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"My dad left Bangladesh because he didn't want to raise kids in a country where he had to pay a bribe just to get a second phone line installed."

In India we had this problem, I have two anecdotes which demonstrate this.

In 1992 we waited for over a year to get a phone line installed at our place. When the 'lineman' came, we offered him lunch, and I'm sure the dad paid him money for the service.

Fast forward 12 years later in 2004. During this time, Indian government liberalized the telecom market and allowed private sector to provide telecom services.

In 2004, my dad got a temporary phone line for the summer vacation so that I can have faster internet. He got it within 2 days of applying for it. Two months later when my dad wanted to cancel it, the telecom company people kept on trying to make him keep the connection. After an hour of negotiations (when they tried to sweeten the deal) they finally agreed to cancel it.

I'm just saying that it was the same town, same group of people, the difference was clearly in the economic system they were following. The culture evolves in response to the systematic pressures. Change the system, and you'd change the culture.
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The same study says that low BMI is also associated with lower lifespan, and the statistically optimum BMI for white people is 23 to 25 (there are racial differences in all the numbers, which I think also challenges the idea of assigning moral qualities to them).

However, I don't know if I would give too much thought to the effect for low BMI - it could just be that people with extremely low BMI tend to have some disease process which causes that; only a small minority of them are rail-thin athletes. For high and extremely high BMI, there are known causal mechanisms for disease, so it's a different story.
If you don't reach your destination by always turning left, then always turning right should be the winning strategy?

This is not about binary decisions. The problem is to pick two points in time: When to buy and when to sell.
What if the tools are actually outdated, and its the NSA selling them themselves to raise money?
Isn't this the reason why governments react harshly to people like Snowden and Manning? To discourage even worse breaches?
Ha, cool. I am actually in the process of writing up a blogpost on building an SPA w/ React/Redux/Node/Postgres/GraphQL front-to-back in hopes of getting some traction. :)

The networking makes sense, I don't have a big one and not a lot of remote stuff within it. I'll have to begin to remedy that. Thanks for the advice.
It's funny that even Poettering-enabled version of Gentoo has way less problems than either Ubuntu or Fedora...
There is a very very early work in progress one, but it's not nearly ready for non-toy programs yet, it doesn't transpile nearly all of C. Gotta start somewhere!
Short selling a stock.
> [1]: http://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1162

So, forgive me if I'm being naive because I don't really have professional experience in the field of cancer research, but this comic makes it sound like a cure for cancer is impossible because it would have to deal with million different forms and shapes that it can take, but, theoretically, wouldn't it be possible to attack the root problem instead, and find a way to biologically enhance our dna replication "algorithm" to prevent mutations in the first place? Surely it's better to prevent the mutations in the first place than find a cure for them, since then it's a single problem.
I don't follow Microsoft closely enough to really determine which decisions are influenced by Nadella, but I do think that it's a very good question to ask. Windows is one of Microsoft's mainstays, and Windows 10 issues have been going for a year without any apparent action from the top. If Nadella can get praise for the good moves (which seem to be driven by lower-level decision-makers, but enabled by Nadella's policies), then he should also be held to account for the failures. Even leaving aside any responsibilities to customers, Windows is both a key product and brand for Microsoft as a shareholder-owned company, and those assets are taking ongoing damage right now.
I'm 31 and find it immensely satisfying to read about the latest news and advancements in the butt field.
Isn't that the intended behaviour? Also, on-off state indicating switches don't make much sense in such a circuit. What works is having a small (typically orange-ish) light inside the switches that indicate the state.

Anecdote: We have those in my apartment but they're wired up to be on when the circuit is off. This is implemented in what is likely the worst possible way. We haven't quite figured them out but when off, there's still juice on the line - enough to make some cheap LED bulbs flicker, but not enough to light up a "classic" light bulb or an LED with high resistance. It's great for making electricians cry about the stupidity, as I can take out one of the LEDs in the hallway (when it's off) and the others start to do a strobe effect.
Not disagreeing - but it's worth noting that you _always_ want someone to take the same trade as you, right after you do.
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>Which is why I click through to the HN comments before the article about 9/10 times.

If you determined whether an article was clickbait or not based on HN comments, you wouldn't read anything, ever.

I'm skeptical that this community has a handle on what "click-bait" is. Anything that isn't written in the precise style the commentor enjoys, or isn't as information dense as a commentor would like seems to gain the label.
> IIRC the memory layout of bitfields is not specified so you can't use them to portably destructure binary streams, only to define "packed" structures for memory saving.

This is correct as my colleagues have recently relearned. Moving from one endianness to another seriously complicated their lives for a few weeks (time to initial discovery of error, time to add in new definitions, time to test the updated system).
I'll just add my data point.

I joined a company as a remote Senior Full Stack Engineer at 95k a year. It was a jump up from my previous company where I just negotiated up to 80k from 65k. This was in Northern Virginia, where 95k was pretty decent - though toward the end of my 1.5 years there I was expecting a major jump to 110, 120k based on the work. When I started asking for my raise, I learned it's a lot harder to negotiate as a remote employee and was laid off.

I picked up a contracting type gig where I negotiated a decent pay for where I moved (SoCal), but at the end of the month they decided I wasn't worth paying almost 2x as much as their devs in Poland/Brazil and such.

I then took a nice paying, stable in-office job and couldn't be happier :)
The opposite is to borrow and then sell it.
Just keep in mind that European companies don't pay US rates!

London is bit of an exception, but lifestyle there is crazy expensive obviously

If you want a US rate you have to compete globally, which is quite discouraging to me.

So as a freelancer I'm happy to have a theoretically 'low' rate but which in practice lets me live more than well in Spain.
Let's be fair: PulseAudio is the way to go if you have to have a partitioned audio system because you are using a multiheaded multiuser system where each seat has a monitor and keyboard and mouse and mic and speakers, and each user needs to be able to control their own volume mixing without root privileges.

For every other case I've seen, ALSA is better and causes fewer problems.
Femtolisp looks interesting, although the weak documentation makes it hard to know. It it has no lexical scoping, no TCO, and no hygenic macros (I don't care if it's lowlevel or highlevel (er-macro-expander, or syntax-rules), or even if it's fexprs like Kernel, but it has to be hygenic), I tend to dismiss it out of hand, unless it has some really cool feature that means it can't, or is otherwise interesting (newlisp, picolisp). But femtolisp has most of that, so my only concerns are lack of hygene (which is a big concern in a lisp-1), and taking too much of the large and unweildly r6rs. But that would be hard, given the size.
The risk profile changes when you switch to an opposite strategy

If you went long, and lost money, going short instead doesn't mean you would make money, it means you could lose on the interest payments, you could lose on being forced to close, could lose on the different risk profile of having unlimited loss potential

Even more so with derivatives.
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The power of defaults.

Why write for ALSA when the distro ships with PA, and so all of its configuration tools are PA-focused?
Because many devs are on Linux distros, that include PulseAudio by default. Support for *BSD ports is often a bit weak for software like that.
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Just so you and others know, the L in ALSA stands for Linux. It doesn't run on DragonFlyBSD. I think DragonFlyBSD uses a re-implementation of the OSS API that they inherited from FreeBSD. The other BSDs use /dev/audio, which was originally a Sun API.
Ah yes, use external leverage to force a parallelization of kernel code that worked just fine, and damn reliably, in serial form.

What is it with userspace devs an a fetish for paralleliation?!
Well, at least get the variable(s) representing the person's feelings on the left, equated with the appropriate expression on the right. But you don't have to actually evaluate it; just leave it in algebraic form.
Sounds like a small scale outage, I wouldn't use that headline TBH. Amazon wouldn't even report something like this. We get various small outages from AWS every few weeks, and it doesn't even show up on their dashboards.
Nice, this will be helpful for these times when I need to import an svg from the material spec.

I am still waiting for the graphical tool that will allow me to animate an svg (creates 2 different but compatible paths) though.
> Amazing that this isn't considered a scam by the authorities.

Enforcement in this area is largely complaint driven, and the target market for these sites is, I gather, generally not the most aware of their rights and likely to complain.

And, the sites may have favorable internal dispute resolution processes that assure that the kind of people that would complain are kept happy, so that complaints to government authorities don't happen.
Yep, I got all my (good) jobs through peers I interacted with in an open-source community.

"Cold calling" a company by sending in my resume never worked for me.
Clearly the harsh reaction to Snowden has done nothing in this case. I wonder what the reaction would be if Snowden would have been treated like a whistleblower and not a traitor?
>>> By "speculate" I mean it didn't demonstrably improve health, but the authors speculate that maybe it will later.

It's a fair assumption. Treating an illness with the approved medicine that worked well in the past tends to work in the future too.

It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to dismiss both increased diagnoses and treatment as anything but conclusive.

>>> Try to follow the discussion. We were originally discussing the statement "You have a concern - you go to the doctor"

It doesn't matter what the original point is, I was strictly replying to what you said, with quotes. Are you following?

>>> Your own source - a political op-ed published in a medical journal, disagrees with this claim:

The quote you posted really isn't. It says some save money, some don't. I gave examples what the study found to be cost effective, while the majority were not. Sometimes the answer is not black and white.

>>> Telling people to stop smoking and being obese != "you have a concern - you go to the doctor".

Isn't?

Free-at-the-point-of-use obviously does increase usage of services, meaning people will be told to stop smoking more often. Those two concept are directly linked.

>>> Your article says we need to carefully target which interventions are worthwhile, cut the ones that aren't, and refocus on the underused ones that are. That's not disagreeing with me at all!

Again, isn't? It clearly says some interventions are worthwhile and some not.

So let me get me straight, you think that if giving away nicotine replacement drugs is costing more money than cancer treatment, we should stop telling people to stop smoking?
Where by evidence for another NSA leaker, Bamford means literally no evidence. The fulcrum of his op-ed rebuts an argument nobody is making --- that Snowden himself disclosed this cache of exploit tools.

The prevailing narrative, one echoed by Snowden himself, was that this was likely taken from a staging server: a machine somewhere out on the Internet used as a pivot point for attacks. Snowden claims (I don't know with how much authority) that a compromise of one of those staging servers is not without precedent.

Nothing in this entire piece refutes or even engages with that narrative.
Can't speak for OP, but that's probably it. After the whole cluster that blew up around him the community seems very split in their opinion of him now.
>If you're a human, you make mistakes.

Unless you can design your compiler to make a class of mistake impossible, as we were discussing.
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And now you would helpfully give everyone reading your code either a huge pain if they know haskell, or a completely wrong impression of what that class actually is if they don't. Great!
Not to mention that no reputation ever will last for anything but an instant on a cosmological scale.
Nowhere near in functionality. It is like suggesting notepad as a replacement for the Eclipse IDE.
Perhaps I was not clear. A preferable alternative to detecting mistakes is to ensure that they are impossible to make in the first place.
You've got considerably more leverage whilst working. Pity you'll be taking vacation days to job-hunt. Build in some pre-start leave with your new employer.
It depends on a lot of factors, your nationality (us citizens don't have much choice), if you have have family and if your husband/wife works and how many months you spend in the country you live in. It's actually very complex and the best is to see accountant/tax advisors from the country of the company you work for, from the same country as your nationality and from the country you are currently living in.

For digital nomads, it adds even more complexity since it's a bit of a grey area.
Yes, to keep my conscience clear, I never lie to them. When something like this comes up, I just tell them I take advantage of working remotely and live nomadically as I like traveling - which was true when I was in SF and still is.

It is just that they talk to me on my US cell phone number during regular US hours and I'd think they assume I'm in the US.

Yes, I might be walking on a thin line of being unethical/unprofessional.. But my clients are really happy with my work. So I tell myself, as long as I am providing value to them, they should pay me what I deserve and not based on my location.

Also, I don't really have an option, I did not want to get a regular H1B visa and so because of that, I thought it would be better I continue work living outside. The clients were remote even before I left.
To be clear, I never said London was chill, that's what I thought the west coast was supposed to be. London I would describe as just-get-on-with-it-then for the most part, which as I said is not perfect, and sure there is still a fair amount of road rage, but on balance it's more crowded, works better, and a couple notches less shrill by everyone involved.
There is something else that does not appear in these photos, that could not appear, and that deserves to be mentioned. Many of the main ideas of perestroika emerged for the first time from laboratories like these ones. Soviet science, Soviet laboratories were genuine islands of freethinking. Accustomed to thinking for themselves, the scientists had begun to draw conclusions about the failed communist experiment.

This reminds me of a Soviet sci-fi book I recently read, A billion years before the end of the world, translated to English as Definitely Maybe [1].

I've read a fair amount of Soviet / East Bloc scifi, and it usually tends to avoid directly commenting on contemporary issues by placing the events in a distant enough future that the inevitable victory of communism on Earth can be assumed to have occurred. (In other words, even dark Soviet scifi quietly presumes a short-term timeline that would be acceptable to Soviet orthodoxy.)

In contrast, Definitely Maybe takes place in Leningrad in the early 1970s and the main characters are successful Soviet scientists. It's a quite interesting glimpse into the assumptions of that society, and the latitude of free thought that scientists still retained.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely_Maybe_(novel)
Travellers often don't like gatherings of people from their own country. I overheard this on a train, in Japanese from a conversation between two girls ... "minna nihonjin da kara, ikitakunai". (Everyone will be Japanese there, so I don't want to go.)
It's a sad reality, but when it comes to people I've come to accept that by default you should expect malice and selfishness unless otherwise is proven (not that I condone being an ass to other people, but just don't trust intentions by default).
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That doesn't mean you don't have to file and pay taxes in the place where you are living.

No duh you say, but people have posted in HN threads like this one about how they just have their income payed into a US bank account, so they aren't earning any money in the other country.
I don't understand why people are ever surprised about Google offering substandard support for really anything.

Time and time again Google products prove to make the happy path happier, but as soon as anything should go wrong, you're on your own with no explanation, and no support.

Additionally, and as an aside to the core issue here, I've found the recent Google Cloud UI updates to be a real pain. When I last used them, I did acknowledge that it was beta, but I seemed to lose an awful lot of oversight of an awful lot of things. It's put me seriously off it vs. AWS.
It would be wonderful if we could get some standardized language for defining test cases, and some tooling for converting to working (or mostly working) code for your language and implementation (at the API level, at least). If publicly developed per protocol/library, I think it would yield a substantial benefit for robustness of common protocols we have.

Want to develop a DNS library or server? Read the RFCs and download the public test suite (which may get regular updates as people fill out corner cases, put in tests for common bugs/exploits, etc). Occasionally run public test suite plus any of your own tests you have added to confirm things function as you expect. There's so much duplication of effort in this area currently, and i'm sure the majority of test suites for related applications have at least a few tests that would be useful to others.
> That analysis doesn't seem to apply any more when there's a price ceiling (such that every subsequent bid is after that point bids the same price).

Or, as pointed out in the article occurs with penny auction sites, when some bids actually drop the price rather than raising it.
Sort of sandboxed. You still need to carefully firewall it to prevent sending usage data to MS.
>These customers are not going anywhere.

That strategy works until it doesn't, and by then its too late to pivot out of it.
It takes a while before the realization that the world doesn't really give much of a shit about you kicks in and you're like "Oh, really?" then you go through a mildly deflated feeling of disconnection from society because nobody cares and then one day it hits you like Mac truck "Oh! Nobody cares! I can do whatever the fuck I want because, nobody cares!" and it liberates you. If only we'd all realized that in our 20's.
Not denying that. Lua by itself is easy. The thing is, to compile Zile, you need to first x-compile Lua, then x-compile luarocks, install the necessary Lua packages, then continue with x-compiling zile.

Comparatively, I've found that x-compiling vanilla emacs `--without-x` is often more easier and faster.

X-compiling Mg is more or less "gcc *.c" which is very straight-forward.
>In OCaml, “Functor” is a well-defined term with a completely different meaning

No, it has the same meaning. It does not behave identically because the languages do not have identical designs.

>But I would know what a “Mappable” should be, regardless of PL.

Lots of people wouldn't, and would be wondering what cartography has to do with anything. And even for people familiar with the functional "map", now they would just have an incorrect idea of what Functor is. Lots of Functors are things most people would not think of as being "Mappable".
Sure, I understand what you are saying. Those are actually significant findings, though. Keep in mind how good we are at keeping people with progressed heart disease alive. The relatively few years' reduction in lifespan masks, in my cases, early onset of heart disease and years of expensive emergency response, frequent hospitalization, transplants, reduced quality of life, and so on. Better is to look at large meta studies about bmi, smoking, diet, and physical activity as they affect rates of disease as well as mortality. I quickly searched and found many results.

Respectfully, I haven't said anything about living until a very old age. I am only talking about a few diseases and I understand there are a lot of ways to die. I have also said the morality of not trying to extend lifespan is subjective.
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The analogy is faulty. It's not only about breaking into systems but also about knowledge of other countries hacking operations.

If the Russians knows NSAs tools they know what to look for when trying to figure out what NSA is up to. That's hugely valuable information.
If you can say this in your mid-30's and your parents are well, then chances are your 40's will be similar. At 45 and I can honestly say I have never been healthier mentally or physically. It's great! Other than presbyopia, which is easily corrected, and gray hairs, which takes <10 minutes a month for my barber to extract, I too have yet to notice any effects of aging.

Given that my 77 year old dad says the same, I may have hit the genetic lottery. I suspect he will just unexpectedly die one day while mowing the lawn, never having known what it is like to feel old.
this just makes no logical sense!
Compared to past infractions Snowden has gotten off relatively easy
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Metro applets do it. You can remove these from Start menu.
I've been volunteering with ScriptEd for 4 years. Watching students' eyes light up as they start to understand how HTML, JS and CSS work is amazing. Also, the staff and volunteers are some of the smartest, coolest people you will ever meet. You should volunteer too!
My insecurities all run in the opposite direction. What if someone invites me to coffee? Do I tell them I really don't like coffee? Do I tell them that I really don't want to spend $4+ for a sugar-laden caramel frappe machia-whatever and that I'd rather just get a diet coke from the vending machine? Should I be "that guy" and get a hot chocolate that turns out to be a squirt of chocolate sauce in milk, and feel let down? Should i get a donut and nothing to drink?

Once we're sitting down and talking, I'm fine. I just don't know how to deal with my little "non-conforming weirdnesses" with others.