and as a bonus it will proxy the OpenID protocol for you so you can sign into gnu social or blogger or other things that still use openid.
Land-use policy makes it far more attractive to resist growth, enact restrictive zoning laws, and engage in speculation, rather than listen to the signals of demand. This has been the case for the last century, and without a fundamental change in our policy, will almost certainly continue to be the case.

A land tax would be the silver bullet here-- it would align the incentives for landowners to listen to rises and falls in demand.
> Stop caring about what people look like

People, even people who actively seek not to, generally do care about this to some degree; what you care about is not something infinitely amenable to voluntary changes.

The existence of a society in which gender, race, ethnicity, and other demographic factors are pervasively given weight, particularly, means that such things do matter. We might wish to have a society in which they were not given the weight they are now, and where gender-, race-, etc., specific role models were not important. But we don't live in that society, and human nature does not let people magically transform into the people they would be if they had been raised in such a society simply by wishing it so.
> Countries including Iceland, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, in fact, tax homeowners for “imputed rent”: the amount of income homeowners would earn if they rented out (rather than lived in) their home.

Do homeowners in those countries also get imputed deductions for whatever things people who are actually running rental businesses get to deduct?
At the same time, you can be amazing at your job without being amazing at toy-problem-brain-teaser questions.
It's totally relevant to my point but let's ignore that for the moment. Do you agree with the original comparison? Do you think the US is like free software? Or is the US more like Open Source? Is the US BSD or GPL? Is RMS the president of free software? China is a pristine cathedral right?
It's about A$1 per cigarette in Australia, or about US$19 per pack of 25.
That'd make you an Outer Space Pirate.
That's what I expect this decade. My concern is that it is all happening faster than even many of the most pessimistic scientists in the field expected, and it seems to be accelerating.

What I see when I try to extrapolate from what is happening today: Less food and clean water for more people, sometimes dramatically so in places that are already stressed for food and clean water (again, this will strike the poor far sooner than it will hit the developed world...but, that doesn't make it less horrifying, to me, and it is merely a leading indicator of what we will all experience). More forced migration, more refugee crises, more war over resources (including resources we don't yet generally currently consider worth going to war over, like water and arable land), more disease epidemics (and with no effective antibiotics to treat them), more mosquitoes, etc.

All of these things are already happening. We can see and measure them. And, they are trending in the wrong direction, and accelerating.

I just don't see how to interpret what we see happening as anything other than a slow moving disaster. There's only so much "relocation" can solve, when speaking of a world with billions of people. If you consider literally millions (or even billions) of people dying off to be a non-catastrophic event, I guess it's not catastrophic. But, it looks like a catastrophe, to me. And, when that many people are put at risk of starvation and disease, the likelihood of war, even world war, seems likely to increase remarkably.

Edit: A useful current article on the subject, with references: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/climat...
Does "a minor" have a different meaning, or is there a thriving underage slavery ring there?

I suppose it could also be "a minor ticket" or "A Minor" (the scale).
Yeah, still incredibly volatile.
This is a really tough policy to get right because there is a continuum of cases. At one end, someone has vested shares and is pushed out for being harmful to the company. At the other you have a valued loyal employee that is going to business school for two years and hopefully coming back. It is a no-brainer that the employee going to school should get the exercise period extended--but if the toxic employee doesn't want to risk cash, why should the staying employees take dilution on what was probably unhelpful service?

It is really hard to make a contract that fully reflects what's fair.

I think the thing that gets missed a lot in these discussions is that just because default docs are super company favorable (i.e. assuming the former rather than the latter), in the opposite case one can make an exception.
> distro-level packaging and development-dependency-level packaging are semantically different acts

This is a good point, but it also seems that distros have a fairly clunky naming convention that makes many useful cases of multiple side-by-side versions seem more clunky than they actually are.
Seeing the name reminds me of the OS/2 2.0 fiasco that is now one of my favorite topics.
Go-lang: Errors as value
Investing in spaces you don't know or don't have strong hunches is difficult. I'd recommend just putting money in index funds unless you feel really, really strongly about an investment and/or have some special knowledge of the space or company.

Though, in the long run, losing $250 while getting your feet wet in investing isn't that bad.
This is brilliant!

> Reverent. Whether you belong to the Kingdom of Nouns or the Church of Lambda, be respectful of all faiths. Better yet, take the best of all worlds when designing your language (see: my previous post). Don't force users to pick one paradigm over the other, but rather be flexible enough to accommodate all walks of life.

If only.

But, that being said, I think all languages are coming around to adding first class functions.
> Can't it also happen because you view a document on your Android device?

There's a difference between a breach which would need to happen on your phone (where you may be able to detect it) and a breach which can happen remotely, in such a manner that you are never aware.

A sufficiently-paranoid organisation could store a binary of every system update its devices receive, and in case of a suspected breach examine them forensically; nothing they can do remotely can determine if someone silently copied data.

> The latter... well I guess you'll never know until someone catches them and sues their pants off.

So demand a system in which not knowing is impossible!

> The next question is possibly "how do we use/provide cloud based services while respecting users' privacy?"

My answer is that plaintext must only be visible on the customers' devices: providers should only be able to see chunks of data moving around, not the content of those chunks. They would make their money by providing price, reliability and services like 'send this chunk of data to that person.'
Oh yes, I love our Pelican's, we use them for our printers as well. The problem was the first few iterations of our printer were fragile once outside the protective cocoon of the pelican and in the hands of live-event people. As a result, we've beefed up our gear but it's expensive to do as such a small scale (dozens not thousands).
Strongly disagree. Working in operations, most days I don't care what the frontend looks like. But, for example, what if a developer wants to switch to a new recommendation algorithm? That's going to go behind a feature flag so we can ramp it up incrementally and switch back to the old algorithm if there are any problems.
As a trivial counterexample, consider the market for bad artwork from amateurs. There is far more (in terms of quantity) supplied than is demanded.
I'm not convinced most human city drivers have general intelligence. I don't see it being much later than other roads.
Not to mention all the American fashion brands that are doing great in China, like Levi's, Coach, Polo, etc.

Add in the makeup brands like Lancome, Estee Lauder, Clinique, etc.
Background: I work mostly with projects that have <1 year delivery date.

It's always better to fix the code I completely agree - in reality there simply isn't always the time. In an idealistic world products aren't released until they are ready and bugs are never produced.

But... There's deadlines and there's certainly not time allocated to fixing code unless a bug appears there. Once a milestone or deliverable is met, as far as a manager is concerned it's case closed.

Whilst I agree with you from an idealistic stand point, for myself and my line of work I need to leave TODOs to fix the code if the time permits before the release time. Corners get cut and you need some way of knowing where those corners are.
The evidence is far more than anecdotal. Anyone who is an active tool user could provide more - ask your local mechanic. The experience I describe is almost universal and transcends the term "anecdodal".

Here's some bedside reading:

'What’s in a tool? A case for Made in USA':

http://hackaday.com/2016/01/18/whats-in-a-tool-a-case-for-ma...

Discussion of the same:

https://build.slashdot.org/story/16/01/18/213236/whats-in-a-...

"China & The Decline In Quality (And Soon In Profits)":

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-18/china-decline-quali...

And my favorite, just for fun: "Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans":

http://www.theonion.com/article/chinese-factory-worker-cant-...
Title would be less ambiguous if it said Macbook Pro charger, since they have laptop called Macbook and it uses a different charger.
I honestly don't know what you are "refuting" with that.

You listed some very generic things that are "wrong" with China, but have nothing to do with the point NYTimes was trying to make.

The article was talking about how China is ahead of the west in regards to mobile payment methods, and you try to refute that by saying they have an army of spies and are communist, and also have less women and limited access to websites outside china? I don't get it.

If you said: "From living in China for X years I can tell you that it isn't really the case that almost any fruit vendor accepts payment via mobile phone, and it isn't really a common payment method." - That would've been valid criticism addressing the core points of the NYTimes article.

As it stands though your comment fits perfectly in the stream of comments trying to downplay the articles credibility without actually addressing it, which is somehow common of any article mentioning "China" and things like "cutting edge" and "innovation" and is making me increasingly suspicious of who is actually spreading propaganda.

Edit: And honestly the things you listed are common knowledge by now, and have no place in an article about mobile tech in China. That would be like including a paragraph about Guantanamo bay in every article about Silicon Valley.
Nice Kanye quote
You would be extremely lucky to have someone talk to you about why they didn't hire. They have no incentive to talk to you and plenty of disincentives, for example just not having the time. It might be HR policy to avoid contact for fear of leaking info that could lead to a lawsuit.
Remembering Another Holocaust – The Great Leap Forward
How do they ramp up until college? We saw a considerable reduction in expenses when our kid started public school, since we went from $$$ day care to $ after-school care. We expect expenses to stay somewhat the same until she hits her teenage years when she'll likely become more demanding in terms of clothes, going out with friends, etc. (at which point we plan on encouraging her to find a part-time job).
oh yes... a classic read. a perennial favorite!
Gusto (people being interviewed) formerly known as ZenPayroll, fired an acquaintance about a week before their options vested.

Now they are trying to educate people on equity? You would need a full-semester class to explain the many ways in which VCs and their "startup" cronies can screw you out of compensation (e.g, dilution, selling at a low price and then using staying bonuses to kick in liquidation preference, 30 day exercise windows making it financially prohibitive to exercise, etc). Do companies even IPO anymore? If Uber still hasn't gone public, when do you think Gusto is?

If these companies actually wanted us to value their equity, they would reimburse independent corporate lawyers to review the contract.

Higher profile people like Zach Holman are already speaking up. It's going to take a while, but I already see programmers realizing that the smart move is either being a founder or going to work for GoogMicroAppleSoft. It's still to be determined whether the VCs will finally realize their inability to hire is their own damn fault and fix equity.

Only the naive and the financially illiterate accept these equity offers as worth anything.
Guess everyone forgets that...
> It is a no-brainer that the employee going to school should get the exercise period extended--but if the toxic employee doesn't want to risk cash, why should the staying employees take dilution on what was probably unhelpful service?

Because in both cases, they earned their options. You can't take back their salary compensation, why should you be able to take back their options?

> It is really hard to make a contract that fully reflects what's fair.

No, it isn't. If you've earned your compensation, you have earned it. Unless you mean its difficult to write a contract where a company can weasel out of their obligations when its suits their purposes; I would agree with that.
Sorry, but the fact speak for themselves. Wordpress itself (excluding plugins) has had more than 10 CVEs this year alone. That's more than one per month!

As an ex-user myself, who built the site and only installed a couple of plugins, I moved my organization to another platform because I was sick and tired of having to babysit what should be a solved problem by now.
Actually have one more question if you don't mind - I've done a fair amount of both lisp and embedded (vxworks or baremetal). I've been tempted to push lisp or scheme as a prototyping environment for higher level (i.e., UI or some other non-RT) code. I've always had some amount trepidation due to GC pauses, and memory exhaustion.

Are there any papers on the actual lisp ports? Are there any gotchas?
This law is redundant, so they should already know about the restrictions.
I actually like that - perhaps that allows you to implement blocking as well, for example: "TODO: X cannot be improved until Z & Y is complete.".

The projects I work on tend to have a very quick life cycle, so there isn't even a ticketing system in place other than the occasional post it note. There just isn't the time and the team is tight.
It costs a lot to import those Aeolian modes all the way from Greece to North Dakota.
He is doing it because witchhunts are a thing.
I don't see why Django CMS will be more secure than WordPress or other way.

From a coding point of view, the more people works on it, the more chance the security issue will be noticed and fixed. Rails, Django or any framework in general always have security issues at some time.

The issue of WordPress is come from the easy to use. The ability to install plugin require write permission from the user that run WordPress.

Second, many WordPress plugin expose executable-php file in plugin folder that is invokeable via hitting directly that url.

So if Django CMS has that ability, allow downloading 3rd-code and run it, I'm not sure if it's more secure than WordPress.

WordPress is just as secure as any Rails or Django app. Bug happens, people fix.
Because some people feel that businesses being strangled by regulation is a favorite straw man those in favor of deregulation trot out to protect their interests. The original scenario, at least in the opinions of some people, is a nice summary of the abuses of privatization while the down voted scenario is a right wing bogeyman meant to scare the ignorant into voting against their own interests. (In some people's opinion)
If your purview of mental health starts and stops at ADD/ADHD, you aren't really qualified to write off all of psychology.
I have to chime in on those Seki clippers, amazingly better than any I've ever tried, regardless of where they were made.
I've seen plenty of situations where there was a real intent to hire somebody, but the final approval just never came through. When money is tight you'll find this happening, especially if the situation is worsening over time.
Sorry for being pedantic, but wouldn't that be $[some_large_number + some_large_numer*(1 - tax rate)]? :)
Alot of that stuff isn't required in my experience. If a piece of land can grow grass you have a good chance of succeeding with just tilling it and planting. Farmers have different requirements where they need to manage risks of crop loss and maximize yield.
I've never heard of the correctional officers' union (CCPOA) being a top lobbyist. I don't see it anywhere on this list, which puts it out of the top 100.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...

Edit: I can't find any primary sources regarding lobbying by the CCPOA, but I did find a blog on a site called Union Watch that makes the claim about CCPOA being the largest lobbyist, and then I saw that quotes in Reason, and the a lot of people quoting Reason. So, right-wing echo chamber in action as far as I can tell.
Are you saying that SF homeowners want homeless people walking their streets? If their intention is to increase property value, as you say, why would they want that?

Seems to me like the people who win the most by limiting housing are the landlords who can collect higher rent through scarce supply.

Long term homeowners probably don't care much about yearly changes in their homes worth.
How do you reference a particular bit of code? For example, when you're writing the code you are aware that a number of lines could definitely do with improving but will get you out of the clear for the moment and past the milestone/deliverable. How do you specifically reference the code that you know is bad in this system?
Citation needed. I would think most taxi drivers are smart enough to figure out that it is better to work a few more hours more on rainy days and sit in the park on sunny days than to work a few hours more on sunny days and sit in the park on rainy days.
> The risk and cost of any other options are just far too high.

A few years older than you and in a somewhat similar situation. Don't answer if it's too personal of a question, but did you check out IVF? If so, what was the average rates you were getting quoted?
I haven't had a savings account since the 80s. It's a rotten deal, I don't know why anyone would.
How to Teach a Machine to Understand Us
The last time China had a huge trade imbalance with a country resulted in the Opium Wars.

I can see why China is so keen on improving their military now.
"Succession" in Louisiana

I don't care if the methodology is suspect, I WANT TO BELIEVE...
Thanks for providing some color. I found this article with some more background: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/fashion/in-china-audi-mean...
At the time that the US was developing, it also had extremely low standards for human rights.

But as the US prospered, the Civil Rights movement kicked in. So perhaps the same will happen in China.
Comcast wants to sell your Web history to advertisers
This doesn't show California as obsessed with the price of housing, so I have to assume the methodology is flawed in some way.
Thank you for Murmur3! I have been using it in a consistent hashing implementation as part of my bachelor's thesis and it is performing very well.
If you are in the US you probably have a pension fund.
> (Sorry, I know that this is an extremely liberal board).

Not really on economic policy, based on what I've seen. However, logical thinking is highly valued; that is to say, connecting the dots and backing up your assertions with evidence. Trite, blasé solutions to complex problems will usually earn a down vote on most topics, which is the case here.

Asserting in advance that the board is extremely liberal and will therefore disagree with you based on a difference of opinion is I'm sure reassuring when you are down voted, as it insulates you from any responsibility in putting forth a poorly-considered case. You are just lying to yourself, though.
We completely revamped the React Native getting started experience a month ago. Let me know if it's easier now: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started....
Diversity is an inherently good thing for a company, because a diversity of views and knowledge allow a company to better understand and work with an equally diverse market. And more than that, it seems like a morally desirable long-term goal; companies should generally reflect the racial makeup of wider society, for example, and if that isn't happening it means that something is broken. Promoting diversity internally can help to solve this issue of a society-wide scale.
Your mindset is very scary to me because a lot of others think like you. If someone earns options over one, two, two and a half year period and then is deemed "toxic" to the company, why should they not receive similar compensation to someone who lasts 3 years in this system? 3 month exercise windows are strictly for investor class and thus founder class.

Employees aren't facing dilution problems from their fellow employees who get to exercise their options while exiting, they face dilution from the investor class trying to own as much of the company as they can.
Wal-Mart can't even leverage their ubiquitous brick and mortar presence to be un-terrible to use for ship-to-store during the two times I tried to use it. Don't think this will end up being an Amazon killer.
Nothing has been sold for $3B, but $570M has been raised and most likely already spent.
>The guy digging proverbial ditches does indeed deserve more, but the market has been distorted by large corporations who lobby for lax enforcement of immigration law.

Do gravediggers get paid relatively more than other kinds of jobs in countries where there is essentially no immigration for economic reasons? I doubt it.
It's a good question because even supposing that you have no prior knowledge of the problem at hand you should be able to think of some obvious problems if you have any programming experience.

You have N number of writers, those writers can write X sized data to location A.

How would those writers go about writing to "A" in a performant manner without causing issues? Whether those issues are interleaved data, slowing down the N writers or having to keep outsized buffers on the OS level.

Even if you have no knowledge of POSIX filesystems you should be able to reason about this in an intelligent way in an interview.

Do we go for locks? That has its own set of problems, what are those? Do we go for fixed sized non-interleaved guarantees? What problems does that cause? Do we buffer arbitrarily sized output and and merge it later etc.
Do you believe any automatic content-based ranking is unethical? Even filtering exact duplicates? Or just some? If so, can you elaborate?
'"unrealistic self-confidence" is usually termed arrogance.'

It's actually termed "Google employee".