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>all three government agencies dropped their investigations because they were unable to determine what the lyrics of the song were, even after listening to the records at speeds ranging from 15 rpm to 75 rpm.
It's pretty common to teach intelligent animals tricks when they're in zoos or similar. Otherwise they get bored. This isn't a comment on the correctness of keeping dolphins in captivity but an explanation of why if one decides to keep dolphins teaching them tricks may be an ethical thing to do.
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None, since that range would make that impossible, but I have ~170k miles on one of mine at the moment with few issues.

It replaced a car that had 190k miles from around 2000. Its worst problems were a bad A/C compressor (replaced at ~100k miles) and a slipping clutch (it was the original clutch). The plugs and wires were replaced once during its service.

Modern cars are amazingly reliable and amazingly safe compared to their predecessors.
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They are negative, that doesn't make you a bad person. All good.
Please see my comment above about why we're not doing MOOCs at CMU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357548
Depends. You can use docker on top of say a container-OS and not need to know anything linux (and in fact you can't even do anything linux, it is all locked down and readonly).

Of course hardware matters. Of course it is embarrassing to have your entire business model crushed by how you built your product. It happens in many ways.
It's deeply embarrassing to me that our government agencies are involved in regulating professional baseball and in being the morality/obscenity police.
I guess you're being downvoted unfairly, IMO.

There's some foul music out there that a 7-year-old needn't be introduced to and you'd like to be able to buy something on a whim when your kid says "Hey, I know this band, Suzie has this album, can I have it?"

Point is, there's grey area, which is why the sticker has value.

Some people want to know, some don't, and some people are offended that people want to know.

Heck, as a teenager it was a point of pride to buy an album w/ that sticker, so IMO it works entirely as intended. Those with autonomy (older kids and adults) get to make their own choices, those without (younger kids) don't.
I mean is that really much different than an R rating? It's just for parents to have an idea of what they're getting for their kids
Pretty common - I bought into the TextDrive (became Joyent) lifetime hosting plans, and then got the shaft a few years later, as everyone else who bought into it did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669

I can understand if I bought the lifetime plan and you go under or pivot to something entirely different and it ends, but it seems churlish if you're still in the same business and you renege on the first people who believed in you.
I hired a freelancer from the Philippines on Upwork to work with me on some Google App Engine issues because Google's documentation is incredibly unhelpful at times and as well as bizarrely organized.

He was from the Philippines, and it turned out he was a contractor providing "support" for Google Cloud. So I guess Google is outsourcing their support? Isn't this something Dell tried to do in the 90's with disastrous results?
Google needs to fix this kind of thing if they ever want to be a real threat to AWS. AWS has publicly stated their goal to only ever lower prices and do so continuously/periodically. This kind of lock in make people leery to even try a GC service or at the least build an abstraction layer to easily be able to swap.
Asking people to change their art is generally considered a negative thing.

What do you think I'm talking about with the statement about Walmart?
"Seriously the best thing is throwing an exception on the bug path too. If it's truly a bug, then it shouldn't be handled and you get what you just described."

Except that you don't get a call stack (and process state), which is like the best feature of a core dump. Just open it in your debugger and you're immediately looking at a whole lot of more of information about what happened than what an exception can tell you.
> Not saying it's not feasible but it's not going to be as fast as making a plain REST call for those use cases that don't require synching.

The whole point of OT is that it lets you fearlessly merge concurrent edits. You can lean on that to rate limit messages to or from the client, if you need to. Because the client can always apply its own edits immediately to its own local model, there's no perceived latency. So, if you design your system right you can batch up changes at any granularity you like (per page, per form, per second, dynamically based on load, whatever). Of course, the tradeoff is that you lean on the OT system more by batching up edits. But it can be made effectively free to transform if the edits modify different parts of the database (using range trees to cull, etc).

But yeah - it is much faster than differential transform. I'm not sure how good diffing algorithms are in practice, but best case they need to scan the entire document. On the other hand OT only requires size & computation proportional to how much was changed. If we're collaboratively editing a 10kb text file, changes will mostly only be a few bytes each. And applying each change using a good rope library is a O(log n) operation.

Of course, all this requires a database which supports OT out of the box whistles innocently
Not questioning that, but doesn't it kind of destroy the notion of Wikileaks being unbiased when it came to the US elections?

"This is payback because she's coming after me, but otherwise we disseminate information in a fair and balanced way" doesn't seem plausible to me.
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Employer blocks Gmail (and other sites) via the corporate firewall. They are not paying for Google Apps (at least not for me). Get a job at any large enterprise and you'll experience some restrictions you wouldn't find at a smaller company.
For me, the criticism is pretty specific:

When I see these modern interfaces and
all these animations/transitions

Probably because it resonates with me. The experience is that someone else has decided what the perfect amount of time I should wait to do what I want to do...someone I don't know who does not know what I am actually trying to do (something for which using the UI is only an incidental step).

Over my years in design, I've see a pretty regular pattern when someone walks through their design for a project that boils down to: the user arrives here and is forced to do X. Narrowing down the user's possibilities via force is probably a reasonable backup strategy for parts of a penitentiary. Most of the time, I find good design creates possibilities.

So for me, the brevity is warranted because the problem is so fundamental. A couple of years ago I opened up my copy of AutoCad R14 from the early 1990's in a VM to goof around. It was radically different: type a command and it executes instantly. Modern UI's have the tail wagging the dog. There is latency in web interfaces due to round trips over the network. Animations can be a way of papering over that latency in lieu of not stalling while waiting for data. They are not an independent end...good design addresses actual problems.
I've noticed a chilling effect on speech among my friends who work for the Federal government. People just don't speak freely anymore b/c of surveillance.
It all depends how dependant customers on a product. At one point I worked for a company that successfully charged customers for fixing obvious bugs in a software on top of expensive support contructs. The sad part it worked for some time.
One question I don't see answered in the FAQ is "Who owns the tunnels?"

Does the Boring Company own them? The municipality? How does one go about getting permission to tunnel below property owned by other entities?
There's a long history of that: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241
Indeed, it seems like its principal purpose is to sell CDs to teenagers. Admittedly, the sticker doesn't seem to do very much of anything anymore, possibly due to the dearth of CDs to attach it to.

The original use case was "Darling Nikki" by Prince which, I have to say, isn't a song I'm going to be playing to my daughter anytime soon. (And believe me, I think the whole of Purple Rain is genius.) But the tone? That's hugely damaging. It's all "these musicians are corrupting our kids" and not enough "some people make art for adults and that's OK".

Of course, if the debate had been more reasonable, Eminem would have had to come up with a different marketing angle.
One of the first things he did was release information about the NSA's Chinese targets to the SCMP in an attempt to receive asylum from the Chinese government. https://www.google.com/amp/m.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article...
It's a pretty low bar these days.
One of the best #magical #onboarding process of using an Android Phone
In my opinion autonomy is key. Big organizations like to talk a big game that they empower their employees to take risks. Yet most of the time they default to the status quo. It's culturally there or not.
No, my apologies, I'm not being very clear then. I don't mean to criticise Microsoft here, in fact I think their commitment to backwards compatibility is commendable and I think history proves they've at least tried to get people on the automatic updates track. Execution hasn't been flawless, for sure, but we're in better place now than we were 15-20 years ago.

And I'm also not trying to draw any conclusions with my post. I'm genuinely wondering whether the fact that Microsoft has been so committed to backwards compatibility has fostered a kind of mentality where people and indeed developers don't upgrade, simply because they know they won't be abandoned anyway. It's always easier not to change anything, and if the message is typically "you'll be fine" anyway then where's the incentive? The "you'll be safer, probably" message doesn't seem to me like it's working.

You're probably right that I'm not making much sense, I'm finding it a bit hard to put my thoughts into words here.
Is there precedent for a company being sued for something similar? Seems like false advertising to me.
I often feel like sentiment such as this assumes that these kinds of notices, movie ratings, "clean" / radio versions of media, etc are solely meant for teenagers.
Maybe that's how they relate to it - as some kind of restriction as a teen.

Keep in mind that while you will learn this stuff in your life, for very young children, there is definitely a lot that is inappropriate whether it is sex, language or violence. A 2 year old is unable to fully understand what is appropriate when. They are not ready to handle many of these concepts.

Beyond that, if an adult doesn't want to listen to something or watch something, this helps them. If they've don't want to see or hear something, why should anyone else care?
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After seeing everyone rave about FastMail in the other thread I signed up for the demo. I've been looking to move a domain I have off of G Suite and it seemed like the best option.

Now I'm having second thoughts, if this is how they treat paying customers.
"When I read things like this it makes me sad, because my imagination is nowhere near as active as this."

It's actually a fun exercise, and educational. Make a list of some dirty nasty words you'd like to find in Louie Louie. Or even some innocent ones. Make it 10 or 20, let's say, but try to avoid the real lyrics. (Don't look them up in advance, though, that will scramble the results.) Read it over a few times to familiarize your brain with what's in there. Now listen to the song. I virtually guarantee you will now hear at least some of those words in there. When you are actively listening for something, you tend to hear it.

Since no-one else has used the word so far in this discussion, see also the idea of Mondegreens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
"not very kind to take cheap shots at them"

But man this is business, this is the stuff the global economy runs on 24/7, I hope you all are tougher than that...
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More accurate to say that it was first reported by the WSJ and picked up by other outlets based on their reputation as a paper of record [1]. Whether this perception is merited, or if the concept is (still) relevant is another conversation.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_of_record
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>Moreover, lifetime service contracts sold for a one time fee should always be regarded with a fiercely critical eye: without recurring revenue, how is the service provider realistically going to be able to provide that service at a profit indefinitely? At some point, they ARE going to drop it, or they've figured out a way to use that service to drive additional profits.

The fact that FastMail management at that time made the (very) poor business decision to offer lifetime service for a one time fee is NOT MY PROBLEM.

Now, I'll just repeat verbatim what I said in the other thread.

> FastMail made an agreement - $15 in exchange for a lifetime member account.

>Now they don't want to honour that agreement.

>And they've created work for me: What to do about my father's email account?

>I have his email address as part of the domain that I have associated with my (legacy) FastMail enhanced account. They've discontinued family accounts for new signups.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357905
Isn't that effectively the same?
I think they make it pretty clear the problem is with their inability to change the endpoint (i.e. the URL). Switching from lambda to something else could be a pain in the ass but they'd be hitting their own domain and changing where that points is relatively trivial. Right now they have clients out there hitting a Firebase endpoint that they have no control over and that they can't update quickly.
Selling something of your own that is related to the content that you provide.

You'll get a bigger cut and have more control.
Robotics is not a core problem for AI. It's not even a core problem for Comp Sci. There's a whole bunch of kinematics and dynamics at play which are completely besides the point for most AI people. The only thing (some) AI folks care about is the control problems that arise in Robotics but the development of suitable methods to solve these comprises, I would argue, a rather small and not representative part of the field.
On the plus side it seems like they've learned their lesson with this regulation. Instead of shipping off these animals to poorly run facilities, they're just stopping the import of all new animals. I feel fairly mixed about all of this, but if you want to end whale and dolphin exhibits in aquariums then this is probably the best way to go. Let them live out their lives with their peer group and in an environment they are familiar with.

I also wonder if they can shift away from the 'orphanage' model to a more 'foster' model by bringing in sick animals, nursing them to health, then releasing them shortly after. Not sure if this is in the cards politically, but it would be a middle ground between traditional aquariums and a total ban. Its important to note many of these animals get to aquariums because they've been injured by humans. We should feel a responsibility to help them if we are the ones hurting them. Washing our hands of this responsibility seems irresponsible to me and justifying it with feel good politics seems highly questionable.
Good idea, I'll inquire about that. Thank you!
So the theory is that if you give an inch they'll take a mile?

Hasn't really worked out that way.
Google Compute Engine is Bing.

One day they'll just realize they've lost, partly due to their shit attitude to customer support, and close their public cloud.

FFS if you run a public cloud you've just damn well GOT to understand you can never cut off the customer service for any reason, especially "because your site got too busy".

What a bunch of PhDs.

The reason Google is so deeply unwilling to engage its customers to provide support is in the DNA of the company - they are all PhDs, and how many PhDs have the slightest idea of how to help and talk to a customer.
You could cut down costs or at least improve cost-predictability by hosting something like https://deepstream.io/ instead of Firebase. The problem however is that you are still exposed to your cloud provider's fees - if AWS or Google Cloud up their band-with cost, you're in the same boat. Than again, the independence gained by running a server in a basement comes with a very hefty penalty.
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With respect to SAAS services, I treat lifeTime plans as maybe even a step _below_ free plans in terms of longevity.

They typically signal to me that the service is in some kind of bad financial state (and hoping to prop things up with an influx of one-time payments).

On the part of the providers, they attract pathologically bad customers. Lifetime memberships set up all kinds of weird incredibly hard to fulfill expectations.

It's a truism in SAAS community that someone paying $5/mo will be 10x the support and onboarding nightmare of someone willing to pay $50/mo.

All that being said, Fastmail has moved aggressively away from them to the extent that I (as a paying Fastmail customer for the last 3 years) never even knew they existed. And while I think they're a bad idea, I do think that a promise is a promise and if they offered them they should abide by them.
This is fake.

From the first comment in http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/russians-fight-ransom...

By Станислав Стремидловский

> November 1, 2013, his Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill consecrated the new building of the Center for special purposes in the field of ensuring road traffic safety MVD of Russia. Photo from there.

> http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3338529.html

Autotranslation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%...

It would be nice if someone is can find the second image too.
Seems like it could be used for the same purpose as NetlifyCms.
Yes, foreign transactions are exempt, which is why I said I was wary giving my card to companies outside India.
My plan had expired. And i ended up not renewing(since i was cutting down on all 3rd party services that i use). So i just moved to an external hard disk and "Back in Time" on linux.

But i've been looking at re-subscribing to it again.
Motive is relevant when determining if someone acted heroically.
Mil and ex-mil people might not like Manning because she made the military look bad.
I administer a couple G Suite accounts for small business owner friends purchased direct from Google.

G Suite has incredible phone support. I've called 3-4 times over past 5 years and never waited more than 30 seconds to talk to a knowledgeable and capable tech who resolved the issue immediately. No BS troubleshooting steps, just straight to the heart of the issue.

I recall a couple Irish guys, one Eastern European and one Indian, but none with too-strong to parse accents (these were their locations -- relevant to make the point that Google clearly does have multiple live phone support centers around the world). All fully willing and capable of resolving the issue without passing me around. These weren't incredibly complex issues, but at least a couple were glitches requiring fixes on the backend (vs. mistakes on my part).

Has anyone with a G Suite account and a Cloud account ever tried contacting G Suite Support for the cloud side? Might be worth a try -- they've been helpful for me in one case where the issue wasn't strictly related to G Suite.
Here in Brazil I know from published statistcs that atendees make up about 25% of the running costs of a fuel station. Mostly due to taxes over the payroll.
For what it's worth, the lyrics I remember as a kid were the first two verses from page 35 with the final verse from page 22.
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I've been a little skeptical of Tesla lately but I love how quickly The Boring Company has gone from a tweet that seemed more like a joke than a real plan, to a hole in the company parking lot, to now actually working on prototypes and real plans.

Also SpaceX is killing it. I'm not a Musk fanboy but IMO he's 2/3 right now in the companies he's working on and Tesla still has a decent shot of bringing that back to 3/3
They destroy artistic presentation, artistic value, and artistic message. Its impossible to see a piece of art as art, if they state stands in between the art and the observer and forces acknowledgement of its righteous dictations and moral superiority.

The state forces you to acknowledge its authority before you are allowed to observe and ponder an artistic message - additionally, compromising the display of said artistic message with a big nasty horribly designed stamp of disapproval covering a significant portion of the work.

Its is parents' responsibility to police content their children are exposed to. Its parents' responsibility to read the lyrics of "Louie Louie" and determine if that is safe for their children or not. Requiring the state to burden itself with this role is not only no route to security in such a situation, but tremendously irresponsible of this so-called league of concerned parents.
And you would be wrong.
Trans people are safe in very few places in the world.
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The standard deviation must be pretty high. There are lot people who drink almost no soda.
Thanks for sharing this. I had recently set up an account with FastMail, but now that it's clear that they won't abide by their own promises, I'll look elsewhere.
It's like when Saturday Night Live was devoting a large portion of their show to attacking Trump but they were using an actor who called his daughter a "little pig" and their musical guest got up and started singing about "bad bitches and their ugly ass friends".

We certainly don't hold ourselves or the actors and musicians we look to on the TV for political satire and entertainment to any kind of "moral standard". But when one of us runs for president, it's paramount.
Isn't X-Frame-Options deprecated? Pretty sure we're supposed to use Content-Security-Policy instead?
Raymond Chen commented on this, back in 2006: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060523-10/?p=...
The definition of "dirty" is arbitrary. Your "right" to not hear something abridges some else's right to publish it. You have to pick a side, and live with the consequences.
Manning was not a whistleblower.
British man arrested for not giving up passwords at Heathrow to police
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