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They might tell, and if they do it's probably not something that's going to happen swiftly.

I took a job with an employer in London who didn't get my taxes right, but I was none the wiser of course. A few months in, my tax increased by a significant amount from one paycheck to the next, and this tipped me off to something being wrong. I talked with my employer who looked in to it, but this kept on being the same for about three months. At this point, I'd been on the job for maybe 7 months or so. Finally I'm told I have to sort this out with HMRC myself, so I called them. They were very helpful and pleasant to deal with, and the person on the other end of the phone call very briefly looked over my account and determined I've been overpaying every single month – by a lot. They noted as well that HMRC had indeed changed my tax code to an "emergency rate" or some such about three months prior to the call, but failed to note the wrong tax code that was already there in the first place. This person did sort it all out however, and a couple of weeks later I got a check in the mail for over £6000.

It did finally work out in the end, but I'm not sure I would've noticed if they hadn't hiked my tax so significantly, and I don't know what would've happened then since apparently they hadn't registered the error either.

Moral of the story: HMRC are there to help, but you may want to be proactive and call them if you think anything might be wrong, or you want to double check something. Their phone service is very helpful, and usually not too busy.
My work laptop is on one of those stands. I got it for free, then bought a Dremel to cut out some metal between two of those holes so that a USB hub could be plugged in from underneath. Not bad.
F3 – Alternative to h2testw, for detecting fake flash memory
I'm curious what the policies are for the persistence of cemetery plots in different areas. I thankfully have had no personal interaction with the funeral industry yet, but the article's matter-of-fact mentioning of gravestones being uprooted and hauled elsewhere (or even destroyed) after some period of inactivity seemed hideous to me. A bit of research ( http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2248/do-cemetery-pl... ) suggests that the US (where I reside) seems to have more permanence in burial plots than Europe does. I suppose it makes sense given the limitations of space and accumulated time that Europe has had to deal with as opposed to the US, but there is something aesthetically horrifying to me about the idea of evicting dead bodies for failure to "pay rent." Moving graves for new development is one thing, but for it to be a policy of an active cemetery seems like such an alien concept.

In a similar way, I've found myself less happy with the idea of modern cremation the more I learn about it. The mental picture of "body goes into the fire, ashes come out of the fire" seemed beautiful, but the use of the cremulator ( essentially a blender to crush up all the bits of bone that didn't turn to ashes, as seen in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTclbBKxKk ) gives me pause. It may be an irrational thought in our modern materialistic world, but that last act of push-button pulverization feels violent and overly industrial. Perhaps embalming is not much better, but at least that connects with a familiar historical tradition. I wonder how far back the use of cremulation in cremation goes -- in modern times can you request that your cremation keeps the bits of bones "unprocessed"?
Agreed, a timeout is a must. Thanks for feedback!
I thought this was only in Visual Studio, guess i'm wrong.

PS. In VS - Go to View: "Task List", it gives an overview of all TODO's.
Most people don't realize there's a difference between shyness and introversion.

Shyness implies you want to interact with people but some sort of anxiety is blocking you. I'd say the majority of "introverts" are just extroverts with social anxiety or lack of self-esteem.
> there are no tax exemptions or deductions, but on the other hand life is simple

There is talk nowadays about changing this and bringing in deductions, just like in the US.
> Could Twitter actually ban @Potus?

It would be a divergence from their past actions, but I don't see why not. It's their platform.

> How could the White House impose a private service to operate the account against their will?

Why would they? @Potus would likely just move to another service and continue as if nothing happened. Gab.ai would love it if this happened.

> What would happen if Twitter decided to ban the President because that could avoid a war?

I see no way this would have a major impact. POTUS has the attention of the world's press, it's not like losing a Twitter account would stop him from speaking to his audience.
This really hits close to home for me. The first four years of my career I had the exact same sentiment. I would be able to complete my work in the first few hours of the day and just screw around after that. It was often misguided and didn't accomplish much other then learning random factoids. 15 months ago I finally brought myself to see a psychiatrist for depression, and between therapy and medication I was able to snap out of it and get on my feet again. The only thing is, while I started to love what I was doing again, I still felt no true inspiration to focus on something that wasn't truly challenging. And that turned out to be a major issue for me, and I had conversations with my therapist and she recommended I consider getting treatment for ADHD. One of my friends came by that weekend and happened to have a few extra extended release aderall, so I split it up over the two weeks between my next appointment with my psychiatrist. But I knew almost immediately after taking aderall that I likely had ADHD. I had a moment of clarity where my own thoughts didn't consume me while I worked for 30 minutes. The last time I felt that was probably a decade ago when I was still considering going to school for music performance. I've now been on medication for ADHD for a month and it's had a profound impact on my quality of life. I used to always be tired, regardless of how much sleep I got. I would find myself having difficulty in completing what should be minor tasks with any bit of precision. I was making so many little mistakes here and there that I didn't realize how much of an impact it was having on my morale.

This is a really long and roundabout way of saying, there's no reason not to go see a therapist and a psychiatrist if you feel like it's starting to impact you're quality of life. The worst thing that happens is you go to a doctor and get a comprehensive health examination to rule out any other factors or you take medication for a month that doesn't help.
"Because a corporation is not a voluntarily group of people, it is, well, a corporation! The workers have no control on it and its aim is to make the maximum profit, even when this means polluting oceans, exploiting people and doing any kind of unethical action."

And you do realise, that there are many different kinds of corporations? And even in the most shitty ones, people choose freely to be part of it (even if pushed by money pressure).

And again, you are totally free to gather fellow "workers" and start together a corporation of the type you like and produce what you want. And people are doing that btw. Just like <people> choose to put waste in the rivers, or not.

It is allways people doing things, good or bad, bound to a corporation or government or whatever other group. Just picking one type of organisation and blaming everything bad on it is extremely oversimplifying and I can't imagine how that could improve anything
Experiment on dolphins showed they can explain each other what trick to perform. Can't find the exact experiment but trainer showed the trick to one dolphin and rewarded the pair only when the other dolphin perormed the same trick
Haynes (the publisher who does car DIY books) did a book on the Voyager probes, and it's a fun non-intro book. It gives a broad overview of the engineering in the probes, some problems with their construction, etc. Overall I enjoyed the read.
70 years of being a family-owned, regional playing-card company is pretty much the definition of stagnation.

Hiroshi Yamauchi deserves credit for having the vision to expand into electronic games, but nothing they did before Miyamoto could truly be considered a market-shaping event.

Other than switching to electronics and hiring Miyamoto, Yamauchi was a middling CEO at best.

Super Mario is one of the most recognizable characters in the world. The NES sold 60 million units. The SNES sold 50 million units.

If a great CEO had been running Nintendo at any point since ~1983, Nintendo would be Disney right now.
Obsession with social issues has contaminated tech journalism
Using Objective-C for iOS instead of Swift
In that case, I should see you around the building in a few months.
That is indeed worth noting. As a critic of suburban sprawl, I'm disheartened that the balance of Silicon Valley's efforts in this arena seem to be in making the world better for cars, not for people.
I'm with you here. I never spent more than $600 having a few W2s, some 1099s, the usual interest-bearing accounts, a C corp and a schedule C.

Granted, I could have spent a LOT more if I didn't keep track of everything (i.e. needing a bookkeeping service too). Maybe that's where the additional expense came in.
Thanks for feedback!

I should add a link to the rules for the current game. Playing a sound is a good idea.

The server has few players for now, hence the waiting time. But you can always invite a friend.

I will advertise it more as soon as it gets highly available/scalable.

You can change the order of dice by clicking on the dice. Another way is to use left/right mouse button. Left button plays the larger die, right button plays the smaller die.

I guess a short help page will be useful.
I'd advise you to leave the burning platform, Microsoft has pulled nearly all their development talent of Windows 10 Phone, hence why the Lumia 640 still has no wifi calling and desktop messaging integration is still broken. Additionally, the abject lack of new devices shows their commitment to the platform, hell, they are even selling Galaxy S8's in the Microsoft Store now!
Google isn't some all-knowing authority on UX/UI. In fact, their UI is pretty terrible for most applications. It's hard to tell what you can or can't click. There are hidden controls everywhere.

You can decide to blindly follow standards or do some real user testing and see how well your UI works for people. Stand over someone's shoulder while they use it for the first time and see how quickly they figure it out. Do some A/B testing.

For the record, the UX/UI community in general had a lot of negative reactions to Material when it was introduced:

https://medium.com/tech-in-asia/material-design-why-the-floa...

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/material-design-and-the-myst...

http://blog.usabilla.com/flat-design-going-far/

http://www.matthewmooredesign.com/almost-flat-design/
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Thats insanely beautiful. Thank you for sharing!!

I have a mild case of synesthesia and this is one of the closest things I have seen/heard (:) ) that comes close-ish to capturing how I see/feel when I experience great music.

Of course, I was not surprised to see the creator of the video list a similar motivation in his caption for the upload.
Heh. Cheers, my friend. I can relate. And yes, INTJ. :D
> Why don't they use them for their laptops, already..?

They will, it's just a matter of when.
The picture looks like young Jack Nicholson talking to current Larry David.
"Employment" like everything is subjective. Contractors don't count as employees. Foxconn employees doing Apple's manufacturing don't count as employees. It artificially decreases the people count depending on the company's FTE ratio.

Also consider the different industries. Xerox may need on-the-ground support staff to go onsite in numerous countries, in a way Apple does not need to.
A lot of hate for TODO/FIXME in the comments... We've been using them successfully in open source for decades. I would never rely on them between releases, but during active development of a single release they are handy.

A single line is not enough to explain work needed to be done or getting said work done, but it can be enough to explain existing work, sometimes.
This is short and worth a listen, a Stanford Professor spent a year or so of his life piloting a program in California called "Ready Return", where the government filled out your taxes for you. Ultimately it was shot down by Intuit and H&R Block's lobbyists however.

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521954033/stanford-professor-l...
I think this every time I read something along the lines of "building blocks of life" in space news. I'm always hearing about how life could be so drastically different, but NASA seems to always be looking for the conditions you mentioned. We have life on Earth which oxygen is toxic to, for example. It would make more sense if their goal was to find an environment which is the most hospitable to relocate our life to.
> In 1975, Wilson was part of the team that developed the 6502

You can get a better summary of her early career from her computer history museum oral history interview: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102746190 - worth your time.
Pretty much. There is always a trend and those trends make you money of you leverage them. It's a way to exploit the need to belong.
What are some practical things done with GA's chips? (My own belief is that almost nothing can be done with them but I'm always glad to be surprised, certainly with something like this where the chip itself is a masterpiece of circuit design shunning every convention of the art.)
Memory/processing integration is not as simple as it sounds: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/134585/preci...
A lot of the dumbasses are either rich and privileged themselves, or sponsored by people who are rich and privileged.

All political systems tend to aristocracy/oligarchy. It's incredibly hard to design a stable system that doesn't.

I suspect the only systems that work are ones where making smart policy is a considered a form of rather dull social service, not a surefire tool for self-advancement.

But humans don't work like that. We're too short-sighted and competitive, and the only way to fix that is to change the reward profile so actions that benefit long-term collective intelligence get better outcomes than actions designed for short term personal gain.
I've heard the 2DS was somewhat similar in being based on unused parts for Wii U controllers. That'd also explain the otherwise bizarre move to stop selling such an unexpectedly popular product.
If you're interested in preserving composition using automatic methods, you may want to check out the field of image retargeting. Instead of cropping, it attempts to warp 'non-important' parts of the image to reach the desired aspect ratio. An implementation of it in photoshop is called 'content aware resize', but I haven't seen an evaluation of it against the state of the art research.
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Shadow Brokers Dump Windows Exploits and NSA Presentations on Targeting Banks
I don't have a clue.

But I would not pretend to know that life must be water based, as if this was an obvious fact. There are lots of things we do not know.

I would still be excited when finding water in other planets, though.

In general, approaches such as SETI seem to me much less biased by our own nature and much more likely to show results.

A comparable aproach for simple life forms, looking for effects instead of causes, seems more sensible to me.
How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Doss
Ruby on Rails vs. Express.js. A Ruby dev shop owner perspective
I mean at that rate all consoles are a letdown because a gaming PC will always be better.
What do you mean by "problem"? Email has the same "problem".
The product is quick and easy to use...even if my grandpa's use case probably doesn't match any of the three primary options :). The aesthetics are tasteful.

My design advice is to get rid of the part that is unpleasant to the maximum extent possible. That's what good design does. It's one of the things Hacker News gets right.

How useful are email updates with static text versus a dashboard that can slice and dice data? Sure some people will want email because that's the way they have always done it. Some people will want email updates because it fits their use case. But everyone won't so it can be opt in.

Or to put it another way, it's not clear that most people will have the problem that email notifications solve or at a finer grain, that the problems that come with email notifications are less painful than the problems that email notification solves.

Riffing a bit...email notifications could be an upsell. The conundrum I encounter with free platforms is investing time in building something when there is not an obvious revenue model.
I think the last paragraph in the article is key, the most interesting and tiring arguments are the ones where both parties believe the other is arguing from the gut and have retroactively reasoned while they are being perfectly rational. Being able to see when you might be doing this as well often makes the discussion much less adversarial.
Automated chatbots easily. No coding skills required
DeepBreath: Preventing angry emails with machine learning
>> CPUs have a similar memory hierarchy, the difference is that you're a context switch away from losing your preciously cached data.

That's an argument for more cores, each with it's own cache. It also suggests that the OS schedule all of the low CPU load tasks on the same core to prevent context switching on the big workloads. I'm not sure if that's how it's done today, but when my dual core is busy the CPU usage graphs tend to switch places regularly.
The first time I heard this was back in 1999 and the reason they were merging was because the bite out of the apple and the "3" in the G3 logo looked like a sideways Mickey head: http://i.imgur.com/YaUWcXM.jpg
"people who earn wealth from the work of others"

Everbody who has money on the stock market, directly or indirectly, earns wealth from the work of others. But this is not a bad thing, as "the others" also benefit from the capital invested as they otherwise could not produce or earn.

And for sure you have influence even with little stock, by choosing where to invest and where not. And surely there are people with much more influence (money), thats the way it is, if not everbody is forced to have the same, no matter what they do (or their ancestors did)
I had kids on my high school football team taking roids just to make varsity. Meanwhile on my team at the D1 level there were guys who barely lifted weights and looked like greek gods.

The same thing can be seen programming as well. Some people struggle for months to do basic things while others take to it like fish to water.

People don't like talking about how much genetics impacts things because it ruins the "you can be anything you want to be" BS
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> I also wonder if Nintendo could destroy the market of cheap / gimmicky consoles that you can buy for like $50 that include "150 games!". Release something that anyone can afford, hook it up to an e-store and let game devs release cheap games on it. It would be like hooking up the N64 / SNES / NES consoles with online services.

I mean, really, a million companies have tried it and found it didn't work. You'd have to really bank on Nintendo name recognition to think there is a chance.
Zalando open source evangelist here. Some of my colleagues are on this thread, taking your questions. Meanwhile, wanted to plug a few other Postgres/K8s projects we're working on:

-- Spilo: HA PostgreSQL cluster using Docker (https://github.com/zalando/spilo)

-- kube-ingress-aws-controller: Configures AWS Load Balancers according to Kubernetes Ingress resources (https://github.com/zalando-incubator/kube-ingress-aws-contro...)

-- external-dns: a Kubernetes Incubator collaboration. Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services. (https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns)

We also have several older Postgres-related tools listed here: http://zalando.github.io/.

Users and contributors very welcome; just drop a line in our projects' Issues Trackers.
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50,000 seems reasonable to me. A congress member could have a townhall at a football stadium with every one of their constituents in attendance. It's unlikely there would ever be that level of interest, but it's nice to know it's possible.
Happy to see comparison of Rails vs Express and not Rails with node js. Latter is common misunderstanding
Unigine Superposition Is a Beautiful Way to Stress Your GPU in 2017
I'm surprised people think that's unusual. https://teamgaslight.com/blog/why-are-so-many-software-devel...
> even if pushed by money pressure

That's the whole point. People do not voluntarily work for shitty wages at shitty jobs, they are forced by the need of money.

Workers in western countries are extremely lucky, since they live in very wealthy countries where even the shittiest job usually gives the possibility to live a decent life.

However, I'm not sure (to make an example which is extreme in the opposite way) congolese children do voluntarily work in cobalt mines, getting intoxicated and often dying just to be able not to starve in the short term.

Regarding the rest of your comment, I just have to say that:

1. yes, people can start their own ethical corporation, and some people actually did that. But they are pretty much irrilevant in the global market. Actually, I would argue that following ethics often puts a corporation in a less competitive position.

2. just because I could do that myself doesn't mean that's a good thing.
I'm not saying that the capitalist class is evil and trying to destroy the world, I'm just saying that the system is flawed in allowing such a restricted pool of people to accumulate so much wealth, and to actually encourage the exploitation of people and resources in order to stay competitive.
> I don't understand all these people who are funding research to cure death.

It's very simple: they don't want to die. They're enjoying life, and death is the specter which threatens to halt that enjoyment. They are also in the privileged position of having money to throw at the problem.

In someone's 30's and 40's, the biggest fear is of death as a general evil to be conquered. I wonder how the focuses of these groups will change over time; will they change their focus from death in general to particular symptoms of aging in particular?

Will their focus move to curing cancer if they get cancer? How about preventing Alzheimer's when their loved ones no longer remember them? Regeneration of cartilage when they can no longer walk around pain free? And so forth...
"The landscape favors autos but not in the same way as a city like Atlanta, favoring a regular grid with sidewalks over cul-de-sac deadends."

Lots of people miss this distinction. (I did, too, before you articulated it.) It's why I find LA quite pleasant despite not being a car owner.
Right. The first challenge is to have a clear enough definition of life.

I do not even think that reproduction is a necessary property.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...

> In 2005, Norquist testified before the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform arguing against return-free filing. The next year, Norquist and others wrote in a letter to President Bush that getting an official-looking "bill" from the IRS could be "extremely intimidating, particularly for seniors, low-income and non-English speaking citizens."