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We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287455.
Just in case, here is the project: https://kibitzr.github.io
I'm curious if you've ever looked at optics-based systems for component coupling?

Personally I think that the entire top-down state tree is a bad idea, but I'm willing to be convinced. I'd much prefer a modeling like the actor approach.
The real reason companies do these kinds of policy changes is along the lines of the following (but not limited to):

- A legacy style executive comes in and cannot "see" people working therefore they are not working

- There is rampant abuse in the model

- Productivity is measurably down (e.g., when Best Buy removed work from home they were in talks to be taken private)

- People can't get a hold of each other when everyone works from home. Communication issues.

When I was working at Best Buy and the policy was rescinded, you had MANY people habitually abusing it. They would block off entire days of their calendar and say "I'm working from home, I don't accept meetings on X day." Usually a Friday, imagine that. It was obvious what people were doing. Some people even drove in with their boat on the trailer and said "I'm working from home after lunch".

However, as more and more companies become global, it's harder to enforce "butt in seat". For instance I get up early in the morning to talk to people in CZ, others go home and sit on calls with India teams. Then they're expected to be in the office next morning. That's not a sustainable model.

There are many pros and cons to both sides of the argument. I personally tend to find myself more productive in the office than I do at home most days, so I come in. However is it nice to have flexibility? Absolutely.

However people have to understand underneath the corporate BS and HR BS, there is likely a real perceived problem that either nobody understands how else to solve, or employees aren't being very honest with themselves that causes this kind of backlash.

The last point I'll make, is that some people that work from home all day are just downright impossible to communicate with sometimes. It's hard to have one part of the workforce that works from home, and may be gone for a period of time mix with another side of the same workforce that is at the office for a determined amount of time.
This map seems correlated with socieconomic status and all the health implications that go along with that. And it looks similar again to Republican voting districts. It's Sarah Palin's "Real America", so to speak.

One thing the Democrats would do well to focus on is the fact that there's a large portion of the country that is sick, where the statistics look more like an underdeveloped country. Those of us who live in the major cities would do well to empathize with this other part of the country and their malaise, even if for our own sake of having a more sane and less partisan government.
Study: Daily dose of cannabis extract could reverse brain's decline in old age
The protocol is complicated. It's evident to everybody that the library implementations are simple, which is why so many people with no background in cryptography have such strong feelings about JWT. We get it: they made it very easy for you to do the wrong thing, and you'd rather things stay easy. I sincerely sympathize with your problem. But it is a problem.
The peak for the average worker seems to revolve around 1965-1970, based upon various stats that I've read. This jives with my personal experience also. My father, who was employed in manufacturing as a foreman (and later, cost accountant, after earning his degree), was on his way up until the late 1970s. It was right around that time that manufacturing operations in the midwest and northeast started their first moves toward lower labor costs by relocating plants to the south and southeast (later, even this would not be enough and they would move to Mexico, China, etc.). The main purpose seemed to be union-busting. It practically killed our family, financially. My parents used up all of their savings (quite a bit, I might add) while my father tried, in vain to find employment. They had to sell their custom-built dream home (think modest 70s home, not modern McMansion monstrosity), and we were, technically, homeless for half a year while we lived with my aunt/uncle. My father eventually found employment as a cost accountant, but we had to uproot our lives and move to Florida. And, more importantly, my father's real earnings never recovered and he never got back to the level he had previously earned.

There's a lot of evidence to show that all of this was intentional and orchestrated:

http://www.laborrising.com/2013/07/union-organizing-and-the-...

Note, this was written in 1979, after about 10 years of the effects of the efforts of organizations like the Business Roundtable.

BTW, I can't help but add: the small hometown where I grew up in the midwest now has a pretty bad Oxy/Heroin/Meth problem on its hands.
Here’s What Andy Weir’s New Book ARTEMIS Is All About
> high value PhD's

https://www.reference.com/education/percentage-americans-phd... says: "According to U.S. Census 2013 data, 1.68 percent of Americans over the age of 25 have a PhD. [...] [Adding in medical doctors], the total percent of Americans referred to as doctors equal to 3.16 percent."

I'm guessing only a small part of those will be what you would call "high value", so I don't think there's enough there to shift the statistics in the way you say.
My answer to most scaling question is: by the time we have that problem, we'll have a lot of customers and money so we'll hire smarter engineers with experience in scaling to figure that out. I still make sure we don't do anything stupid right now so the future engineers have more options on how to scale. Also it helps that I'm not working on a zero-revenue consumer app.
Mostly off-topic, but I'm curious, do you believe "fake news" is both new and also a real problem?
> insofar as kings and bishops have been men, then yes....

Kings, Bishops,Generals, soldiers, priests,aldersmen,mayors, sherrifs,sailors,captains,spies,explorers,adventurers,
financiers,writers, historians,scientists have been overwhelmingly male.
Here's one of those for C:

https://github.com/silentbicycle/theft

Slides on automated tool below. They use "model-based testing" which is another phrase to get interesting search results.

https://www.slideshare.net/dganesan11/ganesan-automated-test...

Also combinational testing which showed promise at catching in high 90's of defect percentage with test case minimization as a bonus. See summary and slides.

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/acts/index.html
My guess is that the author read this https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/16/12939310/iphone-7-a10-fus...

Perhaps without understanding the full context.
Lots of truth in this post. The majority of people I know (30's age bracket) are working jobs that are not in the field they have a degree in. Some of them went back to school, and still have shitty retail jobs or part-time work. That, or they travel hundreds of miles during the week to work on location somewhere.

I was lucky to get into programming (as a hobby at first), but as we all know, it's not for everyone. Especially, if you only get into it because you think it's lucrative.

My Dad fell ass backwards into a blue-collar factory job when he was 18, and supported a wife (who worked part time sometimes) and 2 kids. This was literally par for the course in the 60's-80's. That's upper middle class these days, at minimum.
> you can't heat your home with a heat pump in a place like Wisconsin... Geothermal is better, though I believe you still have problems with saturation in cold climates

Geothermal heat pumps can definitely work in the portions of the upper midwest. I know some people in both MLK and Madison that have heat pumps.

As far as I understand it's hit and miss, though. Depends on the particular piece of property you're living on. And you may need an additional heat source for occasional use (e.g. the super cold winter a couple years back I know one of those folks were super glad they still had gas heating in addition to the heat pump).

> I hadn't even heard of a heat-pump until recently, which makes sense, since they seem to mostly be concentrated in warm, dry areas.

Ironically I'm the other way around. Didn't hear about heat pumps until moving north. Probably because heat pumps don't make as much financial sense in warmer climates where you're not blowing $100+/mo on heat?
Which is why the whole "computer language" meme is probably bullshit.

It's definitely good for poetry, however.
False sense of security of your job.

I worked for more companies that had problems with their budget or even payroll after stepping into the programming career, than I have when I was working jobs with a lower entry barrier like cashier or workshop assistant. I never had an employer burn me money-wise before becoming a programmer.
And it can be any other port, any other transport that is implemented/there are adapters for and so on.
Yes, this is correct. Especially with how extreme the values are within the clusters (like in Kentucky), there is almost no chance they occurred by sample-size variance.

Sample-size variance might explain some of those little counties with blips out in OK, MS, and TN though. As an aside, the color scheme on the map makes any decrease look substantially more massive.

I wish we had a map which was recentered on the national average growth of life expectancy as well.
Presumably if it actually "reduces" aging then in order to have a net neutral (or negative) effect aging would have to accelerate.

If r is the rate of aging, t is time and x is the amount cannabis decreases aging the following is always true for positive values of x:

(t - x) * r < t * r
"Einhorn, whose Greenlight Capital owns 3.6 percent of GM, was equally tough in the letter he sent to shareholders..".

Someone help me understand how come a person/entity who merely owns 3.6% of a company has the right to be this aggressive about the future growth and policy-making of the company?
Having a look at your genetics and microbiome might tell you more about why you have these impairments. Methylation issues or entire genea of microbes missing from the microbiome can easily cause neurotransmitter imbalances that the body cannot compensate for on its own.
Good read. This whole thing made me chuckle.
Same here, except that I need the alarm. Also exercise after work.
sure, here's some code I use in Go to encrypt and decrypt cookies and OAuth state objects https://github.com/kevinburke/go-html-boilerplate/blob/maste...
It depends on the day. One day I might bust out a 1000 other days like 10-15. Way too many meetings, design reviews, code reviews etc. So much waste of time.
Ad rates on the internet go in only one direction: down. They're OK to bootstrap your "brand" but you'd better start looking for alternate revenue sources immediately, whether that's merch, Patreon, whatever.
Which leads to:

“The great promise of YouTube is the potential for this to be an important job, for there to be more professional, independent creators than coal miners in the U.S.,” Mr. Green said. “If we’re just going to remake TV and put all of the power to make money and distribute content back into the hands of a few people, then burn it all down.”
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We’re a 60 person company formed over ten years ago who build great products for primary schools to save them time and money, whilst enabling them to communicate more effectively with parents.

What you’d bring to the team:
* At least 3 years of building web applications (extra points for Python and Django)
* The ability to write well structured and thoroughly tested code.
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Awesome. Getting a copy.
FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality
Errr because murder is a really serious crime?
and how do you find peers then?
Because police are more inclined to pursue crimes with a human victim. It's like the difference between robbery and burglery being where someone is in the house or not. One gets harder look because there is a terrified victim and escalation could've meant death. The other is just property loss.
Is it really easier to hijack a self driving truck than a manned one? You can just point a gun at the driver. And there probably aren't any cameras or sensors on the manned truck.

Whenever a new technology comes along, people come up with tons of ways it could be abused and so won't work. I mean look at all the speculation around drones the past few years. The reality is most of our existing technology can be abused by creative people just the same way. The only reason society doesn't fall apart is because criminals happen to be fairly rare.
Could you provide an example of such code? I was under the impression that certain things were disallowed because destructors aren't allowed to see the struct in an invalid state.

A common case where I see people trying to do this is when you have a struct where you are trying to replace a member variable:

struct Foo {
thing: Vec<i32>,
}

impl Foo {
fn something(&mut self) -> Vec<i32> {
let temp = self.thing;
// If we panicked between these two lines, then the struct would be in an undefined state
self.thing = vec![1];
temp
}
}

This code produces the error `cannot move out of borrowed content`. For those curious, you normally would write this as

use std::mem;

impl Foo {
fn something(&mut self) -> Vec<i32> {
mem::replace(&mut self.thing, vec![1])
}
}
Yes, that was a personal perception/comment. And I am not even arguing that he is this time moving away from blaming it all on Trump. Just that it is this one of the few occasions I agree with the problem premise and that this is a welcome change from the rest of his feeding-the-hate stories.
To be precise it is 20x larger than (Turkish + Arabic + Kurdish). It is just big but we will handle it.
Because murder is much more serious than just stealing stuff. Somebody killing every trucker on the road? Cops swarming.

Somebody making off with your merch? Ask a loss prevention officer how much cops care about that.
Perhaps you should ask yourself why that doesn't happen now.

The driver is the part that makes it difficult. Even if one had no moral qualms about murder, law enforcement and the public would be much more concerned about homicide vs merely property destruction and theft. If you were to just hijack a beer truck and nobody got hurt, I bet the average member of the public would hear about that in 'funny news'. If you killed the driver, you'd be infamous and hunted down.
I can attest to this as I have a youtube channel that deals with some controversial and sensitive topics like pushing for reformation of Islam, secularism and alternative spirituality and my channel was decimated by youtube's decision to cut advertising revenues to the channel.

I also failed to raise enough funds from Patreon to support the channel and therefore my cultural initiative is totally dead for now.

Shame because I thought that this work is important in these turbulent times.

This is my channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/BoxofIslam
If you want to see a really crisp example of this it's with food shows.

Look at this disparity:

"In 2015, more than 400,000 people on average are watching Food Network at some point during the day." [1]

Then check out Nerdy Nummies (a YT channel I found out b/c my 6yo loves it). [2] which is regularly breaking 1M views per episode, has 8+Million subscribers and lifetime has generated 1,949,110,170 views for YouTube [3]

And all of those numbers in a demographic that doesn't even realize the Food Network exists, with a pittance of the resources, no outside marketing and compensated a fraction as well.

1 - http://brandongaille.com/40-captivating-food-network-demogra...

2 - https://www.youtube.com/user/RosannaPansino

3 - https://www.youtube.com/user/RosannaPansino/about
Maybe this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
Micropayments are hard in general, because you have to solve a problem "for everybody" without creating a single monopoly ad-network-alike corporation to handle the money in the process.

But they can be solved in the specific case. Spotify is basically micropayments: you pay a subscription, the site tracks plays, and then the site reimburses content creators proportionally to their plays.

I feel like you could create a "Youtube killer" that used the Spotify system pretty easily.

But, of course, you would need people to actually pay a subscription. Youtube Red doesn't seem to be doing very well. (That might just be because people expect Youtube content to be free, though. It might be different if all the content is behind the subscription paywall from the start.)

Either way, you'll lose Youtube's viral aspect, that comes down to millions of ten-year-olds with tons of time and no money spreading your content.
I support "net neutrality and title II.
Gitlab appears to be down
“Your idea sucks” – Ownership in Open-Source
If I'm reading that paper correctly, then we need more than interstellar capability, we need near-intergalactic capabilities. We would have to be solidly past a Kardashev Type II and almost attaining a Type III classification, to either move our own solar system, or establish habitats in safer galactic zones outside the arms (like outside the galactic poles or positioned above the arms). Perhaps these transitions is the Fermi Paradox's Great Filter: might it be exceedingly difficult for a civilization to hit the Kardashev Type II-III level and implement the necessary avoidance/mitigation sufficiently fast enough?
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Yes, but the `Anonymous`/4chan usage is inspired from V for Vendetta, at least to my knowledge of chan history. It just so happens to be the Guy Fawkes mask which holds another meaning for Brits. It might change how some people, especially British people, see the mask but that isn't the intention.

For example, a pink triangle means something different now than it did during the 40s and pointing to its historic usage instead of its reclaimed/new usage would be disingenuous and missing the point of how it is being used in the modern context. Pointing to Guy Fawkes instead of Vendetta for Anonymous' usage of the mask is missing the point.
But you're incorrect, and the word "instead" in your original post is what makes you incorrect. We did get "Shakespeare to the masses" for whatever that's worth in general. It's not like his work is some objective benchmark of qualitative excellence - people just assert it is because they learn it from adoring fans during formal education.
meta

metavision.com
I'm surprised a hobbyist K8s administrator is not choosing to use kubeadm instead.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kubeadm/
Apple imagined a world where everybody did all their work on iPads and the laptop was a relic from a forgotten age.

We might get there one day, but NEVER while Apple maintains closed-garden approach to iOS.

Apple allowed its 'Pro' lines (less so MacPro and more so MacBook Pro) to start catering to its biggest buyers - consumers who had lots of money and simply wanted 'the best'. And back in 2012-2013, the 'Pro' lines were really well regarded amongst professional users which re-inforced in the consumers mind that they were the best.

Apple focussed on thinner and slicker looking devices and added gimmicks such as touchbar and cylindrical cases.

Suddenly we find that the MacPro hasn't been updated in years (yes Mr Schiller CAN'T INNOVATE YOUR ASS indeed) and the MacBook Pro can handle the same amount of memory as it did over 3 years ago (battery you say Mr Schiller? Well most 'pro' users will sacrifice some battery life for performance and those that don't want to do that could have gone for regular MacBooks).

The Pro lines aren't so well regarded anymore and Apple will watch slowly as those rich consumers who propped up sales dwindle. Maybe Mr Cook and co will wake up and actually realise they should rather just drop the pro line than consumerize it.

iPads could have done so well in the pro space if they'd supported proper integration with Macs and could be used as extension devices rather than exclusively as replacement devices - but no - Apple had to try will a market that simply isn't there into existence.
As far as I know there are people that are interested in putting this data on IPFS, it didn't happen yet as right now the focus is to rescue, save and archive this data. Redistributing it comes after it is safe and sound.
Rights have nothing to do with it. Any shareholder can write a letter.
Tangent:

I've been reading about Christopher Alexander's work, particularly his keynote for the 1996 OOPSLA conference. Alexander introduced the idea of pattern languages to architecture in the 70s, and it has influenced computer science. However, reading further, it doesn't look like Alexander's deeper work ever caught on: his follow up work (in The Nature of Order) speaks about things that makes architecture more like a gardener.

Alexander talked about it in that OOPSLA keynote, how he and his collaborators discovered pattern languages that guarantees cohesive design. By iterating it, a design would emerge that is in harmony within context. He likens it that use of pattern languages to DNA. (He then found 15 'deep patterns' in which all pattern languages that guarantee cohesiveness in design shares ...) I understood this to mean, the architecture is in the DNA, the "deep patterns", while at the same time, the design are grown like a gardener. At that point, there is no dichotomy of architect vs. gardener.

Ironic, I think, one of the most influential architects and philosopher was speaking on things that got co-opted into reaffirming that dichotomy. "Patterns" came to be used as a way of creating rigid, dead designs. I don't know of many people practicing this in fullness in either building architecture or software architecture.
Because no sane person wants to do the investment unless is provided material benefits. 2->3 provides no such material benefits, which is why they're being so aggressive about EOL timetables.
I'm using Elm for an internal customer service app and it is working out fairly well. My background is more server side programming so the ability to avoid javascript and its constantly changing ecosystem is a big plus. Elm the language is simple enough to understand in a day and the basic architecture is also straightforward. The biggest challenges are finding examples of how to architect larger apps but this example should help https://github.com/rtfeldman/elm-spa-example Also, I tried mentoring another coworker on Elm but they seemed to have a harder time than I did. I think it could be partly because they were an experienced Javascript developer who wanted to apply their existing patterns to Elm.
Another brilliant piece by him.
You can see it on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak
Why would we have the same number of jobs? If more women are working who didn't before, they will need some way to commute to said job, to buy work clothes as well as leisure clothes, have more disposable income, etc.
Workflow Update Restores Google Chrome and Pocket Actions
>Yes. Highly Undervalued. I look forward to the weekly videos from my favorite Youtubers almost as much as my favorite big budget HBO/TV shows.

How much of a monthly contribution are you making to the content creator?
So nobody should have done anything and we collectively should have just let Turkey censor Wikipedia with zero alternatives, that's the better solution here?