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I think both undertaking (saving planet Earth and colonizing Mars) are independent of each other. Currently we have enough resources to work towards both goals simultaneously.
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I dunno but I think you guys might be talking past each other a bit - this discussion is different depending on whether "dancing" is ballroom dancing, e.g. or ballet, modern, or what have you.

Although even with modern, there is a strong school aiming to democratize dance. My family were performers in Kaeja D'Dance (http://www.kaeja.org/) Porch View Dances this year (look it up if you like dance) and the performances were very good. The choreographers were very careful to work around body types and capabilities.
Almost one in ten people set to quit the internet in the UK
How many more days we are talking about?

But I really think that it is a good thing that it is not dependent on working within a single company as I have feeling that different kind of loyalty programs are approaching the serfdom in the longer run, as people are afraid to leave as they would not receive the level of compensation from somewhere else.

PS. I do not think that it is fair that some childless 40-year old are free riding on top of the society.
Are there any public examples of this? I'd be interested in taking it forward to regulators.

The tiny bit of searching I've done so far have Capita including text similar to "We're an equal opportunities employer".

I know a couple of politicians who'd be interested too.
"Real men own fabs."
Please put the year, e.g. (2004), at the end of the title when the year is available and the post/article/content was not dated within the last several months. Old content is still relevant, but I was looking forward to something current when I clicked on this, especially after HN just got to talk with him in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851

Also, if anyone wants to try to pair sunspot cycles with programming languages as Alan mentioned in jest, here's some data:

http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml

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

(Although, Wikipedia's list looks far from complete.)
Just a crying shame that almost every company I've worked for, has the archaic notion that you have to have your derriere firmly installed in their office chairs. Any other arrangement appears to imply sub-par output.
I would question the word "loads" ;] Sups are usually earning around 150-200 CAD p/y, seniors 100-130. I may be wrong with the numbers though.
I'm reminded of a quote (not sure who by, and I'm paraphrasing) along the lines of;

"Those who desire power make the worst leaders, those who don't make the best."

Basically anyone who wants to be leader, probably shouldn't be. Not sure how you would resolve a dilemma like that though.

I've always felt a modern version of Sortition would be ideal;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Working in Brazil.
I can, but it does mean leaving the 10 years of career behind and starting from zero with no formal education in CS.

clarification: I'm doing truly microscopic amount of development at work. And usually these are simple Python scripts.
I disabled all* tracking a few months ago. When I go to this link today I see "no activity". Aside from a few nagging messages here and there, my Google experience across all their products continued to work without a hitch. If you're thinking of turning all these settings off there's real effect on your end user experience (in my opinion). *I do wonder if they store soft copies anyway.
I wonder why you charge less for other kinds of work? It's still your brain and time they are paying for.
It would be a strange newspaper business indeed that sat quietly on a story like that.
Exactly. It's about reframing the task so that it goes from tedious to fun. I know it is an old and probably out of fashion book now, but I really think a lot of people who feel stuck in dead end jobs should read Fish! by Stephen Lundin [0]

To reframe this from the 'musician' side of my life, a lot of other guitarists I play with absolutely hate changing the strings on their guitars. They treat it like a chore to be avoided and rushed through only when really needed.

But a few years ago, I read a short story about how Samurai warriors used to care and polish their sword blades on a regular basis. I was entranced by the ritual and ceremony around this mundane process, so I set up a similar process around my guitar string changes. Now I actually look forward to doing string changes, as it give me a lot of meditative time to bond and learn more about my instruments and my music.

[0] - http://www.fishphilosophy.com/
Because I know the people and they don't have a license. Businesses have licenses, my friends and neighbors who participate don't.
However the alternative is making your own stack which for small devs is more resources then you may have. Instead of spending time developing the tech that's core you have to create a backend. I had a project on parse but it isn't very successful so I'm letting it die instead of migrating. If it was successful I would have the time & money to migrate it.
Coriolis effect doesn't make toilet water swirl direction in the northern hemisphere and the other direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
Its great that the underlying Signal protocol is secure, my major worry is how do we get more people to use it, and how do we make it more reliable?

As it stands right now, Signal is used exclusively by the moderately technically inclined, with a little over 1 million users. In a perfect world, it would be bigger than Whatsapp, which uses libsignal but has many metadata related issues, and also misses many older demographics in the US. Additionally, server reliability has been something like 710hrs out of 720hrs usually every month, with an outage just this last Saturday from 19:51 to 22:08 PST for everything but ZRTP calls.

I know Moxie will likely never allow interoperability with his servers after the cluster that was CyanogenMod WhisperPush interop, but we need something to allow for self hosting or alternative hosting, Signal's servers are not bulletproof and a local server in remote areas can be invaluble, essentially XMPP with Conversations is all we have in this arena right now.
Brazil, can create new reports.
This is great news. Never ever before was I so interested in manufacturing operations and logistics.
Should games firms welcome or fear Chinese conquest?
Try Subsonic. It's a media streaming platform with an HTTP frontend, and can do arbitrary transcoding of arbitrary files on the fly depending on network speed.

Did I mention that it has a free version which is perfectly usable, and probably has most of the features you want (IIRC, it's $10 a month for your own subdomain and support for the app, but you also download MadSonic, which has the features, but not the domain).
Related post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12899398
> True, but when speaking about "lots", we have to keep in mind that tiled window management for the general public died together with Windows 1.0.

And came back with Windows 8 :-)

> That probably puts the percentage of the public who's ever used tiled window management around 0.001% of the total PC using population :)
I'm in an eerily similar situation. Been doing software development for about 5 years (though at different places, doing primarily Android development), am just over 6 weeks at a new job and I'm beginning to feel that software development's just not for me anymore. I don't feel passionate about most aspects of it - constantly playing catchup with the latest frameworks, the development/management methodologies/processes, wrestling with the Android framework, pushing pixels, UI/UX...

There are still elements that I enjoy. I still love the creative, mathematical problem-solving aspects, but those moments feel few and far between.

I also feel at times I'm taking my position for granted - I'm not sure what else I'd do besides programming. I've always had a casual interest in security, so I'm thinking I might look into that. Being a "bug bounty-hunter" seems like a dream, though I'm not entirely sure how realistic that would be!

I also love music, but I think that's even less feasible. I'm not proficient enough to be able to teach it. But I would like to be able to dedicate more time to learning/producing it.

Good luck - here's hoping we find something more fulfilling :).
This is surprising and interesting... how do companies who do not value quality when the code is first written come to value quality later?

I'd expect a pattern where the original thrower-of-spaghetti-against-the-wall has left, and management assumes the later devs - who can't go as fast, or get more bugs because of the holy mess of the codebase - are just not as good as the first guy.
I know it's somewhat a vanity metric, but this list should have GitHub stars listed for each project. Would save us some work :)
Seems to me you didn't actually left programming :)
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As someone who doesn't earn quite as much, whose day job is maintaining and modifying big, monolithic and outdated Spring/Webflow/JSF applications from hell I'd like to ask you: What exactly are you doing and how do did you get there?
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I don't believe that air pollution in London in 2016 is anywhere near as bad as in the 1950s. Not by a long shot.

Air Quality targets have become massively more demanding.
Is there any information on building connectors to new data sources? I can't find any on the site.
Use open source alternatives in a first place. For authentication there is RedHat's http://keycloak.org, thanks to containers it's really easy to setup if you want to try it out. See https://medium.com/@ak1394/simple-social-login-for-react-nat... for an example.
I prefer the older one. Is faster.
> smart but artless

So, it's just not for you. You fail to see art in it, That happens, it's ok. Maybe you need to think about gradually moving to the movie business, they need programming too, you know.
Ditto. Probably someone messed up some piece of dynamically loaded server-side rendered stuff in the repository info bar. Since not everyone seems to have it it's probably not on full-roll-out, but just a small part of the user base.
I guess it's hobbyists who's normal internet connection is ipv4, but on the weekend they have time to dick around with ipv6 devices and connections.
No, it is not random, and it is not an article. It is an advertisement.
It never made any sense to me. None of the scientists I know even remotely resemble the characters in the show.

I can understand comedy that exaggerates the characters istics of their subjects for comedic effect (e.g. silicon valley). But all of big bang theory seems just to have been written by people utterly ignorant of their source material.
Yet I only find job postings where they're looking for someone to code C/C++. I still don't know what that means. Does that mean both or one or the other? Or that they're still undecided as to what language to use? Maybe they don't know what language they are using..?
The Google Analytics team built a dashboard tool, as part of their "Google Analytics 360" release. Other teams, including Cloud, then worked with them to make it available for other data sources, including Google BigQuery and MySQL.
Which doesn't have anything to do with PCs, MS-DOS and being open.
Not true. Geoffrey Hinton is only interested in cognitive science (he said in a speech I heard that he thinks it's delightful that there are practical applications that lead Google to pay for his research, but he doesn't care at all about them, only about understanding the brain), and Rich Sutton started there and continues to actively follow and think about cognition.
Better late than never I guess, but come on... IPv6 is nearly 20 years old in 2 years...
The problem is that to take a screenshot of how the page actually looks, you need almost everything from the browser. Rendering of HTML/CSS/images/videos, Javascript execution, networking, cookies... you end up with 90% of the browser, and then removing the last 10% is not worth it.
It's probably not quite as rosy as you state here, I'm afraid.

Let's look at a 380,000 viewer show. It's very unlikely that ever single one of those viewers paid for Netflix for a solid year just to get access to that show (which will have all its episodes released at once).

So let's assume it has significant cult appeal, meaning a full 25% of its viewers are primarily subscribed for that show and things like it. (I'd say that's likely to be very high, based on my experience in the narrative video world, but let's be optimistic.) And let's say, based on subscribing for that show and forgetting to cancel for a couple of months (or subsequently being retained by another 380k viewer show), that Netflix gets 3 months' worth of revenue from them.

So that's 380k/4 = 95,000 * $7.99 * 3 = $2.28m revenue attributable to that show.

Of the shows you mention:

Marco Polo cost $90m to produce for the entire season.

Black Mirror doesn't have figures online, but it'll be around $3m per episode if it's similar to other BBC shows. So that's $18m.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt doesn't have figures available, but based on Tina Fey's fees for other shows and general knowledge of how much TV costs, I'll guess at about $3m an episode. (Might be cheaper if they're being clever about it, so could be as low as $2m) So that's $39m.

So, assuming that Netflix are just getting revenue from retained subscribers, and they get the figures above, we're looking at losses of:

$88m for Marco Polo.

$16m for Black Mirror.

$37m for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Obviously the situation is far more complex than that - they'll be financing with coproduction deals, they're looking for growth rather than revenue, they also acquire a lot of content cheaply (very, very cheaply in some cases) through licensing - but it's certainly not rosy enough that they'll be happy with 380k viewers for shows they're making.
Grief and sorrow are essential since you're expressing the loss of something that caused a great change in your life. Knowing that this change existed and has provoked such strange lows and highs can be deeper and more fulfilling than painless happiness. IMO anyway.
very well said
it is issue 546953[1] in the chromium issue tracker.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=546953
Yea, ISPs are upgrading home users for them.. Businesses tend to have their own equipment, and need to DIY the change, even if IPv6 is pushed down the wire to them by the ISP.
> suicide is a lot more prevalent than

If you are talking about war, then no, that's not suicide. The aim is not to die, even though it might be likely.

Even suicide bombers don't have death as their primary aim - if they achieve the same result without dying, they would.
Well, I'm over forty, and I think this sort of thing is awesome, and very useful. I love being able to see where I was on a business trip, work out where that interesting shop I stopped at but forgot to write down the name of was or see where I was drinking with friends the night before (stayed in one location from 22h00 to 03h30, then looks like I got a taxi home, that must be it!) but was too busy enjoying myself to make a note of the bar's location...

And, as people get older and their biological memory starts to suffer, this sort of external memory jogging feature will only get more and more useful, I suspect.
My friend was suicidal and we tried to get help from the authorities but got none. None at all. He later committed suicide for real and this makes me wonder why it matters to discover it if you're not even helping people that is asking for it?
I kinda doubt that the site had a real influence on that.
Can definitely see this becoming useful as a potential metabase replacement since we are using mysql - lack of postgres support is a weird choice though
Have you heard Office365?
> Every problem i can break into a sub problem is solveable.

Given the sub problems are either solvable or can in turn be broken down, I suppose?
These are not games companies, but e-sports ones mostly. So the Monkey Islands, Baldur Gates, Worms and Witchers of world seem to be unaffected.
The Clinton campaign's perception was they talked the reporter out of something.

As an ex-journalist, I've no doubt that on many occasions a PR thought they had convinced me of something when they absolutely hadn't.
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I had good teacher of physics. He always told to us that we must fully understand what happens at physical level, and only then start to calculate. „Shut up and calculate“ is not an answer for me.

I also don't feel frightened not knowing things, but now we know more than before. It's hard to imagine that particle must go through all slits and then God must play dice when you saw above video at least once.

General Relativity is based on assumption that speed of light is constant regardless of direction, and tests, done with 1E-17 accuracy, are proving that. But tests done with 1E-21 accuracy shows that speed of light is not constant, so whole theory was built on wrong assumption, but it still accurate to 1E-17, which is huge accuracy, much more than we need in practice.
I would be more surprised if they were not asked to store publicly not accessible information about everyone.
> Don't give me your attitude.

You are right. I apologize for the dismissive tone of my comment.
The "real men" part is a bit distasteful by modern decency standards, but that's the quotation. I read it more as saying something about businesses that make physical tangibles under their own steam.
Also relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12880520

I would recommend to read the article first and then follow the protectionism in the comments later.

The main claim of the article is that we need federation, as we do with the email (but imo we are loosing it).

In addition, Signal shares a problem with email - information about your communication circle is not secure.
But does it really work that way? Do you think that Netflix thinks it works that way?

I subscribe because it has X number of good shows, not because it has 1 good show. If Netflix only had "Super duper invaders from Mars" and that was the only show I was interested in, I wouldn't subscribe to them, I'd just pirate it.
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Tempting, but still lacks some of the required features.
I'm looking for something that I can use to send text messages, set timers and, most importantly, set reminders (also accessible via a web interface) using my voice, without some nefarious company keeping copies and tracking my usage.
I.e. the moon on a stick. ;-)
Sounds like a well handled deprecation to me:

> The Channel API did not scale well enough for the workloads it was intended for and so did not find wide adoption.

> You can use the Firebase Realtime Database to achieve superior realtime functionality in your application. Firebase is a more robust and customizable solution than the Channels API, and it allows communication with a broader set of clients. It currently supports Android, iOS, and apps, and web browser apps.
It's not for 'drill-down', it's for dashboards and data viz.
Awesome, you should also charge a nominal amount for the same service but without branding.
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> However there are documented instances, with Politico for instance where stories were given prior approval by the Clinton campaign before publishing.

Did they show the story to get 'approval' or did they check elements of the story before publication?
People blame crop burning as the reason. Probably the farmers are polluting this place for 15 days, but the same farmers are absorbing our emissions with their farm plants for the remaining 350 days in the year. Nobody seems to mention it ever. The farmers also give us food to eat.

The farmers only need about 2000 dollars for a machine called "happy seeder" to stop burning. It is not a lot of money but the political class will only "subsidize" it, as long as the illiterate farmer fills out a big application form, takes a crowded train to the far-away capital city and submits to the right official along with some bribe.

Given those conditions, I really cannot blame the farmer, I only feel sorry for them.

By the way, I live in Delhi. I am suffering because of this pollution but I will not blame the farmers like media and other people of Delhi. Farmers are nice and simple people, they give us food to eat. Their farms absorb the emissions from my petrol car till I can afford to go electric.
A skiplist is a good candidate for problems where you are considering some kind of self-balancing tree. I find a skiplist to be the simpler structure in those cases.

I personally used it in an observable collection library, where I needed efficient indexed insert and the ability to compute the index of a node.
$10 million sound a lot to me. How do you plan to reach you goal if you don't mind me asking?
Most books are mind numbing garbage too, so what?
The trouble is, when you get the first one wrong, it doesn't encourage people to take the time to read the rest.
Who was it? Maybe we can shame them to action via twitter, etc. Or at least make them aware that this isn't cool
I don't think the difference is about the source of the money. It's about whether the returns are, to use terms from machine learning, in exploration versus exploitation.

If the point of these expensive weapons systems is to inefficiently defeat imaginary enemies, then clearly they are a waste of money and the real motive is corporate welfare.

But if the point is 'we don't know what the world will be like in 2050, and the only way to find out and start preparing for it is to build a lot of hardware that doesn't end up getting directly used' then that could be a valid justification. I'm not making any claims about whether that actually is the justification. I'm just saying that if it is, it's the one that would work.
I don't think they've really gotten their footing financially yet in the post-print world. They have large, high quality operations, including digitally, but they haven't figured out how to pay for it all in a steady state.

The latest in a long series of articles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/business/media/buyouts-wal...

I hope the traditional newspaper with deep, broad, daily coverage can survive, but I'm not sure they can. We may be left with state news organizations (BBC), donation supported news organizations (NPR), news organizations that do newsgathering for the purpose of informing investments (Bloomberg), and organizations with less ambitious coverage goals (any of the online news magazines). The wire services may end up being the last to go or they may carve out a niche even if the national papers of record can't.
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Alternatively write some basic constructs (loops, functions etc.) in C and inspect the generated assembly. You have to fiddle with compiler settings a bit because the optimized output isn't very helpful but for me it was extremely helpful to see what ASM code my compiler tool chain actually produces (to understand the typical function call structure for example).

Doing simple reverse engineering challenges is also a fun and easy way to get a patter matching kind of feeling for assembly.
Let the poaching begin. BMW, Porsche and friends will better come up with solid retainers, lest lose their top talent.
what is "sups"?
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