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I once owned an FR-S (totaled from someone rear-ending it on the highway, going to buy another next year) and currently I own a '90 Miata and a '94 Skyline GT-R. Comparing between the ND Miata and the BRZ I would go for the BRZ in a heartbeat.

Two reasons:

1. The NC/ND Miata crowd is a much older demographic, keeping their precious car in the garage over the winter, keeping it bone stock, bringing it to the dealership instead of working on it themselves and only taking it out on sunny days. I don't click with that crowd.

2. The aftermarket support for the FR-S/BRZ/GT86 is completely overwhelming. Want a completely different exhaust setup or want to run flex fuel? Turbocharged? Supercharged? There's quite a few choices to select from. ND Miatas have some selection, but not nearly at the same cost or availability.

You can get rid of that torque dip quite easily if it's bothering you, by the way. Just need new UEL exhaust headers and a tune. You'll even make a bit more power when you're finished with it, so win/win.

Personally I'm loving that people aren't buying them because it's been keeping the barrier of entry way down. They truly are remarkable cars... There's a lot more to a car than the numbers. The suspension/geometry and chassis with 55/45 weight distribution, MacPherson struts, Torsen limited slip differential comes standard, and low center of gravity due to its boxer engine are top-notch compared to something like a 370Z.
Should be possible on Ubuntu. I have most of this set on my KDE setup, but harder to configure than back when i used FVWM.

You can at least set sloppy focus.
I haven't bothered to look if you can still open behind/lower on open.
Hm, I'm a software engineer with nearly 10 years of experience but to get a job not in web development I estimate it would take at least 6 months of nights and weekends on a skill area such as machine learning, data science, distributed systems, data engineering, etc to be qualified in the eyes of employers.

It's quite difficult to demonstrate qualifications to employers, I specialize in type theory and devote my nights and weekends to that. I've been doing this for a year but still have been rejected for every single typed programming job in NYC. I admit I am mentally slow, but I am willing to put in the work.

My point is you are trivializing the effort. Often we are competing against people with better minds/bodies, better home environments, better support networks, etc. The advantages build on each other. Yeah we fucked up in high school or earlier because we just didn't know. I suppose it is fair that we will pay the price the rest of our lives. Oh well.
Go to https://rarecooking.com/ and read the updated (?) recipes.
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> What's preventing a pill that releases a dose immediately and one after 6 hours?

Being plopped into a bath of hydrochloric acid makes this a little tricky, I am led to understand.

> Or something like a diabetic pump that dispenses medication continuously?

And this led me down a brief Google walk for what these are, and...huh, that's a really good question...
FYI, acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org is working ok for me but the production endpoints are still timing out.
If speed is essential you'd use C++. But you could use Java too. There are useful benchmarks of server frameworks here:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

As you can see the top frameworks are all C++ or Java. A Java servlet based framework clocks in 3rd with 178k/sec. Go's first entry is at 10th place with 141k/sec.

The next time go appears it's the "kami" framework with just 58k/sec - slower than nodejs!
Well, this would be playing a bit on stereotypes. But HBS students tend to be very management focused, Wharton students more quantitative / financial, and Stanford students more tech focused / creative (for an MBA). There are obviously tons of counter examples to each of those stereotypes, but they've held largely true in my ~9 years of experience in those circles.
I hope I never have to take this stuff.

Watching how dependent my mom has become on this has been painful to watch.
It doesn't say "any person in the USA" nor "any US citizen", when it wants to specify that then the amendment uses "the people". Would be interested in the actual caselaw for this?
Yes, this is definitely what I'm getting at. I do think it would be amazing for education, but also for real work. The Unity Editor, and other similar WYSIWYG game editors, are kind of half-way between tools like Maya and programming environments. Other than being buggy and disorganized, the idea of it is amazing. They let you view "the program" from the 3rd person, as a visual object, inspect and edit state, etc. The productivity gains are real, IMO.

I think the approach generalizes, in principle, to all systems, including the real-world concerns in your second paragraph. Certainly it would be non-trivial. Still, if I ever have the free time, it's about the only thing I'd want to work on.
> "DNT seemed like a good idea. By setting DNT on in your web browser, websites that supported DNT could neither place nor read advertising cookies on your device. Well, that was the idea anyway."

No, DNT seemed like a stupid idea right from the beginning. It's nothing but an "evil bit" that websites were always free to ignore (and what's more, ignore silently). I never understood the outrage when Microsoft had IE set DNT to True as default, all they were doing was making explicit what a useless, feel-good piece of nonsense it was while everyone else was just ignoring the elephant in the room out of motivated self-interest.

So, good riddance. DNT was always an attempt by advertisers to distract people from the fact that the only real solutions to privacy problems are legislative, and they don't want that. Twitter abandoning it might be one tiny step closer to broad awareness of that.
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Nice work! Have you considered animating the rows into place as you select them? The sudden jump is a bit jarring.
why would i retract comments that boil down to "question everything." i never took a side in the entire argument.
I find your post fascinating! Can you give us a list of specific skills that were most critical to the jobs of these people you managed?

I have a 16 year old son who already has 4 years experience with combat robotics team, 2 years experience with VEX robotics competition and will attend community college his final 2 years of high school. He will most likely graduate with a 2 year Associates degree at the same time as he graduates from high school.

On the practical side he is somewhere between beginner and intermediate in skill with SolidWorks, has done a bit of CNC machining, a little welding and electrical wiring. And, they get a good amount of experience troubleshooting and repairing under time pressure during competitions.

I am always on the lookout for career paths forward for my kids. Would love to hear a bit more about the skills and work of this team.

Thanks
If you have your nginx HTTP vhost configured for serving {{ domain }}/.well-known/acme-challenge/ from /var/www/{{ domain }}, then getting a new cert and having it automatically renewed it's as simple as running:

certbot certonly --webroot --webroot-path /var/www/{{ domain }} --agree-tos -m {{ email }} --domain {{ domain }} --renew-hook "service nginx reload"

If certbot was installed with PIP, a CRON job will be automatically created and it will run with whatever arguments the certificate was first obtained with (--renew-hook is obviously important).
That is a valid concern. However, clathrates (mostly CH4) is actually much cleaner than coal, by far the biggest source of energy in China. If China can replace coal with clathrates, it would be an huge improvement for the environment.
An interesting solution to this problem is verification witnesses[1]. A witness is a machine readable record of a verification task. Several different programs can read the witness and verify it independently. It is especially useful for counterexamples, where it can be a simple program trace to the error state. Given the input program and witness another can check whether the error state is reached.

[1] https://www.sosy-lab.org/~dbeyer/verification-witnesses/
They should try to incorporate ideas of sound generation from samples which were established long ago, patented and then the area completely forgotten. Patents have since then expired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus%E2%80%93Strong_string_...

This algorithm works wonderfully for guitars (there are improvements to it too). There was a synth 20 decades ago, if not more, I believe, that mimicked all of the wind instruments extremely well (you had a pipe through which you could blow and a keyboard to choose the sounds).

Unfortunately the whole area seems to be abandoned due to patents on algorithms.

Looks wonderful that WaveNets are producing something so well, although the sound still needs improvement.
As withdrawal becomes more severe and patients develop tolerance to these medications, they need to take increasing doses to get the same effects, leading to more severe withdrawal - aka. a vicious cycle.

The crux of this article was that Purdue knew their dosing schedule was problematic but pursued it despite growing evidence it was reducing efficacy and increasing addiction. Then they hid behind their FDA certification as if that exempts them from acting on evidence that their shitty drug doesn't work right.

In general, no drug for acute _anything_ will last as long as the manufacturer advertises. They are incentivized to push an idealized dosing schedule, even when that makes the drug less effective for a significant number of patients. This is kind of a big deal when a drug causes severe physical withdrawal symptoms.
Read the article. It's economic - the makers of these opiate drugs have large marketing budgets they employ to encourage physicians to prescribe these addictive drugs and there has been essentially no governmental oversight on these marketing efforts because these marketing budgets also fund lobbying activities.

There have been a few prosecutions of individual sales/marketing people for knowingly supplying pill mills, but it's just a cost of business expense for large pharma companies.
Declaration of war comes under "due process of law" surely.
> pretty low on the list of countries that take great care with environmental concerns

The truth is not as simple as the western media makes it out to be. Between the US and China there are more than 40 countries in CO2 emissions per capita. In other words, one of the least responsible countries is the US (If you took a province of China with 200 million inhabitants, it would be an extremely responsible country compared to a country of similar size. Per capita, it sits right next to Iceland at around 6 tonnes of CO2/person)[0]

China is also the number one investor in renewable energy (more than double what the US is investing). Per capita, they are similar players with the US ahead. [1]

So it all depends on how you slice your data. Objectively it's easy to say that China is one of the most responsible countries in terms of global warming. Now whether it's just a matter of poverty and whether their growth strategy involves "de-carbonizing" de economy ... it's hard to say.

However, taping the clathrates without capture sounds like sucide.

[0] http://cotap.org/per-capita-carbon-co2-emissions-by-country
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/top-renewable-energy-investme...
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Hospitals are funded based on patient satisfaction and pain was added to patient satisfaction scores. To boost their ratings and funding hospitals and their doctors started heavily prescribing pain killers - in a way that pushes the problem from their hospital.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth...
Scala does all the features of Kotlin equally well, not half good.

Actually Kotlin inherited a few bad ideas from Scala as well - which Scala already dropped like procedure syntax.

And some features like null handling or coroutines in Kotlin are implemented as language features - special cases in the compiler, because the core of the language lacks abstraction mechanisms. This is making the language more complex than Scala.

Scala: minimal and powerful language core, the rest is in libraries.

Dotty: make this core even smaller

Kotlin: take a powerful language like Scala, remove almost all of the unnique abstraction features, leave only "better Java syntax" and then reimplement missing features by special cases directly in the language instead of libraries. Feels like VB of XXI century.
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> The real concern here is that the country that's furthest along in extracting the methane is also pretty low on the list of countries that take great care with environmental concerns.

This narrative is getting more obsolete each day. Compare the recent changes in the Trump administration regarding climate change and environmental agencies with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China

Edit (for context, 2 days ago Trump said this):

I've loosened up the strangling environmental chains wrapped around our country and our economy, chains so tight that you couldn't do anything, that jobs were going down, we were losing business. We are loosening it up,...
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>Money/greed on the supply side. Lack of happiness on the demand side.

You have nothing to back that up. In fact, all the evidence I've seen points towards the opposite: the places with the least opiate abuse are (1) not happy countries (2) with very strict laws. See Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, etc.

If money and greed on the supply side, and lack of happiness on the demand side is the true cause of this, surely those countries would be ravaged with an opiate epidemic. But they are not. The problem is much more nuanced than you make it out to be.
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Like most people pushing the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" mantra, you're vastly underestimating the cost of education, particularly of adult re-education.

Yes, the answer is, it takes at minimum several years for a person working in the food industry to be anywhere reasonably close to being called competent in software engineering, because it requires you to change your entire way of thinking about problems.

In many cases it's flat out impossible, given that those people work full time. If your work is not in the same field, performing the mental shift to learning something in-depth in an unrelated field is extremely cognitively costly.

Another thing to keep in mind, many people working low wage jobs have families to take care of, which means even less time devoted to learning. In those cases, yes, it could probably take a decade for them to learn.

And considering how fast-paced tech is, it's likely their knowledge will be outdated by the time they would actually finish the self-learning process.

> Regardless, these companies are making an effort to do this anyways as they are in need of this skills and creating venues to take people from 0 to 1 with never having known anything about software or math.

You're right, it's a good start. But it doesn't solve the underlying issue of how costly the education process is on behalf of the learner. These companies "disrupt" by reducing transaction costs, but the cost of the good itself remains prohibitively high.
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Yes. I continue conversations from my phone -> computer (and vice versa) every day.
such laws generally don't apply to war. they don't even apply to soldiers.

an officer can order hundreds of soldiers to charge into certain death without repercussions - as long as the military goal he's trying to achieve is justifiable.
Bets on the first band to troll Alexa by naming their album "Alexa, stop"?
> In my non-IT circles [password management] is non-existent, ... an average person to paste passwords meant they stored them in passwords.txt on their desktop.

But that is password management, it's just crap password management.

There's certainly an argument that a plaintext-on-desktop stored list of high-entropy passwords is better than a single in-(human)-memory low-entropy password. With the recent wannacrypt reminder, that argument's slightly diminished, though.

I think the highest impact (i.e. fn of quick/low effort, high reward) suggestion to non tech-literate folk is to use 2FA on their email account. I like and usually suggest Authy, mainly because it's available as a Chrome app too whereas e.g. Google Authenticator is just on Android/iOS. (I assume it's clear, but email account as opposed to something else since it's so near universally treated as the fallback option.)

That's a good base for them to start using 2FA everywhere else it's possible, too.
'Messages' are ultimately at the mercy of the medium. Having the medium owned by one corporation, even if it's not abused right now, strikes me as worse than having a sizable of 'elite' companies, each with their own (often explicit) biases, competing for attention.

Whether the latter is worse than a gaggle of bloggers trampling all over the plants, I'm not so sure anymore. But either option still seems better than a handful of corporations owning the garden.
Great point! That's one of the reasons that I designed SuperCoco (app for learning Spanish) to teach in full context.
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I have a very strong opinion that the "evaluation systems" should be built for EMPLOYEES to use, not middle managers. A system that provides insights in to how you spend your time would be extremely useful to me. For example, if I wanted to sum up the total hours that I spend on a project, I have kept pretty decent track in Google calendar of when I am working. I have to go to a third part and upload my calendar dump to them, they convert the ICS to an Excel spreadsheet where I can finally do some addition if the duration field is properly formatted. Modern monitoring tools are the opposite of this approach and they are all built for some ephemeral opinion of what data matters to employers who can't decide what to do even if they had all the employee data in the world.
> You can do C++ and XAML if you wish/must, but C# is generally a better idea.

Just want to point it out for those that didn't know, UWP apps can also be built with "native" JavaScript:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/cre...
This. Look at this HN discussion: so much hand-wringing of "we should do this! The government should do that! The government shouldn't do this!" And the problem continues no matter what all these people try. Now ask yourself, what is the one idea that no one will listen to or accept? It's this guy's. Think about it.
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There's some really great advice here from others. I'll add what I personally needed to learn:

I got comfortable with the small subset of the language I knew, and then used those tools to try to tackle all problems. I eschewed some of the more powerful abstractions because they seemed complicated and unnecessary, and because learning them would take me longer than forging ahead with the tools I already knew.

What I didn't realise, and seems obvious in hindsight, was the time to learn those new tools was an investment. If I knew them, I would not only be able to tackle problems faster than I could with my current tools, I would also be able to tackle far larger problems than were feasible to do with such basic toolset.

I think a possible rule of thumb for when you are being limited in such a way is when you're hitting a ceiling - when there's a complexity point you can reach, but no matter what you do you can't seem to push past it to make bigger/better things, it's time to "level up".

Another possible rule of thumb is if there's some framework or library or technique that others seem to be using and you look at it and think "but that's way more complicated than how I'm doing it!". Maybe it isn't unnecessarily complicated, maybe that extra complexity is the "cover charge" for being able to create larger and more powerful software. (An example: using an MVC framework rather than a bunch of pages with in-line database queries and templating.)
> There's no "chronic pain epidemic".

50% of American adults suffer from chronic pain. If those levels don't qualify as an epidemic, what levels would?
Part of the equation is that, conceivably, it's a good thing to give Tesla or whoever enough money to iterate on the things they're designing, so that through the iterations they can make them cheaper.
Search "kratom" (Mitragyna speciosa). It helps people kick their opiate addiction every day. It's not a magic bullet by any means, but it helps by mitigating the withdrawals to a tolerable point. Good luck - I know how you feel.
This is interesting, although the results are underwhelming IMO. I actually had the same idea - finding the latent space of instrument sounds and using that for synthesis - a couple of years back. After countless hours of research I managed to turn it into a commercial software instrument called "GalaXynth" [1]. For me at least, it turned out that the "automatic" latent space (i.e. discovered by autoencoding) isn't that interesting musically, therefore I turned to hand-designing the latent space, which was a gargantuan task that I'm not sure I would do over again if I knew how hard it would be. Anyway if anyone is interested in this type of thing you should get in touch!

[1] https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth/
One of my favorite cheeses - Cougar Gold - was developed with military funding. Typical cheeses will build up carbon dioxide gasses, which makes putting cheese into a sealed container problematic. Washington State University was doing research into making can-able cheeses without that gaseous build-up in the 1940s, and got a grant for it.
One could also characterize your (and GP) view as NIMBYism. I want animal happiness, and they should give up what they like for that.
Article argues that patent evergreening necessitated dishonest marketing and resulted in a "created market" type of strategy.

The patent for OxyContin was predicated on the claim that each dose lasted longer than older poducts. When that didn't work they raised the dose instead of shortening dosing intervals, which caused a reward/withdrawal cycle in patients.
He had consensual sex with them. The sex only became nonconsensual retroactively when they learned about one another. Which is frankly, bullshit.
Every time one of these articles comes out, people say that the FDA should have been more involved. Every time we hear about some new drug that Europe, India, or China has that is still being cleared in the US, people say that the FDA needs to step back and let pharma companies innovate.

Which is it? I honestly don't think the FDA is culpable in this. They're there to ensure that the manufacturer is meeting a minimum standard of proof, and if the manufacturer is falsifying that proof and ignoring clinical feedback then the manufacturer is solely responsible and needs to be held accountable. But to say that the FDA isn't doing its job here isn't particularly accurate, because they're doing their best to apply the law and ensure that the claims being made are accurate.