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why wouldn't it be?

raising sheep requires land, remember? it's livestock, grass/feed, water, veterinarians, medication, sheepdogs, abattoir, compliance, inspection, processing, packing, refrigeration, shipping.

if you're producing wool, let's substitute/add shearing, washing, drying, processing, packing, etc.

not to mention sales, marketing, client relations, accounting, human resources, payroll taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, value added taxes, etc. because a ranch is a business that turns over probably millions a year.

how much does all that cost in the UK? how much does it cost in NZ? find the difference, and compared to the shipping costs, which are trivial, probably a couple of thousand dollars to get a refrigerated 30 foot container from Auckland to Amsterdam, then another few hundred pounds to get it across the channel and into a distribution center in the south of england.

i don't know a damn thing about farming or logistics, but all it takes is about 2 minutes of thought to see how the economics would work.
Can anyone explain why this reasonably benign statement was downvoted ?
Ahh "fake news" meaning "It's not something that corresponds to my preexsting political viewpoint", as opposed to the actual definition of "complete and utter fabrication."
Because there's absolutely no evidence that it was rigged? Just because the DNC preferred the lifelong Democrat to the lifelong independent (who could have guessed that?) doesn't mean they couldn't still have operated a fair primary.
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From the guys I know who interviewed here (and are publicly mocking on the company and advising people to not bother interviewing there :D)
I think you're been unnecessary defensive. I'm not questioning the value of doing side projects.

Money might not be everything, but it certainly is something. This is especially true when comparing consulting (something I genuinely quite like doing, it's almost totally bullshit free) with running my own SaaS startup (which also seems attractive, but would involve doing more of the things I dislike than now).

Still, to be clear, I absolutely do want to make side projects happen. It's just hard to keep the motivation up when there's a steady flow of interesting projects from clients which have immediate, guaranteed revenue attached to them.
It's actually even worse than that (for everyone else). In Q3 2016 Apple had 104% of the profits -- because most of the other companies in that industry had no profits at all.

Samsung came in at #2 with 0.9% of profits (they usually do a little better, but the Note 7 thing happened).
Point 7 wasn't that the hack took place or the matter of who did it, it's the three-letter-agencies publicly accusing Russia of it. They did so because a) they believe it's provably true, or b) ???.
With the exception that the human factor is removed. I have to imagine the number of teenage kids who'd take an en route drone out of the sky is greater than the number that would attack a UPS driver or steal from someone's door.
“We now have high confidence that they hacked the D.N.C. and the R.N.C., and conspicuously released no documents” from the Republican organization, one senior administration official said, referring to the Russians.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-h...
There's a bit of a thin-skinned-ness to editing your own post to complain about downvoting. (I get downvoted sometimes. Honestly, who the fuck cares?)

To answer the substantive point you make, I think the hyperbole of "lynch mob" is a bit overused in these circumstances. Historically, lynch mobs hung (often innocent) victims from trees. Writing Medium posts isn't exactly equivalent.

So what exactly is your complaint? That Jacob wasn't (also) prosecuted? I share that complaint, but prosecutions for acquaintance rape are fairly rare and fairly difficult, unfortunately.

Or is your complaint that Jacob is subject to public criticism in this regard? For that I have less sympathy; the American standards for defamation and libel--which require falsehood and intentional maliciousness--strike me as taking the right balance here. If you cannot (for whatever reason) be successfully prosecuted, you have a tough time making the case that accusers should not be allowed to air their accusations publicly. (What you can do--and what Jacob has done vigorously--is mount your own public counter-argument, and leave it to readers to decide who's telling the truth.)

For what it's worth, I agree with you that this essay, lacking much in the way of firsthand testimony, is not especially helpful, but everyone can air their own reaction however they desire, I guess.
Does "lying" not imply one knows the truth?
My workstation uses FreeBSD 11 with zfs on root and it just works . I don't have to worry about the filesystem.
There is no personal gain or advantage to dwelling on the bad things your company could be doing. So if you work at company X and company X does some bad things but you're working on something you consider not bad, you focus on what you're working on. Sure you'd do things differently if you ran the company but you don't, so you just ignore that stuff. Mental self defense at its finest.
I have to agree with this. A lot of people create products to augment their consulting services.
> smarter than all humans in specific areas

What if that area happens to be persuasion?
No, they just don't care about you and are getting rich off of idiots. Sadly.
It's "debated" by white supremacists and everyone else. It's a completely bankrupt both scientifically and morally, had has been repeatedly discredited. You might as well be talking about the debate about the shape of the earth. The whole house of cards falls down with when you realize that race is a social construct, when no unifying scientific base at all.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_White_People where "white" has been expanded and contracted to mean whatever was politically convenient at the time. This is obvious to anyone with even a cursory observation of contemporary American culture. Barack Obama is "black" even though he's equally "white." Keanu Reeves is "white" even though he has an "asian" parent. Argentinians are "hispanic" despite being light skinned and descendent from Italians and Germans, why? Well they speak Spanish. Even the fragility of whiteness illustrate this fact.

This whole "race realism" is the same discredited scientific racism that has persisted for hundreds of years, and is this is the second (and far more virulent) time this has come up in my adult life. The only twist on this very old idea is that now the "smart asian kid" stereotype throws a wrench in the works, when before you you dismiss asians as a bunch of treacherous lazy opium addicts. Now you have to put them in on a near peer to whites, but but discount them as "smart, but not imaginative. Good followers, not leaders." The whole thing obviously is there to simply reinforce existing stereotypes, and reduce humanity to entries in the D&D Monster Manual.

Even in this forum, and this very thread we've got a guy pointing out this out completely with citations, and he's modded down to oblivion because of the actual racists in this forum (themgt, JPKab, wutbrodo, wallace_f, and no doubt others, including those hiding behind throwaway accounts) find it uncomfortable.

So in conclusion, fuck the fascists.
If your product can be crowdfunded on kickstarter/indiegogo I think it is a great exercise to get you to think critically about your product and validate demand.
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I've been in this hangover (vr induced DPDR) for over 5 months now. if you have any questions, AMA.

Glad to see people are beginning to report on it more.
My experience with the Irish from the early 00's, is that they thought those red party cups are the most horrible thing ever, and they thought it funny that we use them. If the people I met ever used them, it was with irony. In the late 90's German business guys thought that Breath Savers were just like phenolic cakes from urinals and thought it was hilarious to feed them to their American coworkers. I get the same vibe from both situations.
>...and is definitely worth the $20

One thing I love about Factorio (aside from everything else), is the pricing model. It never goes on sale, and never will. That means the usual agonizing over "should I buy it or wait until a sale?" is non-existent. More developers should adopt that model.
Forget shoplifting. This will be used to black list people for all sorts of reasons.
When I read this article, I was expecting to see a description of what they collect from users. But the real controversial and creepy part is what's available from the data brokers.

The fact Facebook is aggregating all this to make for better advertising options is discomforting, to be sure.

The most concerning aspect of the article is that these data brokers are able to correlate my purchases. It seems inevitable that insurance companies will take all of these individual data points into account: "We're sorry Mr. Register, because you buy McDonald's every week we'll have to raise your life insurance rates."
> Granted, it's always possible that the parallel on $PATH might not be the one you're thinking of, but... Whatevs.

For exactly this reason, GNU Parallel has the option --minversion.

So in your script you put:

parallel --minversion 20140722 || exit

if the rest of your script depends on functionality only present from version 20140722.

If the parallel in the $PATH is not GNU Parallel it will fail (and thus exit). If it _is_ GNU Parallel it will fail if the version is < 20140722 and succeed otherwise.
I thought people were doing defence work as contractors now, which is decently paid, as all contracting work.

Anyway, defence should be reasonable hours without week end works and on call. Not comparable to the average bro-grammer company.
Such an odd impulse. I've known guys who sold heroin and meth on the small to medium scale, they don't defend the drug or their actions except to perhaps say "I'm trying to take care of my little girl". It might be a socioeconomic thing coming from a poor background nobody is really proud of what they do to make ends meet so nobody has to pretend to be.
Sorry if you thought I was being defensive, it wasn't my intention. I was just explaining why, for me, what is essentially a lifestyle business is much more attractive than consultancy, or working in a large company. If you like consultancy then keep doing it, by all means - I'm just happy to see people doing things they like doing.

For me, the really major win is not having to live in or near a tech hub or large city to have interesting work, and to have control of my time. Most of the lifestyle stuff just flows on from that.
Jesus, man, step outside once in a while.
I'm guessing the cost of properly staffing was higher than the wholesale price of the stolen goods?
I think if you think about it it is obvious that tax revenues per square foot are going to be much higher for a many-story apartment complex than for a single-family home. Less than clear is who would be compelled by that information to move to a city center.

I am a bit surprised to see tax revenues for a Walmart are lower than even the home; it seems to me like that would be a more interesting angle to explore.
Crashlands by Butterscotch Shenanigans is a wonderful example of a criminally underpriced premium game with dozens of hours of fun and entertaining content. Best of all is you're supporting a handful of guys and gals who are committed to ethical (and fun!) game creation.
Hmm... I don't think this is actually a secure approach, as by default X is not secure. Any client with access can do things like sniff and inject keystrokes (even forwarded over SSH, depending on the value of ForwardX11Trusted in ssh_config):

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.de/2011/04/linux-security...

I could be wrong. Apparently X11 has the SECURITY and XACE extensions which are theoretically capable of preventing this, but nobody uses them (except SSH, see above). It's possible that DragonFlyBSD has these integrated somehow and makes the directions secure, but I don't think so.
Shouldn't, perhaps, but we definitely have to (and are running with systemd)! I have not made any effort to understand what is logging early - there's not much that should happen prior to ZFS mounting everything.
Rodney Brooks and Marvin Minsky, pioneers in the fields of robotics and AI, don't think we're anywhere close to general purpose AI. Minsky doesn't think we've made much progress in that area in the last several decades. The things you mention were worked on in the 60s (leaving aside Quantum Computing, which is probably a red herring for AI).
Proper beer pong cups should be the smaller translucent Solo cups. They offer a smaller target and a better view of the carnage with violent dunks or pass-though cup splits. (My co-ed house had a very dynamic set of rules for Beer Pong. Ultra-low net, super fast serves, twitch reflexes, hyper environmental play, thrown paddles. You haven't played real Beer Pong until you've played our house rules from the late 80's.)
This mentality is what drives people to mediocrity. Not reaching your full potential just hurts yourself, your family and your community in the long run. If you have the capability to learn more, earn more and create great businesses don't sit on the sidelines the world needs more action takers.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280425 and marked it off-topic.
If there will only be GUI, it won't fly. All of the popular VCS-es (and many
of the formerly popular ones) have command line, and for good reasons.
There's too many operations to fit in a GUI.

Then, you set yourself to write for Windows and Ubuntu only. You're forgetting
all the rest of the Linux users (it's quite easy to write something that will
only run on Ubuntu and not on Debian), BSD users, and OSX users. This is
a very bad attitude.

Next, I can't see how this is supposed to work or fit a programmer's workflow,
but it may be just me. I don't see how it would operate with an e-mail client
(or maybe it's supposed to be an e-mail client itself?)

> Configuration shouldn't be much more complicated than setting up an email client.

Setting up an e-mail client is a quite complicated thing. Setting up a git
repository is quite easy, on the other hand. I don't see how this is win.
What is difference between memoization and dynamic programming?
>Also both the powershell and the py2exe are completely reversible so you can take it, modify it and who's creation is that now?

What about X-Agent? Seems like it would be harder to modify but I haven't looked into it.

>On top of that, it's entirely possible other completely unrelated attack is responsible for the leaks, but the malware used cleaned up after itself, leaving only the less sophisticated trail behind.

I like this point but it could be brought up in nearly all attributions.
That's true most people are surprised to learn this but measured in the value of the goods manufactured the US was the worlds largest manufacture for over 100 years until around 2010 then China edged ahead.

The US manufactures a lot more high value items where as China dominates the cheap junk category. Same way that Apple has all the smart phone profits even though they don't dominate the smart phone market on a number of units sold basis.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2011/2010/12/china_...
This is sad, and a bit perplexing.

According to Crunchbase they had exactly 1 seed round (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/omniref#/entity) and their project provides a really nice feature for github which is better than githubs existing feature. So I'm perplexed why someone like Github doesn't acquihire them, give them a nice bonus for their work over the last couple of years and add their biological distinctiveness to Github[1]. Or Atlassian integrating it with Jira so that your kanban notes can be attached to code as you're developing a sprint.

[1] Yes that is an old Borg reference.
> not with the data you willingly give them by using their service.

Imagine I am a producer of sugared water. Do I want you to delve into health issue associated with that? Not necessarily. As a owner of a site that lives from user interaction, do I want my users to go out without their phone and have fun without me? Well, do it, but only if you really must.

There is a conflict of interest here, but that's too disturbing to communicate. Period.

Most people don't have the time and money to check facts anyway, so let's just claim facebook is the internet (for example) - because, you know, without all this livestock, our investors get unhappy. Business as usual, I would say.
It isn't your data. It is their data about you, which is a very important distinction.

Facebook and Oracle aren't the bad actors here, if you think there is a bad actor. The baddies are the people giving Oracle (and others) that data about you.

(And now I have to hang my head in shame for saying something that sounds like it is a defense of Oracle. They're baddies for many, many other reasons, just not this one)
It's a bit late to refight the civil war. You lost. Get over it, racist.
Yes, that's why Marks & Spencer in the UK operate the scheme and share the system with other major retailers in the UK. They are able to use the UK prevention and detection of crime exception to avoid data protection laws.

I presume that's who Store-Mart are, but there are others doing similar stuff.

e.g. https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/advice/t-455695.html
http://www.urban75.com/Action/cctv.html
No I'm not trolling. And I also don't agree with you when having software developers in mind. It's more a cultural thing (does the company wants to control everything or not?). Just one famous example: Google. You can be big and enforce and live a start up culture. I never heard from Google web developers that their Chrome is controlled by corporate policies.
There is also a term called BYOD (Bring your own Device) or BYOT (Bring your own Technology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device with all its advantages and disadvantages and many even not so hip / old companies live and work that way.
I hate sysvinit, but the init binary itself is quite small and cruft-free. It's the /etc/rcN.d stuff that has all the cruft. This boggled my mind (and got me hacked) when I came off Slackware, where I'm used to fine-tuning service access by tweaking a shell script or two.

Had systemd been a framework like runit, which nicely combines Unix primitives into an easy-to-use and featureful framework, I wouldn't whinge so much about it. But its design is monolithic (despite having 60-odd binaries, they all mutually and tightly depend on one another), its code is not that great and it's basically an inner platform in its own right. And all that isn't necessary to achieve the goals of dependency-based startup, process isolation, etc.

Sendmail belongs in the dustbin of history. But its replacements, like qmail and exim, preserved its spirit while fixing its deficiencies. Thus it is with init and runit. The current environment does not favor keeping the spirit of the past alive, but burning it to the ground and erasing it from memory. And when serious deficiencies are found in the new hotness, the answer is to burn that to the ground too. I blame the GNOME project, whose manifesto was called "Let's Make Unix Not Suck"; Unix not sucking involved writing a Windows-like inner platform and encouraging or coercing developers to target that instead. Famously, GNOME has undergone at least two slash-and-burn cycles and its latest installation is known for its instability.
You're making the assumption that other teams and other leaders won't review your docs. In my experience, they do and always come back with more questions.

> If you do suspect ...

And that's exactly it. If I suspect something then of course I can communicate it directly or redesign, but we're trying to assess impact on areas I might not have no awareness of.

So let's put it in another way:

Design docs is one of many formal methods of communication in any organisation. It preserves context, change history, and a good part of risk management. It protects you and potentially saves downstream rework.
>> Strong AI will be one or more models that operate as a coherent whole

Why think that, though? Why not suppose that Strong AI would be distributed? Why suppose it would have a singular sort of intelligence? Isn't that basically a pre-internet way of thinking about AI? Maybe Super AI will be diffused across the environment, not having any sort of singular intent.
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Like a lot of this literature I think your blog entry is going to convince nobody but the converted. Especially the fatuous appeal to the fantastic construction of yesteryear. The crappy construction of yore is not still standing; that doesn't mean it never existed.
Spend some time on context. Reading papers in isolation maybe makes you appreciate the idea that it presents, but understanding how that idea came about and what alternative ideas it replaced or subsumed primes you for extending or applying it. For that it's perhaps more valuable to scan more background material loosely, rather than just adding today's references to your reading list. Also it's very helpful to pay attention to names and affiliations when doing this.

Another pitfall I've had with regular reading like "a paper a day/week" is not to discard papers fast enough. Often the abstract either oversells the results, or the details are simply too obvious to you to learn anything new from them. Learn to recognize "weak" (to you) papers early and skim through the rest of it quickly or look for better sources on the topic.

I'd suggest aiming to understand an idea a week, which maybe involves reading 2-4 papers, and skimming 15-20 more, plus background material in textbooks and Wikipedia. Doing that in 8-12 hours would already be pretty efficient.
Don't bother trawling through libraries. Look at the list of top conferences in your field and just go through the proceedings of those (e.g. for systemsy conferences look at the list given in the article as a good starting point). You should be able to get free versions of most papers you find through Google.
HOAs enjoy all kinds of wild quasi-governmental powers without the same level of accountability as a real government; I think they're a tremendous downside to ownership in both condos and new developments.
You're equating potential with money. I make more people happy doing what I do now than what I would have done at Google. And importantly, I'm a much better father than I would have been were I working 50 hours a week. Me, my family and my community are all much better off with my current situation than we would have been had I taken the job.
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Sure salaries are based on local market, but the issue is companies are pondering why the local market is having a "shortage" to begin with. You can argue people must accept local market salaries if they want to live in a certain city or lifestyle.

But why not live somewhere where you are compensated 3x as much, and travel to said city, and still have money left over? It's not as if Tokyo's cost of living is 1/3rd of San Francisco.

Personally, I live in San Francisco. This wouldn't be my first pick if I was "retired" / didn't work. But, being a salaryman in SV, even with the higher cost of living, provides me a higher standard of living, insofar that I can travel to other places in the world, eat / live well, and still have money leftover. The reverse wouldn't be possible if I lived in Japan with this purported 1/3rd compensation. For me, traveling as a tourist is sufficient, I don't need years long "immersion".