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> No, you are missing the point.

No, I get your point; but it is a counter-point to a point not made.

> If the science pointed towards NFL players performing better in 6 inch heels, would NFL players promote such a study?

I expect not, probably due to their stake in the situation, i.e. their bias towards factors other than performance. that was the point of the hypothetical, and the sole point that was being communicated - to illuminate the concept of that bias existing, qualitatively. The quantitative matter of if it is actually a relevant factor is a different matter, and not raised by that hypothetical.

> It's an entirely pointless hypothetical if you entertain the notion that their preference _IS_ the primary factor for their productivity.

Not if you got the point of the hypothetical. whether you 'entertain' the notion or not is irrelevant, since the truth of the statement is unimportant.
Yeah definitely this. People will judge my son for swearing but my son doesn't have the vocabulary, experience or social skills to defend his words. It's therefore my job to ensure that I don't leave him in a position where he can use a word that gets him in trouble.
Maybe not. But have a culture that the meeting really is that short, and let people sit if they want to.
That's awesome, and pretty cool that you all eat your own dogfood. Think it sends a nice statement considering your product and hope more companies offer that to employees in the future. I'm a customer and big fan.
You don't need to say "I feel threatened". Who the hell says "I feel threatened"? The fact that there is so much anger and gnashing of teeth is evidence that a worldview that does not include AGW must be viciously and immediately attacked. I find that fascinating.
"You're a danger to the world we live in." is not pointing out useful information.
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No not at all. I'm sorry but British TV and society in general are infinitely more open to swear words than the same in America.
In fact, I'd say that the "misuse" actually makes more logical/linguistic sense than the "correct" meaning.

I've been knowingly (mis)using begs the question to roughly mean suggests the question ever since I learned the "real" meaning. If anyone ever challenges me on it, I just point out that I'm using the words for their actual English meanings—not as an idiom. Unlike so many other language mistakes, this one actually works.
I agree. There are a lot of people already who commute to London from, say, Manchester on a Monday, and back on a Friday, and stay away for the work-week. That is also a possibility
> Microservices probably reduces the asymptotic cost of scaling but add a huge constant factor.

If this were Medium, I'd highlight the hell out of that.

That's so true, and so nicely, succinctly put - it ought to be the reply to end every argument about whether microservices are good or bad.
I saw a CBC story on Winnipeggers and all the pedways. Maybe someday the entire city will be elevated walkways or maybe underground.

Then again cold is one thing but Cape Breton with 160 km/h winds on a typical stormy winter is nuts.

We need bubble cities here in Canada asap.
they'll most likely see us as primitive. but they will be grateful for the pain we endured to let humanity continue to the next evolutionary step. Sort of like how we look at Neanderthals today.
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We just had a 60 degree F day in mid January in Northern New England. While I like being able to go outside with no coat and I like that the snow melts faster, that is dang warm for my part of the world in January.

My favorite is trying to explain to people how climate change can produce more snow not less and that doesn't mean it is not getting warmer... it means that the air is warmer and because of that can hold more moisture and thus larger more severe precipitation events.

So I've read, I'm not a climate scientist.

Actual quote I hear multiple times per winter: "Look at all that snow! Global warming my ass!"
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> Vue is definitely lot easier to learn than React

How so? Vue actually has a lot to it -- lots of template directives, computed properties, directives, etc.
So what would the return on that money be?

The dev market for laptops is X. The random Joe Sixpack market for iToys is 100x or 1000x. If they are going to invest some giant figure in development, it will be for Joe Sixpack toys and not the best OS to ever live.

(That is if throwing money at the problem would actually make a better OS. I suspect Microsoft throws more money at OS than all the other OS companies combined. They still have some massive failures).
Maybe so, but please don't post generic dismissals to HN. It takes discussion in predictable directions, which is not interesting. Better comments find something specific to engage with.
What about the Snooper Charter? The government counts.
Yes, it's no worse than beg your pardon or beg forgiveness. In fact, omitting "for" is so common after the word "beg" that it could be considered standard (correct) English.
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I'll consider your request after you consider reading the 99%+ of the content supporting the science based community that advocates that global warming is happening and is the result of human activity. Then we'll talk.
"Everyone" is a strong word, I know people from Paris that live in London and struggle. I'm sure the number of people that speak english is rising every year, but definitely not "Everyone"
ES is not really a database :) most databases have some authentication features out of the box ... but true: for those kids who don't know how to block a port, configure nginx proxies etc.: https://sematext.com/blog/2017/01/18/elasticsearch-security-...

The most valuable part is about backups for ES indices - this could save you some bitcoins ;)
Interesting related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjtioIFuNf8
The person he replied to wrote:

|You're a danger to the world we live in.

The above person is saying he threatens the world, and as a resident of such world, is also being threatened.
I don't think this kind of response is useful.

Haven't we learned that dismissing or insulting people isn't going to change their opinions but rather just push more people over to their side?
Good to see an effort in a right direction. Though i feel like boasting about my post, this post https://bprasanna.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/hard-security/ was written 8 years back!!!
It isn't a good indication for the framework value itself.
A star in github its like "meh I heard a lot about react-thing, that look complicated but can't be that bad, I should take a look one day"
Its a self-persuading buzz
Java is still missing a huge amount of what makes Scala great. Most importantly case classes, pattern matching, more expressive types and traits (multiple inheritance).

It caught up a lot, but it's still a jump like IE7 was from IE6 compared to the Firefox of Scala. A hell of a lot better, but still lacking.
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Keep in mind, as others have said, the "accepted wisdom" is coming out of high-income, high-velocity, technology companies. However, a lot of development is done at companies whose primary business is not software (or not technology). Additionally, many established businesses care less about velocity than hungry startups.

In that case, I think a different set of wisdom applies:
1. Choose languages that are easy to hire for, easy to train for, have lots of 3rd party support, and easy for junior developers to use (and that your developers already know). This generally means Java, C#, or Python (on the backend)

5. First it's important to define "agile" in your context. Agile, in terms of the agile manifesto, is almost always beneficial to the project, although it won't speed it up. Agile, in terms of cargo culting specific artifacts, is often just a waste of time and source of confusion. If your organizational definition of agile is "no project manager needed", then you're in trouble. Good project managers are essential.
Our "Stage 1" sandbox is out on Windows in version 50.

If you want to dislike us, fine, but at least do so for valid reasons.
Bankers are often pretty well paid, and probably would be compensated (at least in the short term) for inconvenience and cost, until they can be relocated or similar
And the compile time is comparable to Java's. One of the most import thing imo.
Are you serious? I have said that it should be improved from the get-go. Every comment of mine above says that.

I'm not implying that the problem is with the developer. I strongly feel that this is something we should fix. I strongly feel that programmers -- new or otherwise -- shouldn't have to deal with this.

I've said all this multiple times, go back and read my comments.. You're the one arguing the same point over and over.

I'm just pointing out that with some experience it ceases to be a problem. My point is simply this: This is not a problem that will plague you once you've been programming Rust for a while, so it's not one of those persistent annoyances that will stick with you no matter how much you program in a language. I'm only making that distinction. That it's not that bad. It's bad. We're fixing it. It's not the developer's fault. But neither is it a problem that will always plague you. It goes away as you start writing more idiomatic code. That should not be necessary, agreed, and we should fix that, but it is true.

I said as much in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13415585

I'm starting to feel you're not commenting in good faith here. I'm not going to repeat the same thing over and over.
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A breakdown of the hours with activity would be really juicy :)
Anger? No, just tired of the same old debunked denyalist bullshit claims
Are these client bugs?

Most probably yes, you should report such things to the issue tracker at https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-iOS

Do they have a suite that I can run against my own server?

The compliance testing is performed by https://github.com/iNPUTmice/ComplianceTester

You should also be able to ask Daniel (iNPUTmice) in the Conversations chart room at https://yax.im/i/#conversations@conference.siacs.eu?join <xmpp:conversations@conference.siacs.eu?join>
In 2020 we'll all be talking like gangsters. The G's have been privacy conscience for centuries which is why their language evolves at such a high rate.

For the record "Alexa turn off" and "Alexa stop listening" were NOPs on my Echo. But you can shout "Alexa ping" and "Alexa hello" to test if it is in the room.
Well it's secure in that the connection between you and ycombinator is secure.

But any of your extensions that have permission to modify the page, can be modifying it in any way shape or form.

So they could be rewriting my comment, they could be calling out to external servers sending all the contents of your page, they could be recording every keystroke on that page, and more.

So no, you can't trust that "Secure" statement absolutely.

And while the browser could make window.crypto immutable or "un modifiable", it would be a false sense of security as an extension could just get the result from the page when it's put into the DOM.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the French Hollande administration will be out of job shortly (in May this year), so whatever they say doesn't matter that much. The centre-right is most likely to win the elections now, and they may have a more business friendly approach to the negociation with the UK.
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Is this related to lua's Torch at all?

http://torch.ch/
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I am confused with the license file. What does it mean? Some rights reserved and copyright... Doesnt look like a real open source project.
But wait, there's more... Let's say that you decide it's too risky to early exercise in year 1, but by year 3 things are looking pretty good and you early exercise all your options.

Let's say your strike price is $0.20, and now the FMV is $0.75, and you're exercising all 10,000 of your shares, including 2,500 that haven't vested yet. When you exercise, you file an 83(b) so that you get taxed (AMT) on the full $5,500 spread in year 3, even though you don't technically own those year 4 shares yet.

Then, you leave or get fired 3 months later. Pursuant to the early exercise agreement, the company can repurchase 1,875 shares at your $0.20 strike price, giving you $375 back. Unfortunately, AFAICT, there's no way for you to reclaim the tax you paid on the $1,031.25 spread for those 1,875 shares; you just eat it.

Yeah, this stuff is complicated, and sadly it seems to fall to each startup employee to educate themselves.
There's a growing secondary market for illiquid shares of private companies; I would look into that before letting the options lapse. There a few market-making websites as well as VCs that specialize in this.

You need to be pretty savvy to marshal the whole process and understand the contracts, though - it is not turnkey.
Coal and oil are a major industry outside of the south east. The Dakotas are big in that and so is utah
While Brexit is, quite possibly, the dumbest thing I'm probably going to see a nation state do in my lifetime, it is fascinating to live in London while it all explodes.

Cameron, surely, will have to go down as one of worst, most narcissistic leaders in the 21st Century. If not, it's a hell of a bar he's set, staging a vague refendum, excluding the people who it most directly affects (UK nationals in the EU) from voting and not including some kind of confirmation option.

Saddest part is the delusion of the British ruling class. That they think they're somehow going to matter more to the world as a small partner to China/USA rather than as a dominating member of the EU is hilarious if it weren't so sad.
For context: I'm a NZer living in the UK. We're a small country at the mercy of big countries with little actual power. That the UK elected itself to be like us is just ridiculous, but c'est la vie.
I think the striking point is that you're forced to use a throwaway to have an opinion.
I don't think a Billion dollars would make a dent in the bugs on OSX and iDevices. Look at the NASA cost per line of code. Now look at the lines of code in just OSX alone. (Ignore iTunes etc). Frankly, people aren't willing to pay $5000 for a music app when the free iTunes one works. Or $9000 for the "bug free" word processor with 100 features, then the $100 buggy word processor from microsoft with 1000 features exists.
By "I find that fascinating," do you mean "I interpret that as meaning people who believe in anthropogenic global climate change are closed minded and unwilling to entertain opposing viewpoints"? Because if so, that's not at all what's happening here. What's happening is that people are unwilling to devote an hour of their time to an untrustworthy actor peddling a viewpoint that is heavily pushed by those who have the most to lose from a global switch away from fossil fuels. There are so many reasons not to bother watching this video, and the best reason you can come up with is "it's interesting".
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This crosses the line into incivility, which is the last thing we want on HN, especially when talking with domain experts whom we're lucky to have in this community. Please conduct yourself better than this in the future.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13423680 and marked it off-topic.
Nah don't worry. Global warming is on it's way.
That is an interesting thought! I wonder if he did undertake some risk. I just emailed him, as I never properly thanked him. Maybe if he emails back I'll ask.

Also he negotiated a year off of our traditional 5-year vesting (at the time anyway) in the salt mine that is Microsoft, though he was never to take a position there himself.

I see no end to liquidity event horror stories. I'm so lucky.
The more important question is: did the US murder innocent civilians? It's not about the cables or the messenger or the medium or the style and presentation, it's about the murdered innocent civilians.

The debt we owe Manning for exposing the fact that the US murdered innocent civilians far outweighs the damage she did by releasing the cables. The prosecution couldn't identify anyone who was harmed, beyond those innocents harmed by the US government machine guns, which wasn't Manning's fault.
You can be compelled to give your users data to government agents. You can even be compelled to background encryption algorithms to make this easier.

To say that's not "giving" seems like semantics.
I've recently left a company and am within my 90 day window to exercise my options.

It feels much more like playing roulette than making an investment. I have no idea if there will be a liquidation event at all, nor do I know how much that'll end up being if I can hold on for that long. Oh, and I'll be paying taxes on those shares all along the way (assuming the value goes up, which is another uncertainty).

The odds of coming out on top are not in my favor -- and I've chosen to not exercise my options. I came to this decision based off

a) plainly looking at the odds -- the company isn't going to be a unicorn no matter what bullshit the founder and investors are spouting

b) given a non-unicorn style exit, the cash these stocks would earn me probably wouldn't be significant anyway.

We live in an age where not only are investors letting themselves be taken for a ride, but the employees are as well. I'm now concerned with salary exclusively in my negotiations -- I can take an that extra $XXk per year and put it into the stock market with more reliable results.
Actually, you don't have to keep unhashed passwords around. You can just return the wrong password in a hidden field. When the form is posted, if the hidden field is set, you can do some analysis. This might involve storing some 'intermediate state' of the Levenshtein algorithm, for example, to find the shortest edit distance. You would only store that information anonymously, without storing the passwords. (I'm not saying they do this, that's just of the top of my head.)

Edit: Or just keep the (wrong, correct) pairs for users where correct is in the top 20 most common passwords.
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Refreshing to see such a fast website without any JS.

Really interested in what your tech stack looks like.
This is a technical matter, not a political one. Your mention of Al Gore makes me think that for you, it's a political battle and not a technical or scientific matter.

There are now two very good reasons not to watch the video: 1) the lecture is by a dishonest man and we are being asked to trust that his models and judgement are accurate, and 2) it's most likely that the video was posted for a political agenda and not scientific or technical edification.

An "echo chamber" when it comes to science usually means that things have been mostly figured out correctly. An "echo chamber" for political discussions is where it could be considered a bad thing.
Something weird is going on with the comment thread here. Messages from the Lyra creators are being downvoted with no conceivable justification that I can see; the fusion_cow account appears to have been hell-banned. Looking at the their comment history, I can't see anything to justify this.

Has somebody really got it out for Lyra? What's going on?
He wasn't even trying to stay in Russia. He was just traveling through on his way to Ecuador but he got stuck there because the US revoked his passport.
Exactly. I have participated in two of these, one of them were options, the company got purchased but in the 2008 aftermath they sold it for cheap. The next company issued "growth shares", was worthless. Both sites are gone. They paid a good salary though.
A dead comment by "lintiness" also happened to use the phrase "of another insidious practice" - coincidence?
> Favour disposable code over reusable code

I prefer this way of putting it over YAGNI. This makes it sound more like the trade-off it is.
Part of the reason why this is controversial, I think, comes down to the majority of the type of work that people are doing on a day-to-day basis.

If you get to work, have a ten-minute standup, then go and try to hammer out code the vast majority of the rest of the day, then you need a default-private environment. Visual and auditory privacy, in a closed office, with multiple large monitors, correlates with success here.

But if you spend most of your time bouncing ideas off each other, then the fluidity of verbal communication is much more efficient, for most people and use cases, than putting everything in writing first. With such constant change, keeping everyone in the loop is going to be at a higher priority than pure development speed.

The balance is probably what kind of organization you have. Do you have a small start-up where the entire company can fit into one room? An open space (well, relative to its size) probably makes sense. Do you have a large organization where somebody writes spec and passes it to a programmer for implementation? Private offices for programmers are probably best. Do you have small feature teams where management gives feature requests to the team as a whole? Give the team its own private room, segregating them from other teams.
Clearly we don't capture or archive much of what's produced now, but that's not a new thing. There are very few records of things from more than a couple of hundred years ago. If you want to see anything that isn't the official government's (or monarch's) line there's much, much less.

If you ignore digital media, and compare the number of physical books produced, there are many thousands of times more produced now than there were 500 years ago.

You're right in the sense that a lot will be lost, and that we should strive to do better, but in terms of comparison to the past we're preserving an exceptional amount of knowledge.
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> The Firefox project is literally years behind in security and performance, I think the Mozilla Foundation doesn't understand how critical the current situation is.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/08/02/exciting-improvemen...

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/08/02/whats-nex...

https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/a-quantum-leap-for-the-web-a...
> In this chapter, we have in mind a player who has already mastered the basics of chess (with a level of, say, 1800 Elo)

Uggghhhh... 1800 is the "basics of chess" ?? Way to make me feel bad about my 1500 rank at Chess.com
One big question in the minds of many customers might be political stability. Tunisia had a revolution in 2011, correct? Switzerland, in contrast, hasn't been invaded for 500 years IIRC, despite being literally in the middle of two world wars.

There's definitely a commericial market for storing paper documents for decades, maybe up to a century. This is currently addressed by existing mine-based storage companies, among other things. Plus mines are secure: There's often only one way in and the storage is surrounded by rock.

Burying things under sand and rock in the desert obviously works for millennia; the ancient Egyptians were onto something.
There is also this one on the Freiburg Minster:

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