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Here in the Netherlands my employer's data is all pre-filled in. Just have to log in to a mobile app and sign with my citizen's digital ID. (just a login with 2FA).

All of that takes about 3 minutes, and it's pretty much sufficient for like 80-90% of my peers (fresh out of college).

But with more complex deductions, you need to use the 'full web app', which is also pre-filled but comes with tons of questions. They take me about 20-30 minutes, because I know how it all works nowadays. But the first time it took me 2 hours cause there's lots of definitions and words that aren't frequently used in the Dutch language.
I know some things about my grandfather from 120 years ago, because he'd write letters.

http://walterbright.com/trip/chas.html

I suppose the stuff I post on the internet will last forever :-)
Part of the issue is too many people, managers in particular, fail to realize that "manager" and "leader" aren't synonomous. Managers want to believe they are though! More than likely because charismatic narcissists tend to rise to the "top" ( https://hbr.org/2017/04/if-humble-people-make-the-best-leade... ).
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It also depends on how many instances of my consciousness are active at that time.
In his spin on this view, only until the universe freezes. Its longer than a 100 years but still :P.

For you, this still doesn't matter as you are still dead.
Exactly.

My insistence is always that what happens inside the Sprint is the concern of the development team and nobody elses.

However it's important to remember that the team itself should set their velocity in negotiation with the product owner. This shouldn't be set by some external force.
I remember my great-grandfathers: Gilbert, Clyde, Coit, and Sam. They mean something to me because I would not be me if they weren't them. Something would be different if their lives were different. There are connections. Life continues.

Yes, we should live our lives not worried about appearances to others. Most of our accomplishments will be fleeting at best, but the lives we live influence our children and our grandchildren, and that influence passes along, whether they remember my name - because of a shared passion for family genealogy - or not.
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Yes, that was particularly dirty pool. Made me lose a lot of respect for the execs in that story.
Exactly, has anybody tried it on Ryzen 7?
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There's an actual, real world solution that has been implemented in Arizona and Maine and appears to work: http://www.vox.com/2016/2/9/10941690/campaign-finance-left

If you prefer the more academic version: http://mysite.du.edu/~smasket/Masket_Miller_SPPQ.pdf

What's more, it doesn't appear to favor one side of politics (which challenges some partisan rhetoric around the influence of Soros/Koch on outcomes. Note that this is different to corporate influence, which may well be a worse problem)
I don't want to pretend debuggers aren't useful...

But I haven't used a debugger in at least ten years. Production Go for the past few.

I debug with good log messages.

Of course, not everyone's problems are exactly like mine, so I will believe you if you say it's necessary for your situation.
Geocities were there 20 years ago. I posted some cringeworthy things there. Now they aren't there anymore (thank goodness).

Your posts, too, shall pass.
That feeling isn't depression, it's hubris leaving your body.
I think that often, this speech is the result of how the perpetrators felt.

They are thrust into a situation, fall back to training that says 'just follow the rules / orders'. In that frame of mind, they indeed had no choice. Had they taken any other action, they'd have gone against policy as a simple lowly employee. That is terrifying and thus not an option.
> And in Austin, energy rates are 1/3 of that.

Are you saying electricity delivered to the home costs 3 cents/kWh in Austin? I flat out don't believe that. We're paying over 20 cents on Cape Cod. I can believe 10 cents in some areas. 3 cents, sorry; no.
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should do the trick
This. One-way communication needs to make a comeback in a big way.
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
Personally I hope they acquire Tesla to acquihire Elon Musk and get innovation going again. Apple is the new Microsoft, boring by profitable.
Wait; employees have to fill taxes themselves?

Why?
It's also important to remember "will you care?".
In the UK the forms guide you through calculating how much tax you need to pay (or it's done automatically if you do it online).
These former employees should just get a good employment lawyer.
> They often become out of sync with the state of the code

I try to write a test when I open a ticket, demonstrating the desired behavior, and mark it such that it's checked for failure (so we notice if we've fixed it in passing) unless an environment variable is set to the particular ticket number. Sometimes I also include a test demonstrating current behavior - this helps surface the tickets if someone is working on something related.
Kay said the organic collaboration between talents that made things possible. If one guy had an idea that required some piece he didn't know how to get, he could ask some guy who would build it. Surely it took roots in the copier R&D resources, but a symbiotic pool isn't a given either.
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I've had something similar to this happen early in my career, it took two years out of my life and cost me what I thought was a good personal relationship but which turned out to be just predatory in retrospect.

Those are expensive lessons, your view of humanity will likely never be quite the same afterwards. The fact that the guy crashed and burned gives me no comfort at all.

Even so, I do realize I had a part in that, if I had been a little bit smarter I could have educated myself on this stuff before accepting. And that's where the world today is different than in the past: we now have world-wide networks of people in tech that can warn each other. So every story like the one you told here should help to keep other technical people safe from predatory behavior.

I wrote about my experience here:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-start-up-from-hell

Apologies for the pictures not working, I still need to fix that after the latest domain shuffle.
It's just a hostname. Hostnames can be any arbitrary sequence of letters, numbers, and hyphens up to 63 characters long. It may or may not have semantic meaning to whoever wrote the code; it looks pretty random to me.
The NTA (National Tax Authority, cited as the Kokuzeicho in the article) doesn't figure out your taxes for you. Your employer does, as one of the (many!) ways in which they exercise paternalistic control of your life. If you do not have an employer, you get to go through a process which is almost exactly as fun as it is in the US, modulo a modestly competent online filing application.

I spent $3k this year on accountant time to file my personal taxes. The majority of the cost is driven by my various extracurricular activities. In the five years where I did my own taxes as a self-employed person, I generally lost between 2 and 5 working days a year to the effort, largely driven by the "calculate the income and expenses of your self-employed business" part of the return.

A Japanese corporation with one employee is in for about ~$5k a year of professional services fees incident to managing payroll for that single employee, not counting the taxes themselves. (I personally can't wait until this space gets Gusto-ed here, and SmartHr and other companies are starting to get there.)
> Are you sure that government operations produce less pollution?

No, I'm not sure. But we're talking about private companies now, not governments.
Governments and companies in the end are two faces of the same coin: the first aim at power, the latter aim at profit (with some exceptions of course).

Moreover, many proposed alternatives to capitalism consider the governments (as we know them today) harmful and unnecessary.
I'm not saying I agree, just wanted to point out that removing capitalism does not automatically mean to give more power to governments.

> Anyhow, the way to deal with pollution in a market based economy is to tax it.

Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem, it just reduces its impact.
And in a world that runs on profit, limiting your local companies may in the end give an advantage to the foreign ones, so this solution may not always be practicable, unless a truly global coordinated action gets taken.
"Being shy sucks"

In some ways it does but it's just a character trait. People who are not shy have their problems too.

On a recent flight I noticed a guy who was being Mr Popular, talking to just about everyone on the plane. When I got off I saw him outside doing the same thing at the bus stop. I got the impression he was a very lonely person who was overcompensating and desperate to make friends with anyone.

I have been called shy but I'm comfortable with that and happy in my own company. I like to talk to people but not just anyone for the sake of it.

The people I get to know tend to like and trust me while accepting that I'll never be the life and soul of the party.

I'd rather be me than the guy on the plane.
That will only happen if techies/employees all over a region band together and don't let themselves be pushed into some kind of prisoners dilemma.
>People haven't yet realised

Thankfully we have enlightened people among us to guide the sheep, right?

>that it's not EU versus US versus China but rather corporations versus the people

Corporations have zero ability to act by themselves. So where do you propose to draw the between the "corporation team" and the "people team"?
If you see the global market as a contest to see which country can suck up to the big corporations the most, it's a race to the bottom for everybody. Countries need to take anti-trust issues seriously, and work together on them.

And maybe don't allow foreign companies onto your market if they have a monopoly back home.
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Not sure why youre being downvoted. Its a bleak comment, but still true.

There are many individuals and their respected conglomerates who own sums that equal and exceed the wealth of many nations. Our systems and even our own nature allows for this. And its bad. Real bad.

Some are benevolent, most arent.

I mean this does sound conspiracy'ish, but it really isnt. We will feel the brunt of it all soon, and we'll need viable solutions, a new way of government, and a new way of sustaining ourselves that avoids such concentrations of power.
What I love about music is that whenever you think you can reduce it to a formula or algorithm, it slips through your fingers.

I've been studying theory for a while now, and it's become obvious we know a lot less about music than we think we do.
Measuring glucose makes little sense, no matter how precisely and non-invasively it is done. Physiologically speaking is glucose part of the solution in people with impaired insulin function, not the problem.
The Atlantic notes that women use "dude" to address other women[1]. I'm not from California, and I'd agree that the most typical usage seems to be towards men, but I have heard women refer to other women as "dude".

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/dude-tr...
If it supports life, why there is no life in that moon?
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That is a quote from the CL, not the hardware of the person you replied to. That being said, I'm pretty interested to see how this would perform on other systems, specifically production servers.
Yes, this is exactly the sort of problem that the EU wants to avoid. Hungary joined the EU in 2004. Since the Fidesz party was elected in 2010, Hungary turned increasingly authoritarian; Fidesz had a sufficient majority to institute a new constitution in Hungary that removed checks and balances between different branches of government, and it turned out that the EU can do very little to counter such developments.

The main ways to sanction governments of EU member states, such as temporary suspending of voting rights in EU decision making, and EU funding, require unanimous approval of all other EU member states, and as soon as you have 2 member states who are afraid of such sanctions they will put in their veto in favor of each other, as has happened repeatedly with Poland and Hungary in recent years.
How about antagonistic roles for each? They may have existed independently, but joined a feedback loop where the metabolic process draws energy from a replicating process ... or chain reaction of RNA syntheses was the metabolic and replicating process both at once. How about it?
It sounds like you are describing different communities with different problems (i.e. Flint, MI doesn't have problems with frequent Brown outside - that was California 15 years ago) as though they are the same one. Also, most of those examples are things from state governments rather than the federal government. Of course, people don't talk much about state tax reform. State tax revenue sources can vary from property taxes to income tax to sales tax. Some states don't have an income tax and reply mainly on sales tax.
Well there's a very good chance we'll be alive in 100 years.
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OK, so he says that antitrust is dead. And that wealthy entities own the government. That fight was lost in the US about 150 years ago, when corporations got human rights. After former slaves, but before women, I note.

But I don't get his devil-may-care attitude toward Google etc. He seems to acknowledge that they're a monopoly, but argues that it's not hurting anyone. Loves to Google stuff.

So what am I missing? Is it just that he's a cynical libertarian?
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Unlike US, Japan is a homogeneous society http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/t...
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Where I work, they fall under the heading of "chores", for which the usual definition given is "something that will improve future velocity".

Engineering owns these and gets to prioritise them as necessary. It's usually done with an eye to the current backlog of stories and bugs that product has prioritised.

Sometimes chores get done opportunistically. You have a time gap, you grab a short chore and do it.

Or you might spin one out of a story as a kind of marker of known tech debt.

Sometimes engineering sees a heavy piece of tech debt that is a millstone and just goes ahead with it. Usually this ties up a track of work that becomes unavailable for product work, sometimes for weeks.
I've been doing this for a while, you need to be sparing with it though.
It seems that Chromium 59 still can not be installed on Raspberry Pi, or anyone has done it?

It will be great to use this headless Chromium on Raspberry Pi to execute some routine web browser jobs.

Does it support the extensions installed on Chromium? Curious.
Can I ask - why is it you always spell it as "AfriKan" in all your submissions? Is there a cultural awareness I am lacking?
Yes it can.
> The problem on CPUs is that memory is flat and considered equal.

CPUs have a similar memory hierarchy, the difference is that you're a context switch away from losing your preciously cached data. Even in GPUs memory is more often than not a constraint on the speed of computation, it is very easy to starve a GPU by accident.

My personal favorite trick to see if I'm using my GPU effectively is to run a benchmark on it to max it out and register the power consumed with an e-meter. As long as I don't hit that power level in my own application there are still improvements to be had (and I almost never manage to reach the maximum but I'm happy with 60 to 80% or so of that). It's one of the dumbest debugging tricks ever but it is surprisingly effective at figuring out if I've laid out memory access patterns properly.
TODO comments are useful when you're working locally or in a branch, but they must go before you merge.
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Storage gets cheaper and cheaper.
Employers withhold part of your salary - I think it's a fixed percentage based on the height of the salary - and pay that to the tax authority.

Yearly, citizens file their taxes, giving information that the employer doesn't have or does not take into account (like gifts to charity, partner income, mortgage interest paid, health care related costs, tax paid on dividend, ...) that results in more or less taxes that should have been paid. After receiving that tax-related information, the DTA calculates what you should pay additionally, or whether you get some of the taxes paid back.
Yeah, I measured the same thing on the cable box, an object which gets about 40 minutes use a day in my household.

So when my local utility (UK-owned National Grid) did a promo for power strips that shut off all the plugs when one plug stops drawing power, I bought one. Works great. Takes about two minutes for the cable box to boot up when I need it.

National Grid lost a 35w base load (24x7 load) by selling me that strip. 35w costs me about $45 a year, and the power strip cost me $15.
What we do on the internet should be kept private from the world, but not from everyone. Those closest to us should have a degree of insight into our digital lives.

Truple was built in an attempt to make this happen. You can no longer "keep the computer in the living room" (a semi-public area), because we all have computers in our pockets (smartphones).

Having that little bit of accountability can make a huge difference in the decisions we make, whether that's as a son, daughter, husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend.
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It's a breeze in France too. Login to the government website, verify that everything preloaded is correct, add the few things they don't know about and you're done.

It's a mess in the US because Turbotax and others make money on that complexity and do lobbying to keep it that way.
3M, Activision and Alaska Air Group (3 S&P 500 companies) are a bigger threats than the government?

I'd venture to say between corporations and governments 99% of 'bad things' that have happened in the last century were at the hands of governments. A few world wars is a good starting place.

The idea that governments are benevolent overseers of the common good is what is bullshit. Those in government are as self-interested (if not more) as any other group (lawyers, plumbers, etc).

The last thing the rich want to do is kow-tow to a bunch of politicians, but the reality is they have to because one poorly conceived law or regulation can do real harm to a business. You have to pay to be at the table to do the best you can to prevent this. Politicians demand $$$$ to be at that table. I've seen this first hand.
>As cynical as it sounds, people who're motivated like this are not going to just give up overnight on something they've worked incredibly hard for several years, even decades.

As cynical as it sounds, if they drop dead from a heart attack (or come close), they will (just give up overnight).
Ask HN: Tutorials to teach kids programming games
Hi all,

a friend of mine and me are considering launching a series of books and tutorials about programming for kids. The will be in PDF format so subscribers could view and print it.

Here is the sample tutorial on building a car racing game using Scratch: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/temp-files2/Sample_Scratch_Programming_Lab_01_Street_Racing.pdf

How it is different from Code.org and other free resources:
- it provides the tutorial that can be used by the kid alone or along with parents
- it could be used in a school

We've tested it in real life and tutorials are working great, and best of all making a game is fun for kids! Tutorial can be used with online Scratch from MIT website.

But still we have some doubts:
- Is there a market for this kind of electronic or printed tutorials?
- as a parent or teacher would you consider paying for step by step tutorials designed especially for kinds?
- mayb we should go with screencasts and video instead (but they can'be printed and will require second screen)

Thanks in advance for your feedback!
This sounds great! Where can I find out more?
> Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem, it just reduces its impact.

There's no reason it cannot reduce pollution to tolerable levels.

> removing capitalism does not automatically mean to give more power to governments

Yes, it does. Who/what else is going to prevent people from trading for a profit?
Probably a brilliant move for humanity. Most extreme right, KKK, nazi, Breitbart, Stormfront ilk trolls would boycott Twitter in protest, finally allowing some semblance of rational discussion on the platform.
Perhaps they meant economic security.
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That's true.

Yes, I don't know a lot about CPUs.
I've read maybe, say, 2 chapters of theory. A bit of names and patterns.

In a way I agree with you, the more you dig the less you know. But at the same time, I have this feeling that .. I do know music. I know because when I'm on it, the few times it happened, it wasn't a theory, but more like a sense of spaces. A sense that fills you in a way that is impossible not to notice. Things are simple, borderline automatic, a very thin closed loop of sensation and action. A bit like an ODE ;) If you're tuned, you can now "see" that space [1] path, lines and curves and glide on them through the movement inertia.

It's not a static space, it's more like a slightly viscous fluid that also responds to your changes of momentum. If you decide not to glide smoothly anymore, you're welcome to do so, but the ground, the space will now change shape, so you have to know how to stay tuned and react to that. Then you can keep on gliding and it will feel musical.

My most used word when speaking about music is sensitivity.

[1] seeing in the abstract geometrical sense, a notion of direction, distance, scale, that we use to move, but can be used to organize any kind of sensory inputs I believe.
>If there's a world war and all of a sudden Japan doesn't have computers?

Pretty much. If you're at war you need that materials to feed the war machine, which includes the metal to build the plane as well as the computers that go in the cockpit (and let's not forget the knowledge to build it all).
I'm pretty sure this would work really well.

I've trained CharCNN on log files, and it generates really good examples files. To me that shows that even a comparatively simple model can capture syntax rules, so I'd imagine a LSTM would generate really good feature vectors.
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Yes. Others are 'free' to pay more to get candidates elected that would simplify the tax return. The 'beauty' of concentrated benefits and distributed pain is that the organization overhead combined with the real but sufficiently diluted pain for each individual sufferer sort of pre-empts this. This is why in these so called 'free' markets you end-up with all these complete absurd situations at the societal level.
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Well, I can imagine that if you can build a GPU, then you can also build a memory with processing elements attached to it. Therefore, going after CPU/GPU companies seems more sensible.
Very good point. I tend to only think about music as timeless pieces of harmonic bliss :)
What is this? Just because it has Google in it you expect me to provide my credentials to sign-in without any description of what you are offering? Assuming this is a Google product, the product management genius behind this needs to be squarely told this is an extremely shoddy, ill-thought and frankly assuming landing page.