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There was massive financial fraud at Westinghouse. Even though the nuclear industry is in a downturn, the troubles at Westinghouse are self inflicted - Toshiba bought them, but found out almost all of the unit's profits are misreported, leading to them spending money on "nothing" basically. The unit earned no money and was threatening to sink Toshiba the entire keiretsu. This is Toshiba trying to save itself by closing down the tide of red.

The source of the troubles was Westinghouse's purchase of CB&I Stone & Webster, and it spun out of control.
Here's reason #4. You'll look younger, have better skin, and live longer. Vegans typically live 15 years longer and don't have many of the degenerative diseases which are caused by meat and dairy.

I was pushing my parents to let me become vegan when I turned a teenager. I stopped eating meat on my 16th birthday despite their assertions that I would die. Gave up dairy a few years later, which I only ate because the dairy industry's advertising is so damn strong.

I'll turn 46 this summer, so it's been almost 30 years, and people think I'm 10-15 years younger. Teenage girls still try to pick me up. My fiance has been vegan for something like 20 years and is 40 this summer. Last year, two high school kids invited her to the prom.

And reason #5, which was the primary reason I went vegan, followed by having a sense of ethics and feeling it was wrong to enslave, torture, and murder animals, because meat is yummy: Eating rotting corpses is pretty gross when you think about it.
You realise that routing all your home LAN traffic over the same VPN located ... at your home ... still gives your ISP all your personal browsing traffic.

Though your kids won't be able to snoop you from the internal interface.
AFAIR he wanted to emigrate to one of the eastern EU states. Irony is truly broken.
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I'm leaving Google this week to start my own company again. The prospect of eventually sitting on the other side of the table and competing with these big companies used to bother me but I've realized that the personalities I'm looking for don't flourish at Google, and vice versa.

Google engineers (those that stay past the first vesting event) tend to be very risk averse, even for engineers. I'm not talking about technical risk and skill but I mean career and life risk. There are relatively few motorcyclists and skydivers. On our last team Vegas trip I kept track of how much everyone was gambling as a proxy for their risk appetite and decided that Googlers like a sure thing, not a risky payout down the road.

My point is, you may want Google's talent bar (who doesn't?) but you aren't truly competing for the same people. Give me some smart pirates and a fast ship.
The starting salary for a new graduate in the UK is probably in the range of £25-£33k, unless you're really lucky and do something like investment banking which is about half of what comparably qualified grads make in the US.

On the other hand, there are additional things that are paid for because of various legal differences between the the UK and the US (such as paid maternity leave, paid sick leave, and employers have to pay a tax for each employee called National Insurance which effectively funds the state pension system). The law also gives all employees 5.5 weeks of holiday (though there often some restrictions on when it can be taken).
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Wow, this is _really_ expensive! I'm sorry, but $0.05/1000 requests is really really premium.

1000 request/s is $0.05/s. 86400s/day * 30 days * $0.05 -> $129.6K/30d. 1k req/s is not that uncommon either. And that's before 'paid middleware'!

APIs and sites that'd truly benefit from this are immediately priced out.

I see why you priced it the way you did (gotta start somewhere with such a large upfront investment if you're not using cloud capacity), but you aren't exactly going to get any large customers with numbers like that. Project it to when you have ~500k req/s going through your service (778M ARR!): you cannot expect to still be making $0.05/1000 requests.

To put it into perspective, costs to call S3 are 10x-100x cheaper (GETs are 0.004/10000, PUT/POST/LIST/COPY is 0.005/1000) and S3 arguably does a lot more per request.

I really want to like it. The service sounds _awesome_, don't get me wrong. I'm a huge nerd for smart loadbalancing. I've written more loadbalancing code than I care to admit, but the economics just aren't there for me to even consider adopting your service. It's a lot cheaper for me to keep a pool of nginx servers in AWS regions around the globe with pre-established TLS connections back to the home DCs for much of the benefit fly.io brings.
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> Edit: I'm not sure why I'm getting down-voted over this.

Because your characterization of unions just sounds like blindly repeating the anti-union propaganda that has been so successful in the US starting from Reagan's time.
No, there is no absolute moral imperative of sex, not without throwing in a healthy dose of religious belief.
How sad that arguing virtue for its own sake is now politically incorrect.
When does a Web app make sense, and when would you go native instead?
Aren't virtually all of us doing this anyway? Who doesn't pipe all their http requests through a for profit company? Given that such a large percentage of web-accessible applications are on the cloud these days, most people are probably using some sort of managed ingress solution from their provider.
The type of s/p there can't be guaranteed to be (S not nil) at compile time, which is a bizarre decision in an otherwise-statically-typed language where the type system is designed to provide runtime type safety. You still have to do a null check at runtime if you want to be safe here

While it's nicer that you can perform the check inside Test() instead of before the call, I don't understand why the type system doesn't just prohibit this and make you use a union type if you want (S or nil) given that a lot more situations call for (S not nil) than (S or nil).
Err, Opera was doing "tabs" for the word go. Only that Opera used MDI. This was present all the way to the end of Opera 12.
Maybe people end up shunning the companies and goods made by robots. People return to a barter system.
What are you going to miss in life if you have children?
This is terrible news. Nuclear power, while not perfect, is one of the best alternatives we have to carbon-emitting power plants. If there are no companies left to build them, the already impossible task of fighting climate change will get that much harder.
Well if you put it that way, it wasn't really on the table for us then. We would have expected employees doing that to do 10 hour days the other days of the week.

I love the idea of not requiring that but the math just doesn't work out for us. We have specific goals we need to hit to make payroll and losing 8 hours a week from everyone wouldn't work.

We are actively working to improve our processes so we can make more money with less hours spent though. When we crack that nut we can consider something like that.
I'd be careful with that calculation. Is the 20k EUR / year figure includes Taxes, Social Security and Office Space. The figures being thrown here (in the US) are pre-Tax/Social Security.
Oh, and here I was thinking that trusting startups to our most private and intimate thoughts, traffic, readings, and communications was how we ended up with this mess in the first place.

Clearly I'm mistaken.

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I think the "not with a straight face" thing depends on what you're willing to get in writing up front and then insist on. As you say, companies can cut pay like they can change any other terms (depending on jurisdiction, natch, but mostly true in the US). The difference is that they know people take that very seriously. So if you want those other things to stay true, you have to be just as serious. Agreements don't enforce themselves.
That is especially interesting since they also did massive QE like the US. So it seems other factors are at play.
That is fine if there is a stable status quo.

The Brexit referendum would have had a huge impact either way.

A Remain vote would have weakened the UK government's position and emboldened the EU as it seeks to form an ever closer union of its member states.
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>I wrote a long post in response

I'd still love to see it.

>but then I remembered that when a person uses their feelings to argue, you cannot counter-argue them with logic.

My last post listed facts... and you didn't exactly address them. Also there is nothing more frustrating when arguing with libertarians, neo-reactionaries, republicans, etc. than when they bust out the "stupid liberal emotions" trope. Try to be honest with your argumentation, you don't believe what you believe because you're more honest or smarter or more logical than I am. It's just your belief. You may have facts to back them up but I do as well, why we find those facts comes from our belief system.

>what if you are wrong? what then? what if the morality you speak of here is actually injustice and evil itself disguised as goodness and justice? what remedy do I have against your tyranny?

You mean to ask do I take responsibility for being an evil tyrant if I am secretly an evil tyrant? I suppose I do but reject the premise.

>Ever stopped to think about that? I get that you believe that society's role is to take from X and give to Y. But what IF that belief is wrong? aren't you then responsible for all the pain and suffering that is to take place due to your beliefs?

I openly advocate for redistribution and if redistribution is "wrong" and causes all sorts of pain and suffering then sure I'll take my share of responsibility. Once again though, I reject the premise.

*

Now that I've answered that let me pose the same to you. What if you are wrong? If redistribution is a vital tool in order to give people a fair shot at life, do you take responsibility for depriving them of that? What if your beliefs are evil and used by powerful interests to entrench the already powerful?
It's interesting you're bringing this up. I've been working on a private CDN that one can run on their own infrastructure (currently in closed beta). Is this kind of deployment more appealing now that CF bled sensitive data?

On the other hand I've also built Cachoid ( https://www.cachoid.com/ ), which is somewhat federated like Fly's but for website acceleration and performance for WordPress, Drupal, landing pages etc. We do have the option to spin a dedicated routing layer with Cachoid, which sort of addresses the shared/neighbor bleeding issue CF suffered from.

But I still don't think decentralized is the ultimate answer to security. Although I realize that the impact could be minimized greatly.
if anybody wonders, the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joshbegley...
I don't know, have you tried the Chao cheeses? They were pretty close for me. Daiya isn't too bad either. After 1.5 years of veganism I have to say though that I don't crave cheese or meat at all anymore and just try the faux meats/cheeses out of curiosity...
There are valid points to be made about HN being a bit of a bubble but I'm pretty comfortable pointing out that this is a forum for intellectual honesty and you're really showing none of that. These are tired arguments (ramblings really), to the point where I'm almost convinced you're trolling.
That argument is valid only if that 280 bytes is the full extent of all that you trust; you don't trust anything that is bootstrapped by it (and defend yourself perfectly, according to that mistrust).

Misplaced trust can happen at any level.
> It's little reason to justify such division today, and especially not to participate in mass murder to achieve it.

Not at all! To use my Bangladesh example. Bangladesh was founded in 1971 as a secular republic. Pakistan thereafter veered towards theocracy, e.g. adopting Sharia law for criminal proceedings in 1976. Subsequent events have slowly chipped away at Bangladeshi secularism over the years, but had they remained with Pakistan it would have been a lost hope. And as for tribalism being obsolete, I don't agree. There are hundreds of millions of people who think I should be executed for leaving the religion I was born into: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/01.... Do you want those folks voting on the laws that govern you? If not, you're not arguing against "tribalism," you're just arguing about where the tribal lines should be drawn.
A moderator replaced the original title (which was absolutely as linkbait as they come) with a representative phrase from the article. This topic has been discussed extensively already, so this article received many user flags as well as the standard penalty for follow-on posts.

Related discussions:

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Again I'm frustrated that people are just down-voting and not adding to the discussion.

aglavine is right, for example in the case of paranoid schizophrenia. I have personally seen someone I am very close to descend into this madness. When they are not lucid it is literally impossible to establish any trust because the fundamental axioms with which they view the world are skewed. You can reason, but all the conclusions are fore-gone and the paranoid mind will only find more and more fantastical explanations to support the delusion. The delusion is the core reality.

Those of you who down-voted, explain how to establish trust in this context?
Yes.

I'm an older, successful dev in Chicago. I recently corresponded w/ a local startup CEO on linkedin. My skillset seemed to be a good fit for the role, but their stated top salary would be a 20K pay cut for me. So I ran a quick estimate, based on expected exit and expected dilution figures that I found on the internet (I know, grain of salt...), added a risk premium for myself, and found that I would want about 7% equity, in order to be interested. They said no, of course.

My point is that (some) startups can't or won't pay for the technical skills they want. And that's their problem, not ours.
Well you know..that's just like your opinion man.
Opting out of this site at this point. A bunch of 6-12 year idiots (recognizably) telling people what they think they know that they don't know. It's silly recursive.
I'll accept the 'adjust your glasses' for Discord's memory footprint. The fact that discord takes up 3x-10x more space than Mumble really isn't a big deal with a modern machine in 2017.

My real gripe is with all the small things.

Mumble can text-to-speech the names of people as they join/leave the voice channel.

Mumble includes timestamps on chat messages.

Mumble timestamps messages when users join/leave/mute/unmute.

Mumble has 'advanced' input options for voice-detection.

Discord doesn't currently do any of that. Unless I just can't find the right configuration.

For me, these small "Only notice when they aren't there" things are not outweighed by Discord's general ease-of-use.
Are you really claiming to have a superior understanding of intimacy, family, and the underpinnings of society?
And the point of this article, that VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem, is to change policy such that that trust may be far better founded.

Adding more players to a game that perverts and corrupts virtually every player on the field doesn't strike me as a particularly wise and enlightened approach.
How long has that been a feature, darn!
You do still need a compiler for the language. It's just that the target language is C, instead of assembly.
But what does being white have to do with it?
Solutions

1. Hire candidates that these big companies overlook, or that aren't interested in experience-blind trivia style data structures & algorithms interviews

2. Hire in locations where the cost of living is low

3. Allow your engineers the freedom and flexibility to work remotely. A side effect of this is that it opens up your candidate pool outside of your geographic confines and allows you to accomplish #2

4. Shorten your work week, or even remove the mandated work week altogether. To most this probably sounds blasphemous, but engineering is the type of work that doesn't have to be confined to a M-F 9-5 schedule.

5. Increase equity (0.1% is an absolute joke for most startups)

Hiring remotely is the easiest way to compete with fat corporate compensation packages. I would gladly take a pay cut if it meant being able to forgo my $2k/month rent in NYC and digital nomad around Europe and Southeast Asia.
Younger + training.

We've tried the latter too but have not been even remotely as successful. The job requires some mental elasticity and they older developers we tried it with were a bit too set in their ways. It didn't make sense given the market since at least here older developers are pretty well employed so the salary is still high.

But I am more than willing to try it again.
I know the Nissan Leaf doesn't put much stress on the oil either, so changes are extremely rare. And regenerative braking takes a lot of stress off the brakes, so Tesla's brake pads are rated for 100,000 miles. No spark plugs or air filters either.
Woah, that's incredible
I just tried this, and the IP for my test site seems to resolve to a Chicago based ISP called Secure Central Network - is that the closest one to UK? Do you have a list of edge locations somewhere?

The simple SSL cert setup seems novel, though the routing/middle stuff reminds me of Fastly: https://www.fastly.com
The video is an MP4. Here's the raw link:

http://graceofgodmovie.com/superdanny.mp4

I could have sworn I put a copy on YouTube but now I can't find it. I'll try uploading it again.

UPDATE: Try this: https://youtu.be/Ah_UglfATU0
>HIV infection rates in the gay community have shot up in recent years unfortunately as people have become complacent with condoms.

This is not accurate in the US. HIV diagnoses among gay men have increased less than 1% from 2010-2014 according to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/
And, as an excellent Twitter thread recently noted: take notes at the front of the room.

https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/846086667790311424

This is not solely valuable for avoiding stereotype traps, it's a useful career tip for anybody.
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To be fair:

"I had never coded Qt nor C++ until I started Iaitō, ..."
Although this particular instance is distasteful, as a general rule do you not think individuals should be free to choose who to rent their properties to?

What's the alternative; forcing him to accept tenants he doesn't want?
Absolutely false. Strategic Plurality Voting means NOT voting for your favorite, e.g. a Green voting Democrat. With Approval Voting, that same voter's best strategy is to vote Democrat AND Green. THAT is why you'd vote for more than one candidate.

Later-no-harm is a silly "anti-criterion" that causes more harm than benefit. See explanation by a Princeton math PhD who co-founded the Center for Election Science.

http://scorevoting.net/LNH.html

He refutes similar FairVote FUD here.

http://scorevoting.net/RichieRV.html

FairVote lacks expertise and lies a lot.

https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/fact-check

Here's a layman friendly talk I gave to the Colorado League of Women Voters a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_eMUGCU5U&t=487
It shouldn't take more than an afternoon or two to have a functional program using the sprite system. I'd suggest it just so you have an understanding of how it works.
I find the headline weird, "a blow to nuclear power". I feel like nuclear power is possibly the most attacked form of energy that exists, and that includes coal and petroleum, both of which are still heavily used despite any public outcry. Westinghouse has made some bad deals, sure, but the real "blow to nuclear power" has been the massive refusal by both citizens and governments to build new plants, and the few notable failures by plant operators to maintain safe operation.

Of course the company that builds nuclear plants can't succeed if new plants aren't being built. Westinghouse going under isn't going to destroy nuclear power, nuclear power was already dead.
>On our last team Vegas trip I kept track of how much everyone was gambling as a proxy for their risk appetite

Yikes. Gambling is just a dumb idea in general (it is literally designed to make you lose money)... unless you are gambling with other's money. ;)

There is a diff between "With enough work, this risky thing could work out" and "With enough luck, this risky thing could work out if I stop while I am ahead"
The real concern here is making sure the existing nuclear plants have a clear glide slope toward end-of-life. Nuclear power is an extremely tight community. On the nuclear carrier I was on (powered by Westinghouse plants), there was a valve (a valve!) malfunctioning and the tech rep flown out from the company took one look at it and said "This bit's in backward". "How do you know?" "I designed it". Which means the same guy had been working on that system for 30 years.

The people working for this company are a matter of national security. I sure hope Secretary Mattis understands that.

This, also, by the way, is a great illustration of Elon Musk's contention that these technologies don't just keep working. Brilliant, competent engineers and scientists have to invest themselves in making them work.
> Stories like that encourage Guha to persist with the project, he said, even though patents on his invention have long since expired and he won’t see any personal financial gain even if it takes off worldwide.

Hm, in America you can get a patent term extension due to regulatory delays in bringing a product to market at other agencies, such as the FDA

Does that not exist in India?
I had to check your history to see if this is satire.

Since it's not: this is a completely misguided view of human nature. Humans are among the most social of all animals, and our successes and failures have always been a function of our ability to work together. Humans everywhere, and at any time, have created groups held together by a lot more than transactional opportunities.

And even if you were right, and it is our fundamental nature to be lone wolfs, plundering the lesser lords and raping their ladies: the actual overarching feature of humanity is our unique ability to overcome base instincts with reason and morality. And both reason and experience tell us that cooperation is much more successful as a strategy for anything you could possibly desire than the alternatives.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.” - Douglas Adams