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> that's why you need strong institutions

I do but I understand clearly that I'm not getting them where I live, any time soon.

What's my backup plan?

"Fighting other types" is one thing, genocide is another thing. Two different words for a reason.
I would not count on PBS for much longer under this administration.
Google's Piper is impressive (I used it), but it emulates Perforce. Having something Git-based is a lot more exciting. Hope someone ports it to platforms other than Windows...
I agree, I thought the whole Cerberus thing was really weak.
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I would rather just not visit sites that want me to disable my ad blocker.
Are you saying this with awareness of claims like this?

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/294966.php
Copper overdose is one of the most common imbalances among vegetarians/vegans; it's just not easy to diagnose, because it doesn't appear in the blood, but you need to get a tissue metal test, and those tests are not too common. Furthermore, they tend to take at least 5 years to appear. I'm not sure if there was a preexisting adrenal condition, but I wouldn't discard that as an option. If you have vegan friends, let them know that they are at higher risk of copper overloading. You could save them a lot of pain in the future (I'm not the only one with this, sadly).
"Octothorpe" is the One True label.
Glad you liked it (and I agree on both counts). There's also this shorter piece about the process of finding Jagari that you might interesting:

http://theappendix.net/posts/2014/09/searching-for-jagari
When git-annex finds a conflict it can't solve, it gives back to you the two versions of the same file with the SHA of the original versions suffixed.

This way you can look at both and resolve the conflict.
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FCC takes first step toward over-the-air 4K broadcasting
As a self-diagnosed misophonic, working in an open office has always been a struggle. A great pair of noise-canceling earbuds is an absolute must (the Bose QC20 are fantastic).

I wonder if misophonia is correlated with awareness. I'm maddeningly hyperaware of my surroundings, and have difficulty getting into "the zone" if there's too much auditory and visual stimuli. For example, if someone is talking in the same room, it's almost impossible for me not to follow what that person is saying; I can't tune it out unless there's something else that drowns it out. (Radios are incredibly annoying for the same reason. I can't sleep if I can hear people talking in another room; even music with vocals have the same effect.)

Being hyperaware has its benefits, of course, but it's mostly a curse.
Safari and Edge also have this built-in. For Chrome, you need a plugin.
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Looks very wimpy for such a huge majority controlling both Congress and Executive to use a vague Executive Order to wipe a law (Dodd-Frank) rather than to vote on a repeal.
Ah, memories of one of my very first lab assignments in digital circuits engineering class (back when computer science was still busy splitting off from applied mathematics and electrical engineering).
We were given nothing but a breadboard, some chips with basic logic gates (NANDs, multiplexers/demultiplexers), an EPROM, access to an EPROM burner (w/ hex keypad!), some LEDs, switches, resistors, jumper wires and a power source.

The assignment was to build a traffic light simulator, set the whole thing running, change the traffic lights as a result of switch inputs acting as sensors and a simulated interval timer.

Some students were baffled by this (lectures hadn't caught up with lab assignments at that point): how could you build a small processor using only logic and an EPROM? There's no memory or registers to keep state!

This is what differentiates combinatorial logic from sequential logic: feedback. Use some of the EPROM's data outputs along with logic gates and switch outputs (using the multiplexers / demultplexers) as address inputs to the same EPROM.

Sweet memories of solving Karnaugh maps, Quine-McCluskey minimization, logic hazard mitigation, etc. Good times.
The point is that regardless of race, these companies still want the best and haven't lowered their standards to 'let certain people in' so to speak. Based on these 'diversity' headlines, it's easy to believe that these companies are 'letting' blk/his. folks in who may not be qualified; I'm saying this is not the case in my experience. Nor do I expect it to be...
> Every single ex-Googler misses it quite a bit.

I dunno. I don't miss the 1-minute incremental builds. (Maybe they've improved since I left, though.)

BTW Forge is not just the test runner, but the thing that runs all build tasks, farmed out to all servers. Blaze interprets the build language and does dependency tree analysis but then hands off the tasks to Forge. Blaze has been (partially) open sourced: https://bazel.build/
Too subjective, more importantly. A Slashdot comment compared it to selecting friends: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9857155&cid=53238301
Awesome for Py! I would do it with raw c++
While this is technically true, in the particular case John Adams was married only once, to Abigail, with whom they had six children.
> perforce model is far inferior to git's

That's just, like, your opinion, man. There are other bits of infra that integrate with it quite nicely, and would integrate with something like Git quite poorly. One of those things is their code review system. The closest thing I could find to it outside Google is Gerrit, but it's a tremendous pain to set up and use, and it's but a pale shadow of Google's internal tool (Critique).

And also, one does not preclude another: Google has a git wrapper on top of Piper, so you can spend your entire Google career not even touching Piper directly if that's what you prefer. And Piper went beyond the "Perforce model" in ways I can't disclose here.
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How's this different from any other tactics trainers or tactic books?
This guy seems to be most upset about not being able to search Google verbally. Alexa has its skills, but random search is not its finest display of talent (Bing?)
You meant to say claimed to have those principles. If everyone actually had those principles, the financial crisis would have never happened.
For reading an article, I find that using elinks to open the page usually does it. Sometimes, it doesn't work if the content is loaded by javascript. Then I just move on. Anything newsworthy can be found on a dozen different news sites; there's nothing special about any one publisher.
There's a lot of grossness in that book, here's a podcast about it: http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2016/12/26/071-enders...
Where is section (f) ?
That's not actually true, cache files for example are wiped as a basic fact of web browsing. Unless specified, continuing to brows the web on an unrelated machine is not in violation. Note, demonstrating something is unrelated is easiest when it was purchased after the fact.

PS: And yes, I have had training and been required to deal with data retention issues as a basic part of my job for years.
What are you actually trying to say? Why are you trying to be cute about it? Muslims and Christians can't get along ever? If two groups have had violence in the past, they'll always have violence? How is this knowable?
This study suggests that dietary copper may help convert fat to energy. A while ago copper's antiseptic role in hospital environments was revealed and may result in the wholesale replacement of stainless steel with copper and bronze surfaces such as doorknobs and tabletops (stainless steel became ubiquitous in hospitals based on its appearance, resistance to rust, and ease of cleaning).

It's my hope that these new findings didn't result from a sneaky plot by a mining conglomerate to increase demand for copper.
Find a stack you like and don't just learn to use it learn how it works.

The money will be good no matter what you choose, but if you enjoy it your skills are going to be sharper. When you can do things faster/better than the next guy the money will follow.
I think I like the Google voice best. Still doesn't compare to Microsoft Sam, though...
LWN comments don't get any better when they stick to technical matters, sadly.
Why are you (and others) so negative about feedback? We can't get better at something unless we realize why we aren't doing it well.

> what other great power has ever done so, unless it was for their benefit?

Right, it's for their benefit. Not just morally, but economically and geo-politically.

Which is why we want to make sure we can stop the problem rather than watching the tragedy unfold as we powerlessly flail against ourselves. (ie, waiting until we label something a genocide before trying to help.)

> As a non-American, we are fucking lucky that America not only doesn't extord us for loot

They're generally happier to gain a stronger position than to be up a few bucks. It's long-term thinking.

> I am personally really happy that Putin knows there will be consequences if he rolls west.

Ditto, but these days I believe less and less than the USA would do anything. Or at least until it's too late.
Didn't Apple have the same thing during the PowerPC->Intel migration? "universal binary" or something like that.
> while simply assuming that all the other interesting ways that people experience life differently is irrelevant?

I don't know of anyone who values diversity in gender/religion/sexuality/etc but draws the line there, and I know a lot of very unusual people from all walks of life. That would be a weird line to draw. A gay genderfluid punk rocker probably has lots of experiences a biromantic genderfluid cellist would be fascinated by.

Diversity is good. The more intersections, the better. Why do you think anyone would draw this line?
It seems like most of Brave's blocking+micropayments functionality could be implemented in a Chrome or Firefox add-on.
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> many non-tech trading/quant/exec jobs on Wall Street certainly pay far more

And many do not. I actually came from the trading side and there are a lot of VPs [1] who cap out at lower total comp levels than you would think [2]. There are absolutely tech roles that pay mid 6 figures or more, in NY, SF/SV, and elsewhere. It's not harder to get those roles than it is to become a VP.

Yes, there are traders who made 8 or 9 figure bonuses, but these are outliers akin to successful VC-backed startup founders.

> The cost of living is outrageous even compared to NYC.

I think this is debatable, but it's irrelevant so I won't indulge.

[1] VP is the first role where there's no "up or out". You can stay as a VP and not be promoted without being implicitly or explicitly told to leave.

[2] I know a quant trading VP who is extremely unlikely to ever make more than $300k and they have never made more than that over a career that spans more than a decade. This is fairly typical.
Apple's 68K->PowerPC transition did roughly the same thing.
...which is why your phone keeps getting slower, as it's loaded with code written for better models as a way of marketing their superior capacity. Same reason you can't fit a jet engine to a biplane and expect good performance.
Since I don't have Prime I'm not locked into Amazon. I've noticed in the last few years that the assumption that Amazon will have the best deal is no longer a safe one. I'm not surprised they push Prime so aggressively. The fewer people paying attention, the better.
Marketers: "we get to use computers to track you, and boy do we track you, but you can't use computers to try to evade us, that would be unfair."
For comparison, annual cost of a TV licence in other countries

- Denmark: €332 (approx $360)
- France: €136 (approx $145)
- Germany: €215 (approx $230)
- Italy: €100 (approx $230)
- Ireland: €160 (approx $107)
- Norway: €298 (approx $321)
- Sweden: €247 (approx $266)
- Switzerland: €439 (approx $473)
The comment is ambiguous, it's not really clear if it's actually meant to be flippant or not. If you read it literally, the meaning is directly the opposite and still makes sense.
> I'd love to once see a scientific approach rather than the political one

You're asking a lot from soft science, especially where said effects would be really hard to measure.
Yes! Software "ownership" is a fascinatingly blurry ground.

Still though, just because I upload a picture to [f], it is no longer information regarding me? Perhaps it is a greater question of associability of information.

Why is not the great battle of the 21st century the right to privacy? Brand valuability and Information Collection are becoming synonymous.
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Dear @capRidiculous -- regarding your other question, "what determines market wage" -- market wages are whatever wages attract sufficient people to meet demand. That might be $15/hr in the case of flipping burgers, or $275k in the case of machine learning. It has nothing to do with the ROI of the company. It is the salary that will convince someone from giving up a competing job elsewhere and join an unfilled position.

There are some things that can reduce market wages -- you can make the job more attractive such that people are willing to fill a spot for less salary. It happens all the time, here are some ways to do so:

- Federal government jobs pay much less yet attract people because of long-term job security and tax-free earnings in many cases

- Municipal government jobs pay much less yet attract people because of easy hours

- Some startups pay much less yet attract people because of exciting products or growth opportunity

- Hedge funds can pay much less yet attract people with the promise of a share of investment returns

Workers are smart though. If there is a position going unfilled, it is because it is not an attractive position. It either needs to pay market wage, or offer some of the above attributes to help reduce market wages for the position.
Just because I may have "misophonia" doesn't mean that it's necessarily my problem if I'm distracted in an open office plan by colleagues who like to talk loudly to themselves, play drum solos on Tupperware containers, or move a pound of gelatinous substances via air pressure from one sinus cavity to another all effing day long.
"Public/Private partnerships usually do not pan out unless you have competent administrators ready to fight for the best deal on your orgs behalf."

No - they fail 95% of the time because government administrators have no clue how to be running VC investment vehicles in the first place, which is why they have to hire people like Thiel.

I don't think it turned out so badly.

'Bad' would have meant all the companies went bust.

A public/private 'investment vehicle' that actually funds successful startups is a huge win - because it's rare.

Not to be too defensive of Thiel - but one could argue that it was Thiel's participation that made the fund successful.

Most of these government VC things fail badly, and it's one of the things that is way, way out of their competency.

It's possible that the structure of the org could have been done a little bit better, but then possibly it would have been hard to attract someone like him.

The governments goal was more along the lines of trying to spur entrepreneurial activity - they got that + a little bit of profit.

That they didn't get more is not a bad thing. In the vast majority of cases - they would have failed to spur activity - and lost a pile of money.

So, the situation should be characterized as a 'win' just not as good as people would have liked.
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> whose exercise Milo Yiannopoulos and his affiliates actively seek to limit for others.

How so?
Blaze has been: https://bazel.build/

Forge and Piper are built on Google's internal tech stack and designed for Google's production infrastructure, so open sourcing them would be a very big project. I think it would be a lot more likely for them to be offered as a service -- and that might be more useful to users anyway, since you'd be able to share resources with everyone else doing builds, rather than try to get your own cluster running which might sit idle a lot of the time. Of course, there are privacy issues, etc.

(Disclaimer: I'm purely speculating. I left Google over four years ago, and have no idea what the tools people are up to today.)
The thought that qualification has a direct correlation to perceived binary problems, like building a nuclear reactor, is exactly the reason why this problem exists.

I reference it in my talk (not on the last slide), but I invite you to read the story of Valeria Aurora (it's been referenced on HN before): http://bit.ly/1WZiNYQ

Her unique experience perspective to a mathematical problem is quintessential. The same is true for the women featured in the Hidden Figures movie.

Concluding that 'hard science' and 'hard math' realms don't benefit from diversity and only knowledge is why tackling this problem is so hard.
Agreed, same w/GVFS IMO.

I ruminated about ccase/git elsewhere in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13560108
The canon changes, as it must, with time. (To use one of your examples, 'The Art of War' didn't have an english translation until the early 20th century).

There's also a class issue involved, see for example Dorothy Sayer's "Busman's Honeymoon" and in particular the references Lord Peter and the local throw at each other.
Great point. Exactly what the book tackles. The US did not often intervene in the past because there was no direct benefit to do so.

Powers argues that this is changing. The international condemnation and uproar from citizens has political consequences for those in power and thus is enough to generate action.
I didn't interpret that as him saying he was going to do away with regulations and oversight. I read it as him saying he's going to increase tariffs and punish American companies who outsource and try to move operations oversees.

He may do both.
Again, supply and demand aside, I would argue that the amount you get paid is based on the amount of ROI you are bringing in. Your average McDonald's employee works hard for 10 hours a day at an $8/hr rate. Assuming each employ generates $300-$400 in the end, in order to justify their wage increase, they need to generate more than that. I do not know how much value they generate but if generate more than 4x of pay, then I would fully support a pay raise. This can happen if we are willing to pay more than $1 for a McChicken. Are you really willing to pay more than that? Hard work is not equal to more money.

Yes, programming is a tough profession and we often have shorter professional lives. But, I chose this path because I love coding and intend to move to a more managerial role in the future. That does not mean we should be paid 300k/year. An NFL athlete can easily command 1 mil/year because their franchise is easily generating more than that off of the athlete's name. Are you as a developer generating more than 1.2 mil/year for your company to get paid 300k?
I think we are obliged to speak more about this genocide http://www.armenian-genocide.org/hitler.html
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Agreed, but that's why you read the generals list and work your way down instead of the other way around.

If I hear one more gates of fire reference... my head is going to explode.
Yglesias is a political pundit, not so much an economic expert. He doesn't understand reinvesting profits to grow a business.
It is more of a game than a serious study tool.
You can also guess games on random piece boards http://ba.net/juegos/crazychess-guessposition/ or play against the engine http://ba.net/juegos/crazychess/
When the user adblock percentage of our website hit 30%, we decided to try out anti-adblock solutions.

We worked with a company that used various tricks to get around the adblock protection, and then serve ads. This was a great success, at first. Eventually our users started notifying adblock[1], and adblock included rules to block the new ads on our site. Then we contacted our vendor, who gave us a software update to circumvent the new adblock rules.

This went on, until adblock enabled the nuclear option and blocked all ajax requests on our site. This effectively broke our site for anyone using adblock. So we caved in, took out the software, and begged for mercy from adblock. The rule was taken out, and we are back to losing 30% of our ad revenue.

I should mention that we've tried the usual stuff -- subscription service to remove ads. Asking our users nicely to add our site to their whitelist, etc. Both of these have had minuscule impact.

[1] When I say "adblock did X", I really mean the caretakers of the "rule lists", which the various adblocking engines use in their browser extensions.
I know. :-)
hear hear. I've taken the last couple of months to refactor all of my side projects to 12-factor apps for deployment on a nice Dokku instance. Absolutely effortless.

Next steps now is getting these projects deployed through a CI/CD. I evaluated a few, and it looks like I'm down to drone.io or jenkins.

This will bring some much needed sanity I need to keeping all these side / personal projects in order. I can go weeks or months without touching them, but then know EXACTLY how they will get tested and deployed.
Adblock is an autoimmune response. Adoption goes high because ads take too much in resources.

Thats why as the article said ad block became really popular in indonesia, because it costed users too much of their data plan compared to the value they got. And the reason why is because rich media ads became more frequent compared to a few years ago.

To avoid becoming an autoimmune response victim, you have to do things like google AMP where 'ad-enhanced' becomes a benefit.
I wonder what percentage of goods that Amazon sells are still being sold at low-margin prices though. Most things I see on Amazon these days are more expensive than at my local store. Two examples from yesterday: Rani Hot Curry Powder (Amazon: $14.99, my local grocer: $8.69) and Speedo Silicone Swim Earplugs ($5.99 on Amazon, $2.99 at Fred Meyer).

Just about everything I purchase these days is cheaper at a local store. Ritter Sport chocolate bars are cheaper, bike tubes and tires, pots and pans... I can't think of a single thing that I have price-checked recently that has been even slightly cheaper on Amazon.
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