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> I felt that I was surrounded by people far smarter and more knowledgeable than me

I had constantly feelings of this when I studied at the University of Cambridge. It never really bothered me, but there was just this nagging feeling of "should I really be here?". Weirdly enough, it was a drunken conversation with a medical student about calcium channel blockers, and realising I could understand the concepts quickly and have a reasoned discussion despite being a computer science student (and being about 4 hour into an event that had free-flowing Champagne...), that finally made me realise why I'd been invited to study there and the impostor syndrome feelings never bothered me again.

I also had another realisation a year or so later when studying at different university - my supervisors at Cambridge were constantly pushing us (me and two other students from my college) forward, going far beyond what was actually needed for any of the formal exams, something which seemed far less prevalent at the other university (not to say the staff were poor - they would address happily issues beyond the syllabus if asked, just not actively introduce them). It suddenly made the feeling of never being on top of stuff at Cambridge make a lot more sense.

I'm definitely glad to have had my time at Cambridge, but it was certainly not easy going.
>since if it's so awesome why keep it secret?

Because if Facebook or Google says "I'll take every drive you can make for the next year", you've got guaranteed minimum revenues for the next 12 months.

If you tell them they can only have half, and you release the other half to the retail market, they may or may not sell in the quantities you're hoping for. And you will likely loose the contract for goog/fb.
Whether you watch it on TV or pay HBO (or Netflix or whoever) to stream it they're still TV shows, produced by TV networks. It's the format, not the delivery that matters. The parent comment was obviously about the quality of the content. Nobody cares whether it comes over coax or TCP.
At my last job working for a small software company, I was able to get my boss to modify the employment contract such that a specific list of other projects (attached as an appendix to the contract) was excluded from the work product & IP ownership clauses. The idea was that if I wanted to work on a side project, I would clear it with him first, and then we would sign a quick amending agreement to the original contract which added the new side project to the list.

Major caveats: I haven't ever tested this method in an actual legal dispute. Also, the negotiation involved a shouting match in a crowded bar. YMMV.
> And when I left the company that bought me out to start another project, I made sure that I had a release to say that I'm indemnified against any future legal actions and I started the project the day after I got that release.

How do you force a company to do something like that? What's in it for them to agree, especially when you're leaving?
As a non native speaker I have same issue.
... and that last 20% proficiency will take until the heat death of the universe. It'll be fun trying though, and you'll learn lots of really cool things.
I've made a very simple software that tags such emails, and generates an automated reply back. From the response I get, I suspect the marketers don't realize I'm using tools similar to theirs.
not when 90% of your work is done through email....
Comments don't change it from being valid javascript whatsoever.
Yeah, over the past 10 years or so I've swtiched entirely to DVD sets and on-demand streaming. It's not about lowering the bill, it's that the only real edge TV had -- the only reason to put up with all the ads and scheduling bullshit -- was the size of the library. Now that TV-on-DVD and Hulu have gotten big, that's not a problem anymore.
I am a polite person but I decided years ago to ignore these. My reasoning is that if it's truly urgent they will figure out how to get through the email noise, and if it's a friend they can just text or tweet or call me.

I sleep fine at night.
What state was this in?
How often do they give it the OK?
It is so crazy how doctors can just lock people up and drug them. No trial, no right to an attorney, not even a one phone call always... Someone who just murdered someone and went to jail has more rights than these doctors give people.

Personally, I think a majority of the mental health industry is a fraud. These are the same people who voted that being LGBTQ is a mental illness in the DSM. :( Plus they don't even have blood testing like the majority of doctors can use as a test.

Then they over diagnosed kids and drug them, as a result of the one size fits all and boring education system - which promotes testing and memorization over charter and critical thinking.
I just signed up for DirectvNow, so I'll see how I end up using it. I thought I would watch it more than I would but I've only seen about 2 episodes in 2 weeks.
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I finally cut the cord thanks to Kodi, Amazon Instant and a DTV receiver. I realized last earlier this year that $150/mo. for TV when everyone in my family was literally watching one channel a piece was a massive waste of money.

I love it. The only things I watch are things I want to watch. I don't have my thoughts and opinions shaped by talking heads anymore. Most of all, I'm spending over $1000/year less. The money I'm saving is enough to pretty much cover the note on the brand new car I just bought. Can you believe that? I literally could buy a car with what I was paying to fill my head up with nonsense.
Yes, not easy when you see your friend doing it as a standard thing
IIRC, Pittsburgh voted down the stadium several times, but then they pulled some political shenanigans to shove it through.

The problem isn't that the Steelers and Pirates should have separate stadiums. That's fine. The problem is that the stadiums should pay for themselves.

If a stadium isn't a good enough business proposition to get funded privately, it shouldn't get funded, period.
Yeah, but Amazon's also shipping exercise machines. These can't be more than 2-3 pounds of stuff if they're not worth $5.
The presence or absence of commercials is a huge element in the "format". It's possible to never see commercials online -- which isn't possible on TV. Also, Shows of this quality are the vast minority, not the "vast majority".
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But why should it be different from the rest of the internet? You also have to dig through mountains of shit to find, let's say HN.
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can you tell me how you got burned by that indiegogo campaign? Did you back the product and receive it?
Yeah, after reading all this, I wouldn't blame those patients if they didn't trust healthcare professionals anymore. It's clear these people don't have the patient's best interests in mind.

Locking the doors behind people coming into the hospital voluntarily? I wish they were making this up.
Surprised nobody has mentioned the elephant in our industry yet: recruiters and recruitment companies. I'm not talking about those employed by big companies, but those who are independent.

For the last year and a bit I've been contracting with a company, and the recruiter who found me has fees of around 10% per day of my work, which they bill the company.

They found me via LinkedIn, sent me a couple of emails, arranged a Skype call between me and the company, and sent me a bit of paperwork. Not bad for €10k.
Oh I'm positive the company can afford both. In fact, my understanding is that their "regular" donations to charity, as in apart from this holiday gift, is many many times the value of the gift.

Don't get me wrong, if they donated all those things, and gave me some gadget, I'd be happy. But with a cool head, I rather the cost of that gadget be added to the donation too.
On every comment thread about ESPN's subscriber losses, I see comments like these, which are attached to this Post story:

"I stopped watching both ESPN and the NFL because of their liberal politics."

"What a shock.ESPN pushes it's liberal agenda at every turn alienating half your audience and are suprised subscribers are canceling in droves."

"Way more than half. Most ESPN viewers are/were male. You'd expect common sense to prevail at some point and lead them to restrain themselves from committing ratings suicide, but leftists just can't seem to help it."

"ESPN has driven millions of viewers and subscribers away because of their incessant shoving of their leftist politics in our faces. Whenever I want to watch a game on ESPN, I'm instead subjected to lectures about gay "marriage," Castro, alleged "police brutality," and Bruce Jenner's constitutional right to shower with other people's teenage daughters. ESPN can now be easily mistaken for a rerun of the Democratic National Convention, why bother to watch it?"

"Amazing, not one single word about what is by far the biggest reason for ESPN's current demise. It has become PMSNBC. Every talking head, show host, etc. knows that if they do not toe the Liberal fascist party line, they will be Schillinged."

"ESPN has become a liberal voice in politics. I no longer listen but on watch sports. It has failed its mission."

The conservative half of our country is not happy with ESPN.
Thanks! But I still don't understand how they're still alive?

How can you lose billions of dollars and still be in business? Are they borrowing the money from someone? Where is the money they don't have coming from?
Really good, thank you!
Maybe you could add a top tab, for see videos with the most upvotes (by week, by month, etc)
Very good job!
How does it affect the side projects(open/closed source) that you were already working on before taking up the new job?
The app you seek is Asana.

www.asana.com

I'm not associated with them, but I have used them successfully for months at a time (better than most productivity software). The reason is it is well integrated and similar to email.
>Shows of this quality are the vast minority, not the "vast majority".

There are higher quality TV shows than ever before. To say TV "had its heyday" is outrageous. TV, not movies, is where the magic is happening these days.

I know people who have paid for HBO accounts to watch shows as soon as they come out (instead of pirating them or binging them a few years later), ditto for cable subs and commercials. The average consumer is not bothered by this stuff IME.
I'm in the US, we usually get weekends off as well, which comprise of almost ten days off in a month, let alone a year.
I think it is awesome that you are working on a project.

Most folks don't get started, so congrats on that, but can I say please do talk to some lawyers asap.

I know it is super painful but, believe me, it can save you months if not years of going down the wrong direction.

Here is a blog post we put together to show how to get in touch with people to interview:

https://blog.nugget.one/2016/09/21/case-study-how-i-got-25-c...

Apologies for the unsolicited advice :)
> What are we working towards again?

Having a worldwide population of more than 10000 people ?

What I don't get about basic income is the incentives this would bring, which invalidate the whole thing. It's not a Nash equilibrium. What this would create is a huge class of 100% dependent people who have no power, entitlement and are in a very unfair relationship (to their advantage) with the rest of humanity (by current standards).

The productive group will hate the basic income receivers because they "steal" money. And the basic income receivers will hate the productive group because they'll be the ones constantly saying "no you can't have any more", "no we can't do that", "no we can't save your little girl by dedicated 50 medical personnel to just her", "no no no no no no" ... And while I don't believe in Ayn Rand, I do believe that the productive group can leave.

This will bring tensions and hate between the productive side of the population, which will be only a few, and the rest. The government, of course, will be in the pocket of the productive side, because they represent (and control to some extent) the limits of what is realistically/economically possible. The smaller the productive group, the more clout they'll have.

Eventually they will get rid of the basic income receivers.
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The head trauma is what made me stop watching football. I used to watch 8 hours of football every Sunday (on Red Zone). At some point this off season, I began to think about what I was really watching. I also got the sense that the NFL was taking the fans for granted. The major rule changes every year really bugged me, especially when nothing was done (except trying to reduce the amount of returned kickoffs) to alleviate the concussion issue.

At some point I just felt like I didn't want to watch old dudes "own" young men while they tried to kill each other for America's entertainment. It started to feel like real life mandingo fighting (from Django Unchained) and I decided that I didn't want to be a part of enriching that.
One good way I thought of, is to mention that you volunteer your skills to nonprofits on the weekends / vacation, and that you want to make sure they don't have any legal issues down the road. So if they hand you that form, tell them you need to send it to your lawyer first. Then have your lawyer and their lawyer figure it out.
Nah, as an employee you probably already have a corporate phone, and I'm sure you can get a corporate smartwatch too without problem. So it wouldn't really be an effective strategy.
> so any backdoors the authors want to slip in would have to impact only the voting system, and not raise anyone else's attention.

Except that many of the backdoors are universal backdoors, meaning that they can be remotely updated with new instructions.
Def some physiology behind that. If some random movie is on TV it's like "oh cool this is on," if that same movie is available on demand to watch whenever I want it's "seen it, don't need to watch again."

That and I'm paranoid about everything I watch being tracked and used to profile me.
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Very much agree. I get a ton of these personalized emails that go something like "Hey it's Joe from Startup A, thanks for using our product. Reach out and provide some feedback...". My first instinct is to reply back, thinking this is a real human attempting to connect. Then I realize it's a con. It's sad but I'm much less trustful now when I receive an email from someone I don't know. It just shouldn't be that way but these lazy marketers are preying on human generosity and decency and when you discover this it just leaves the worst taste in your mouth.
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> ...used it to predict all 365 possible DGA domains. When looking up their registration information, we found some of them have been registered by the MIRAI author...

Not so fast. This is just so that malware reverse engineers can't run strings on the executable (note also where they say this executable is stripped but not packed) and then block/tip the handful of hard-coded domains.

Anti-forensics is an arms race, and especially for a botnet like this the goal is to do just enough that you can spread (see also: premature optimization). You'll see it (mirai) get progressively better as the authors are forced to work harder.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130770
My last company did this. You don't know how hard it is to get people to turn their data over to you.
I don't think the kind of person that says things like that are cord cutters (which you have to be to stop subscribing to ESPN). These are just run of the mill assholes trying to make a point. The real reason ESPN is losing people is young people just aren't signing up for cable anymore.

EDIT:
I should point out that WaPo is pretty much a magnet for right-wing trolling b/c of election and being Bezos-owned. Incendiary comments from the right are par for the course on every WaPo article.
The difference here is that physics has an established set of rules to define what is a meaningless question and what is a meaningful question. There is a reason metaphysics is not physics.
In addition to its lower drag, it has higher thermal conductivity than air. Reduces certain heat effects.
How is that poor management ?

Linux gaming is a blip when you compare it to (a) the total gaming market, (b) the professional creative market and (c) the big data/deep learning market. All of which AMD is selling graphics cards into. And it's not like Linux is even some massive growth market that justifies some risky investment.
That page seems pretty... unscientific. Sensitivity to coarse language, for example, is a social issue that has nothing to do with sensory sensitivity.
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Michael Jordan once said that the reason he doesn't talk about politics is that Republicans buy sneakers too.
"they made a loss of half a billion last year"

Even that is misleading... More recently, AMD lost $406 million between June to Sept 2016.
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I think you may only be seeing things from your own point of view. The % of people that click and complete purchases from these re-marketing ads when they are done correctly is huge. Oftentimes in the 80% range when done correctly. When someone places something in a shopping cart but then leaves without finishing the purchase, that shows intent. There are a lot of things that could have interrupted that purchase. Reminding them about it and even offering a % off promo is very effective and many people appreciate it.

Yeah when done poorly, it can be ineffective and overbearing but I think that is the case with a lot of things that are done poorly.
The on demand nature of modern TV show delivery has allowed for a huge shift to serialized storytelling. Previously, there was a real drive for standalone episodes as there was significant money to be made by syndicating shows post their original air date. And, of course the conventional wisdom of "if someone misses an episode they'll quit watching".
Is it just me, or does it feel like "conservatives" have finally discovered the internet? Over the last few months, it feels like friggin everything has become Obama's fault, or suddenly "leftists" are responsible for X.

I'm not trying to be combative, or start a political argument. I have my own political leanings, sure, but I derive no joy from bitching about it on the internet. I just know that everything I read on a daily basis has veered to the right in the last few months.

Is this a cultural shift, or a demographic that was relatively unheard in this medium asserting itself for the first time? I'm not making a value judgement either way, just wondering.

(Don't get me wrong, shit like Conservapedia has been around for years now. But most of the stuff I read, for better or worse, has been pro-social justice, pro-multiculturalism, etc. until now. Do fewer people buy into that nowadays? Or is what I'm seeing the result of more people participating?)
Do these drivers have any relevance to OpenCL etc? It seems that could be a bigger market for AMD on Linux than graphics/gaming.
I believe the term you're looking for is 'analytics'

/s
Intel infused them with money the last time they were about to go under.

AMD's existence prevents Intel from having to face prosecution for monopoly status.
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Are we still not talking about politics?
Same with me. I'm disgusted that they did not do much about had trauma. I'm also disgusted that it is so difficult for me to watch games I want without paying a lot of money, even when they are in the past. A third think I'm disgusted with is that some of my favorite players will have a few bad games and then get cut from the team.
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Usually yes either they just go through some one like Hull Supply (the company I worked for) or they have their own department. Whoever they go through however still has to deal with this shit. Masterkey is fine if you already have a key schedule, it'll spit out as many pinning combos as it can.

at 300$ a license there's room for competition and if you could make a GUI that says calls to a prolog style logic engine to automatically create the keying hierarchy (Management needs keys to these doors, renters need keys to these doors, janitorial needs key to these doors, etc...) you could easily beat the functionality of Masterkey.
They actually changed it - when I looked at it, they had some BS about approving linking to their site.

Tried finding the backup on archive.org, but it's having a difficult time with that site.
Jaxn, don't pay attention to this guy.

Thanks for telling us about what you did campaigning as a politician, and keep it coming.

The truth we learn is worth a lot more than ad hominem moraliziing.
That seems to me to be fraught with all manner of peril. Suppose a burglar poses as a buyer under an assumed identity, and then robs the house while wearing a mask. What is the recourse?
>What's the problem

Really?

> verse 3: And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

What are verses 14-17 about, then?

Edit: For clarity...

a) Birds preceding reptiles and insects seems obviously flawed.

b) Verse 3 "Let there be light" would almost have to correlate with the big bang...light somewhere, but not on the earth. Verses 14-17 seem clearly to be about the sun being created. Created millions of years after the grass (and other things that need light?), if we take the notion that "days" aren't literal, and are meant to match what we've seen in science.

This has the verses laid out in a way that's easy to follow: http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-Chapter-1/
All these ideas are wrong, because they are cash grabs. Money will never satisfy you. Find a startup you love by looking back to your best memories(10 years ago or more) of creating something and seek to give people that experience. Then, even if you fail financially, you'll still have more great memories, 10 years from now.
Sacramento has a ton of city owned parking garages near the new arena which are typically empty in the evening. The city contributed $212 million to the arena based on future increased parking revenue generated from events at the arena.

I've been to several events this year at the Golden1 Center and have spent no more than $10 on parking for the evening. The city did use this as an excuse to increase meter rates and extend hours, but it's only $0.50/hr more.
Do you just not like sports, or espn in particular?
I doubt you intended it this way but the little smiley face comes across as being super condescending :)
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Oh, thanks for clarifying. I misunderstood.
The experiment was ended early. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251
I use vim on an older Macbook Pro. Even with a physical escape key, mapping caps lock to escape is a huge improvement. Now one of your most highly used keys is right on the home row instead of far off in the corner.
well, i'll admit that orthodox and heretical aren't strictly antonymous, but at least in historical use, 'orthodox' (big-o or no) refers to "adherence to accepted creeds" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodoxy

By contrast, there are few concepts more "heretical" (in the literal/etymological sense of the word) than "sola scriptura," i.e., to "become a church unto oneself."

It is precisely this implicitly heretical "sola scriptura" preoccupation (and with it, such anxiety to prove the veracity of the physical texts themselves!) that contradicts the very concept of orthodoxy.

Sitting in a chair is either a) not an act of faith or b) the word faith itself designates nothing at all.