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After having used both Webpack 1 and 2, my favorite feature is simply most of the insanity being gone.

I was hitting my head against my desk setting up npm and webpack 1 for almost 3 hours a couple of weeks ago. I then said fuck it, replaced them with yarn and webpack 2 respectively and all my issues were fixed.

Truly magical.
Are you saying that because only doctors would be able to give ratings, those ratings would be more credible? I agree that __should__ be the case, but it wouldn't/isn't (http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/99/15/1148.full). I cannot find the source, but I once read that there was a very small minority of doctors in the country subscribing the most brand-name drugs simply because of perks offered by drug companies.
FYI Data URIs will have a badge "Not secure" displayed on the left in Chrome very soon. They're working on it now.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=594215...
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This is another lie. I make $150k/yr and could retire in a decade (barring a black swan event) and I just started my career 2 years ago. I live in a luxury townhome that is less than a 15 minute commute by bike or car to work, a trader joe's that is literally around the corner, and more restaurants then I can count on my hands within a 5 minute walk. I want for nothing, drive a BMW 5 series, I have a second car that is an older Accord. And I do it with a wife and 2 kids and we vacation twice a year, and I'm probably in a top 5 COL areas. You have no idea what a miserable existence is and you have either always been privileged and never knew it, or you have forgotten what it means to live a miserable existence.
I think it's obvious for government that child are welcome. And they will got free education of course.
I've never found the healthcare argument to be relevant. Software Engineers in the USA usually have generous health care plans provided by their employers.

Same with vacation time.
http://opencompute.org proves the exact opposite
It segments the audience. The people that are coming to your site aren't running adblocker, and might behave differently than those who do.
One argument is that the FDA is too conservative. Take the example of a terminal cancer patient. There might be an experimental treatment that would offer them another month or three, or it could kill them immediately. If they are okay with that gamble, then why not let them? If it works out then we as a society have gained valuable information about a new treatment option. If it doesn't work out, we have also gained valuable information.

Or, for a less life-and-death example, the FDA shouldn't be overly concerned with sunscreen ingredients [0].

I don't think the FDA should go away, but I think there is room for improvement. Maybe we could have some harmonization with similar agencies in EU countries, automatically granting approval for drugs available there. Crap, maybe if we just did it for sunscreen it would be a win for consumers.

[0] http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i20/Decade-FDA-Still-Wont-All...
You could do that, of course. But you should absolutely not depend on it.

And drugs don't work like restaurants, of course
Show me the US median instead of the average. The average will usually be substantially tilted higher by extreme examples at the top end. I'd be willing to bet the median is closer to $60-$70. That's not expensive.
You got downvoted, but thanks for asking this, because I didn't know either and now I know.
That link is anything but an abusive relationship. Still, I fail to see how silicone is a countermeasure to a court order.
Which is pretty close to 338 words on a 64bit system (338*8). Looks like it's taking 2 extra words there though. Curious.
> 38% + about 1 month of net income to pay each year as income tax.

My 35-40% figure includes the income tax and the rental tax. You must be in a crazy high bracket if you get 38% deducted every month. On my last pay slip, it's 17.5%, but I get paid around the lower end of the salary brackets I posted above.

> VAT is 22% on most products.

20%

> Gas is expensive (highways too!!!).

Maybe. I prefer spending my money on better things than a car.
Congrats on launching it and I think the landing page is well done and the demo works very well. There is a lot of accomplishment in this.

That said, I do not think it is useful for me. I also am happy enough with ctr-c/ctrl-v.

What would be useful for me is a cross-device copy/paste. Ctrl-c at my computer, "ctrl-v" at my phone and vice-versa. No idea how it could be done, just to share a use case I have on this topic.
The link seems to have been changed to the one you provided[0]. I guess this was posted to another page, hosted by someone else taking credit for the videos and resources of the course?

[0] I was originally a bit lost at your comment and then connected the dots.
Why are the salaries so much lower? Is it lack of funding or do employers just don't want to pay more?
A discussion from long ago about Gmail deliverability:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9855030
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I've often wondered why the extra scope is needed to borrow the same variable twice in a function. It seems like the borrow checker is being overly pedantic in this case by preventing users from writing a valid program. Rather than training new users to pacify the borrow checker, perhaps the borrow checker could be made to permit valid programs so as to reduce the learning curve?
Apologies for missing this. I took the claim to mean not just animated movies, but animations of our devices. I am specifically remembering the silly animation that ubuntu used to have where a window would shimmer and shake as you moved it around. Or how it will "pop" onto the corner of the screen.

Windows that are flimsy are just annoying to me, which is why I would find the view that they are quality curious.

More realistic animation is typically described as more realistic. Not "popping and snappy."
In the U.S.? SMS is as close to universal as one can get (which is to say, not very).
Please show me the full text of the plan. Because otherwise, what he actually has is a promise with no
substance, like his promise to have Mexico pay for a border wall, or his promise to "drain the swamp" of corporate and Wall Street influence in Washington, or any of his other vacuous promises.
Is "paid leave" really the best characterisation? Unless French system is radically different from e.g. UK and Slovenian (which I have experience with), that would be "paid vacation" - "leave", e.g. sick days, aren't counted as part of the vacation, and are also paid. It's my undertanding that "paid leave/time off" in the US means sick days + vacation.
> For those that are getting themselves in the door, do you have any tips?

I have no tips, but a guide to dealing with recruiters (who are typically pattern matching for the framework du jour) for developers from a (hard) science background would be really cool!
Fine, imagine we have a formal specification for SQL. Now how do I make sure my parser is compliant with the spec without testing it? Formal verification is a very active research area, I don't think this is quite as easy as you're implying. How do I avoid "implementation errors" without exposing them?
Then why do we regularly see stories about doctors engaging in epically fraudulent billing practices, taking illegal kickbacks from drug manufacturers, prescribing unneeded drugs and so on? Have you heard of the opiate crisis? Because if so you cannot but be aware of how much of it is driven by prescription rather than black market drug sales. Not to put too fine a point on it, the drug market in the US is a total shitshow, and taking your comment at face value requires ignoring a mountain of evidence.

Please don't insult our intelligence with your argument from ignorance. If you actually believe what you wrote above, then you are massively under-informed and should pay more attention to the news.
move to austria / graz, become my employee, then my partner, then my competition (I'm ok with it)
If you are a publisher. Youtube, twitter, etc are seen as hosting platform and it's not the same law
Oh no! People might start taking drugs not explicitly approved by the government after an extremely long, expensive and monopolizing approval process, like kratom or something crazy.

Can't have that.
I honestly beleive taking this approach puts you at an advantage and a better chance of success. Everyone else has done the ground work for you and educated the market. Just do not be worse than them and you have a good business.
Speaking personally, I used to experience alot of impostor syndrome type feelings. After doing alot of work with therapists around family of origin issues, I don't experience it anymore. I can understand if you don't get it, for me it was an issue of misperception that took correcting at the root.
Doubtful. Probably nobody, not even medical experts, can make a reasoned choice about all medicines they need or want to take in their lifetime. After all, nobody can be an expert on all those things.
I'm not sure "popular clients" is a good thing to look at; Skype UI isn't great (and really bad if you use the IM part of it).

On this topic; I wouldn't mind hosting my own XMPP service, but most clients aren't good enough (specially on Android). I can't advocate for a service (protocol?) that can't offer some basics that are covered and seamless everywhere else (eg, sending files, showing media files in the client itself, etc).

I understand standards are slow, but when I think how difficult was to get avatar support everywhere... it makes me sad.

After many years, I gave up on XMPP recently for "internal family" communications. I'm using Telegram now, although it really bothers me that I need a phone to start using it.
Isn't he the one who spent millions of investor's money only to build a useless bitcoin computer, which is basically a raspberry pi with a mining chip which only mines a few satoshis an year?
In Poland it is generally assumed that a programmer knows English, most of the companies here are just branches of companies from other countries (not only US/UK based) and to communicate we use English as a common ground.

Another factor to consider is that if we write in language that has some constructs (e.g. C - if/then/else/while/return/int/double/class/void etc.) then writing:

if (znalezione) {
...
}

looks awkward.

Also one has to consider popular libraries and functions/methods/classes in them are English based, so this would add even more awkwardness to the code:

zwierzęta.stream()
.filter(z -> z.kończyny().contains(noga))
.map(z -> z.toString())
.collect(Collectors.toList());
My interpretation: The Raspberry Pi Foundation wanted to be able to point to a product, technically available for $5, as a point of comparison against some of the super-cheap Allwinner boards. I think the margins are probably thinner than the larger Pi hardware, and I don't think they've ever intended to make enough that they'd be available in arbitrary quantities.
OK, you be the first guinea pig. Or you can nominate one of your family members if you'd prefer.

Has it never occurred to you that we have already tried this approach in the past before the FDA was set up? OK Yelp didn't exist then but but the medical community's endorsement has long been used as a marketing tool - 'more doctors smoke camels.'

Why do you think the FDA was set up in the first place? Because some communists decided they needed a way to keep sick people in worse health for longer, or because the general public was sick of the uncertainties that inhere in patent medicines and the like?
I work as an independent contractor developer (not as a consultant). I would say that I get pitched on projects and to respond, I relate my background and experience to the problems conversationally, but I wouldn't call it an "interview" or at least it's a radically different style of interview than a dev candidate, for example, I typically do not get asked tech screen questions like algorithms problems, whiteboard coding, etc. Perhaps my experience is different than the norm because I work with a small number of clients very closely. OTOH, maybe it's just a matter of perspective.
Reagan days are here again.
I think Google is only used to send empty notifications to android and chrome devices, right? IOS too, maybe? Not that this nullifies your point about Google. There's just not much for them to collect if what I asked is correct.
To continue with the healthcare argument, "top-notch healthcare" is debatable. Autism support in France is not good at all. People always like to think of healthcare as a single entity, a single package. Either it's good or it's bad as a whole. The truth is, it's not.
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I'm working on a Masters in CS right now and have been interested in heading into some form of 'Data Science', whatever that may entail.

Does this mean that only physics/math/stats majors are getting into this field? At my current place of employment this is the case for the data scientists; all have an academic background in one of these three fields, all have a Masters or PhD. I assumed this was because the head data scientist had a long history with academia and thus had a predilection for academics.

From my experience the data science concepts I have encountered thus-far seem pretty straightforward and I suspect that people are trying to make these concepts seem more difficult/arcane than they are by using notations/concepts only learned in academia. Am I wrong here? Is it actually a field which requires a PhD in Math to understand? My exposure has only been with toy examples (logistic regression, simple perceptrons, similarity algorithms, etc). How easy is it to get into the field without a heavy academic background?
Their data is partly why I didn't pursue a PhD.
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I was looking into this for Canada and English or French proficiency is necessary. It would be odd to take a proficiency test for English but that is the rule.
I challenge you to find a 20-year period that the S&P 500 did not return 7+% annualized returns AFI. There are some, but not many. I further challenge you to find a 30-year period where the S&P 500 did not return 7+% annualized returns AFI, there are even fewer. And the few that you will find are almost all between 6-7%.
It’s also done in France.
Ok people, time to think a little outside the box now - are you ready!?? How about NOLP! It's very zeitgeisty, but innovative.
The way to solve it is to have different branches with checks and balances. The FDA is one such branch that should, in theory, not care about anything other than consumer safety, the legislative branch limits it's powers so it doesn't go too far and stop innovation, and the researchers try and beat the best of FDA's powers with evidence that their drug is safe.

If something is broken there, it's because of leaky incentives (ie, people not really caring about the consumer on the FDA because of a revolving door with industry) or because it's imbalanced (the FDA has too much power and it can shut down drugs with legitimate evidence of safety, for example, or not enough power, or drug companies don't have enough money anymore to convince the FDA, etc)
>but it comes with access to top-notch free healthcare

Does it cover stuff like cosmetic dermatology, full dental plan (implants) ? I don't live in France, I lived in different EU countries and every time I needed something the "free health care" meant I had to pay participation fee and wait 6 months walking around appointments and ended up going private clinic. I basically got 0 value out it, considering I'm young and healthy I would not have to pay much for insurance, you're mostly footing the bill for the pensioners.

>free university

Which again means nothing to anyone immigrating as a skilled worker

>pension contributions,

I sincerely doubt that by the time I hit retirement age the pension system will look anything like it does now because of multiple factors (current pension funds being structured around social transfers and constant employment growth, meanwhile automation replacing a large % of workforce permanently). Again just transfer payments to old people.

>5-7 weeks paid leave and generous unemployment insurance amongst other things

So you're going to emigrate as an expert in a sector earning top ~10-1% income for unemployment benefits ?

If you're a young professional either none of the things you listed matter to you or there are better countries than in Europe by those criteria (Nordics/Switzerland).
Pharma corrupting MDs has been routine for quite some time. The restriction doesn't do anything but focus the target of manipulation to exact the population Pharma has spent the most effort learning how to manipulate.
Christ, the top end of those numbers (both for gross salary and income taxes) is 3600 euros net per month, which is only 20-40% more than you get in Warsaw. Meanwhile, Paris real estate is (from what I'm hearing) extremely expensive.
There are several stages of research. For a sufficiently serious condition, it can make sense to take drugs that are only validated at a pre-clinical stage.

And there are many conclusions of finished research. A common conclusion is "cures problem A, but may cause problem B", and depending on A and B, those drugs can fail approval. But individuals may place different values on A and B.
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>don't see alternative options available

Yes. This is how I feel when reading those comments as well. I am from Europe, but living in the US at the moment, but will be moving back soon again. Obviously, people who never experienced an alternative cannot really see how what they have now might be bad.

Having been in both Europe and the US I can easily compare both lifestyles and conclude that Europe is more suited for me, even if it means that I will not own a 5 bedroom house with 6 TVs.
adventured: what you're missing here is that having other people get free education and healthcare is a benefit to you.

Lots of evidence to support that, delightfully summarized in "The Spirit Level" by Wilkinson and Pickett, among others.
>The current tech bubble is likely to burst eventually.

Is it a bubble though? I think this is just the new normal. A good portion of the largest companies on earth are silicon valley tech companies now. They are driving trillions of dollars in combined revenue. This is what the future of employment looks like.
I didn't say the existing rules were perfect, I'm just noting they exist. You can also say that a "Yelp for drugs" wouldn't change the existing incentives.

FWIW, the doctors I know take ethics very seriously; they take great pains not to be seen as accepting gifts, they treat pharma company claims with a great deal of reasonable skepticism, they always prefer non-drug and OTC treatment to prescriptions, and generics to branded drugs. A few bad apples do not spoil the tree.
Adding to your point, the thing that is often overlooked is that those people who are unable to exercise informed judgement are also a huge burden on society as a whole.

Hmm, that, and the rest of your comment, seems to be suggesting that those people are expendable. That society is better of without them.
Do you actually envision a single Machine to do all of this? I upvoted the entry because I think it's in the neighborhood of correct, but I'd expect to actually have a suite of many different kinds of machines, much like today's industries, but eliminating dependencies on fossil fuels and human labor. I'd expect machine-built greenhouses containing farming machines rather than actually manufactured carrots, for example.
This is because the borrow checker is based on lexical scope at the moment. It can (and almost assuredly will) be based on non-lexical scope in the future, but enabling that has taken years of work to refactor the compiler in a way to let it happen. We're close, but not there yet.

See also threads like this: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/accepting-nested-method-ca...
I'd recommend reading Cal Newport's "So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love" for some great insights on how to build your skills whilst changing jobs/careers. His approach in 3 steps:

1. Develop skills that are rare and valuable

2. Do something useful and good for the world

3. Work with people you like
If it costs $X/year to live, and you can find people in a bad situation willing to work for you for $Y/year (where Y < X), where do you think the remaining $X-Y comes from? From government subsidies, of course. So why should the government have to pay that money? If you have a business plan, but to make it work you need to have your workforce on government subsidies, you have a bad business plan and should be allowed to fail.
This is something that will be done as soon as MIR - a new internal layer in the Rust compiler which is easier to operate on - is stable. Right now, it's difficult to make the borrow checker much smarter and the work would have to be thrown away and reimplemented once MIR is stable.
> elder care, house cleaning, nursing

All of these will be automated as well. House cleaning first. It already started with Roomba and its clones.
And after the trial period you can't easily be fire (usually in startup you just negotiate sometimes to move and found a new job). And if the company die your missing salary will be paid by the state.

Important when you move your family.
Curious what you think of Netherlands and Denmark as places to live and work..
Politics, lobbyists.
Your comment is so misleading. That is not a Pi for $150. That is a Pi as a convenient interface to a 50 Gigahash ASIC, and blockchain store.
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A counter-example: Thalidomide. Refused approval by the FDA multiple times (the drug company kept resubmitting it), there were only 17 children born with Thalidomide-related birth deformities in the USA.

Promoted as a wonder drug for morning sickness, there were 10 thousand children born with birth deformities worldwide.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090512235601/http://www.fda.go...

Perhaps memories of this are shorter in the US precisely because the FDA got this right and there are fewer visible daily reminders why we need drug regulation.
If the NSA could force Google to hand over anything, why were there Snowden slides showing that the NSA was secretly tapping Google's internal networks?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
Comparison of software engineer salaries over 10 years
MIR is already in the compiler and used for everything; it's not that MIR needs to become stable (it's unclear if it ever will be), the next step is porting borrowck to be a MIR pass rather than (I believe currently) a HIR pass.
You think FDA employees are immune from this type of thing? How do we go about finding the angels needed to staff this agency?
Your pronunciation can most certainly become native. The easiest path there is to immediately abandon all attempts to speak the language as if it is your own, and focus on the rhythm and intonation of the language. Also, pay attention to the shape of your mouth when speaking. I almost feel as if I have an entirely different voice when I speak French than I do in English. Focus on the sound and rhythm of the language as much as you focus on the vocabulary and grammar.

When I was first learning French 22 years ago, my teacher, an older woman who'd grown up and studied in France, shared a funny little joke about French women: their wrinkles start from the lips and spread outward across their face. This was said because they keep their lips far tighter, nearly pursed, than one does when speaking English. I've noticed and paid attention to how the French use their mouths when speaking ever since. It's been immensely helpful.