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As for whether that constitutes a major difference or not, it's a judgement call. And I don't agree with your judgement. Here are the full facts, in their own words:

NECSS: in response to Dr. Dawkins’ approving re-tweet of a highly
offensive video.

That's it. Because it was offensive. And Dawkins' reponse after continued attacks against him on Twitter:

Dawkins: Don't you think she should apologise for shrieking "Shut the
fuck up" and "Fuckface" at anyone who tried to get a word in?

I didn't do wrong to her. I posted, without comment, a video of her
screaming vile abuse.

I didn't apologise. I merely deleted, explaining that I did it out of
concern for a person's life.

Apparently, she reported getting threats of violence.
I'm from the UK and have just come back from staying a month in Louisiana, mainly New Orleans, and Georgia and have spent a few months in Georgia previously. American drivers, at least in the south, are scary. Like you say, things like using your phone and eating while driving, which are strongly frowned upon where I'm from and pretty rare to see are very common sights. Even drinking and driving doesn't seem to have the same stigma attached to it as it does here.

Drivers in general also seem to be more aggressive and will drive over the speed limit and cut each other off.

To anybody who hasn't seen it, Werner Herzog made a short film about texting and driving called From One Second to the Next which I recommend. It can be found on YouTube.
If I had access to such information, I would immediately try to figure out how much my colleagues and peers in other groups/companies are making. Knowing how much other people are making for similar job functions, gives you huge negotiating power in managing your career. It's a net win for all workers in society.
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I'm an employer myself, buy frankly the same can be said about most other employers. Critical thinking seems to be in short supply there as well.
This looks awesome. If you take it on and want some help, especially with an iOS or Mac app, please let me know jasongrandelli @ gmail
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The official stance of US law enforcement is already that large sums of cash are presumed guilty of illegal activity and you must prove the money innocent. My state has a state question coming up to require criminal charges to seize money and you should hear the DA's grinding and gnashing their teeth over how this will flood the state in crime and drugs.
> embedded systems

> there's a lot more standardization in the components I string together

Embedded Systems is just one discipline in EE. How many people design something like an lm317 deployed on embedded devices? EE tries to teach that, too, until it's all to complex not to specialize on one branch. Another discipline I was offered to specialize in was Motor Appliances and Power Amplifiers. Those don't have much to do with CS, except maybe for digital control circuits.
UTF-8 doesn't have a "byte order", so I thought it wouldn't have a byte-order mark. But apparently some software adds one anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Byte_order_mark
You can't really compare aws to linode. Aws have hundreds of Gb of transit bandwidth so they can easily absorbe big attacks. They also have a backbone network which allows them to increase the surface area of attacks which increases the available bandwidth.

It's actually not that easy to
Filter "bogus" traffic. In the hosting world, especially cloud, you have thousands of customers doing whatever they want. Who knows what is bogus or not. And even if you can filter it at your edge routers your transit links are still going to be getting slammed. The filtering needs to be done upstream in the ISP network. This is usually a manual process as no one supports BGP FlowSpec at the moment.

RTBH is the best way to defend if you don't have the bandwidth to absorbe.
You can't really compare aws to linode. Aws have hundreds of Gb of transit bandwidth so they can easily absorbe big attacks. They also have a backbone network which allows the to increase the surface area of attacks which increases the available bandwidth

It's actually not that easy to
Filter "bogus" traffic. In the hosting world, especially cloud, you have thousands of customers doing whatever they want. Who knows that is bogus or not. And even if you can filter it at your edge routers your transit links are still going to be getting slammed. The filtering needs to be done upstream in the ISP network. This is usually a manual process as no one supports BGP FlowSpec at the moment.

RTBH is the best way to defend if you don't have the bandwidth to absorbe.
> If the solder has lead the fumes are toxic.

I encourage you to support this statement. Lead doesn't vaporize at anywhere close to soldering temperatures, and from what I have read there is no lead component to soldering fumes and consequently no exposure through respiration.

Rosin and particularly No-Clean fluxes do pose a respiratory hazard, so fume extraction is a good idea regardless.
Lots of rotten prohibitions would have "beneficial effects." If we prohibit medical treatment for people over 65, the rate of Alzheimer's will go down. If we prohibit driving except to and from work, traffic accidents will decrease dramatically. Etc.
By the way, GNUCash is great for that sort of thing.
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By "doing it better", I don't believe parent is saying to create another "better" calling convention, but instead to use no convention at all.
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New is time-sorted so its first page is pretty much only submissions within the last hour. Unless you visit every hour or dig deep, you are stuck with the time sensitivity problem.

Personally I just don't visit "new" unless desperate. I see it as a deliberate decision to take on the duty of filtering the fire-hose which is not something I'm willing to commit to. I do however want better surfacing of submissions...

By giving it some presence on the front-page then I would at least be likely to upvote a submission that catches my eye. When they have already hit the front-page, its generally irrelevant - they have enough votes to not make it worth upvoting.

> the greate thing about HN is it's plain interface

Yep I agree. I'd only suggest trying it as an addition rather than a replacement for the current front-page. Maybe it could live under "new" as an alternative view e.g. add a pure-text tab-strip of view options on the new page. It would not add much UX complexity except for those that want it.
>One doesn't simply stop after first dose

This is demonstrably false, in most cases.
Sun Locator predicts the sun's position at a specific location during the course of the day. The Augmented Reality feature displays the Sun's position directly overlaid on your device's camera. Use the slider to set the time of day and directly track the solar movement.

Since this is my first app, I would appreciate any feedback and suggestions on how to improve it.

* The Lite version is free and contains no ads: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.genewarrio...

* The Pro version can additionally display other days of the year: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.genewarrio...
If I used this in a commercial product, it would be trivial (absolutely trivial) for the owner of the original product to take me to court for illegal distribution of their copyrighted works, based on the argument that the code I was distributing (for profit!) was written by someone who (by own admission in public) had reverse-engineered the original product.

IANAL but I'd be willing to bet money on this.

The only questions would be (a) is the original product one that matters enough to protect in such a way and (b) does the owner of that original product have the money and lawyers to start such legal actions.

This isn't some random app. This is one of Microsoft's crown jewels we're talking about.
Yes, you are definitely conflating dynamic range compression (dynamics) and data compression (codecs). These are very different, completely unrelated issues that unfortunately bear the same linguistic shorthand of "compression".

In the way they are commonly used, lossy compression codecs have zero impact on dynamics. Correctly used, lossy compression can have zero audible consequence no matter how good the equipment or how "golden" the ears.

That said, a recording studio shouldn't ever be dealing with lossy codecs, because there's simply no need to, and because there's a sliver of possibility that the inaudible lossy artefacts could compound into an audible artefact over multiple generations.

The only time a lossy codec should ever be used is by distribution networks and/or end users.
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Definitely like the user interface here. I normally do this kind of planning in Excel or Sheets, but it's hard to "visualize" the trip in tables. The timeline is great.
> But if it's making 300k+ per year

In Silicon Valley it's not uncommon to see new grads (not even PhD) getting 200K total first year compensation. I was comparing quantitative finance vs silicon valley as a career for mathematically inclined software engineers. You won't end up poor either way.
There are already Gmail/Microsoft/Facebook providing single sign on for users.

That doesn't mean applications are bothering to support them.

Actually, Facebook is ubiquitous for popular apps to the point it's often mandatory. (too bad for privacy :( )

Google App for business (and Microsoft to a less extent) have market shares among professionals but many SaaS and hosted applications cannot integrate with it at all.
In fact, it is pretty much the opposite of what they said.
The consequences of one's own interpretation, if deleterious, are one's own loss. When they include the disinvitation of a brilliant and deeply knowledgeable speaker from a conference in his field, they become everyone's loss.
When overtaking another car or truck, I always:

1 - look to the other car mirrors: if I can't see his head/face, he provably can't see part of my car

2 - look at its tyres: I find that it's faster to see if he will change lanes by the position/direction of the tyres, specially trucks.

Note: yes, where I live, it's common that a truck decides to overtake another truck right in the moment you're doing it too.
It's hard without specific examples, but brusque or somewhat impolite generally seem common. For example, someone asserts something technical in a strong way, lacking technical insight, or re-animating a zombie topic. The response is often short and somewhat acerbic. To be honest, replying in a sensitive way, with references to past converations, takes a long time.

I would contrast this with jerk as being someone who deliberately disregards the comfort and feelings of others to satisfy themselves: the queue jumper, Steve Jobs, someone who humiliates people on minimum wage, who doesn't re-rack the weights at the gym, who parks in the disabled car park.
> And if someone 'experiments' with hard drugs like cocaine or heroine, he/she is statistically-definitely addict with all consequences. One doesn't simply stop after first dose, that's why non-medical drug use is illegal.

This is definitively wrong. They do not meet the medical criteria for substance use or substance dependence. Nor is it statistically probable that a person eventually will, given that they have taken the drug at least once.

Please do not spread misinformation.
Atom with a vim plugin or sublimetext are good windows options for vim.
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Thanks for your many book summaries. Love those. Here's another good list: https://sivers.org/book
While I don't think that article is really reviling anything new, there is a few good take a ways.

Firstly: Calling people is still a viable option. Short of meeting face to face, calling someone is still the fasted way of communication and avoiding misunderstandings.

Secondly: The idea that "everyone has Facebook" is invalid. You should always provide users with an alternative to Facebook, ideally just have a website.

The article does make it sound like teenagers are leaving social media behind, but it's only a minority. The interesting thing, to me is that those not using social media have retained the feeling that being busy with your phone and not the people around you, is rude. It makes you wonder if society will split into people who believe that the other group is rude and a group that thinks that the other "simply don't get it".
Of course they are. If you are in that situation, then the patient would die (asphyxiate, probably, since they cannot breathe) without help. The doctor _tried_ to help, in non-optimal circumstances, so as long as the mistake was not intentional or due to negligence, the I believe the law will protect you in most countries.
This is the only collection of research on the topic I've seen but if anybody has evidence for a lower number I'd be happy to see it.

http://www.fdareview.org/05_harm.php

Specifically:

[T]he benefits of FDA regulation relative to that in foreign countries could reasonably be put at some 5,000 casualties per decade or 10,000 per decade for worst-case scenarios. In comparison, it has been argued above that the cost of FDA delay can be estimated at anywhere from 21,000 to 120,000 lives per decade
You did see that I made a distinction between grammatically and semantically, right?

Grammatically, the "they" is clearly plural, as it is used with the plural verb form "give" and not the singular "gives".

Look up "subject verb agreement".
Actually, it's now called "OpenID Connect" and it's a profile of the OAuth spec.
If you missed it, Paul Graham tweeted about this earlier today:

"A lot of these tactics are mistaken, but they show China cares about startups in a way the US does not."[0]

"China is doing to the US what the US did to Britain in the 19th century: growing their economy while we waste money on our empire."[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/772343525199474688
[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/772344187995947008
AAC is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standard. You probably listen to AAC-encoded audio far more often than you realise.
> if used in a responsible way, the harm caused is practically zero.

And yet so many people struggle with using alcohol in a responsible way.

Alcohol is, incidentally, the only household-name drug that can actually kill you from withdrawal. Believe it or not, even though heroin withdrawal is miserable, as long as the person is taken care of and kept hydrated, they won't die from it. That is not true of alcohol; a person suffering from acute alcohol withdrawal can literally die from the direct effects of the withdrawal themselves.

In a pinch, opiates can actually be used to help a person detox from alcohol and mitigate the life-threatening seizures (and the pain). Benzos are much better for this, though, and are more commonly used in medical detoxification scenarios.
Yep, true. I use a used dedicated server for backup with FreeBSD w/ ZFS and 2 3 TB disks in mirrored ZFS. I pay 36 EUR/m for this setup. I think you must be lucky to get a similar setup for the same price from online.net.
Yes, I'm sure it has nothing to do with pharmaceutical companies rewarding doctors for over-prescribing it, and in essence mobilizing them as drug dealers.
It's plausible in the sense of believable. I did not say it was solid or well-argued. You raise excellent counter arguments. However the point of my comment was there is no need to even go that far, the whole notion of civilizations being carried by shiploads of newcomers is flawed.
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I'm still appalled when an ebook accepts Bitcoin but still asks for your "billing address".
Here's an interesting point. Very rapidly flashing lights, like dimmed LED car tail lights, show up on the human retina as dashed lines after a visual saccade.

I wonder if visibility could be helped by leaving some flashing in the tailights when they're full-bright : when the brake-light mode is activated.

(I mean LEDs that are dimmed by flashing them on and off at a rate faster than persistence of vision.)

Another visual thing. This is a pet peeve. Emergency vehicles use flashing BLUE lights. That's perceptually stupid. For one thing, human eyes, opened up (wide pupils, typical at night) do a better job of focusing longer wavelength light. This has two consequences:
-- it's slightly harder to locate the source of the light because it isn't as neatly focused on the retina.
-- the poorly focused blue light splatters all over the retina, desensitizing the rods of peripheral vision and spoiling dark adaption right when it's needed - entering into a zone where an emergency vehicle is active.

Secondly, red light-- deep red light -- selectively desensitizes the cones in the fovea, leaving the rods in peripheral vision sensitized.

Conclusion: orange light would be a much better choice than blue for cop car flashing lights. It would focus better, preserve dark adaptation better, and preserve nighttime peripheral vision better.
> Whatever language is chosen, only a small subset of programs written in that language will be verifiable.

You're still focusing on arbitrary programs. Just don't write arbitrary programs. Let your intended proof tell you what program you need to write.

> Composing proofs of program correctness requires proof effort that is intractable in the complexity of each component, not in the number of components.

So keep each component small.

> However, that genetic algorithm I was referring to is conducted by all living systems as a single computational system.

This is still not verification. It's just testing on a much larger scale.
Looking at the other jobs on recruiterbox, is the senior developer one still open?
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You can't look up other peoples' tax anonymously in Norway though since 2013. Your person of interest gets an automatic notification.
https://enboard.co - a web app where you can create "boards" filled with links

Some examples of such boards:

• https://enboard.co/web/

• https://enboard.co/frontend/

• https://enboard.co/webdesign/

• https://enboard.co/startup/

It'd be willing to hand it to someone (on partnership basis) who could maintain it and grow it.

Stack is Linode/Ubuntu/Python/Django/Sass.
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I can't find the article now, but there was a state somewhere in the southern US which had great success in reducing bridge strikes by setting a row of cowbells. It seems that the sound of many cowbells suddenly hitting the front of a moving truck can really get your attention.
Yes, Microsoft bought Skype, it didn't create Skype. There have been many substantive changes since then (e.g. much less peer-to-peer in operation).
The line of thinking is unreasonable. The line of thinking is this:

"I don't want somebody doing something I don't like. Therefore, I have the right to kill them."
Yes, I agree. I just think I better point out - for other readers - that my point was made for when people are unable to hear a difference even in blind tests. It was about a longer-term effect that is not part of the direct listening experience. Even if my memory was correct this effect would not change people's difficulty (or at some point, inability) in telling different sound sources apart.
I like that Giotto project.

Does it use WSGI?
You shouldn't be using bluetooth headphones with lossy compression if you care about audio quality.

(And it should be made clear that I have no in-principle issue with anyone purchasing or storing their local music library in a lossless format. It's a valid decision, particularly if you're establishing your music library in the last 5-10 years.)
The implicit fault in the OP is that the developers don't get anything out of providing support. This is entirely false, however, as your users are your testers. If the product isn't good enough to pay for, as many projects are when they start, or fills too small of a niche to justify a payment from someone, you risk your project becoming stagnant due to no user-input. When others use open source projects, their specific goals for using the project might vary slightly from the developer's, and the use-case will never be fleshed out--leaving the project at a lower quality than it could be, limiting appeal and growth.

That doesn't mean it's the wrong choice all the time, but these are the tradeoffs that you're making when you make that choice.
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I don't get the hate towards linode here, on hacker news. I've been their client for a couple of years now and I find it an excellent vps provider. Excellent uptime and performance at a pretty good price. AWS has a few outages every year. Google just had one last week. Azure sucks balls. So, why the hate? Is it because it competes with some ycombinator startups?
Yeah that is a fair point. I had actually forgotten what a pain that was initially.

Nonetheless, if you can make it through setup the end results are quite attractive.
Flashing orange lights? You mean like indicators and traffic lights? I think the blue is there because nothing else on the road has that colour.
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How has uptake been for crudzilla? Do you offer hosting?
it's conceivable, and that's the issue...

innuendo ALSO says something...

it says: these charges are big enough and serious enough to grant anonomity to said "other speakers" and grant secrecy to the stated charges.

Bottom line: they are a private entity and can do whatever they wish to, more or less, however, I don't consider their petty behavior reasonable in any way, especially given the context and further info released, inadvertently or otherwise...(pastebin of Slack conversation)

"The correct thing for the organization to do" is also not really a matter of our public concern. They have already made their move, and it's shameful and wrong, IMO.

Our public concern (that which WILL advance humanity) lies in crucifying such behavior as this conference organizer has displayed, to discourage further disgusting displays of intellectual cowardice and perversion of REAL social justice issues.

Once you let privileged bullies grasp a bit of power, they don't tend to let go. It's really quite oppressive, and makes me uncomfortable. (and yes, the ability to get a keynote speaker thrown-off in a public and last minute fashion is a kind of power and privilege wielded like a true oppressor.)

It's certainly not an environment conducive to the safe spaces they seem to be verbally wishing to achieve...

(censorship via an insulting combo of an invitation and then rescinding it in order to no-platform said speaker based upon flimsy evidence of flimsy charges that don't hold-up to the slightest bit of scrutiny. Were "everyones" comfort actually considered in the slightest, the organizers would already have developed a tactic for dealing with troublemakers as such.)
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On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.