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On SO I pride(d) myself on asking good questions. That is formulating the question clearly and precisely was itself a kind of investigation. Often, the question never go finished, because the work of writing it up caused me to solve my original problem.

Probably SO should have weighted question upvotes at least as high as an answer upvote. Now it would take stronger medicine: e.g. pushing questions by people with low rep down the list.
Ah the Russian narrative again, must be exhausting to read this stuff and believe it.
In this case, the complaint contains an accusation (#50) that UploadVR retaliated by slandering her to other VR companies.
Atalanta’s Andrea Conti in Favor of Milan Switch
Never stop learning is key, however, variety is the spice of life. Naturally, most people don't have the 10k hours anything needs to become world class. For subjects, you do want to go deep, look up DISSS and CaFE made popular by Tim Ferriss in the 4hour cookbook.
That's not their claim. Their claim is that they would have lost $30k/year after the last year of known minimum wage increases, which is $15/hr in 2018. (Prop J also requires further annual increases indexed to inflation afterwards.)

From the blog post: "by way of example, once the final wage increase rolled out in 2018, we would have been losing around $30,000 per year"
> Can somebody please explain why the employers are being held legally liable?

Because this is... illegal.

Page 3 of the complaint document has references: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3722345-UploadVR-law...
I don't really care if an MRI scanner is running XP presuming it's airgapped. Your MRI scanner is airgapped...right??
IDK. From a certain point of view, you could view them as doing a service.

What if a different kind of criminal had used these exploits? Not one that wanted $300 in bitcoin, but one that actually wanted to cause harm? They could have deleted files and never given them back, and they could have stopped any software running on the machines.
It's not like companies in my industry can rewrite embedded tools on the fly. The costs can be way too prohibitive for class c software.
Looking at Modula-3 wikipedia page, no thanks. (If it's case-sensitive, I don't want to switch to uppercase everytime I use the language keywords. If it's not case-sensitive, don't even get me started.) I had enough of that for a lifetime through FORTRAN, COBOL, SQL, BASIC, ASSEMBLY, etc.

PreScheme sounds like an interesting idea.
Just say you forgot. Honestly, you can't convict someone for forgetting something.
Thank you for helping me understand
Well...except in the case of the disk encryption key being stored in a "secure enclave"-style chip. You don't need to erase the data on the device, just clear the unreadable keystore.
You can update pirated Windows, from XP to 10. It just has to be pirated with a "supported pirate kit" for a lack of a better title. As in supported by the hacker community which created it.
Always-on gzip encoding is also technically broken, it's just far more likely to be supported out of the box by other HTTP clients.

> What does matter is that my website only supports the HTTPS protocol

No, that has literally no bearing on this discussion about your use of Brotli encoding. You're weirdly fixated with this, but it's completely irrelevant.

> This is nothing more than pure trolling.

Do you normally go out of your way to insult people who are trying to have a discussion with you? Because that's what calling someone a troll is.

> All major web browsers support Brotli over HTTPS

Why doesn't Safari count in your eyes as a major browser? Or perhaps more interestingly, why doesn't iOS Safari count? Are you really ok with your site not working for 100% of iOS users?

> In addition, as the web is moving to being HTTPS-exclusive, it's about time that you start getting used to it. You're wasting your time.

Why do I have to keep repeating this? HTTPS has literally nothing to do with this discussion. You keep bringing it up over and over again as if it's somehow meaningful, but all it tells me is that you literally have no idea what you're talking about.
I respect TechCrunch's decision to not publish the plaintiff's name in the primary portion of their article. It's easy to look up for those who have a reason to search for it, but it's not necessary to the discussion, and could potentially alleviate some of the social backlash (or at least issues) associated with going to court. Employees with legitimate legal gripes against their employers don't need to face additional barriers (such as social stigma) to legal action.
This is what I felt when I read the article. It was surprised even the Australian system is just as overloaded as our American system. I feel like a lot of these problems could be deal with if there were simply more doctors.

That being said, it's a difficult profession. Not a lot of people want to do it. Even fewer in such specialised positions as surgery, where mistakes literally cost people lives. There's no rolling back to a previous release or taking a break. Everything that happens, happen on that table with that body open.

Tack on the insane costs, at least in America, for going to school to be a doctor and you also have a situation where few people feel they can afford to be GPs (even though that might be what they really want to be; and the world needs more GPs desperately) and you also have doctors who are now locked into a profession to simply paid their debts.

> I just recently had a friend completely burn out of medicine, sell his house, and start traveling the world.

I don't think this is a bad thing. Everyone who can afford to should really save up and take a sabbatical every few years: http://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/
Is the Windows sticker on a laptop good enough?
Just another reminder that the money (and the people behind it) just do whatever they want Honeybadger style, and we scramble along behind them trying to stick labels on what just happened.
Wow. No nuance or subtlety at all. Sounds like one of those over the top training videos, where you think, "well, sure, harassment happens, but it's not that blunt and that out in the open."

Assuming it can be corroborated well enough, I would guess a very large verdict or settlement. Sounds like a hellish place to work.
What sort of professional would even want to work at a company with an office "smush room"? Before the issues of discrimination and harassment come up, the smell of the place must be appalling.
Incredibly common for computers attached to expensive pieces of hardware to use very old operating systems. Even in very high tech places with a lot of money to throw around.
You had to figure things out by yourself. It was tiresome, frustrating, but you really understood what you were doing.

There weren't as many technologies around, so you could really invest your time into one or two technologies that were the core of your competency. Spending a lot of time figuring out a problem was an investment in your career because you were certainly committed to using that technology.

Today, it seems like there is a new technology on every project. Frameworks last 2, maybe 3 years unless they hit it big. If you spend a lot of time investing in a technology that quickly loses favor, you've really wasted your time, so cut-and-paste from StackOverflow / Google now makes up the difference.
This in no way addresses my points.
Every single study of the effects of fatigue on human cognitive ability that I am aware of indicate that A) fatigue can have massive deleterious effects on peoples' abilities to perform even simple tasks, and B) people are generally terrible at evaluating their own levels of fatigue. There's a good overview of a lot of this research here: https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-research-is-clear-long-hours-bac.... I don't know exactly what the costs are for more handoffs; my fiancée is a doctor, and she and multiple doctors have told me they have that same concern. But we have mountains of evidence demonstrating how rapidly cognitive ability degrades with fatigue. The idea that doctors, frequently working in a massively demanding, massively stressful setting, are somehow immune to those effects defies logic.
Even the companies agree with it if the alternative is not using their product at all.

A young student uses pirated Photoshop at home instead of Paint.NET, and many years later, if he becomes a graphic designer he will demand his employer to buy him a Photoshop licence.

It's just another way of doing price segmentation, with a special segment of "price 0".
or build it on aws
Haha, fair. But the point is digitally you can explore the long tail in a way that's very hard in real life. Most of my immediate peers would have some opinion on Radiohead but it's relatively unlikely we could deliver meaningful recommendations based on eachother's specific tastes.
> What about serving uncompressed content over https?

I have limited bandwidth. I don't want to serve uncompressed content over HTTPS.

> What about serving up an error page when the user's browser odesn't have compressor you support?

I will do that once I figure out how to get the Request header from Rocket's API.

> What about paying attention to web standards?

I'm already complying with HTTPS web standards. I'm even pending for the HSTS preload list ( https://hstspreload.org/?domain=mmstick.tk ).

> What about people who are stuck with old software for one reason or another?

That's their problem, not mine. You shouldn't be using old web browsers and outdated systems on the web. That makes you vulnerable.
Negative press like this probably contributes to the FDA being so conservative. They get none of the benefits when a great new drug is approved, but get scapegoated when they approve something dangerous even to small numbers of people. So they just approve as few drugs and medical devices as they can get away with - it's a massive misalignment of incentives.

One might think drugs would be more dangerous if the FDA were less conservative, but I suspect the opposite. If it takes you ten years and 2 billion dollars to release a new drug, and then you find out it has some terrible side effect in 0.1% of the population, you don't get to fix the problem. You might not withdraw it either, since the drug would still be a net good for society. And if one drug is approved instead of ten, patients are forced to stick to the flawed solution.

The far bigger problem than drugs with side effects is a lack of drugs. Around 1/3 as many drugs get approved today relative to 1970, and the costs of a drug approval have risen 5 times faster than inflation since then. Medicine has been an anti-technological field for the last few decades - it's doing less with more. The most valuable biomedical companies are the ones that have been around since the 1800s - one could imagine what computers would look like today if IBM were still the largest IT company.
Is it possible to consume good quality content with Atom feeds? Are Atom feeds a viable alternative to sites like Forbes?
YouTube actually is "raised" in the sense you describe, relative to other websites which could theoretically host video content (all of them).

This is why people worry, with some justification, about YouTube censoring content. And, symmetrically, it's enough for other people to complain, again with some justification, that YouTube isn't censoring enough content and should be punished for that.
I fully agree with you, but I still start projects in Ruby.

Why?

Because returns from startups are exponential and the interest rate is higher than the interest rate on the technical debt.

It's why compiled is a great choice for an established corporation with a well defined need and a large user base, while interpreted is better for most other business contexts, especially with tools like Numpy.
Why doesn't the PRC make it's own operating system? It could be based completely off of western technology like Linux, but they could claim it's completely Chinese made and tout it as a huge technological advancement - like they do with their trains.
I'm not sure how we can successfully argue about this when it's based on experience...

For the record, I was visiting Gangding in Guangzhou (the computer District) several times between 2012-14. Every vendor I found was baffled by my request and didn't know why I would ever want this.

I bought my laptop in 2014 in Hong Kong after my UK-bought one died.
For people who work with animals, it's Artificial Insemination. I worked with robots and animals and had an intense code-switching problem.
It's subjective in the sense that people disagree about specific cases and that there's interpretation involved—that's true. But HN's notion of 'interesting' as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html is narrower than you might think. For example, it is not the same thing as 'like'—not even close.

Of course people use upvotes to signal 'like' all the time. That's inevitable, and one reason why both flags and moderation are necessary as counterweights.
If I'm remembering correctly, QB 1.1's manual was good, and QB 4.5's was amazing, with deeper explanations, example code, and such.
>Typically you get 2 weeks of vacation a year

Even for those who work 10 years for a company, like Borderlands has?

I also don't think you've run retail operations at any sort of scale, given your comments.
It seems they accepted alternate methods of payment aside from BTC, which suggests technical difficulties in acquiring BTC.
> What's your experience level with other languages?

~15 years experience across C, ARM assembler, Javascript, Lua, Ruby, Python, Erlang, Go, and Rust. Mostly doing Elixir these days.

Admittedly, I've never used an IDE; I write all my C in vim.

> ...you write compiled unit tests and/or test programs to poke around at the API.

That assumes you can get your tests to compile; or that the compilation errors are at-all helpful when they don't. If you've got a library that

1. ships as a binary blob + header files, and

2. most of its functions take handles to structs that are declared opaquely in the SDK headers; and yet

3. nothing you do with the badly-documented "create handle" parts of the API is giving you a struct that the "consume handle" parts of API will do anything with but crash...

...then you'll really wish that you had a REPL; or rather, a language runtime that enforced some level of introspect-ability on everything, so that a REPL could show you what's in the struct and whether your calls so far have failed to touch some obviously-necessary-to-fill-in part of it.

Without such support, you will have to rely on reading the decompilation results of both ends of the API to figure out what's really going on.
Even so, do these VCs not install any kind of adult supervision when they put their money on the line? Sure, they don't want to just bring in their own CEO, but a little bit of guidance along the lines of "this is a fucking workplace, not somewhere for you to play out your immature sexual power fantasies and jeopardise my money" would go a long way.
High levels of exercise linked to nine years of less aging (cellular level)
Western medicine has turned into a ponzi scheme. The verifiable proof of this is to have an elderly family member in a nursing home who goes through the usual monthly trips to the hospital from 'falling'.

While Medicare covers almost all of it, it became so nauseating to read the outrageous EOB totals that I tried to put a end to it - I requested that unless the on call nurse (after hours) or physician (during business hours) deems the fall to be a life threatening emergency, they are to be kept in the facility.

They found a workaround for that real quick - it's nearly always deemed life threatening because they are 1) unable to determine internal bleeding 2) unable to determine if a bone was fractured/broken.

The obvious solution to this is to have an xray machine on site, because since everyone in the chain gets paid huge $, and it removes the liability from the nursing home to ship them off to the hospital, the merry-go-round of insanity continues. We have two family members in an assisted care facility for almost eight years now, and between the two of them, they've tapped Medicare for just under $700K. Together, the sum of both their incomes throughout their entire working lives never totaled that amount. This is why I call it a ponzi scheme.
Under-investigated treason and abuse of power are exhausting, yes.
Pirates have no rights whereas paying customers do.
>> We can't even get people off SHA1 to SHA2 "because of lower performance." Somehow I doubt the "1 terrabit RSA key" would go over well with them.

So apparently we are going to need quantum processors to generate encryption that is resistant to quantum processors.
True, but the AMA seems to fight enabling other professions (nurses, pharmacists) from taking on roles traditionally held by doctors.

I rather wish software engineering had a professional association with the lobbying power of the AMA.
I really miss the days of going to Barns and Nobel and browsing thru programming books for hours to learn a new technology, then buying the best of the books available. It was a different experience that is lost in today's world and it was really only a blink of an eye as far as computing eras go, but it was by far my favorite.
I've gone through this; you should be aware that COBRA is a retroactive continuation of your coverage, from the day you leave your job, but it's not actually continuous. It can take weeks for the paperwork to go through, and during that time you effectively have no coverage. I found this out because I was scheduled for a surgery the week after leaving my job, and while checking in the hospital told me they couldn't verify my insurance. I was delayed about an hour while trying to convince them that I'd applied for (and paid for) COBRA already, and that I was, or would be, covered for the surgery that day. Eventually the department head allowed me to be checked in, but I'd gotten lucky.
It supports HTTPS perfectly fine. I am even on the HSTS preload list. You can't get on this list unless you have a HTTPS website that meets standard requirements. https://hstspreload.org/?domain=mmstick.tk
It might be interesting to get a pair of glasses, put some black tape on the lenses and see what it might look like in practice. You could get some partially transparent tape to simulate what AR would end up doing.

It seems like an experiment worth doing. If you put your finger up to your eye and close the other, then focus on your laptop screen, you can see the blurry edge of your finger interfere with whatever you're looking at. But that's opaque -- it's hard to know what a partially-transparent blob might look like, or how much of an impact it'd have.
>But I would guess that hourly employees earning minimum wage are almost never given vacation or sick time.

Why? Just because they make ~$12/hr? I have employees making $15/hr (lowest we pay) who have 2-4 weeks of PTO plus flex days, and I don't consider myself exceptionally generous.
anyone have any insight on why reddit on the desktop got slower? perhaps js usage is so low that other factors dominate? hmm..
`cargo check` is pretty darn fast, and that's pretty much all you need while developing. I'd say it's generally 50% faster than a standard compile (not benchmarking, just a gut feeling).

On top of that `cargo watch 'test'`, runs fine on a 100kloc project, way better than my personal experience with Java. Now, when Rust compiles all dependencies from the ground up it is really slow, but that's only generally one time during development or after updating dependencies.

For me, the compile times are fine, and the end product generally doesn't need as much debugging as an interpreted language that requires no compilation at all, or has minimal validation, prior to running.
You can learn the material taught by formal education by yourself too.

There are hundreds of resources online for learning algorithms, practice problems, and even video lecture on the very classes that are taught in Ivy-league Universities. You can also buy the books that are used to teach those courses as well.

The only thing a formal education will give you is some structure to your education, as well as teachers who you can ask questions. But you could probably get the latter online as well.
Applets were confined to a horrible UI toolkit instead of working natively with the DOM
People have started taking better backups, now they have the option to restore, plus it's too big, the UK government is never going to pay $300 per computer when you may have 10,000 computers locked up. When you get a small firm with 5 pcs and the cost is $1500 it's a cheap lesson so you pay up.
> Macs constitute such a comparatively small share of the consumer market that the economics of an attack against them just don't make sense.

Is this really true though? Wouldn't they, on average, have way more disposable income than the average windows user? I'm thinking something along the lines of the Pareto principle in conjunction with your disposable income being correlated with owning a mac.
One theme coming up here is the idea of just graduating more doctors, but even ignoring artificial pressures to keep supply low, it's not that simple. Many disciplines, particularly things like surgery, have a lot of requirements beyond just doctors, i.e. nurses, anaesthesia, OR's, hospitals, etc.

In Canada, we have a fair number of people in certain specialties that cannot find work - think a radiation oncologist who needs some pretty specialized and expensive equipment that only exists in a few places to be useful. But also even more basic... gastroenterologists who can't get enough OR time to do scopes on their patients.
I'm really excited by the new edition of the rust book mentioned in the post, from a brief look it seems that it covers all the areas I felt most needed improvement (for example what does a "move" mean?, a concept completely omitted from the first edition).

Also, I want to plug just how fun Rust is to write once you begin to learn how it works. It's totally awesome to write fast code that doesn't segfault, especially when it comes to things where tooling in other languages is lacking, such as doing parallel data processing. Speaking of which, I'll shamelessly plug some recent results from a Buddhabrot[0] renderer I wrote[1] in Rust:

http://lelandbatey.com/projects/buddhabrot/3k--mellowish-fra...

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot

[1] - https://github.com/lelandbatey/rust_buddhabrot/