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> To your point, in the business world, if you've already gone through the turnaround experience, you're probably already very well compensated.

And you have a name and a position and a network and influence at your company.

Money is worth peanuts compared to that!

What's the risk of taking an hypothetical 50M from Uber, it's gonna be trying to fuck you over with ISOs and sexually harass you, whereas you can take 5M a year at your current company safely and with great success for the next decade.

Keeping a successful ship successful is hard work. There is nothing a distressed ship has to offer you.
That is true for almost all payment gateways - fraud protection is the responsibility of the client. Read up on what happened to Stripe customers in the hover board craze of 2015-16. That's why there are many popular third-party fraud reduction services (for a fee, of course).
True, but if you are writing software, it is vastly easier to avoid violating copyrights than it is to avoid violating patents.
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What every programmer should know about solid-state drives
Thanks for mentioning the site, and glad to hear that it's useful. :)
how so
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I can't help but draw tons of similarities to technology/software and especially the armies of "DevOps" that "smart" companies now seem happy to employ to keep a rickety pile of cascading ill-understanding be semi-reliable on whole.

I'm not really inclined to conspiracy in the large but there are probably some small and lots of subconscious (for example managerial empire building) forces designed to fully employ and otherwise bolster certain economic localities (manager's headcount/power, company's volume->quarterly P&L) that have pulled us in this direction. A rising tide lifts all ships kind of thing, if the rising tide is more units sold, and more people building/tweaking the products. Unfortunately that is massive amounts of waste, and if you care about quality as a virtue.. misery in every direction.

Back to appliances, it's interesting to think about energy use as a whole.. newer motors, refrigeration tech etc may be more efficient, but if you have to replace it 3x it's likely a net loss due to energy expended in manufacturing and shipping. For example, over half of the pollution for a car is caused by manufacturing, so buying a new more efficient car for altruistic reasons is basically worse than maintaining a used car.
You mean take unpaid leave and then return? I definitely don't want to keep this job, and pretty sure I wouldn't get it if I asked anyway.
I lived in London for almost 3 decades; this is exactly why I moved to San Francisco
I think more complex stuff might be written under those circumstances:

https://www.redox-os.org/

Or they could give up to do a better architecture instead for damage containment with interface checks on potentially-malicious input:

http://hypervisor.org/

https://genode.org/about/index

http://www.perseus-os.org/content/pages/Architecture.htm

Such architectures have been commercially deployed in embedded, mobile, and desktops for quite a while. Earliest one I remember still supported was about 2005 for x86 desktops. All by companies or CompSci groups much smaller than VMware in labor and budget simply applying methods that worked in the past in high-assurance security. Cutting assurance down where complexity or budget demanded but only where it was necessary. These big, mainstream companies cut it way down for reasons of profit maximization of existing market share. Then they end up at Pwn2Own or their customers on breach lists.
...Who also made and make lots of money. I don't think that anyone is disputing that absolute scumbags can stay in power if they make people money, but Uber... loses... money.
recycling in the US has to be profitable. Where I live we are no longer allowed to put glass into the recycling because it is no longer a profit center for the city.

I should add that getting rid of big items can be especially difficult, but most appliance delivery includes taking away the old one to .. wherever they go.
I'm curious: do you think that culture bleed stops at the domain name for some reason, and doesn't spill over to say, HN itself?
I remember our first VCR in the 80s being a Goldstar.

I believe that LG at one point stood for "Lucky Goldstar" as they eventually changed company name and branding.

Ah, from Wikipedia: "GoldStar merged with Lucky Chemical and LG Cable in 1995, changing the corporate name to Lucky-Goldstar, and then finally to LG Electronics."
Agree with the Headspace recommendation. It seems cheesy to need an app to concentrate, but Headspace makes it so easy to get started...
Indian engineer named Saddam Hussain cannot get a job
No, H.264 is a newer codec.

Now the fight is H.265 vs AV1.
Jones saw the writing on the wall...
While trying to answer my own question, I found a pretty neat site with lots of posts about how law is portrayed in pop culture.

http://lawandthemultiverse.com

Their take on "The Lincoln Lawyer": http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2011/05/27/the-lincoln-lawyer...
mbasic.facebook.com has been suggested for this use by several HN users.
I'm skeptical of declaring what stoicism ought to be applied to. It seems like a generic framework that works at the level of perception rather than a finite whitelist of approved things.

I would consider changing organizations to be an immense cost. It would be perfectly reasonable to apply stoic principles to make peace with language choice. Many of the costs associated from using a tool one believes is inferior are related to one's own emotional reaction to it. If you can conquer that, then you've made yourself a lot more flexible.

I can't imagine how anyone could claim that changing organizations is something that's easy. :-/

Thanks for your comment on charity. I admit that I came on a bit strong after rereading my comment. I sometimes get frustrated quite a bit with your commentary on Go, and I let it get the best of me. Sorry about that.
That's what I do. I bought the "dumbest" TV I could find; I just want a display with speakers and HDMI inputs.

Give me something I can plug the latest smart streaming box into and change that box as needed.
Why would they still use old codec when there are modern and free ones like Opus?
No, they can't. gravypod's explanation is not how patents work.
Wrong. Serbia is not in EU.

You must also have a bank account with a US, European, Australian, Canadian, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysian, or New Zealand-chartered bank.
Why Seattle spends the most per capita to build transit
Every exodus from reddit to Voat is when the most toxic subreddits are closed - /r/jailbait, which was basically child porn, /r/altright, which was doxxing and putting out hitlists on those they disagreed with, some extremely racist subreddits I'd rather not write out. It's a cesspool of white supremacists and otherwise awful people.
Great, understood a lot more than I had from the DeepMinds paper alone. Thought the mathematics was slightly beyond me, I got the gist of it still.
Although this was talking about reinforcement learning in Atari, I was wondering if its works for other domain as well? supervised, unsupervised etc. If it does and say you have sparse data for task B but rich data for task A. Is this saying training first on A than transfer learning B makes it perform better on B? (As I type it, it's sounding like semi-supervised but it's not what I am trying to ask. :P)
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Dude, I've spoken to Braintree customer support and they're incredibly nice and quick. The only better customer support I know of is for my Sapphire Reserve credit card.

Calling them assholes raises my eyebrow. It seems like the kind of place that would show a rude CS agent the door zero strikes you're out.
this reminds me of one of my favorite youtube channels, AvE: https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil

he takes apart tools to see what they are made of and determines points of failure and longevity. of course he has a love of things built to last, just like anyone who makes stuff. makes me realize that with a little learning, we should all be able to see past crap products that are built to fail.
They are more serviceable at least, you can get the replacement parts pretty easily along with manuals. They're purposely made that way for hotels/laundromats/etc where you can't just swap it out.
I wonder if it was operation or legacy software side that screwed up security potential of Edge. Microsoft did publish a design for strong security of browsers around the time Google did Native Client. Here was Microsoft's:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-mul...

Here's recent work on securing networked apps:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...

They're capable of making most of a browser immune to attacks likely to hit it. They can also make a strong system for containment. These simply weren't present in Edge to degree MS Research had designed. There's something blocking the transfer of those quite-practical tech that MS Research has been building.
> why do there need to be patents (and effective monopoly protections) on top of that?

It's explained here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

It's to avoid free-riders copying an invention after someone else researches the related dead ends.
The New York Times covers many things: politics, disasters, science, the arts, education and so on.

Rush Limbaugh exists for one reason only: the promotion of a hyper-partisan view of the world. He gets millions of listeners just for that one single topic.

Does every NYT reader read it for the editorials?
I think the article got it close that it's really to do with being: Male, Young, White.

When I was with the firm, we had a spate of suicides on base over a short period of time. Enough for 'management' to implement an in-loco parentis type arrangement for the young, single servicemen (and women) who were housed on base in barracks.

It meant great adventure trips away - and did help give some sort of support network for those posted away from families. A better option than just drinking in the bar, at least.

There are help options available (career suicide or not), but if you're depressed/suicidal, it's actually quite difficult to reach out to those options. In a well-run workplace environment, I found the Sergeants (and up) to be both a wealth of knowledge/experience and most were quite actively involved in taking care of the well-being of us young skins.
The Technique of Gregorian Chironomy (1955) [pdf]
> If your thing is truly groundbreaking, keep it secret.

That's a lot easier said than done.
True, but even this trend is slowly changing sadly. Remember when fuel filters used to be inline? Sure, it's still DIY, but it's now no longer safe or easy to change them yourself without relatively expensive equipment, and a prayer you don't break a bolt or strap. Ever tried to change a battery on the reintroduced Beetle? As time goes on, drive by wire becomes more prevalent, etc...cars are slowly becoming harder to repair for the shadetree mechanic. Even the things that are still possible have become, in general, more cumbersome.
We wasn't following Ramadan, he's Hindu.
Staber washers are supposedly made with industry-standard components (seals, bearings, motors, etc.) so if they fail you can get replacements from any mechanical parts supplier.

Don't know how reliable they are.
I have horrid anxiety ( to the point where I can literally freeze up when put on-the-spot stressful situations ) and I use Kratom lightly to deal with it. I noticed I was using a bit more than I thought was reasonable and I decided to do a hard stop and check for side effects. Well, the side effect in my case was horrid restlessness and anxiousness. It lasted for about 5 days. There is no throwing up or headaches, but basically all the anxiety I was mitigating came rushing back times 3 and it's extremely unpleasant. When researching online I did not find anyone else with this experience. When you use Kratom consecutively it's easy to build a tolerance. At the time I was consuming about 2 tablespoons a day 7 days a week for about a month.

Kratom when used sparingly is a good tool, but don't abuse it.

Generally its doesn't "feel" addictive but don't assume that it is without side effects and use it lightly.

I use it about 3 times a week and I limit my dosage to one teaspoon a day. This seems to give me the benefits without the side effects. I don't feel addicted to it and have no desire to consume more than this.

Just a heads up :)
It was a major factor that they didn't want presidents appealing to only the most populous states. The fact that America was rural made that even more pressing back then because it was easier to spread information and there were more candidate than our two party system. It would have been easy with a populous vote to dominate a few key areas and biasing towards their issues and mindsets.

From your own article,

"Also, a successful candidate for the office of president would have to have the distinguished qualities to appeal to electors from many states, not just one or a few states:

Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States"

This was quoted in your article from Hamilton saying that they didn't want a president that appealed to a single state.
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> So why use not bespoke, higher quality parts for the $2000 one? Because it will end up costing more like $4,000-$5,000.

I'm pretty sure they do. In that price range you're looking at entry level commercial / heavy duty cycle equipment.

> Overall reliability of appliance would shoot up, if a company stopped making their cheapest model so dirt cheap.

They have to be dirt cheap to compete with decades of used appliances available.
Yup, Everything Will Definitely Be Fine Since No One Will Lose Their Job Ever
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H.264 is MPEG-4 Part 10. If I am not mistaken H.264 is only the video compression part, while MPEG-4 is full audio, video, and container.
The people I know at Uber say differently. But whatever, it's your life and your decision. I wouldn't go work there now.
I think it's more than mindset than the actual policies. Policy wise, rural America has proved somewhat flexible. Rural Americans feel looked down on. All the more so when they are told they are idiots who are voting against their financial interest and supporting a neo-nazi.

They may be voting against their financial interest. Maybe Trump is a facist. But I'll be damned if telling someone they are an idiot ever got them to join a cause. Where's the empathy there?

So what are we on the left doing? We're playing to our own base. If we really cared about the people in rural America we would soften the rhetoric and try to make some converts for the benefit of everyone. But we appear to enjoy being right so much, that we would rather lose elections than get off our high horses for a while to converse with our fellow citizens.
There are a lot of things that you and I take for granted that simply wouldn't exist without the patent system. I think many people underestimate the amount of R&D effort that goes into coming up with a novel idea and its implementation. If there was no system in place to protect IP, commercially-funded research would basically die, and the average Joe would end up being the biggest loser. However, I am completely against silly patents like the infamous attempt by BT to patent the hyperlink[1].

[1]: http://www.zdnet.com/article/bt-loses-hyperlink-patent-case/
> king of print

The Wall Street Journal has had a larger national subscription base for years.

And of course there were many dominant local city papers in the days before digital. I used to read the Chicago Tribune cover to cover every day. Before that I read the Atlanta Journal.
You are picking an unusually high end example.

http://www.aei.org/publication/appliance-shopping-1959-vs-20...

200$ in 1959 for a washer = 1600$ today inflation adjusted. So yes I can go on Best Buy's website and pick a mid range washing machine for 1/2 the price. And yes there are plenty of cheaper examples, but the mid range cost in no way justifies 1/5 the the lifespan.
> The auto-updater does nothing to make this worse. That's true of any vulnerable system. Once you're owned, you're owned.

No. If you have RCE in the regular app, the attacker cannot make attack 'stick'. Once you reboot the machine, or restart service (in case of systemd), any malicious code no longer runs.

Now, if there is a privilege escalation bug the situation will get worse, but having 2 unpatched bugs is significantly less likely. Of course, you want to make sure unattended updates are enabled so your host OS is up to date.

As a result, most other systems will actually self-heal from minor compromises. Only your system (any many other PHP systems in general) will stay compromised forever.

> It runs every 15 minutes, in the default configuration, and our usual turnaround time for getting a bugfix out is less than 1 hour.

1 hour from what? From someone sending email to your team? If a black hat finds an exploit in your service, they will start compromizing the existing web servers first. You will not find out about the bug until someone notices something weird on their installation, and that will take way more than an hour.

> 2. Don't chown/chmod.

Have you actually tried this? Looking at your github, there seems to be `src/tmp/cache` directory -- presumably at least this one should be chmod'ed? What about others? What about plugins -- would they work fine without writeable root?

I have tried to make other PHP packages use immutable code, and it was very flaky and painful. You need to structure your program in a certain way to make sure it works with immutable root -- one location for temp, another for configs, third for the code. If your main development team uses writable code, there is a high chance immutable code would not work well.

> It's not broken, it's a trade-off. Nothing to fix.

> The reason we do this by default is because our threat model is ensuring automatic updates work for everyone (including people who are not sophisticated enough to set up a cronjob).

Why do you say it's hard to set up a cronjob? It is simple -- your deb/rpm package just includes file /etc/cron.d/aristrip, and voila -- you are done. The only place where cronjob setup is hard is on these cheap shared PHP hosting services. And I think no one should be using them -- get a $5 Linode VM instead.

The thing is, the modern Linux systems went pretty far in terms of security and isolation. You have multiple easy-to-use technologies for threat protection -- docker, Apparmor, capabilities, systemd' *Path, etc.. They work pretty well to make sure that attacker which got RCE cannot take a hold on a system and elevate privileges.

Except your system is not compatible with any of them, by design. Because you don't care. Maybe you should change your motto from "A Secure Content Management System for the Modern Web" to "A Secure Content Management System for the Cheap Shared PHP Hosting", because you can certainly do much better for the modern web.
Thanks appreciate it.
A washer can rip a kid's arms off or worse if their sleeve gets caught in it while the lid is open.
Thanks for great feedback!
[author here]

- Pretty much everything you use (e.g. Angular or React or Babel or Webpack or equivalents in other languages) is being built by a handful of people

- It interacts with TypeScript in a way that tends to be more sensitive to changes, but being some weeks behind the latest release of a compiler is not the end of the world, and we do continuously upgrade

I agree you should be wary of using it in production though because it's not really user-friendly yet. Though if you can figure it out it does work and some people are successfully shipping some apps.
Thanks for great feedback! I am looking into the newsletter idea.
I think this is one of the few RFS that I would drop everything for.

The factory environment has to be one of the most frustrating as a software developer. So much low hanging fruit that you really have to develop too much if you are not following the typical industrial idioms. (Throw ladder logic at it, keep at it till it barely works, then run it till the wheels fall off.)

Even just something as simple as reporting on a 30K$ PLC driven machine is painful. You can't buy a 10K HMI with Wonderware (a still painful piece of software) so you just ignore it. In my particular case I developed a simple reporting system on a RPI.

These industrial systems are usually not capable of even SQL or MQTT. You have to strap on an extra piece of hardware and a ton more money for licensing.

Even deployment is painful. You can't just push new code because you have no way to mock your industrial systems. Even if you could you will need to live edit your code into the PLC or you will wipe its current state of recipes and other user data. Because your PLC wasn't able to use standard SWE tools to get that data. God help you if you need to roll back.

So I am applying to this. Everything is broken. Where do you even start? Fix the platform, fix the robots, fix the job setup, fix the people.
In the blue collar world, it's not unreasonable that people have the radio on while they work.
My wife is in a similar situation. I've heard pain killers only become addictive if you take them when not in pain. But when you're in excruciating pain, and the meds only dull the pain somewhat, there is no addictive euphoria taking place. So people like my wife who have been on them for a decade, and probably will for the rest of her life, could taper down and give them up very quickly if their pain went away.
In this thread, I have posed the question to general (biological) intelligence, since I do not have access to general artificial intelligence.
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When would I need to decode AC-3?

Playing most live TV content
Playing most recorded TV content
Playing many videos from DVD
Playing many videos from Blu-Ray
Playing videos recorded by some digital camcorders
Playing some online streaming content offered in 5.1 surround sound

When would I need to encode AC-3?

Hopefully never! In practice, there are a few cases:

Encoding surround sound audio for some legacy TVs and devices that only support AC-3 for surround. Modern devices can decode other multichannel formats such as AAC, DTS, and Opus.

Encoding surround sound audio to be sent to a legacy AV receiver using an optical cable (S/PDIF). Modern AV receivers can accept other formats over HDMI, including multichannel PCM.

Is AC-3 any good? Should I use it for new stuff?

No, of course not. AC-3 is over 25 years old and horribly inefficient.
For TypeScript, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13909205
Ask HN: Has cold calling/emailing ever worked for you?
Im actually in need of some pocket money and was thinking about scrapping together a cold emailing service that will send your pitches to VCs for a dollar. I know it doesn't usually work, but hey it might be worth it for some folks!
Could use your help on a database assignment that i'm working on
H.264 is a subset of MPEG-4. It's another name for MPEG-4 Part 10 (Advanced Video Coding).

MPEG-4 itself includes many other parts, including a container format, audio (AAC), and another video codec (Part 2, popularly known as DivX).