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> I'm not surprised that the president would discuss classified operations with foreign dignitaries relevant to US interests.

I am surprised that the president would be so cavalier about releasing classified information without due consideration, given how much of his campaign was complaining about his opponent playing fast & loose with classified info.
I believe this based on a thing I think I read a long time ago, but isn't all of CL's tech focused solely on preventing any indexing of the site? It's no wonder they would keep it quiet.
... Jesus Christ.
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I fear this is one of those subjects where querying any 5 people will yield 10 opinions, and in the end the issues remain poorly illuminated.

FWIW I've been prescribing medications for a number of decades and pretty well understand the general benefits and limitations of pharmocotherapy as a treatment method.

To save you a lot of time and trouble studying this very complex field, let me boil it down to these few words: any medication can cause any side-effect at any time.

All drugs cause side multiple effects. The ones we like we call "benefits" or therapeutic effects, those we don't like are "adverse effects" (AEs). Useful drugs will have few troublesome AEs vs. good benefits, but it's a relative matter, a judgement call about what's good, bad or ugly.

It partly depends on the condition the drug is used for. In life-threatening situations we'll accept bad AEs, for example, cancer chemotherapy agents. For merely annoying, self-limiting problems, like a common cold, we wouldn't take big risks.

However, no drug is absolutely safe. All are capable of causing serious problems in at least a few people. Therefore we must use all drugs carefully and with thorough knowledge of the risk/benefit trade-offs, but there are never any guarantees of outcomes.

Another aspect is that often severe AEs are quite uncommon. Think of a side-effect that occurs in 1/100000 recipients. What are the odds this will be detected in drug registration trials? Most drugs are tested on a perhaps a few thousand people before approval, and often fewer subjects than that. The chances of encountering these outcomes is remote until drugs have been around for years, even decades before the harmful effects can be gleaned.

One drug that became notorious for incidents of fatality in the late 90's was nefazodone (Serzone), an antidepressant. I was peripherally involved with research on the matter. Basically what came to light was that in people with rare (like 1 in a million) mutations in certain liver enzymes, the drug was metabolized along a pathway that produced compounds causing fatal liver necrosis. After 18 deaths around the world became known, the association was made and the drug was withdrawn from the market. There was no way to predict this would be an effect of the drug when it was approved.

Of course AEs are very seldom fatal. The point here is that AEs (serious or not) are quirky, inevitable and randomly distributed. The benefits are always intertwined with finite risks. It's not surprising in the least that a high proportion of drugs are associated with troublesome AEs (with varying definitions of "troublesome").
Sure but you understand that with some cultures is more likely that this happen ?
I guess it wouldn't be misogynist if everyone at the office felt free to hire themselves sex entertainment regardless of gender.

But that's allegedly not the dynamic here.
I was born in 71 and my dad got us an Apple II in 1980. He wasn't a programmer, but the Apple II came with a full set of hardware and software manuals. We also had a Byte subscription. I taught myself Applesoft Basic, then 6502 assembly. I distinctly remember having printouts of assembly listings spanning dozens of pages spread across the floor which I annotated.
Sure, why not implement a GC? There's a heap. You don't need much else.
Lack of separation between personal and professional life. One of the things Silicon Valley companies have been working on doing for a while is blurring the lines between work and not work.
I think that should be considered the third coworker's problem. Sex is a natural and normal bodily function. Imagine if someone was insisting that anyone menstruating stay home.
Totally agree and was part of my point.

Workplace should be for work. If people want have sex, they can go at home or at a motel.
I should have been more clear; I mean a solution for many devs to pull precompiled caches, and share those for the same version of libraries... this would also benefit CI, as all CI runs to be based off this.
Title:
Scientists Achieve Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication For The First Time.

Article:
"The results will now need to be verified by external researchers to make sure what the researchers saw was a true example of counterfactual quantum communication."

Okay then
> the fact that this is a 3rd hand article (NPR quoting a Washington Post article quoting their sources)

The 2nd hand source was posted to HN, but quickly flag killed. The 1st hand source is not a media figure, nor are they in interested in writing a tell-all Medium article.
So should the smallest/cheapest seat be designed for shaq to sit in it?

Why should smaller people be forced to pay for bigger seats that they do not need?
This is the logical consequence of Peter Thiel's idea that you put bright (but often socially inept) high-school nerds directly into founding roles in companies. You end up with socially inept and socially inappropriate bosses who were never forced to conform to society's norms.

EDIT: I am not implying that Peter Thiel would condone this behavior.
Exploring the Militarization of US Police Forces
This stands out like a sore thumb. Somehow I get the feeling this does not mean the room was used exclusively for gay male sex.
This has a simpler copy-paste usage. And plus, JSONbin.io is a free service.
https://blendle.com/ does this.
40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015)
Ah I see. There are a variety of irrevocable trusts that move assets to a separate legal identity from the original owner of the assets (ex: charitable grantor trusts that are used by the Waltons often). This would reduce the size of the estate for both estate tax and medicare purposes.

In the past, transferring assets to such a trust entailed gift tax, but since the estate tax and lifetime gift tax exemption are now bundled together, you can basically "use" the estate tax exemption to fund this irrevocable trust "for free". As a result your personal assets plummet, you name your heirt the beneficiaries of the irrevocable trust, and you (the parent) can take advantage of medicare fully as you describe.

The drawback to this strategy is that you do lose real flexibility in controlling your assets. Also, the legality of this widespread practice is definitely in a gray zone and carries future legal risk. Transferring a significant portion of one's assets to such a complex instrument is definitely not advised.
At the same time, this environment puts pressure on people to engage in these activities, and that can lead to harassment.

Honestly, it is not that difficult to leave that stuff outside the office.
(Thailand) Facebook faces immediate shutdown threat
Yeah, it was me who pointed me in the direction of those books and magazines. You would probably not believe the number of computer related magazines in the 80s. Even my computer (the not-too-popular TRS-80 Color Computer) had like four magazines devoted to it.
This, and the few other articles up, are a great series. Having done Java development now for 30% of my life these are some amazing pointers.

I'd love to buy a hard copy of these if they ever get up to a few dozen articles. Would be good to give to middle-experience devs (like myself) in the future.
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I think there's room all over for different kinds of ergonomics for software development. Languages play a big role here, for sure, and having access to more languages for the front end feels like it will be good by definition- more choices is usually better. There's a lot lot lot of new stuff for sure in JS, and it can be pretty overwhelming.

I think, though, that you could pretty easily take a break from JS dev and come back and still use the tools you had six or twelve months ago, just fine. For example, I maintain a pretty big angular 1 application that has a lot of pre-1.4 code in it. It runs fine, and I haven't touched my build tooling in over a year. There's still a lot of very relevant questions and answers on stackoverflow and so on.

Now, I may well want to use react or angular4 or something else for my next project, but nothing is stopping me from using angular 1, or backbone, or just plain jquery for that matter. They all still work.

As to the virtual DOM - abstraction libraries are really cool (although the vDOM isn't really that), but they introduce just yet another thing that changes over time. At the end of the day, the DOM is a pretty complicated thing, between its own structure, event models, css, and everything else, so the API to interact with it is going to be complicated no matter what language you use. Most frameworks (backbone, jquery, angular, react, etc) are all just different attempts to manage that complication, and all they ever really do is shove the complication from one place to another, but (for example with functional reactive models) that other place is something a group of people is willing to deal with.
I already explained this in another comment almost an hour ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14346188). Brotli works perfectly fine over HTTP. The only difference between HTTP and HTTPS here is Chrome does not include "br" in the Accept-Encoding header for HTTP. But it will still handle a Content-Encoding of "br" just fine over HTTP.

> One of the major reasons for me moving my website to HTTPS is so that I could use Brotli compression.

Why do you care so much about this particular compression format?

> Otherwise, Firefox and Chrome will merely get a content encoding error page because br is an unknown encoding format when using HTTP!

You clearly did not test this, because Chrome interprets Brotli responses just fine over HTTP. I wager Firefox does too, but I'm not about to install Firefox just to test.

> You're wrong, and Google engineers are right. End of story.

Google engineers are right, but you are not right. You don't understand what the Google engineers are saying. The link you provided specifically has to do with the Accept-Encoding header and not Brotli support as a whole.

> My target audience consists of Linux users using either Chrome or Firefox.

I still don't understand why you're intentionally breaking the open web. It makes no sense.

> No matter how many times I explain things to you, you never seem to get it through your head.

You should try actually listening. You keep explaining things that are factually wrong or completely irrelevant. You seem to not actually understand HTTP, HTTPS, Content-Encodings, or even the idea of the open web in general. And you're going out of your way to break 99% of tools out there for no discernible reason. Why do you love Brotli so much that you're willing to break HTTP just to use it?
That's exactly what I was pondering after reading the lawsuit.

I mean, being told to be the 'mommy' of the male workers, not being supplied with equipment in contrary to the others, having to hear directly of mentions to threesomes and disapproval of sexual appearance, being kicked out of your room for your boss to have sex with someone in it, being ostracized by not using drugs at work.

Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction so I would not doubt that is true, I am just having great difficulty to understand how such scenario would be feasible. I mean, how could someone continue to work in a place like this for almost a year?
I think that is because, at their core, computers parse language (be it computer or human). At some point you need to input that language, which is a task keyboards and command-lines excel at. It's the lowest common denominator, so it will always exist.

At the same time, there are ways that you can program a computer that do not rely on pure text input. We've already seen things like Scratch, GameMaker, and Unreal Engine's blueprint system explode in popularity. When the tools are built, people will use them, and they can supplant the previous paradigm.

I think there are advantages VR/MR can have for simple text input, too. I would love to have a virtual work environment where my files live in "physical" locations, where I can visit them as if they were sheets of paper or trinkets, arranging files or bits of code in front of me into graphs I can walk around and draw on like a whiteboard.
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It's like when they say "X dev's are too lazy a new language". More likely, your documentation is garbage.
@zkanter If you think Amazon cannot be beaten just see Alibaba and Chinese e-commerce eco-system almost a decade ahead of Amazon. I am sure once Alipay get listed currently private, will leave amazon far behind.

Same day delivery on TMall like buy in morning get in afternoon was available 6 years ago in China. Now you can fly oysters from New Zealand, cod from U.K. and delivered to your home in 24-48 hours in China also 5 years ago. Amazon still has miles to sprint before it reaches there.
No one MUST have sex in the workplace.

If you do you should be immediately terminated. End of story.
Sex in the workplace that other people are aware of is not unlikely to be (or be part of, along with other things in the workplace that would be normal absent the sex happening alongside them) harassment.

Unless the sex is a bona fide part of the core business function, rather than an extra-curricular workplace activity.
Ask HN: Is Experfy any good for data scientists?
Would be interesting to learn whether anyone have actual experience working with their marketplace platform as a consultant.
In addition to that great news, MuJoCo student licenses are now free: http://www.mujoco.org/index.html
when those hit you probably read about it on slashdot and heard something on the late nite news.

now you get noise coverage everywhere.
Funny story: Dan Lyons, a writer for Silicon Valley and the author of the book Disrupted, about his experiences working at the high tech startup HubSpot, said that he had pitched many things that he personally saw during his time there. He was frequently shot down because they seemed too far outside reality.
it's still down at the moment
I'm curious, did you not hear the feedback? I've been looking at how writing is miscommunicated and misheard and I would be interested in understanding what you heard. I couldn't find an email address in your profile here or on medium; Hopefully you'll see this and respond (in email is fine, mine is in my hn profile, I won't share it with anyone else).
It also eliminates variability. Most services strive to offer predictable services, and, as consumers, most of us also want predictable services. Starbucks is notorious for their mediocrity, but it's predictable. There's little worse in commercial experiences than going to my favorite coffee shop and one day getting a great drink and the next day having a flat drink. Getting fleeced of course is worse.
This is a pretty shocking opinion to see expressed. Like, you may as well have said "A bunch of developers at <place> decided to go back to C89 because writing code in Rust was too slow, plus did you see the bugs in its borrow checker?" . Do you really believe that paper is a safer alternative?
not until it can run games with latest video card drivers. but when it finally can, I will already be able to do that in a vm solution
> too many people rely on [drugs] to an absurd extent rather than changing behaviors and habits

It's not that simple. If I go to school and someone gets me sick, you wouldn't "this is your fault, you shouldn't have such bad habits like going to school." Furthermore, what are these good behaviors and habits? I can find a million articles on the internet telling me that cold showers are a good habit and another million saying hot showers are a good habit - which one is objectively right?

Yes, there are people who decide to use drugs instead of making simple changes (e.g. my friend who drank a large bottle of Jack in a day and needed to get his stomach pumped - he should have just vented to a friend about his girl issues). But there are so many other people out there who don't fit that description, and there isn't any true scottsman with objectively perfect behaviors and habits. So I don't think it's unreasonable to help people out with more options for drugs that may be better for some people than what we already have.
TL;DR: if your business relies on a Google API/service, your business is in risk.
The Kaufmann's had great taste. They commissioned the two greatest (IMO) modern american residences, Falling Water w/Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs w/Richard Neutra.

https://pleasurephoto.wordpress.com/tag/kaufmann-house/
Not the same thing at all. Have sex somewhere that's not the office. It's honestly not hard.
According to my GP, selection for doctors include psychiatric profiling designed to select for the most compassionate. While I can see why the hospitals would want this - compassionate doctors are good PR -this seems to be a case of misaligned incentives. Those with less compassion would suffer less and cope better when surrounded by death and suffering on a daily basis. On the whole, this probably means they'll do a better job, too.
No, No, and No. Google engineers have repeatedly declared that Brotli requires HTTPS, because they do not allow it's use of HTTP. You cannot use Brotli over HTTP. You are merely assuming that you can. I am stating that you are lying because you can't have it both ways -- either Google engineers are lying about what their software does, or you are lying about what their software does. It states right there on both of the pages from Google that I linked to you. Brotli will not work without HTTPS. I should know as that's one of the main reasons why I moved to implement HTTPS. It's right there in my latest article on my website before I posted it here. Brotli does not work without HTTPS. Enable HTTPS and pages decode. Switch to HTTP and they do not decode. End of story. You're not very bright to continue arguing against this.
> Just because it's the workplace doesn't mean you can't have sex there

Sorry but what on earth is wrong with you ?

Having sex at the workplace is both an Occupational Health & Safety and a Sexual Harassment issue. It is completely and utterly unacceptable in any normal workplace and in most countries it is illegal. The idea that it is part of a company's culture and therefore something people should just tolerate is downright offensive.
Sex is voluntary.
I wonder if there are any research projects comparing physician workload and satisfaction in various countries with various health care systems.
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> One shouldn't must have sex in office. So simple no ?

Well, yes, but if people are going to anyway, might as well have a place for it.

>In your office there is a room for sex ?

I work at an Amazon fulfillment center. If there were a room for sex, it wouldn't be allowed in my process path due to insufficient rate.
If you work in the US, you are describing what lawyers will call a 'hostile workplace' when your employers are, based on your description alone, successfully sued for discrimination.

This is not perfectly normal in any professional setting. More and more often, it has real professional and legal consequences.
That's because ESR is a very ancient version of Firefox. Many things don't work on ESR. You need at least Firefox 52.
My wife is now an attending, and all I can say is Amen.

The worst part is that many doctors often defend and work to perpetuate the system, rather than organizing to make it sane. It is truly boggling.
Many people on here are trying to run startups.

Understanding company culture and sexual harassment are important issues to be educated about.
That compile time is Not Great, but 15 seconds for 7700 lines of code isn't even close to "far worse than C++". :P If incremental compilation is showing no benefits whatsoever, then I'm guessing that time is largely attributable to linking (and I tend to doubt that 7700 lines of code is counting the basic third-party libraries that are required to create a crossplatform GUI app (but I'd love to be surprised!), which will contribute to linkage time... LLD please!).
why would it be unenforceable? it's not like you can't leave (indentured servitude). it's just that if you choose to leave before your term is up, you have to pay back the training cost pro-rata, and that sound very reasonable.
>> Hand designed programs to do machine vision don't even get a tenth of the accuracy of NNs.

"A tenth of the accuracy" of a 100% accurate model is 10%. So you're basically claiming that nobody had achieved anything with machine vision before NNs (you probably mean AlexNet in particular), which is patently absurd and completely unhistorical.

Why is it that this subject attracts the attention of so many people who know so little of what they're talking about?
House of God is indeed an interesting book and a good read. I read it during second year of my residency, and it is incredibly sad how the stuff that is talked about in the book has gotten worse in some ways, though better in others.

I'm actively against the "bowel run" mentality. I do my best to avoid even the CYA test ordering, though I'm not in the ED where this can be the most rife. I see first hand the "ponzi scheme" (though IMO it is not the correct term) of the system and I chose to go into primary care because I actively want to fix this in any way I can, and being a specialist was not the way I thought would be best to do this.
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> People do not grasp how much of this insanity is codified by law and rule, and when they are informed of it, they shrug it off in the name of "safety."

Not to make minimize the problem, but this feels a bit like privacy in IT (or lack thereof) due to government overreach.

People care much less about something when they are not directly impacted (or think they're not impacted).
I use the original Prompt from Panic and the Apple bluetooth keyboard. I also have the charging stand which keeps the iPad in portrait mode. I would have preferred landscape for emacs, etc., but it is certainly usable.
I make no-knead at least twice a week at home. it's all we eat in terms of bread. i don't bake anything else, just bread (and pizza using the same dough). it has not failed me in 5 years.
That's not true, see the reply above yours for a better explanation.
Thanks for sharing! If I were to see these structure on the streets I would brush them off as some funky art projects. Now I wonder what else I have been missing...
SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Communications Satellite
Has anyone actually seen the hardware in action?

Last I heard there was some cumbersome tethered version that was described as less advanced than Microsoft's, and years behind.

Have things gotten better? (Provably better?)
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I like websites that don't change. I can come back to Craigslist once or twice a year, year after year, and it's exactly what I remembered. No hunting around, no discovering new gestures and behaviors. It's simple, obvious, and it for what it does, it works.
I can't remember the last time I talked with a fast food employee that I thought was incompetent. Most of the time, I'm shocked at how capable they are given how little they are probably making.
I honestly don't even bother anymore:

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